Daily Pilots Post

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

So, I was sitting here, working on a project for tomorrow's DPP, occasionally refreshing my flist, and I started thinking "That's weird, the DPP is usually up by now, I wonder why it hasn't been posted yet." And it actually took me a little while to figure out that this DPP won't go up until *duh* I post it. It's been that kind of day.

SO! For today's DPP, discuss:

Angst vs. Fluff! (I picture here a cage match between Lee, fully emo'd out, and a small white kitten. Right now, the kitten is the odds-on favourite. ;) )

Which do you prefer to read? Which do you write? (I prefer fluffier, but tend to write angstier XD) Which do you associate more with the fandom?

P.S. I direct you to yesterday's post and rachelindeed's summary of the biggest difference between fanon and canon:

In conclusion, have you noticed that Kara and Lee get it on constantly in fanon whereas they almost never do in canon? I know it's a subtle thing, but I have picked up on that divergent trend in fanfiction :)

Made my day.

Comments

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

I don't like angst for angst's sake, but let's face it - these two live in an angsty universe (nuclear annihilation, genocidal robots bent on the destruction of all that remains, not to mention their own histories with each other) - so ... somehow, really fluffy stuff never quite rings true to me.

Maybe it's because they had so few moments of genuine happiness on the show and all of those ended quite disastrously? Heh! So I like "realism" in my fic, and that's why I think I always gravitate towards the angst, or at least towards things that are only conditionally happy endings, which are the only kind I can even imagine for Kara and Lee.