Date: 2012-03-22 02:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] feanna
I think it's DEFINITELY good to discuss how much slash supports actual queerness and how much it's about appropriations of queer things for basically straight fantasies. I also think it's interesting to think these issues in realtions to worlds where this division (straight/"other") might not even exist or be drawn along much different lines. Which again comes with the problem, that we are all from THIS world.

But to answer some of the other things you asked: I definitely feel that there are some corners of fandom that are more queer than others. These can overlap with slash famdom(s - MANY of those around) in many different ways. The way I interact with lj is that I tend to follow less communities and more personal journals. So I follow authors I like directly. There ARE quite a few lesbians/queer people(/explictely queer friendly straight people (who've obviously put some though into it)) out there writing slash and if they are popular writers (subsets of) communities tend to form around them. Some of those are more focised on the queer aspects and less on slash/specific fandoms and some are less connected to one person and more fandom specific. I think there were some great fics written in SGA, during a period of a few month (or a bit longer) that explored gender and it's implications on sexuality.
Which is one reason that I do think that starting these discussions can also be valuable in ingfluencing the content that will be produced. Because so much of fandom (though in my personal experience it has been less so in the last year or so, which makes for less wank but also less interesting thinks, but I might just be missing stuff) is about interacting in many forms. And if somebody reads a fic (or meta, or whatever) that inspires them to think anbout something, who can say that a fic won't be the result of that.
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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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