Hmm...out of curiosity, does any of my slash give you that impression? (have you read any of my outright McShep?) As I said, I write from the perspective of seeing slash as an extension of the friendshipping, but I'm thinking what I write probably looks different if you see slash as a deliberate denial of friendship...
I don't see it as a deliberate denial at all, just an indication of how the writer's priorities lie with regards to romantic love and friendship, with the latter being much less than the former. (Though, as you've pointed out, this is not necessarily true and something I'll try to keep in mind.)
I don't think I've read any of your McShep, though -- at least none that I can think of off the top of my head. I haven't been reading much John/Rodney in the last year or so; I've been leaning much more to reading gen and rare pairings in SGA. (I've developed a total love for Teyla/Rodney, which is too bad as there's so little of it out there!) With your fic specifically, to be honest, I really didn't want to read your McShep because I so enjoy your gen fic and I was worried that reading slash from you in the same pairing that I read gen from you would ruin the gen for me. (Oh, wait! I did read your John/Rodney Shrine tag, mostly because I was looking for Rodney/Teyla recs for ficrec -- and it will probably get recced over there if I ever finish up my monthly rec set. ^^ Because you labeled it slash, I read it from that perspective, reading John's hovering over Rodney in the infirmary as an "anxious girlfriend" sort of thing rather than a concerned friend. I know that may not have been your intent, especially from what you've said above, but I don't think I'm emotionally capable of seeing both at the same time.)
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Date: 2008-11-25 08:10 pm (UTC)I don't see it as a deliberate denial at all, just an indication of how the writer's priorities lie with regards to romantic love and friendship, with the latter being much less than the former. (Though, as you've pointed out, this is not necessarily true and something I'll try to keep in mind.)
I don't think I've read any of your McShep, though -- at least none that I can think of off the top of my head. I haven't been reading much John/Rodney in the last year or so; I've been leaning much more to reading gen and rare pairings in SGA. (I've developed a total love for Teyla/Rodney, which is too bad as there's so little of it out there!) With your fic specifically, to be honest, I really didn't want to read your McShep because I so enjoy your gen fic and I was worried that reading slash from you in the same pairing that I read gen from you would ruin the gen for me. (Oh, wait! I did read your John/Rodney Shrine tag, mostly because I was looking for Rodney/Teyla recs for ficrec -- and it will probably get recced over there if I ever finish up my monthly rec set. ^^ Because you labeled it slash, I read it from that perspective, reading John's hovering over Rodney in the infirmary as an "anxious girlfriend" sort of thing rather than a concerned friend. I know that may not have been your intent, especially from what you've said above, but I don't think I'm emotionally capable of seeing both at the same time.)