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.
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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.