"No Slash" - Comments

Am I evil because I've only ever hosted slash contests before and I specifically ask for no het? Kind of a rhetorical question but I just realized that. I actually kind of... am turned off by most het. I mean, if the plots good, I'll read it, but if I'm hosting a contest, I'm not looking for het.

I agree with you about all romance being the same, though. It's all love and I'm a little offended by people who avoid slash. I don't avoid het but I don't go seeking it out... I understand it's a preference but letting your preferences dictate what you expose yourself to and allowing it to close you off from a lot of amazing fiction out there is a little closed minded to me. If its' in a contest, I understand that the contest mod/judge/whateverit'scalled is allowed to seek out whatever they want, but I'm allowed not to join their contests so I just don't. Point being: contests, someone looking to explicitly judge, whatever, it's the bigger picture I have a problem with.

My issue is with people who won't try slash ever because of "preference." Like I said, letting what you think you like block you from possibly reading something you could love just because it's not in your comfort zone is just... sad to me. I prefer original fiction. It's my preference. But I'm not going to shut down every fan fiction I see because of that preference or because I had a few fan fictions that didn't sit well with me. I'm pretty open minded about what I read (and most of the time, in life in general). I could read a million shitty bandfics but it won't stop me from always giving the a second change even if I don't like fanfic. I don't like het but it doesn't stop me from subscribing to different het romances. I don't like certain vegetables but it doesn't close me off from trying these foods prepared in a different way because who knows, maybe the next time I try them it will be the time that I find something that I really love.

I see where you're coming from, but I have to disagree simply because it's a matter of opinion. Some people aren't comfortable with it, and that's their thing. There are just as many contests that allow it, and require no het.

I'll be honest when I say I'm pulled more to a het story, probably because I relate to the characters more, because I'm a straight girl, but that's just me. It's certainly not that way for everyone.

I have nothing against gay people - I believe they have just as much as a right to love (and marry, of course) as straight people. But it's just my preference to read a het story.

Alas, each to their own.

@ zaphod beeblebrox
LOL, yaay! But it is true! :3

@ ForAllThoseSleeping;

ForAllThoseSleeping;:

who doesn't like picturing two men having sex?

im laughing so hard oh my god

A-fucking-men!!
I agree with you 100%, I love slash and that's all I write about because writing a story with a man and a women is very uncomfortable for me. Its way easier writing slash, I have no idea why but its so much easier and it feels comfortable for me.

I hate that when they say 'no slash' so I don't enter because I want to be able to write what I feel comfortable with and if they don't like it they can go fly a kite.

I also find slash hotter because who doesn't like picturing two men having sex? or not even sex just being more than friends and it feels so good to read and write slash.

When I host a contest I say no slash please because it makes me uncomfortable and I prefer not to read it. I have a right to say what can be accepted in my contest and what can't.

I don't look at it as the host not liking slash, but as them simply wanting het-porn. From the contests I've seen, it's not about the content or how well you write that wins it, it's how much ass you're willing to kiss and how much smut you're willing to put into your entry. I've seen one-shots written by people who barely know their ABC's beat experienced writers, purely because there was more "Oh yeah, fuck me daddy's" in it.(Not incest, but a lot of people seem to have this 'daddy' name calling kink haha.)

But, then again, I'm probably wrong and slash just isn't up their alley. Their loss.

That's just preference. They are free to accept whatever they want in their contest - just like you do.

What everyone has said. It's preference. I don't like reading het but I don't hate heterosexual people. I am just naturally more attracted to stories with slash (as in slightly realistic where one of them has not been feminized simply because the writer can't actually write two men). And het is a subgenre. The biggest site I've seen that on is AFF where they do specify all three (and slash usually has more). But I do think they are very different most of time time, as slash almost always heads for the struggle with sexuality (so few stories have gay characters just being gay, it always has to be an issue). So for me a lot of slash just falls flat too. I go through that prejudice for having a girlfriend, so I like stories without it. And some people honestly can't relate. I can't relate with a lot of YA heroines despite us being the same gender and age group, so maybe some people can't relate to non-hetero men and women.

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You're basically saying that it's okay to give you a story with a heterosexual romance, but homosexual romance is strictly forbidden, and if you don't approve of slash fiction I will probably despise you as a person and label you as homophobic.

I don't have any such contests but if I made one, I might make one that specified no slash/femmeslash.

I'm not homophobic. I'm bisexual. I'm very accepting of others, in general, until it comes to ignorance and blind stupidity. I just don't read slash very often. I don't really know why. I just prefer to read about typical, cliche romances involving a man and a woman.

It's okay to have reading preferences. It's okay to have writing preferences too, and so I can see how it might be annoying if you came across a contest that said "no slash" and you love to write slash. There are also contests out there that specify "slash only" and I wouldn't call those people heterophobes.

To me, it's like any preference, whether it be for original or fan fiction, long or short fiction, or even fiction about very specific things like a band, smut, phobias, etc.

@ zaphod beeblebrox
I don't understand it either, because it's true. We're all the same, with slight differences. I don't feel like what same sex couples do is wrong. I guess it's cause I can relate to het. fics. I don't have to go through the struggles many gays have to go through, like telling your parents, or the world and how I will be treated when I'm not accepted.

I guess I just relate to a girl trying to get a boy because that's what I have to do, because I want that in the future. And it sounds bad, but its true. Most people read what they can relate to or what they want.

I don't know if I'm making any sense, so I apologize. I'm been up for the passed three hours working on a project and another two on an essay. My brain is fried.

@ Rudolph.
I'm not offended!

But, I should have articulated this more in my blog. I was a little angered when I wrote this. My apologies.

It's not like, "Oh, I can't get into that," it's more like how slash is basically the same thing as heterosexual romance except, instead of a guy and a girl, it's two people of the same gender. I honestly do not understand how it's possible to prefer one, they're both romance.

I don't get how people can prefer one type of romance I like them all! I understand if it's like, "Oh, I prefer fantasy to sci-fi," because that's like a whole different thing, but with slash vs. "normal" romance, it's basically you can take one person and change their gender and you can get a slash story with the same plotline as a romance and I don't see how something as simple as gender can bug someone to the point where they don't like reading it.

I don't want to offend you at all. And if whatever I say does, I am truly sorry.

I'm not a fan of slash fics. I don't hate gays, its actually quite the opposite. I am an avid fighter for gay rights. I find homophobics naive and ignorant and uneducated. It makes me furious when I hear in school that same sex fathers should not be able to adopt because it might "confuse" the kids, as if their parents sexuality has any thing to do with how they are raised. And I find that same sex couples should be allowed to be married. We heterosexuals are allowed to abuse the privilege, yet a loving same sex couple is not allowed? That is a concept that is beyond me.

But I don't like to read slash fics. I've hardly come across one I'm willing to read.

It's not cause I hate gays. I hope I've cleared that point.

But think of it like this. Let's say you're only into straight up romance novels and you've tried reading si-fi but you just can't seem to get into it. That's what it is with me and slash fics. I have tried to get into it, but it just hasn't caught my fancy.

But maybe there are some people who don't like slash fics because they are homophobic. It's like the saying, "All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares."

I hope this clears it up for you. And I sincerely hope you don't hate all people who don't fancy reading slash.

It is a pain to want to enter a contest, but only to find out that slash isn't allowed. However, while I think it's questionable to do so when the story isn't supposed to contain smut, I can at least understand that it's a matter of preference.

Stories that have "not slash" labeled in their summaries, on the other hand? Now THAT'S annoying (and unnecessary) beyond all belief...

honestly it's just preference. Much like some people prefer original fiction over band fiction.

Well, to be fair not all slash is romance. Most of mine had people in relationships, but they weren't romances. To me, romance is more about getting together or falling in love. Mine were usually people in a relationship dealing with life events.

It annoys me too when I see that in contests. At the same time... I don't like het. I have nothing against guy/girl couplings (I'm in one), but I don't like reading it. I especially hate reading straight sex scenes.

So I understand it to an extent.

Then you completely missed my point. My point was that you can't expect someone to do something they don't want to do, just because you find it offensive. Then all you have is a bunch of people reading gay fiction and getting uncomfortable because it would be socially unacceptable not to.

@ clark kent
As a gay person, I find that quite offensive. Sexuality is something that you cannot control or change, and asking someone to start being sexually attracted to a gender is nothing like asking them to read about two people who are of the same gender and in love. It's nowhere even close

I feeling like asking someone to like and read gay fiction is like asking a gay person to be straight. If they don't like it, don't expect them to do it. Everyone can be happy.

@ clark kent
Yeah, I know, but how could it make someone uncomfortable? Like, I just don't understand it. And homophobia = / = hate against gays. Homophobia is a phobia, meaning that it causes fear or uneasiness, which matches the definition.