I started reading it when someone recommended Ars Morendi on TWoP. I don't remember quite why I kept reading once I discovered it was slash other than by the time I figured it out, I was so sucked into the plot and the characters that I couldn't NOT finish.
I mainly read and write Spike/Xander (though I have tentatively dipped a toe elsewhere). There just seems to be this huge underlying current of something between them. They're almost polar opposites, and yet they both have this aura of pain around them and huge depths of emotion to be tapped into. Reading/writing about male interaction on a sexual as well as an emotional bonding level is interesting. I already know for the most part what goes on between a guy and a girl, how does the relationship work between two men, not only in public, but on a private, personal, sexual level?
I write slash for a couple of reasons. First, because they force me to. Really. I don't have an option here. Second, I've read too many slash fics where the characters get sooo distorted that I don't even feel like I'm reading about Spike or Xander anymore; the author has made them overly-romantic and cuddly and sweet, or made one competely subservient to the other. I don't see these characters as being able to admit their affection or attraction to each other except under extreme duress or complete anomyinity. Third, it's a real challenge. To try to get inside a guy's head and get the equipment to function and the writing to be believable and hot. I don't have those body parts, and I can only use my own experiences, and physical sensations to try to approximate what I imagine a man might feel in a sexual situation with another man. To get that to work successfully is exciting.
Plus? S/X with all the right qualities gets me all sorts of hot and bothered.
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Date: 2003-11-24 07:19 pm (UTC)I mainly read and write Spike/Xander (though I have tentatively dipped a toe elsewhere). There just seems to be this huge underlying current of something between them. They're almost polar opposites, and yet they both have this aura of pain around them and huge depths of emotion to be tapped into. Reading/writing about male interaction on a sexual as well as an emotional bonding level is interesting. I already know for the most part what goes on between a guy and a girl, how does the relationship work between two men, not only in public, but on a private, personal, sexual level?
I write slash for a couple of reasons. First, because they force me to. Really. I don't have an option here. Second, I've read too many slash fics where the characters get sooo distorted that I don't even feel like I'm reading about Spike or Xander anymore; the author has made them overly-romantic and cuddly and sweet, or made one competely subservient to the other. I don't see these characters as being able to admit their affection or attraction to each other except under extreme duress or complete anomyinity. Third, it's a real challenge. To try to get inside a guy's head and get the equipment to function and the writing to be believable and hot. I don't have those body parts, and I can only use my own experiences, and physical sensations to try to approximate what I imagine a man might feel in a sexual situation with another man. To get that to work successfully is exciting.
Plus? S/X with all the right qualities gets me all sorts of hot and bothered.