POLL TIME!

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[Poll #1058504]

ETA: When I said 'my' baby daddy, I mean yours. Not mine. Mine is spelled Adrian Matthew Pasdar-Damon. I like the hyphenate. I also like smart men. Who look good in suits. And some times lederhosen -- but that's another story for another day.

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I thought smarm was someone who was slimy and entirely too complimentary and made your skin crawl. There is a genre about -- wait. I am confused. The second half of that paragraph didn't make sense. And I quote two characters flirt for four chapters, hold hands, kiss, strip each other naked, and climb into bed together, that means they are going to have sex. Not cuddle in a totally non-sexual ("No, seriously," the author says, waving her hands wildly. "They are COMPLETELY STRAIGHT.")

That makes no sense. The author was in denial I take it. The epilogue probably had ass babies. ;)

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In fandom terms - and I knew this before I encountered my Pile o' Smarm, but I didn't get it, if you see what I mean - smarm is gen that is, um, intensely focused on the relationship between two men. (I don't think any het or f/f smarm exists, but maybe it does. What do I know?)

In practice, this works out so that you have stories where, for example (and this is a REAL EXAMPLE supplied by percysowner), Blair has to touch every square inch of Jim's naked body, and they get sweaty and so sticky that they need towels to clean up afterwards, and then they cuddle together naked while Jim reflects on how odd it is that anyone would think this might be a sexual relationship.

Because they are JUST GOOD FRIENDS.

(Note: I am probably biased by the fact that the second truly smarmy story I read had a note up top that said that a) slash sucked b) slash was destroying fandom and ruining lives and c) the author wrote the story to prove that you didn't need any of that nasty, dirty slash to write about REAL FEELINGS.)

The epilogue probably had ass babies.

Here's something I hoped I'd never have to say: these stories would be greatly improved by the addition of ass babies.

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I have no idea what fandom you are referring to, and BOY, am I glad. Slash is ruining fandom, so here I will slash two men and get them sticky and naked and have them need towels to prove how bad that is. What's that saying about fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity...