Yeah, my feeling was that most people who'd see this poll wouldn't feel like it was an "This should be canon" or "This is such a good relationship model" kind of thing, I think that's more common in different subsections of fandom than on Dreamwidth.

I agree that being personally attracted to one or more of the characters is not necessary or sufficient for me to ship something. I do find that I often become more attracted to them the longer I write from the perspective of someone who finds them attractive, though. It did interest me that "I find the dynamic between these characters very attractive" got three times the number of votes as the option for finding the characters themselves attractive, but I think that it makes a lot of sense. With fanworks it's more about emotions and story than just about things being attractive in an aesthetic sense.