GODDAMMIT!

[maderr]

Stupid livejournal just ate my post. and it was too long for me to want to retype it all. drat.

Suffice to say I wandered back into my academic thoughts today - I was contemplating the dissertation I would like to write someday. I realize most people see an academic interested in studying yaoi and hold up crosses and hiss, but I swear I'm not like that.

The dissertation I would like write eventually would discuss the differences b/t Japenese Yaoi and Western Slash (I'm being redundant for a reason). I had a whole list of reasons and theories, those are what I'm too annoyed to bother typing again. But humour a lonely, aspiring academic and answer me this: Do you consider yourself a yaoi fan, a slash fan, both or neither?

*goes back to writing and sulking*

Comments

[nanthimus.livejournal.com]

Arrgh! I feel your pain; lj has eaten a few of my posts, too. I consider myself a slash fan, simple because most of what I read is HP, which is western, which is slash. :)

But really, traditionally yaoi is where the guys are gay. There's no consequences to it, there's no difference between straight and gay, it just is. While slash, they 'deal' with it. They're in denial, or they're angry about it, or other people are disgusted by it. Or they catch an STD because of it. Slash is more 'real life.'

At least, that's what I read somewhere. :) But the line has been blurred between them, so now I really don't think there's much of a difference, except that one's western and one's eastern.