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Snagged from urania_calliope.

Check my fandoms, my favorite characters, the pairings I like the most, my kinks, my fictional crushes, anything. Now, in a friendly and possibly teasing way, point out the obvious and not so obvious trends or fetishes you see in my tastes. Maybe I'm nuts for all vampire stories, or have a thing for men who smoke, or I'm fond of the tsundere archetype, or I'm into rival slash. Let's point out all of those you've noticed I tend to squee about during our friendship.

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I feel like you've emphasized the role of romance a lot more than I do - which is probably because you know me mostly from my most shippy fandom, but outside of Spike/Buffy and Logan/Veronica, I'm not really a big shipper.

Well, yeah. I'm sure there's a lot more to it. I'm not a fan of romance at all, unless it's Grand Romance. For me, that doesn't mean that the scale has to be epic, but that the stakes have to be very high. Lives hanging in the balance, apocalypses looming, etc.

I find that the couples I am most passionate about tend to have epic romances (lives ruined, bloodshed), and they do both happen to be "enemies" that couldn't resist the sinister attraction.

See, this is why I insist you rent "Heathers." It is essentially BTVS minus the vamps. It has star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of the battlefield, tons of snarky angst, a mounting body count, good and evil and the sticky grey areas in-between, etc. The character of Veronica is basically a "pre-Buffy" Buffy, and her love interest J.D. manages to out-Spike Spike. I'm sure you will love it.

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See, this is why I insist you rent "Heathers."

I have it! I have it! I rented it from Netflix. Will report back.