Master/servant slash

[princesshannah4.livejournal.com]

So I think it's safe to say that this fandom has warped any and all master/servant relationships in fiction for me (not that I have a problem with that ;D). That established, I was just a little nervous about reading/seeing Comedy of Errors this past week because it has TWO master/servant pairs and a housemate that I have a crush on was playing one of the two servants. This could have ventured into RPS. However, the actual performance seemed to justify my suspicions of Syracusian bromance. Antipholus and Dromio did a CONSIDERABLE amount of touching and clinging to each other and giving meaningful looks.

But what I'm really getting as is, do you guys see master/servant relationships as automatic potential for slash, or do the undertones from Jooster just bleed over into other fandoms? Just curious.

Discuss.

Comments

[bibliophile-bee.livejournal.com]

Well... I think master/servant relationships very often do have great slashy potential.

I think it's interesting that the two examples there were Jooster and Comedy of Errors, because in both cases the master/servant duo is totally For Life, so there is maybe more subtext to see.

So no, I don't slash all master/servant pairs, but I do think that there's a certain intimacy that can exist in the master/servant relationship that can be slashed quite easily.

Did that make any sense? Cause I'm rereading what I just wrote, and it's not the most coherent stuff on earth...