i am the worst slash fan ever
Nov. 30th, 2007 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrot*cue the obsessed fangirl* Is it Saturday yet? Or now? Two weeks' wait for "Miller's Crossing"! That's just unfair, yo! And admittedly I spent a good chunk of that time in Taiwan (which was amazing and fun and the food there is better than you can imagine) but now I'm back to work and bored and missing Taiwan's fresh fruit and why is it not Saturday yet? *whiiine*
To fill the eternal void between episodes (oh, I am not looking forward to the upcoming two-parter. And the season finale, not even thinking about it...how did everyone survive until "Adrift" without gnawing off limbs?) I've been reading fic. Lots and lots of fic. Started with the gen h/c, moved onto the slash. Except, well. Yes. Worst slash fan ever. Or pickiest, anyway, because sometimes I will OTP so hard it hurts (Clex, anyone?) and sometimes I can take pairings or leave them, and sometimes... I don't know what's wrong with me when it comes to SGA, but...I just can't do SGA pairings. Any of the team. I mean, I can read the fic, and enjoy and appreciate it, but it ultimately leaves me unsatisfied. I've tried a bunch of McShep, and some Ronon/Rodney (because there's not nearly as much h/c out there between them as there ought to be, gen or otherwise), and OT4 - really good stories, really hot stories, really fun stories; but they almost all tweak me out in the end, in a 'not my chars!' way. I think it's because sex is such a small part of the characters' lives in canon (it's not that they don't want it, they just don't have time for it, what with alternately risking death and saving the galaxy on a daily basis) that making it the center of their existences (as not all but much slash does) just leaves me worrying that Atlantis is going to blow up because McKay's off in bed with someone.
Also because I have a hard time imagining a relationship developing between any pair in the team that wouldn't mess up the team dynamics somehow. Of the four of them, Teyla's the only one I can really imagine having casual sex with friends. Ronon canonically states he isn't ready; Rodney seems the sort who needs an emotional relationship to really enjoy the physical; and Sheppard might be into the casual, but not with anyone he knows (though Sheppard still reads to me as liking flying, Ferris wheels, and big explosions way more than sex anyway). So if any of them got into a relationship, it would soon become a Relationship, and that couldn't help but change things on the team, and I like their dynamics as they are, so. (The other trouble I have with the McShep especially is that one of the funnest aspects of their best-friendship-thing is the way they revert to eight-year-old boys when they're hanging out, which makes slashing them feel like a bizarre variety of pseudo-chan.)
The slash stories that work best for me are the ones which put them in new circumstances, after the Wraith are defeated or such, so the dynamics are shifting already. Then my slash gene starts pinging again, because I get the 'jealousy' reaction of not really wanting to see them settling down with anyone else, so...might as well be each other. OT4 for the win! though I have a natural and unavoidable attraction to McShep, since they're mah faves. But if I'm craving an in-canon-ish thing or an ep tag or the like, try as I might I can't help but twitch when I go to the slash.
Which, just so you know, drives me nuts. I want to be able to slash 'em comfortably, because there is a lot of SGA slash out there, and some of it's mediocre, but a lot of it's good, and some of it's great, and some of it is unbelievably incredible to the point of being intimidating - Speranza's "Written by the Victors" has to be one of the most impressive fanfics I have ever read, in the sheer epic scope; it almost frightens me, how much attention and devotion must have gone into it. (Which is to say, if you can bear graphic slash, and have seen through s3 of SGA, you owe it to yourself to read this one; it's an experience. Futurefic AU from pre-"First Strike", but I've never seen it done quite like this before.)
But none of it satisfies me like a good bit of gen h/c. Which is a problem because there's a lot less of it than there is slash, and I'm running out! I've read pretty much everything by
Sholio (aka![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
friendshipper, aka one of Those Responsible for this obsession, because I'd been tempted for a while to get into SGA just to read her stories. And yup, so worth it - an absolutely must-read if you like the gen, "The Light of a Fading Sun" especially hits my crossing-over-AUs button),
Tipper (great, great team dynamics; she's probably better than anyone at remembering the team is in fact four people - she does more with Teyla than the actual screenwriters, certainly!),
NotTasha (yay for Rodney-hurt!) and
Cybersyd (beautiful writing, characterizations to convince you these might be real people, and such clear prose it sings. "Maybe I'm Dead, I Just Haven't Stopped Moving Yet" is not the sort of story I usually enjoy - such long-term extended h/c can tweak me out - but she handles the chars so wonderfully, it's one of my favorites in the fandom. Also she likes inflicting hurt on poor dear Zelenka as much as I like reading it.)
So, anyone have anymore gen authors to rec? I especially like h/c with happy endings ('put them back the way you found them', more or less) and McKay is my favorite char so I prefer he has a major role, but I like him with any or all of the team. Epically long stories especially appreciated. (Though if you happen to know some good slash h/c, welllll...I never say no to h/c, so feel free to toss that my way as well!)
To fill the eternal void between episodes (oh, I am not looking forward to the upcoming two-parter. And the season finale, not even thinking about it...how did everyone survive until "Adrift" without gnawing off limbs?) I've been reading fic. Lots and lots of fic. Started with the gen h/c, moved onto the slash. Except, well. Yes. Worst slash fan ever. Or pickiest, anyway, because sometimes I will OTP so hard it hurts (Clex, anyone?) and sometimes I can take pairings or leave them, and sometimes... I don't know what's wrong with me when it comes to SGA, but...I just can't do SGA pairings. Any of the team. I mean, I can read the fic, and enjoy and appreciate it, but it ultimately leaves me unsatisfied. I've tried a bunch of McShep, and some Ronon/Rodney (because there's not nearly as much h/c out there between them as there ought to be, gen or otherwise), and OT4 - really good stories, really hot stories, really fun stories; but they almost all tweak me out in the end, in a 'not my chars!' way. I think it's because sex is such a small part of the characters' lives in canon (it's not that they don't want it, they just don't have time for it, what with alternately risking death and saving the galaxy on a daily basis) that making it the center of their existences (as not all but much slash does) just leaves me worrying that Atlantis is going to blow up because McKay's off in bed with someone.
Also because I have a hard time imagining a relationship developing between any pair in the team that wouldn't mess up the team dynamics somehow. Of the four of them, Teyla's the only one I can really imagine having casual sex with friends. Ronon canonically states he isn't ready; Rodney seems the sort who needs an emotional relationship to really enjoy the physical; and Sheppard might be into the casual, but not with anyone he knows (though Sheppard still reads to me as liking flying, Ferris wheels, and big explosions way more than sex anyway). So if any of them got into a relationship, it would soon become a Relationship, and that couldn't help but change things on the team, and I like their dynamics as they are, so. (The other trouble I have with the McShep especially is that one of the funnest aspects of their best-friendship-thing is the way they revert to eight-year-old boys when they're hanging out, which makes slashing them feel like a bizarre variety of pseudo-chan.)
The slash stories that work best for me are the ones which put them in new circumstances, after the Wraith are defeated or such, so the dynamics are shifting already. Then my slash gene starts pinging again, because I get the 'jealousy' reaction of not really wanting to see them settling down with anyone else, so...might as well be each other. OT4 for the win! though I have a natural and unavoidable attraction to McShep, since they're mah faves. But if I'm craving an in-canon-ish thing or an ep tag or the like, try as I might I can't help but twitch when I go to the slash.
Which, just so you know, drives me nuts. I want to be able to slash 'em comfortably, because there is a lot of SGA slash out there, and some of it's mediocre, but a lot of it's good, and some of it's great, and some of it is unbelievably incredible to the point of being intimidating - Speranza's "Written by the Victors" has to be one of the most impressive fanfics I have ever read, in the sheer epic scope; it almost frightens me, how much attention and devotion must have gone into it. (Which is to say, if you can bear graphic slash, and have seen through s3 of SGA, you owe it to yourself to read this one; it's an experience. Futurefic AU from pre-"First Strike", but I've never seen it done quite like this before.)
But none of it satisfies me like a good bit of gen h/c. Which is a problem because there's a lot less of it than there is slash, and I'm running out! I've read pretty much everything by
Sholio (aka
friendshipper, aka one of Those Responsible for this obsession, because I'd been tempted for a while to get into SGA just to read her stories. And yup, so worth it - an absolutely must-read if you like the gen, "The Light of a Fading Sun" especially hits my crossing-over-AUs button), Tipper (great, great team dynamics; she's probably better than anyone at remembering the team is in fact four people - she does more with Teyla than the actual screenwriters, certainly!),
NotTasha (yay for Rodney-hurt!) and
Cybersyd (beautiful writing, characterizations to convince you these might be real people, and such clear prose it sings. "Maybe I'm Dead, I Just Haven't Stopped Moving Yet" is not the sort of story I usually enjoy - such long-term extended h/c can tweak me out - but she handles the chars so wonderfully, it's one of my favorites in the fandom. Also she likes inflicting hurt on poor dear Zelenka as much as I like reading it.)
So, anyone have anymore gen authors to rec? I especially like h/c with happy endings ('put them back the way you found them', more or less) and McKay is my favorite char so I prefer he has a major role, but I like him with any or all of the team. Epically long stories especially appreciated. (Though if you happen to know some good slash h/c, welllll...I never say no to h/c, so feel free to toss that my way as well!)
