Hi, I just stumble on to your journal trying to find a good reason why I prefer het instand of slash and behold! a love letter for het. (BTW, I love your fics and metas.)
Some of the friends I have are into slash, and while I can see what might draws them into it, it does nothing for me. Like you, I really really like women characters to the point that whenever I make an OC or a lead character out of a original story, more than likely the character be female. Sometimes I change my mind and create a male lead, but have a supporting female character that is his equal. I've always believed that the basis of good story telling is not letting the hero have all the power and the responsibility in the end, but rather his equals and his allies to help out in the fighting. That's what's pissing me off so much in Naruto: Naruto, by rights, should NOT be having superstrength. That's Sakura's ability, the only real power she has given to her by the author himself, to make her distinguished and needed. With Naruto having Sakura's strength, Sakura has become overcasted and thrown to the sidelines as a team mate.
(Oh wow, going horribly off tangent here.)
Going back to slash, I just don't find myself paticularly caring for it. Maybe it is just two guys to have similar viewpoints and there is no contrast as a result, but I just find slash (the good and the bad) just . . . lacking. (Though as an AMV maker, there is some really good slash vids that's not bad at all.)
And speaking of female characters, have you ever read Animorphs by K.A. Applegate? Totally awesome female leads there, they are practically the guys' equal.
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(BTW, I love your fics and metas.)
Some of the friends I have are into slash, and while I can see what might draws them into it, it does nothing for me. Like you, I really really like women characters to the point that whenever I make an OC or a lead character out of a original story, more than likely the character be female. Sometimes I change my mind and create a male lead, but have a supporting female character that is his equal. I've always believed that the basis of good story telling is not letting the hero have all the power and the responsibility in the end, but rather his equals and his allies to help out in the fighting. That's what's pissing me off so much in Naruto: Naruto, by rights, should NOT be having superstrength. That's Sakura's ability, the only real power she has given to her by the author himself, to make her distinguished and needed. With Naruto having Sakura's strength, Sakura has become overcasted and thrown to the sidelines as a team mate.
(Oh wow, going horribly off tangent here.)
Going back to slash, I just don't find myself paticularly caring for it. Maybe it is just two guys to have similar viewpoints and there is no contrast as a result, but I just find slash (the good and the bad) just . . . lacking. (Though as an AMV maker, there is some really good slash vids that's not bad at all.)
And speaking of female characters, have you ever read Animorphs by K.A. Applegate? Totally awesome female leads there, they are practically the guys' equal.