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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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[skygiants]

"I think we ought to live happily ever after. It should be hair-raising."

"And you'll exploit me."

"And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me."

Howl's Moving Castle. Happily Ever After = snark + bitching over who gets the last muffin + equality + partnership, in the end, balancing out each other's weak points, and that's the kind that works for me, really.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I neeeed to read that book. The end of the film was way too schmaltzy for DWJ, excellent fun as it was. I really need to read more of her output in general, actually, since Archer's Goon is totally one of my favourite books of all time.

[skygiants]

That was my biggest beef with the film, was the schmalzty ending - that and the way they turned Howl into a paragon. And no, they can't do that, because Howl is selfish and vain and cowardly, and Sophie is insecure and judgmental and also kind of self-centered, and that's the point, it works because of the flaws. Not because of the lack thereof.

(And yes. More DWJ in general. Because she rocks.)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

YES. I was casting around trying to think of a Happily Ever After that I liked, and Howl & Sophie's is perfect.