Is it all just A/C?

[finmagik]

I was wondering, I've been a member of this group since November and all I've seen is A/C. I recall there were other characters in the book. How come I've never seen, any Horseperson fics or TeenThem slash? Hmmm if it is all just A/C I'm afraid I'm going to be a bit disappointed.

Comments

[shiplizard]

A/C is just the most common pairing. There are others; I don't know if the Pepper/War fic was on here, but there were a few TeenThems and one Hastur/Ligur.

You just have to deal with Aziraphale/Crowley.. lots of us like them the best.

[primroseburrows]

There have been various Adam pairings. I'm not sure if it was this community. I've seen some crossovers, too. (War/Hermione? I think I saw that. If not, someone needs to write it!)

[slythwolf]

The prospect of War/Hermione scares me. *hides under the bed*

[ajodasso]

I think it's largely a factor of probability: you have Aziraphale and Crowley, who make for a very likely couple (a definite one, even, as most of us would probably say to you), but with the others, it gets kind of nebulous. You have Newt and Anathema, Shadwell and Tracy, so you can't really involve any of them in slash without, well, breaking up the obvious. With the Horsepersons, I suppose it's possible, but it gets more difficult because you see them interact more as a group bent on serving their function than any one-on-one emotional interaction. And as for the Them, they are something of an open book, being so young, but that's also as much a hindrance as a help. They could go any way at all, and perhaps not even with each other. In any case, it's what strikes people, and it's clear that Aziraphale and Crowley are statistically the striking ones.

[fenris_wolf0]

Feel free to post some other pairing. Personally I prefer A/C, but hey, to each their own.

On the other hand when the day comes that the other characters pairings become predominant, I can skip off to a different fandom which is what I usually do when that happens: and it happens in most fandoms, that the pairing most clearly hinted at in the book/movie ends up being considered gauche and not 'original' enough.

Oh well, no big deal. I'll still have the book when that happens... :D

[fenris_wolf0]

I sympathize completely: it has happened in every fandom I have followed for any length of time. To the point where the one I am most involved it now gets newbies starting their introductory posts with 'I despise the x/y pairing, anything but x/y and... ' which I always find rather nasty: any other character or pairing bashing gets stomped on pretty hard, but because x/y has a lot of UST in the original show, you get some ugly reverse discrimination.

This does not mean that I do not appreciate a good alternate pairing (most of the ones recommended above I read a long time ago), just that I see no point in dumping on the main fandom pairing because it's 'cool' to do so. Not that I am suggesting that the original poster did so: I am only venting because I've been chased from too many fandoms by such changes and the unsubtle pressure exerted on writers to write alternate pairings in order to seem cool and fashionable.

[dreya_uberwald]

I am only venting because I've been chased from too many fandoms by such changes and the unsubtle pressure exerted on writers to write alternate pairings in order to seem cool and fashionable.

I've noticed this quite a lot in the various fandoms I've flirted with over the last few years. It's understandable that when you've got a fandom like the GO, which does tend to be heavily focussed on one particular relationship, it's going to be frustrating for fans who aren't quite so enamoured with pairing. But there's a huge difference between stating that you'd like to see something different - like the poster here - and trying to put pressure on other individual writers - which I have seen happen and is just incredibly rude. Disliking something because of personal preference, or because you feel it's overdone and are bored with it, is understandable. But deriding something purely on the basis that lots of other people enjoy it strikes me as fairly stupid and amusingly immature.

[dreya_uberwald]

I still have to do a wenslydalte/brain drabble...

Please say that you meant Wensleydale/Brian there as I'm suddenly accosted by horrible visions of Wensleydale developing a sudden and delusional romantic attachment to a pickled brain in a bell jar :D

[slythwolf]

I was actually picturing sillyfic wherein Wensleydale is in love with his own brain. XD

[dreya_uberwald]

Well, it would certainly lend a few interesting new connotations to the term 'intellectual masturbation'... Oh dear, I really shouldn't have gone down that mental path, should I?

[ex_stateline124]

Hmm. There have been other pairings here -- not really implicit, but I do know that irisbleu has written a Newt/Anathema & Crowley/Aziraphale fic, and I kind of remember there being one that was just Newt/Anathema (though I don't remember who the author was.)

There are a few fics with the Them, you just might have to do some digging through the memories of the community.