Randominity

I've been giving this subject a lot of thought recently, not only because I've been trying to answer some very good questions about why I slash and what I slash and why I slash what I slash, etc. etc. I've been thinking about how many slashers say they do so because there is such a lack of strong and/or interesting female characters to pair with the overabundance of strong, interesting male characters.

But then there's Battlestar Galactica (among other shows and series I don't watch or know about). In BSG we have Lt. Kara Thrace, the formerly male Starbuck, who is both a strong and an interesting character.

Yet I still don't want to read Starbuck/Apollo fanfic. Why?

I've been trying to figure it out, and as I was sitting here at my desk the thought popped into my head: Because I don't want her to turn into a girl.



By this I mean I don't want her to turn into the sort of stereotypical romance type of girl. Starbuck's great when she's slugging her superiors or smoking cigars or piloting Cylon Raiders, sure. But in bed she's all, "Lee, oh, Lee," and I'm like who are you? I know she was with Baltar at the time, but even with Zach I was disappointed, I guess, that she wasn't more... toppish. I like her sparring with Lee, the back-and-forth, and her always fighting for the upper hand, and I'd much rather see her carry that into the bedroom with her than to, well, see her be the girl. I mean, Six? Six is not the girl.

Oh, I dunno. Maybe I just like the buttsex too much. :P