ahistorical approach risks the danger of "rendering historical sexual forms as either universal or completely bound by and to their historical moment.

pornography is structured in relation to the conventions of romance, and romance fiction is sustained by porn's ecstatic relationship to exposure.

we do not really move away from a traditional, prescriptive classification of "good, literary" texts versus "bad, nonliterary" ones.

only when

not only are the conditions of production of slash and romance fiction different, but slash texts encompass more than one genre and have a wide range of themes, voices, registers, and

Bacon-Smith fails to accurately depict the diversity of fandom as she tries to impose universal interpretive models;

harder to get a comprehensive sense of a fandom and harder still to build a truly inclusive sense of community.

Deleuze's equating the reality of the potential and the actual: all possibilities exist at the same time, and archontic texts work toward actuating all possible variations.

poaching metaphor focuses on the fans' actions rather than on the text, which is seen as object of an action, rather than the subject of a process.