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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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I'm always torn. There's my cynical side, which is all "well, yeah, people can love and support each other, but it is unlikely to last forever since at some point one of the people concerned will die, and also, long-term relationships of any sort take a hell of a lot of work - not that that work can't be worth it". But I do think love exists, caring and friendship and support and all those other good things can exist, and I do tend to want that for my favourite characters. (I think it's why I like angst - then I can feel that the characters earned that happy ending, on a level beyond 'I love them so therefore everything must be nice'.) I like stories where the happy - or maybe 'positive', because I don't expect them to be happy all the time, just... in a good place, mentally and emotionally and if needs be ecumenically - is tempered a bit, with snark and realistic details.

So, er, basically I agree with you? Not that this is much of a surprise...