Okay, is this annoying or am I just weird?

[effervescible]

What is the deal with (some) yaoi fans listing their pairings as A x B/B x A? I'm aware that the order indicates who's on top, but it is really important enough to justify writing it twice like that? There's a lot more to romance/sex/whatever makes you write a pairing than just who's being schtupped, and the way it's written makes it look like they have multiple personalities or something. Plus it seems too me that by making a big deal out of what is, to me, just an fyi for those who want to know what characters are in the fic, it's being kinda pretentious, and that makes my head explode.

But then, I wouldn't categorize myself as a yaoi fan, so maybe it's just something I'm missing. mistressrenet? uiggu? What say you? Does it really matter?

Comments

[angstymcgoth.livejournal.com]

I think that's all another way of writing "pairing reversible" which is what you also see sometimes--like Renet said, it's just the acknowledgement that there is no set top in the relationship and you're dealing with men, dammit, MEN! Also, in some fics that tend to be longer, they can have both W/V and V/W.