Spaghetti

[indyhat]

Characters: Claude, and the Bennet family; Claude/Bennet if you squint (you don't have to squint very hard)
Rating: PG-13 (one instance of strong language)
Word count: a little under 1,350
Summary: Dinner at the Bennets'.
A/N: Written for futuresoon in response to the prompt: "Kids are tricky." Yeah, I want me some domestic!pre-shooting!Bennets+Claude, ma'am

Comments

[fantasticpants]

Claude/Bennet becoming as popular as Mylar is a pretty absurd thought, honestly. Then again, the popularity of Mylar is pretty absurd.

Hmm... Okay, so once upon a time Petrellicest ruled fandom, but somewhere around the pre-finale episodes, Mylar started taking over, and Petrellicest has been on a steady decline ever since. These days it's all Mylar, and I actually see more Plaude than Petrellicest on a regular basis. That's the impression I've been getting from ninth_wonders, at any rate, though it would be interesting to make a more comprehensive fandom research. Still, I'd say your chain of ship popularity is pretty accurate - except that at the moment Claude/Bennet is probably at least 10 times smaller than Plaude (I'd say it's roughly proportionate to Peter/Sylar, maybe a bit smaller... So it's something like this: Mylar > Petrellicest > Plaude > Peter/Mohinder > Hiro/Ando > Peter/Sylar > Claude/Bennet > Matt/Bennet > Matt/Ted, etc... Not sure about Hiro/Ando placement, though).

And hiatus does strange things to fandom. It looks like there's a pseudo-renaissance of Bennet slash in general (don't wanna jinx it, but yaaaaaay!), where Claude/Bennet is fairly focal. We need a Plan to move Claude/Bennet up the chain, yo.

And I had other things to say, methinks, but my brainz melted.

[indyhat]

SRSLY? Is Petrellicest really in decline? I mean, I watch the posts on my f-list but rarely have time to read much (it is a pairing I enjoy, at least from certain writers). And yeah, the Mylar list (which I also watch but almost never read) has been pretty busy. But ... huh. Interesting. I guess the series sort of finished on such a Petrellicest high that after you've made the logical follow-through (and several writers have, extremely well) then there's nothing much left to say. Almost to the point where their slash relationship has jumped the shark (like Niles and Daphne finally getting together in Frasier, or something. After that it was all downhill. Requited love makes for crap TV). ... uh ... where was I?

Yeah, Claude/Bennet is tiny. But gaining, no? :D What kind of plan did you have in mind? Write lots and surely some of it will stick? :D

And seriously, Peter/Mohinder > Hiro/Ando? Huh.

Well, I'm certainly holding out for a Bennet renaissance :)

[fantasticpants]

Maybe it just seems like a decline because Mylar is eating fandom. But I wouldn't worry about the Petrellicest too much - I'm sure next season will give it plenty of fodder (actually, one of the things that make me generally disinterested in the pairing is the excessive canon - I prefer to operate in a more unrestrained territory).

Yup, I think Claude/Bennet is growing a bit. I think a lot of it has to do with Bennet's popularity as a character. But I think that if there's no Claude in season 2, other Bennetslash pairings would easily gain on it (Matt/Bennet, Peter/Bennet - whoever he interacts with, just about). Bennetslash started... existing towards the end of the season, and I think it's mostly because Bennet's dynamic with the rest of the characters changed pretty dramatically since he'd gone rogue. He's much more integrated with the rest of the cast now, while before he was mostly just interacting with Claire and doing Company bsbs.

Yeah, Peter/Mohinder is pretty big (don't get that pairing at all, really), and Hiro/Ando barely even existed before 5YG. 's fandom for ya.

Viva la Bennet revolution. :P

[indyhat]

Mylar is eating fandom

Now that needs to be put into an icon somewhere.

I'm not overly concerned about Petrellicest and where it goes (no doubt there will be more fodder ...) - I like it when it's done well but it's not an overriding concern of mine.

Bennet, I think, is immensely popular as a character. So I think you can look forward to more Bennet slash :)

I'd read a few Hiro/Ando things before 5YG, but hadn't noticed if it'd exploded (ha) since. And yeah, I do not get Peter/Mohinder at all. *shrug*