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fanfic tastes that defy logic
So... fanfic readers: does anyone else have a genre of fanfic that is totally not their type, that it makes absolutely no sense they'd be into, that they nevertheless adore?
Here's mine: John/Rodney SGA fic.
Which, as mentioned, makes no sense whatsoever.
1) It's slash. I don't like slash (I'm a gen-fic person).
2) It's a show that (until recently) I knew absolutely nothing about. In fact, when I started reading it, I knew absolutely nothing about the Stargate franchise.
And yet...
The thing about John/Rodney fic is that it's fic that lives and dies entirely on snarky conversations between its main characters. And even when I didn't know anything about these characters (other than that they starred in snarky slash fics), the prospect of reading them arguing some more was so appealing that I clicked on every fic I could find. Still do.
I have read John-is-secretly-into-Rodney fic, and Rodney-is-secretly-into-John fic. I have read coffee-shop AUs, college lecturer AUs, and high school AUs. I have read action adventure extravaganzas, and intimate evenings at home. (And I'm not into any of those things, in any fanfics that aren't this lot! Really!) And I love them all.
It is a genre of fanfic that I adore, despite it contradicting my every taste in fanfic.
Does anyone else have one of those?
Here's mine: John/Rodney SGA fic.
Which, as mentioned, makes no sense whatsoever.
1) It's slash. I don't like slash (I'm a gen-fic person).
2) It's a show that (until recently) I knew absolutely nothing about. In fact, when I started reading it, I knew absolutely nothing about the Stargate franchise.
And yet...
The thing about John/Rodney fic is that it's fic that lives and dies entirely on snarky conversations between its main characters. And even when I didn't know anything about these characters (other than that they starred in snarky slash fics), the prospect of reading them arguing some more was so appealing that I clicked on every fic I could find. Still do.
I have read John-is-secretly-into-Rodney fic, and Rodney-is-secretly-into-John fic. I have read coffee-shop AUs, college lecturer AUs, and high school AUs. I have read action adventure extravaganzas, and intimate evenings at home. (And I'm not into any of those things, in any fanfics that aren't this lot! Really!) And I love them all.
It is a genre of fanfic that I adore, despite it contradicting my every taste in fanfic.
Does anyone else have one of those?
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Lecturer Rodney and stripper John? Yes.
I remember this one! Any idea what it was called? I'd love to track it down again.
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Aha!
Bell Curve, or, Ladies Night at the Boom Boom Room (44392 words) by rageprufrock
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Series: Part 1 of Bell Curve
Summary:
In his rational mind, Rodney knew that following a girl who'd just dumped you into a strip club was really, really pathetic.
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