Fay - I felt exactly the same way about that story.

I guess there must have been people who felt that way about Clex.

Oh, surely not. That's crazy talk.

Sometimes it is difficult to have perspective when you are faceplanted in your beautiful cake and making gleeful "nom nom nom!" noises to anyone who comes in earshot.

It is equally difficult when everyone around you is happily producing cake with banana cream filling and offering you a slice, and everyone looks at you funny when you say, "No thank you." "But it's cake!" "Um, I'm not hungry?" "But -- CAKE." "I'm... on a diet?" "But you had three slices of chocolate cake last weekend!" "Er, that's why I'm on a diet?" "But isn't that your fifth cookie?" "Banana's not my favorite." "But my banana cake is the BEST. You'll like it, I know!" "I JUST DON'T LIKE BANANA CREAM FILLING, OKAY. GOD."

Heee! Awesome. I want to marry shrift's analogy. Or is it metaphor?

I'm also fond of mely's strawberry analogy for those instances when fandom makes you dislike something you previously enjoyed or was neutral about:

It's like when somebody really loves strawberries, and you're all, "Strawberries are okay. They're not my favorite thing in the world, but I like them okay. I eat them sometimes," and the person is all "STRAWBERRIES STRAWBERRIES STRAWBERRIES STRAWBERRIES" until finally you want to scream, "ENOUGH WITH YOUR FUCKING STRAWBERRIES! I WILL ERADICATE STRAWBERRIES FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH! NO MORE FUCKING STRAWBERRIES!"

It is equally difficult when everyone around you is happily producing cake with banana cream filling and offering you a slice, and everyone looks at you funny when you say, "No thank you." "But it's cake!" "Um, I'm not hungry?" "But -- CAKE." "I'm... on a diet?" "But you had three slices of chocolate cake last weekend!" "Er, that's why I'm on a diet?" "But isn't that your fifth cookie?" "Banana's not my favorite." "But my banana cake is the BEST. You'll like it, I know!" "I JUST DON'T LIKE BANANA CREAM FILLING, OKAY. GOD."

Ha! Yeah.

I mean, I'll read Wincest cake and enjoy it on rare occasions. I will. But it has to be baked in such a specific way and with such specific additional ingredients that, well, it's easier for me to just say that nope, this is not my beautiful cake and sneak a few bites here and there.

I'm not sure how I react when I accidentally hit a pairing I Just Don't Get. It's been a while since I put myself in the position to hit one, discounting unwarned for Wincest, which makes the back button go click click click. Honestly, the last I Don't Get It pairing in one of my other fandoms was kinda canon (Angel/Cordy), so I may have been conditioned to grit my teeth and bear it until we got to the Wesley bits.

I'm learning quickly where my boundaries are in fic. Granted, I've only been reading one fandom, but I'm finding out that All Slash is Not Created Equal. I don't want to read Neville/Remus. Just .. ew.

And for that matter, not all het pairings are good either. Harry/Hermione bugs me. Well, mostly. There was this one...anyway.

Harry/Hermione bugs me. Well, mostly. There was this one...anyway.

You know this is a safe place, Aimee, but you probably shouldn't express that opinion anywhere else on the 'net. The Harmonians will come get you and take you away.

And force feed you pumpkin pie.

Yeah. What Dana said.

I might make a tshirt.

HARRY/HERMIONE MAKES THE BABY JO CRY!