Shipping Meme, from penknife

[selenak]

The irony here is that while the relationships I am most interested in in most shows aren't the romantic ones, I had no difficulty coming up with these.... must be more of a 'shipper than I thought.




Top 10 Shippings Overall (In no particular order.)

1. Angel/Darla
2. Lois/Clark (I'm thinking specifically of the show of that name, but it's true for most other Superman incarnation I'm familiar with)
3. Emma/Scott
4. Charles/Erik
5. Ellen/Saul
6. Dax/Quark
7. Londo/G'Kar
8. Londo/Timov
9. John Crichton/Scorpius (I'm tempted to name John/Rygel here, because they are my Farscape OTP, but the meme goes for some sexual subtext, so...)
10. Gaius/Six



Top 5 Love Triangles/Threesomes

1. Londo/Timov/G'Kar (fiendishly difficult to write, though; I only once managed it by making it happen in Londo's head)
2. Jack Bristow/Irina Derevko/Arvin Sloane (OT3, I tell you)
3. Erik/Charles/Mystique (emotionally anyway, especially when artaxastra and penknife are writing it)
4. Darla/Angel(us)/Drusilla (canon, and that Spike fellow came 20 years later)
5. Six/Three/Gaius (canon!)

Top 5 Canon Pairings

1. Angel/Darla
2. Doctor/TARDIS (what? So canon! In all ten incarnations!)
3. Arvin Sloane/Emily Sloane
4. Londo/Timov (thank you, Peter David, for writing Soul Mates) (Londo/G'Kar is so canon, too, but I'm not starting an argument this early in the morning)
5. Jack Bristow/Irina Derevko

Top 5 "Not my favorite, but they're very nice alternate choices" Shippings

1. Buffy/Faith (actually, depending on the mood I'm in and how it's pulled off, this might by my favourite for Buffy)
2. Emma/Jean (would have made much more sense than Emma/Scott in the Morrison era; my love for Emma/Scott is entirely Joss Whedon caused, though now it extends to the pairing in general)
3. Erik/Mystique
4. Angel/Kate (we few, we happy few of Kate likers; Kate and Angel post-Epiphany would have worked, you know, and would have spared us Angel/Cordy)
5. Sydney/Will (I still think Syd shouldn't have insisted on Vaughn, you know)

Top 5 Crossgen Shippings

1. Sydney/Sloane (my own Bad Wrong Hot, which lead me to...)
2. Jack/Nadia (also BWH, also vaguely incestous)
3. Garak/Bashir (no idea how old Garak is supposed to be, but if Dukat as a contemporary is anything to go by, at least old enough to be Bashir's father)
4. Amanda/Duncan (what? She's about 1000 plus, he's a measly 400 plus)
5. Caesar/Cleopatra (not in any particular fictional version)

Top 5 "wtf that makes no sense... but I LOVE it!" Shippings

*pouts* My pairings make all sense. To me.

Top 5 "I just don't feel what everyone else is feelin'" Shippings

1. Remus/Sirius (I think my main problem with that one is that they each assumed the other guilty for a long time, which makes pre-Azkaban unlikely; post-Azkaban I could see, but I just don't feel any interest - in them as a couple, that is, I like them as individual characters)
2. Kara/Lee (this predates current events; I never liked 'the ship, even back in ye olde s1 days when the overwhelming majority of fandom did)
3. John/Aeryn (sort of; PKW did a lot to make me like them with each other again (as opposed to liking them with everyone BUT each other), but I still never felt the fervent adoration this pairing evoked in its heyday; *is secret Aeryn/Crais' shipper*)
4. Susan Ivanova/Marcus Cole (okay on screen, where it stays unrequited, but I've never been tempted to read a single bit of fanfic, and together with John/Delenn, this is the most popular pairing in B5 fandom; I maintain to this day that if Susan had deflowered Marcus, it wouldn't have lasted longer than a month at most)
5. Harry/Draco (after HBP, I withdraw my objection of Malfoy Junior being a dull and not very interesting one note character, but my major objection is that I just don't see either boy being sexually and/or romantically interested; if you stranded those two on a deserted island, they'd still be celibate a decade later)

Top 5 "I hope these die" Shippings

1. Kara/Lee (because they bring out the worst in each other; moreover, if you want to salvage Lee Adama as a character, give him a non-romantic storyline again, PTP, please!)
2. Angel/Cordelia (did actually die, as a romance, and I loved them as friends, so lucky me, I guess)
3. Ben/Sofie (though they were actually my least problem with the second season of Carnivale)
4. Max/Liz (Roswell wasn't a show I saw every episode of, but I did like most of it, until the great character development Tess got in season 2 was destroyed to make her a villain and
remove her as an obstacle to the resurrection of the dreary Max/Liz romance; which is when I stopped watching)
5. season 3 of Alias only: Syd/Vaughn. I was neutral on the 'ship for the first two seasons (though preferred Will), and actually liked S/V in parts of s4, but in s3, I really, really,
REALLY hated the relationship, the way it was written, and Vaughn

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

On Darla/Angelus/Dru: I like it and I think this as one of the most unjustly neglected periods of canon whether you think there were threeways or not, but at root I just have problems with it in terms of Angelus's character. I *can* see parallel Angelus/Darla and Darla/Dru. Darla/Dru is canon IMO after the Girl In Question flashback even if you saw Reunion as subtext, and I think 19th-century Angelus is a rock-certain male supremacist to the point of refusing to see lesbianism as actual sex and not giving a toss about what they were doing on their own.

But I think the canon portrayal in Fool For Love and Darla implies that Angelus never has sexual contact with Dru (taking "sexual" in the broadest possible sense) from her siring until Spike gets involved, because Dru's masochism is so extreme that there's nothing he can do to her short of staking that she wouldn't get off on and he's such a pathological sadist that he can't derive pleasure from anything vaguely consensual outside the deep relationship with Darla.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. You know, I can see how Dru's "you won't hurt me just a little bit" in Darla just before they stumble into William would point to no sex with Angelus, and you do have a point about his sadism - after all, he originally sired Dru to make her suffer for eternity - but otoh in situations such as Darla visiting the Master which apparently put him into a temper in the Destiny flashbacks, I could see him having sex with Dru just to demonstrate ownership and because her post-siring adoration for him was so complete.

(Just to play devil's advocate re: Angelus and vaguely consensual sex with people other than Darla - it's open to debate whether that groupie he staked in Salvage told the truth about "remember when we made love in Italy" .*g* Plus of course I'd define Angelus/Spike as vaguely consensual, but in that case connected with power demonstrations, so a very different situation from Dru on her own.)

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

he originally sired Dru to make her suffer for eternity

I found it hard not to laugh when that line came up in Darla, and after the end of the series she really is the one of them who gets the least suffering in over the years :-)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

True. That was one of the things which inspired my little Darla's-pov-on-Drusilla ficlet, that Dru, without meaning to, absolutely and completely foiled Angelus that way.*g*

Nitpick: the line came up in Dear Boy, not Darla.

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

3. Garak/Bashir (no idea how old Garak is supposed to be, but if Dukat as a contemporary is anything to go by, at least old enough to be Bashir's father)

I wish there was more good fic for them. It's so hard to find, and you can't ever request it on ficathons because DS9 isn't a rare fandom. Our Man Bashir is one of my favorite episodes.

5. Caesar/Cleopatra (not in any particular fictional version)

*g* Yes. Diana just sent me the complete restpred DVD version of the Taylor/Harrison/Burton version. I'd seen the TV broadcast version, so tehre were some "racy" scenes I'd never seen. Including when Caesar kisses Charmian. *squee* Ahem. That wasn't a squee you heard. No.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

When I have more time (i.e. not on Christmas eve), I'll try to find the links to the few stories I love, though you probably know those already.

Our Man Bashir: adore it to bits. BTW, did you see the new Bond movie? You'd love it.

Including when Caesar kisses Charmian. *squee* Ahem. That wasn't a squee you heard. No.

LOL. When I saw Antony and Cleopatra in Stratford, it occured to me that Charmian when teasing Cleopatra about what a man Caesar was might be a bit afflicted herself, you know...

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

I'd love G/B fic recs. I haven't read very many, so there are probably ones that are new to me.

I haven't seen the new one yet. Does it pass muster? I mean to, but with the VSP sick I just haven't managed yet.

LOL. When I saw Antony and Cleopatra in Stratford, it occured to me that Charmian when teasing Cleopatra about what a man Caesar was might be a bit afflicted herself, you know...

*g* I'm sure Iras thinks so anyhow!

And truly it's almost impossible to be immune to his charm when he turns it on one. Well, at least for her. Although Charmian is going to have to wait if she wants that, at least until Elza!

It's your fault, I'll have you know, that I now can't get The Phantom Menace out of Handmaiden!

Merry Christmas, dear Evil Twin! *blows kisses*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The new Bond is fantastic. Read me praise it (not spoilery beyond the general set-up which everyone knows already if they don't live on the moon) here (http://selenak.livejournal.com/255935.html).

Handmaiden & Phantom Menace: *g* glad to hear it!

Merry Christmas, darling good twin, to you and yours!

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

2. Emma/Jean (would have made much more sense than Emma/Scott in the Morrison era; my love for Emma/Scott is entirely Joss Whedon caused, though now it extends to the pairing in general)

Yes, very true. . . and as you know I've made a little place in my heart for Joss's Scott/Emma; but it's still on my list of ships-to-die because I don't trust anyone else to write it. But I don't necessarily want it to end on Joss's watch. So this is likely going to lead to me tearing my hair out in some shape or form; although if Marvel can avoid gratuitous character death, accidental marriage of clones, or alt-timeline-offspring, they'll be doing pretty well, for Marvel.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It really all depends on who'll take over after Joss. Meanwhile, why isn't there more than one Emma/Jean story I've been able to find, huh?

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

*cough* Probably the same reason I can't find any Summers incest stories. /*cough*

Marvel comicverse fandom doesn't tend to think outside the box.

A friend explained it to me in terms of all the slashers and UC shippers ending up in DCU, where there is apparently plenty to keep them busy.