Question for the boyband slashers...

Mmmk, so I keep getting this in feedback:

"...everyone knows Chris and Lance don't like each other..."

or some variation thereof.

And I'm so confuzzled! I started writing the pairing right when people were starting to order the Reel NSYNC, I think, and it came up more then, but it still comes up in...roughly a third of my feedback. From lists, anyway, not so much from LJ. This post is actually prompted by seeing it brought up in conversation on one of my lists. I can't take it anymore, I just gotta know where this impression comes from!

See, the more quotes I read, the more footage I view--the more I see Chris making Lance the focus of a lot of jokes, yeah. But it doesn't seem *mean*. It seems playful and a lot like a kid on the playground taunting someone he really, really likes. And I don't mean that in a slashy sense, although it's fun to slash that behavior.

If that makes any sense. *G*

I know that most of the people who read my journal have at least a little love of the TrickyFish--you'd need it, to read this crap. ;-) But one of you has to know the reasoning behind this! Is it just fanon? Is there some old basis for the idea? Some new basis I don't know about? C'mon, c'mon, help me out--the idea gives me bunnies and I don't know which ones to run with here! *G*

Also. Kaneko? *knock knock* Hit me up on AIM if you're still alive! ;-)