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Popping in briefly with a meme.

danachan asked me (wayyyy too long ago, I am exceedingly tardy) about seven of my interests: batcest, bisexual hobbits, bodice laces, frodo/pippin, lusty hobbit wenches, pippin/diamond, and stephanie brown. Here are a few of my thoughts on why these are in my interests list:

batcest: The Batfamily is a collection of non-biologically-related heroes with interrelated philosophies and hero identities, as well as matching hair and eye colors (the guys, anyway). In both canon and fanon people (characters and authors) play with the familial aspects of their relationships. Add sexual relationships to this and, well, the term 'batcest' sums up a great deal of the result.
bisexual hobbits: Following in the lead of, among other authors I admire, strangerian and danachan, I fleshed out hobbit culture as I saw fit. Many societies (more than we in the US often remember) have culturally mediated bisexuality of various forms, and I decided that if I was going to write slash about hobbits I wanted to play with that idea, rather than make the hobbitlasses vanish or vilify them, two methods of handling the female characters that are popular in fandom but not with me. Also, there's a certain homosociality to hobbit culture that doesn't require but does fit with this... which is all a long-winded way of saying that I like the idea of bisexual hobbits, so I write them that way.
bodice laces: Because one can pull them loose with one's teeth.
frodo/pippin: It probably started with Mr. Wood's and Mr. Boyd's pointy noses, but the more I thought about Frodo and Pippin the more I could see similarities between them, and thus a relationship for them with aspects of mirroring through time to it; Frodo can see himself in youth, Pippin where he might grow to. Besides, "Little Knight" and "A Fair and Lordly Lad" remain two of my favorite stories I wrote in hobbitfandom, and I can't often say that of things I wrote that long ago.
lusty hobbit wenches: I love hobbitlasses; I'm always interested in my fellow women in various societies, after all. And I can't help but see them as being as earthy and vibrant, and lusty, as the hobbitlads. Besides, the phrasing makes me smile.
pippin/diamond: What was the lass like whom Pippin married? Especially being a Took herself? I like imagining a Diamond with whom he can be happy, and imagining what Pippin's adulthood and Thainship were like through her eyes.
stephanie brown: Steph Brown unexpectedly stole my heart. Born a villain's daughter, she made herself a hero; for awhile, she was an Everyperson viewpoint on the wondrously freaky and insane Batfamily. And then, after being an awesome character with a well-defined, dynamic personality, she became a symbol of the way female characters are 'fridged, are killed to cause male characters angst and then ignored and forgotten. So for all these reasons, and more, Stephanie Brown remains an interest of mine.

Ordinarily, here I'd say "and if you want I'll pick seven of your interests" here, but considering how long it took me to answer this, perhaps I shouldn't.