Poll re-post

[swissmarg]

Re-posting the poll since the first one seems to be messed up. I can't even delete it. Hopefully this one will work:

[Poll #1940543]

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[swissmarg]

I never shipped any slash pairings until John/Sherlock. I'm pretty much a canon whore, so I generally have to see the chemistry in the original material before I can get behind a ship. I also ship Spock/Uhura, for example, but just don't see Kirk/Spock. So for Ballykissangel, I shipped Peter/Assumpta, which was the main pairing anyway.

Snape/Hermione is sort of an odd exception of a pairing that I was totally puzzled by when I first heard about it (student/teacher, age gap), and that I definitely don't see in the books, but I read a fic just to see how that could possibly work, and it just grabbed me hard. Unfortunately, I don't know which fic it was any more.

So anyway, John/Sherlock is a pairing that I really see a basis for in the series, even if it's meant to be platonic. They are, as Moffat said, simply "two blokes who get on instantly and without qualm... and we all want to have a friendship like that."

And yes, I am a stereotypical Ravenclaw. Grades were (in my school days) everything, and I'm still a total nitpicker.

Pottermore, tbh, isn't really worth it in my opinion. It has some interesting content, but mostly I found it too slow and 'young' for me. That was back when it first opened, though. I haven't been back on in over a year.

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

My first slash pairing was Frodo/Sam but when I look at the films and books I enjoyed when I was younger I realize that if I had known that slash existed and what it was, I'd have been a slasher far earlier. I mean, I have read and watched Maurice, Another Country, Priest etc etc etc... :) But ever since I discovered slash I have a hard time with reading het.

Snape/Hermione - Oh, that's interesting - seduced by a fic! ;-)

I feel with Sherlock and John it's easy to slash them because they already have a lot of incarnations, starting with Conan Doyle and then all the films and TV series, some of which ventured into gay relationship territory. :) And the BBC series makes it very easy to give them that little push from a platonic to a non-platonic love. :)

I'm not a huge HP fan but I would like to let myself get sorted. And I recently happened to walk by the place where JK Rowling wrote the books and that rekindle my interest a bit. :)