Hmmm. Very interesting post! I haven't used a UST label on a story since I wrote in X-Files, and that was, uh, 10 years ago, where the UST was canon. The only story where it might have applied in SG-1 was Ciphers, and I labeled it both gen and pre-slash rather than UST, and let people see it as they may. *g*
As for the accuracy of the label, Mulder/Scully was my benchmark, and I don't see UST in non-canon pairings, generally. It's an issue of objective, I guess; UST I see on the screen, but it's a visual thing that's deliberately written in for and/or played by the actors, not something I objectively see in written text. UST is not necessarily subtext, and vice versa; slash subtext I see because I want to see it, and not because it's created for me. Does that make sense? Clearly I need more caffeine. *g*
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Date: 2006-08-01 07:59 pm (UTC)As for the accuracy of the label, Mulder/Scully was my benchmark, and I don't see UST in non-canon pairings, generally. It's an issue of objective, I guess; UST I see on the screen, but it's a visual thing that's deliberately written in for and/or played by the actors, not something I objectively see in written text. UST is not necessarily subtext, and vice versa; slash subtext I see because I want to see it, and not because it's created for me. Does that make sense? Clearly I need more caffeine. *g*