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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!
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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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...