yes, rant away. i do like the presence of attraction and/or sexual love in a story, but it's a shame that any fic which doesn't cater directly to this aspect often seems to be fighting an uphill battle to find an audience at all.
Plus the whole Skinner is in love with Scully theme is nearly always an annoyance to me.
for me i think it all comes down to the complexity of the way it's being portrayed. it's not so much the over abundance of sex and romanticism that is annoying, but the tendency for people to act as though a feeling is only the one thing: Love, Desire, like saying 'apple' or 'banana'. i can certainly believe that skinner may be attracted to scully as a physically attractive female with admirable qualities, and even that he may be jealous of mulder and scully for have such an intimate and enduring relationship with each other (who wouldn't be jealous of that?) - but to slap a stamp on an entire situation and call it nothing but a one word emotion is kind of silly and cheep, and i see a lot of that happening in fanfic. i haven't read that marguerite fic (yet) though, so i'm not talking about it directly.
As for Pteropod, she writes beautifully.
she was one of the first fic writers whose work i read in this fandom, and Atomic Split is still, i think, my favorite Post Orison fic. the fact that I adored last weeks fic so much doesn't change how lovely Pteropod's fic is. i regret making it sound that way.
is she a Yes Virginian? i used to have a list of YV's noted for myself, because on the whole their fics are so dynamite, but i've lost the list.
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Date: 2009-09-24 04:50 am (UTC)yes, rant away. i do like the presence of attraction and/or sexual love in a story, but it's a shame that any fic which doesn't cater directly to this aspect often seems to be fighting an uphill battle to find an audience at all.
Plus the whole Skinner is in love with Scully theme is nearly always an annoyance to me.
for me i think it all comes down to the complexity of the way it's being portrayed. it's not so much the over abundance of sex and romanticism that is annoying, but the tendency for people to act as though a feeling is only the one thing: Love, Desire, like saying 'apple' or 'banana'. i can certainly believe that skinner may be attracted to scully as a physically attractive female with admirable qualities, and even that he may be jealous of mulder and scully for have such an intimate and enduring relationship with each other (who wouldn't be jealous of that?) - but to slap a stamp on an entire situation and call it nothing but a one word emotion is kind of silly and cheep, and i see a lot of that happening in fanfic. i haven't read that marguerite fic (yet) though, so i'm not talking about it directly.
As for Pteropod, she writes beautifully.
she was one of the first fic writers whose work i read in this fandom, and Atomic Split is still, i think, my favorite Post Orison fic. the fact that I adored last weeks fic so much doesn't change how lovely Pteropod's fic is. i regret making it sound that way.
is she a Yes Virginian? i used to have a list of YV's noted for myself, because on the whole their fics are so dynamite, but i've lost the list.