On top/bottom

[extrapenguin]

Assigning everyone as top or bottom is limiting one's choices needlessly, and some characters just aren't either top or bottom. For example, Shen Wei is obviously strange and Zhao Yunlan charm. We have six options here, time to use all of them! This also gives us the opportunity to describe OTPs as mesons and OT3s as baryons. (OT4s and OT5s are also attested in the form of tetraquarks and pentaquarks.) So, what sort of meson is your OTP? Or perhaps you have an OT3 that is in need of a baryonic description? Or perhaps your polyship needs to be matched to the exotic hadron that best describes it?

(No, but really, tell me in the comments!)

Comments

[pauraque]

Omg, when I got to the end of your second sentence and realized... I burst out laughing so hard. Thank you for that! XD

[satsuma]

This made my giggle, so thank you!

I would like to suggest, for the sake of maximum disambiguation that we drop 'top' and 'bottom' altogether in favor of the alternate names 'truth' and 'beauty' (In which case GCC is probably 'truth'? And LJ strikes me as an 'up.' Still thinking about the rest of the team)

[hamsterwoman]

Ha! I approve of this expansion in fannish nomenclature :D

[krait]

All of my faves are strange. :D

[ratbones]

*flailing* THANK YOU. I love this so much, and also there's a really sexy song for the weilan meson (er, sexy to me, but I'm obviously not the only one here who's Horny for Hadrons). So, is Ye Zun strange too, or is he just a standard bottom? :P Orrr I see someone else suggested truth and beauty instead, in which case he is obviously a beauty.

[solo]

One is obviously K-short (but thick) and the other K-long (and slender). Not sure which is which though.

[lannamichaels]

For example, Shen Wei is obviously strange and Zhao Yunlan charm.

Accurate :D

[rheasilvia]

LOL! This is adorable - I love the quantum way of looking at pairings. ;-) Yes on the strange and charm, absolutely true!!!