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[nny]

I'm reading a fic on someone's journal right now, and it's got a header with Jack/Ennis, and the text says a love that will/never grow old. And I'm like... heh, you may be right, but it will grow a poorly judged mustache...

I dunno. Where do you stand on Happily Ever Afters? What's your ultimate one? Argument's sake, the greatest love story ever told is Romeo and Juliet, even though I hate hate hate that designation, purely because there was never time for the bloom to fade from the rose, as the clichés'd have it.

Me? I like Happily Ever Afters, so long as there's snarking. I'm a romantic of a queer sort. I like happy endings where no one admits that there're feelings involved, where there is much huffing and talk of putting up with each other, where people gravitate towards each other even if only so they can bitch. I like equality and co-dependence, I like a little uncertainty on both sides, I like bull-dozing with a layer of trepidation carefully hidden.

(Mostly, at the moment, I like John/Rodney. *grins* Also? Red wine.)

How 'bout you?

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[ashen_key]

I like happily ever afters...but yeah, a bit like the kind you have mentioned. Of course it depends on the couple involved. But one where they still talk and argue and snark and be stupid and be serious, but just that they are at least fairly certain that they have somewhere to return - fairly certain, or KNOW, it depends on the characters.

So far the best happy ever after I've recently read isn't even one that's described all the way in the books. Asterion-Weyland Orr/Corneila-Caela-Noah Banks. They've been married for centuries by the last book, and though they have drifted apart slightly, they go back together because they SUIT each other so damn well. They LIKE each other, and respect each other, and the love came from that rather then just sheer lust or passion. I guess that is what I like, a happy ever after where for all the arguing and snarking and passion, there is like and respect as well.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds sweet! What's that from?

[ashen_key]

The Troy Game, by Sara Douglass. I've actually kinda spoilered a large part of the third and fourth books with what I've just said, but they are my OTP right now. And. Will be for a while, actually. They are...okay, it's the best series I've read for a long time. The characters are getting reincarnated, and while the first book is a bit of a drag, oh my the others. The characters GROW UP. And MATURE. It's wonderful. It starts in Ancient Greece, with the Minotaur (who is Asterion-Weyland Orr) and his half-sister Ariadne plotting to destroy the world. Asterion spends the first two and a half books being the villain.

And. Weyland Orr/Noah Banks. For example, I can't find the exact quote but this is it paraphrased.

Noah: You know, you are the first man I've lived with to give me even the tinest bit of respect.
Weyland: Well, you are the first woman I have actually liked.
Noah: Oh, what a wicked witch I am...I have made Asterion 'like'.

[ashen_key]

Also, this?

I like happy endings where no one admits that there're feelings involved, where there is much huffing and talk of putting up with each other, where people gravitate towards each other even if only so they can bitch. I like equality and co-dependence, I like a little uncertainty on both sides, I like bull-dozing with a layer of trepidation carefully hidden.

Actually sounds like Ajedrez/Sands, in the AU that Susan and I are threading whenever our pups in bar make us go 'ow, ow, ow' too much. They spend so much time arguing and snarking, but in the end of the day they'd much rather be fighting with one and other then apart. And given that they both play things close to their chest, I think that there'll always be uncertainity there.