Actually my complaint about inability to distinguish between relationship tags was about FFN, which only allows two to begin with and then doesn't distinguish between friendship and romance.
I guess I'll stop trying to describe how I feel about relationship fics because it's obviously *complicated* (and the piece I'm writing right now is turning more relation-shippy by the minute, so I'll just be contradicting myself by tomorrow)... ;-)
As for the Big Picture stuff, most of it comes from things I've dealt with professionally over the years, issues that bug me, images I have to get out of my system. Hence my fixation. Character responses and, yes, relationships often provide the vehicle. (My main Avengers piece that goes in that direction is "In the Service" -- have a look; I'd be interested in what you think of it.) As for tagging those things that would be a bit too much in the direction of a spoiler for me, so I don't; I give an idea in the summary.
In my other fandom people are familiar by now with the kind of stuff I write; still working my way into a niche in this one! It sure is fun. :-)
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Actually my complaint about inability to distinguish between relationship tags was about FFN, which only allows two to begin with and then doesn't distinguish between friendship and romance.
I guess I'll stop trying to describe how I feel about relationship fics because it's obviously *complicated* (and the piece I'm writing right now is turning more relation-shippy by the minute, so I'll just be contradicting myself by tomorrow)... ;-)
As for the Big Picture stuff, most of it comes from things I've dealt with professionally over the years, issues that bug me, images I have to get out of my system. Hence my fixation. Character responses and, yes, relationships often provide the vehicle. (My main Avengers piece that goes in that direction is "In the Service" -- have a look; I'd be interested in what you think of it.) As for tagging those things that would be a bit too much in the direction of a spoiler for me, so I don't; I give an idea in the summary.
In my other fandom people are familiar by now with the kind of stuff I write; still working my way into a niche in this one! It sure is fun. :-)
Thanks for a great discussion!!