...blaaaaaaah

So far in my adventures with yaoi manga, I've realized that one of my favorite things is when the uke is... well... non-ukish-- like, non-submissive, which is weird 'cause recently in HP fandom I've gotten a little too invested in who tops and so on, which is actually funny to me now. I don't know... it's just my luck that recently I keep reading mangas where the bottom boy is all tough-assed and violent and sulky and so on, while the top is gentler and more love-love and such. Ahahaha it's so great. Sometimes it's pretty emotionally unrealistic, but who cares? I love seeing the tough guy be all, *mewl!!1* no matter how much he resists, heeeee. (*sekritly mean*)

Okay, that was random. Also, it seems like one of my greatest joys in manga, if not in life, is witnessing the obligatory (dark-haired!) Expressionless Icy Cool Boy (who's annoying as hell in HP, but let's not go there) get all 'omg, you TOUCHED MY PENIS!! I BLUSH NOW!!'. That's beautiful. It seems like a lot of the High School stories are about the Uber-Cool Cucumber meeting Sunny Naive Dork boy (who is sometimes violent). And I know I said no manga meta for me, but this isn't meta, it's... er... silly commentary, so there.

I played a bit of Final Fantasy X for the first time recently. Okay, no slash yet, but... see, I'm branching out in my dorkishness. Brings out the full-bodied flavor... or something.
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The thing about fandom is... it's implicitly about sharing things you're understood to see in a similar way with people, right? You all like something together. I suppose it's easy to feel you understand things together, too, like... suppose other people see the characters the same way I do if they ship them, but this doesn't seem true. Then again, that's what subjectivity is all about.

( Somehow it always comes back to the H/D wank. Someone stop me. Please. No, I mean that.  )