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things I think about
May. 16th, 2012 11:36 pmAvengers: what does Thor make of Fury? Does he just assume he traded his eye for wisdom? Is Loki attacking SHIELD because he's displacing his issues with one-eyed authority figures? (Has anyone written fic about this?)
Do sedoretu make any sense in a world without moieties? In a proper sedoretu, can your same-moiety spouse be your sibling, or is that still icky? If the purpose of marriage is to create new alliances, essentially, it sort of seems like marrying your sibling would defeat the purpose, since you already have that relationship. But in fandom, trying to come up with possible sedoretu, it's very tempting to use sibling-pairs as a substitute for moiety, since it's got the right sort of connotations. (I have yet to come up with a sedoretu I really like in any fandom... ATLA has a large enough cast, I feel there ought to be a plausible one there somewhere, but there's always one of the legs that seems random and forced. I have a Huge plotbunny about Becca *imagining* a sedoretu between herself and Ali and Chloe and Trent, because you know she reads LeGuin, but that's meta.)
In a world with soulbonds, what happens if your soulmate turns out to be asexual, and you're not? I mean, I guess the idea of soulmates is supposed to be that they are your Perfect Match and once you see them you Just Can't Resist Each Other and so must Fuck Like Bunnies, but, I don't know, I'm intrigued by the idea of "soulmates" being people who just happen to have matching psychic signatures, or whatever, and this doesn't necessarily mean anything about them being *good* with each other, and certainly not in every possible way. (Er, except I want this ace/not!ace soulmates story to have a happy ending, so I guess the question is not "what happens" but rather "how do they work it out"...)
Do sedoretu make any sense in a world without moieties? In a proper sedoretu, can your same-moiety spouse be your sibling, or is that still icky? If the purpose of marriage is to create new alliances, essentially, it sort of seems like marrying your sibling would defeat the purpose, since you already have that relationship. But in fandom, trying to come up with possible sedoretu, it's very tempting to use sibling-pairs as a substitute for moiety, since it's got the right sort of connotations. (I have yet to come up with a sedoretu I really like in any fandom... ATLA has a large enough cast, I feel there ought to be a plausible one there somewhere, but there's always one of the legs that seems random and forced. I have a Huge plotbunny about Becca *imagining* a sedoretu between herself and Ali and Chloe and Trent, because you know she reads LeGuin, but that's meta.)
In a world with soulbonds, what happens if your soulmate turns out to be asexual, and you're not? I mean, I guess the idea of soulmates is supposed to be that they are your Perfect Match and once you see them you Just Can't Resist Each Other and so must Fuck Like Bunnies, but, I don't know, I'm intrigued by the idea of "soulmates" being people who just happen to have matching psychic signatures, or whatever, and this doesn't necessarily mean anything about them being *good* with each other, and certainly not in every possible way. (Er, except I want this ace/not!ace soulmates story to have a happy ending, so I guess the question is not "what happens" but rather "how do they work it out"...)
