Goggles
I do not know what is up with my present supply of Subtext Goggles (TM). I think they have become sentient and have either begun playing dice, or else devised a very complex sorting algorithm to determine which pair will apply itself to my vision at any given time (or maybe fandom).
From my new (and very enthusiastic) interpretation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I deduce that I have acquired a pair of Asexual Goggles. Given that certain formerly favoured (or at least liked/tolerated) ships have been doing more sinking than sailing lately, I further suspect that I picked up a pair of Aromantic Goggles somewhere as well. Admittedly, these are nearest to my own perspective, so perhaps it is logical for me to have invested in the appropriate pairs of Subtext Goggles . . . until, that is, we consider that most of my nominally preferred ships are M/M which is . . . not an orientation with which I have personal experience.
And then, just last week, I finally read Mansfield Park (the one remaining novel of Jane Austen's that I had not yet read) and was struck with an urge to ship Fanny/Edmund/Mary. Which just boggles the mind, because I can't imagine how a Regency-Era threesome could possibly work out; I daresay my imagination is rather limited in this respect. (And yet. This is a novel with a sodomy joke.) Still. OT3 Goggles? Apparently.
ETA: Edmund. Not Edward. Because I am an idiot, or something. :P
From my new (and very enthusiastic) interpretation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I deduce that I have acquired a pair of Asexual Goggles. Given that certain formerly favoured (or at least liked/tolerated) ships have been doing more sinking than sailing lately, I further suspect that I picked up a pair of Aromantic Goggles somewhere as well. Admittedly, these are nearest to my own perspective, so perhaps it is logical for me to have invested in the appropriate pairs of Subtext Goggles . . . until, that is, we consider that most of my nominally preferred ships are M/M which is . . . not an orientation with which I have personal experience.
And then, just last week, I finally read Mansfield Park (the one remaining novel of Jane Austen's that I had not yet read) and was struck with an urge to ship Fanny/Edmund/Mary. Which just boggles the mind, because I can't imagine how a Regency-Era threesome could possibly work out; I daresay my imagination is rather limited in this respect. (And yet. This is a novel with a sodomy joke.) Still. OT3 Goggles? Apparently.
ETA: Edmund. Not Edward. Because I am an idiot, or something. :P