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Musings on Beautiful Boys
Well, I never thought I'd do it, but I've become a yaoi-girl...or at least a shounen-ai-girl. A few too many evenings browsing around for Weiss Kreuz spoilers, a few too many glances at fanfictions with intriguing plot summaries regardless of ratings, and here I am a week later digging around the 'net hunting up doujinshi info. and getting teary-eyed over every sweet little shounen-ai scene that comes my way. It's not the boy/boy content that has me surprised at myself really...those sort of hang-ups aren't my thing. It's just that...
Well, in my fanfic reading, I've always had a deep loathing for all things *shippy*. It drives me crazy that so many fanfiction writers have this deep-seated need to take a perfectly interesting, nuanced friendship and force that next step...like there's no way for platonic love to be at all dramatically compelling. This is true for me on both the het and slash sides of the fence, and in pretty much every fandom I think I've ever read in.
And yet, here I am, hip-deep (and sinking fast) into a fandom that has more pairings than you can shake a stick at. I still love the friendship stories best, but I can't deny that there are a couple pairings that hit my buttons in that oh, so *shippy* way. Ugh. And yet...{contented sigh}
Well, in my fanfic reading, I've always had a deep loathing for all things *shippy*. It drives me crazy that so many fanfiction writers have this deep-seated need to take a perfectly interesting, nuanced friendship and force that next step...like there's no way for platonic love to be at all dramatically compelling. This is true for me on both the het and slash sides of the fence, and in pretty much every fandom I think I've ever read in.
And yet, here I am, hip-deep (and sinking fast) into a fandom that has more pairings than you can shake a stick at. I still love the friendship stories best, but I can't deny that there are a couple pairings that hit my buttons in that oh, so *shippy* way. Ugh. And yet...{contented sigh}