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[berlynn-wohl.livejournal.com]

Before I get to today's topic of discussion, I have a little tale to tell:

My dad likes to snoop. Ever since I moved out on my own, he's had to content himself with looking at all my webpages, which is not a big deal, because it's not like they're Secret Web Pages. My parents have known for years that I write slash. But my dad was very upset when he found my story "Heat Lightning," because he thought it was Sick And Wrong for me to write about gay Mounties. (Please, no one tell him about Due South.) My dad's very homphobic, and he seems to be under the delusion that Mounties could never be gay, because they are good, upstanding citizens. Or something, I don't know, can someone explain homophobia to me please? Jesus.

Anyway, so this made for an awkward Easter Sunday. But you know, all day long I just kept thinking to myself, "Man, I can't wait to get home and write some more slash! Just really raunchy porn!" It's not because I just want to piss my dad off. (If you knew my dad, you would know that no one wants to incur his wrath. Ever.) Even as a teenager I was not that sort of person. It was more like, for the first time I understand what Catholics tend to feel: "Sex is dirty and wrong.....but that's kinda what makes it so fun!"

So anyway, here's the question I shall pose to all of you: Has your desire to write (or read) U2 slash been affected by outside opinion? I don't necessarily mean family or friends, although that could be one way to answer. But it could also be other U2 online communities whose members say slash is "gross," or the attitudes of your community towards homosexuality, or your religious upbringing. Or maybe just that little voice in the back of your head that says "U2 aren't really gay you know. They have wives and children." Basically, has anyone or anything made you just want to write more, to spite the opposition? Or discouraged you? Has anything made you feel good/bad/rebellious/dirty about what you wrote?