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I'm as disturbed as anyone by the fact that the list below is basically all guys, btw. And also confused, because as I said, there's a lot of things there where I'm pretty sure that erotic attraction plays no part at all in my interest (there's a freakin' anthropomorphic *duck* on the list! Although I gotta admit that there's one artist on that comic series that draws him in a disturbingly sexy way, which always confuses the heck out of me. I'm not sure I *want* to be attracted to a duck, not even for the duration of a few pages. :D But that's small fraction of the series, and for the most part, he's a stylised duck with noodle limbs.)
Also, anyway, I'm bi, I've been attracted to women, in real life, as often as to men (more often, really) - which is to say, still very, very rarely, haha. So I'm wondering if this lack of women on the list of my past obsessions has something to do with the kind of stories that get told about male characters vs. stories that get told about female characters.
(I thought about whether to put Aeryn on the list or not, and it was a close call. But I had to be honest, ultimately, and admit to myself that although I do love Aeryn, and find her a lot hotter than John, my *obsession* was mostly centred on John, although all the central group of Farscape characters have lots of moments where I get strongly interested in them, which is why I love the show so thoroughly and enduringly.)
Recently, there've been a few books and book series, btw, that I think would have me obsessively interested in their (female) main characters if they were tv shows or longer series. I think one thing about obsessive interests is, they need a somewhat sustained source, a certain amount of material, which is why there's so few single books or short series or standalone movies on that list. (Terra Ignota is the exception, mainly because the wtf factor *and* the density of chewy ideas is so intense there that those alone were enough to fuel obsession, for me.)
So, honorary mentions:
Baru Cormorant (I forget what the series is called but all the books have her name in the title)
Cheris (Hexarchate/Machineries of Empire)
Essun (Broken Earth trilogy)
Gideon and Harrow (Locked Tomb)
Now, the similarities between these four/five (and also some of the guys on my previous list!) are somewhat obvious...
I also really like - this feels too obvious to say, really, for someone of my generation - Ripley and Sarah Connor. (Did like the Terminator tv show, too, but somehow not *quite* strongly enough to fuel an obsessive interest. I'm still slightly confused by this, because I kind of would have expected it to.)
And Furiosa, of course.
But yeah, none of these interests ever reached obsession level. (I have read my share of Terminator fic, though, and that's probably the thing, out of the ones listed above, that got closest to actually being a fandom for me. Probably not a coincidence that it's also the one with the most canon material.)
Also, anyway, I'm bi, I've been attracted to women, in real life, as often as to men (more often, really) - which is to say, still very, very rarely, haha. So I'm wondering if this lack of women on the list of my past obsessions has something to do with the kind of stories that get told about male characters vs. stories that get told about female characters.
(I thought about whether to put Aeryn on the list or not, and it was a close call. But I had to be honest, ultimately, and admit to myself that although I do love Aeryn, and find her a lot hotter than John, my *obsession* was mostly centred on John, although all the central group of Farscape characters have lots of moments where I get strongly interested in them, which is why I love the show so thoroughly and enduringly.)
Recently, there've been a few books and book series, btw, that I think would have me obsessively interested in their (female) main characters if they were tv shows or longer series. I think one thing about obsessive interests is, they need a somewhat sustained source, a certain amount of material, which is why there's so few single books or short series or standalone movies on that list. (Terra Ignota is the exception, mainly because the wtf factor *and* the density of chewy ideas is so intense there that those alone were enough to fuel obsession, for me.)
So, honorary mentions:
Baru Cormorant (I forget what the series is called but all the books have her name in the title)
Cheris (Hexarchate/Machineries of Empire)
Essun (Broken Earth trilogy)
Gideon and Harrow (Locked Tomb)
Now, the similarities between these four/five (and also some of the guys on my previous list!) are somewhat obvious...
I also really like - this feels too obvious to say, really, for someone of my generation - Ripley and Sarah Connor. (Did like the Terminator tv show, too, but somehow not *quite* strongly enough to fuel an obsessive interest. I'm still slightly confused by this, because I kind of would have expected it to.)
And Furiosa, of course.
But yeah, none of these interests ever reached obsession level. (I have read my share of Terminator fic, though, and that's probably the thing, out of the ones listed above, that got closest to actually being a fandom for me. Probably not a coincidence that it's also the one with the most canon material.)
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I've tried to figure out what it is that makes me fannish about certain characters and/or relationships, and I realized that the thing all of my OTCs have in common is that they wear their heart on their sleeve. Genre doesn't seem to matter. And the pairings that really get me are the ones where both characters do that—Ramse and Cole, Duncan and Methos, Jeremiah and Kurdy, Bo and Kenzi (Lost Girl), Sam and Dean Winchester etc. etc. When only half of the pairing is emotionally expressive, I sometimes still get fannish about them (Kirk/Spock, Xena/Gabrielle, Bo/Lauren, Arthur/Merlin, and so on) but it doesn't usually last as long, and I don't feel as compelled to make stuff.