Werelemur's Lair

This fic is rated: G
Fandom: Robotech (Macross Saga)
Characters: Lisa Hayes, Roy Hunter, Admiral Donald Hayes (flashback)
Summary: in a passageway, Lisa's past and present brush against each other
fanfic100 prompt # 065: Passing
Word Count: 172
Feedback: yes, please! Concrit welcomed.
Distribution: archiving, linking or remixing ok, just credit me and drop me a line!
Author's Note:
Cross-Posted were_lemur, robotech_fanfic, fanfic100
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Disclaimer: Robotech and all the Hayeses, Hunters, Zentraedi, and other recognizable characters contained within all belong to Harmony Gold. No copyright violations intended, I’m not making any money, please don’t sue me!

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I identify as a slasher.

This will probably come as a surprise to nobody on my flist; I tend to post hot m/m action (or m/m angst) on my eljay with a fair amount of regularity. But to me, "slasher" is more than just what I write (and who I write about) -- it's part of my fannish identity.

Out of curiosity, I looked at my fanfic masterlist. I have a total of 56 stories posted, from drabbles to the 47-part epic that is Broken For Me. (If you count each chapter of BFM as a separate "story," the total goes up to 102, which means I have absolutely NO life.

Of those stories, 46 (or 72 if you count every BFM chapter individually), are slash. Het comes in second place with 16, followed by saffic at 9, hetfic at 8, and polyfic at 5. I also have one metafic and one hard-to-classify fic involving a relationship between a woman and a crossdressing man, in which the woman realizes that she's falling for his female alter ego. I wasn't sure whether to call it het, saffic, or poly, so I stuck it under "other".

So, pretty obvious. Slasher, right?

Until I ran the numbers by ship.

Slash was still in the lead; 11 of my couples are m/m*. But the lead is a lot narrower; I had 9 m/f couples accounted for, plus 6 f/f couples, and two polyfics, both f/m/m. And of course, the one "other" shippyfic.

Plus, of course, those 16 genfics. Aside from three which "link" together as part of the same 'verse, I'd call them all standalone.

So why did I call myself a slasher again? It's clearly not because I only go for m/m couples. Of the 29 ships I've written about, 11 have been m/m and 18 are something else.

Sheer number of fics is possibly a better answer -- I've written a lot of slash. Except that 38 of my stories have been not-slash, as opposed to 26 that are. Adding in the other 46 chapters of BFM changes the balance, but still; 72 isn't quite 2x38.

Less than two thirds of what I write is slash. And now that I've finished with BFM and turned my attention at least partially to IPOADL, that percentage will probably drop even further.

Still, I stand by my self-labeling, even though I'm not sure why. After all, I could, with as much accuracy, call myself a hetter or a genner. Even ... saffer? ... femslasher? ... wouldn't be too big of a stretch. But it's "slasher" that's part of my identity.

*I did count Goran/Medrit; I realize that technically it's not slash if it's canon, but since I didn't separate out the m/f couples by canonicity or lack thereof, I'm not excluding them, either.