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lyssie ([personal profile] lyssie) wrote2006-12-24 02:31 am

Ff'net: not good for the ego

No, really. Someone explain this to me. I've been poking tonight and-- ok, wait. First off.

WHY IS THERE SOUL MATES FIC FOR KARA/ANDERS ALREADY.

Soul mates.

People.

You're makin' my soul bleed, here. Not to mention, there aren't enough of us writing Kara/Anders for there to be this much badfic!

ANYWAY. What gets me? I click on the reviews for these (read: not written by me Kara/Anders) fics, and people are like, "Yay! K/A fic, I'm so glad to find some!"

...Yes. Because the (what, fifteen?) ones I posted, several weeks back? Totally not K/A fic. At all.

--except that I totally just figured it out.

I don't write them mushy (well, not often). I had this problem with S/J fic, too. I don't write them completely and utterly unable to function without the other. I write them. Well. Mocking each other and frakking and not particularly loveydovey. They fall out of bed a lot, too. (at least, this is the only thing I can come up with. Anyone else got any other theories?)

...dude. My Cally/Chief fic, which isn't very long at all, and is NOW CANON WTF has more reviews than the Kara/Sam stuff.

But. Er. I'm sure this was going to be longer, and then Rhi made me think about TELEPATHIC VIPERS.

So. Whatever.

eta: Oh. Hey. Best review I ever got:
I have to admit that after reading some of your earlier postings I'd avoided your writing as unrealistic and soppy. ((nice things edited, because I'm not wanting ego-stroking, just amusement))

And, actually, they are right, in a way. A lot of my early stuff was soppy and sappy -- not all of it, of course. But the tendency was there (anyone who's ever seen the original first draft of SCW can attest to the badness. omg.).

Which makes me wonder. Did I beat it out of myself, or did exposure to better writers do it?
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[identity profile] wiliqueen.livejournal.com 2006-12-25 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
(at least, this is the only thing I can come up with. Anyone else got any other theories?)

No, I think you've hit it dead on. It seems like many of the same shippers who can read OMGTWUWUV4EVAH!!!!! into the slightest interaction onscreen are the ones who don't consider a fic shippy unless it's utterly committed to the soulmates thing. *gag*

I take comfort in my bafflement from the knowledge that I am equally mystifying to most people. It screws with their fannish reality that I'm pink and girly and squeeful (and married!) and not a shipper. It makes brains go sproinngggg left and right.
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2006-12-25 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I, just. Even in real life, people who are like that seem unreal.

sigh.

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[identity profile] wiliqueen.livejournal.com 2006-12-25 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
ESPECIALLY in real life. I just plain don't believe them.

There are forms of fiction in which I mind it less, but really none in which I would seek it out, precisely because I Just Plain Don't Believe In It (And Actually Find The Whole Concept Rather Creepy). Hence the unbridgeable gulf in comprehension between me and a large chunk of shipperdom.