although if you're just avoiding the Wincest/RPS I can give you some great gen recs, because there is a lot of great gen in the fandom.
My problem is that so far there's only one author whose gen I know will be gen. SPN, like other OTP-intensive fandoms, has become largely a pairing buy-in fandom - in other words, the fandom is big enough and has enough FF that there are a lot of stories that only work if you already believe in (buy into) the OTP.
That, in itself, is not a problem. But the next stage in the OTP fandom's evolution (and, Jesus, I'm so sad that I'm squicked by incest, because I adore OTP fandoms, and normally they suck me in like a black hole of love) is a problem. In most intensively OTP fandoms, a lot of the stuff that is labeled gen will have the OTP implied, or in the background, or suggested. Which is a problem for me, given the intensity of my incest squick.
So I've encountered a lot of SPN gen that still includes pairing stuff, and I...I seriously cannot take that. Just can't. At all. So it's better for me to avoid the fandom altogether, I'm finding.
Which sucks. I truly expected my incest squick to go away when I needed it to, but it's like my RPS squick: the harder I try to get rid of it, the more intense the squick becomes.
*curses brain*
A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson.
I read this basically the instant it came out (I love Bryson, I love science, I love history), and I enjoyed it (particularly the footnotes and asides - all these little details that I totally didn't know, mostly about various scientists). Although I still prefer his travel books.
Have you heard of 'Life on Mars'?
OH! Thank you for reminding me! I downloaded all 8 episodes, but I forgot to burn them to a DVD so BB could watch them! And it sounds fabulous. Plus: only 8 episodes! Even I could watch this one, surely.
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My problem is that so far there's only one author whose gen I know will be gen. SPN, like other OTP-intensive fandoms, has become largely a pairing buy-in fandom - in other words, the fandom is big enough and has enough FF that there are a lot of stories that only work if you already believe in (buy into) the OTP.
That, in itself, is not a problem. But the next stage in the OTP fandom's evolution (and, Jesus, I'm so sad that I'm squicked by incest, because I adore OTP fandoms, and normally they suck me in like a black hole of love) is a problem. In most intensively OTP fandoms, a lot of the stuff that is labeled gen will have the OTP implied, or in the background, or suggested. Which is a problem for me, given the intensity of my incest squick.
So I've encountered a lot of SPN gen that still includes pairing stuff, and I...I seriously cannot take that. Just can't. At all. So it's better for me to avoid the fandom altogether, I'm finding.
Which sucks. I truly expected my incest squick to go away when I needed it to, but it's like my RPS squick: the harder I try to get rid of it, the more intense the squick becomes.
*curses brain*
A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson.
I read this basically the instant it came out (I love Bryson, I love science, I love history), and I enjoyed it (particularly the footnotes and asides - all these little details that I totally didn't know, mostly about various scientists). Although I still prefer his travel books.
Have you heard of 'Life on Mars'?
OH! Thank you for reminding me! I downloaded all 8 episodes, but I forgot to burn them to a DVD so BB could watch them! And it sounds fabulous. Plus: only 8 episodes! Even I could watch this one, surely.
*bounds off to start burning*