Thank you. :) I think my preferred reading of McKay/Sheppard is similar to yours -- two very different people who are going to have a rough road ahead of them, but can make it work if they try. In fact, if you tried to pin down my favorite character relationships (the ones I like to read, and the ones I like to write) to one common theme, more often than not the commonality is two people having a rough go of it, but surviving anyway.
I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to say that I feel isolated; it's more like the awareness that you're one of the only vegetarians at the party, so you have to either be prepared to defend your beliefs every time someone passes the chicken hors d'ourves, or just buck up and eat the damn chicken. I'm learning to develop a taste for chicken. *g* I don't think it's too different from any of the other little coping things that we have to do in order to get along with a non-homogenous group of people; it's just that the Gero comment and fandom's reaction to it happened to touch a nerve. And I really do appreciate the sympathy; thank you. :) I think just getting it out in the open is helping me feel less upset about it. (Which I'm sure is true of people venting about Gero's statement, too. And I agree with you, on the "beta'ing your own fic" problem. I had no idea he'd directed the episode as well as writing it.)
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Date: 2008-11-25 09:05 am (UTC)I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to say that I feel isolated; it's more like the awareness that you're one of the only vegetarians at the party, so you have to either be prepared to defend your beliefs every time someone passes the chicken hors d'ourves, or just buck up and eat the damn chicken. I'm learning to develop a taste for chicken. *g* I don't think it's too different from any of the other little coping things that we have to do in order to get along with a non-homogenous group of people; it's just that the Gero comment and fandom's reaction to it happened to touch a nerve. And I really do appreciate the sympathy; thank you. :) I think just getting it out in the open is helping me feel less upset about it. (Which I'm sure is true of people venting about Gero's statement, too. And I agree with you, on the "beta'ing your own fic" problem. I had no idea he'd directed the episode as well as writing it.)