cravings versus favourites

[cimorene]

I only ever have really killer terrible cravings for pairings without a fandom to speak of, but I wonder if that's just contrariness on my part. I mean, I'd hardly notice the sharp edge of the craving, so to speak, for Frank/Gerard (which I undeniably like better than Bob/Ray, despite not having such an awful craving) when as soon as I start to hanker after it I can find one of a hundred good stories, or one of several thousand hilariously bad ones. So, I mean, is the killer craving just an aggravated hankering, as it were? A hankering left untreated and fed with liberal applicatons of canon so that it only multiplies?