It was a little weird for me, because I bought everything except the sex. Which is weird, because I'm All About the Slash, but -- and I'm a bit embarrassed to say it -- I don't see the chemistry there. I think they're adorable, and they make a wonderful comedic team, but I suppose I just see them both as overgrown boys. And not the chemistry-having kind.

It didn't bother me, I just didn't quite buy it. But the rest of the story was quite sweet and funny anyway.

And sort of tangentially related to the discussion at hand, julad has an essay about the kinds of subtext that slash writers make explicit in their stories.

*whispers to Emily* I don't see the slash either. I mean, I see it, in the sense that I totally get what people are responding to, but... not pinging for me.

Blah blah canon blah blah conflict I already wrote this post in LJ, didn't I?

And yeah, that's a good post of Julad's.

has there been any good Lost fic to speak of?

I haven't found much, but what I have liked is up on the what's new page at polyamorous. Unfortunately, Lost seems to be the fandom of Teh Woobie!!!!1! Which, predictably, doesn't do a whole bunch for me.

Lost seems to be the fandom of Teh Woobie!!!!1!

Yeah. And I could sort of see that in the case of, oh, say, Charlie perhaps. But folks keep woobifying Sawyer which just strikes me as all kindsa wrong.

Sawyer is exactly the character that fandom would automatically woobify, though. It's like he was designed for it. He's snarky! He's mean! He has Secret Pain! He even likes to read! And no one understands him, poor dear sweetie.

He's the Spike. Who was the Spike before Spike was the Spike?

Kerr Avon.

ETA: Well, directly previous, Krycek maybe. I dunno how much Krycek got woobified, though.

Sawyer is exactly the character that fandom would automatically woobify, though.

I know. I don't like it, but yeah, I suppose I should have expected it.

Who was the Spike before Spike was the Spike?

Methos? Sure, he killed thousands, tens of thousands . . . because he liked it. But he was a poor, sweet, misunderstood snuggiuggums.

BTW, I liked Methos. I'd do Methos in a heartbeat. I just never saw the point of woobifying him.

I think Krycek and Methos were presented less ambiguously. Methos was pretty firmly in present times on the side of the good, despite horrible past. Neither Spike nor Sawyer were as nice from their inception. And Krycek was never painted nice. He helped the heroes, but he always seemed clearly opportunistic to me.

Avon ... I need to do some rewatching.