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Things that make you go "hmmm."
What is it about pairings? Why do I/you/people love them so? Ship or slash, what makes us love them? For me it's not about the smut/porn for really any of my pairs. Not that I haven't read/enjoyed adult fic for my pairs over the years. Good fic, that is.
And it's not that I'm picturing myself in the place of one of the pair. I have run across fen who are very obviously imagining themselves as one of the characters and it's...icky. *shudders*
No, this is an "OMG, I love you two! *squishes*" It's something I find a bit odd for me, since normally I cannot stand the vast majority of romance novels/movies. Bleh. And reading fic where my pairs are in romance-novel-type situations - heaving bosoms, non-ironic serenades, triplets - makes me run away screaming.
Maybe I'm just a freak for the cute. Hmmm.
And it's not that I'm picturing myself in the place of one of the pair. I have run across fen who are very obviously imagining themselves as one of the characters and it's...icky. *shudders*
No, this is an "OMG, I love you two! *squishes*" It's something I find a bit odd for me, since normally I cannot stand the vast majority of romance novels/movies. Bleh. And reading fic where my pairs are in romance-novel-type situations - heaving bosoms, non-ironic serenades, triplets - makes me run away screaming.
Maybe I'm just a freak for the cute. Hmmm.