This thread reminds me of the time when I used to be in the CSI fandom, which has many different het/slash pairings. My CSI pairing happens to be Grissom/Greg, another example of "Boss fancied by everyone/young coffee boy". When I first discovered Jack/Ianto, I moaned "not again". And again I have to go through all these fannish cliches about coffee and about child abuse and... Don't mistake me, I adore Ianto, I adore Greg, I love these two pairings. But some cliches are too much for me. Like child abuse. I hate child abuse stories. I can understand some people have rape fantasies, but I can't buy that anyone can have child abuse fantasies for himself/herself. Even "hate" isn't a strong enough word for me, I'm afraid. And why, why all the young adults who make good coffee happen to be the victims of child abuse in the fanfiction world? Now I understand why I live on Nescafe all the time: maybe my childhood is just too happy...
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Date: 2007-02-26 08:29 pm (UTC)Don't mistake me, I adore Ianto, I adore Greg, I love these two pairings. But some cliches are too much for me. Like child abuse. I hate child abuse stories. I can understand some people have rape fantasies, but I can't buy that anyone can have child abuse fantasies for himself/herself. Even "hate" isn't a strong enough word for me, I'm afraid.
And why, why all the young adults who make good coffee happen to be the victims of child abuse in the fanfiction world? Now I understand why I live on Nescafe all the time: maybe my childhood is just too happy...