I am so very happy to have missed this little slice of misery, thus far, because that would annoy me. That's using "gen" as code for anti-gay.
hehe And once again you stole my thoughts and put them into lovely words. *g* Whatever I said before, this is what I meant. *g*
LOL! I don't consider myself gifted with words so hitting the nail today this often makes me pause to see if someone else has logged in and is posting as me.
Me too. I tend to like both gen and slash, depending on my mood. In reality, I tend to read more slash nowadays, probably partly for the same reason. I'm a Daniel girl and not ashamed to admit it. *g*
I'm a Daniel girl, as well, so anything that involves him tends to rock my boat in a positive way. That means het, slash, or gen. Gen because I love the character and the het/slash because MS does it for me; his looks make reading about Daniel in romantic or sexual situations are attractive to me. (Except with Vala, who I don't see as being more than superficially attractive to Daniel. Daniel/Vala feels like Jack/Sam to me: forced and false.) The combo of loving both the interior and the exterior of the character is potent and I'll read a less well-written Daniel-centric story over a brilliant Jack story for that reason.
Having a character preference does not mean hating other characters, though some fans go that route, and I agree: we're choosing our fic to stoke our own preferences and desires.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I wouldn't have sought out fic at all except that I wanted more Daniel than I got on the show...
My interest in fanfic, too, is a sign that a show is not satisfying me. I adore BSG, for instance, but there's enough there that I'm not driven to find my fix elsewhere. SG-1, otoh, leaves so much that I want as "off screen" that fan fic has become my primary interest. I watch the show more for the eye candy and to keep up with events so that the fan fic makes sense. :)
I love that there is room for everyone to write what they want and read what they want. I don't see it as a competition where one side has to win or where people have to be convinced of anything.
Precisely! (A part of me wants to make those cute Daniel hand gestures but my ASCII art skills aren't very advanced.) Hard feelings arise, it seems, because people can't accept that it's ALL good. Like whom you like; read what you like; stay away from what you don't like. Personally, I appreciate labels so that I can do just that.
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I am so very happy to have missed this little slice of misery, thus far, because that would annoy me. That's using "gen" as code for anti-gay.
hehe And once again you stole my thoughts and put them into lovely words. *g* Whatever I said before, this is what I meant. *g*
LOL! I don't consider myself gifted with words so hitting the nail today this often makes me pause to see if someone else has logged in and is posting as me.
Me too. I tend to like both gen and slash, depending on my mood. In reality, I tend to read more slash nowadays, probably partly for the same reason. I'm a Daniel girl and not ashamed to admit it. *g*
I'm a Daniel girl, as well, so anything that involves him tends to rock my boat in a positive way. That means het, slash, or gen. Gen because I love the character and the het/slash because MS does it for me; his looks make reading about Daniel in romantic or sexual situations are attractive to me. (Except with Vala, who I don't see as being more than superficially attractive to Daniel. Daniel/Vala feels like Jack/Sam to me: forced and false.) The combo of loving both the interior and the exterior of the character is potent and I'll read a less well-written Daniel-centric story over a brilliant Jack story for that reason.
Having a character preference does not mean hating other characters, though some fans go that route, and I agree: we're choosing our fic to stoke our own preferences and desires.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I wouldn't have sought out fic at all except that I wanted more Daniel than I got on the show...
My interest in fanfic, too, is a sign that a show is not satisfying me. I adore BSG, for instance, but there's enough there that I'm not driven to find my fix elsewhere. SG-1, otoh, leaves so much that I want as "off screen" that fan fic has become my primary interest. I watch the show more for the eye candy and to keep up with events so that the fan fic makes sense. :)
I love that there is room for everyone to write what they want and read what they want. I don't see it as a competition where one side has to win or where people have to be convinced of anything.
Precisely! (A part of me wants to make those cute Daniel hand gestures but my ASCII art skills aren't very advanced.) Hard feelings arise, it seems, because people can't accept that it's ALL good. Like whom you like; read what you like; stay away from what you don't like. Personally, I appreciate labels so that I can do just that.