I know I'm not that good a H/D writer, so this is very much the pot calling the kettle black, but I'm with you on a lot of this. I do way too much Astronomy Tower dinging and see that plot All The Freakin' Time. And word on the same not-very-good recs over and over; let's just leave it at that.
As for why writers follow this plot line, my guess is that they see it working for everyone else, and everyone else is ohsopopular because they write H/D, so they write what everyone else is writing because they want to make a name for themselves.
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Date: 2004-08-19 07:34 am (UTC)As for why writers follow this plot line, my guess is that they see it working for everyone else, and everyone else is ohsopopular because they write H/D, so they write what everyone else is writing because they want to make a name for themselves.