Worrying about the plausibility of their relationship is beside the point. The fun of slash lies in its gleeful disregard of plausibility.
Case in point: if Kirk and Spock were gay characters canonically, slash between them would no longer be fun. It would be too ordinary and expected to be fun.
That's the polar opposite of what good slash should be!!!
Dang, that sounds too much like work to be any fun at all.Now you're making slash sound boring, too. Has anyone in this thread actually read slash? It's usually a lot more, err, "fraught" is perhaps the word I'm looking for? If there's no drama to it, why even bother to invent it?
Okay, now that sounds like slash - or one popular branch of slash, which is chiefly about insane emotional intensity, with physicality is just a component but not really the point or even necessary. The other branch is just flat-out insane, and tries to outdo all other slash with outrageous antics, violence, and sleaze, and is often played for comedy, sometimes to the point of deliberate parody.
Yep. Slash is a lot like those vampire stories for adolescent girls. The fuck-buddy concept is the exact opposite of what slash is about. The emotions should be so intense that it hardly matters if the partners ever have sex at all. (And in the most interesting slash that I've read, what "counts" as sex is broadly defined to say the least. After all, this is science fiction.)
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). K/S is actually less candlelights and hearts and more angst and separations and danger and jealousy and hurt and angst and... angst. What can I say? It's Kirk and Spock. They never make it easy for each other and the fanfics stay true to that character dynamic mostly....
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