McShep Match Team Angst 2007 Interview with blueraccoon
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| Title: | Team Angst McShep Match Interview with blueraccoon |
| Interviewer: | |
| Interviewee: | blueraccoon |
| Date(s): | July 8, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Stargate Atlantis |
| External Links: | online here, Archived version |
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blueraccoon was interviewed in 2007 for McShep Angst.
It is part of this project: Team Angst and Romance McShep Match Interview Series.
Excerpts
I love the response in this fandom, the way people are so wonderful about discussions and feedback. I joined SGA fandom a little on the late side; I didn't get here until the hiatus between s2 and s3, and I've been made to feel incredibly welcome as an author and a fellow fan. As for the show, I have to say I love the interplay between McKay and Sheppard, that solid friendship (we all know it's something more, but on screen...). I wasn't enthralled with the show when I started watching, I kept watching for McKay, and then I saw 38 Minutes and fell in love with the McKay/Sheppard. They're perfect together, and I really enjoy exploring their relationship and how they relate to the people and the world around them.
I am an angst whore, plain and simple. Even my PWPs have angst in them, and it's rare--try impossible--for me to write something that doesn't have even a little bit of angst. Frankly, as a writer, I'm just better at it. I've written giant sweeping romance epics, but they had their fair share of angst, because I think it's also realistic. I don't think everything is hearts and bunnies, and one of the things I think is so striking about John and Rodney is their potential for the darker side of things, the way they have this capability to be rather self-destructive, addictive; they can break each other apart and know they're doing it and that's a large part of what I want to read and write. I write a lot of kink, and while kink and angst don't have to go together, I think that they very easily can. One of my big soapbox issues is the psychology of kink and how it's so vital, and I think the reasons people choose to get involved in a BDSM relationship, to whatever degree, are incredibly important. That need for control or that need for surrender lends itself very easily to angst.