redbrunja | The Het Girls Creed

I love my friends, but they are all slashers.

I am not.

So here follows the het girl's creed- an open love letter to why I love het.

Because the best-written het has a relationship between two people with different views and the world, different perspectives, who are nevertheless equal.

But really, because I like girls. In lots of shows girls, women, they get the short end of the stick. It's hard to find cool female characters in books and movies. I challange you to find a female Light who's in a series anywhere near as popular as Death Note, much less the main character. When I was younger, one of my first critiera for reading a book was, "Is there going to be a girl in it?" I didn't demand that they be the protaganist (though I prefered it that way) but that they at least should be a main secondary character.

I stil like and relate to girls. So slash really doesn't have a draw for me- and for shows like Death Note or Saiyuki, I don't need to spend more time with the guys. I see that from the source text. What I'm intrested in are the women, the characters who don't get that massive amount of screen time. I want to know why Yaone willingly walked into the Centipede Demon's lair. Did she do it because she was ordered to? Because she thought she was saving her village? Why? I want to know what happens when Light's little sister comes across a scrap of the Death Note (what do you bet she likes apples?) I want to know why Naomi willingly gave up her badge, and how she caught her first serial killer, and how many times she's gone through the door with gun in hand (I highly doubt Kira was the first case where SHE was risking her life.) Most especially, I want to see Naomi and L working together. These are the stories I want told.

And also, I like romance. I just do. I like that little giggle I get when I know the characters like each other but they haven't admitted it yet. I like watching two characters snip at each and realize that there's a little bit of attraction hidden in there. I like it when two characters are enemies but cant seem to treat each other that way. I love when it's clear that two characters really love each other, are married and still so in love.

That's why I love het.

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There's a handful of pairings I like -- when they are written well and actually IN CHARACTER -- that qualify as slash, and I loves me some femmeslash, but by and large... I prefer het above all the rest.

Probably because I'm bi and I like getting both in my smut. :D I dunno. I'm really tired of the excess of slash in fandoms, quite honestly, and I'm starting to make a point of not getting interested in stuff that's mostly slash-friendly (like SPN.) It's like... umm... chicken fried steak. I love the stuff when it's cooked well and the gravy's right, but I don't want it all the time. I have it maybe once a year if even that often, truth be told. There's other stuff I like better. Once in a while I'm just in the mood for a good chicken fried steak, but that doesn't mean I want to make a steady diet of it.

Same thing with slash.

I love the icon (I especially love "Hawkeye is God"), and now I really want to know what should never happen again.

With slash I've gotten to the point where I'm really getting sick of the percentages. My fandoms went Supernatural (about fifty-fifty), FMA (60-40%) and now I'm getting into Saiyuki and Death Note, which are fandoms with NO HET.

I never had a problem with slash when I had plenty of well-written gen and het to read, and the {random fandom} het communites on lj were active, but now that there's such a disparity between het and slash I'm getting slightly irritated. I like femmeslash, because it's focused on the women, which I really, really like, so while I won't seek it out, I'll really enjoy it when I come across authors I know writing it.

I like your chiken-fried steak metaphor. For me, it's like coconut. I hate coconut, can't bear to eat anything with coconut in it, and recently, it seems like everyone is putting coconut is everything.

With smut, I think the fact that I don't have the parts they're describing, and don't have a POV character to act as a window into the action, nor do I have the "pretty boys kissing squee!" gene.

Yeah... and now it's kinda starting to feel like we're admitting to be a two-headed monster, sometimes, if we say slash isn't our preferred cuppa. -_-;

And I have no idea what should never happen again. XD I modified Ivanova's quote from Babylon:5 Season 1, A Voice in the Wilderness II (i think), because it fit Hawkeye way too well to pass up. XD

I second the feeling about not liking slash. I've had a friend who, twice, has responded to my "I don't like slash" comment with what as basically, "Oh, but have you read this kind, or..." And both times I was like- "I've read slash! I've read good slash! I've explored this idea suffiently to say without guilt that I have tried it and DON'T LIKE IT!"

Now I want somebody to write what shall never happen again. And that quote does fit Hawkeye most perfectly.

The Het Girls Creed

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