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Can be anything you want, including top/bottom preferences. I'm in a glass fucking house over here, I ain't judging.

Sam Bridges/Higgs Moanghan. The fandom loves to woobify Higgs, but in doing that they make Sam, who is most probably autistic, some kind of ace, and most definitely wants people to leave him the hell alone, into a doting, touchy-feely, emotionally smart and available dominant. LOLOLOLOLOLOLNO.

Not necessarily majority, more like 50/50 maybe? And the other interpretation is getting less popular. But when I joined the Silmarillion fandom, the most popular interpretation of Melkor/Sauron basically had Melkor abusing/torturing Sauron and Sauron being almost a bit wooby? And when I started the fandom, I thought that was how it was. But as I read more stuff and my interpretation of Sauron coalesced in my brain more, I started to see that as really OOC. And now I just plain hate that intepretation.

Kylo/Hux. Hux is the dom. Maybe Kylo tops sometimes. But Hux is definately the dom.

Spike/Buffy. Buffy is the dominant in that one, whereas she's the more submissive one when she's with Angel. Honestly, my favorite way to ship them is all three together.

I like the idea of Maedhros/Fingon. But I honestly don't think Maedhros would have wanted or been able to have sex after his imprisonment. I think he was 100% asexual due to trauma.

Edited 2025-11-06 01:50 (UTC)

I don't ship it myself (I'm purely neutral on it), but I do agree about Kylo/Hux. Kylo has STRONG sub energy to me. Not to make light of his canonical atrocities or suggest he's not a dangerous, embittered despot in the making, but man, the Little Boy Lost vibes are just pouring off of him.

Objectively, I completely agree with you about Spuffy, too. Unfortunately, my brain doesn't do fem!Dom. It's dumb, I know; I'm as feminist as anybody and hell yes women can Dom. But you can't always pick what you find hot.

Apparently a lot of Dean/Castiel shippers prefer Dean as a bottom. But my favorites are always the one I like to be the bottom/sub/omega so I'm the opposite for several fandom ship preferences.

I don't have preferences on position for them, but I do see Dean as somewhat submissive, even in his het relationship. I don't actually have a preference for Cas other than that I don't ship him with anyone but Dean.

Sam on the other hand is definitely dominant.

I really only have one ship that is an OTP that I don't ship with others and that is Vegeta/Bulma. Everyone else, I have a favorite character and ship them with everyone.

Thought I do love some bottom!Dean (I think it takes him time to accept that that can be a thing he wants and that there's a lot of switching with them and that they get different things out of each position actually-- and while I think Dean IS someone who can really get a lot out of submission, Cas certainly gives 'submissive like a guard dog is submissive' energy, and could as easily be a service dom or sub, so like... with those two in particular I'm open to many interpretations, and okay, this got to be a longer sidebar than intended), I know what it's like to have top/bottom (or dom/sub or alpha/omega) preferences to the bulk of a fandom.

In one fandom, my fave (and half of an OTP) VERY clearly reads to me as a bottom, and COULD be vers where bdsm is concerned but is at least SOMETIMES dom-leaning. So I really can't win. Either he becomes a Manly Man Top in ways that are wildly OOC even outside of the bedroom, or he's the subbiest sub ever to exist, which... isn't really how he advertises himself.

I mean, some of this is that a LOT of fanwriters are not themselves gay men, so they assign 'top' and 'bottom' as like... personality traits, rather than looking at the same signalling that I'd look for if I was the type of person who went to clubs/bars, so it's kind of incomprehensible to me if I'm watching a TV show and I see a guy present himself with a lot of focus on his crotch (flashy belt buckles, legs spread wide when seated, thumbs in belt buckles so hands frame The Area when standing) only for fandom to declare this man is a strict bottom. Or to see a guy bent over and all but presenting his ass to or pushing it into the guy he's been managing to look up through his eyelashes at despite not actually being any shorter, and see people say 'Oh, no one has ever seemed more like a top'.

Both these things have happened and it drives me batty, but like... I'm not the fun police, I dunno.

I never got into the SPN fandom, but I did briefly wonder if maybe I should give Destiel a try, just for the unlimited content. And I remember realizing that bottom Dean seemed to be the favored dynamic and just not really vibing with that.

I don't tend to like machismo/performative masculinity in any of the characters I ship, top or bottom, but it seems to be an extra hard nope for me when it comes to bottoms/subs. Obviously bottoms and subs IRL can have tons of machismo; it's just not what I'm personally into in fiction is all.

Also, did Cas fall because he pulled Dean out of hell? Or did he fall for a non-Dean-related reason? It's been a really long time since I watched that season. But like, if Cas fell for Dean's sake, then...IDK, for my personal sensibilities, he's already committed a tremendous act of emotional/existential submission before we even meet him. I mean, to "give up the lord's grace" or whatever, for the sake of one specific human who should probably be inconsequential to you? That just feels like Downbadism of the highest order.

I guess you could also read it as an act of protection committed by a powerful entity on a powerless entity, and therefore Dom-coded. But to me it doesn't feel like that. It feels like a tertiary angel became fixated on a brave, suffering human and gave up his whole identity as he knew it in order to help him. And then proceeded, in his greatly diminished capacity, to low-key serve and protect said human on earth because...IDK, "It's Dean"?

He fell because he defied heaven to help Dean and Sam. It was far after he pulled Dean from Hell.

Clex, the 2025 movie version. I am only interested in mainly-bottom!Lex and mainly-top!Clark.

I definitely see Clark/Superman as a Dom (at least when he's with Lex). Mostly a gentle service Dom, but also firm and forceful when Lex is in feral brat mode. I do not see Clark as a perfectly smooth, domineering type though. I think he knows very little about kink, has no idea what he's doing, and the whole thing with Lex is freaking him the heck out, but it just keeps happening. Lex, meanwhile, is wildly obsessed with Superman (and now obsessed with getting absolutely wrecked by Superman) and staunchly in denial about all of it.

The dynamic in the fanfic seems to be fairly divided, but I feel like top-Dom!Lex and sub-Bottom!Clark is a bit more prevalent. Maybe a 60/40 split. And then in so many of the fics where Clark tops, he's all sharp and domineering, and nothing like the big-hearted, dorky cinnamon-roll we see in canon.

I just want my big-hearted, dorky, unfathomably-powerful cinnamon roll with an intuitive knack for Domming feral-brat Billionaires until they've been dicked down so well, so many times that they start to see the light and make better life choices. XD

I actually haven't watched the movie yet, but this sounds like an amazing dynamic. Honestly, I love it when the doms have less experience than the subs.

Yay, I'm delighted you liked my pitch!

I do feel I ought to give a caveat that movie Lex is impressively despicable. My slash goggles say "Ship him with Superman," but canon says, "Throw the whole damn man away." I know that "He's a pathological crapsack garbageman" is a feature not a bug for many of us here in fandom, but I wouldn't want to mislead anyone into thinking he's remotely sympathetic, since expectation can have an effect on viewer receptivity.

I do think the movie is reasonably good and worth watching, FWIW. I love my sympathetic, early-seasons Smallville Lex, but Hoult's Lex is a good version of the character in his own way, and IMO Corenswet's Clark/Superman and Brosnahan's Lois are delightful renditions of their characters.

Hey, that's a selling point for me. I love shipping villains with heroes and each other. Villain ships are my jam too.

After watching the first two seasons of Castlevania, I went to AO3 looking for Trevocard fics with top Trevor and bottom Alucard. But the majority of them seem to be the opposite dynamic.

Alucard has exactly the kind of icy poise and studied aloofness (and breathtaking beauty, lbr) that makes me want to see him turned unsteady and frantic and thoroughly undone by desire. Plus, the calm, unflinching way that he accepts personal sacrifice and loneliness in canon makes me want to see him loved and taken care of.

Trevor OTOH is the kind of rough-and-tough but secretly good-hearted character I prefer as a top and a gentle Dom. I think a lot of people choose to make Trevor sexually submissive as a spicy counterpoint to his rugged, "I don't care" attitude. But personally I don't vibe with that. Maybe because I don't think Trevor believes he has control over much of anything in the first place, so to me submission doesn't really serve as a developmental counterpoint for his character. The way I see it, Trevor feels dutybound but also deeply inadequate. He doesn't yearn to submit; he yearns to take effective action, but he doesn't believe he can. And in hardening himself against his own feelings of helplessness and inadequacy, he has cut himself off from relating to others with tenderness and affection.

So to me, the thing that challenges Trevor most deeply, but in a way that holds the most growth potential, is for him to develop tender and protective feelings that he can't seem to shake off - and to develop those feelings specifically for Alucard, someone he believes he should feel only hatred and distrust for.

Normally I prefer them the other way but you've made me rethink that! I like your characterization thoughts.

Not naming the character/canon because they would deanon me, but there's a character (half of my otp) who everyone seems to believe is very noble and saintly and also cheerful, while I interpret him as quite selfish and depressed. (Canonically, he is considered a heretic in the canon's religious setting and is also very keen to sacrifice himself.) This makes consuming the small number of fanworks that aren't by me a disappointing experience, unfortunately.

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