1. I do prefer slash to het pairings, in general, although of course I like plenty of het pairings and there are slash pairings that make my skin crawl. Why? Haha, that's kind of the question slashers have been asked for decades, isn't it? There are probably volumes of meta and theory to explain why I prefer slash over het. Basically, every explanation for Why We Slash is something to which I subscribe, at least to an extent, including the one that says "why do we have to justify this stuff?"
2. I don't know if I'm 100% clear on the distinction -- I don't think I could choose!
3. I read more m/m than f/f.
4. I don't know. I don't think it really does affect my fic-reading preferences. I mean, I have the same fic-reading preferences as people of all orientations, gender identities, and sexual experience (and my fic-reading preferences haven't actually changed at all as my sexual experiences have changed). And there are probably people out there who are virtually indistinguishable from me in terms of gender, sex, and experience who have completely different reading preferences.
5. Not really. In most of the fandoms I read, there isn't a lot of gen. For the fandoms where there IS gen, it mostly bores me. Just -- doesn't do anything for me, for the most part. (For some reason, people in the House fandom see this as some kind of massive insult, or throwing down some kind of gauntlet. I never felt the need to justify my tastes to other fans until I got involved in that clusterfuck.)
6. It really depends on the story. I enjoy the explicit stuff, but to the point that I think every story needs or won't read a story without it.
7. Torch's (flambeau's) Mulder/Krycek stories. I was really young.
8. I'm procrastinating writing my DSSS pinch hit! /sharing
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:13 am (UTC)2. I don't know if I'm 100% clear on the distinction -- I don't think I could choose!
3. I read more m/m than f/f.
4. I don't know. I don't think it really does affect my fic-reading preferences. I mean, I have the same fic-reading preferences as people of all orientations, gender identities, and sexual experience (and my fic-reading preferences haven't actually changed at all as my sexual experiences have changed). And there are probably people out there who are virtually indistinguishable from me in terms of gender, sex, and experience who have completely different reading preferences.
5. Not really. In most of the fandoms I read, there isn't a lot of gen. For the fandoms where there IS gen, it mostly bores me. Just -- doesn't do anything for me, for the most part. (For some reason, people in the House fandom see this as some kind of massive insult, or throwing down some kind of gauntlet. I never felt the need to justify my tastes to other fans until I got involved in that clusterfuck.)
6. It really depends on the story. I enjoy the explicit stuff, but to the point that I think every story needs or won't read a story without it.
7. Torch's (
8. I'm procrastinating writing my DSSS pinch hit! /sharing