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[ravenclaw42]

Swiped from tiggymalvern's journal, as I've been attempting to do some catchup reading on my f-list recently. Plus I've gone on a Trigun nostalgia binge since I just bought volume 14 of TriMax, and Tiggy's still one of my fave V/W authors. Even though I had already read the entire manga through scans, actually owning the published set of the entire series just

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[ravenclaw42]

Bing: Equality. Jack/Ianto didn't do anything for me until the second series, when Ianto got over some of his guilt-induced bowing and scraping. When he started standing up to Jack, my interest in the ship flared up. And yeah, I like couples who complement each other. Mulder and Scully are just too obvious. :D

Alienation is about right, too. I lean towards stories about alienation a lot anyway, regardless of ships. Isolation in the midst of many, people who can't or don't know how to connect with their worlds in a mundane way anymore. Crichton and Aeryn can never go home again, so they have to make a home in each other. Crowley and Aziraphale are too in love with the complexity of life to reconnect with the simplistic line drawing of good and evil provided by their respective homes. And of course Vash and Wolfwood.

Dio/Lucciola, Sokka/Zuko and Fry/Leela fit a certain pattern with all the rest in my mind, which is that each of these pairings were friends first; they understood, respected or at least acknowledged each other in a way no one else did for a long time before any further feelings developed. I know Fry/Leela will never actually happen in canon, which fits with how the characters are developed and Groening's perverse sense of irony, but to me, they're like a cartoonified and exaggerated but otherwise almost identical version of Crichton and Aeryn. Ditto for Futurama versus Farscape. Fry has 100X Crichton's inability to articulate himself well (especially with pop culture references no one else understands), and Crichton's level of intelligence reduced to something like an idiot savante. Leela has Aeryn's obliviousness to the feelings of others, but it's selective to suit her own wants, and where Fry is involved she cranks it up as high as it gets. In a way, I find them tragic.

I do share a lot with you. And at least half of mine share gunkink, too. XD

[tiggymalvern]

I didn't see any Ianto/Jack until right at the end of series one. Not as anything beyond the occasional bit of flirting anyway, I don't think the interest was really there on either side at that point. I know people already wrote the pairing in series one, but I think that was just 'put the two pretty guys together' mentality.

I lean towards stories about alienation a lot anyway, regardless of ships. Isolation in the midst of many, people who can't or don't know how to connect with their worlds in a mundane way anymore.

Yep, me too. I think it's a kink for me because that kind of environment justifies an intense depth of relationship and interdependence that would have to be called unhealthy in a normal setting.