Because
annerbhp's latest icon challenge got me pondering this on my bus in the morning:
Do you think that there can be non-shippy stories where Sam and Jack have sex? Or is that, by your definition, shippy?
As you know, Bob, there's not really a great deal of Sam and Jack friendship fic out there, and the definitions can be a little hazy anyway, with the difference in intent and perception (one person's UST is another person's friendly banter).
What I mean is... gen people, could you imagine reading/writing a Sam and Jack friendship fic where they are forced into that sort of relationship? Or, Sam/Jack people, could you imagine reading/writing that kind of fic, but without the UST angle - one where it's their friendship that they have to salvage? And without a happy ending where they're given permission by the Prez to break the frat regs. *g*
(And no, this is NOT what I'm planning to do for my
jacksamfriends fic!)
Do you think that there can be non-shippy stories where Sam and Jack have sex? Or is that, by your definition, shippy?
As you know, Bob, there's not really a great deal of Sam and Jack friendship fic out there, and the definitions can be a little hazy anyway, with the difference in intent and perception (one person's UST is another person's friendly banter).
What I mean is... gen people, could you imagine reading/writing a Sam and Jack friendship fic where they are forced into that sort of relationship? Or, Sam/Jack people, could you imagine reading/writing that kind of fic, but without the UST angle - one where it's their friendship that they have to salvage? And without a happy ending where they're given permission by the Prez to break the frat regs. *g*
(And no, this is NOT what I'm planning to do for my

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I've read a few of these stories. I wasn't actually all that fond of any: most had elements I liked, but they all had elements I didn't like, and in most cases I thought those elements were extraneous (really inappropriate humor would be the recurrent one. Not funny, folks).
Seeing Sam and Jack deal with something like that, where no person made them do it, for "entertainment" or other nefarious motives, but they have to cope with what's happened--now that might be interesting.