quirks; gay slash pairings; sekrit het couple

[schmerica]

brooklinegirl had another porn poll in her journal, and it's got me thinking about a subject that I like to call "Things That I Do Not Actually Feel Strongly Enough About to Count as Pet Peeves But Which I Do Notice and I Suppose Just Count as Slightly Negative Quirks."

So, uh, first and closest on target: porn. In theory, I would say something like "my specific kinks aside, well-written and in-character porn about characters I care about = FOR THE WIN." But in reality? Reading 69s bores me silly. And there are all-guy threesomes I am all over, but when it gets to Guy A is fucking Guy B is fucking Guy C, I tune out.

Other things: the first hundred times I read a slash story that has the guys realizing "Hey! We've been dating all this time!" I was entertained by it. Then suddenly on the hundred-and-first first time I suddenly got irritated and talked back to the story. "NO. No, you weren't. You were hanging out. Dating is hanging out with conscious romantic intent. You had NO conscious romantic intent, therefore YOU WERE NOT DATING. The end."

I felt all triumphant with that logic until I remembered that stories can't argue back.

(Do I have to put the disclaimer that there is always a story that disproves my preferences about everything I claim? I think you can take it as given at this point.)

In other news, are there really people who think McKay/Sheppard is gayer than Jim/Blair? Are there people who think ANY pairings are gayer than Jim/Blair? I am befuddled.

I really want to read or write Fraser/Thatcher, but I can imagine no way of getting what I like about their relationship in s2 into a story, let alone porn of any type.

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[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)