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Lalalala Once a Thief again. Mostly me being frustrated, because much as I enjoy the slashiness of Mac/Vic (and I really DO) I am finding it literally impossible to roll with it outside the context of the OT3...which means wallowing in what little fannish content there is available out there is mostly unsatisfying. This is a personal issue, I know, and I don't begrudge the joy of boyslash only for those who do not share my issues...but I just can't :(
I suppose I can sort of see it being plausible that Victor could move on from Li Ann (though not likely), but Mac? No way. Just...no. And if you put Mac and Vic together...well, just, so much of who they are together and to each other is defined by who Li Ann is to them that it all just falls apart in my head if she's not with them. Weirdly, I do not have an issue with the idea of any of the three of them finding individual partners outside that trio, though I kinda wish Mac wouldn't if only because I'm pretty sure all Li Ann would have to do is say 'jump' and he'd drop whoever he was with so fast their head would spin and that would not be a nice thing to do to someone, even if she never said 'jump'. But within that trio? No. Either they are all together, on their way to all being together (and I am totes cool with the kind of angsty confusion and misunderstandings of 'on the way to' that may ensue), or none of them are. No halvsies. I am equally incapable of dealing with Li Ann/Mac without Victor or Victor/Li Ann without Mac too, but given what's out there this is not exactly an issue that has come up.
I get that this is probably stubbornly irrational of me, but there it is. Shipping is hard you guys.
I suppose I can sort of see it being plausible that Victor could move on from Li Ann (though not likely), but Mac? No way. Just...no. And if you put Mac and Vic together...well, just, so much of who they are together and to each other is defined by who Li Ann is to them that it all just falls apart in my head if she's not with them. Weirdly, I do not have an issue with the idea of any of the three of them finding individual partners outside that trio, though I kinda wish Mac wouldn't if only because I'm pretty sure all Li Ann would have to do is say 'jump' and he'd drop whoever he was with so fast their head would spin and that would not be a nice thing to do to someone, even if she never said 'jump'. But within that trio? No. Either they are all together, on their way to all being together (and I am totes cool with the kind of angsty confusion and misunderstandings of 'on the way to' that may ensue), or none of them are. No halvsies. I am equally incapable of dealing with Li Ann/Mac without Victor or Victor/Li Ann without Mac too, but given what's out there this is not exactly an issue that has come up.
I get that this is probably stubbornly irrational of me, but there it is. Shipping is hard you guys.
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Shipping is really hard.
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That is exactly the sound my brain makes when it freezes up! And I'm like, self, be rational...Mac and Vic are about to have the sex and you are all ABOUT that, and so you can just fill in the Li Ann bits in your head and it's all good. And my self responds with...nooooooooooooooooooo. It's been like an allergic reaction that gets progressively worse. At first I had a little rash but I still liked the taste. Now I'm going into anaphylactic shock :(
I think I just don't want to live in a world, even temporarily, where Mac did not also doodle Li Ann's name surrounded by hearts on the same piece of paper he wrote the 'Do you like me? Check yes or no' note that he slipped Vic when the Director wasn't looking during a briefing.
Which he would totally do, just to fuck with Vic. Complete with sincere moony faces. And Vic would be like 'oh my god what the shit is this?' to Li Ann and she'd be like 'he's twelve that's what this is, and I know exactly how you can fuck with him back' And then Mac and Vic would spend the rest of the day trying to one up each other in mimicking a junior high crush on the other one until somehow it ended up with them making out in the backseat of a car on a stakeout and liking it.
SEE, I DO WANT IT...just...not the way I can mostly get it.
*cries*
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