But when it comes to established relationships I know I've heard people argue for H/D especially that you can't just have a fic where they're together and that's never made sense to me. Why can't you?
ITA! That fic is not doing that heavy lifting and it shouldn't have to! If you want first-time H/D fic there is so much of it, why demand that the ER fic has to include the first time as well? If you as a reader always need to be lead by the hand from canon to fic, then stick to the first time stories.
And with Maya's story, really, why can't those stories be written? I want to read those! ER gets labeled as curtain fic, but I think that's because so many writers lack imagination, or are so tied to the happily ever after that they don't want to envision later problems, but those problems don't have to be within the relationship itself—they can be problems that the couple have to face together, and watching that can bring its own kind of pleasure.
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Date: 2009-03-04 11:36 pm (UTC)ITA! That fic is not doing that heavy lifting and it shouldn't have to! If you want first-time H/D fic there is so much of it, why demand that the ER fic has to include the first time as well? If you as a reader always need to be lead by the hand from canon to fic, then stick to the first time stories.
And with Maya's story, really, why can't those stories be written? I want to read those! ER gets labeled as curtain fic, but I think that's because so many writers lack imagination, or are so tied to the happily ever after that they don't want to envision later problems, but those problems don't have to be within the relationship itself—they can be problems that the couple have to face together, and watching that can bring its own kind of pleasure.