Meme

[brigdh]

Taken most recently from parallactic: Comment with the name/title of a fandom I'm aware of, no matter how obvious you think the answers will be, and I'll reply you with the relationships -canon or not - from it I ship, along with at least one that I definitely DO NOT ship. I'll give favorite romantic relationships as well as favorite platonic ones. Also, you're free to reply in subthreads and ask me why I ship or don't ship something.

I feel a bit silly, because I'm sure most of my ships are quite obvious, but I enjoy attempting to manipulate people into commenting. And since I have a terrible cold and won't be coming up with any interesting posts tonight, a meme it is!

Comments

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Pirates of the Caribbean

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ooo, good one. Jack/Elizabeth, or Jack/Elizabeth/Will.

Although stories that are labeled Jack/Black Pearl tend to be weirdly fascinating, for all that one half of the pairing is inanimate.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

I'm an OT3'er myself ^^ And, yes, Jack/Black Pearl, especially if it's atmospheric and vaguely creepy. But, weirdly, not creepy because of the whole inanimate object thing. Which is just so Jack.

How about a pairing you won't ship?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thinking of Jack's one true love as something not human (not inhuman, but it seems unlikely to think of him being loyal to a person) makes a bizarre kind of sense.

I'd totally forgot about that half of the meme. I can't think of anything that actively squicks me- but then, I don't read a lot of PotC fanfiction. Possibly there's something horrible lurking out there that I just haven't encountered- but anything without Jack in it I tend to pass over. And I didn't get the fascination of Jack/Norrington until the second movie.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Yami no Matsuei

(*is feeling all nostalgic, yo*)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hisoka/Tsuzuki of course! But I also like to see either of them in rare pairings, like Tsuzuki/Watari or Hisoka/Hijiri.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

But, what about the promised "one that [you] definitely DO NOT ship"?

(Actually, now that I focus on it, I'm surprised to see that as part of a meme. It makes for an interesting question, but given the way people can sometimes be, I'd almost expect to see it confined to those anonymous hate threads.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

...Ha, clearly I am sick, because I managed to completely miss that part of the meme. I've also thought the year was 2020 at least three times today; hopefully I wasn't this incoherent in my classes.

I'm usually not fond of Muraki/Hisoka. I like yours, and I've read a few others I like, but any story that is about Muraki raping Hisoka puts me off utterly. That's the only one I can think of where I'll pass up the story entirely on the basis of the pairing, without knowing anything else; I'll only look at them if I trust the author. I don't dislike Tatsumi/Watari, but I'm not particularly interested in it either, so I only read stories for them if I'm very bored, if the summary looks interesting, or if I like the author a lot.

[threewalls]

Saiyuki.

(I would have asked for Kyou Kara Maou, but I'm uncertain if you do know it.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all possible permutations of the ikkou, though perhaps slightly less Hakkai/Gojyo, just because it's so popular that I no longer feel the need to seek it out. And unusually for me, I'm very much equally happy with gen stories as with ones with explicitly romantic relationships. I like the idea of all four being necessary to achieve the right balance, and tend to read stories focusing on one pairing as just being an indepth examination of one branch of the group, rather than those two's sole important relationship.

(I haven't seen it, even though nearly everyone in the world has pimped it to me. I'll get around to it someday; I'm terribly slow at consuming new canons.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

And since I forgot the second half of the meme:

A pairing I don't ship is anything having to do with the Homura trio. I found that arc of the anime incredibly boring, and actually skipped a lot of it, so half the time I either don't know or don't remember most of the character's relevant personality and backstory. I know some people love them, but they leave me cold.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

The Riverside stories, la. *G*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, clearly my OTP is Michael Godwin/Bertram. *laughs*

But for one I don't ship, um, I... don't have one? There aren't really stories for anything other than Richard/Alec. Oh, oh, wait! I know! I don't ship it when people put Richard/Jessamyn in the story for the sole purpose of saying "And so Richard killed her because his true love for Alec meant he no longer liked those icky women". I could live with never reading that again.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I don't ship it when people put Richard/Jessamyn in the story for the sole purpose of saying "And so Richard killed her because his true love for Alec meant he no longer liked those icky women".

Dude, somebody wrote that? I mean, Richard didn't even know Alec at that point. Sheesh.

And I prefer Michael/the nobleman who loved roses (blanking on the name right now, I think it was Thomas). ;-)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Two people wrote it! (Although, okay, one skipped Alec's involvement and just had the "tired of the icky women" part.) It's the only interpretation of her I've seen in the fandom.

Yep, Thomas. You have a better memory than me; I had to look it up.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

That's just...huh. Especially since Richard makes it clear in "The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death" that he still likes women fine, he just likes Alec more. Of course, possibly not everyone has read that story.

I've owned the book four times since it was first published. I lost the first three copies to friends who loved it so much they stole it. *G* I've read it...a fair few times, you might say. ;-)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I think it's just the universal (and always annoying) impulse to demonize the ex, rather than anything logically coming out of the canon itself.

Hee. I only read it for the first time about a year and a half ago. I'd heard of it earlier, and kept on the lookout for it for some time, but I never seem to run into it in bookstores. Finally, it caught my attention enough that I ordered it off Amazon, and then all was good.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

That's probably true. I really hate that impulse. Do Alec's exes meet the same fate? Not that we're clear on who they are, until The Privilege of the Sword, which, you know, [spoiler].

I'm now rather bummed about losing all of those initial copies, since they had the original Canty cover, which I far prefer to the new one. The new one's pretty, but I can't figure out what it has to do with the story, whereas the first was clearly Richard.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It's generally assumed that he was sleeping with at least one of his friends from University, and that guy doesn't always get the nicest treatment, but that doesn't bother me as much. I suppose because it seems to make more sense than making Jessamyn the bad guy. The latter ones don't get much of a mention in fanfiction.

I think the darker-haired one on the new cover is Richard, but I've never been able to figure out who the girl with him is supposed to be. But I agree with you: the older cover was prettier. Have you seen the Spanish cover (http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/teran/comun_todos/galeria/ilustra/editorial/bibliopolis/bib_punta_spada.htm)? It's very pretty.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Probably since Jessamyn is a known quantity, she gets the brunt of the "ex" vitriol. Because it's not enough that she's dead. And that, you know, Richard killed her.

Of course, that seems to make Alec jealous, so maybe fans feel justified in seeing her as a threat. *G*

See, I thought it might be that it's supposed to be Alec and the Duchess on the front, but don't quote me on that. I covet the Spanish cover. Kushner was all asquee when it was released, and with good reason.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. I suppose it could also be that Jessamyn is in Swordspoint, whereas Alec's exes mostly appear in the short stories and the new book, which not as many people might have read.

Oh. That would make much more sense. I'd just assumed it was Richard because he's holding a sword, but I like this explanation.

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

Whatever your first fandom is.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

My first communal, internet fandom was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which my pairings were Spike/Drusilla, Spike/Buffy, Spike/Angel- and any other combinations of those three- and, later, Willow/Tara. I mostly read only stories featuring them, as BtVS fandom was so large that it was easy to pick and choose your favorites. There's no pairing I particularly dislike; I've never really gotten the emotional appeal of Xander/Spike, but there are plenty of well-written stories for them.

My first fandom ever was probably the Alanna quartet by Tamora Pierce (or possibly The Babysitters' Club series; I can't remember which came first, given that I was 7 or 8 at the time), in which I was all about the Alanna/George. I never knew what she saw in Jonathan, and definetely not the other guy who's name I can't remember, Ironarm or something like that.

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

I remember the Alanna quartet. They were one of my favorite series. Alanna was so much fun. I don't remember thinking anything in particular about the romances. I think I saw one or two Tamora Pierce based lj fic comms around.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I can't say I was particularly interested in the romantic aspect of it, but I enjoyed George's character so much that I was irritated when he would get pushed aside for many chapters to focus on one of the other boys instead.

I see Tamora Pierce fanfiction around every so often. I understand she has several new series set in the same world, which either were not yet written when I was young, or I didn't know about them. I'm intending to go and read them now though, as soon as I get around to it.