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	tehrin 2007-04-18 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	For some reason, it bothers me with 'mate' is used in fiction to describe someone's lover. I dunno why. Anyone else feel this? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	singe 2007-04-18 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	It's got a bestiality sort of tone to it. And we don't want that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chaimonkey 2007-04-18 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. The further we can get from human/animal relations, the better. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-04-19 01:51 am UTC (link)
	nods (Reply to this)(Parent)

	xero_sky 2007-04-18 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	It's probably the second most commonly used word in DBZ fics, right after "the". So, no, not really. However, since I'm going to hell anyway: "His mate? A unicorn!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tehrin 2007-04-19 01:08 am UTC (link)
	That must be it. DBZ was my first online fandom I was involved in. But then, everything about DBZ was uber cheesy so "mate" was a bit more tolerable in context. Unicorn power! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	joye 2007-04-18 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	I'd like to think that the people who do that will someday meet up with a large gang of seriously pissed-off Australians. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2007-04-19 12:43 am UTC (link)
	OT, but eeee, makani art! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	joye 2007-04-19 01:08 am UTC (link)
	I <3 her way too much. She commented positively on one of my Draco/Pansy fics and I just about died from squee. I've always really liked your icon too. Monty Python's mock-BBC announcements were so great. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2007-04-19 01:15 am UTC (link)
	I usually don't have much to do with HP fanart, but I fangirl makani like whoa. Her facial expressions are amazing, and the fan illustrations she did for chapter two of HBP just blew me away, especially the one where Narcissa looks every inch the puddle of grieving despair and Bellatrix is just bitchily telling her to suck it up. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	suzycat 2007-04-22 09:36 am UTC (link)
	Well, the ties of mateship are very intense. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	notjo 2007-04-19 01:03 am UTC (link)
	I had a friend who insisted on doing that in conversations. She'd talk about how relations should be with "one's mate", and I just wanted to scream. Was never able to quite articulate why. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tehrin 2007-04-19 01:09 am UTC (link)
	IMO, people should use the word lover a lot more. I like that word. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2007-04-19 01:13 am UTC (link)
	I like it to. But it usually trips over my tongue. I'm a bit of a prude (no, really? gasp) and the idea of confirming to people that I have actually had sex... ... I need to get over that, cuz damn sex is fun. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	lykomancer 2007-04-19 01:56 am UTC (link)
	I have to disagree and be the minority: I dislike the word "lover" strongly and much, much prefer to hear "mate". I don't know why; personal preference, I guess. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	puipui 2007-04-19 04:27 am UTC (link)
	But that's not what they said in that other wank! (Reply to this)(Parent)

limyaael
2007-04-19 03:02 am UTC (link)

I dislike it because it often implies that the story is heading in the direction of the soulmate premise and/or that one person is a creature of some kind and needs to "mate" to live. I hate both ideas. I would especially like to see them die out of any fiction involving werewolves, plzkthx. (Wolves will mate with their relatives and prevent subordinates in the pack from breeding. They also regurgitate food for their pups. For some reason, this is never considered sexy enough to be in the werewolf fiction).

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	julesnoctambule 2007-04-19 03:23 am UTC (link)
	They also regurgitate food for their pups I have to work this into a fic now, somehow. Have to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goldberry 2007-04-19 04:21 am UTC (link)
	Lupin adopts Harry - hilarity ensues. Nodnods (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	aposiopetic 2007-04-19 04:20 am UTC (link)
	While it wasn't portrayed in a sexy way (and, umm, rightfully so), the whole regurgitation bit was in a Snape/Lupin fic, Motherless Child by Ellid (which can be found on Moonshadow). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	onaga 2007-04-19 04:21 am UTC (link)
	In my friend's werewolf story, there is actually something about their dogs (i.e. pets) not needing to be spayed/neutered because the werewolves give off hormones that basically sterilized the dogs. There are no pups, though. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dragonfangirl 2007-04-19 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	In fairness, you could argue that werewolves don't need to regurgitate food because they have hands and thus can carry it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	yaoiko 2007-04-19 05:01 am UTC (link)
	I see it so much in the furry wankage that it kinda makes me wince on instinct. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amxjm 2007-04-19 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Same here, except it's more of an immune "meh" reaction. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lady7jane 2007-04-19 03:01 pm UTC (link)
	I know someone who is bothered by the casual use of the word 'lover'. Maybe the two of you could become mates? I mean the English kind of mates, of course! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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