stunt_muppet

Still bitter, I see.

Only a tiny bit. :D

I don't think we got a chance to watch Big Wolf on Campus! I'll have to see if I can rent it, because everything you've told me about it makes it sound awesome. And almost every show, movie, book, etc that I latch onto has a dynamic like that in it somewhere - Monk and Stottlemeyer, Shawn and Gus, Grissom and Catherine, the Doctor and the Brigadier, Tony Stark and Rhodey, and so on. I don't know why I like it so much, but I love watching that kind of partnership or friendship even in a nonromantic context.

And buddy!slash is by far my favorite. There are some rival!ships and foeyay I like, but with ships like those I always get stuck wondering how one goes from hating someone to having sex with them, since the concept of hate!sex sort of eludes me. I can see subtext and attraction and UST in pairings like that, and I'll write about those, but if two characters are already really close friends it's a lot easier to give them that little push into a romantic relationship in fic.

but I think we're generally on the same wavelength. :D

I'd be interested in hearing your version of those thoughts. *ahem* (Though actually, I love playing with power and authority in sex scenes in fic, but infantilization in any form squicks me bad.)

It is a very appropriate phrase and I'm glad you thought of it, because it describes the whole thing a bit perfectly. Also that screencap is going on on my hard drive. *click*

She is wholesome, though! I mean, she's not what humans would think of as sexually wholesome, but she just seems so enthusiastic and open about it. Un-deceptive, I guess is how I'd put it. And her squee-face after hearing about her ship assignment which was the Enterprise dammit makes me love her even more.

And I did not know about Pike's thing for Orions, but I find it intriguing and am happily shipping Pike/Gaila now. :D

YOU DID END UP INSPIRING IT, AFTER ALL. THE CREDIT, SHE IS YOURS.