Slashy Epiphany

[cupidsbow]

A few years ago, I was talking with one of my buddies about slash, and she said that she goes through stages: when she first falls in love with a fandom, she craves first-time fics, and then after a while, she wants established relationship fics. I gave her the googly eyes upon hearing this, because I've always wanted first-time fics, and I couldn'

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[aerynvala]

I still prefer First Time stories to everything else, overall. But I like Wedding!fic if it is basically a continuation of a First Time story. I do go through cycles of trying Established Relationship stories, but I keep running into the SURPRISE!E.R. stories. Where there is no clue in the text at all, and sometimes even misleading 'thoughts' and dialog, that two characters are together. And that sends me back into the comfortable arms of the FT stories.

[20thcenturyvole]

(why are there not a million Tony/Pepper/Captain America fics? Because if ever there was an OT3 waiting to happen, it would be that one. *craves*)

*squints* I can see a one-off thing, but Pepper is far too sane to go with Tony long-term, even with Steve as a mediating force. However, a one-time Tony/Pepper/Steve thing would be insanely hot, especially if they invited Rhodey along.

... Okay, now someone has to write that OT4 before I explode.

[elspethdixon]

Rhodey and Steve would get into the macho pissing contest to end all macho pissing contests, while Tony watched and drooled. Meanwhile, Pepper would get fed up and leave.

Meanwhile, Rhodey and Tony would start discussing the armor/things that explode/flying during sex, until Steve got sick of it and stomped off to sulk and have "that-will-show-Tony-hah!" sex with Pepper that he'll feel horribly guilty for in the morning.

That would be in movie-continuity. Canon!Pepper would of course go off with Happy Hogan.

[20thcenturyvole]

Oh, God, yes. It'd start out as a steamy foursome, and end as a horrible screwball farce. *glee*

[angstslashhope]

I LOVE ALL SLASH. Seriously. I love first time stories... but I love established relationship stories too! And they're-all-old-and-having-walking-frame-sex stories too!

I think I always love a good first time story because there's often a really identifiable pay off in it. You can get swept up with the characters so that when they have their MOMENT it's a huge rush for you as well.

But established relationships have a different kind of comfort to them - whether it's "we're past the first time bit, but now there's all this other relationship crap to work through (namely, you are a middle-aged cop and I am a 20-something geek on the FBI's wanted list)" or curtain fic, where as a reader you can settle down into the warm fuzzy domesticity like a doona.

Weddingfic still makes me a bit squirmy, but I can't tell if it's one step too far on the schmoop scale for me or if it is PINGING my schmoop kink big time. Soul bonding, oh man, I'm there all the way! :D Supernatural was good for that, what with being in a universe of psychicness etc

[wystii]

It depends on how much I like a pairing and how much I've read of it. If it's a pairing I can envision for myself, especially my OTP of the fandom, I'll happily read anything - first time, established relationships, babies, mpreg... bring it on! If I need to be convinced or am not too sure of the chemistry of a pairing, then I prefer first time fics to give the writer a chance to convince me of the viability of their vision. Once I've turned to the darkside of that pairing (or am totally convince) then I start craving other stuff.

[alwaysaddled]

What she said.

[seekergeek]

I crave anything with a happy ending but I'm especially fond of first times, marriage fic, kid fic and even *gasp!* mpreg. When you look at all that, you'll see a definite tendency for me to want my boys becoming domestic if they are not busy falling in love in the first place. And if you can throw in some soulbonding in any of those I will be your slave for LIFE.

What has changed for me over time is that I've pruned the list of what I'm willing to read. When I first got in to SGA fandom, I read just about everything; every slash pairing, orgies, most het stuff with Rodney in it, deathfic, etc. was devoured by me in a glorious frenzy of reading. Now, not so much. Now I only read Teyla/Rodney or John/Rodney and no deathfic darkens my doorstep because I've decided that fanfic is my happy place and deathfic is not a happy place most days.