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[unamaga]

Some Buffy stuff still left! Get it while it's...not gone.

Now. I want to talk about McShep for a few minutes here. Please feel free to go about your business if this isn't your bag, baby.

I'm relatively new to the SGA fandom - although I've read and written so much damn fic you couldn't tell. I've only been involved properly since August, having mainlined all the episodes some time in late July. So, taking all this into account, it's really, really weird that I feel so protective of my 'ship, isn't it? While I was in Supernatural and Harry Potter fandoms, I had a few 'ships I followed fic in, and usually they were pretty flexible. I didn't mind if Dean and Sam got it on with a girl in fic, or if Remus and Sirius wanted to include James Potter in their sandwich of manlove. More bodies, more interesting, I always said! As long as there was some form of gay and no one repulsive was involved, I was a pretty happy camper.

But with Rodney and John, I find myself making weird, distressed faces when someone else is involved. This is upsetting to me! I don't know why it makes my soul hurt when Teyla, who I love with all of my heart, joins in. Or why the thought of Jack Harkness making out with John Sheppard has me shrieking in protest. Someone please explain! Jack Harkness is a hotass of epic, epic proportions! I should be pleased by the aesthetics!

Is this what it's like to have a true OTP? D: D: D:

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I'm willing to read pairings other than McShep, but usually only when I'm reading stuff by authors who write ridiculously hot McShep as well as other pairings or if it's by an author that I know will write it well and convincingly. Actually, thinking about it, the only other pairings I've read were McKay/Beckett (which I can only read occasionally, and then only certain authors and even then I prefer McKay/John/Beckett) and Sheppard/Lorne (only one, written by icarusancalion and therefore practically guaranteed to be good). But I'm a McShepper at heart and would rather see them together and alone than anything else. I can't read pairings involving either John or Rodney if it's het. My brain just doesn't like it. Even looking at Sheppard/Weir or John/Teyla icons or banners makes me cringe.

With a McShep established relationship I'm willing to add other people to the mix. But I'm less okay with OT4 fic. I think it's the addition of het. Sigh. I'm a straight female and I don't read het anymore. I blame fandom. ;) One addition I'm fine with is a John or Rodney from another universe or a character who was played by Joe Flanigan or David Hewlett or Joe Flanigan or David Hewlett themselves. My brain has no issues with that. (One example is yin_again's Snakes and Lawyers 'verse (http://yin-again.com/xoindex.htm#1). You might even be okay with it. :) It's McShep, I promise.)

Within McShep I've read break-up fic by accident and liked at least one, although it still makes me feel a bit hollow if I think about it for too long. I don't mind break-up fic when they get back together in the end, but every once in a while there's a fic where they stay apart. I read death-fic when it's well written because I don't mind crying from time to time. However, I do like to be warned beforehand. One thing that I love is when one character "dies" and then is found alive. I love the happiness when they come back.

Yup, this is what it's like to have a true OTP. It was a bit of a surprise after the Harry Potter fandom, where I'd read almost any pairing. Out of curiousity, would a Jack Harkness/John/Rodney fic be okay with you? I get the impression that you don't like threesomes or moresomes when it comes to McShep.