Relationships

[gwyn_r]

A couple years ago at a bash with the locals, we were talking about this memish thing going on where people were discussing their pairings through their fandom histories, and what that says about people. I couldn't see a pattern in mine, but Jo said she saw one... I just can't remember what it was. I was intrigued because I don't know that these

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[jackiekjono]

I'm not familiar with about half of them but, quite of the few I do recognize seem to be authority figure/protege.

As far as I can tell, my pattern is that I like stuff with dogs in it. I am deep.

[gwyn_r]

Oh, that's interesting! Yeah, I can see that in many of them. I've always thought of my interest being in equals, but maybe it's not the role that is equal but the capabilities/personalities.

[destina]

Insider/outsider - Dom/Brian, Skinner/Mulder, Michael/Nikita. Authority figure/lower on the food chain or less experienced (power imbalance) - Cooper/Sherman, Michael/Nikita, Skinner/Mulder, Buffy/Spike, Jack/Ianto.

[gwyn_r]

Ooooo.... very interesting. Jackie also noted the authority figure thing. I'm going to have to think about this one. I do have a thing for outsiders, and maybe it's like the anti-clam thing, where you have to have an insider to balance the relationship.

[ixchel55]

I used to love Laredo! I haven't watched it since my slash meter got turned on but I did see just a couple of days ago that the shows are being rerun on one of my cable channels. I'm not sure which, I'll have to investigate a little.

Castillo/Crockett were deinitely my pairing of choice on MV, we know how I feel about Dom/Brian, Vin/Chris is a favorite and Sherman/Cooper are delicious!

Now I'm really jonsing to watch some Laredo.

[gwyn_r]

I rarely meet people who've seen Laredo and know the joy of Chad and Joe and their unspoken love. ;-) We must talk about it at the con!!

[slavelabour]

Taciturn, classic clams and anti-clams, yes. But (this is the funny part) as much as I ship Chris/Vin, I consider the clam/anti-clam to be Chris/Buck. I think my lifelong fave pairing type is Odd Couple aka opposites attract because I'm usually looking for the way the two halves make a whole. Dom/Brian (even Brian/Rome), Starsky/Hutch, Starbuck/Apollo (OS), Jack/Daniel.

[gwyn_r]

A few years ago, I noticed that I was going for increasingly taciturn guys -- it's like each one talked less than the one before. I definitely like the ones who do rather than talk, although there are always anomalies.