WarpGirl wrote:Aquarius wrote:Unfortunately that's the nature of the beast when you have a site devoted to a specific character or pairing. There are also people on the other end of the spectrum who don't want to see much of Hoshi, etc. because they feel it takes too much time and attention from the characters they came to see and read about. Then there are people in the middle.
Personally I'm just as happy with a longer story that's rounded out by the rest of the cast (as long as TnT are front and center) as I am a vignette where TnT are the only characters to be seen. At the end of the day, though, TnT is what we do here, and the other stuff gets real estate more or less as a convenience/courtesy thing.
Well I've said it before, but I don't see ST as something that should be about 1 character, or pairing. Not to say stories shouldn't be
centered around a character or pairing. Otherwise why would I be here? But when so many stories have similar themes, adding more character interaction shakes things up.
And there are plenty of fans who share that view. Nothing wrong with that at all.
But, this is a TnT site, which means that the one aspect of the show we all have in common is TnT, to varying degrees. There are sites out there who focus more on general Enterprise and Trek stuff, sites that focus on other characters, etc. If this site's mission were more general, you'd see a picture of everybody in our banner, not just TnT. So it's a safe bet that the people who come here do so for TnT first, the rest of the stuff second. Sure sometimes there are exceptions, but as I've pointed out, this is a TnT site, so by default most of what we have here is going to center around TnT, and we are going to cater to the TnT fan.
In the meantime, write what you like. There will be an audience for it, and it will go in the appropriate section when posted. I just don't think you're going to see a TnT site sacrifice real estate for TnT fics in favor of "other" stuff. That would be counter to our identity as a TnT site.