Let's see. It goes something like this.

You people who like B/A are crazy.

No, you people who like B/S are crazy and are just smacking down the B/A people so much we're afraid to rec anything.

No, no, all you het people are crazy and like to smack down slash.

But slash is icky! And non-canonical.

Way more canonical than your crap het recs.

Well, I've got the right to say if I don't like something.

Not unless you have a good reason.

Who decides what's a good reason?

I do. Shut up.

And then the moderators come in and complain because someone, yet again, has forgotten spoiler space.

And yet I keep reading.

Dana, bless you!

That discussion has just been making my head explode, and dammit, do you know how hard brains are to clean off a brick wall?

The moderators only care about spoiler space?

The moderators only care about spoiler space?

Oh, no, not only. The moderators are generally sane people, and boy, would I not take that job for anything, because within 24 hours I'd put the whole list on moderated and only let through posts I agreed with.

The spoiler rules on the list are more strict than other places, and people have a very hard time remembering it.

The one that Plei dubbed "It's Shipper War Time Yet Again in BBF-Land."

Ah. That one. The one right there in front of me with "Look, Fay, I'm the discussion in question" written all over it in neon, you mean? Damn, I can be a silly cow. Reading too quickly and carelessly. My bad.

I guess I'm just saying, don't knock the ooh-pretty response. Because sometimes it brings good things.

SA, I can understand why you're saying this. But I didn't say it was always a bad thing, I said that having that impulse as a springboard for fic and not giving a damn about good characterisation was a bad thing, and that imho the pretty isn't enough to make a pairing sexy. Anything can be a springboard for good writing.

Moreover, this disclaimer was an aside - the main thrust of my post having been pro-unconventional pairings, for the obvious reason that I write them. Including crossovers in which the inspiration is at least partially, if not wholly, one of "Oooh pretty."

And I seem to be in a very arsey frame of mind. Sorry. Backing off now.

Nah. I know what you mean. Are you working on any right now? I know there's the Dracofic that Ate Your Brain.

Fay, don't be a goose, no one is (ever) annoyed at you.

Bwah! Oh, Rebecca, Rebecca, fairest of reptiles, how thoroughly charming you are. Not to mention forgiving! For I am indeed in Arsey!Fay mode at present.

Re: ficwriting - I'm tempted by Dru/Willow, although I'm not quite sure when to set it, or if it'll happen. But I've written a little Dru-ish snippet to get into that frame of mind, and it's over in Bitchy fic. I've also got a tiny little Wolverine ficlet, of all random things, which I'm poking cautiously with a stick. That was unexpected, I can tell you. My muse is clearly on crack.

I'm tempted by Dru/Willow

I knnnnow. I feel very happy. As that's my shiny new insane OTP, you know.

When I tried to write Dru, I found her voice difficult.Hard to get a handle on, because while she's insane, she does pay attention to things that are going on, and that's not very relevant, is it? but Willow/Dru written by agood writer could be good.