Daily December-->January #iforget: Slash and Me

Why does writing/reading slash appeal to me? How do I get past the OOC potential in slashing canonically straight characters? (for alphaflyer)

This got a little long, so the tl;dr version is:

fanfic is all about the 'what if...?' for me

sexuality =/= straight until proven otherwise.

( the (much) longer version )