Another person curious about Summertime who found your LJ, and read the essay and have been thinking on it.
To me, it's all a matter of what I'm in the mood for. I tend to crave a certain kind of fic, so sometimes a quick rivals sparking and snarling and pushing eachother to the mattress and biting and Angry!sex is really nice.
And sometimes it's good to read something really angsty and bawl my eyes out.
Most different 'flavors' of fic have their own appeal. I love best-friends-becoming-lovers like Ban and Ginji, or Virgil and Richie, but at the same time I love it when an author can convince me that rivals or non-friendly characters could have a relationship.
Like I've found a little Virgil/Richie/Hotstreak slash, and I think with the right author ready to tackle the whole complex relationship, it could be done really well.
I think the biggest drawback in rivalslash, which you didn't mention, is the tendancy for a fandom to start to take a rival pairing for granted. They don't bother to explain how they go from rivals (either friendly or unfriendly) to lovers because DUH, everyone knows hate is only a thin line from love and all that, so of course when they say "I hate you" they mean "Do me!" Isn't it obvious?
I hate that. To me, the biggest draw about rivalslash is that they've got these big glaring Issues, and you're going to have to convince me that they can work through them.
I am also most guilty of being the Anti-OTP, while I'll admit to having favorites, I'm happy to read most any pairing so long as it's well written and a fun read. So... I love Ginji x Ban very much, but if a writer I knew was very good came out with... oh Ban x Kazuki, I'd probably read and enjoy.
Same as I'll check out a series if a writer I know writes something for it. Which is why I've been on a Static Shock kick lately ^_^ Browsed right from your Getbackers fic to Summertime and got hooked.
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Date: 2005-07-19 08:06 am (UTC)To me, it's all a matter of what I'm in the mood for. I tend to crave a certain kind of fic, so sometimes a quick rivals sparking and snarling and pushing eachother to the mattress and biting and Angry!sex is really nice.
And sometimes it's good to read something really angsty and bawl my eyes out.
Most different 'flavors' of fic have their own appeal. I love best-friends-becoming-lovers like Ban and Ginji, or Virgil and Richie, but at the same time I love it when an author can convince me that rivals or non-friendly characters could have a relationship.
Like I've found a little Virgil/Richie/Hotstreak slash, and I think with the right author ready to tackle the whole complex relationship, it could be done really well.
I think the biggest drawback in rivalslash, which you didn't mention, is the tendancy for a fandom to start to take a rival pairing for granted. They don't bother to explain how they go from rivals (either friendly or unfriendly) to lovers because DUH, everyone knows hate is only a thin line from love and all that, so of course when they say "I hate you" they mean "Do me!" Isn't it obvious?
I hate that. To me, the biggest draw about rivalslash is that they've got these big glaring Issues, and you're going to have to convince me that they can work through them.
I am also most guilty of being the Anti-OTP, while I'll admit to having favorites, I'm happy to read most any pairing so long as it's well written and a fun read. So... I love Ginji x Ban very much, but if a writer I knew was very good came out with... oh Ban x Kazuki, I'd probably read and enjoy.
Same as I'll check out a series if a writer I know writes something for it. Which is why I've been on a Static Shock kick lately ^_^ Browsed right from your Getbackers fic to Summertime and got hooked.