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I've had two fics that I'm going "how in the heck do I classify this?" - and of course, they have to deal with slash pairings.

At the end of part three and in most of part 4 of Terolalaine, Dillon tells Ziggy he wants to be in a relationship with him. Ziggy turns him down, because he's straight as hell. (Part of the reason being that in that universe Ziggy is intersex, considers himself male and straight, and is battling a stereotype that since he has female sex organs he should be attracted to guys.)

I'm now figuring if I should label it slash or not because it is a guy attracted to a guy (and the fic does have to do with the traditionally-slash mpreg, it's just not ye traditional mpreg fic), even/especially because it's one-sided.

I'm also kind of stuck with the "Painful is the Second Time Around" universe. The main character is a de-aged Ziggy who grew up as a different person. Ziggy and Dillon were lovers before, and his younger version is attracted to brooding, mysterious Dillon. Part of him wants to restart that relationship, part of him knows that it would cause Dillon pain. Now, the original fic made it easy; it was listed as a past m/m relationship. But what do you do when your fairly thoughtful character misinterprets something and decides that his parents are (very, very reluctantly) pushing him into it? It's kind of the same issue, but different person, a one-sided ship.

Standard labels were not built for my crazy brain, that's for sure. I'd love it if I could write a simple Dillon/Ziggy!

(Of course, right now I currently hate the vast majority of my RPM fics, so it might not be a bad thing that I can't write them.)