Damn. I knew there was someone on my flist whose interest list I found Most Compelling Of All, but the knowledge of who it was was somewhere over there with Sleep. (It was you, btw!)
I don't feel the need to label myself, unless you count the most difficult of ways. For instance, I wouldn't call myself straight, gay, or bi. I'd probably say "straight, except for in the ways I'm not", but if you really wanted to know, I could probably *define* the ways I'm not, and the ways I am. I may have...determined my standing on the Kinsey scale down to the hundredth decimal place and also...made a list of girls and boys I've been interested in and determined What It Said About My Sexuality. So it's important that I can define myself thus, but the "thus" might require...like, a seminar, with diagrams. Possibly illustrations. That...would be hot.
I couldn't make guarantees about who I might be attracted to next year, or even the percentage of women as relates to men, but that relies on circumstance, and I feel like I *can* make a guarantee like: in a given population, I'll more often prefer more men than women. *That* changing *would* shock me. Just as the whole, "sometimes I like girly looking men" has SHOCKED me in these past few years. And the whole "Characters like Draco Malfoy deserve my love too!" My world want OFF KILTER.
(Hey, were you ever going to give some fb about that D/H thingy? It's okay if you're not or not going to any time soon. redbrickrose said some very helpful things. Plus I am so unhappy with it it's been a real struggle not to just abandon it. But if you ever get around to it, I'm still interested.)
What surprises me are the 'ships I have that no one else has. No one has emma/mr. knightley, Stulti, and this depresses me. I don't have the first three you mention because they don't interest me! Hee! Night strolls, but not prowls. I don't know what a marmot is.
But I like so many spiffy things I wouldn't know where to start!
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I don't feel the need to label myself, unless you count the most difficult of ways. For instance, I wouldn't call myself straight, gay, or bi. I'd probably say "straight, except for in the ways I'm not", but if you really wanted to know, I could probably *define* the ways I'm not, and the ways I am. I may have...determined my standing on the Kinsey scale down to the hundredth decimal place and also...made a list of girls and boys I've been interested in and determined What It Said About My Sexuality. So it's important that I can define myself thus, but the "thus" might require...like, a seminar, with diagrams. Possibly illustrations. That...would be hot.
I couldn't make guarantees about who I might be attracted to next year, or even the percentage of women as relates to men, but that relies on circumstance, and I feel like I *can* make a guarantee like: in a given population, I'll more often prefer more men than women. *That* changing *would* shock me. Just as the whole, "sometimes I like girly looking men" has SHOCKED me in these past few years. And the whole "Characters like Draco Malfoy deserve my love too!" My world want OFF KILTER.
(Hey, were you ever going to give some fb about that D/H thingy? It's okay if you're not or not going to any time soon.
What surprises me are the 'ships I have that no one else has. No one has emma/mr. knightley, Stulti, and this depresses me. I don't have the first three you mention because they don't interest me! Hee! Night strolls, but not prowls. I don't know what a marmot is.
But I like so many spiffy things I wouldn't know where to start!
Dude. Exactly!