I don't think that sounds vain at all; I think it's very considerate and generous of you to keep your stories available to readers. Doing your bit to prevent someone's experiencing that awful, sinking feeling one gets when looking for a story and discovering that it's just gone is a very good thing.
"She's too good for the way he treats her" grew out of my dissatisfaction with a few posts that argued that "she's too good for him" is a backhanded compliment that makes it easy for slashers to dismiss the canonical heterosexual love interest. Which I do agree is what's happening in a lot of cases! But then there are other cases (Jane/Lisbon from The Mentalist is the most obvious example) where I think the issue is more that the male half of the pairing acts like a jerk towards the female half, in a way that he doesn't necessarily act towards other characters. So pairing one or the other of them with a different character isn't (or, at least, doesn't have to be) a sign of misogyny on the part of the writer, but rather an acknowledgment that the pairing's canonical relationship is unhealthy.
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Date: 2010-05-21 06:00 am (UTC)"She's too good for the way he treats her" grew out of my dissatisfaction with a few posts that argued that "she's too good for him" is a backhanded compliment that makes it easy for slashers to dismiss the canonical heterosexual love interest. Which I do agree is what's happening in a lot of cases! But then there are other cases (Jane/Lisbon from The Mentalist is the most obvious example) where I think the issue is more that the male half of the pairing acts like a jerk towards the female half, in a way that he doesn't necessarily act towards other characters. So pairing one or the other of them with a different character isn't (or, at least, doesn't have to be) a sign of misogyny on the part of the writer, but rather an acknowledgment that the pairing's canonical relationship is unhealthy.