and here are my thought on yaoi- er...shipping

[ivy_chan]

I feel much better today. I was honestly worried it would get much worse and I'd spend today puking my guts out instead of just being nauseous, so I am glad to be proven very wrong. Still don't really feel up to eating, not out of nausea but because my digestive system has that delicate, post-flu feeling. Perhaps crackers

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[arefadedaway]

We are practically completely alike in our shipping preferences. Awesome. *high five* Especially frenemies/foe yay and partners. Oh, glory be, those are my top ships and I cannot resist them, ever. I am such a sucker for compatibility and balance and inherent understanding of one another, as long as there's obstacles to overcome and they change and grow. And there must be lots of witty banter and arguing.

[ivy_chan]

Oh my GOD, witty banter, yes. My friend and I refer to it as banterkink, for it is so much better than knives and blindfolds and stuff. Ahhh, banter. <3

[hungrytiger11]

So much yes to many of these! Especially about mutual respect and the two people in the relationship having the same maturity (possible exception for me might be with the Ophelia trope, but I rarely seen it well done anyway

[ivy_chan]

Past-childhood friends are cute, too, especially when they have fuzzy memories and don't actually realize it at first.

Queen to Knight pairing: Integra/Alucard, Relena/Heero, Prince Ling/Lan Fan, and Black Jewels Trilogy tried real hard for this angle as well.

[hungrytiger11]

What is the Black Jewel Triology about? I never heard of it before joining lj and haven't seen these books around...

[ivy_chan]

I can't believe I haven't replied to this! Black Jewels Trilogy is a- well, it's about sex and gender. And lots of sex. And twisting Christian themes, I think, because it's about a race called the Blood who use magic through the use of things called Jewels and worship something called The Darkness. (Then there is a character called Saetan, and a Lucivar, and a Daemon, and these are all on the side of the Good.)

They are all waiting for someone called Witch, or Dreams Made Flesh, to come and make their dreams come true, because the Blood have been corrupted and everyone in the realm lives under the tyrannical rule of Dorothea SaDiablo, who is fucking up the Blood's strict hierarchy.

The Blood have a strict, STRICT hierarchy, btw. Matriarchal, but power and inborn caste come into it, too.

This book series contains lots of rape, torture and some pedophilia, just to warn you. That said, it is by no means the darkest book series I have ever read and I even consider it to be relatively fluffy. Of course, I am fucked in the head.

[redbrunja]

~Conman/conwoman with a heart of gold, bonus points for pairing them with someone who can usually see through them but eventually gets conned anyway, extra bonus points for them being emotionally awkward and not good with this love issue.

Do you happen to have any examples off the top of your head?

~This one I am so ashamed of but I love it when a villain gets a heart by eventually loving a good person. It has to be done quite carefully, but god I fall for this so shamefully, I admit it.

IKR? When this is done right, it's freaking delicious.

[ivy_chan]

I think Dimitri from Anastasia is a prime example of conman with a heart of gold!

And yeah, I think a lot of my shipping tendencies are corny because I am a big cynic, but I still fall for them DEAD. Villain gets a heart just makes me keel right over almost every time. T_T (EVEN THOUGH MY MIND KEEPS SCREAMING: SAVED THROUGH THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.)

[redbrunja]

Oh, you're right, Dimitri is a great example.

(EVEN THOUGH MY MIND KEEPS SCREAMING: SAVED THROUGH THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.)

AND YET.