I feel the same way about J2, except for the bit about reading it, because, meh, not so much. I've watched some interviews and, yeah, lovely amusing young men, adorable interactions, but I don't know. Maybe it's a case of been there, done that, or maybe it's the idea of having to scrounge around for details about their personal lives that I really just don't care about, or maybe it's because the show itself is just too rich in possibility.
Sentinel was one of those ghastly-fabulous shows, wasn't it? SO MUCH SLASHABILITY, and so much delicious potential for stories spinning off in all kinds of directions. I didn't write in the fandom, but I did a lot of lurkery reading in it. And I totally hear you on the keeping the characters in their own universe thing. I've read some AUs and enjoyed them, and I've even written a couple of my own (Gratuity and The Frog Prince), but for me, the only AUs that really appeal are those where the characters are still themselves in the most fundamental ways. Jim and Blair might be Pony Express riders, Chris and Lance and the boys can be the Trapeze Family Robinson in a traveling circus, but if they don't sound like Jim/Blair/Chris/Lance/et al and they don't behave like Jim/Blair/Chris/Lance/et al, I'm outta there. If I want original fiction, I'll go hunt some up. It's one of the reasons N Sync AUs set in the past tend not to work very well for me: it's really hard for authors to capture Chris's brand of snark in, say, Victorian England or whatever, and so many authors don't even bother trying.
And there are 6859403 SPN stories being posted every single freakin' day, so why do they need me to write one too, you know?
This is the daunting thing, isn't it? But there were a bazillion stories written in popslash before we got here, too, and there's still exciting new stuff being written. THERE'S ROOM FOR US OVER THERE, REALLY!!
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Sentinel was one of those ghastly-fabulous shows, wasn't it? SO MUCH SLASHABILITY, and so much delicious potential for stories spinning off in all kinds of directions. I didn't write in the fandom, but I did a lot of lurkery reading in it. And I totally hear you on the keeping the characters in their own universe thing. I've read some AUs and enjoyed them, and I've even written a couple of my own (Gratuity and The Frog Prince), but for me, the only AUs that really appeal are those where the characters are still themselves in the most fundamental ways. Jim and Blair might be Pony Express riders, Chris and Lance and the boys can be the Trapeze Family Robinson in a traveling circus, but if they don't sound like Jim/Blair/Chris/Lance/et al and they don't behave like Jim/Blair/Chris/Lance/et al, I'm outta there. If I want original fiction, I'll go hunt some up. It's one of the reasons N Sync AUs set in the past tend not to work very well for me: it's really hard for authors to capture Chris's brand of snark in, say, Victorian England or whatever, and so many authors don't even bother trying.
And there are 6859403 SPN stories being posted every single freakin' day, so why do they need me to write one too, you know?
This is the daunting thing, isn't it? But there were a bazillion stories written in popslash before we got here, too, and there's still exciting new stuff being written. THERE'S ROOM FOR US OVER THERE, REALLY!!