And for that matter, a Certain Someone's Invisible to See, also a classic of the genre?

And Resonant's "Transformations."

Also, I am happy to hear you like some het, too. I tend to feel like a big weirdo sometimes. For me it is not so much about the het or slash, it is about the way the story and the couple are, and I am a sucker for the love stories.

Honey, do not be ashamed of liking the het. shrift and I both started out in La Femme Nikita, before our little minds even considered writing slash, and we wrote bucketloads of het. And we are both still prone to writing het. Or gen.

I started out reading het in X-Men. And I do remember it fondly. Also, I like men, so there's nothing wrong with het.

I started out reading het Highlander stories, and then tried some slash but it did'nt really take. Then I was reading het BtVs (omigod, really horrible Willow Sue/Spike stories) and then slash X Men. But I'll read anything (well not incest). But pretty much anything else and try just about everything. I started off being very "well I don't think that's my thing" and then kept changing my mind.

I never really read slash X-Men. Partly because people would keep bringing in characters from the comics, and it had been so long since I'd read them that I wasn't really interested in them.

I think I would be willing to write in X-Men, except that I can't make heads or tails of comics canon, and would have to write AU from movie canon. (Cannot say what genre I'd be writing.)

I meant comic book X Men. I haven't read a lot of Movie X Men fic, even though I like the movies.

And I was only vaguely aware of some of the comic storylines, I read up on some but some of the fic I was reading as practically stand alone (like Rictor/Shatterstar). And then I read this long schmoopy Iceman/Gambit series that in retrospect was probably really bad. And I wrote my first drabble based on that (which in retrospect was really bad). I think Gudanov beta read for me waaaaay back on TT in the fanfic thread they had.

Colour me grateful for my emphatically Small Name Fan status! I do not love committees, no I do not.

We have plenty of small name fans on our committees, dude! But I'm not trying to recruit.

Shrift, how's the BFA hack? Everything okay?

Now that I download full backups obsessively, it was really annoying, but there was no data loss. I had everything back up and running in 3 about three hours.

And how similar in many ways John Connor is to Sam Winchester.

John Connor is, I'd say, 75% Sam and 25% Dean. (Long lost Winchester? Y/N?) I swear, I was plotting epic SPN/SCC crossover fic by the 30-minute mark.

(Also, I'm not really a femmeslasher, and even I can see the Sarah/Cameron.)

Oh Aimee, it's so heartening to see you so... innocent. Give it time, though.

Man, I think I bloomed too early with my fic reading. I'd been through mpreg to the other side of wingfic by the time I was sixteen. It would be nice to be shocked, still, occasionally, you know?