But when are you coming over to see how big my ASS really is and realize I'm not so weensy?
Anyway, some clarification, though I may be incoherent from laughter.
I don't really feel like I OTP a lot. I mean, I'll read anything good, though all things being equal I'll lean towards Buffy/Spike (but did you notice I answered "Spike is hot and JM's not"?). But I don't think it's indicative of anything. Because in POTO, I'll read anything good. And mostly anything good requires people NOT getting along, because it only makes sense. So in the questions about "my OTP" I answered for Erik/Persian.
What I'm saying is that lots of the options didn't seem to apply. When I can't see him, I'll even read DB.
There is no way your ass can be big. You forget that I am Amazon lady of extreme proportions. Okay, not extreme, pretty normal side considering my height and bone structure, but your butt could totally fit in one of my ass cheeks. Just sayin'.
The thing is, I OTP like a madwoman, but I rarely OTP really *hard* unless it's in a fandom I *like*. And once I've gone through and completely gorged myself on the 'ship, I step back, and enjoy reading things about the other characters, even seek out things about the other characters. Though to amend that OTP statement, in a few fandoms I've really had OTCs--POTO is one; at first I *only* wanted to read stories with Erik. Now I'll read just about any phics if they're well done.
I think for a lot of people, most options didn't apply, either because like you, they don't OTP that much, or because their 'ship preferences aren't mirrored by the physical attributes of the characters (which was really what I was interested in finding out).
Still, an interesting poll. But even if I listed my crushes, they wouldn't necessarily have a pattern--other than lots of them happen to look like me. (?)
Oh, and I'm kind of curious about this person two people ship me with, who I don't even know!
My crushes/'ships all have similarities, but they tend to be psychological and not physical (as stultiloquentia points out above).
I didn't mean you/romanyg, just do your ships incude either: you OR romanyg.
romanyg, however, is a doll. She's cute and she's sweet and she's generous and a damn fine writer. Mostly of S/A (in Jossverse; these days she's doing SV Clark/Lex) though so I think your romance is doomed.
I think that one of the things *behind* fandom--and OTPs--is that it's more psychological than physical. What I mean is, I suspect that the kind of people who get involved in stuff like this are the kind of people for whom personality trumps appearance. At least, in a "fantasy" setting. Not all of it, of course--but it strikes me that if you're writing fanfic you're involved a lot more in words and deeds than appearances.
Damn--another romance dogged by the specters of 'ships.
I agree, and have often thought the same thing. Lots of people say stuff like they're "in it for the pretty", but I have difficulty with that when what they primarily do to sustain this "interest" is to read *stories*. Otherwise we'd be *watching* porn, not writing it.
As much as I dislike gender generalizations (as I so often fall into the male generalizations, which makes me uncomfortable, probably unjustly so), this seems more common among women (the fantasy aspect) and less common among men.
I feel the same way about physical ideals as opposed to what's actually attractive in real life. The people I find most attractive in life aren't necessarily the kind of people I'd chose to watch on screen.
I guess it's a pretty common finding--whether it's true or not--that women prefer words to images.
That's what you get when you're married. Married legally, I should specify. Which is something truly infuriating in this day and age. Not that you're married, I mean.
I was working on the premise of monogamous marriage, which not all marriages are and not all should be. But, that given, marriage itself should not necessarily exclude gay, i.e. if you are gay and married to someone who is also gay. However, because so many people are ignorant and blind and need firm whacks on the head, it is not legally possible for someone who is gay to marry someone who is gay, and therefor it is impossible to be legally married, monogamous, and have gay in your life. This was also functioning on the premise that "gay in your life" was gay sex, thus making monogamy an impossibly, though I am aware you didn't mean that in that way. Rather, I was trying to make a horrified-old-19th. c-lady kind of statement (in the vein of "K! Don't look at Femme's ankles! You're married!") and then relate it to 21 c. issues. I failed. I failed at all of it.
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But when are you coming over to see how big my ASS really is and realize I'm not so weensy?
Anyway, some clarification, though I may be incoherent from laughter.
I don't really feel like I OTP a lot. I mean, I'll read anything good, though all things being equal I'll lean towards Buffy/Spike (but did you notice I answered "Spike is hot and JM's not"?). But I don't think it's indicative of anything. Because in POTO, I'll read anything good. And mostly anything good requires people NOT getting along, because it only makes sense. So in the questions about "my OTP" I answered for Erik/Persian.
What I'm saying is that lots of the options didn't seem to apply. When I can't see him, I'll even read DB.
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There is no way your ass can be big. You forget that I am Amazon lady of extreme proportions. Okay, not extreme, pretty normal side considering my height and bone structure, but your butt could totally fit in one of my ass cheeks. Just sayin'.
The thing is, I OTP like a madwoman, but I rarely OTP really *hard* unless it's in a fandom I *like*. And once I've gone through and completely gorged myself on the 'ship, I step back, and enjoy reading things about the other characters, even seek out things about the other characters. Though to amend that OTP statement, in a few fandoms I've really had OTCs--POTO is one; at first I *only* wanted to read stories with Erik. Now I'll read just about any phics if they're well done.
I think for a lot of people, most options didn't apply, either because like you, they don't OTP that much, or because their 'ship preferences aren't mirrored by the physical attributes of the characters (which was really what I was interested in finding out).
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Oh, and I'm kind of curious about this person two people ship me with, who I don't even know!
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I didn't mean you/romanyg, just do your ships incude either: you OR romanyg.
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Damn--another romance dogged by the specters of 'ships.
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As much as I dislike gender generalizations (as I so often fall into the male generalizations, which makes me uncomfortable, probably unjustly so), this seems more common among women (the fantasy aspect) and less common among men.
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I guess it's a pretty common finding--whether it's true or not--that women prefer words to images.
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Damn, I guess you weren't checking me out hard enough. Fix that next time, will you? I'm lacking gay in my life right now.
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Though yeah, the lack of gay is a downside.
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I was working on the premise of monogamous marriage, which not all marriages are and not all should be. But, that given, marriage itself should not necessarily exclude gay, i.e. if you are gay and married to someone who is also gay. However, because so many people are ignorant and blind and need firm whacks on the head, it is not legally possible for someone who is gay to marry someone who is gay, and therefor it is impossible to be legally married, monogamous, and have gay in your life. This was also functioning on the premise that "gay in your life" was gay sex, thus making monogamy an impossibly, though I am aware you didn't mean that in that way. Rather, I was trying to make a horrified-old-19th. c-lady kind of statement (in the vein of "K! Don't look at Femme's ankles! You're married!") and then relate it to 21 c. issues. I failed. I failed at all of it.
Yeah, up late.