Nrgggggh I love that one so much. So much that I asked Ileliberte if I'd ruined myself for all other TW fic by reading that one first. XD
And I don't mind it not being exclusively Stiles/Lydia, though thank you for considering my interests! :) I just don't have the background of the built up culture of Derek/Stiles so I don't have know the fanon that Derek and Stiles have a natural attraction (an assumption which is familiar to me from John/Rodney in Stargate - a pairing I did read and write). "An Algorithm for Mistakes" made Derek's attraction to Stiles very much a subtle and believable discovery of Lydia's; it wasn't elevated to the level of destiny. By which I mean, the story allowed Lydia to have an equal claim to Stiles. Sometimes slash fic only allows the het pairing if it's one sided or clearly shown to be less passionate than the OTP. And when you get territorial OTPness on top of the fandom culture of naturally-attracted-to-each-other, it feels very weird to an outsider! Like - wait, why can't Lydia and Stiles be together? This story gave them great chemistry. Derek? Really? Where did that come from?
...that was way more thinky than you needed, but I guess that's what I've been thinking about since getting a small looksee about TW fandom. And of course, I'm really strongly influenced by John/Rodney and SGA fandom. XD
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And I don't mind it not being exclusively Stiles/Lydia, though thank you for considering my interests! :) I just don't have the background of the built up culture of Derek/Stiles so I don't have know the fanon that Derek and Stiles have a natural attraction (an assumption which is familiar to me from John/Rodney in Stargate - a pairing I did read and write). "An Algorithm for Mistakes" made Derek's attraction to Stiles very much a subtle and believable discovery of Lydia's; it wasn't elevated to the level of destiny. By which I mean, the story allowed Lydia to have an equal claim to Stiles. Sometimes slash fic only allows the het pairing if it's one sided or clearly shown to be less passionate than the OTP. And when you get territorial OTPness on top of the fandom culture of naturally-attracted-to-each-other, it feels very weird to an outsider! Like - wait, why can't Lydia and Stiles be together? This story gave them great chemistry. Derek? Really? Where did that come from?
...that was way more thinky than you needed, but I guess that's what I've been thinking about since getting a small looksee about TW fandom. And of course, I'm really strongly influenced by John/Rodney and SGA fandom. XD