and not a drop to drink

[flambeau]

It's not the heat, it's the humidity. No, I lie. It's the heat and the humidity. But especially the humidity - I feel like someone signed me up as an extra in Finding Nemo without telling me

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[wax_jism]

And then sometimes the bad guys come to Finland and we get headlines like, "Escaped prisoner from Sweden may be hiding in women's clothes" at which I first check my closet, and then try to paint a mental picture based on the guy's mug shot...

[flambeau]

We're friendly like that. We share. Here, have a transvestite fugitive!

[fluffontop]

Apparently our prisons are trying an open door policy this summer. How very... something.

I watch the news about it this morning, and they played Queen's "I want to break free" during the segment. Bet they had fun while editing together that one.

--B.C.

[flambeau]

Hee! Oh, to be a young journalist again, in the summertime...

[copracat]

Any of you ever done this - started reading in a fandom and discovered pairing preferences you didn't know you had?

Oh yeah. I like Angel but I'm not interested in reading stories about him and anyone. No romance for Angel.

[flambeau]

Poor Angel! He's not a eunuch, you know.

[copracat]

Oh, no. I mean, yes, not a eunuch. He just doesn't spark for me. I'm all shipper happy when he seems to be getting it right on the show. I was as thrilled and then crushed as any fan when it looked like he and Cordy were getting together and then it all when terribly wrong.

But Angel/Doyle? Angel/Wes? I just don't see it. I don't get the spark. I believe it's because, though I enjoy the show, he doesn't interest me as a fanfiction character. Perhaps Angel the series is rich enough for me.

[flambeau]

Well, I could sort of see Angel/Doyle... but not enough to go look for it or anything. I think, like, you, I'm happy just to watch the show, which reminds me that I need to finally see the rest of season 5 before something spoils me.

I do enjoy Angel's periodic announcements about his sexuality, though, such as "not a eunuch" and "not little." I mean, good to know, and all.

[cmshaw]

Any of you ever done this - started reading in a fandom and discovered pairing preferences you didn't know you had?

oh yeah. i didn't even think i liked vecchio....

[flambeau]

Hee! Oh, that's definitely one of those things, though with me it was the other way around. I took a desultory interest in DS fanfic, and then there was this other Ray in it suddenly, and wham. And since I did adore Vecchio, it was very confusing!

[laurashapiro]

Yes, this has happened to me fairly often, in practically every fandom. TXF: I thought I was purely an MSR girl, but it turned out I could get into M/Sk, and then M/K, and then Sc-Sk, with fairly little effort.

DS: F/V OTP! Except...not so much. And hey, Thatcher needs to get laid, too.

BtVS: Oh, sure, anybody, they're all hot, except...you know, no, I don't want to read Oz/Xander or Devon/anybody or Spike-Willow or, hey, who knew I could be this picky?

TWW: Everybody with the Josh/Sam arm-waving, and you know what? Not so much, for me. Jed/Leo, OTOH...

Farscape: I'm pretty mix-n-matchy, actually.

And in Firefly, I had almost the exact same experience you had. Definitely the same pairing preferences, but I didn't learn any of this until I started reading.

[flambeau]

Read stuff, find out. :) And sometimes you like something in theory but you can never get it to work for you in practice. tWW was like that for me; I could wave my arms around about both Josh/Sam and Jed/Leo, but I couldn't really read it, because there was no space in my head for it to happen even though I wanted it to, and other people's spaces never quite worked for me.

[laurashapiro]

Yes, *exactly*.