Collected Thoughts

Well let's see. I've tried various times through out the day to write an entry on either the whole Lex and evil issue that's floating around or my feelings about characters and my non shipperness.

My whole take on Lex and Clark is this...they have aspects of their personality that are similar. They are going to be enemies, they are coming from very different moral backgrounds. Clark and Lex aren't going to see eye to eye. Whether or not Lex's actions are going to be evil aren't can't be determined yet because they haven't happened. I mean, he could go all Nasty Big Time Evil and put Lionel to shame, but on the other hand he could just Be Misunderstood. At this point it's all specualation. Hell Smallville writers could get really wacky and have Clark take a moral left turn at Albaqureque and end up some Megolmaniac Dictator. I seriously doubt that, but Hey! The future is unwritten so anything is possible.

Basically I don't see a reason to get worried about what MIGHT happen. It might. It might not. That's why we write, to work our own twist into things.

I will never understand the character wars. I guess until there's some character I'm desperately passionate about, so far whenever I get to excited I always pull back and think "it's just a tv show" or "it's just a movie". No offense meant to anyone, that's just how I am.

I can see Clark's good points and I can see his faults. I can see Lex's faults and his good points. I like them both. It's like an Optical Illusion Picture...you look once and it's a goblet, you look again and it's two women in profile facing each other. Every time you look back it's on or the other, and sometimes both. That's how I am with characters, sometimes I see one side, sometimes I see the other and sometimes I see both.

I'm not a 'shipper. I didn't start reading fanfiction because I saw subtext or wanted to find stories about a het couple. I started reading gen stories in Highlander because they were an extension of the show. I found stories with sex and read those, I found slash and...well, at first I didn't see the appeal. Then I found a story that showed me the appeal. I read Star Treak:TNG and DS9 stories, mostly gen or het. Then my computer was fried. And I didn't emerge back online until after Buffy was on. This is beside the point.

I like characters, it's why I read fanfiction now. I like reading how different authors interpert the characters, I like getting inside the characters' heads and crawling around and discovering what's in there. There's no real pair I'm so over the moon about that I can't imagin the two with other people. I could even believe a well written Clark and Lana story. I'm convinced Lana isn't that vapid, she's just badly acted.

I've read too many pairings to read, I've liked a lot of pairings, I've even found writers who've written stories with pairings I didn't think I'd like. I was able to like the stories because of how well the characters were written, I believed in how they were acting.

I read anything...happyfic, angstyfic, darkfic, fluffyfic, long stories, drabbles, snippets, smut, PWP, gen, het, slash. Damnit! I like fanfiction! I like to read. I figure I don't limit myself when I read books or when I watch movies, why would I limit myself when it comes to fanfiction?