Oh, he sure knows how to play up the slashiness, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But a few kisses here and a one-shot there don't mean he could write an entire opus about a gay couple. He's very good at pretending to be all-inclusive (I learned on this comm that he wrote a DAYDverse one-shot about the sexual life of two amputee characters, for example), but he's still fundamentally gender-essentialist at heart. I can see him having slash side-pairings in a big fic about a main het pairing, but not more than that. Just my opinion, though, obviously.
Re: current FFA TF thread
Oh, he sure knows how to play up the slashiness, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But a few kisses here and a one-shot there don't mean he could write an entire opus about a gay couple. He's very good at pretending to be all-inclusive (I learned on this comm that he wrote a DAYDverse one-shot about the sexual life of two amputee characters, for example), but he's still fundamentally gender-essentialist at heart. I can see him having slash side-pairings in a big fic about a main het pairing, but not more than that. Just my opinion, though, obviously.