A smutty question for Smut Day

[pride_of_erin]

Okay, time to discuss smut in order to get my mind off the fact that I spent a half hour this afternoon cleaning shit off a three-year-old child who'd some how managed to smear it over virtually his entire body - ah, the joys of Early Childhood teaching. Why did I want this job again?

Anyhoo, on to the smut - recently, I've been pondering the very important and philosophical topic of topping. Namely, who should be doing the topping. Now this has become a question for me, in light of all the SGA fic I've read in recent months. Oz was my first ever fandom, and when it comes to smut in Oz fic, I really don't have a preference either way - Chris topping, Toby topping, it's all good. Of course I've always liked the smut scenes where the boys switch off and each have a turn the best, but either way is just fine with me. So I assumed that I would be like that with any fandom slash pairing I got obsessed with. But SGA has proved I'm not.

When it comes to SGA fic, I am a Rodney-on-top girl all the way. I have no idea why this is. Perhaps because the very first one I ever read had Rodney topping, but I don't think so. It's really quite strange, and very annoying because I can't figure out why I feel this way. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy John-on-top fics just fine, but there's always a moment when a voice in my head says, 'Oh damn, why couldn't they have put Rodney on top?' before I get too immersed in the *guh* to care.

So now I'm curious - what 'topping' do my Oz and SGA peeps prefer on their B/K and/or McShep 'desserts'? Please leave me a comment so I can satisfy my curiosity.

Comments

[dustandroses.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with Kitestringer about Keller. Chris is just naturally agressive, and although I can see him easily enjoying the bottom role, because he's just into sex, I can also see him needing to be in control. It just makes sense.

At the beginning, all the people writing McShep were writing McKay as the bottom, but once his character began to grow and become more complex, more and more writers wrote McKay topping. And I can see the arguments for McKay, but I don't necessarily prefer him in one position or the other. As a character, personally, I prefer John to McKay, but that doesn't influence me a whole lot.

I love Power Games, and think they're even more interesting when the expected dynamic is reversed. So I really like to see the one you would think of as the more dominant partner as the bottom, just because it's not what you would expect, so it's different and more exotic. For instance, I love to see Jack as a bottom to Daniel on SG-1. But there are exceptions to that rule. I prefer to see Chris Keller as a top. And on NCIS, I definitely see Gibbs topping DiNozzo, and Gibbs is most definitely the Alpha in that relationship.

Since Ronon showed up on SGA, I've become quite a fan of his. So at the moment, my SGA OTP is John/Ronon. But despite his size and skill as a fighter, I really like seeing Ronon as the bottom in that relationship. Actually, I really like the idea of Ronon being into Power Games, and taking a sub role, and having to almost force John into the Dom role, because I can see John as having a little trouble with that role to begin with. As a matter of fact, as soon as I get through with the forty-million fic I already have promised to write, that particular fic is on my list of what to write next! (Sigh...we're talking way down the line, here...)

[pride-of-erin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, maybe power games are why I prefer Rodney-on-top - I like the idea of a needy, begging John, because he's so in control everywhere else, whereas Rodney is usually hysterical and out of control, so I like him being in charge. Hmmmmmm...something to ponder, anyway.

Unfortunately, I can't make any judgements on Ronon, having not seen S2 of SGA yet (Grrrr!), but I can imagine John having to be coaxed into the dom role - and I will definitely be reading that fic when it evenuates! :)