Also, this icon pleases me in my soul.

[sabinelagrande]

1. After much sojourning, I am home. Glorious home! It may interest you to note that I have the most comfortable bed in the entire universe

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[clavally]

Secondly, it always makes my brain short out for a second, like people I don't even know are writing my self-inserts for me.

This? Made me lol for reals.

If you ever decide you might want to read some Star Trek novels, I can recommend a few with some cool depictions of Vulcan sex.

[tavabean]

For some reason it also bothers me when writers have John or Rodney refer to each other as "baby."

[mashimero]

"Baby"? Really??

D:

[sabinelagrande]

I know! God! That just always bothers me.

[gaffsie]

I LOVE when that happens, but not for the reason the writer intended. :P It just makes me laugh and laugh. The other thing I love is when one guy picks up and carries the other one around like if they were reenacting the rainstorm scene from Sense & Sensibility. Instant hilarity.

Hi, my name is gaffsie, and I have a badfic addiction.

[mashimero]

feel free to insert any other two male characters, this rant still applies

Not just male characters for me. I think I'd still cringe if it were females and they were saying it in a completely serious way. But maybe that's just me and my aversion to all things overly sappy.

Secondly, it always makes my brain short out for a second, like people I don't even know are writing my self-inserts for me.
Creepy. Reminds me of the time I saw bad porn on weepingcock where one of the characters had my name.

3. Corner Gas <3

[sabinelagrande]

Oh, it definitely still gets to me if it's a female character. It's just that the whole epithet thing seems more common in slash- probably because of the pronoun problem.

Unfortunately, my given name is dirt-common (there are two totally unrelated television characters who have my first and last names and spell it the same way) so that happens more than I'd like. :(

[gaffsie]

You mean that the soldier looked at his lover who was draped seductively across the bed, like a grumpy but oh so appealing bedspread. The Canadian was wearing a pair of red silk boxers and looked good enough to eat. John looked at the other man's pert little nipples and milky skin and wondered over what divine intervention could possibly have brought the scientist into his bed... Into his life. doesn't turn you into a puddle of goo? What the hell is wrong with you?! That's poetry, that is.

[sabinelagrande]

Vogon poetry, maybe.

...although, I have to admit I really like the characterization of Rodney as a grumpy bedspread. It fits him.

[seekergeek]

Alas, epithets! So poorly used, so frequently. *sighs* They can be used well (judiciously and in moderation) but generally aren't. One of the guidelines of writing should be: When in doubt, use their names. Names are good! Names are neutral! Names won't make your readers try to spork their eyes out!

Relatedly: does anybody really call their significant other 'baby'? Really? In real life? Because I have never, EVER run across anyone that does that. And yet they keep writing it, OMG. *headdesk*

[sabinelagrande]

I dunno- I call everybody baby, but that's because I am effusively Southern. But never during sex. That's just.. a little weird.

[seekergeek]

Huh. I live in the South and I get a lot of "honey"s but no "baby"s. Maybe its specific to a smaller region?

And "baby" during sex just creeps me out. It makes my mind go to a very wrong, very UNSEXY place.

[sabinelagrande]

I'm bad on the "baby"s and the "darlin'"s- but maybe it's a Mississippi thing?

There's something very, very wrong about people saying it during sex though. Ageplay = do not want.