pondering!

[schmerica]

It just occurred to me that the three biggest boyslash fandoms I've noticed popping up over the last two years or so are all ones where, even when I watch and enjoy the show, I don't see the slash at all. Stargate: Atlantis, House, Supernatural: I get no OTP buzzes AT ALL.

It's not my slash goggles, because a) I still see it in old stuff, even when I'm seeing it for the first time (hi, TS!); b) I see lots of boyslashiness in other new stuff (helllllllooo, Vorenus/Pullo!) and c) certainly the girlslashiness of everything in the world has been pretty off the charts lately.

Conclusion: I am totally out of step with fandom, and that's okay, because I'm perfectly happy with my F/K boys of old and new Grey's every week being femslashy, and other people are perfectly happy with their pairings that don't float my boat.

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think the two things I really need to see a pairing is a) a sense that they like each other (which is why antagonistic, enemy stuff usually doesn't do it for me either) and even more importantly, b) that their relationships with each other are the central, most important ones in their lives. I see Rodney and John joking around on the show, but they don't strike me as especially close. Further, I just don't get the same sense of centrality with the two of them. I don't think John is the most important person in Rodney's life, or Rodney in John's; I think Teyla, Ronon, Elizabeth or other scientists could fulfill those roles easily. I can imagine Rodney's life without John and John's life without Rodney without any trouble at all -- when I think Jim & Blair, or Fraser & RayK, or s1 Clark & Lex, I can't do anything like that, because they're too intertwined.

Of course, House/Wilson pretty much fulfills all my requirements, and there are probably slash pairings I like that probably don't quite fills these -- so maybe in the end it just comes down to "They just don't click for me."