So....

[hmpf]

I've been bad. I've gone and read some fic. HL, Methos, my eternal number one fic reading fandom, the one I always keep coming back to.

And... there was some really nice characterisation there and all. And yet... suddenly, a bit of romance creeps in, and takes me right out of it, and I can't get back into the story, afterwards.

Why am I so bloody allergic to romance? It's not even like it would be out of character for Methos (unlike Sam and Gene, whom I really can't see having candlelight dinners and giving each other flowers)! Methos' entire relationship with Alexa is straight out of a romance novel. And I've written some bad romantic angst for him myself, in my very first fic, way back... Yet I can't read that kind of thing.

*sigh*

I also notice that I - hypocritically - tend to avoid fics featuring OFCs, and to some degree even OMCs. Hypocritically, because I've written both - in particular, I've written an OFC who's only a hair's breadth away from being a Mary Sue (maybe even is a Mary Sue) - and in a Horsemen fic, no less! I really should give some of those fics a chance.

Comments

Re: Candlelight dinners? In canon? It's more likely than you think!

[loz]

They also eat breakfast together in 2.07, having spent the night sleeping together in the same room. There are no candles, but it's romantically dim.

Re: Candlelight dinners? In canon? It's more likely than you think!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Okay, I do remember both of those scenes, but neither of them counts as a romantic candlelight dinner in my book... It's really only the real romance novel type stuff I'm allergic to; I'm fine with Sam and Gene eating together. Or even sleeping in the same room. Hell, Mikey's stuff has demonstrated to me that I can even be fine with them sharing house and bed... under certain conditions.