A waste of time....

[fajrdrako]

I just finished reading a really bad, very long slash story.

Oh, it was awful. I had reasons for having high expectations - and my disappointment was all the worse because of that. It was ... stupid. My heroes were idiots. Among other stupidities, they spent most of the story *not* getting together because, after all, one of them was a sweet virgin whom the other couldn't bear to touch and consequently defile. I wanted to scream, "Defile him, dammit!"

I hate it when my heroes are stupid.

And then when finally they did get around to having sex (with great fear, trepidation and hesitation), it wasn't even worth it, for the most part.

There were much worse things than this n the story. Everybody was a wimp and... well, there were a few details that tend to squick me at the best of times, but which I might like in a tight, well-written story. There was nothing in this story to make me tolerant of the numerous offenses.

I hate reading about wimps with an emotional maturity of twelve and seriously subnormal intelligence when I want to be reading about my favourite slash guys.

So why was I so masochistic this morning as to read this interminable thing right through many dozens of pages of small print? Incredulity that anyone could write a slash story with a premise I might have loved, and make me hate it so much? Some sort of self-punishment? The hope it would get better? I know that doesn't happen. If a story starts badly, it's invariably bad in the middle and bad in the end. Idiot characters don't transform into clever ones. Not ever.

Maybe I need to remind myself how not to write.

Or simply learn that this particular author is a writer to avoid. (I'm sure she has many, many fans and I'm glad for them all.)

I've been reading so much good slash lately, I'd forgotten how annoying bad slash can be - or even mediocre slash. I know there's far worse than this one out there.

Horrible thought.