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Answering

yahtzee63's 5 questions...

1) Why has nobody yet written a Jeeves books/V crossover? (See my LJ for details.)

Well, because, while Jeeves could probably prepare any number of amazing rodent dishes, I believe they have to be eaten raw, which Bertie would probably strenuously object to.

2) Why always the old guys for slash pairings? (Not that I don't love them too.)

This is a good question. And I've been pondering it for a few days, and I think I have, if not *the* answer, *an* answer. Putting aside the father-figure Freud-talk for the moment --

I am not exclusively drawn to older men couples in my slash, but there is definitely something there that has strong attraction for me. In UNCLE fandom, for example, I prefer reading stories that have them together in their fifties and sixties than stories which take place during the series (this doesn't mean I don't like stories that take place during the series). My current obsession with Jed Bartlet and Leo McGarry isn't so much about age qua age as it is deep, long-term friendship being something I find very appealing and easy to sway in my slash version of the world.

But the loyalty and friendship is also only part of it. I think that for me there is something inherently appealing about ease and comfort - that sliding into a sexual relationship after knowing someone for thirty or forty years is more comfortable, and easy, and less fraught, than embarking on a romantic relationship when young (whether this is true or not, I don't particularly care). I like a good angst-filled drama as much as anyone who likes a good angst-filled drama, and obstacles in the way, deftly placed, make for some great stories; but for whatever reason, my appreciation is ultimately stronger for the pleasure of sinking into a comfortable chair with a cup of hot chocolate than it is for insane, fraught emotional turmoil capped by athletic sex. There is an end-of-journey, returning-to-the-warmth-of-home element that I enjoy in my fictions of older men - that they've lived, and experienced, and loved and been with other people, but always with that one person as a presence by their side, and then they turn around and realize (or allow themselves the freedom to act on) the fact that they've always had this person they love with them. (In West Wing fandom, of course, it's more complicated... but that's fun too.)

Or maybe I just like old guys.

3) What was the definitive New Wave band?

Definitive? That's a tough call - Talking Heads, Psychedelic Furs, Men Without Hats, XTC ... I guess maybe I'll go with Eurhythmics, because that's the definitive one for me. When I think of the term "New Wave", I think of Annie Lennox.

4) What's your favorite cuisine? (Italian, Chinese, Thai, French, whatever)

Currently Thai. It changes. I'm particularly fond of Pad See Eew, Lad Nar, and Thai iced Coffee. But if you wave Buffalo Joe's wings in my face, I'll leave the Thai restaurant in a hurry.

5) Hugh Jackman's Van Helsing hair: Pro or con?

Con. But only because I've never been as keen on long hair on men as I am on short hair.

Next up will be

sockkpuppett - and I'll be toddling over to

yahtzee63's lj with five questions of my own shortly.