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[graculus]

Don't you just hate it when you're happily reading a slash story and it's interesting, with well-written supporting original characters and a clever premise and then suddenly the protagonists are exchanging rings and getting married/bonded? Or is it just me that objects to grown men (or at least mostly-grown) losing all their semblance of a backbone and turning into blushing wannabe brides?

[Poll #750600]

Comments

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

I'd call it very out of character rather than blushing bride behaviour - I'm particularly sensitive to negative comparisons to women at the moment for some reason. It's not that there is an exchange of rings that tends to bother me, but instead it's the way it's done. These things can be done in character and it can work very well (not a single example is springing to mind, of course). But I'm not fond of OOC behaviour of any kind, not just the romantic kind.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Well, it was definitely a toss-up over who got to be 'the girl' as they were all somewhat OOC once the sappiness started creeping in...