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

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Considering my OTP consists of one guy who was at his prettiest in the early seventies (but does evil very well), and one who is green and has horns, I don't think you can count it as two-hot-guys ;-). I write Ethan/Lorne because I see them as very much coded queer, and because we don't know what happened to them following their last appearance on screen. I like giving my favourite characters nice things, and I think they'd like each other. Also their on-screen chronology doesn't overlap at all, although we can guess that they were in the same state at the very least for some of that time. Lorne has a bar, Ethan has plenty of reasons to need somewhere safe to drink and/or meet people, so no reason why they couldn't have met during canon.

Plus I come from B7 fandom, where it's always been a fun game to suggest ways in which major and minor characters could have met before or after their on-screen interactions.