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"Sometimes I fear we *are* cute." "Oh, niggle-snoosh!"
I was pondering just now. About fic. Where do people draw the line between pairing and gen?
I was thinking, say I write the Doctor and Rose having a bubble gum blowing contest...
And then I laughed to myself for a good long while. Anything written by me involving that as a premise would quickly turn overly cute with extreme amounts of grinning and probably would wind up with post-bubble-gum-excitement cuddle napping. (Although, not nose-to-nose, since that's just silly.)
So say a normal fic writer writes the Doctor and Rose having a bubble gum blowing contest. We'll say it's cute, but no real UST/relationship/flirting in it whatsoever. So you'd definitely call it gen.
But could the author herself also throw a Doctor/Rose label on it? Would you as a reader be a bit miffed since you want/expect to see UST/relationship/flirting/etc. content in shipfics?
I was thinking, say I write the Doctor and Rose having a bubble gum blowing contest...
And then I laughed to myself for a good long while. Anything written by me involving that as a premise would quickly turn overly cute with extreme amounts of grinning and probably would wind up with post-bubble-gum-excitement cuddle napping. (Although, not nose-to-nose, since that's just silly.)
So say a normal fic writer writes the Doctor and Rose having a bubble gum blowing contest. We'll say it's cute, but no real UST/relationship/flirting in it whatsoever. So you'd definitely call it gen.
But could the author herself also throw a Doctor/Rose label on it? Would you as a reader be a bit miffed since you want/expect to see UST/relationship/flirting/etc. content in shipfics?