even though I normally like her stuff a lot, so it looks like the genderswap Wincest is not for me either.
I did finish it, and the characterisation was great, and she did a great treatment of Sam as a girl. And the attendant problems Dean would have if Sam was a girl. The girl/boy squick barrier there was much more subtle, and I think it was in part because of how tight the lens was on Dean's perspective, and how guilty and wrong Dean felt through the whole thing; so as a result, as a reader, I felt kind of guilty and wrong too. So it's possible that the POV could be the origin of my vague squickedness, but perhaps not.
SA - Bones/Brennan? Really? I've only seen Season 2 up to the episode in Las Vegas (oh, man, and how I squeeled in the Little Miss Beauty Pageant corpse episode when Boreanaz said the pageant had been held in the Hyperion Hotel!!!) but I'm really enjoying the friends thing with them.
Okay, see, this is something I'm encountering with the fandom too. Don't get me wrong, I *love* their friendship. I think it's awesome, I think it's a great give and take and it's funny and they care about each other and obviously they've deepened their relaitonship with all they've been through.
And I'm not all flamey OTP about it--like, it doesn't pain my soul or anything to see them with other people. But I mainlined the 30 episodes that have aired in like six days, and you really see from the beginning to the end the progression of their relationship towards something more. DB and ED have some mad chemistry, and the way Booth stands just a little too close, the ways he leads Brennan around, the way he protectly her physically and mentally, the way he gives up sex dates with hot women to sit and eat donuts with her; the way she trusts him, implicitly, the way she trusts very few people and how difficult that must be for her to trust a dude *at all*, so how important that trust she places in Booth, that he will figure it out (when she is buried alive, when she's drugged by voudon and a murder suspect in New Orleans, when she's kidnapped and nearly killed by Adam Baldwin, etc ad nauseam); the way she needles his catholic guilt but with genuine curiosity, the way she lets her squints be his squints, the way she lets him into her house and onto her couch, arguable the more intimate part of her life, and she lets no one else there. Yeah, I'm into the ship. But I love it because of its maturity, and part of that is being okay with letting us take awhile to get there. I'm not even sure we'll get B/B by the end of this season, though there are some markers in this season that indicate we might do. If not, then probably next season, which is just fine with me. I do think it's inevitable. But I think if/when they do it, it'll be with consideration for a larger storyline and characterisation.
I kind of think of it as Mulder/Scully without the Issues and Secrecy. Like, if they had just acknowledged that M&S were adults with a thing and let them do it. With more funny. And more bones.
Whereas I've been all over Angela/Hodgins like a flaming rash.
Insert many heart symbols here! I love them too. I love that they're geeky and funny and so into each other and into doing each other and the quiet certainty to their relationship. Heart!
Loved the fact that they gave those two supporting actors such nice material to work with, and had Brennan hooking up with his ex (who has tits! and ass! and seems like a normal person!) and with Cam, rather than just milking the potential het dynamic of the main dynamic duo
Yes! yes yes yes! It's *why* I love the OTP, because we've seen them with other people, and know that they can be good with other people. But that they make each other better. /shiptastic
which is, actually, another way of agreeing that this is another case of the kind of heterosexual canon relationship that is being written the way that guy/guy buddy relationships always were, but m/f relationships never were.
Word.