Slash meta #3 (and probably final): please discuss!

[thrihyrne]

Thank you so much for those involved thus far! Feel free to ask friends who you think would be interested in sharing their views who may not know me from Eve's housecat and send them on over. All of these posts are public, but you do have to be a registered LJ'er. Women only, however, for this particular article.

My final question, and the crux in some ways of what I think I'll focus on for the article: if you're an R to NC-17 slasher, whether writing, reading, artist, viewer of art, vidder or video viewer, when the characters get intimate with one another, are you strictly a voyeur, do you do a bit of self-insert of a sort into one or both of the characters, or is it a combination? If a combination, does it depend on the pairing/fandom/something else? In other words, are you just watching the men together, or are you putting yourself into the action, but within the body of one or both of them? I'll be very interested to read your comments as this, I think, is what fascinates me the most. And hopefully will be interesting to Filament readers!

Comments

[gingerspark.livejournal.com]

when I write (whether or not the characters are intimate) I am always trying to "get inside their heads". I do that because I'm trying to think like the character and not like me.

Does that make sense? I'm trying to have the action be as much like that of a character who has been through the background story that I invented for them, and not like me jumping into their story with a Mary Sue wish-fulfillment for me.

Is that what you're looking for?

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does make sense. You want to know the innards of the person, but you're not perhaps thinking of enjoying whatever's going on in the same way that the character is… something like that?