that post about how Bones and Danno are kind of the same.

iberiandoctor and I were talking yesterday about how ships can be the same, that what drew you into one ship can draw you into some other one because it pings the same little place in your heart, and that reminded me that I hadn't written that Danno-is-sort-of-Bones thing. It's become more than that in the thinking about it!

( details on many ships, plus one picture )

tl;dr: I've realized that I'm drawn to hyper verbal emotionally volitile characters, over and over again, and it doesn't matter all that much what they look like or what gender they are. It's much more about how they are able to put words together to describe exactly how they are feeling at that moment, because they have MANY FEELINGS, and how the people around them react either by talking right back to them, or by letting their words flow over them like a comforting rain. Give me that, and you'll get a shipper.

(I've attempted to talk about my personal tastes and preferences without apologizing for them or defending them against disparaging remarks that are often made, and instead presented them as something that is actually awesome because you know? They totally are! But that doesn't mean that other tastes aren't actually awesome, too.)

this week in tv

No Glee til next week, no Community til 3/17, no more 5-0, Castle or HIMYM til 3/21, and only one more week of White Collar. Justified and Top Chef, you're gonna have to do some heavy lifting around here, because my vague disinterest in both a Simon-free Idol and a Derek-and-Maks-free DwtS may make for an antsy spring.

( HIMYM )

( Castle )

( White Collar )

( Top Chef )

( Justified )