Het pairings

[layne67]

Just wondering, does any of you read fanfics with het pairings? What het pairings have you read, or would read?

My het OTPs are Aragorn/Arwen and Mulder/Scully. I'm not too sure about this, but is it wrong to use the "/" in het pairings? I've read somewhere that the slash character "/" is what originally denotes the term "slash" in same-sex pairings written in fanfics. Anyone knows the history of the term "slash'?

Anyway, back to my het pairings.

Aragorn/Arwen. When I first read 'The Lord of the Rings', I totally fall for the dark, handsome Ranger. So much so that I had to stop reading the book for a while when Eowyn fall in love with him, I so did not want him to reciprocate in kind! Even after Eowyn met Faramir, I was still unsure that Aragorn would not declare his love for her. Not that I have anything against Eowyn. I think she was very brave and tragic and all that, and that moment when movie!Eowyn said "I am no man" before she killed the Witch King was one of my favourite, heart-stopping moments in the movie, but I was so in love with Aragorn that I didn't want him to be with any other woman. ( The slashy vibes that I got then were from Frodo/Sam and Merry/Pippin and maybe a little bit from Elladan/Elrohir and Faramir/Boromir, and as much as I'm squicked by this pairing - Legolas/Gimli ).

So, at the end of RotK when Aragorn was waiting for Arwen to join him at Minas Tirith ( at this point of the book I had to re-read 'The Council of Elrond' because I couldn't for the life of me remember who Arwen was ), I was so relieved to know that Aragorn would now never ask Eowyn to marry him that I actually didn't mind Arwen being the Queen instead. And I suppose her being an elf ( or half-elven ), and not an ordinary human, helped.

But I wasn't quite into Arwen yet then. I mean, there was hardly anything about her in the book proper. It was when I read the Appendix that I truly appreciate the magnitude of the love that Aragorn had for her, and Arwen for him.

Excerpt from ROTK : Appendix A(v) - Here follows a part of the tale of Aragorn and Arwen.

And suddenly even as he sang he saw a maiden walking on a greensward among the white stems of the birches; and he had halted amazed, thinking that he had strayed into a dream ... And behold! there Luthien walked before his eyes in Rivendell, clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home; her dark hair strayed in a sudden wind, and her brows were bound with gems like stars ... Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undomiel daughter of Elrond.

... and as he came walking towards her under the trees of Caras Galadhon laden with flowers of gold, her choice was made and her doom apppointed.

And who said that Tolkien didn't write any romance in The LotR?

*meltsmeltsmelts*

I was greatly disappointed when the EE DVD came out and there was no scene of young Aragorn courting Arwen. But maybe it was for the better. After all that scene where Anakin was frolicking around with Amidala in the grass turned out to be rather ridiculous, IMO.

As for Mulder/Scully. Omg I love these two together right from the very first episode of 'The X-Files'. The sexual tension between the two of them, which was never really said clearly, only implied, and which I think worked better when left to our imaginings, at least in the first few seasons that is, oh boy, I squeed like anything if they as much as looked at each other for longer than a few seconds!

Which is why I could never venture into 'The X-Files' fandom even though apparently there were quite a number of excellent fics over there. Mulder/Krycheck? Never. Mulder and Scully belonged to each other!

And when David Duchovny married that woman I was heartbroken for weeks. Still couldn't stand Tea Leoni until now :/

So, yeah, these two are my het OTPs. What about you?

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Heh. As far as het, I find Faramir/Eowyn to be very charming! But I am also working on a huge AU in which a premise of it is that Arwen never existed or sailed or something and Aragorn had fallen in love with Eowyn...So I could easily buy the Aragorn/Eowyn pairing (given no Arwen or Faramir as competition, lol!)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! My Arwen!!

*wails*

But, but, does that mean Aragorn didn't fall in love with Frodo either?

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

The whole point of this long fic is to get them together...eventually! :D

[montmorency.livejournal.com]

No het for me, thanks! That's likely because I've grown up reading classic lit which includes plenty of romances, not to mention seeing movie romances galore. I do love a good romance (Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, and more modern stuff as well). But there are pretty much zilch gay pairings until very recently. And most of those are still negative about homosexuality. So I look to fanfic for it, and I don't need fanfic for het romance.

Then again, het fanfic might feature erotica, which used to not be in mainstream literature.

Slash came from the "/" as far as I know, for Kirk/Spock way back when, I believe. But surely it's okay to write Mulder/Scully. When I first found some fanfic and read the term "slash" I was afraid it was something violent! Like S/M. *shudders delicately*

Gimme Orlijah forever!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

and I don't need fanfic for het romance.

Yeah, I know what you mean :)

And it was quite some time before I dared to email my first feedback to a slash author whose fic I really, really loved. And when she replied I was almost afraid to open it!

Gimme Orlijah forever!

Amen ...

[janinelearner.livejournal.com]

I tend not to read het fictional pairings but I do sometimes enjoy real person ones such as Viggo with a woman or at the moment the Supernatural guys with women. The only fictional pairings I've really enjoyed were Pirates ones, Jack/Elizabeth

[layne67.livejournal.com]

And where's Will? :)

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I very rarely read het, and it's probably for the reason that I've read so much fiction with het pairings over the years that it got a bit tiresome, and I really got tired of it. I've written a story with het, and I think it turned out okay, but it was my threesome story, and a lot of it was S/E slash too. And I wasn't surprised that I didn't have so many readers for that.

I just don't seem to have much interest in it anymore, not even Arwen/Aragorn.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I remember your vampire fic. Hey, that was good, you know!

[melyanna-65.livejournal.com]

Usually I don't read het fics (I don't know why, but I'm so attracted by slash - Frodo slash, actually).

I've just read some het fics, obviously involving Frodo, mostly with Pearl Took, sometimes with Rosie Cotton (alone or together with Sam), and other times with an original female character.

But my OTP is and remains Frodo / Sam.

*hugs*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

But of course, Frodo and Sam were made for each other, that goes without saying!

*huggles*

[lisabellex.livejournal.com]

In my pre-LJ days, before I discovered LOTR, I used to read Harry Potter het - Snape/older Hermione mostly - but that didn't last long once I discovered Snape/Harry. Then I found LOTR and left HP fandom forever, and it's been slash most of the way. I have read some het, but I don't enjoy reading it anywhere as much as I enjoy reading slash.

I used to love watching the X Files, too, btw. David Duchovny used to set my heart a-fluttering!

:D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Heh, Duchovny went from hero to zero when he got married. I still adore Mulder, though. And I really, really miss that show.

[lbilover.livejournal.com]

Vincent/Catherine from Beauty and the Beast. I actually found a couple of good fanfics with that pairing a few years ago. But I pretty much only read slash or gen anymore- I honestly don't recall where I found them, lol. I would probably read Mal/Inara from Firefly. I love the tension between those two characters.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I love Vincent/Catherine. I read mostly slash too nowadays though I do still read a lot of het romances in books. Hard to find a really good gay novel, most of them are nothing compared to the ones written by fanfic authors on the net.

[aredhelebenesse.livejournal.com]

I don't ever read het, I even (*blushes*) leaf over these passages in a novel or somewhere as soon as they become graphic or more than five lines long, because it's just soooo incredibly boring to me, like reading a computer manual. I have that het stuff every day in RL so I rather want to read about other nice romances which I can't have usually. And since I'm the blue eyed, kitschy type of Frodo fic reader who thinks he belongs absolutely to his Sam and to nobody else in all the universes, I think I couldn't stand him in love with any Hobbit girl, how sweet and lovely ever she may be. Merried to her ok, but not giving her voluntary all the treats Sam would deserve. F/S are yin and yang. :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

because it's just soooo incredibly boring to me, like reading a computer manual.

LOL that must have been a pretty bad het fic!!!

I love reading a good het romance, a love story, esp in novels, but you're right, sex between two guys are more exciting and arousing!

My own pet theory is that men are beautiful so it's natural that they would find other men beautiful too!

[aredhelebenesse.livejournal.com]

LOL that must have been a pretty bad het fic!!!

Oh, that's the same with each het romance. Even when I read Anne Rice. *yawns*

I think men and women are like apples and pears. It seems not go together somehow because the differences between them are to big. So it's what Mother Nature invented to breed the different kinds of living creatures nothing more. Fun is to find somewhere else. ;D LOL!

[theartoffic.livejournal.com]

I don't have any het OTP's although I did love Mulder and Scully! When they had that almost kiss in the movie I was like arrrggghhh! and I always wanted them to get together on the show. Would I have read M/S fanfic? Probably not. Because it just doesn't appeal to me. I mean there's het everywhere, pretty much in every story. Maybe I would've but I doubt it *g*.

I just find the thought of two hot guys going at each other so much more appealing. I mean, it's Orli and Elijah! At once! The thought of them together was so hot that I was actually able to write something to completion, with sex! (I'd tried to write for myself before, original fic, and could never finish anything. It just never rang true to me before slash and the all inspiring Orlijah). :D

*loffs*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! A fellow Mulder/Scully fan *lofffs* These two are just so right for each other. The chemistry ... you could light a fire from the sparks.

I should have mentioned in my post, the het pairings that I would read are not the NC17 ones. Nowadays I only enjoy the m/m ones, the het ones didn't do anything for me. Even when they're really erotic and written by published authors. Sometimes I'd even imagine the girl as Elijah to get some enjoyment. It's the *love stories* of the m/f that I enjoy, the romance, the courting, but the sex? Give me Orlijah, anytime, anywhere, anyhow :DD

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

I actually found Tea Leoni cute and approved Duchovny for choosing her. :D She looked intelligent and unusual, unlike all the blonde bimbos actors usually love hanging around with. And when Leoni was in Deep Impact, well, good job, Elijah! Lho? :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I wanted Mulder to marry Scully. I also wanted them to marry each other in RL!

And when I watched 'Deep Impact', I fast-forwarded *her* scenes.

*pokes voodoo needles at that woman*

:P:P:P

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

And I totally missed the point of this post. *headdesk*

Or perhaps it was intentional. You see, I don't read het and I don't even talk about it. If I want to read het, I can simply buy Harlequin. :P But slash, not too many books about it out there.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Aha. Then you haven't read 'As Meat Loves Salt' yet!! It's slash of the highest degree :D

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Nope, I can't find it here and not yet buy it from Amazon. :D

Btw, I found this: www.supernaturalville.net . It has fanfics. Perhaps there are slashy fics there. :)

[wynterhawk.livejournal.com]

*thinks* hmmmm het. Shy/Andrea from Haven and Will/Anamaria or Will/Tia Dalhma. I also like Cassie/Dean from Supernatural. :)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Not a fan of Will/Elizabeth, eh?

And for a moment there I read Cassie/Dean as Casey/Dean. Zeke won't like that. At all ;)