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Wow, I just had a serious out of body, oh my god I'm getting old experience.

See, I have insomnia so I'm catching up on shit my DVR has recorded and among the shows is Secret Circle (don't judge), the new CW show about witches. Now, the fact that it's a show about teenagers is not what made me feel old. It's been a long time since I was a teenager, and I like coming of age stories so I've dealt with that.

No. It was the moment the main character pulled her mother's dusty old yearbook out of a closet. And it was labeled 1995. This was the point it smacked me in the face that I'm older than the parents on the show.

WTF

Types?

Now that I am back to scrubbing for my OT3 and not just Mac's ridiculous life on its own, Li Ann is coming back into focus and I am reminded quite strongly that I still do REALLY LIKE GIRLS. This is a relief. And she's pretty much my perfect woman right there. Which got me to thinking that I really do have pretty strong preferences in type when it comes to my fictional crushes.

Women? Super competent, independent, and a strong sense they could at any point throw me to the ground and kick my ass (or, um, other things). It's not so much that I like girls with guns as what the guns usually represent, which is a take no bullshit attitude. I have the same kind of reaction to women characters that are super competent and in control in any sphere of influence, it is just that very often tv shorthand involves giving her a gun or the ability to punch people in the face, especially in genre tv. As I am a big fan of people getting punched in the face in my fiction (Jesse during our last visit "Are you sure you're a pacifist?") this is not a conflict for me.

What's interesting to me is that my taste in dudes has not really changed with the addition of the occasional "I'd so hit that" of late. Adorable goofballs, weirdos, fuckups and tricksters only need apply. It's pretty much my exact opposite taste in women. Actual dudely dudes with no mitigating loserboy tendencies can mostly just walk on by.

So yeah. That's my type. What's yours?

(I have not slept yet due to insomnia again, which means I'm trying to stay awake to a decent enough hour that when I do fall asleep it is on a somewhat normal schedule so I may be spamming today)