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Some More Blathering About Vorkosigan
I'm through the Vorkosigan saga up through Mirror Dance now (currently backtracking to read Shards of Honor and Barrayar before I go on to Memory, and still trying to figure out how my ships line up with the general fandom.
My brief forays in Vorkosigan fic have suggested that the popular slash pairing is Miles/Gregor, and...I don't get it. I mean, it's not horrendously offensive to me, and I can see why people would ship it. It's not even that I don't think they would have sex! Because let's face it, they totally would (I have headcanon that Miles' sexuality is sort of the inverse of his father's - so, bi with a strong preference for women - and Gregor's just flexible, if limited in his options), and they would even probably be pretty sexually compatible, since Gregor's too afraid of his father's legacy to do anything too kinky and Miles is the most vanilla Vorkosigan ever. But as far as a relationship goes - well, leaving aside all the issues with their respective spouses/need for Gregor to make with the heirs/Barrayaran culture being what it is etc, I can't see it working long-term between them. It wouldn't even be the kind of facinating trainwreck I love in my fucked-up emotionally-damaged ships, it just wouldn't be that great for either of them. I don't know, maybe they just seem too similar in their outlook and the ways they are messed up to me? They are very different people, but their broken spots all seem to line up too well, and when I try to think about the pairing, it doesn't feel like it has any balance.
So, alas, there is loads of great-looking fic that I have absolutely zero interest in. So tragic! I'm not used to not shipping the juggernaut pairing in a fandom. :)
Meanwhile, I need to find where the internet is hiding all the Mark Vorkosigan fic. Because, okay, I adore Miles, I do! I would happily read stories about him being manic and brilliant and over-determined and getting horribly injured until the end of time. But...Mark. Maaaaaark. HE'S SO SULLEN AND BITTER AND DAMAGED AND I JUST WANT TO HUG HIM ALL THE TIME EXCEPT HE'D PROBABLY PUNCH ME IN THE KIDNEYS FOR TRYING BUT I DON'T CAAAARE. (seriously, hands up anyone who is even remotely shocked I imprinted on the biggest jerkass woobie in the books. Anyone? Bueller?) Not that many people seem interested in writing about him, which makes me sad, because I would love to have piles of fic where he learns how to have normal human emotions and gets ridiculously mothered by Cordelia (and Aral) and defeats his natural gift for failbending (or continues to failbend and then gets comforted when everything blows up in his face). Also, Bel Thorne/Mark/Kareen. TELL ME WHY THIS ISN'T A THING IT WOULD BE PERFECT.
I would be also be happy with fic where Aral and Cordelia take young Simon Illyan under their wing to further his cosmopolitan sexual education. Because every ImpSec officer needs to know how to comport himself in a mixed gender threesome, right? Right.
My brief forays in Vorkosigan fic have suggested that the popular slash pairing is Miles/Gregor, and...I don't get it. I mean, it's not horrendously offensive to me, and I can see why people would ship it. It's not even that I don't think they would have sex! Because let's face it, they totally would (I have headcanon that Miles' sexuality is sort of the inverse of his father's - so, bi with a strong preference for women - and Gregor's just flexible, if limited in his options), and they would even probably be pretty sexually compatible, since Gregor's too afraid of his father's legacy to do anything too kinky and Miles is the most vanilla Vorkosigan ever. But as far as a relationship goes - well, leaving aside all the issues with their respective spouses/need for Gregor to make with the heirs/Barrayaran culture being what it is etc, I can't see it working long-term between them. It wouldn't even be the kind of facinating trainwreck I love in my fucked-up emotionally-damaged ships, it just wouldn't be that great for either of them. I don't know, maybe they just seem too similar in their outlook and the ways they are messed up to me? They are very different people, but their broken spots all seem to line up too well, and when I try to think about the pairing, it doesn't feel like it has any balance.
So, alas, there is loads of great-looking fic that I have absolutely zero interest in. So tragic! I'm not used to not shipping the juggernaut pairing in a fandom. :)
Meanwhile, I need to find where the internet is hiding all the Mark Vorkosigan fic. Because, okay, I adore Miles, I do! I would happily read stories about him being manic and brilliant and over-determined and getting horribly injured until the end of time. But...Mark. Maaaaaark. HE'S SO SULLEN AND BITTER AND DAMAGED AND I JUST WANT TO HUG HIM ALL THE TIME EXCEPT HE'D PROBABLY PUNCH ME IN THE KIDNEYS FOR TRYING BUT I DON'T CAAAARE. (seriously, hands up anyone who is even remotely shocked I imprinted on the biggest jerkass woobie in the books. Anyone? Bueller?) Not that many people seem interested in writing about him, which makes me sad, because I would love to have piles of fic where he learns how to have normal human emotions and gets ridiculously mothered by Cordelia (and Aral) and defeats his natural gift for failbending (or continues to failbend and then gets comforted when everything blows up in his face). Also, Bel Thorne/Mark/Kareen. TELL ME WHY THIS ISN'T A THING IT WOULD BE PERFECT.
I would be also be happy with fic where Aral and Cordelia take young Simon Illyan under their wing to further his cosmopolitan sexual education. Because every ImpSec officer needs to know how to comport himself in a mixed gender threesome, right? Right.