Crush is one of those terms that I will generally throw around with gay abandon, but occasionally I actually *think* about how I just used it and then I get a brain-fuse... for instance, I have a tendency to get terrible crushes on fictional characters, as in they just seize my brain and demand I write fanfic about them, but actually *calling* them crushes gets awkward - for instance, my current fanfic crush is on Edmund Pevensie. Who is, like, ten.