Since my first inquiry have been, thus far, well and politely received, I feel like I can brave another attempt at shedding some light over our differing views. Now, please keep in mind, it’s three in the morning and I’m tired. I’ve been tossing ideas for this post back and forth with a friend, who is just as tired as I am and our sense of humour tends to be a bit weird at this hour. I really and honestly don’t mean any offence with this post. I just felt this was an issue I wanted to address. I know I just posted, and I don’t mean to drown you in posts but I had the idea here and now and wanted to get it out before I forgot about it. I hope you can make any sense out of my ramblings.

First of all I want you to know that I’m not here as a wounded yaoi- or slashfan. I lurk at fandom wank and I know how much fun it can be to laugh at fans, I laugh at myself frequently.  The questions I have springs from honest curiosity and nothing else. I joined here because I wanted to talk to you people and it would have made me feel dirty if I had created a whole new livejournal just to join. However, this means I will only be here until my questions have been answered and all discussions concluded (I will not run away, I promise). I don’t want you to see me as a troll, as long as I am here I will be open about it, but I’m not antiyaoi and therefore when I’m gone, I’ll be gone.

I have read yaoi... a lot of yaoi, but it’s been a while. Right now I’m reading twilight (which basically means that I’ve gone from the bad homosexual seme/uke lovin’ to the bad heterosexual dazzled girl/sparkling vampire lovin’) and there you have my taste level. My point here being, I get you, I really do. A lot of yaoi (and the small amount of yuri I’ve come across) is crap and the “rules” that make up the genre are often horrible and have nothing to do with homosexual relationships in general.

Now, finally, my question. In the userinfo it says that this community is anti yaoi and anti slash, and here is where I kind of lose the picture. Apart from reading twilight I also read fanfiction slash, have been for years. My interpretation, and the way it’s used in the communities where I find my stories, is that slash is a fanfiction term that, today, means homosexual pairings (most often between two males), no genre implied. It’s usually mentioned because the authors want to avoid flamers who will tell her or him that they’ll be burning in hell for making the characters gay.

But if you people aren’t anti gay what is it in slash that you have a problem with? Slash isn’t a genre; it’s merely an indication of a homosexual relationship being present in the story. If you have a different definition of slash here, then sorry (?), my bad. Will you please explain? If you mean slash in anime/manga fanfiction then I’m kind of back to getting you again, since they probably keep the seme/uke yhada going, if so please clarify. If not please explain because I simply do not understand.