I started off my Saturday with this note from Filament's editor, Suraya Singh:
"Fan mail already!" and linked to a Twittered comment:
And the slash article was AWESOME. I may have problems moving away from the interweb...

So I'm over the moon. I don't even have my own copy yet! :D

Apparently there's already some Inception slash out there. I've not seen the movie— I'd like to see it, but it's not showing here in the 'burg. Can anyone on my flist whose seen this tell me who the main pairing is? somebody/Eames, I believe? And while there were homoerotic overtones in the film (I believe) there wasn't anything explicit, right? How would you summarize the orientation for those two characters?

Thanks so much! Don't worry about spoilers; I'm going to go see it anyway. This is for my slash article rewrite. Because the first go 'round really wasn't what she wanted to focus on.

I've heard back from Filament's editor about my article; I'll need to rework it and get some more feedback from people, but she also mentioned that she was going to consult with her lawyer about the possibility of including some slash fan art. I'm not really up on fan art as much as writers, and most of the artists whose work I do know is older- are any of you on my flist close with any of the more well-known (in HP fandom, say) fan artists enough that I could ask whether or not she would even consider having some of her art potentially included in a magazine? I'd like to be able to see some of the art before writing to anybody.

Thanks so much! And I'll be posting soon to get feedback about some different aspects to slash.

I'd really love to get some more responses to my slash meta questions; I know I'm not writing an article to try and get in a sexuality journal or anything like that, but I'd like to get a wider selection of responses. I'm thrilled that as many of you have replied thoughtfully to my questions. Perhaps this will lead to another academic paper after this!

For those following my original fiction story, I wanted to say that I'm taking a short hiatus from it because a rather cracktastic bunny got me for a HP story for a friend's upcoming birthday, plus a Gimli story set during the period of The Hobbit. Plus I need to figure out some of the finer points of the khorite religion before I continue on, I think.

Hope everybody has a great weekend!

Same rules apply for the first one: be considerate, be as honest as you can be, as long or short as you wish. Filament often talks about the female gaze, and the fact that women enjoy looking at men and men's bodies, not just reading about them. In regards to slash, thinking about characters with an inner eye to their bodies (written slash), or true visuals (fan art or videos), would you say that your enjoyment is more about sensuality or sexuality? Does it vary depending on the fandom and/or pairing? And the key question: do you know why you're drawn to slash? Are you someone who reads/looks at all ratings of slash, or only particular ones? If so, which?

Thanks so much for helping me out with this. I question these things myself, so I'm thrilled to be able to put some of these thoughts down and into a non-fandom centric readership. :)

Woo hoo! I'd emailed the editor at filamentmag over the past year and offered myself up to write an article on women slash writers and artists. And she said it could work! So I'll be looking to some of you for the most current media references and papers (especially to do with visuals versus writing), and also to get some anecdotal material. It will appear in the December issue, so I'll be writing this over the next couple of months. It shouldn't be more than 2K, so it'll be an overview and some conjecture, but I'm thrilled to be able to write on this topic in nonfiction form once again. I'd especially like to hear from any slash fan artists/vidders I have on my flist as one of the premises for Filament is that women enjoy seeing men and enjoying looking at their bodies— so while it is very common that women are slash writers, they also do photo manips and videos and art.

On an unrelated note, I'm slowly getting my England photos uploaded, turned around the right way, and resized from enormous to manageable. Once I have them up, I'll link to them in my gallery.

Title: Baby, You Can Drive My Car
Fandom: The Slave Breakers
Pairings: Lee/Andrei, Lee/Jer
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3700
Summary: Being the focus of two lovers isn't always easy, especially when the two men involved are polar opposites.
Author's Notes: This is a sequel to A Diffident Confidence, a Lee/Andrei h/c story. I became fascinated with Mac's newest contribution to her own canon in this entry in which it's revealed that Jer moves into Andrei's estate and must be there a fair amount of the time. I've had a tremendously fun time imagining that dynamic and how it would affect Lee. I'd intended this story to be a steamy, sexy romp, and instead Lee and Andrei talked. And talked. And then there was driving. My apologies to the Beatles for the title, but I couldn't resist. Self-beta'ed, so if you see something, please let me know. And my usual depths of gratitude to Mac for this world and letting us write in it. Crossposted to slavebreakers.

( Baby, You Can Drive My Car )

I'm a bit late this year and realize this is mostly for my own record-keeping, but for those who might be curious or are here to read in particular fandoms, here is my 2009 summary of fics by fandom. Links are also included; most of them are to posts at my LJ, but there are a few that go elsewhere where you can leave a comment should you be so inclined. ;) The one totally new element was writing in another author's original fiction fandom, The Slave Breakers by maculategiraffe. I ended up being quite captivated as you'll see from the no fewer than the eight stories and some drabbles I wrote in that fandom alone. I also wrote a few Tolkien slash stories (I've written nearly all genfics in my Tolkien writing prior to this year), but for the most part they didn't prove to be all that popular.

In addition to the stories listed below, the major story that I worked on, but which is still with Storm Constantine, is my Wraeththu novella "Maelstrom and Mage". I did a major revision on it in 2009, then received Storm's many helpful suggestions and comments and rewrote 7/10 of it. She's had it since the end of October but in publishing, nothing happens quickly. So one story which occupied much of my creative energies is not public yet. Hopefully it will be published by her company, Immanion Press, in this coming year. That's really my one major aspiration for 2010: to see that novella in print.

( By fandom, in chronological order within each fandom, here's what I wrote in 2009 )

So there they all are! Not including M+M, I wrote and published around 145K words this past year. If I include the M+M rewrite and revision it's closer to 200K, which has been my norm over the past few years. That said, I will be stepping away from fanfiction, at least that's what I say now. There are some personal things I'll be working on, but doubtless I'll continue to write and post in at least a couple of fandoms from time to time.

To my readers, thank you for your comments and encouragement over the past year.

Continued from here

( To Dwell in Lovers' Eyes, part two )

I know, I just wrote something, and most of you on my immediate flist don't read Slave Breakers. Still, for my own archive, I'm putting it here as well as over at slavebreakers. Andrei came to me and said I had to write this.

Title: Map of the Human Heart
Rating: Adultish, but totally non-explicit
Pairing: Lee/Andrei, Mona
Summary: We know what happens at Holden's the day he and Lord Taganov lose the court case and their slaves are voluntarily freed. It's a much more subdued event at Andrei's. This is my take on how things happened at Andrei's that day.

( Map of the Human Heart )