Gakked from musesfool

It's that time again!

A -- go to the list of my fic (see the index of my stories on LJ) and pick out a line or three from one of my stories. ("It must be a full line," it says, but I'm not sure what that means. "Fucking cornfields" is a sentence fragment, but I could definitely identify the story based on that line alone.)
B -- I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from.
C -- A fic snip to anyone who stumps me.

Meta: Gazes in/and/of Criticism

This post is a response to melannen's much-recced (and deservedly so) post on the slasher's gaze, but more directly a response to a couple of responses to her post, namelyithiliana when she says, "I'm going to immediately complicate it by asking about 'the femslash gaze' (because although people are convincing me that slash can be f/f as well as m/m, her meta seems to focus on the male object of slash gaze…..)," and kyuuketsukirui when she asks "The very fact that there are two men involved means there will be men doing the looking and men being looked at. This applies for gay porn, lit, even real life. How can it be something specifically slashy/the defining characteristic of slash?" To respond to both of these points, however, I think requires a deeper engagement with the original post that prompted these responses. In particular, I want to use lots of examples, because that is that for which Grace (=kyuuketsukirui, but easier to type) asked.

[Note: This was originally longer and more coherent, and then I lost that draft. Since then it's been sitting on my hard drive getting less and less topical. I really don't have the time right now to perfect it any more, so I give it to you as it is.]

( The Het Male Gaze )

( The Queer Female Gaze )

( The Femslasher's Gaze )