I'm probably barking up the wrong tree...

[femmenerd]

...but I want good Max/Alec (from Dark Angel) fic! If by some strange chance you have recs, flist, bring 'em on.

Ahem. Yeah. greenapricot and I finished (re)watching the series over the past two days and now I just want to crawl up into some fic. It was fun to watch with her, because well, I love her, but also because for once we 'shipped the same. (greenapricot '

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the guy is tough yet snarky/silly on the outside but with a non-annoying amount of tortured darkness on the inside. I also like it if they "work together" and part of the chemistry involves verbal sparring.

Which is why I ship B/A first instead of B/S, because I'm the opposite. I like the guy strong/silent/shy. And sometimes dark on the outside with more than annoying doses of torturedness. (Sadly, like Anne Shirley before she gets her head put on straight: "I'd like a man who could be wicked.") I love a heroic gal, but I prefer Anne Elliot to Lizzy Bennet--if I have to choose I'd prefer the strength to be emphasized above quick wit and quippiness.

And even Anne/Gilbert could be seen as a precursor. I ship them whole-heartedly and always have, but I've always felt like they were out of the mould for me. Gilbert was too happy and nice and I was never enthralled with that Pride and Prejudice (again) "don't get along at first" dynamic. I think of the ships from my childhood, Maria/Captain Von Trapp is a much better prototype

[femmenerd]

Gah! That Anne quote is a serious part of my understanding of my own forms of attraction. "Someone who could be wicked, but chooses not to be." Because if they were incapable of being bad, it just wouldn't be hot

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I was Jo/Professor all the way. Totally thought Laurie didn't deserve Jo. Ooh, which highlights another me ship preference that Anne/Gilbert defied: older/muchyounger.

Of course I like other things, too--but I do have a type.

It's funny because looking at at fiction through the fannish lens, I don't have to do much retconing. It's true I didn't know the word "ship" back when I first shipped Anne/Gil, but my feelings about most things I was truly obessed with fit a fangirl mould. I was writing fanfic and championing particular ships and all sorts of stuff like that way before I ever found it on the internets. Though I must say, I didn't really see the appeal of slash until this past year.

It's the charisma aspect, out of the things you mention, that I tend not to find attractive. Charismatic men turn me off. In fact, I was startled falling for Angel as hard as I did because he's so damn pretty. I was in fact weirdly uncomfortable with it, couldn't quite tell whether I actually found DB attractive, though I really dug his

[femmenerd]

Yes, retconning is perhaps the wrong term for what I'm doing--I believe that I was always fannish, I just didn't have a community for it before. I mean, when I was four I was so obsessed with The Wizard of Oz that I called my little brother Toto (or my stuffed sheep, it depended), answered to Dorothy and had an Oz-themed bonnet and apron made for me.

I like older/younger too. Hello Mal/River.

Interesting. I am a complete sucker for charisma. As a friend recently noted, I tend to pick the "shiniest" member of the group to be my "mate." Which can be incredibly annoying when that person is always "in demand."

But yeah, there are SO many differences between RL attraction and fictional. Because the fantasy bit is kind of the whole point, yeah?

And yep, he's the guy from SPN.

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Well, I just get the impression that for some people, before they found fandom online, they didn't have things like OTPs, or thoughts about sequels, etc, and their fannish behavior manifested itself in different ways before they had the computer outlet. But my fandom tendencies were like a text book internet fangirl, except without the internet.

I tend to gravitate towards unshiny men, period. With women, it's varied. Sometimes I want to sit in the corner with the one not talking to anyone; sometimes I wish I could asociate with the attractive, witty gal charming the whole group. Probably depends on what the witty one is talking about ;o)