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You know what I just realized?

Zuko = Faramir.

And now my crossover-happy brain is done thinking tonight.

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Edit: Sokka's line, "Hey, this is quality rope" gave me all kinds of happy because really, only someone who grew up around boats notices that kind of thing. Trust me. Quality line? Good to have in a crisis and expensive to come by.

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Re: Sorry to pounce on you, but...

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for responding to this--and quickly, too! This is very interesting. Your answer to the first question is, at times, almost word for word what other people--loads of other people--have said, but your second is almost diametrically opposite. (I'm sorry that I've sort of set you up as sort of the minority viewpoint here--we both know, of course, that there are plenty of people who agree with you.) I find it especially interesting not that m/m just doesn't turn you on, but that you say you don't/can't relate to the male characters--based on my personal experiences (and a lot of the responses) that's all I relate to. Even reading het fic, say, Spike/Buffy, I was always Spike. Until the sex started, of course--but even then, I was still emotionally, if not physically, the guy.

In conclusion, a very scientific: huh.

I wish I had another month and 10,000 more words to write this paper in. But your answer helped a lot, so thank you!

Re: Sorry to pounce on you, but...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I want to make sure I am clear, because I think I might have muddled my answer: I have difficulty relating to the guy in a *romantic* context. Taken outside of the romantic context I often relate to male characters as much or more than female characters. Partly because (like many fandom women I think), I like the kind of "guy" things: swordfighting, heroics, snark, combat, explosions... all those things that video game makers always market to boys. The entire sci-fi/fantasy genre is marketed more toward boys, in fact. But I love action/adventure and I tend to be able to connect to male characters because they're typically given the more action/adventury stuff. If that even makes sense... I dunno. Anyway, I tend to write fic more about male characters (except in Harry Potter ficdom), and I identify with male characters as strongly as female characters in a gen context. It's the romantic/sexual context where I can't connect to guys as well.

That being said, that isn't cut and dry. Often the circumstances of the character make me identify wiht their emotional situation very strongly regardless of their gender. Spike in S/B is one of those cases. Throughout season 6 I was always emotionally more in Spike's world than Buffy's. But then Spike was pretty atypical for a television male love interest anyway (embodying a lot of the qualities in the relationship normally regulated to the female character), so I'm not sure how much he counts in the comparison/analogy.

Re: Sorry to pounce on you, but...

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Ahh, gotcha. Sorry about that. So, um, I guess I just suffer from greater penis envy than you? *g*

Man, I would have to write a book to sort this out, even just to my own satisfaction. Hell, maybe that's what I'll do. =D