Though I admire you for trying!

I am stubborn! Though at this point, I might as well say, oh, fuck it, hand me some more Dean/Starla and Sam/Jess, if I'm not looking for gen.

It's ... thinky. With curls.

My god, you've just described... me!

It's so funny to me that here, it's eight in the morning and I've just gotten up for work, and there, it's midnight and you're staying up too late! ::pokes::

Oh, right. Fic. Um. Ryan/Taylor remains ridiculously pleasing to me? Booth/Brennan from Bones has stolen my heart? I'm really confused by all the het I love suddenly!

Here's my theory on that, actually: one of the classic origin of slash myths is the idea that, because the male characters were better-written and more well-developed than their female counterparts, or were more present on the screen, or had a stronger connection than they did with the female characters, the slash was more accessible in a way because of the characterization. Re-watching older television, up at least until the X-Files, say, I'm inclined to agree, at least broadly.

But recenly everyone has been batting around the phrase "golden age of television" which, looking at my weekly watchlist, is also something I'm inclined to agree with. And part of that is, writers are writing female characters like actual people instead of scene-chewers or plot foils. So suddenly, relationships I would dismiss (in canon) as boring, or lacking in chemistry or good writing, or what's the point of she's only on for one episode--they're turning into omg they are so cute together, and look at how they make each other laugh, and my GOD how many more seasons do I have to wait, JIM AND PAM.

I may be explaining this poorly. It's Friday morning and I really don't want to go to work, but I have to.

It's so funny to me that here, it's eight in the morning and I've just gotten up for work, and there, it's midnight and you're staying up too late! ::pokes::

I rewatched SPN a time or so and was trolling the flist to see who would post the first coda but sleep is likely a better use of my time this time of night.

I've been dying to read some genderswap (one or both of the boys, from birth, in an AU) that's less about sex, and more about how the family dynamic would have been different

Anne, I wrote some of that with Vanzetti a while back, although the premise was that just Sam was a girl. We couldn't justify John hitting the road with two girls--I just don't think he would be able to do it.

If you want, I can scare up a link, although it was more like snippets than any complete stories.

Short form of my actual first name! I don't ever use it as a log in, but people started calling me by it after the first F2F, as that's what I go by in person.

Oops... would that mean that anyone (me, for instance) who hasn't met you in person but calls you "Plei" rather than "P.M." would be considered presumptuous? If so, sorry.

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I think part of the other obvious problem for the fic writers is the dearth of live ongoing female characters. Jess is dead. Cassie, Sarah, and Madison were in one episode each. (Who's Starla?) There are a contingent of people determined to turn Jo into Dean's one true wuv, but I personally can't buy it. Other than anonymous one night stands, the only meaningful personages in their lives really is... each other. Of course, a lot of the AU's seem to get around that by bringing in whole new female characters.

Starla was the girl in Tall Tales with whom Dean drank purple nurples.

although the premise was that just Sam was a girl. We couldn't justify John hitting the road with two girls--I just don't think he would be able to do it.

I remember that, and trying to figure out the position, and I don't agree--I mean, I see your justification for it, but story-wise, the resulting wedge it would drive between John and Sam isn't that far from a the wedge that results in her going with them. To me, the characterization would be generally the same either way, so I see it more as a story device, and to me the story device doesn't hold up.

Which, er, doesn't mean I didn't enjoy your story, because I did. I apologise in advance for confusion resulting in my under-caffeinated brain, but I'm so delighted to be talking to you folks in real-time that I can't help but say things.

I looked at beggers would ride earlier, and it turns out I did read it, or at least start it, and couldn't finish it, even though I normally like her stuff a lot, so it looks like the genderswap Wincest is not for me either.

Oh well.

Fandom seems to be all about eventually finding the various ends of mental acceptance. Beyond that lies The Squick.

It's good but less valuable than spice, so I expect no meaningful wars to break out.

I still can't believe I'm a mostly gen, casefile-type reader.

eyes widen

And a mostly gen writer with a side of tasteful het.

blinks

It's like they replaced me with someone else or something.

nods

Weird. Man. That's...weird.

SA - Bones/Brennan? Really? I've only seen Season 2 up to the episode in Las Vegas (oh, man, and how I squeeled in the Little Miss Beauty Pageant corpse episode when Boreanaz said the pageant had been held in the Hyperion Hotel!!!) but I'm really enjoying the friends thing with them. Whereas I've been all over Angela/Hodgins like a flaming rash. Loved the fact that they gave those two supporting actors such nice material to work with, and had Brennan hooking up with his ex (who has tits! and ass! and seems like a normal person!) and with Cam, rather than just milking the potential het dynamic of the main dynamic duo...which is, actually, another way of agreeing that this is another case of the kind of heterosexual canon relationship that is being written the way that guy/guy buddy relationships always were, but m/f relationships never were. Not to get into the 'hetslash' thing, but - yeah. I totally do get it. Aeryn/John, Mulder/Scully, Kara/Lee (back in the day)...some nice writing there.