Gay or Straight, Slash 'Em

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:20:58 GMT

I periodically read the Gay Voices page on Huffington Post. That said, I still don't pay much attention to who's gay or straight unless I hear about it on a radio show I listen to or I see it on my FB timeline.

On Gay Voices today, they had a slideshow of the celebrities who've come out. When I came to Sean Maher's picture, I'm sitting there going, "Wait, what?"

My reaction to this is strange. Not that he's gay. It makes me feel more at ease about slashing Simon Tam and Mal Reynolds. Why ease/unease? B/C I have this thing about keeping fanfic away from actors. ;) I mean, seriously, they're not the characters and so don't have any business being asked to read fanfic or being told about it. Many Con-going fans of SG-1 or Firefly or Heroes, etc., bring up slash with the actors. Naturally, they can do what they want--and pardon me, but I have to actually go out of my way to say that b/c too many people assume negatives when not given a detailed yet pointless explanatory "explain yourself".

So I see that Sean's gay and okay, great, good for him for coming out (wish it was never necessary and that we can all be who we are at all times). And then I wonder why the hell it makes me feel better for slashing his character on Firefly. Perhaps it's b/c of my feelings about sharing slash with actors, or perhaps it's something else. I don't care for RP Fic, so I know it isn't that.

So I'm left curious. And I now have yet another unwritten Firefly bunny. *eyeroll*

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