I requested an invite code; because my account is fairly new, I didn't have any automatic ones yet. You could give me a day or two to see if I get one, or you could try the general queue, because I don't know how long they take to generate invites of either type.
I'm wondering if part of the Mystfic thing was age of exposure? I have to admit, I was 8 when Riven came out and I got exposed to it. At the time I was all "aww Atrus and Catherine! aww" and I had never even considered shipping anything else. But about 2 years later I hit the whole liking-people thing, and I was starting to figure out that I liked girls. So even around 10 part of me was like "so Veovis is so jealous that Anna is stealing Aitrus" (because if I liked girls then clearly Veovis could like boys), and then part of me was like "you know, he also sort of seems to like Anna", and then my brain jumped to "so clearly they should ALL DATE". So I think I developed at OT3 habit at 10. *facepalm*
(Also, rereading BoT now is not helping. I swear there really is subtext, and not just because I'm looking for it. And it makes me want to smash everyone's head and go "but GUYS you could have FIXED THIS SO EASILY.")
But yeah, I think because Myst was such an *early* fandom for many people, (like pre-teens or early teens), no one considers shipping anything beyond the two major canon het-ships. I will still probably write drabbles and short shipping Veovis with Anna, Aitrus, or both. I just feel like I should mostly put them on AO3 and that I should expect to not get many readers and to probably be un-betaed.
Earliest fandom was the original Battlestar Galactica. I grew up on grainy VHS tapes of it for as long as I can remember, and I can distinctly recall at 5 or 6 writing short 1 page stories and pretending I had a Viper. So I grew up with "my" version ingrained, and naturally hissed at the reboot. Now with the reboot, everyone thinks Starbuck is a girl and Boomer is a girl and a Cylon and not black, and ugh ugh ugh I feel unloved. and the tiny TOS BSG community is all about the Apollo/Starbuck slash, so I feel that the ships I would write in it would be unread anyway because one is het and one is femmeslash. (Because there needs to be bridge-officer/fighter-pilot space opera femmeslash, in the BSG universe or in others!)
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I'm wondering if part of the Mystfic thing was age of exposure? I have to admit, I was 8 when Riven came out and I got exposed to it. At the time I was all "aww Atrus and Catherine! aww" and I had never even considered shipping anything else. But about 2 years later I hit the whole liking-people thing, and I was starting to figure out that I liked girls. So even around 10 part of me was like "so Veovis is so jealous that Anna is stealing Aitrus" (because if I liked girls then clearly Veovis could like boys), and then part of me was like "you know, he also sort of seems to like Anna", and then my brain jumped to "so clearly they should ALL DATE". So I think I developed at OT3 habit at 10. *facepalm*
(Also, rereading BoT now is not helping. I swear there really is subtext, and not just because I'm looking for it. And it makes me want to smash everyone's head and go "but GUYS you could have FIXED THIS SO EASILY.")
But yeah, I think because Myst was such an *early* fandom for many people, (like pre-teens or early teens), no one considers shipping anything beyond the two major canon het-ships. I will still probably write drabbles and short shipping Veovis with Anna, Aitrus, or both. I just feel like I should mostly put them on AO3 and that I should expect to not get many readers and to probably be un-betaed.
Earliest fandom was the original Battlestar Galactica. I grew up on grainy VHS tapes of it for as long as I can remember, and I can distinctly recall at 5 or 6 writing short 1 page stories and pretending I had a Viper. So I grew up with "my" version ingrained, and naturally hissed at the reboot. Now with the reboot, everyone thinks Starbuck is a girl and Boomer is a girl and a Cylon and not black, and ugh ugh ugh I feel unloved. and the tiny TOS BSG community is all about the Apollo/Starbuck slash, so I feel that the ships I would write in it would be unread anyway because one is het and one is femmeslash. (Because there needs to be bridge-officer/fighter-pilot space opera femmeslash, in the BSG universe or in others!)