salinea: Xavier & Magneto fist bumping, "Xav/Mag OTP" (shipping)
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Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.

Date: 26 May 2011 05:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com
I still love them; they're still, like, the closest thing to my platonic shippy ideal, but I think a lot of glamour is gone away from me. I still love the way it weaves interesting motifs and themes - communication, alienation, non dualism etc. - but in terms of the characters themselves, and their dynamic, I don't think I'm as interested as I used to be. Though I still love reading about them written by good writers like you ^^

I think that's in part because I've read too many bad yaoi manga in the last couple of years; and I got burned out in some of the most ridiculous seme/uke dynamics and the ways they are often problematic without being problematized by the text - which of course, in the manga itself, it's much more complicated and deconstructed than that; which makes it great, but makes it harder for me to care all that much anymore. The funny thing is Sei/Sub predate most of those mangas. I guess that makes them like Ayanami Rei in a way XD

Date: 26 May 2011 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com
For me, the way that a lot of yaoi manga is shallow with its power dynamics is probably why I stay so interested in Seishirou/Subaru. Because very few things feed into my power dynamic kink so much.

Date: 26 May 2011 06:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com
*grins* that's why I've moved away from yaoi manga recently.

Did you ever read the Administration series? It's original slash in a dystopic setting that is handled in a pretty low key way, revolving around a sociopath investigator and professional torturer and a virtual reality designer; and it had some of the most brilliant power dynamic I've seen in a very long time.

Date: 26 May 2011 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com
I haven't, no. Are there any girls? (Also great with TB is the female influence)

Date: 26 May 2011 07:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com
There are several secondary female characters. They're secondary, but I love several of them?

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