Thank you very much for this - as a die-hard OTPer you've pretty much managed to put into words a lot of what I feel about the ships that I love. :-)
I can take more of the platonic explanation than works for you, I think. I'll happily take an Epic Friendship for the ages, as long as it doesn't lose the closeness, it doesn't have to be romantic, though it's great if it is. But the part about the closeness of their relationship being part of my interpretation of canon, and them being OOC without it - absolutely.
I also like the point that it's a emotional kink - and I've grown to realise that while there are sexual kinks that work for me, and one's that don't, I can take or leave them, whereas my emotional kinks are pretty much vital to being fannish about something.
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I can take more of the platonic explanation than works for you, I think. I'll happily take an Epic Friendship for the ages, as long as it doesn't lose the closeness, it doesn't have to be romantic, though it's great if it is. But the part about the closeness of their relationship being part of my interpretation of canon, and them being OOC without it - absolutely.
I also like the point that it's a emotional kink - and I've grown to realise that while there are sexual kinks that work for me, and one's that don't, I can take or leave them, whereas my emotional kinks are pretty much vital to being fannish about something.