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Because two hot dudes making out is hot, to many straight (and bi) women. It's really that simple.

Pretty much this.

Also, I've heard some people mention that same-sex pairings appeal to them because they provide an escape from traditional gender roles in romantic and erotic fiction.

I'd say that's secondary, though. Even amongst those who openly state they're doing it to escape gender roles/like the dynamic/etc. the two dudes are almost always hot. For some reason.

While that is certainly true, some people think certain characters make a good couple...and both those characters just happen to be male. I don't ship things simply because of the gender of the characters, their relationship has to intrigue me in some way. Now do some people ship things for purely vain reasons (or other reasons, because there are a million different reasons people can have for shipping something)? Yup. And that's okay too.

Yeah, I can totally see that. But, at least in my fandom, the dudes with the most interactions/most complex relationships are hardly ever shipped, if at all. Even the developers openly admit that the series is "about", by and large, the relationship between two of them. But, one of those men is over 50 and looks it.

Who does get shipped? The two hottest young dudes, who say a total of three sentences to one another throughout the entire canon. For the long, plotty shit as well as the random pwp porn.

So maybe I'm biased. Maybe it's different in your fandoms.

Yea, that can definitely happen too, but that doesn't seem to be the case with most of my fandoms. I guess you got unlucky. :/ (I know I've been in fandoms where the most popular pairings didn't interest me either, and it's unfortunate.)

What fandom is this, btw? Breaking Bad? (I honestly have no idea what the show or fandom is like, but that was my first guess.)

The two hottest young dudes, who say a total of three sentences to one another throughout the entire canon.

See, in almost all cases those pairings don't make any sense to me either, though I'm okay with other people shipping them. I just don't think those type of pairings are more popular (overall) than ones where the two males have complex relationships. (I could be wrong though, and of course it'll be different from fandom to fandom, but I meant in fandom in general. ...I hope I'm making some sense with this comment, lol.)

Oh yeah, I'm fine with it too. It's just people writing what they want to write. It's not like I see a lot of 50-year-old women in het or lesbian porn written or drawn by men.

Honestly, though, I thought the phenomenon was pretty common. E.g. Inception, where you have Arthur/Eames, by far and away the most popular ship even though Cobb/Sato have more complex interactions - because Tom Hardy and JGL are hot.

(It's not Breaking Bad, it's CoD, though lol that description really does apply to Breaking Bad too, doesn't it? Except for the "two young hot guys" part - I can't think of who you'd slash Jesse with aside from Walt.)

I'd have no problem shipping 50 year olds (and I've shipped older), but...fandom doesn't tend to be super welcoming in terms of shipping older characters, no. :/

Inception is a big one, yea. (Though I personally ship Arthur/Cobb, but...whatever.) Avengers is too (Coulson/Clint), but I can't think of many others. It might be that I'm in the 'wrong' fandoms though.

(Oh, CoD! I'm not very familiar with CoD so that never would've crossed my mind. It has a pretty big slash following, then? Most FPS games I've played don't, so that's interesting.)

Hahah me neither. I honestly wish there was more of it. But 99% of the fics that do have said 50-year-old take place before a 20-year timeskip in the plot, when he was still young and attractive ;3

I've seen others, in anime and video games, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. It's been years. It's just something I've noticed happens if the two characters the plot focuses on aren't attractive - the slash will be about someone else (whereas if the two main male characters are attractive, e.g. Seifer/Squall, that will be the main slash pairing).

(Eh, it's small but active. And the only way you're going to get het out of it is with an original character, so most of it is slash. And the overwhelming majority of it is dedicated not to the main characters, but to two dudes whose sole interaction is giving/receiving a handful of mission commands. I.. don't get it, but slashers gonna' slash.)

Bah. Not that it couldn't be interesting, but that does sound pretty disappointing if you like the character.

I've shipped people who aren't conventionally attractive (and who a lot of people find downright ugly or just unappealing, lol) and I've seen fandoms do the same, but you do have a point.

(Small but active sounds good though! And CoD is pretty male oriented character wise, right? So that explains why most of the shipping is slash. lol, I don't get Clint/Coulson either but...yup, people like what they like.)

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