[i love you] where's my shirt?

[krickets]

[Poll #1721356]

ETA: Just to clarify. slybrunette and I were chatting earlier and we were both wondering whether or not there was something wrong with us that we can't recall using this phrase in dialogue and that we can't imagine doing it because it seems so cheesy when we write it or think of writing it -- in our brians. Hence, poll.

Comments

[knopflergroupie.livejournal.com]

Once for sure. I was sixteen. I'm tempted to go through all my fics and check now.

Oh wait, hang on. I just did, in a drabble. But it was a ten-year-old girl talking to a grown man, so. Maybe that's a little ironic?

I'm not really interested in most pairings once they've confessed their love for each other in such a manner, so this isn't something I usually have to deal with anyway. My thought on a great big "I love you" is that if you're going to use it, you'd better have a damn good reason.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with this last part. I just wish I knew why! Haha. And yes, damn good reason!

[knopflergroupie.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've skimmed some old fic, and it turns out I use "I love you" only when the characters really, really don't, but are trying, and/or are fucking other people. Apparently I'm not merely indifferent to "I love you," I'm actively cynical about it. Who knew.

If the pairing is going to go to the verbalized "I love you" place I kind of tune out because (in my opinion) most of the time that's the least interesting way to express that you love someone. Also, words are words. Maybe it's just me, but "I love you" is so out there, all the time, and it means almost nothing to me at this point, because it's so easy and stale and simple and I don't think love itself is supposed to be. /three cents.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Haha, maybe that is my problem too. The cynicism.

I wouldn't say I tune out but it's definitely not my most favorite couple moments. Unless they're both about to die or something. (Cal & Chloe! MY HEART!)