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interhuman connections and the wish and illusion to be on the inside and to watch, even if only in one’s head and on the screen: Viscerally, there is the appeal of two beautiful male bodies, entwined in an embrace that makes my breath catch whether I am reading it being described or looking at an image. Symmetry and grace, strength and form. (Still bowing to the [Feminist] Apologists, I get the same kind of reaction in a different part of my brain when I see a picture of a mother embracing her daughter, or women embracing each other. Non-sexual Symmetry and continuance.) Intellectually, I don't see myself in those two men, but I see myself there. Not as voyeur but as an emotional reaction to something that makes my heart ache to be what they feel. Even if I am writing what they feel. There is a connection between two men that I believe a man and woman can never reach. A connection between two women as friends or lovers that men will never understand and a man and a woman can never share. However, I can understand those connections between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman. I can never know what, precisely, two men can feel for each other. (Maygra 1999) Maygra also drew MacGeorge, another prolific author into slash. MacGeorge used to write gen fanfiction before she started writing slash, and in an online essay debating the why of slash she narrates her entry into that genre: I was first exposed to slash well after I started writing Highlander fanfiction. My initial interest was in this wonderful heroic fantasy world featuring a gorgeous, dark, angst-ridden hero who had faults, but was a genuinely “good” man. Like many others who write and read heroic fantasy, it was not about admiring such a hero. It was about wanting to be such a hero. Strong, sensitive, caring, stoic, driven, conflicted -- all those traits so common to our (or at least my) fantasies. Then I fell into the clutches of the wonderful and talented Maygra de Rhema who had the good taste to actually like some of my fiction, and who gently urged me to read this stuff called “slash.” My first reaction was 118
“eeeeuw!” But that was before I read what she had recommended, and (more specifically) read what she had written. Much to my surprise and no small discomfort, I was first intrigued, then drawn in, then sucked in (if you will pardon the expression) to the unique universe of slash fan fiction. All the time I was reading, and then actually writing, these strange relationship stories, I ruminated on “why?” it should be so fascinating and, sometimes, such a turn on. (MacGeorge 1999) Attempting to analyze her “fall” to slash, MacGeorge read essays and papers dealing with the possible motivations for heterosexual women to like slash. Though not quite convinced that the theories she read about applied towards her, MacGeorge establishes two premises. The first one states that women enjoy thinking and fantasizing about men, but that equally many women would be embarrassed to admit the enjoyment of such a pastime. Secondly, she maintains, women are self-conscious and self-critical of their own physical appearance, and thus, when reading a heterosexual piece between a male and a “perfect” female, MacGeorge argues that it does not get her “viscerally excited because [she does] not identify with that lovely female. That's certainly not who "I" am, or who I could ever even truly fantasize about being.” But if you combine the elements of two gorgeous male bodies, complex personalities and relationships that allow both romantic love, as well as the rough-and-tumble "just fuck me because we both want it so bad" alternatives, you have incorporated all the desirable elements of physicality, emotion and circumstances, and you have provided an opportunity for total suspension of disbelief. […]That is the essence of true fantasy. A lifting out of oneself. A lovely and uplifting moment of wish fulfillment. I am gorgeous 119
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Table of Contents I. Introduction..
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more stories, and sharing funny tid
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yet understandable enough, to intro
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justifiable, and believable. 1 It i
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well as the act of worship (activel
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This leads Maygra 2 , a prominent f
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the fandoms are well-known. Slash-
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equality and beyond social stereoty
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uses his authorial position to loos
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fandoms, and are 2) people outside
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that writing in and for Anthropolog
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in ethnographic narrative, which ha
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very analytically thereafter. Jenki
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web. In a way the nature of convers
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affected not simply by the object o
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This is emphasized by how they view
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participation: In order to limit se
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order to find an earlier post, one
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academic audience might find such a
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linked, text with the connections o
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consumers: Consumers only passively
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fandoms, and an active member in ot
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proud of her ability to slash every
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accompanying it online, would be to
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Harry Potter fandom, since I find t
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We were talking recently about our
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they had no sense and the plotlines
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the 5 th Harry Potter book. In any
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discussed in the following sections
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These OOC chats in Yuri’s game ar
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nor as an act for the game specific
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discussion of both themes in the ne
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GWLBWLB H sugar and spice. We are n
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meta-MST MEverse MFEO, M.F.E.O. mir
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Regardless, if a fan calls you a mu
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Continuum PWP RACC RACMX Ratboy rat
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"degeneration" of smarm into near-s
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them all, let alone finish them! Na
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al Couple Unnamed Faction Unusual S
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VI. Bibliography Works Consulted Pr
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1997 “Culture in the Plural”. M
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