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Thank you to everyone who gave good thoughts for my health stuff yesterday! I'm feeling much better today. :)
And also, thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts and opinions on my Jon meta post. It meant a lot to me, and after thinking it over long and hard, I've decided to, as Mr. Foxx puts it so eloquently, "not be a puss" and re-post it, unedited and just as it was. My New Year's resolution is to not let people get to me so easily, and this is a step in that direction. Many of you commented that you had the post bookmarked, or wanted to read it again, and I felt like I'd overacted in deleting it. So feel free to comment to the new post, or not; either way, I feel better about everything in general now. It was never that I didn't want discussion, I just didn't want negative drama. But again, thank you for being so level-headed and kind to my slightly neurotic self. *hugs you all*
In other, less melodramatic news, I need something distracting and ridiculous right now, and I figured instead of doing an end-of-the-year-type post, I'd do a bunch of polls about things we love in fic. Because I'd kind of like to talk about porn and really awesomely bad cliches. \o/
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And happy birthday to
sunsetmog! I think you're pretty keen! ♥
And also, thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts and opinions on my Jon meta post. It meant a lot to me, and after thinking it over long and hard, I've decided to, as Mr. Foxx puts it so eloquently, "not be a puss" and re-post it, unedited and just as it was. My New Year's resolution is to not let people get to me so easily, and this is a step in that direction. Many of you commented that you had the post bookmarked, or wanted to read it again, and I felt like I'd overacted in deleting it. So feel free to comment to the new post, or not; either way, I feel better about everything in general now. It was never that I didn't want discussion, I just didn't want negative drama. But again, thank you for being so level-headed and kind to my slightly neurotic self. *hugs you all*
In other, less melodramatic news, I need something distracting and ridiculous right now, and I figured instead of doing an end-of-the-year-type post, I'd do a bunch of polls about things we love in fic. Because I'd kind of like to talk about porn and really awesomely bad cliches. \o/
[Poll #1323386]
And happy birthday to
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I really could keep going.
My absolute fave has to be threesome or moresome *relationship* fic though.
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SECONDED.
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What I'm intrigued by, is that it seems like most of the other former HP people now in bandom were people who shipped Harry/Draco, Harry/Snape or other 'conflict ships'. I wonder why that is? (this is my rhetorical brain dump on your LJ, I don't expect an 'answer'. Heh)
Also, I really like the porn. But not just because of obvious fun of boy parts against boy parts, but because the sex speaks so much about what is happening between characters. I want to know if they were nervous or embarrassed or confident and I feel cheated without it. I totally get why a writer might want to leave the porn out, but that's why I want it.
/rambling.
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Hi! *waves* My very first fandom was HP, and I actually never really liked Ron/Harry, nor Harry/Hermione - my ships were always Hermione/Draco, then Draco/Harry. The only exception to my fondness of "conflict ships" was my MASSIVE love for Sirius/Remus. The strange thing, though, is I love the best friends falling for each other thing - my favorite bandom pairing, besides GSF, is Ryan and Spencer. Maybe I'm different from a lot of D/H shippers in that my favorite fics with them were ones like Drop Dead Gorgeous where they grew up and became friends, or in that I always loved S/R just as much or more than D/H, but, well - I don't know. I guess I'm not the most conventional D/H shipper, but I am one regardless, so I'm going to try and explain why I think a lot of us like bandom so much, here;
I suppose the reason so many "conflict ship" people from HP go into bandom is because the primary bandom pairing is Brendon/Ryan, and it's also most people's introduction to bandom; a LOT of Brendon/Ryan seems to be written with a ton of conflict of some sort, and even if it isn't the "enemies falling for each other" thing that draws people to D/H, it's still usually a different kind of angst from the way Ryan/Spencer is written. I suppose you could say the same for Gerard/Frank and a few other big bandom pairings; despite the fact that they're already friends, a lot of the fic with that pairing involves some sort of angsty pining completely removed from the easy, best-friends-falling-into-love sort of way Ryan and Spencer and other BFF sort of pairings are written a lot of the time.
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i tried to give specific answers everywhere. i could've just checked 'everything!' but that's not really what you want from a poll. kissing and cuddling are my favorite kinds of boy-touch in stories. a well-written, detailed make-out scene does so much more to me than a sex scene ever could! cuddling is one of my favorite things to do, and obviously this translates to bandom.
the second question was a lot harder to answer. i don't know if you wanted me to check just one of those options, but in the end i chose blowjobs, frottage and masturbation (the elimination between frottage and underage experimentation was a hard one!). much like kissing, blowjob scenes usually > sex scenes to me. frottage is just aeprawerpawer, and masturbation... idk, i think i'm yet to find someone who doesn't enjoy masturbation fic, to be honest.
lastly, whore!au's and strip club au's (and anything else in that genre) totally own my soul. i blame wednesday night boys and fics alike.
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I had to pick all the options for the last question, I love all of them! /o\ But if I really have to pick one or die, it'd be best friends falling in love (which kinda ties in nicely with fake boyfriends/girlfriends/lovers). Something about the growth of their relationship just flat out does it for me. And the perfect way to have angst and anxiety about the next step. It's like the modern day fairytale.
Riding and bondage, GUH!
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And way to go you about the Jon post. You can have opinions! Embrace your own... opinionatedness!
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(I am glad you reposted, too. ♥)
And there are ticky boxes on my birthday too! But I want to tick too many of them. I want kissing and hand-holding as a precursor to sex! I also love... arranged marriages and fake boyfriends and one-sided pining (so long as it is two-sided pining but they are OBLIVIOUS. Oblivious is my favourite, I think, because it covers ALL OF THESE THINGS) and and and best friends falling in love <3333
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Also, what ^she said. About the kissing.
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\o/ One-sided pining is my favorite!
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Happy New Year!
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I do need to add always-a-girl (if that counts), threesome or moresome, and power play to the list.
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