Oh boy, favorite pairings. How long have you got? I tend to prefer gen onscreen** and pairings in my fic.
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool slasher so I must give my obligatory nod to Jack/Daniel. They were my OTP for a long time but I've branched out in the last year so pairing matters less than it used to. I'll read almost any slash if it's well-written. Het pairings I like tend to feature Daniel (no, I'm not obsessed much) but include virtually all BUT Jack and Sam. Sadly, forcing it onscreen in awkward ways that I think undermined Sam's strength killed any love I could have had for the pairing. I loved the tension between attraction and respect for a fellow officer I saw in Solitudes and enjoyed it even as late as Into The Fire but by the time it became a knock-off of "the love that dared not speak its name," in Divide and Conquer I never wanted to see it again.
As for SGA, I admit to being far more a fan of the fic than the show. I tend to limit my involvement to reading jalabert and looking at all the gorgeous icons that the fandom produces. Thus, I have an overdeveloped love of Aiden. Any pairing featuring him is likely to make me happy.
As for other fandoms, I'm a long time fan of Fitzwilliam Darcy/Elizabeth Bennet (shockers!) in P&P and of Brian/Justin in my newest, shiniest fandom of QaF. Those are most definitely onscreen romances, though, and there's nothing "gen" about those stories.
As for the msscribe kerfuffle, it isn't even in the SG-1 fandom! It's so huge that it transcends fandoms. It's an amazing tale of a fan who created sock puppets to both support and attack herself. She played along pairing OTP fault lines in the fandom and used racial and religious intolerance to make herself a Big Name Fan in the Harry Potter fandom. It's fascinating reading, but you need a HUGE chunk of time because it's 10 long parts of fact, deductive reasoning, and more thorough documentation than I've seen in criminal trials. I listed it as msscribe because that's the LJ name she used at the time of her antics; she has since gone through a series of LJ names trying to escape her infamy.
** I say I want gen onscreen but honesty forces me to say that I don't mind some romance onscreen if I think it adds to the character or the storyline. Thus, I did enjoy Sam/Martouf, Daniel/Sha'uri, Jack/Sarah, and Teal'c/Drey'ac.
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I'm a dyed-in-the-wool slasher so I must give my obligatory nod to Jack/Daniel. They were my OTP for a long time but I've branched out in the last year so pairing matters less than it used to. I'll read almost any slash if it's well-written. Het pairings I like tend to feature Daniel (no, I'm not obsessed much) but include virtually all BUT Jack and Sam. Sadly, forcing it onscreen in awkward ways that I think undermined Sam's strength killed any love I could have had for the pairing. I loved the tension between attraction and respect for a fellow officer I saw in Solitudes and enjoyed it even as late as Into The Fire but by the time it became a knock-off of "the love that dared not speak its name," in Divide and Conquer I never wanted to see it again.
As for SGA, I admit to being far more a fan of the fic than the show. I tend to limit my involvement to reading
As for other fandoms, I'm a long time fan of Fitzwilliam Darcy/Elizabeth Bennet (shockers!) in P&P and of Brian/Justin in my newest, shiniest fandom of QaF. Those are most definitely onscreen romances, though, and there's nothing "gen" about those stories.
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** I say I want gen onscreen but honesty forces me to say that I don't mind some romance onscreen if I think it adds to the character or the storyline. Thus, I did enjoy Sam/Martouf, Daniel/Sha'uri, Jack/Sarah, and Teal'c/Drey'ac.