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I said that the BNP had good ideas but were taking them to extremes. Hitler had good ideas, but I'm not going to vote for him because he's a racist nutjob. Also, dead.

... or was I the UKIP guy and someone else was BNP? UKIP has problems too, but as with the BNP, I believe that they'd help a bit. Of course, next election, I'll be prepared with broadband of my own and can do more research on everyone.

Also, "I'll spare you the detailed ramble about why a European Parliament, if done properly, is an immensely excellent thing". The problem is highlighted.

The common link here: Uncanon family members.

The solution: Learn to freaking write a decent story about them and we won't KILL YOU! Why do you think I cancelled my Harry's twin story? And that was when I was still a Suethor. Even I could recognise it was awful.

Specifically, the time it takes to write these things. I've spent a couple of years on Crashing Down, which is now a chapter or so away from completion. Origins is next on the list, so Lofty Skies is a long way from being anything other than Nyx's poem.

If you're feeling particularly desparate, the original, short and out-of-date (but mostly accurate nevertheless) version of Origins can be found on my other website.

hS

*glee*
...I think. Only you were slightly differently-named?
Pff, nighttime. >.> Welcome back, at any rate. I'm trying to get back on my feet again, too.
Good luck with the original story? I have to ask, what sort of story is it?

... and I'm expected to set a good example to the other customers.

Could be worse. At least my parents accepted my refusal to take her to see Twilight when it was out *puke*

No, not those three. These are my Agents.

Both traumatised by the amount of times fanbrats make them sleep together.

... I'm a slasher. Always have been, always will be, since the beginning of my stumblings into fandom.

However, there are places in my heart for het pairings, both canon and non-canon, which I cherish and love and dislike seeing wrecked. It's just ... those all tend to be in fandoms I don't actively read or write for.

Reading het almost bores me, to be honest. Het is ... well, the majority. A well-written slashfic can have so many little edges of 'forbidden' and 'what will our friends/neighbours/relatives/coworkers think?' and all that society and psychology stuff to it ... that's what I like.

Which is not to say that all those things cannot be found in het fic, but slashfic also has, for me at least, one other feature: the slightly less literary and more self-serving aspect of, I am a straight woman, I find men attractive, and you know what's more attractive than one man? Two men!

As far as I'm concerned though, there doesn't have to be 'het VS slash'. They can coexist. Maybe not in the same person's brain, necessarily, but one is not better than the other. They are different.

Actually I've read some lovely fics that centre on multiple partnerships - both slash and het. There's nothing worse than fic set in the Magical World Where Everyone Is Gay and all the couples happen to be same-sex.

/end ramble as it's nearly midnight

- A possibly slightly incoherent Trojie, who isn't keeping up with her intarwub responsibilities well lately...

I have a great problem whenever this question comes up because, in spite of the best efforts of our dear Pads, I just can't read slash without hitting the "back" button.

I have nothing against it - really, I would like to strangle the next person who accuses me of being a homophobe, because there is a DIFFERENCE between not approving of something and just not wanting to be a part of it - I liken it to the difference between knowing your parents had to have sex to concieve you and actually watching them do it. That's how I feel.

So as you can guess, I don't read slash in any form. I just side-step it. I can't say I understand why people write it, but neither can I understand why people write non-canon pairings - and yes, that question has been anwered for me several times by several people, so I get the theory, but I myself have never really been inclined towards any uncanonical pairings.

I think it has something to do with the way I percieve the original canon stories themselves; I see them as a cohesive whole, and if Character A 'originally' (ie, in canon) fell in love with Character B, then I feel like something major would have to change in their personality/characterisation for them to fall for someone else. This may, however, be related to the kinds of stories I read; I tend to go for more fairytale-like interpretations, too. I'm sure it doesn't help that, Dumbledore/Grindelwald aside, none of my main fandoms involve slash pairings of any sort.

I'm rambling now, but is it making sense? To answer your question directly, my own sexuality - as a woman attracted to men - basically controls the sorts of relationships I like to read about. I can't really understand(/internalise) why other people have other tastes, but that doesn't bother me in itself - I'm quite happy to live and let live.

It is an interesting phenomena, though, and I'll be more than interested to read everyone else's opinions.

I offer either a Capillary Towel (which would be good for wiping off those blood tears) or a Transdimensional Pocket Knife (apparently very useful, but no one uses them).

You sound like you'll fit right in. Nice to meet you!

A lot of what I read is femmeslash, but I wouldn't say I'm a slasher. If I'm looking for mindless romance, or *winces* smut, it's gonna be femmeslash, chances are, since I'm a lesbian. There's also a side of the fact that it's a lot easier to find f/f romance on the internet.

That said, I have no dislike of het or m/m slash, and I'll read either one if it's good. Really, I care more about your general writing, and how well you portray the characters, than said characters' genders.

Their combat experience and ability: absolutly zero.

Their strategy and planning skills: epic.

L

Name order that I origionally gave was in the English style. They will call each other by their surnames of Shindo and Toya.

L

He's been busy with other stuff, and has yet to get to those things, far as I know, so he'll get to those when he can. I can't speak for him, since I'm not him (though that'd be pretty weird if I were; bizzaro!hS?), but that's how I seem to remember it. They don't have a story, because they're not started. I know there was a short story on Origins before, but I'm not sure where it is.

Ah, canon pairings, one of the most abused aspects of fanfiction.

I'm lucky in that the two confirmed, named canon pairings in my main fandom aren't an obstacle to slash by the main canon timeline. Both of the wives in those pairings are dead, one to an illness and the other protecting her son. Somehow my fandom seems to be sane enough that those two women are mostly respected, partly due to the effects they had on the characters that they interacted with.

As for your Harry Potter examples... I've never really been a fan of Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny myself. The former is built on the fact that they argue with each other constantly and the latter is, to me, Harry trying to be like James by having a wife who looks like Lily. Remus/Tonks is a pairing I definitely hate that, as I said to Pads in chat earlier, seems to me like JK was reading fanfiction while she was writing. It seems deliberately forced in to piss off the Sirius/Remus slashers.

As for slash with characters with no canonical pairings, again I'm lucky in that my main fandom is a shounen manga/anime, where romance isn't really a priority. There are hints at one-sided crushes and massive amounts of manipulated love, but very few confirmed love interests, giving me plenty of leeway as to who I pair characters with.

Welcome, welcome, once and future friend!

I'm afraid I don't have anything to give you, but take my best regards as a substitute. Here's hoping you stick around-- I think you'll really enjoy yourself here.

I mainly stick to reading het fanfictions, just because most of the canonical pairings in my favorite book series are het. I don't mind original fiction slash, but I don't see much of it around, either. I really can't read slash fanfiction because, for some reason, I can't stand the thought of my favorite canonical pairings disappearing. The nausea I feel at the thought of a Draco/Hermione fic is the same amount I feel at the thought of a Draco/Harry fic. To me, once there is a canonical pairing, as stated or as written by the author, I think it should stay that way in fanfiction. At least in what I read, fanfiction wise. Yeah, the shipping wars are scary, but I don't join in them, if possible.
Hermione/Ron, Astoria/Draco, and Ginny/Harry FTW!
I understand the slash fanfics with characters who didn't have canonical pairings and sort of implied what type of pairing they would prefer. *coughUblazcough* Those I can stand, but they are few and far between.

Somehow the fanfic unaccountably fails to mention the array of embarrassing/disturbing/hilarious (delete as appropriate) sound effects.

No kidding. Which reminds me, since you seem to enjoy this, they're making a Twilight MMO. At first that seems awful, but my friends and I read: Castlevania raids welcome. Please troll the sh*t out of us.

I honestly adore both gay and straight romances - and anything in between - as long as it's done right.

Dann beat me to the first one. Oh well. *poke*

I actually know exactly what you're talking about. I was there for that era. Heck, maybe we even crossed paths over there. *shurg* But ah, yes, the nostalgia! Sometimes I wish I could go back, but it's just not the same.

So I hang out here. *g*

Anyway, what fandoms were/are you into? Any big Neopets RPs I might've known about, or were you just there for the lulz?

~Neshomeh, who went by variations on the same name at Neopets.

I still read about it regularly and make whatever filthy jokes I can think of, but the actual process sounds supremely gross to me. Not sure if that's related to my Aspergers', or if I'm genuinely a non-sexual person, or if I'm just a late bloomer - I kinda doubt the latter, I turn twenty in less than two months and I'd have thought I'd have had SOME reaction other than "ick" by now - but if anyone asks, I'm blaming fanfic.

If you make it close combat-only, then the Chaos/Space Marines, Orks, and 'nids are going to curb-stomp everybody else.

Teams of walkers, maybe? Dreadnoughts on one side, Sentinels on another, Wraithlords for the Eldar - that could work.

Alternatively, you could have it with modern rules, but it would take one hell of a ref to enforce that with Orks on the pitch.

...and most of them are by a small number of authors.

The Bleach Ficlet: Dare To Live and Saiyuki Serial: Beautifully Broken Evolution by LJ's Iron Dog are among my favourites. Her two-part Orgy Fics are what introduced me to her writing, and they're the best cross-fandom eight-man orgies I've ever seen written.

Another favourite writer of mine is Dracoqueen22, and her large number of Bleach fics, especially her Of Violence fic, which is the best story on the topic of spousal abuse that I have ever seen in any fandom. Dracoqueen22 is also on ffn under the same name, which I no longer frequent all that often.

Unless, of course, I'm tempted there by DelMarch. I might be biased here because she primarily writes about my two favourite characters, but she is a good writer whose work I love reading.

A Shadow of What Was is another of my favourites. It's pretty long, and not yet finished so it may take anyone who attempts it a while to read.

And, of course, there is the Poignant Pevensie Porn series, as well as the Seamus/Dumbledore fic written by our very own Pads and Trojie, that can be found on this post, below all the PPC stuff.