Poll: Pairings

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

(First time posting a poll -- this might take a few edits.)

One of the goals here at Epic Recs is to continually improve the comm to make it more a more functional, fun, and entertaining place. Thus, as part of Recapalooza we'll be tossing out a few polls as well as a survey (coming soon). Hopefully we'll learn something new and exciting that will result in positive changes to the community as a whole.

ETA: Of course, I managed a typo in the very first poll and of course you can't actually edit them. Thus a clarification: for the first question, it should be which pairing(s) do you read most often and/or are you most interested in. More than one response is acceptable (even encouraged!)

[Poll #1564679]

Comments

[lothy.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a "slash fan" as such, though I doubt that's exactly news to you! I'll read it if the story's good enough but I don't specifically search it out... save for certain pairings, most of which are sadly not major ones in fandom (yet - come on, NCIS LA). But I love het, femslash and gen. Basically anything with women.

And my tastes run more to rare pairings in many fandoms. Though in slash-heavy fandoms that's probably related to my wish for stories featuring women.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge fan of strong women and rare pairings. If nothing else, you should see more of the former in my recs (I'm actively searching!) though I find the latter to be pretty hit or miss (mainly because, while I like rare pairings, I only like rare pairings if I like both of the characters involved and often the pairing is rare because one or the other character is too hateful to want to read. Which leads to dark fic. Or short short stories. Or both. Is it Friday yet?)

[lothy.livejournal.com]

That's interesting, because I find that quite often it's the popular pairings that have the dislikeable characters. HP fandom for instance with the popularity of various Death Eater characters and their offspring. Which fandoms do you dislike the rare-pairing characters in?

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

I suck at giving example but taking Harry Potter as a starting point: any story with Voldemort in the pairing. Any story with Dumbledore in the pairing (I don't like Dumbledore bashing, but I also don't really like Dumbledore). Any pairing featuring the twins, Bellatrix, the Dursleys, etc.

[lothy.livejournal.com]

Yeah.... but Draco Malfoy is in two of the most popular pairings and he's basically an immature bully.

And there's so many other great characters in rare pairings too. Luna would be my favourite.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

But with Draco and Snape there are hints of possible good mixed in with all of the bad, which appeals to writers who like bad boys:) The twins and Dumbledore, on the other hand, are both portrayed as good characters who mostly behave in dislikeable ways (people who have suffered through practical jokes usually don't find practical jokers very amusing) and thus are not terribly appealing (at least for me).

I have to admit, Luna has never done much for me. Then again, by the time I stopped reading in book six, none of the characters really did much for me:)