tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:145897 riverfox riverfox 2014-09-04T16:34:07Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:145897:43012 2014-09-04T16:26:31Z 2014-09-04T16:34:07Z public 5 Upon finding Slashfic, why do we first find the stories that tend to characterize Daniel as a teenage girl and Jack as his daddy? The corollary would be why are those characterizations predominant in our slash part of the fandom? Does this happen in Ship, too?<br /><br />I expect that sort of thing when we're younger since we learn as we go, but for those of us who're older, it's a mystery. I've never been able to figure it out in the 14 years I've been writing slash.<br /><br />Is this a Harlequin Romance thing perhaps? Do those of us who like those stories transfer that to slash? Or is this just a case of reading everything and whittling down our preferences over time? When I found slash, I read the sappier characterizations, but it didn't take long for me to gravitate to the more realistic representations. But it still begs the question: Why do we, as newbies, find the sappier, less accurate portrayals first?<br /><br />What did you do when you found slash?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=riverfox&ditemid=43012" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments