Writing as a tool to explore fantasies

[evangeline1138]

Prompted by a discussion on the SGCdarkfic list....

This has probably been discussed before ad nauseum, but since I rarely get to read anything--online or otherwise--these days, please bear with me.

Comments

[daisycm83]

Okay, well *reading* yourself into a fic I think is a fairly common experience. Why do you think there are so many dime a dozen cheesy romance novels out there? Words are powerful things, and invoking an image that hits a few of your personal kinks is fun.

Maybe I'm being extreme, but it always seems that past a certain point no relationship is possible. What I'm really trying to say, I guess, is that any relationship beyond friendship for ANY of them seems impossible by now.

Awe. Pessimistic Eva? *pets Eva* I don't know. I guess that there was *enough* resolved on screen that my brain pretty much sees S/J as canon at this point. Especially after a few comments AT has been reported to make. It doesn't stretch the limits of my imagination at all (I mean that in a good way, even if it sounds like a bad thing). OT3 fic, in this genre, does. I'm not sure why. I could go into this whole idea I sort of vaguely have about how OT3 fic to me tends to indicate slightly broken!SG-1, and that's a concept I really don't buy, but I won't because my thoughts are sort of one-sided on that particular issue.