slash versus 'real' novels
22 Dec 2002 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenemmmmm no.
wanted: somewhere other than the slash community where reliably good writers can be found writing something that gives the kind of reliably good high that a good romance does.
look at all that use of the word 'good.'
but you know what i'm saying.
if i throw my hands up and walk away from the archive 'cause i just can't stand another bad one, well, i've got shelves and shelves full of stuff to read. and delany may be unimaginably better than speranza and cherryh may be unimaginably better than our dear m. fae, but when you finish a *fantastic* wonderful brilliantly plotted sf novel, you're *satisfied*, but you haven't been jerked around emotionally and you haven't had your stomach tied into the right kinds of warm slippery knots (although, to be fair to them, they've both written things with romantic content, and cherryh, while no where near delany's brilliance, has written books where the romance was maybe a quarter of so of the plot--this is, however, still not the same).
and you can't just go read romances, either. because commercially published romances aren't reliably good. in fact, they're less reliable than your average slash archive.
back to slogging through mediocre reading material i go, then, in search of the gems. after i wake up in the morning, that is. goodnight, ethel barrymore, whoever you are.
wanted: somewhere other than the slash community where reliably good writers can be found writing something that gives the kind of reliably good high that a good romance does.
look at all that use of the word 'good.'
but you know what i'm saying.
if i throw my hands up and walk away from the archive 'cause i just can't stand another bad one, well, i've got shelves and shelves full of stuff to read. and delany may be unimaginably better than speranza and cherryh may be unimaginably better than our dear m. fae, but when you finish a *fantastic* wonderful brilliantly plotted sf novel, you're *satisfied*, but you haven't been jerked around emotionally and you haven't had your stomach tied into the right kinds of warm slippery knots (although, to be fair to them, they've both written things with romantic content, and cherryh, while no where near delany's brilliance, has written books where the romance was maybe a quarter of so of the plot--this is, however, still not the same).
and you can't just go read romances, either. because commercially published romances aren't reliably good. in fact, they're less reliable than your average slash archive.
back to slogging through mediocre reading material i go, then, in search of the gems. after i wake up in the morning, that is. goodnight, ethel barrymore, whoever you are.
