I'm not saying if the writer is normally a Shep-whumper only they should only write Shep-whump. People shouldn't limit themselves. I've been trying to write equal-opportunity whumps myself just to expand my horizons.
Sublte whump that builds is better. I'll read the heavy-shump fics but my favorites are the ones where shpe is front and center and the really bad stuff doesn't happen until toward the end of the story.
And the life threatening doesn't have to be life-threatening at the time, or even ever. Sheppard getting cracked ribs and they staying cracked without a lung ever getting punctured is fine by me, and still more interesting than broken fingers.
I forgot to mention angst. If the whump isn't life-threatening then it should at least creat some angst (like and injured back, for example.)
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Date: 2007-06-11 08:56 pm (UTC)From:Sublte whump that builds is better. I'll read the heavy-shump fics but my favorites are the ones where shpe is front and center and the really bad stuff doesn't happen until toward the end of the story.
And the life threatening doesn't have to be life-threatening at the time, or even ever. Sheppard getting cracked ribs and they staying cracked without a lung ever getting punctured is fine by me, and still more interesting than broken fingers.
I forgot to mention angst. If the whump isn't life-threatening then it should at least creat some angst (like and injured back, for example.)