Hi all! I have been wasting too much of my fandom-time lately in either the wranglers' chatroom or #lesmiseres (and also re-reading all the Discworld novels with Vetinari in them), so, uh, too little that is not directly encouraged by those has been getting done.

Chatting with the Miseres people has made me learn all sorts of new things about my fandom self, though. Or, rather, realize more clearly things I should already have known. :P

Like: the difference between "tentacle fic I adore" and "tentacle fic I get bored of quickly" is that I have to buy the motivations of the tentacle monster. It either has to a) be behaving in an utterly alien way beyond human comprehension or b) have some explanation for why it is doing what it is doing. "Tentacle monster is doing human-style-sex stuff to human for no particular reason" is almost always what loses me.

Also I have a Type when it comes to pairings I glom hard onto. I kind of knew this? But it's become inescapable.

Basically, if you have two cranky middle-aged-or-older people, who are on opposite sides of an unbridgeable divide, and have a long and painful and twisty history, but still respect each other on some level and can't manage to stay away from each other... I will probably ship them in as close as I ever get to OTPs.

( Here is a preliminary list, )

(I feel like there were other things I was planning to say the next time I managed to post, but if so, I have forgotten them...)