Well, that's the whole thing about slash for me. I enjoy slash stories - but it is sooooo hard to find any that actually use the characters from the show. Slash shouldn't be any different from other stories - you take the characters and put them in a new situation and see what happens. And regardless of whether it's slash or gen, authors still need to pay attention to characterization, plot, structure... Unfortunately, while there are some gen authors who haven't figured that out, the whole slash "arena" seems to have that problem. I don't want to see a female masquerading as Face, for example. I don't want to see SF vets calling each other Sunshine and Baby. That's just... dumb. And that's why finding a well-written slash story is like finding gold in the backyard - OMG! A keeper!!!
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Anyways... I'm in total agreement with everything you've said.