I have zero interest in het pairings (with the exception of Spike/Buffy, for some reason...), but I'm also not interested in canon gay pairings.
I actually got into fandom by way of a het pairing; I was a shipper back in the early days of the X-Files (back when "shipper" just meant you liked Mulder/Scully). Of course, that wasn't a canon pairing at the time.
It's actually a pretty narrow window of pairings that do interest me: close, intimate friendships and partnerships that aren't actually romantic.
That makes sense. It sounds like you're more attracted to subtext than to overt text, to having to "do the work" rather than just take in the eye and brain candy. I think a lot of people are like that. When Queer As Folk came out (both the UK and US versions) there were a lot of veteran slashers who just weren't interested, probably far more than the number who were all, "woohoo! boys makin' out on screen!" Me, I'm lazy, and I like my eye and brain candy, and I also have a huge thing for established relationship stories, so there are a lot of canonically queer relationships that really appeal to me. I suppose -- and I might actually be answering one of your questions, wow! -- that as a queer-identified person, I might also just enjoy seeing people like me on my TV screen, navigating some of the same situations I've been in (and might find myself in, someday), being out and visible.
I'm glad you said it first. Yeah, gen is a lot like watching paint dry--does that make me shallow?
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Date: 2007-12-21 04:11 am (UTC)I actually got into fandom by way of a het pairing; I was a shipper back in the early days of the X-Files (back when "shipper" just meant you liked Mulder/Scully). Of course, that wasn't a canon pairing at the time.
It's actually a pretty narrow window of pairings that do interest me: close, intimate friendships and partnerships that aren't actually romantic.
That makes sense. It sounds like you're more attracted to subtext than to overt text, to having to "do the work" rather than just take in the eye and brain candy. I think a lot of people are like that. When Queer As Folk came out (both the UK and US versions) there were a lot of veteran slashers who just weren't interested, probably far more than the number who were all, "woohoo! boys makin' out on screen!" Me, I'm lazy, and I like my eye and brain candy, and I also have a huge thing for established relationship stories, so there are a lot of canonically queer relationships that really appeal to me. I suppose -- and I might actually be answering one of your questions, wow! -- that as a queer-identified person, I might also just enjoy seeing people like me on my TV screen, navigating some of the same situations I've been in (and might find myself in, someday), being out and visible.
I'm glad you said it first. Yeah, gen is a lot like watching paint dry--does that make me shallow?
If it does, then we're in good company.