Slightly squicked...

[calapine]

Notes on the Domestication of Birds and This House Is Not For Sale are both v v good fics, and I love them muchly. They are also exceptions to the general thing I have Discovered About Self: Ten/Rose squicks me

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[mahala]

You are not alone in the 10/Rose Squickness.

[nostalgia_lj]

I used to find them less squicky! :(

[calapine]

Reassuring-ness!

[drakyndra]

Nine/Rose squicks me - as in, the last time I read Nine/Rose smut, I fell out of chair, I freaked myself out so much. Since then I have been unable to read it at all, even not smut stuff. But that is more to do with mental associations than anything else.

Now, Ten/Rose, I can read some, but I tend to the somewhat messed up or darkfic type things. Or good smut, yo (still prefer the stuff with dark undertones, mind).

I can't tolerate OTP stuff for either. And my tolerence for cute or fluffy Ten/Rose is decreasing.

The odd thing? That power balance, weighted on Ten's side that squicks you? I'd really like to read more fic which deals with that. Because I have this odd fascination with the concept of morallydubious!Ten.

[nostalgia_lj]

And my tolerence for cute or fluffy Ten/Rose is decreasing.

I'm getting that a bit too. I thought my tolerance would go back up faster than it has, but it seems to be going the other way. Which is annoying, since it basically means that ALL OF FANDOM squicks me.

The odd thing? That power balance, weighted on Ten's side that squicks you? I'd really like to read more fic which deals with that. Because I have this odd fascination with the concept of morallydubious!Ten.

Dealing with it makes it less squicky maybe? I have the squick too and yet the idea of writing it dark squicks me less than just having to ignore it and go with fluff.

[drakyndra]

I thought my tolerance would go back up faster than it has, but it seems to be going the other way.

That might be the reason that with the exception of the Rose gen ficathon, most of the fics I am reading now are for other characters.

Dealing with it makes it less squicky maybe? I have the squick too and yet the idea of writing it dark squicks me less than just having to ignore it and go with fluff.

It's that thing I've said before - dealing with "wrong" concepts in fic is easier if the author acknowledges how wrong they are. To pick a random example, incestfics. If written fluffily, they disturb me greatly, but written with awareness of how wrong the actions are? Doesn't squick me. They can be fascinating, even, in a dark way.

Sadly, the fics which focus on the unhealthiness of Doctor/Rose are few and far between.

[nostalgia_lj]

It's that thing I've said before - dealing with "wrong" concepts in fic is easier if the author acknowledges how wrong they are.

Yeah, it's like it's not expecting you to approve. I love a bit of dark fic, so i does.

Sadly, the fics which focus on the unhealthiness of Doctor/Rose are few and far between.

The people who see it dark are maybe too squicked to write it, and everyone else likes the fluffy version? *guesses more or less at random*

[calapine]

Win! :D

[misscam]

Some people get really squicked by Nine/Rose, so I guess it goes to show one man's preference is another's squick.

[calapine]

Quite so, I just find it odd given my whoreishness over pairings that I find one of the most obvious personally squicky.

[neadods]

I find, shallow that I am, I can handle reading just about any combination of new Doctors & companions. I blame this on Jack, yes, who seems to have purloined my sense of boundaries

[drakyndra]

I'm not sure why they bothered to give us those two episodes if neither of the main characters could grasp their importance in the long run... and, judging from the hysteria in much of the fandom, neither could the new school fans.

Well, there is the fact that it may have been intended that the audience picked up on this, even if Rose failed to (the Doctor, at least, had learned enough to give Rose her goodbye and closure). The fact that certain sections of fandom didn't isn't entirely the fault of the production team.

[neadods]

But that Rose and the Doctor never once alluded to it again - even when it happened to them - is the fault of the scriptwriter, methinks.