2) We were surprised by how many people feared having gen stories or other-pairing stories mixed into McShep. That was certainly not the intention of the challenge--again, this was supposed to be a mission report challenge, so it's supposed to reflect (distort, embellish, conceal)( what actually happened on the mission, the original story being the mission.
Given that pretty much ANY pairing you see on either of the Stargates is via reading subtext, I don't think it's a huge shift to have concerns that your gen story be written with pairing-postive glasses on. Which is not necessarily a bad thing...unless that rubs the original author the wrong way.
YMMV.
Anyway, thanks again. I know the response to the previous entry was eye-opening for me, on a number of fronts.
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2) We were surprised by how many people feared having gen stories or other-pairing stories mixed into McShep. That was certainly not the intention of the challenge--again, this was supposed to be a mission report challenge, so it's supposed to reflect (distort, embellish, conceal)( what actually happened on the mission, the original story being the mission.
Given that pretty much ANY pairing you see on either of the Stargates is via reading subtext, I don't think it's a huge shift to have concerns that your gen story be written with pairing-postive glasses on. Which is not necessarily a bad thing...unless that rubs the original author the wrong way.
YMMV.
Anyway, thanks again. I know the response to the previous entry was eye-opening for me, on a number of fronts.