ground control to major tom

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So, poll time. S'been ages. And it's brought on by the fact that that RENT got me thinking about my pairings. And how, being a primarilyn slash/femslash shipper, most of my pairings are uncanon and therefore based on subtext, but until now I've never thought about what subext actually meant to me. Is a way of delivering lines? Certain words in a text? The way they look at each other? Physicality, touching etc.? In Without a Trace, it's a lot of things - the lack of personal space, the way Danny leers; NCIS - for Tony/Gibbs it's at least partially because Tony canonically *knows* and understands Gibbs better than most and then the flirtiness just adds to it. Abby pairings come from Abby flirting with everyone. Jack and David, Blink and Mush, I hardly need to say why I slash them (the touches, the glances, the dialogue, etc. etc.) Then there are text pairings, like Holmes/Watson, where the slashiness is implicit in word choice and the way they act towards each other and just the position they hold in each others' lives.

And then there's Mark/Roger, and here's what I don't get. There's nothing in the script to make them slashy. The entire play and the way it works makes it near impossible to slash them. And yet Adam and Anthony just have this *indescribable* chemistry. And it annoys me, because they don't touch that much, there's absolutely nothing in the dialogue to hint at anything, and yet - yeah. It's there. And man, I even went in resolute that I would not ship them.

So anyway, here's a poll. To put in LotR terms: do you ship the almost canon hobbits, or Legolas/Aragorn?

[Poll #690233]

And okay, some of the interaction is *obviously* slashy. I'm talking in general terms.



I had something else to say, and now it's all but slipped my mind. Dammit. Anyway, imagine a point here.

Oh! Newsies spring slash assignments went out today, so if I start moaning about fic, that'll be it. Unless it's the RENT/WaT crossover that I can't get out of mind despite having far too much homework and mock exams next week, not to mention my driving theory test (which I totally don't want to do. Dammit, I'm going to fail, because I cannot make the damn stuff stick. Fucking hell.). But fic bunnies work in really warped ways.

As does this WaT episode, by the way.

i am so totally not shipping anthony edwards/george clooney, by the way. seriously. i think i need luka back. george is messing with my mind.

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