Yeeees, but... you wouldn't call Billy Budd a romance, would you? and from the sound of it probably not The Hill either. Character-driven, certainly.
(Would it be fair to say that Billy Budd may be romance in the same sense that The Three Musketeers is, but one is character-driven and the other plot-driven?)
I still think there's a more specific thing people are trying to point to with the "slashy" term, even if it's just a matter of finding stories that are likely to appeal to their kink. And whatever it is, Melusine and The Virtu have it in spades. I haven't read Carnival, so can't express an opinion there.
Perhaps now I should sit down and reflect about what other stories and relationships, both straight and gay, seem to me to have that quality, and then look for similarities.
Or, um, do actual work. That might be good. *whistles*
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Date: 2006-12-19 07:04 pm (UTC)