My evil plans, frustrated...

[graculus]

Bah. I had planned to heckle przed's Man from UNCLE panel at MediaWest this year, but I found out today that one of my panels has been moved to clash with it so my evil plans will come to naught! :(

Yep, I'm running two panels - one on Wild Wild West (Would the 1960s show work on TV today? Too sexist, too macho, or too gay?) and one on writing the less popular pairings in your slash fandom. I'm co-modding the latter, having run something similar to that a few years back and I find the whole subject interesting.

After all, what is it about some of us that we seek out (or have thrust upon us) the pairings that other people ignore or just plain don't appreciate? I'm hoping my espousal of Daniel/Teal'c and Ezra/Nathan can't just be put down to a simply-described kink which any viewer of the show might point out, but is about the characters and not just their physical characteristics.

I'm going from the OTC standpoint here as well - the One True Character who I find the most appealing and can happily slash with more than one other. Some might even say that any Ez-slash comes under the 'less popular pairing' label, considering the strength of the Chris/Vin side of the fandom.

Any thoughts, as always, appreciated as I try to formulate my thoughts for the end of the month... ;)

Comments

[ankh-lj.livejournal.com]

My OTC is Daniel Jackson. I'll read him being slashed with others besides Jack, despite J/D being my OTP. However, I do have one or two requirements. I have to fancy the bloke Daniel's being slashed with and/or I have to see chemistry. So I'll happily read Daniel/Tony DiNozzo but Daniel/Fornell would leave me cold. I'm shallow, I have no interest in pairings with characters I have no attraction to no matter how quirky and omigod-their-love-is-so-canon their relationship is, so I'm not going to read Gibbs/Ducky no matter how fond I am of them both. I wouldn't want to watch them having sex, ergo forty pages of them boinking is not going to butter my crumpets.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I think the whole OTC thing works, with some reservations - like you, I couldn't just pick a male character at random and be convinced just because they were involved with my OTC. For example, while I'm quite happy with J/D or D/T, that's really the extent of it for me where Daniel is concerned.

As far as NCIS is concerned, I like Ducky but that's as much because he's got a lot of Illya characteristics and that's what's attractive to me more than anything else. Also, I would want to beat Gibbs around the head with a frying pan if I was involved with him, so that kind of precludes liking any fic with him involved. Ditto for pretty much all the characters, really, and I've now stopped watching the show so I'll tail off here...

As for the 'omg it's canon', well I don't like to be told what to think. Thus the chance of me ever liking any het relationship being pushed onscreen is significantly less than zero. I have eyes, I can make my own mind up, thanks very much - no need for spoonfeeding and tinkly Pavlov music here!