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jainaAwhile back, there was an OTP meme going around where you listed ten pairings that you shipped hardcore, ten you couldn't stand, and ten you dabbled in. I had typed up a fair amount and was going to try to finish it, but I'm just going to release it into the wild as-is. I actually left off a bunch of ships, because I have eight zillion, because I really am a compulsive shipper, but here's what I have.
Pairings I Ship Hardcore
1. Harry/Ginny (Harry Potter)-- Ginny's been my favorite character pretty much from her first appearance at Platform 9 3/4, and CoS just cemented it. I was H/G when H/G wasn't cool, and man, we took a *lot* of abuse back in the day. Being Ron/Hermione was one thing, in that long drought between Books 4 and 5-- there was plenty of canon support for it, the Yule ball and all-- but there was next to nothing for Harry/Ginny. I had faith, though, that we'd see a lot more of Ginny, and that she was going to be hella cool. (How could she not? She was the youngest daughter of a pretty awesome family. She was always going to be kickass.) So, yeah. Love them. Love them *lots.*
2. Mulder/Scully (X-Files)-- Does it feel weird to anyone else to type that? Cause back when I was watching the show, it was just "shipper." Or MSR, if it was a label on a fic. Anyway. The show went to crap, the ship went to crap, but I was a shipper from my very first episode ("Paper Clip," with that beautiful end scene). Just the two of them, against the whole world, and the only thing they had was each other. How could you not love it?
3. John/Aeryn (Farscape)-- Epic. That's pretty much the word for it. (Sorry, Veronica/Logan. You aren't there yet, darlings.) They were always, always the only one for each other. I mean, the biggest thing between them was when there were suddenly *two* Johns. (Oh, my heart, it *hurts.*) Finding their way together, figuring out how to love each other-- just amazing, sad, beautiful, heartbreaking, wonderful.
4. Lucas/Sami (Days of our Lives)-- Oh man. Twelve years and counting, still two of the biggest screwups on daytime TV, still an incredibly compelling pair. *This* is how you make a soap couple-- give them years and years of history and friendship and betrayal and connections and loving and loathing and an accidental kid for good measure, and then mine it for all it's worth. Mind, the writers are having some trouble with that last one. I keep faith, though, that someday we'll get our Lumi for real, no stupid obstacles, no lame secrets, no screaming fights about lack of trust and betrayal, and for the love of *God* no interference by overbearing mothers. Can we do that, writers? For a month or so, even? And a would a real wedding for poor Sami be too much to ask? I think Lucas sums them up best: "But we have passion. We fight, we laugh, and we love harder than anyone I've ever known. You are the only one who makes me happy." Preach, Lucas. OH AND ALSO! I (and Will) demand the existence of Baby Girl Roberts, PRONTO.
5. Veronica/Logan (Veronica Mars)-- I flat-out refuse to call them LoVe. That's some weird alternate Veronica and Logan who are mushy and happy and destined to have dozens of fat babies. My Veronica and Logan are a generally very bad idea that's going to end in flames some day, and I love every second of them. It. Whatever. They're both very, very damaged people, although Veronica hides it better, and I just don't see them meant for a stable, lasting relationship. Not without *extensive* therapy. They're incredibly intense, though, and it's a beautiful thing to see.
6. Jack/Irina (Alias)-- You totally thought I was going to say Sarkney, didn't you? It's tough to choose, but I really do love J/I best, possibly because they actually existed as a couple. A tormented, twisted, totally fucked-up couple. Oh, and also THE HOTNESS. GOD. And the way their history shone through their every interaction-- twenty years of betrayal and hatred, made worse by the fact that they were still in love with each other and it was killing them both, these otherwise unflappable, inpenatrable people. "Passage, Part 1 and 2" where they have their little "family vacation" with Syd in India? Best ever.
7. Luke/Mara (Star Wars EU)-- The fandom, and the pairing, that brought me online ten years ago. (And incidentally, brought me many amazing friends and a husband.) He, the newly minted Jedi knight just wants to make his way in the galaxy; she, the former Emperor's Hand who just wants to kill him however she can. Perfect match, yeah? So maybe their characterizations have swung wildly from book to book, these past years. So what? We'll always have the Thrawn trilogy. And Stuff, of course.
8. Tommy/Kimberly (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)-- Yes, yes, deeply shameful and embarassing. But they were my very first real OTP, the only reason I ever watched Power Rangers in the first place, and I loved them with my whole heart. And I hated Kim's replacement, Kat, with equal fervor. The show may say differently, but I'll always believe they found each other again.
9. Jarod/Miss Parker (The Pretender)-- He runs. She chases. They lust after each other the whole damn time and he loves her and she tries to pretend she doesn't love him and they can't be together because of everything they are. They're hardly ever in the same place at once, but the chemistry just crackles, even over the phone or through clues and notes and gifts. Maybe, just maybe, these two crazy kids can make it someday.
Pairings I Can't Freaking Stand
1. Buffy/Angel (BtVS)-- I just couldn't hold out for infinite rounds of "oh, I love you so, but we tragically cannot be together! Oh woe!" I was all right with it for a little while, and then it just became OH PLEASE SHUT UP. And then there was Angel/Cordy, and that was beautiful.
2. Sydney/Vaughn (Alias)-- Again with the OH NOES WE ARE SO DOOMED AND TRAGIC. Again, I sort of went for it in the beginning, but Season 3 turned me into a fierce hater. Thanks, TPTB, I get it: Syd and Vaughn are twu wuv forever, and Lauren is Evil Incarnate. Whatever.
3. Jack/Kate (Lost)-- Booooo-ring! Next!
4. Harry/Hermione (Harry Potter)-- No. Just no. Friends and nothing more, world without end, amen.
Pairings I Dabble In (or, more accurately, ship slightly less hardcore than the ones above)
1. Nine/Rose/Jack (Doctor Who)-- Hell, it's practically canon. They're freaking adorable.
2. Ron/Hermione (Harry Potter)-- Definitely meant to be, and fic about them can be lovely.
3. Adama/Roslin (Battlestar Galactica 2003)-- Mom and Dad at the end of the world.She better make him shave that damn stache-forward. The stache-forward is gone! I bet it's cause he knew she'd hate it.
4. Ronon/Teyla (Stargate: Atlantis)-- Grrrr argh, Ronon smash, Teyla kickass, mad hotness. Pebbles + BamBam 4EVA. Also a fan of Sheppard/Weir, but love R/T more.
5. Charlie/Claire (Lost)-- Will kill you dead from cute. Daddy!Charlie makes me a puddle of goo.
6. Batman/Wonder Woman (Justice League Unlimited)-- She's a princess from a society of immortal warriors. He's a rich kid with issues-- lots of issues. They fight crime! Oh, and have lots of hot sex and angst on the side. Natch.
7. Mal/Inara (Firefly)-- These two are such a disaster. But such a *pretty* disaster. Sad we'll never see what happens to them.
8. Devon/Danziger (Earth 2)-- So you may have noticed, I have this thing for when a guy and a girl are in charge of a group, or an expedition, or, y'know, the remnants of humanity, and they're totally the mom and dad figures to everyone, and they obviously have to get together. And so, yes. Oh sure, they fought a lot, and they had Issues with class, and wealth, and who was in charge, and whatnot; but you just knew that once Julia made Devon all better and they all got to New Pacifica, they were gonna get hitched and build a big giant house and pop out more babies. But True and Uly would *not* grow up and get married because that would just be weird.
9. Wes/Faith (Angel, mostly)-- Because "Salvage" and "Release" were the best damn things about Angel S4, and because they're so incredibly compelling. And because, in a way, they get to redeem each other.
10. Max/Logan (Dark Angel)-- Season 1 ONLY! (I feel as though I must clarify that.) But honestly, they were really adorable, and they helped each other learn how to be real people. Ah, if only S2 hadn't made me hate them both with a fiery passion.
Pairings I Ship Hardcore
1. Harry/Ginny (Harry Potter)-- Ginny's been my favorite character pretty much from her first appearance at Platform 9 3/4, and CoS just cemented it. I was H/G when H/G wasn't cool, and man, we took a *lot* of abuse back in the day. Being Ron/Hermione was one thing, in that long drought between Books 4 and 5-- there was plenty of canon support for it, the Yule ball and all-- but there was next to nothing for Harry/Ginny. I had faith, though, that we'd see a lot more of Ginny, and that she was going to be hella cool. (How could she not? She was the youngest daughter of a pretty awesome family. She was always going to be kickass.) So, yeah. Love them. Love them *lots.*
2. Mulder/Scully (X-Files)-- Does it feel weird to anyone else to type that? Cause back when I was watching the show, it was just "shipper." Or MSR, if it was a label on a fic. Anyway. The show went to crap, the ship went to crap, but I was a shipper from my very first episode ("Paper Clip," with that beautiful end scene). Just the two of them, against the whole world, and the only thing they had was each other. How could you not love it?
3. John/Aeryn (Farscape)-- Epic. That's pretty much the word for it. (Sorry, Veronica/Logan. You aren't there yet, darlings.) They were always, always the only one for each other. I mean, the biggest thing between them was when there were suddenly *two* Johns. (Oh, my heart, it *hurts.*) Finding their way together, figuring out how to love each other-- just amazing, sad, beautiful, heartbreaking, wonderful.
4. Lucas/Sami (Days of our Lives)-- Oh man. Twelve years and counting, still two of the biggest screwups on daytime TV, still an incredibly compelling pair. *This* is how you make a soap couple-- give them years and years of history and friendship and betrayal and connections and loving and loathing and an accidental kid for good measure, and then mine it for all it's worth. Mind, the writers are having some trouble with that last one. I keep faith, though, that someday we'll get our Lumi for real, no stupid obstacles, no lame secrets, no screaming fights about lack of trust and betrayal, and for the love of *God* no interference by overbearing mothers. Can we do that, writers? For a month or so, even? And a would a real wedding for poor Sami be too much to ask? I think Lucas sums them up best: "But we have passion. We fight, we laugh, and we love harder than anyone I've ever known. You are the only one who makes me happy." Preach, Lucas. OH AND ALSO! I (and Will) demand the existence of Baby Girl Roberts, PRONTO.
5. Veronica/Logan (Veronica Mars)-- I flat-out refuse to call them LoVe. That's some weird alternate Veronica and Logan who are mushy and happy and destined to have dozens of fat babies. My Veronica and Logan are a generally very bad idea that's going to end in flames some day, and I love every second of them. It. Whatever. They're both very, very damaged people, although Veronica hides it better, and I just don't see them meant for a stable, lasting relationship. Not without *extensive* therapy. They're incredibly intense, though, and it's a beautiful thing to see.
6. Jack/Irina (Alias)-- You totally thought I was going to say Sarkney, didn't you? It's tough to choose, but I really do love J/I best, possibly because they actually existed as a couple. A tormented, twisted, totally fucked-up couple. Oh, and also THE HOTNESS. GOD. And the way their history shone through their every interaction-- twenty years of betrayal and hatred, made worse by the fact that they were still in love with each other and it was killing them both, these otherwise unflappable, inpenatrable people. "Passage, Part 1 and 2" where they have their little "family vacation" with Syd in India? Best ever.
7. Luke/Mara (Star Wars EU)-- The fandom, and the pairing, that brought me online ten years ago. (And incidentally, brought me many amazing friends and a husband.) He, the newly minted Jedi knight just wants to make his way in the galaxy; she, the former Emperor's Hand who just wants to kill him however she can. Perfect match, yeah? So maybe their characterizations have swung wildly from book to book, these past years. So what? We'll always have the Thrawn trilogy. And Stuff, of course.
8. Tommy/Kimberly (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)-- Yes, yes, deeply shameful and embarassing. But they were my very first real OTP, the only reason I ever watched Power Rangers in the first place, and I loved them with my whole heart. And I hated Kim's replacement, Kat, with equal fervor. The show may say differently, but I'll always believe they found each other again.
9. Jarod/Miss Parker (The Pretender)-- He runs. She chases. They lust after each other the whole damn time and he loves her and she tries to pretend she doesn't love him and they can't be together because of everything they are. They're hardly ever in the same place at once, but the chemistry just crackles, even over the phone or through clues and notes and gifts. Maybe, just maybe, these two crazy kids can make it someday.
Pairings I Can't Freaking Stand
1. Buffy/Angel (BtVS)-- I just couldn't hold out for infinite rounds of "oh, I love you so, but we tragically cannot be together! Oh woe!" I was all right with it for a little while, and then it just became OH PLEASE SHUT UP. And then there was Angel/Cordy, and that was beautiful.
2. Sydney/Vaughn (Alias)-- Again with the OH NOES WE ARE SO DOOMED AND TRAGIC. Again, I sort of went for it in the beginning, but Season 3 turned me into a fierce hater. Thanks, TPTB, I get it: Syd and Vaughn are twu wuv forever, and Lauren is Evil Incarnate. Whatever.
3. Jack/Kate (Lost)-- Booooo-ring! Next!
4. Harry/Hermione (Harry Potter)-- No. Just no. Friends and nothing more, world without end, amen.
Pairings I Dabble In (or, more accurately, ship slightly less hardcore than the ones above)
1. Nine/Rose/Jack (Doctor Who)-- Hell, it's practically canon. They're freaking adorable.
2. Ron/Hermione (Harry Potter)-- Definitely meant to be, and fic about them can be lovely.
3. Adama/Roslin (Battlestar Galactica 2003)-- Mom and Dad at the end of the world.
4. Ronon/Teyla (Stargate: Atlantis)-- Grrrr argh, Ronon smash, Teyla kickass, mad hotness. Pebbles + BamBam 4EVA. Also a fan of Sheppard/Weir, but love R/T more.
5. Charlie/Claire (Lost)-- Will kill you dead from cute. Daddy!Charlie makes me a puddle of goo.
6. Batman/Wonder Woman (Justice League Unlimited)-- She's a princess from a society of immortal warriors. He's a rich kid with issues-- lots of issues. They fight crime! Oh, and have lots of hot sex and angst on the side. Natch.
7. Mal/Inara (Firefly)-- These two are such a disaster. But such a *pretty* disaster. Sad we'll never see what happens to them.
8. Devon/Danziger (Earth 2)-- So you may have noticed, I have this thing for when a guy and a girl are in charge of a group, or an expedition, or, y'know, the remnants of humanity, and they're totally the mom and dad figures to everyone, and they obviously have to get together. And so, yes. Oh sure, they fought a lot, and they had Issues with class, and wealth, and who was in charge, and whatnot; but you just knew that once Julia made Devon all better and they all got to New Pacifica, they were gonna get hitched and build a big giant house and pop out more babies. But True and Uly would *not* grow up and get married because that would just be weird.
9. Wes/Faith (Angel, mostly)-- Because "Salvage" and "Release" were the best damn things about Angel S4, and because they're so incredibly compelling. And because, in a way, they get to redeem each other.
10. Max/Logan (Dark Angel)-- Season 1 ONLY! (I feel as though I must clarify that.) But honestly, they were really adorable, and they helped each other learn how to be real people. Ah, if only S2 hadn't made me hate them both with a fiery passion.
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Date: 2006-11-05 03:05 am (UTC)Darkness (http://ljconstantine.com/fanfic/dark.htm)
Tangled Web (http://ljconstantine.com/fanfic/web.htm)
Choices (http://ljconstantine.com/fanfic/choice.htm)
Small smidgety bits of D/D in And We Took It Believing It Free (http://ljconstantine.com/fanfic/free.htm)
Her whole page of Earth2 stuff is here (http://ljconstantine.com/fanfic/e2.htm).
I totally have an Earth2 icon somewhere! I should upload it.