Three dollars and some change

I got pointed here via Beren.

Um, yea. I guess I'll just throw my two cents in here, if you don't mind XD

It's weird, actually, my reading slash fics. I got into fanfiction via The Mummy Returns, Oded Fehr and Buffy which would have been 3 or 4 years ago, and everything I read was het. Loads of RPF around Oded and a ton of Buffy/Spike *looks ashamed* but no slash, not one little bit.

And then The Lord of the Rings came out, I surfed around the net a bit, and found a load of communities and Yahoo!groups for LOTR fiction and got involved. Only it turned out that they were all slash fiction communities. I'm not sure why I actually read the stuff rather than running away screaming, but I kinda found that I liked it, and I suppose there was in me, even then, some kinda of latent bisexuality that I hadn't yet come to terms with. I guess as well, the idea of Celeborn/Halidir appealed to me far more than Celeborn/Galadriel since I liked both Celeborn and Haldir in the film, and wasn't so keen on Galadriel. At the time it must have been on of those why have one hot guy in a pairing when you can have two kind of things. *blushes* It must have made sense at the time.

I've kinda worked my way through a few different fandoms, but since then I have targeted the slash (and, more recently, femmeslash) in every fandom that I have been a part of. Furthermore all the original fiction that I have written in the last 3/4 years has all been slash. In the end I suppose it just became a part of what I looked for in fics that I was reading. In some ways relationships between two guys or two girls can just be far more beautiful. That seems weird now I actually put it into words, but I guess it has something to with the if they can it, then so can I.

All that said, I do still read het fanfic, and original fiction, but I have never shyed away from the more homosexual elements to stories, I just find it more interesting, especially if the author can make it believeable.

*grins* That was far longer than I intended it to be, but your poll got me thinking as to why I actually read/write slash.

~Kiri

P.s. Was it your genius that came up with the idea of doing Anita/HP crossovers that has inspired Beren? It's a bloody amazing idea.