I totally agree with you on Hakkai and Gojyo. I usually define two worlds for most anime--the canon world and the fanfiction world. The characters in both exist almost completely separately.
But I can see things working out between Gojyo and Hakkai...it seems inevitable. And for there to be anything *but* Sanzo and Goku almost seems wrong. Not right now, of course. Goku's going to have to do a little maturing, and Sanzo's going to have to come to terms with some things. And their relationship doesn't even have to be sexual--at least not for a long time coming.

But to make either one of them the bottom just seems...wrong. Just because Goku's smaller in stature, or because Hakkai is quieter in nature isn't grounds for them to be the uke. It aggravates me to no end that the anime characters have to slide into these roles, and that they lose all sense of self, and they stop becoming their *character* and just some whiny, whimpering female.

I've found some really done Saiyuki stuff, for what it's worth.

And I've found that for the most part, American slash is completely superior. There's still times when you get the crazy fangirls--for sad example, once Lord of the Rings became a movie...the influx of bad fanfiction tripled within a week. And it was all anime fans, because there were suddenly words like 'yaoi' and that doesn't exist in the LOTR world.


Oh, also! I liked your update to "Learning to Breathe" ::nods::