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

[starparty.livejournal.com]

Well to me I've always seen Yaoi as a strictly anime fandom and slash as original characters as well as RPS and Movies and TV and the like. But I tend to refer to yaoi as slash alot. So the line is very blurry.

I seem to choose my favorites not by genre but by paring. I'm more driven by the characters than story I guess.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

That's a response I haven't heard - the characters rather than story.

This paper will be more fun than I thought. Should I be happy at the prospect of writing a long ass paper?

[starparty.livejournal.com]

There can be a story that pushed every one of my buttons but if it's not a pairing I like I most likely will not read it.

YES! This paper sounds like it will be a TON of fun to do!