::rubs forehead::

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huh.

okay.

need to come clean now methinks because this is gonna make my brain explode if I don't sort this out for myself

namely, that: I'm still a fan of Jack/Will.

there, I said it. And it's not that I don't see what's to be seen in Jack/Norrington, but. yeah. Browsed and picked at some marvelous fic here and there and still. dunno.

It's not like I don't see the possibilities. But. It just doesn't *ping* in my head. Like, I see the Jack/Elizabeth and Jack/Anamaria. But that's not going to make me hunt down fic.

and I don't quite understand it. Because I *get* it, I can see it too. I just don't *feel* it for some reason. It's like this weird hole where you kinda sense that there *should* be some emotion but there *isn't*.

It's a very freaking odd feeling. And I don't get why I'm feeling this way.

It's not like I don't like adversaries or opposites or equals, I do. ::points at pairingslist:: It's not like I don't find Norrington adorable, and even if he doesn't exactly mush my 'hotness' buttons, neither does Bobby (I-Man) or Legolas or Q or Agent Smith or Xander.

So. I'm not getting this. Just to let you know. Even despite reading the reasonings on everyone's journals.

and let's put myself even more on the weenie roast:

I'm not a fan of Sirius/Remus either.

sorry.


[edit] ::headdesk:: ok. I have gone back and bolded the pertinent parts of this post that are apparently being skipped over.

::facepalm:: people. I *GET* Jack/Norrington. You are singing to the choir here. Also, I *LIKE* adversarial relationships and relationships of equals and opposites. Also, personal asethetics has NOTHING to do with my pairing preferences either way ::points at character list in post:: I LIKE some pairings were I feel no lust at all for one character or another.

Though. ok. I realize that this post may have put the Sparrington people on the defensive. I'll give you that. but, dude. Singing to the choir here. I get it. I just don't understand why it's not *pinging* for me on an emotional level based on my previous pairing inclinations...

[edit2] also: to clarify, I'm *not* objecting to the fact that there's J/N discussion. but. perhaps, not too much to ask that the J/N rhetoric cover more ground than what I'd already covered in the post itself?

[edit3] Figured it out! YAY!

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i'm only passing though, so i'll try to make this quick. i know the post is old, too, so chances are you don't much care by this point what anyone else has to say on the matter... but, i just really felt the need to comment on the last thing you said in edit #1, there.


i'm a j/n shipper. granted, very newly so (as i've only just familiarized myself with the fandom in whole), so i may not yet be as passionate about it as some... but i do take all my OTPs quite seriously. and, even though the interest in the pairing is new for me, i do regard it as an OTP, not just a passing fancy.

anyway (sorry, i'm rambling)... i am a jack/norrington shipper. and as one, i just wanted to say, i really honestly don't see what there is to be offended by. i'm quite surprised that anyone might take any of what you said as an insult to the pairing. i mean, you're not even saying that you dislike it, objectively speaking, just that for you personally it's missing that spark. and, dude, we've all had those -- that pairing that, logically, seems to fit our requirements, yet something about it just doesn't click. or, at least, i've had those, so maybe i'm over-identifying a bit, here.

but, i mean, even if you were saying you dislike it, or that you don't get what other people see in it (which, clearly, was not what you said), it's not like you're bashing. you didn't say it was a bad pairing, just that it's not quite for you -- what's wrong with that? it's a matter of personal tastes and preferences, we can't all get worked up every time somebody doesn't like the same things we like...

i feel the same way about jack/will or jack/elizabeth, myself -- i certainly see the merits, but it's just not my cuppa. nothing wrong with that, is there?



*sigh* it seems my valiant efforts to keep this short have not payed off. i do apologize for the rambling.

by the way, having looked at your pairing list, yey for snape/black! there are way too few of us out there, i always love to see another supporter. :)

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=) how did you find this post? It's kinda buried all back here.

It's kinda almost beyond non-clicking tho. Like, it's not even "the paring is like reading grass grow" and it's definately not "nobody writes these people decently" but it's like, "wow, like my stomach flips on itself to read them, why can't I read this marvelous fic?" and I don't understand it, and I'm just trying to work through what's going on without posting it on LJ because it raises too many hackles and I'm not sure there's a way to express my feelings without making other people hurt.

From what I understand about some J/N shippers is that they identify with the pairing on a very personal level, where the rejection of the 'ship is almost a rejection of who they are...which I kinda understand because fandom in general is about identifying with characters. I realize that on some level I might be viscerally squicked by the pairing because J/W is so close to my own views, and the issues that I find facinating and hard-hitting personally, and that in many (not all) J/N fics Will is looked down upon.

But that's probably more than you wanted to know =)

And yes! snape/black! I was utterly utterly converted by Fabula Rasa's work, although I don't think she'd recently written any new SS/SB...