Maybe it's because I started with a slashy plotbunny and made it gen instead of the other way around
That couldn't hurt ^_^. I know that back in the day when I wrote HP fic, I used to have to go over every chaper of my long gen/het fic with a fine-toothed comb, trying to keep Sirius/Remus subtext from creeping in. Re-reading it now, I wasn't as sucessful as I assumed at the time (I also wasn't as good a writer as I assumed, but that's neither here nor there). Because I shipped S/R so hard, they were always in love with one another in my head, even when I tried to write their interactions as platonic.
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That couldn't hurt ^_^. I know that back in the day when I wrote HP fic, I used to have to go over every chaper of my long gen/het fic with a fine-toothed comb, trying to keep Sirius/Remus subtext from creeping in. Re-reading it now, I wasn't as sucessful as I assumed at the time (I also wasn't as good a writer as I assumed, but that's neither here nor there). Because I shipped S/R so hard, they were always in love with one another in my head, even when I tried to write their interactions as platonic.