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Day 10 - Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
I can't think of any pairings I've liked but couldn't write (yet), but I've found pairings I don't like and wrote anyway, simply because they captured my attention even if I wouldn't normally go out of my way to read or write them.
The most obvious example is my Six/Donna story, The Right Doctor, written for a kinkmeme prompt. Six is my least favorite Doctor, and I don't find Colin Baker sexy at all. (Not even 70's Porn Colin. Sorry.) But the idea of blowhard Six meeting equally blowhard Donna struck me as hilarious, so I wrote it anyway. To this day I don't fully understand the appeal of this story, but the people who like it really like it, so I'm not going to complain.
The only other pairing I've written that doesn't appeal to me is Nine/Jenny -- incest squicks the hell out of me -- but it was a very brief segment written purely as a joke in a longer, Jenny-centric kinkmeme story. It's a very wrong joke, but it's a joke nevertheless, which is the only reason I was able to write it at all.
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I can't think of any pairings I've liked but couldn't write (yet), but I've found pairings I don't like and wrote anyway, simply because they captured my attention even if I wouldn't normally go out of my way to read or write them.
The most obvious example is my Six/Donna story, The Right Doctor, written for a kinkmeme prompt. Six is my least favorite Doctor, and I don't find Colin Baker sexy at all. (Not even 70's Porn Colin. Sorry.) But the idea of blowhard Six meeting equally blowhard Donna struck me as hilarious, so I wrote it anyway. To this day I don't fully understand the appeal of this story, but the people who like it really like it, so I'm not going to complain.
The only other pairing I've written that doesn't appeal to me is Nine/Jenny -- incest squicks the hell out of me -- but it was a very brief segment written purely as a joke in a longer, Jenny-centric kinkmeme story. It's a very wrong joke, but it's a joke nevertheless, which is the only reason I was able to write it at all.
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