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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

An underrated kink, as they run.

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

Dude, just look at the people I love in fandoms: Parker, Hardison, Eliot, Arthur from Inception, Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Fraser... Hells yes to the competance porn,

[skygiants]

I love competence! I especially love when characters who would often be played as incompetent-for-easy-comic-relief get to, indeed, be competent and awesome (ex. SOKKA, LOVE OF MY LIFE.)

HOWEVER, I also love moments of normal human failiness from the normally very competent. Because human beings screw up! Batman forgets his cell phone one day, or grabs the wrong tool: I LOVE THAT ALSO.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Man competence kink is right up there with curtainfic and babies in the I DON'T GET IT stakes for me. I like my folken to be on my level, which means, you know, capable of screwing up and then admitting to it.

ETA: further discussion.

del: I actually find endless competence intimidating and therefore off-putting.
del: I mean, if they're better than me at everything what is the point of me being in the relationship?
del: they can just wank to the mirror

[batyatoon]

I probably ought to have clicked "some combination of the above" instead of "HELL YES", but really: HELL YES. It's just that I also like competence from the faily, or from the expected-to-be-faily.

And ... I like the competent to not be infallible.

[batyatoon]

Well, hang on, there's a difference between "competent" and "better than me at everything", isn't there?

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Thus speaks the lucky commenter who has never been exposed to my depthless incompentence. :P

[batyatoon]

*wince* aww.

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

All of the above, really.

I like hypercompetent people in fiction: well, one of my first fictional crushes was Jeeves, so what does that tell you? I like them IRL, too, as long as they're not judgmental of my ditziness. I also like it when they make a mistake, or are shown to have one strong area of fail (usually in fannish canons it's Dealing With Emotions), because it does humanize them.

I also like loveable dorks, both when they screw up a lot in things that don't matter much, and when they show sudden and unexpected competence and save the day: it gives me hope.

The only variation I'm not able to deal with is when incompetent people are repeatedly failing in positions of responsibility, and/or in ways that drastically affect the lives of others. Never fails to make me wince. And really, dude, if I wanted to see that I'd watch the news.

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

I like competence in very specific areas, but not really in general, so I have more of a problem-solving/logic/science nerd kink (as long as it's balanced by ineptitude in other areas!). Ahahahah oh hello narcissism!

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

I like competence, and especially where you wouldn't expect it. Sam, for example, in The Lord Of The Rings, who just wins at everything by the end. I don't fancy Sam, don't get me wrong, but he is very very cool.

I like competence in real life, too. I loved it when I was attached to my fiancé's ward, and he was there being the competent and kind doctor who everyone loved, and he was mine. *melts* xxx