You're right, most OTP fics regardless whether they're het or slash will never acknowledge the possibility that a character can be attracted to anyone else ever because that would destroy the romance. But, when you're justifying a slash pairing by saying that one of the characters is bisexual and then write the character as being completely monosexual, that's offensive to me because it's saying that 'bisexuality' really just means "sleeps with girls." Not to mention that it's lazy writing, to say the least.
I'd love to see people stop using 'He's bisexual!" as a justification for slash pairings if they're not going to have the decency to make the character actually bisexual. I don't expect it to happen, but I'd love to see it. But that's as much a part of me disliking unrealistic relationships regardless of sexuality as it is me just wanting to see more fics featuring bisexuality as something other than a lampshade.
I've redundantly labeled fics of mine as het and slash and I've seen others do it. Not everybody does and it probably varies by fandoms and by how paranoid someone is about having someone bitch at them because they didn't realize that Cyclops/Wolverine was going to be about two guys kissing, OMG! There's been enough rants about that sort of idiocy at fanficrants that it seems to be fairly common.
But, even if people don't put 'het' or 'slash' in their summaries, fandom still tends to divide relationship and/or sexual fics into two broad, monosexual categories. Even Cyclops/Wolverine is seen as a slash label.
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re: kyuuketsukirui
Date: 2009-04-15 01:08 am (UTC)I'd love to see people stop using 'He's bisexual!" as a justification for slash pairings if they're not going to have the decency to make the character actually bisexual. I don't expect it to happen, but I'd love to see it. But that's as much a part of me disliking unrealistic relationships regardless of sexuality as it is me just wanting to see more fics featuring bisexuality as something other than a lampshade.
I've redundantly labeled fics of mine as het and slash and I've seen others do it. Not everybody does and it probably varies by fandoms and by how paranoid someone is about having someone bitch at them because they didn't realize that Cyclops/Wolverine was going to be about two guys kissing, OMG! There's been enough rants about that sort of idiocy at
But, even if people don't put 'het' or 'slash' in their summaries, fandom still tends to divide relationship and/or sexual fics into two broad, monosexual categories. Even Cyclops/Wolverine is seen as a slash label.