I'm more on LJ myself. I need to at least upload some more icons to reflect my POI fandom here.
It's hard to take those numbers on AO3 as definite -- as you say, there are more slashers on AO3 and some authors seem to write a hundred words or so and call it a story and post more than one a day so that makes additions to the numbers of fics. Not that I read on The Pit, but there the numbers are the reverse... waaaay more het. I guess, as I said, there is so much het discussion in the places I've been hanging out, which is kind of buzz killing to me. It's like Finch doesn't exist or only Carter can help or motivate Reese. Guh.
I'd like to see meaty fics that aren't pwps or about some sort of power dynamic between the characters. I think for me it harks back to the the early reason for slash, where having two men meant you didn't need the role playing associated with het romance stories and I still tend to like my slash more "even handed" so to speak. Not that the occasional role play fic or "I'll top tonight" isn't cool, and we all have our valid preferences in fics, but I'd like to see them more as equal partners.
Then again, there are those weird (from the slasher's viewpoint) fans who think there shouldn't be anything "non-canonical" in fic and that the whole world of fandom sees everything as slash and "Reese loved Jessica and Finch had Grace so they're definitely two hetero men!" (yes, I did read that exact statement in someone's lj post awhile back. As if bi-sexuality is non-existent. )
I see what you're saying about X-Files -- though I wasn't in that fandom, who wouldn't know about Mulder/Krychek or Mulder/Skinner? And there are those H50 fans who write about Steve and Catherine and other het pairings... I just don't have to keep reading their fannish discussions since there are comms that support those parts of that fandom. So far, I guess due to size, POI just seems to have a main community or two where all fans are welcome and that's not a bad thing, but after being told recently that the roof top scene was a "let down" after the hallway scene with Carter... I think you get my drift.
You said something about the attractiveness of the characters? Are you saying you think that Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson aren't as hot as say... IDK, the men on Teen Wolf or H50? Or that they are "older" -- heh, there were those in Sentinel who thought Jim Ellison was too old, which possibly explains why so many younger fangirls were into Blair. (I hope my love for them isn't just because I'm one of those "older" fans, lol. )
I did recently find meme_of_interest over here which seems to be generating a good bit of slash. That's promising.
Maybe as more authors show up the slash will snowball. We can hope.
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Date: 2013-04-20 11:11 pm (UTC)It's hard to take those numbers on AO3 as definite -- as you say, there are more slashers on AO3 and some authors seem to write a hundred words or so and call it a story and post more than one a day so that makes additions to the numbers of fics. Not that I read on The Pit, but there the numbers are the reverse... waaaay more het. I guess, as I said, there is so much het discussion in the places I've been hanging out, which is kind of buzz killing to me. It's like Finch doesn't exist or only Carter can help or motivate Reese. Guh.
I'd like to see meaty fics that aren't pwps or about some sort of power dynamic between the characters. I think for me it harks back to the the early reason for slash, where having two men meant you didn't need the role playing associated with het romance stories and I still tend to like my slash more "even handed" so to speak. Not that the occasional role play fic or "I'll top tonight" isn't cool, and we all have our valid preferences in fics, but I'd like to see them more as equal partners.
Then again, there are those weird (from the slasher's viewpoint) fans who think there shouldn't be anything "non-canonical" in fic and that the whole world of fandom sees everything as slash and "Reese loved Jessica and Finch had Grace so they're definitely two hetero men!" (yes, I did read that exact statement in someone's lj post awhile back. As if bi-sexuality is non-existent. )
I see what you're saying about X-Files -- though I wasn't in that fandom, who wouldn't know about Mulder/Krychek or Mulder/Skinner? And there are those H50 fans who write about Steve and Catherine and other het pairings... I just don't have to keep reading their fannish discussions since there are comms that support those parts of that fandom. So far, I guess due to size, POI just seems to have a main community or two where all fans are welcome and that's not a bad thing, but after being told recently that the roof top scene was a "let down" after the hallway scene with Carter... I think you get my drift.
You said something about the attractiveness of the characters? Are you saying you think that Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson aren't as hot as say... IDK, the men on Teen Wolf or H50? Or that they are "older" -- heh, there were those in Sentinel who thought Jim Ellison was too old, which possibly explains why so many younger fangirls were into Blair. (I hope my love for them isn't just because I'm one of those "older" fans, lol. )
I did recently find meme_of_interest over here which seems to be generating a good bit of slash. That's promising.
Maybe as more authors show up the slash will snowball. We can hope.