That's an excellent point. I was really coming at this with my anti-Ronon and Teyla bias and I didn't quite see that. Do you actively dislike them? Or do you just not care about them? Because I just don't really care about Teyla or Weir, and I'm not overly attached to Ronon (but I do think he's pretty awesome). But still, I find myself missing Weir now she's gone, and I would be upset if something happened to Ronon or Teyla.
Also, the idea of Miko as a prostitute is awesome. In that example, I originally had Lorne as the prostitute, and Mike as a waitress, but I figured I already had the service field covered with Barista and changed things up. :P
I loved her as the scary domme in Xanthe's epic Oh god, I love that fic. So much. When I was doing my bad fic post, I couldn't help but think that Xanthe's fics would probably fall under that heading (because you've got to admit, they're kinda OOC), but my love for her stories wouldn't let me. :P I was so upset to hear that she had scrapped her plans on writing the rest (parts between Coming Home and The General and Dr. Sheppard) because of the flames she got for Coming Home. Made me want to go beat people up. Stupid flamers.
I think artprofessor!Lorne should totally be worked into more AUs (see: previous comment re: people should write what I want all the time). Did you ever read that AU fic where Lorne was a famous artist, and a pilot in his free time and he wooed... Zelenka? Rodney? John? I'm pretty sure it was Zelenka. I think it was done as part of a challenge, possibly a Harlequin one. But that's the only Artist!Lorne fic I've read.
I very rarely see people get it wrong, but I know they (and I) worry about it often enough. And you know, I found that so weird when people said that during the race wank. For me, if I were a writer, I don't think race would have entered my mind when writing Ronon or Teyla. I mean, they're *aliens* I think that would make up for any mistakes I made. It's not like I have to worry about writing what it was like for Ronon to grow up in the ghetto. And even if a character had, like say David from Numb3rs, I'd probably just not mention it in my story. Not experiencing something, or not knowing enough about someone... that's like saying, "I can't write John, because I've never been in the Air Force, I've never flown a plain, I'm not American". I'd say the first two at least, apply to most of fandom, but we don't have a shortage of John fics out there. Even if you're still uncomfortable, it's increadibly easy in the SGA fandom to just. Not. Bring. It. Up. Or make shit up and blame it on them being an aliens.
I feel like a lot of the time it's done out of a fannish obligation to be inclusive and it's that obligation aspect that rubs me the wrong way. Yeah, it kind of rubs me wrong too. Fandom is a huge labour of love, and throwing obligations into it... well, for one it takes a way a lot of the fun, and for another, whatever is produced out of obligation, probably isn't going to be as good, so it just casts those characters in a lesser light anyways.
Re: Secondary characters
Do you actively dislike them? Or do you just not care about them? Because I just don't really care about Teyla or Weir, and I'm not overly attached to Ronon (but I do think he's pretty awesome). But still, I find myself missing Weir now she's gone, and I would be upset if something happened to Ronon or Teyla.
Also, the idea of Miko as a prostitute is awesome.
In that example, I originally had Lorne as the prostitute, and Mike as a waitress, but I figured I already had the service field covered with Barista and changed things up. :P
I loved her as the scary domme in Xanthe's epic
Oh god, I love that fic. So much. When I was doing my bad fic post, I couldn't help but think that Xanthe's fics would probably fall under that heading (because you've got to admit, they're kinda OOC), but my love for her stories wouldn't let me. :P
I was so upset to hear that she had scrapped her plans on writing the rest (parts between Coming Home and The General and Dr. Sheppard) because of the flames she got for Coming Home. Made me want to go beat people up. Stupid flamers.
I think artprofessor!Lorne should totally be worked into more AUs (see: previous comment re: people should write what I want all the time).
Did you ever read that AU fic where Lorne was a famous artist, and a pilot in his free time and he wooed... Zelenka? Rodney? John? I'm pretty sure it was Zelenka. I think it was done as part of a challenge, possibly a Harlequin one. But that's the only Artist!Lorne fic I've read.
I very rarely see people get it wrong, but I know they (and I) worry about it often enough.
And you know, I found that so weird when people said that during the race wank. For me, if I were a writer, I don't think race would have entered my mind when writing Ronon or Teyla. I mean, they're *aliens* I think that would make up for any mistakes I made. It's not like I have to worry about writing what it was like for Ronon to grow up in the ghetto. And even if a character had, like say David from Numb3rs, I'd probably just not mention it in my story.
Not experiencing something, or not knowing enough about someone... that's like saying, "I can't write John, because I've never been in the Air Force, I've never flown a plain, I'm not American". I'd say the first two at least, apply to most of fandom, but we don't have a shortage of John fics out there.
Even if you're still uncomfortable, it's increadibly easy in the SGA fandom to just. Not. Bring. It. Up. Or make shit up and blame it on them being an aliens.
I feel like a lot of the time it's done out of a fannish obligation to be inclusive and it's that obligation aspect that rubs me the wrong way.
Yeah, it kind of rubs me wrong too. Fandom is a huge labour of love, and throwing obligations into it... well, for one it takes a way a lot of the fun, and for another, whatever is produced out of obligation, probably isn't going to be as good, so it just casts those characters in a lesser light anyways.