Nice job, Wen! I'm excited to see what you rec, even though I'll probably have read everything already, tiny fandom that it is.
I know! We've all read everything already! We need a holiday ficathon or something! (Well. Maybe this month of recs will inspire more people to offer and ask for the fandom at Yuletide.)
Ah, yes, I wanted to comment on that fic, because I liked it, but like you guys, I wasn't sure about the paternity-questioning element. I'm not sure if it crosses the line for me or not. I think a fic that answered the paternity issue would be way over the line, but is posing the question over the line? As much as my gut instinct says it's icky, can you really write a fic in which they're sleeping together off and on for years without broaching that question?
You mean overtly or in people's heads? There will be many stories recced here in which they've been having sex on and off for years without paternity issues being raised.
Re: the story in question. It says so many things about both characters for David's character to wonder about it. Maybe the writer intended to raise those issues. But for two people who both claim to trust one another in a way that eerily parallels how M&S feel to not be able to talk about that concern seems--I don't know--off to me? And of course, we all know that in real life her second husband asked for a paternity test to be done for her second child. Sigh.
Well, I need to go post the next rec, she said brightly.
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I know! We've all read everything already! We need a holiday ficathon or something! (Well. Maybe this month of recs will inspire more people to offer and ask for the fandom at Yuletide.)
Ah, yes, I wanted to comment on that fic, because I liked it, but like you guys, I wasn't sure about the paternity-questioning element. I'm not sure if it crosses the line for me or not. I think a fic that answered the paternity issue would be way over the line, but is posing the question over the line? As much as my gut instinct says it's icky, can you really write a fic in which they're sleeping together off and on for years without broaching that question?
You mean overtly or in people's heads? There will be many stories recced here in which they've been having sex on and off for years without paternity issues being raised.
Re: the story in question. It says so many things about both characters for David's character to wonder about it. Maybe the writer intended to raise those issues. But for two people who both claim to trust one another in a way that eerily parallels how M&S feel to not be able to talk about that concern seems--I don't know--off to me? And of course, we all know that in real life her second husband asked for a paternity test to be done for her second child. Sigh.
Well, I need to go post the next rec, she said brightly.