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Today my horrorscope said that avoiding pain could be healthy. At the time, I figured it meant not to push things with the Paternal Unit with whom I would have a deeply fucked relationship if we ever actually spoke to one another. By the end of the day, I decided that it meant take a day off from the gym as everything hurts and you haven't exercised in over a year and maybe throwing yourself into it hardcore is not the wisest thing you can do.
So I bought potato chips and cat treats (Tully: TREETZ!) and sacked out on my couch with my laptop to read Grey's Anatomy slash. Reading GA slash was not actually my intent when I sacked on the couch with my laptop but somehow I ended up on an Izzie Stevens/Addison Montgomery community and behold, lo - there was girlslash and it was good.
Normally, I am not down with Teh Slash: men already have too much agency and narrative importance in genre compared to women - adding out-of-character male on male sex to the mix strikes me as both unnecessary and boring. Also, so seldom done well in my experience, which is limited both by taste and, well, experience: all I ever seem to find online is Bad Slash. Bad, poorly-characterized, improbable, too fucking stupid to live slash of the "hey, you're a manly dude, I'm a manly dude and even though I don't normally do this, lets fuck and share our deep emotional man-pain" variety. Frickin' spare me. True, the same can be said about most girl slash - especially anything involving Starbuck, who already has enough agency and narrative power compared to other characters on BSG that adding out-of-character girl on girl sex to the mix strikes me as both unnecessary and boring. That said, I do believe that female sexuality is more pliable than male: at least superficially - statistically speaking, more girls claim to be willing to entertain the idea of same-sex sex than boys; put someone in a room, naked with someone and it's probably a different story. At any rate, as something of a literalist in relation to textual characterizations, I find it easier to believe in stories that create homosexual relationships out of instances of platonic intimacy between female characters than those extrapolating from guyish cameraderie between male characters.
And maybe I just read the wrong authors. Or know the wrong gays. Or lesbians. Or something... .
Anyway, there was GA girlslash, and it was good - well-written, well characterized, well, as long as you accept the idea that Izzie and Addison got drunk one night and did it. But it was also funny, which is not a quality I associate with slash, and Teh Funny goes a long way towards papering over all other ills in my mind.
Aside - I wonder if one of the reasons I tend to find girlslash more readable than boyslash is much of girlslash is written by queer girls and much (all?) of boyslash is written by straight girls. Or am I just pulling wild theories out of my ass (again)?
Like I said, "anyway": Addison/Izzie + funny = better than watching Crossing Jordan (yes I could just turn off the TV and read a book - what's your point?).
So I bought potato chips and cat treats (Tully: TREETZ!) and sacked out on my couch with my laptop to read Grey's Anatomy slash. Reading GA slash was not actually my intent when I sacked on the couch with my laptop but somehow I ended up on an Izzie Stevens/Addison Montgomery community and behold, lo - there was girlslash and it was good.
Normally, I am not down with Teh Slash: men already have too much agency and narrative importance in genre compared to women - adding out-of-character male on male sex to the mix strikes me as both unnecessary and boring. Also, so seldom done well in my experience, which is limited both by taste and, well, experience: all I ever seem to find online is Bad Slash. Bad, poorly-characterized, improbable, too fucking stupid to live slash of the "hey, you're a manly dude, I'm a manly dude and even though I don't normally do this, lets fuck and share our deep emotional man-pain" variety. Frickin' spare me. True, the same can be said about most girl slash - especially anything involving Starbuck, who already has enough agency and narrative power compared to other characters on BSG that adding out-of-character girl on girl sex to the mix strikes me as both unnecessary and boring. That said, I do believe that female sexuality is more pliable than male: at least superficially - statistically speaking, more girls claim to be willing to entertain the idea of same-sex sex than boys; put someone in a room, naked with someone and it's probably a different story. At any rate, as something of a literalist in relation to textual characterizations, I find it easier to believe in stories that create homosexual relationships out of instances of platonic intimacy between female characters than those extrapolating from guyish cameraderie between male characters.
And maybe I just read the wrong authors. Or know the wrong gays. Or lesbians. Or something... .
Anyway, there was GA girlslash, and it was good - well-written, well characterized, well, as long as you accept the idea that Izzie and Addison got drunk one night and did it. But it was also funny, which is not a quality I associate with slash, and Teh Funny goes a long way towards papering over all other ills in my mind.
Aside - I wonder if one of the reasons I tend to find girlslash more readable than boyslash is much of girlslash is written by queer girls and much (all?) of boyslash is written by straight girls. Or am I just pulling wild theories out of my ass (again)?
Like I said, "anyway": Addison/Izzie + funny = better than watching Crossing Jordan (yes I could just turn off the TV and read a book - what's your point?).