Consonants and vowels all together, equally

Or, some thoughts on RPS.

But first, a rec: Belongs to Us is worth joining punditslash to read. (All the TDS/TCR and CNN/MSNBC type RPS is locked in the comms because the Comedy Central blog has a tendency to link to them.) Fantastic Keith Olbermann/Dan Patrick slash with all the backstory, regret and make-up sex of your average golden age Sirius/Remus fic. ( A short version of their backstory, and perhaps why you should care. ) The title of this entry is from their radio show where they did an extended and completely hilarious riff on Larry King.

The start of American Idol, and more directly my posts about them, always makes me vaguely nervous about ( the risks of tinhattery that one always runs when thinking about RPS. )

So I thought, more for my own feeling of comfort than any of yours as many of you assure me that you don't think of me as a tinhat, that I would lay out what I actually think is going on, rather than my fun shippiness, so you see that you know, I'm not crazy. Also I was thinking about this after reading the TWoP recaps for last week. ( From what I've seen, we have four possibilities for what is a actually going on with Ryan and Simon. )

All that said, I think I write Ryan/Simon the way that I do not only to make a comment about what is going on with the show—a sort of fictional meta, if you will—but also to make Simon a tiny bit nicer than he actually is, and give Ryan the reward he does deserve, and in general make them both just a little bit braver than they are. Ryan and Simon make a great pair because Ryan is one of the few people who really isn't afraid of Simon one little bit, but also likes and respects him, while Simon responds very well to Ryan and sometimes is just a little bit nicer because of him. And you know how I love couples who can get under each other's skin.