lauramcewan:

I don't mind kidfic. I don't mind deathfic. I don't mind kinkfic (particularly if it' sone of MY kinks, rar!) and I don't mind RPF at all. (And I am grinning mightily at some friends who used to be very unsure of RPF and now write it, hee. YAY!)

I know others have a real aversion to those things, and that's absolutely their prerogative. (Please don't send me letters about how much you hate something, that's not with this post is about, really.) But I sometimes wonder - what's wrong with me that those things DON'T bother me and that I enjoy them? (Insert unsure little miss fencepost here.) There are limits to what I like, of course. I really have no desire, for example, to read fic involving watersports. Doesn't float my boat, no pun intended. But I don't care if others like it; more power to 'em to enjoy what they enjoy.

I prefer slash to gen (but I like gen, too) and that eliminates a good portion of kidfic possibilities right there. Still, I don't mind and am willing to write ( and have had bunnies, even, but people keep giving me the GAG ME sign so I never really write them) Starsky and Hutch as men who were into women first and each other second, and that in the 'free love' era of the 70s, could very well have progeny out there that they're not fully aware of. And there's so much to explore there. Does Ma Starsky have that grandchild that she, as a Jewish mother, likely covets SO much? How about Hutch - by choosing Starsky they are both choosing largely to give up that "white picket fence, wife, 2.5 children and a dog and cat" American dream. What if he learned that there really is a child that looks like him out there, with his musical talents and their whole life ahead of them yet? What if he meets this child as an adult? Fanon tends (I said TENDS, people) to put Hutch as estranged from demanding parents. Would he fear he'd put those demands on his own child? Or would he be the overly permissive and giving parent?

And Starsky - what about him? His father was killed when he was a kid - that's canon. We're not sure what AGE that happened, but he wasn't an adult when his father died. Would he fear that the same thing could happen to him, and what the ramifications of that would be for a child who came to know him as 'my father'? Would he stay on the force? Want to move back to New York? Reconsider a male/male love affair? What if his kid wants to be a cop, too - how would he feel about that? What would he consider his obligations to the child to be - financially, emotionally, parentally?

And then there's their own relationship to consider. Would the truth of one of them having a child - whether they gain custody or are just made aware - impact their relationship, and how? Stronger? Weaker? Reprioritization? If one wanted to leave the force, what then?

There's a story out there - and I can't think of which one ( I bet it's in Pepper's tag list...) wherein Starsky has married and has a child, but they split up and Starsky and Hutch hook up together - but the ex-wife disapproves completely of their relationship and doesn't want Hutch left alone with the child. It becomes an issue. (Dammit, what's the story?) And another where looney-tunes-nurse Diana is pregnant from her one-night-stand with Hutch and gives birth, then kills herself in the asylum, and the kid is quite literally dropped off on Hutch's doorstep.

Anyway, those are a couple of stories I can point at (vaguely! lol) where this sort of storyline is addressed. But I'm still fascinated with the idea of a child suddenly turning up. And I always get hung up on the idea that it's Hutch's. Maybe it's because the man is so damned pretty, he impels me to think of him as innocent and easy to hurt, and one who is easy to turn to mush, even though I know Starsky is just as much the same way.

I have enough bunnies, lol, and fic that I need to finish before enednoviel andsmudley hurt me over 'em, but I can't get this one out of my head.

The reality of there being a musician out there right now named Eric Hutchinson keeps colliding in my mind with the fictional Ken Hutchinson and this is why this is all percolating.