Friday poll - pairings

[celandineb]

Missed last week, sorry! This week I'm pondering pairings (and trios). As ever, feel free to expand on your answers or leave comments (I'm super-busy so may not respond to all, but it's always fun to read what folks say, right?).

Comments

[coffee_n_cocoa]

And to further clarify:

1. My reading is very much character-based, rather than pairing based. If it's a Neville-centric pairing or Neville gen, I will nearly always click. However, outside of Neville-centric pairings, there are less than five I prefer to read.

3. Likewise with writing pairings. I'll write nearly any pairing, but there are less than five that I prefer to write.

[vulgarweed]

I might skew things a little since my primary fandom is small enough that I can pretty much read all the fic, and I generally give everything a try. Who knows, this might be the story that'll finally convert me to that pairing I just don't get. When reading in larger fandoms, I'm more selective about which characters and pairings I want to read about, because I have to narrow down the selection some way.

But that's more a matter of characters I favor than pairings. The larger the cast of characters, the more room to play with different pairings. I don't really have an OTP in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings the way I do with Good Omens. I like to play with different setups that could get different people together or explore different corners of the fictional world.

[ineptshieldmaid]

Hmm, well, both of my major fandoms have a limited number of available pairings... I tend to steer clear of 'cest, which also limits it. Beyond that, I WILL read pretty much anything, but usually stick to my main pairing(s). In Narnia, I found that I could read Peter/Caspian PWP but I had high standards for Edmund/Caspian, and little interest in Peter/Caspian WITH plot.

In Merlin fandom, something has to be really GOOD to pull me out of my standard pairings. I read a lot of Merlin/Arthur, which luckily is what the fandom produces; I read a bit of Morgana/Gwen, and OT4 when I can get it, but I'm a lot less likely to read Arthur/Gwen or Arthur/Morgana, largely because what's out there is... not very good.

[telperion1]

On #1: I will read fic with an interesting premise or by authors I have enjoyed in the past, no matter what the pairing. But I will at least open nearly every Boromir/Theodred fic, and most Faramir/Eowyn ones.

It's interesting because, while I seek out pairings I like to think about and write, I usually avoid stories about my favorite/most-often-written character. Maybe that's because that character is Denethor, and much of fandom messes him up IMO. (With some notable exceptions, obviously...)