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[nano_moose]

I'm bored. Time for meme!

Stolen from thebaconfat, who used it approximately a jillion years ago.

1. Comment with any pairing (or character, or threesome, or platonic relationship, or theory, or whatever. Multiple suggestions are also fine) from a fandom (or fandoms, crossovers are fine) that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about.
2. I will ramble for about 100 words (I may [read: probably will] go over a bit) about the aforementioned relationship/character/theory. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.
3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

Comments

[nano_moose]

Oh boy, this is going to be ranty, because Tom and Hester subvert some clichés I get really vocal about. Brace yourself.

LOVE. Love and adoration is what I have for these two. Because they are gloriously screwed up and sometimes SO NOT RIGHT but it's an 'opposites attract' relationship that doesn't make me want to bury my sneaker in the face of the first person to call it that. (I've never accepted that as a ship justification without a whole lotta caveats and never will. Or that 'hate and love are the same only different' thing. Please say I haven't horribly offended you?) They do have similarities, but they also genuinely compliment each other, Tom and Hester – he's her conscience and innocence and booksmart and wings, and she's his ruthlessness and experience and streetsmart and fists.

And Hester is so devoted – so devoted she will leap to the most awful conclusions and do the most horrible things to keep Tom to herself. I cannot express the joy this gives me, because if I could nominate one Deus Ex Machina to shoot until it dies and then burn and then scatter the ashes through an acidic sea, it would be the Power of True Fucking Love. Romantic love does not make you better. It won't heal your emotional problems (good lord, with Hester they actually seem to have gotten more destructive). If some writers maybe took a few lessons from Reeve I would never have to watch another badly-written unbalanced romance in any movie ever again.

...But I still do hope they end happily. Goddamnit A Darkling Plain get here goddamnit! Can't I just get the inevitable heart-shatter over with?

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

Man, yes. I love how this series handles the whole love issue with them. And yeah, how -- how their devotion to each other (especially Hester's to Tom, eheh) kind of is a very bad thing for the rest of the world, and sometimes even a very bad thing for their relationship. I love relationships that are screwed up like this.

(No worries! The "hate = love" thing generally pisses me off too! Especially when that's the only qualifier factoring into the equation. Um. I'm pretty sure you said that already, and better than I did. But yes! Agreement. Any pairings I've got that have that dynamic in them also have lots of other reasons. At least, there are lots of other reasons in my mind.)

Another thing I really loved about them? They turned the whole gender role clichés on their head. Tom was the soft, sensitive one, Hester was kickass and scarred and hard. And it's awesome.