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Huh.
So there's a Psych fic archive that has a no slash rule, right? Most of you big in the fandom know the one I'm talking about. Anyway, I think it's a great idea because, frankly, I understand how much slash there is in the fandom and it must suck for non-slashers.
But I was looking closer at the site for kicks (hey, forums! I love seeing for folk meta about!) and I found a stickied thread about the subject in which the person who ran the site gave her reason for it. She said that she didn't want slash because, one, she didn't enjoy reading it and it's her archive (understandable), and two, she didn't want fics that are "out of character".
Bwa-what?
Okay, I'm not going to email her or anything, it's her right, but...
Psych is among the gayest shows I've ever seen. Shawn Spencer is bisexual, or at least the television character with the most questionable heterosexuality I've ever seen. I think it's very possible to argue the same for Gus (though he doesn't ping my gaydar quite as often). Lassiter, now canonically I do believe he'd a good Kinsey 2 ("Psy vs. Psy", anyone?) and it takes some creative writing to make S/L work.
I actually think it's more OOC to write Shawn as anything lower than a Kinsey 3 than anything. If the archive owner just kept it to "I don't like slash, my archive, so there," that'd be fine. But... oi.
I dunno. It's weird and I've been thinking about it for a while. Back to cleaning and vaccuuming for me.
-Luce
PS: I'm still obsessively watching my Sisters DVD. I keep intending to take screencaps and do a huge picspam to make ya'll wanna go out and buy it, but I keep getting distracted.
So there's a Psych fic archive that has a no slash rule, right? Most of you big in the fandom know the one I'm talking about. Anyway, I think it's a great idea because, frankly, I understand how much slash there is in the fandom and it must suck for non-slashers.
But I was looking closer at the site for kicks (hey, forums! I love seeing for folk meta about!) and I found a stickied thread about the subject in which the person who ran the site gave her reason for it. She said that she didn't want slash because, one, she didn't enjoy reading it and it's her archive (understandable), and two, she didn't want fics that are "out of character".
Bwa-what?
Okay, I'm not going to email her or anything, it's her right, but...
Psych is among the gayest shows I've ever seen. Shawn Spencer is bisexual, or at least the television character with the most questionable heterosexuality I've ever seen. I think it's very possible to argue the same for Gus (though he doesn't ping my gaydar quite as often). Lassiter, now canonically I do believe he'd a good Kinsey 2 ("Psy vs. Psy", anyone?) and it takes some creative writing to make S/L work.
I actually think it's more OOC to write Shawn as anything lower than a Kinsey 3 than anything. If the archive owner just kept it to "I don't like slash, my archive, so there," that'd be fine. But... oi.
I dunno. It's weird and I've been thinking about it for a while. Back to cleaning and vaccuuming for me.
-Luce
PS: I'm still obsessively watching my Sisters DVD. I keep intending to take screencaps and do a huge picspam to make ya'll wanna go out and buy it, but I keep getting distracted.