i swear, there's always one

[jennickels]

This is a review I just got on ff.net for Seven Sins:

This was pretty good except for the ending. You ruined the whole thing by
having him go after Carter. He should have gone after the first pretty nurse
he saw but no, you had to play to the J/S fans. I'm disappointed in you.
 

"Play to the J/S fans"?  Um, I am a Sam/Jack shipper.  Although I suppose it went from a completely teamy fic to slight S/J at the end but I didn't think I played it up that much.  I really wasn't even thinking Sam/Jack really when I wrote it but I guess the line the nurse says sold it as that.  Sigh.  There's always one to complain about something.  And they always reply anon or without a ff.net account so I can't reply back.

Being a shipper myself I don't really think of these things.  Do you take out any shippiness in an otherwise teamy fic to please the non-shippers or add ship in to please the shippers?  I write what I would want to read.  I like to read ship.  I love team adventure fics, too, but love when they have the shippiness in the background.  So, of course, that's what I write.  To be accused of putting ship in to please shippers cracks me up.  I put it in to please myself.

One freaking scene and it ruined the story for this guy (the name on the review was "John").  Oh well.  Back to what I was doing... which I can't remember right now.  I think I was going to go get myself some dinner, lol.

Comments

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

LOL

In John's defense there was no Sam/Jack warning because I didn't think it was shippy at all. There's lots of reasons Jack chose Sam besides to please the shippers.

But to get bent out of shape over one scene in a 7600 word story... overboard. But, free speech and all that. I've had much ruder comments left on my fics.

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

I'm one of those that probably would have expressed my annoyance with surprise!S/J--or any other stealth 'ship, for that matter--at the end of a story... I certainly wouldn't have bitched about him not chasing after an OFC, though... yikes.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

See my note to campy below.

I didn't intentionally make the ending Sam/Jack. Wasn't even thinking about it actually, especially not to surprise the non-shippers, lol.

Maybe I need a general warning that all my stories can potentially contain shippy references even the gen ones because I seem to subconsciously add it.

Still I think the scene stands. Jack chased Sam because she's the woman he spends most of his time with, if he's lusting after anyone it would be her. Or maybe it's just my interpretation of lust being not just some animalistic urge to jump anybody of the opposite sex. I think of lust as more having to do with familiarity. He wouldn't have to be closer or "know" the woman, per say, but he'd have to know of her, see her around, something like that to be lusting after her.

I suppose there could be some random hot nurse in the infirmary he's lusting after but Sam is the main character so... she wins.

Sigh... damn interpretations. It's giving me a headache, lol. Not that I don't mind discussing and debating this stuff, just trying to do it while editing a huge story, with a baby in my arms (who keeps yanking on my bracelet and whacking me in the face) with cramps and my husband screaming at his Madden game in the background... not conducive to intelligent thought.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Agreed. A simple "Please mention in the author's notes or header a passing reference to Sam/Jack" would've sufficed.