As you well know, I wrote my fair share of slash - I still do on occasion. Hell, I like slash - it's not my problem. You're talking to the woman who invented Elladan/Boromir and even wrote Boromir Mpreg, which earned me a proud place on the Worst of the Worst Fanfic comm on FF.Net!
What I hate is the random slashing of characters just so that the author can write the umpteenth "insert Character A into Character B" piece of random smuth without anything in canon that would back it. Or if adult male characters are twisted into behaving like idiotic, lovesick schoolgirls, as it way to often happens in a great many of fandoms. Sherlock is a particularly bad example of this, but I had the bad luck to run into inane amounts of rally bad Sheppard/McKay stories in the SGA fandom.
One story in particular still causes me nightmares, although I never got any further than the summary, out of my healthy sense of self-preservation. It was about Rodney McKay, a genius-level astrophysicist, having depressions because he thinks he's fat. And Sheppard, with whom he gets slashed all the time, although I never managed to acquire the particular goggles that would make me see the nonexistent UST between them, has to comfort him lovingly. All this between two men in their mid-30s, one of them a former Black Ops soldier. *gags*
That's why I loved the canon slash relationship in Torchwood before RTD would destroy it in stupid Children of Earth: that Jack and Ianto had a very down-to-earth, problematic relationship, frayed with doubts and betrayal and co-dependence and whatever you want; and that the fact that they were both males was not the deciding point. Of coruse, that had to be sacrificed, so that the Rustoid could shove Gwen-bloody-Cooper down our throats, which was basically the end of Torchwood, but that's another problem entirely.
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What I hate is the random slashing of characters just so that the author can write the umpteenth "insert Character A into Character B" piece of random smuth without anything in canon that would back it. Or if adult male characters are twisted into behaving like idiotic, lovesick schoolgirls, as it way to often happens in a great many of fandoms. Sherlock is a particularly bad example of this, but I had the bad luck to run into inane amounts of rally bad Sheppard/McKay stories in the SGA fandom.
One story in particular still causes me nightmares, although I never got any further than the summary, out of my healthy sense of self-preservation. It was about Rodney McKay, a genius-level astrophysicist, having depressions because he thinks he's fat. And Sheppard, with whom he gets slashed all the time, although I never managed to acquire the particular goggles that would make me see the nonexistent UST between them, has to comfort him lovingly. All this between two men in their mid-30s, one of them a former Black Ops soldier. *gags*
That's why I loved the canon slash relationship in Torchwood before RTD would destroy it in stupid Children of Earth: that Jack and Ianto had a very down-to-earth, problematic relationship, frayed with doubts and betrayal and co-dependence and whatever you want; and that the fact that they were both males was not the deciding point. Of coruse, that had to be sacrificed, so that the Rustoid could shove Gwen-bloody-Cooper down our throats, which was basically the end of Torchwood, but that's another problem entirely.