I wish there were more stories like that out there! As much as I love gen, I also love stories that take a series look at grown-up relationships, of both the sexual and nonsexual variety. I really like stories in which couple-hood plays a role but the story isn't an excuse to get two characters together -- because adults do have relationships, there's just no way around that, but I'm generally not that interested in reading romance for the sake of romance. Stories that look at how being in a relationship changes people, and affects their relationships with the other people around them, really delight me; I wish there were more of them out there. Some fandoms do go more for that sort of thing than SGA does -- it helps when there are canon couples to work with. But with SGA, having such clear dividing lines between het, gen and slash means that a story which is labeled het or slash tends to be all about the romance, and a story which is labeled gen is utterly devoid of any hint of it; people don't write about the messy border areas very much. I wouldn't want to read that all the time -- I do love my action, h/c and team -- but I wish there was more of it.
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