The repetition of slash.
Jan. 16th, 2006 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI've been feeling a sense of frustration as I gorge on fanfic.
First, my frustration with my SGA writing. Little bits and pieces of SGA fanfic are surfacing but not resolving into a complete stories. In my minds eye, Jack O'Neill turns up at Atlantis and turns on the equipment as easily as Sheppard (and Jack isn't too happy about it, except when he triggers what is more or less a video game he and John play for hours) -- but then it doesn't go any further, doesn't become a plot.
I hope you will forgive me if I just throw a bunch of these moments into my LJ, like scattering silver dollars in the sand.
As for reading, short stories are starting to fall into the same pattern, over and over:
A) Someone has a hidden crush (or doesn't).
B) Something happens to bring the two together to reveal (or create) that crush.
C) Intervening "stuff," obstacles or real world plot, which force the issue.
D) They have glorious sex.
E) Ta-da! Happy ending.
Sometimes that's exactly what I want. But right now I'm wanting more. Something where the focus isn't just on getting the two lovely boys together for hot sex (though I like the hot sex, yes I do).
"Visiting Hours" is one example. The story is about Sheppard being pushed to the edge. The sex is there, but it isn't the sum total of the story. "A Beautiful Lifetime Event" is about how people change when they have kids. "Skirting The Issue" is about an off-world team attempting to BS their way through an embarrassing post-mission briefing (and short-circuiting each other in the process).
More please. And more depth? Are there any stories I've missed that aren't blood-curdling angst that have a little more meat on their bones?
First, my frustration with my SGA writing. Little bits and pieces of SGA fanfic are surfacing but not resolving into a complete stories. In my minds eye, Jack O'Neill turns up at Atlantis and turns on the equipment as easily as Sheppard (and Jack isn't too happy about it, except when he triggers what is more or less a video game he and John play for hours) -- but then it doesn't go any further, doesn't become a plot.
I hope you will forgive me if I just throw a bunch of these moments into my LJ, like scattering silver dollars in the sand.
As for reading, short stories are starting to fall into the same pattern, over and over:
A) Someone has a hidden crush (or doesn't).
B) Something happens to bring the two together to reveal (or create) that crush.
C) Intervening "stuff," obstacles or real world plot, which force the issue.
D) They have glorious sex.
E) Ta-da! Happy ending.
Sometimes that's exactly what I want. But right now I'm wanting more. Something where the focus isn't just on getting the two lovely boys together for hot sex (though I like the hot sex, yes I do).
"Visiting Hours" is one example. The story is about Sheppard being pushed to the edge. The sex is there, but it isn't the sum total of the story. "A Beautiful Lifetime Event" is about how people change when they have kids. "Skirting The Issue" is about an off-world team attempting to BS their way through an embarrassing post-mission briefing (and short-circuiting each other in the process).
More please. And more depth? Are there any stories I've missed that aren't blood-curdling angst that have a little more meat on their bones?
