I'm a bred-in-the-bone OTPer and always have been. Sometimes, I think People Who OTP vs. People Who Don't OTP may be an even bigger conceptual divide between fans than slashers vs. non-slashers.
Sorry for getting all snarly. I'm extra twitchy right now, recent political events being what they are, and so my immediate instinct is to claim that all opposition to slash under any circumstance is inherently illegitimate. I know that's not true, though, because there are slash pairings I don't ship, fandoms I don't have any real interest in reading slash for, and het pairings I like a lot. For one thing, I'm one of about twelve slashers in fandom who doesn't really slash anyone in SGA (unless Teyla and that Genii girl with the red hair count).
it would be very difficult to argue that a story where they do desire each other sexually could be considered against canon or that such desire could, in itself, demean their friendship (which was already highly romanticized).
I would consider any story which did not take both their friendship and the idealized and romantic view they've had of each other into account to be implausible. With their history any relationship between them can't be casual.
That sounds... similar to the way I see it, actually (I want even gen writers to ship them at least on an emotional level), only with a sizable helping of "I got engaged because of this pairing, because their doomed love inspired me to take a risk so that I wouldn't be left looking back, years later, and saying 'It wasn't worth it.'"
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Sorry for getting all snarly. I'm extra twitchy right now, recent political events being what they are, and so my immediate instinct is to claim that all opposition to slash under any circumstance is inherently illegitimate. I know that's not true, though, because there are slash pairings I don't ship, fandoms I don't have any real interest in reading slash for, and het pairings I like a lot. For one thing, I'm one of about twelve slashers in fandom who doesn't really slash anyone in SGA (unless Teyla and that Genii girl with the red hair count).
it would be very difficult to argue that a story where they do desire each other sexually could be considered against canon or that such desire could, in itself, demean their friendship (which was already highly romanticized).
I would consider any story which did not take both their friendship and the idealized and romantic view they've had of each other into account to be implausible. With their history any relationship between them can't be casual.
That sounds... similar to the way I see it, actually (I want even gen writers to ship them at least on an emotional level), only with a sizable helping of "I got engaged because of this pairing, because their doomed love inspired me to take a risk so that I wouldn't be left looking back, years later, and saying 'It wasn't worth it.'"