Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in A Community for Slashy Original Fiction's InsaneJournal:

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
3:11 pm [jam_jam]	Reactions Not sure anyone is still paying attention to this community, but I thought I’d post an issue I’ve been working on… Essentially, a character’s mother has a fairly… odd reaction to her son telling her he’s gay. She has a stereotyped and bigoted view of homosexuality (her typical image of a gay male is a drugged-out, homeless, criminal degenerate with possible pedophilic or other disturbing tendencies, and who probably has AIDS), and because her son is none of these things, she immediately assumes that it’s just a confused phase. He tells her it’s not, and he has a boyfriend. She demands to know who seduced her son into such degradation. He tells her it’s not degradation, but does tell her who his boyfriend is. She’s about to go off on how they must have tricked him, and they’re likely a horrible person, and they’ll get him killed or tricked into prostitution and several other things, when the name makes its way through the bigotry. It’s a boy who’s been her son’s best friend for years, whom she sees as a Good Boy, knows well, and trusts to the point of practically seeing him as a second son. I’m still ironing out the conversation after that, but her final conclusion is that, while she still thinks of other gays/bisexuals as degenerates, she thinks of her son and his boyfriend as, ‘not like that’ and ‘well, they’re different/respectable’ and whatnot, and anyone who says reacts negatively to them in front of her gets to deal with her repeated and heated insistence that her son and his boyfriend, ‘aren’t that sort at all.’ My question is, given her prejudice before, is this a plausible reaction? I think it works, but it occurred to me that I’ve never seen or heard anyone react like this, reality or fiction. As an additional mention, her bigotry is far more founded on squick and stereotypes about ‘normal = good, abnormal = bad, and one sort of abnormal probably means all sorts of other nasty things as well’ than on any really religious grounds. Any input on how realistic/unrealistic it sounds? Current Mood: curious (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
11:45 am [duskpeterson]	True Tales - December 2007 issue: Military Men & Leathermen Links on the Military Men page have been added to stories by Ranger, Parhelion, and Marquesate that are set around the conflicts in World War One, World War Two, and the modern British army. Links on the Leathermen page have been added to bondage art that is an exercise in minimalism, an article about a bottom-man's efforts to overcome a phobia, and a video about power play that starts in a leather bar. Next year's theme will be Prisoners and Prison Officers. (Yes, the 2008 theme has changed. There have been some good stories coming out in this category recently.) Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions for links to gay erotic and non-erotic narrative nonfiction, fiction, narrative poetry, drama, book excerpts, blog entries, art, photography, videos, and audio. The links can be to your own works or anyone else's. Suggestions for links to military and leather works continue to be welcome. Link submission guidelines. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
3:17 pm [triceybabe]	Temptation Of Sin Ch1 Title: Temptation of Sin Author: triceybabe_is_bestleftexposed aka wl551 and triceybabe Rating: nc17 Original: Slash Summary: Azuma Rei is an assassin - ruthless, unapologetic... played me; after finishing his latest job, Rei runs into Father Peter Sumner as he is leaving the scene of the crime. (Father Peter is played by wl551, of course. ^^) After forsaking his former life, Peter is content with his life as a priest, though he is still tormented by nightmares. A midnight stroll to clear his head brings him smack into a young man who changes everything. ( Temptation of Sin ) You can find an illustration of these two here.... http://triceybabe.insanejournal.com/9208.html (3 Comments |Comment on this)
3:14 pm [triceybabe]	Title: Of Blood and Destiny Author: triceybabe_is_bestleftexposed aka wl551 and triceybabe Rating: nc17 Original: Slash Disclaimer: This is our original story and characters - please don't even think about stealing them. (besides, they bite... hard!) A/N: I will be posting a chapter daily. Stay tuned to it. Of Blood and Destiny is an original rp adventure played by Triceybabe - Jin, and Best Left Exposed - Kuriin. This continuing saga is ongoing, but no worries, we're far enough ahead to keep updates fairly regularly. :) We both have fun playing with these guys, we hope you enjoy reading. :) (This chapter contains no warnings, but later chapters will have explicit sex and violence.) ----------------------------------------------- The thin stream of moonlight was coming in through the curtains, putting everything in an eerie light. The pain of memories he'd rather forget was corroding his soul away. Sleep did not come easily to one such as him, when the burden of over a thousand dead raged through his dreams, unwelcomed. He could tell himself over and over that wasn't really him, but there was no denying the eyes that peered back from those memories were his. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
3:12 pm [triceybabe]	What Death Can't Stop Here another original game from wl551 and I... We hope you like it! Title: What Death Can't Stop Author: triceybabe_is_bestleftexposed aka triceybabe and wl551 Rating: NC-17 Warnings: Chan ( What Death Can't Stop ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
3:09 pm [triceybabe]	The Negotiation Title: The Negotiation Auther: triceybabe and wl551 Rating: NC_17 Warnings: Slash, angst Authors notes: This is an rp by wl551 and I, fomatted to story mode. Please leave feedback. The Negotiation ( Read more... ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
12:00 am [kellicat]	Stereotypical Sapphists I've seen a lot of LJ/IJ posts on stereotypical gay men in fantasy, but not so many on stereotypical lesbians. I just wanted to ask the other members what annoys them about the Stereotypical Sapphist character. For me, it's the fact that the Stereotypical Sapphist is always masculine in some way. Sometimes, other people can't even tell that they're women. I now find that tedious. What annoys you about Stereotypical Sapphists and what would you recommend to change the portrayal of lesbians in fantasy? (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
2:42 am [blackletter]	And, since I've already begged you guys for help, I thought I should try to offer something potentially useful in return. So here's an essay I wrote about a year ago that touches on categories of sexuality. A (Very) Brief Discussion On Ancient Greco-Roman Sexuality, And a Constructionist View of Sexuality (4 Comments |Comment on this)
1:56 am [blackletter]	The "Everyone is Gay" Syndrome I haven't seen any other posts here yet...so I guess I get to write the inaugurating post for the community. So, I've been going along, writing my story, when suddenly I realize that more and more of my characters are turning out to be queer. My protagonist is not queer--but her father is (this was something established in my brain from the beginning). In addition to the father, there's also his Significant Other. But this was planned and so all was well. But then a secondary protagonist showed up (a deuteragonist) and as it turns out, he's bisexual and it shows. So now, of my central cast of about 10, 3 are queer. This was getting to be a slightly high percentage, but I was OK with it. But *then* one of the antagonists turns out to be not-straight also (and this is affecting the way he interacts with the deuteragonist). Which leaves nearly half my main cast as queer. Now, if I were working with a non-heteronormative culture, I'd not be concerned. But I'm not. So my fear now is whether the sheer number of queer characters is becoming unbelievable, given that I'm writing in a culture where homosexuality is illegal. And especially given that the protagonist herself is not really involved in that subculture. (Now, if I were writing the father's story, it'd be a different matter altogether, since I suspect that he'd know and associate with some like-minded people.) Since people have accused me in the past (although not with this story in particular) that "all my characters are gay", I've become a little hypersensitive to this sort of thing. What I'm asking then, is for opinions. At what point does it become strange, silly, or just plain unbelievable? (Because for some reason populating an entire book with heterosexuals is quite normal, but populating an entire book with homosexuals seems to strain reader disbelief.) (21 Comments |Comment on this)