Well, I don't dislike slash, or even have strong feelings one way or the other about canon slash. I really don't care if something I read has het, slash, or is completely gen, I just want to be entertained. It's just that most canon slash in manga tends to code one guy as female, and when I encounter a pairing where one is coded as female, I want it to actually BE a female. I've had better results with m/m pairings when they've popped up in my sff and mystery books.
Clamp and You Higuri have the ability to make me squeeful over just about anything, though, even if they don't make me ship a lot. So far, all I really ship in Clamp are the Clones and Sorata/Arashi, and I didn't ship the clones until vol 16. Until then, I was "yes, you are cute and I support you and I like you both and your story, but you don't interest me a lot" but then he went all soulless and suddenly it was the girl who had been protected and who had nothing but him to ground her having him yanked away, and put in the position of having to find and save him while having someone just like him(but not quite) right there and pining after her and I was all "HELLO!!!"
Meanwhile, the dynamics(as presented in the X/1999 anime) of Seishirou/Subaru and Fuuma/Kamui both fascinate me(more than any other dynamics in the series), but I don't think I could ever ship either one. Not because they're m/m, but because both involve one torturing the other, trying to kill him, and murdering the person he loves most in front of him(err...I think Seishirou killed Hokuto in front of Subaru?) Makes for awesome drama, but I kinda define shipping as "Oh! Hai! Plz to be ending up happy and playing tonsil hockey at the end!" which doesn't really apply in those cases.
Angel Sanctuary I've read some of, though it was back when it was first coming out. One of my coworker was reading it and I read to...well, I don't know how many volumes. Mostly I remember that I loved Kira and the 2 angels(the girl angel looked like a boy, and the boy angel was a crossdresser, iirc) and was neutral about Setsuna and Sara(h?). The last volume I read(the coworker got fired) was when she was killed, so I know the sex didn't make me run away screaming. Similarly, I'm not disturbed by Cesare's VERY incestuous feelings for his half sister in Cantarella(hers seem to be more projecting because he was the only one who cared about her for so long, and her feelings seem to have turned more towards normal sisterly feelings now that she's met Chiaro.) I'm also not weirded out (in that way) by Aki's complex over Aya in Ceres. I think it's the whole extreme supernatural/reincarnation/mythology part. It seems to move it from my mind from strictly incest to primarily reincarnation/mythology. At least, as near as I can tell, because things with "normal" incest, including stepsiblings, grew up apart, and grew up like siblings always set off my "NO WAY!!!!" alarms and make my stomach churn.
Clamp and You Higuri have the ability to make me squeeful over just about anything, though, even if they don't make me ship a lot. So far, all I really ship in Clamp are the Clones and Sorata/Arashi, and I didn't ship the clones until vol 16. Until then, I was "yes, you are cute and I support you and I like you both and your story, but you don't interest me a lot" but then he went all soulless and suddenly it was the girl who had been protected and who had nothing but him to ground her having him yanked away, and put in the position of having to find and save him while having someone just like him(but not quite) right there and pining after her and I was all "HELLO!!!"
Meanwhile, the dynamics(as presented in the X/1999 anime) of Seishirou/Subaru and Fuuma/Kamui both fascinate me(more than any other dynamics in the series), but I don't think I could ever ship either one. Not because they're m/m, but because both involve one torturing the other, trying to kill him, and murdering the person he loves most in front of him(err...I think Seishirou killed Hokuto in front of Subaru?) Makes for awesome drama, but I kinda define shipping as "Oh! Hai! Plz to be ending up happy and playing tonsil hockey at the end!" which doesn't really apply in those cases.
Angel Sanctuary I've read some of, though it was back when it was first coming out. One of my coworker was reading it and I read to...well, I don't know how many volumes. Mostly I remember that I loved Kira and the 2 angels(the girl angel looked like a boy, and the boy angel was a crossdresser, iirc) and was neutral about Setsuna and Sara(h?). The last volume I read(the coworker got fired) was when she was killed, so I know the sex didn't make me run away screaming. Similarly, I'm not disturbed by Cesare's VERY incestuous feelings for his half sister in Cantarella(hers seem to be more projecting because he was the only one who cared about her for so long, and her feelings seem to have turned more towards normal sisterly feelings now that she's met Chiaro.) I'm also not weirded out (in that way) by Aki's complex over Aya in Ceres. I think it's the whole extreme supernatural/reincarnation/mythology part. It seems to move it from my mind from strictly incest to primarily reincarnation/mythology. At least, as near as I can tell, because things with "normal" incest, including stepsiblings, grew up apart, and grew up like siblings always set off my "NO WAY!!!!" alarms and make my stomach churn.
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