Clearly, the written medium is insufficient for communication ... ;-)
I do like relationship pieces and even write them myself (see "The Skies over Manhattan" as an example of just the kind of character vignettes you mention). What I'm un-fond of is the assumption that everyone has to be "paired" when someone writes about a relationship dynamic. I guess this comes out of my experience in the Voyager fandom where "pairing" is basically the entry ticket into having your story read. And as I said, the limits of FFN that makes no distinction between "pairing" and "relationship" when you tag two characters.
As for my own writing, I do like exploring relationships; my longer stories I like to be about something more. For Voyager, I've written about abuse of power and political corruption, human trafficking, organized crime and terrorism; war crimes and post-conflict politics, as well as the magic of mermaids and the tragedy/inevitability of cultural decline. (I didn't bother trying to find or make up tags for any of these things; I prefer the reader to figure it out.)
Oh, I also occasionally write pure fluff (see "The Pool" a couple of pages down. :-)
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I do like relationship pieces and even write them myself (see "The Skies over Manhattan" as an example of just the kind of character vignettes you mention). What I'm un-fond of is the assumption that everyone has to be "paired" when someone writes about a relationship dynamic. I guess this comes out of my experience in the Voyager fandom where "pairing" is basically the entry ticket into having your story read. And as I said, the limits of FFN that makes no distinction between "pairing" and "relationship" when you tag two characters.
As for my own writing, I do like exploring relationships; my longer stories I like to be about something more. For Voyager, I've written about abuse of power and political corruption, human trafficking, organized crime and terrorism; war crimes and post-conflict politics, as well as the magic of mermaids and the tragedy/inevitability of cultural decline. (I didn't bother trying to find or make up tags for any of these things; I prefer the reader to figure it out.)
Oh, I also occasionally write pure fluff (see "The Pool" a couple of pages down. :-)