'ah, that's a really good idea! i could have done THIS with it... but now it's too awkward'
One of the advantages of writing This Time Round fic on USENET was that if you wanted to pick up an idea from someone else's fic and run with it, you just did :-) My canned thought on this is that it was encouraged by the format of USENET, where a fic and a review would be presented with equal prominence. In these days of journals and fanfic archives, the distinction is much more pronounced.
it's difficult to see how wings could bring two people closer
Except in the gross physical sense, of course :-) I did have a fic plotted out for 'wingfic', but since it boiled down to "Eleven meets Romana who's now got wings, and she explains why" it didn't grab me enough to get written.
Looking over my trope_bingo fics, the only ones which were in the least shippy were for 'deathfic' (Sarah dies => Bettan comforts Harry) and 'bound together' (Lucie and Karen engage in Foe-Yay). In some ways, I found the tropes which require shippiness (such as 'rivals to lovers') more difficult than the ones which didn't.
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One of the advantages of writing This Time Round fic on USENET was that if you wanted to pick up an idea from someone else's fic and run with it, you just did :-) My canned thought on this is that it was encouraged by the format of USENET, where a fic and a review would be presented with equal prominence. In these days of journals and fanfic archives, the distinction is much more pronounced.
it's difficult to see how wings could bring two people closer
Except in the gross physical sense, of course :-) I did have a fic plotted out for 'wingfic', but since it boiled down to "Eleven meets Romana who's now got wings, and she explains why" it didn't grab me enough to get written.
Looking over my trope_bingo fics, the only ones which were in the least shippy were for 'deathfic' (Sarah dies => Bettan comforts Harry) and 'bound together' (Lucie and Karen engage in Foe-Yay). In some ways, I found the tropes which require shippiness (such as 'rivals to lovers') more difficult than the ones which didn't.