[LMB] Re: Slash (was OT) now Bujold Romance/Slash Meta

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

Lois McMaster Bujold lbujold at myinfmail.com
Wed Jan 3 16:17:22 GMT 2007


*** I will add in passing, I have no problem, personally, with persons
who express a discomfort about slash as a sub-set of their discomfort
about erotica/porn generally.   ...

Ta, L.



*****  Quoting myself for an addendum:  I also have no problem with 
folks averse to slash as a sub-set of aversion to fanfic generally.   
There are readers for whom reading the derivative works, of any sort, 
actively damages the book-in-their-head, in ways they then can't get rid 
of.  Where the original work is especially beloved, I suspect the damage 
will be most keenly felt.  It takes a peculiar sort of 
fiction-processing -- and, I suspect, practice -- to be able to hold a 
whole bunch of variant versions in parallel in the the same head without 
this happening.    These folks have every right, and probably need, to 
avoid fic of any kind.  And possibly the movie version as well...

Ta, L.