Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

[redbrunja]

cynicalshadows  has a post on shipping that is pretty much made of sheerest word and describes what makes me ship a couple like crazy as well. In brief:

1. ) Opposites attract. (For more on what I mean when I say that, read Jennifer Crusie's essay 'What I Learned From TV.' Her site is down so I can't link at the moment. I ♥ you, Jennifer Crusie!)

2.) Forbidden Fruit.

3.) Stronger Together.

Comments

[anat-astarte.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was a great post!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it?

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that her post went on to explain that the fact that they ARE "opposites" means that the love affair is both hot... and likely to be doomed.

I do beg to differ on the POV that only doomed relationships are interesting. But I suppose that she means "interesting" in the sense of crane-your-neck-to-watch-that-traffic-accident interesting. New love is about desire and exploration and working out the rough spots - love that's settled into trust and a steady, warm glow isn't exactly eye-catching, even if it's what we all want.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I do beg to differ on the POV that only doomed relationships are interesting.

I wouldn't say that only doomed relationships are interesting, but I would say that what makes a fictional relationship interesting is not what makes a real life relationship interesting.


*sigh*

I feel like I say that every single time opposites attract or enemy shipping or slap slap kiss comes up on my lj.

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

Heh... ^^;;

Sorry about that. ♥

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I totally understand the impulse. I just think that, often (in Western Culture/American Culture especially) we don't assume that people understand the difference between reality and fantasy.

Witness so many Christian's flipping out over Harry Potter.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Ditto on liking that the opposites = hot but doomed. I never really watched Buffy but I did somehow end up seeing the "UH OH WE JUST HAD SEX AND CRAP WE'RE DOING IT AGAIN!" Buffy/Spike episode which was hilarious and hot. :D

Shipping doomed couples is too fun. Especially when "forbidden fruit" is involved.

[strange_quark]

Oh God the forbidden fruit thing. Can we talk bullet-proof kink?

Great post there. I can't say that everything I ship holds all those things in common, but I'm definitely a fan of everything that was listed.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know! When it works it is like kryptonite. And yeah, not every ship I have matches those criteria, but enough of them do.

[despairinbeauty.livejournal.com]

Wow...just...wow. O.O That explains so much why I sometimes like dark couples that don't seem to work out.

*HUGS YA*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yep, it really does.