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Getting back into an old fandom and catching up with the fanfiction also means deja vue of the "this is still around?" type, to wit, these immortal lines, which I've seen in every single slash pairing I've read since my old Highlander days.

"Their tongues battled for domination."

and

"Mine", he growled."

The "Mine" exclamations cracked me up then, and they still do, not least because the characters doing the possessive monosyllibical growling. More often than not, yours truly thinks "hm, if one of these two has to get territorial, I'd have bet on X rather than on Y". And if the guys in question canonically delight in ribbing each other with (multisyllabical) insults and sarcasm, I doubt they wouldn't at least tease the other afterwards about such behavior, if it happened.

Basically: it's ye olde ATG and migratory fandom phenomenon, still alive and well. (No idea who first growled "mine" and whose tongues started the battle for domination, but I'm all for blaming Gilgamesh and Enkidu. :) )

Still: there's a lot of accumulated good stuff and some old favourites to enjoy if one hasn't read anything in said fandom for years and years.