reporting from my terrarium

[greeneyedlady]

I rather enjoy my occupation of the coldest room in my house, the one in the basement that will occasionally drop to 56°F at night. I am the type who would rather be cold and snuggle under blankets than melt in the swelter. And yet, I have recently found a strange pleasure in using the space heater to turn my room into a balmy little hothouse. On a

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[infiniteowl]

I like snuggling up in the cold too; I find that I fall asleep much faster in the winter than in the summer where I'm sweating too much to be comfortable under the blankets. Maybe your sudden desire to feel warm all over comes from growing tired of the consistently cold weather? (It's pretty cold and rainy here, and I do wish that it'd get sunny and warm again soon...)

That kind of fan attitude is a bit grating and yes, the authors of a work are not obligated to pander to the yaoi fangirls. I do call myself a yaoi fangirl because I don't mind m/m ships at all, but I usually go for them only if they don't break up canon pairings and I can see a reasonable amount of subtext between them. The same goes for het pairings that break up established relationships. (Hence why I ship Kyo/Tohru from Fruits Basket and not Yuki/Kyo or Yuki/Tohru, Inuyasha/Kagome and not Sesshomaru/Inuyasha or Sesshomaru/Kagome, etc.) So I'm actually a canon shipper first and foremost, whether the canon supports het or slash. That standard has loosened a bit thanks to the Hetalia fandom, but there's still a small part of me that feels guilty for shipping pairings like Canada/Ukraine and Russia/China.

[greeneyedlady]

You may be onto something about the desire for warmth. I think perhaps my room is too cold on the coldest of days; my extra blankets fail me.

I see Hetalia as a very special case when it comes to shipping. Because of the nature of the characters as anthropomorphised nations (they are not really human) it doesn't really feel like slash to me. Outside of Hetalia I have admittedly few m/m ships (Testuma/Kid in Eyeshield 21 is one). I think I am probably not even that slashy when I do write slash, because I leave out any issues of homosexual identity or societal implications. Two guys fall in love without either stopping to think about the fact that they are gay (or bi). I fail. But yeah, I like canon and could-be-canon. But in the later category, I tend to latch onto het ships simply because I love het. Thanks for responding to this.

[infiniteowl]

Yeah, too much cold can be just as bad as too much heat. When it's so cold that I need to bundle up in three layers of clothing, I tend to like it a bit less than when I simply need a nice, soft, and thick blanket to stay warm.

That's an interesting point. It does feel like gender simply doesn't matter in relationships between them. Although I have seen some fics that do tackle the homosexuality issue for the heavily Christian/Roman Catholic countries, but I think that's more along the lines of "just how different are they allowed to be from their people as their representatives/just how much do their people influence their personal choices?" than anything else.

Ah, that's where we deviate in shipping preferences. I like canon and could-be-canon, but in the later category I tend to latch onto slash because I do love it.

You're welcome! I've been kept away from commenting in others' journals for too long. :3

[greeneyedlady]

It makes me so happy when a slasher states her reason for slashing as simply as "because I love it." Man am I sick of pretentious meta about how subversive and super special and complex it is. It's just a matter of taste I think. *shrug*