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Pick nine ships you are currently into and three ships you don't like and then answer questions about them.
1. Dean/Castiel
2. Sam/Castiel
3. Sam/Dean
4. Dairine/Carmela
5. Stefan/Elena/Damon
6. J2
7. Steph/Tim
8. Steph/Cass
9. Rory (GG)/Paris
10. Jo/Ellen
11. Bruce/Tim
12. Dairine/Roshaun
What would be your ideal scenario for couple three?
Sam/Dean. Um... wow, I nearly didn't put Sam/Dean on this list (I did in the end just because I thought I might look like one of those anti-Wincest people which makes oldschoolers mad and I srt of like to prove that multishippers really do exist) and I'm sort of wishing I hadn't now, since although I like a lot of happy, fluffy Wincest, I have to admit that there aren't that many times when incest presents a viable happy ending. Also I don't really like “Sam and Dean ride off into the sunset” as a happy ending because I keep thinking, what happens when they're sixty and can't run anymore? One of them gets killed, the other one goes crazy and suicidal and gets himself killed too? Delightful.
Um, how to answer that question? OK: I like them to get together probably half-way through season 1, season 2 at the latest usually. (I don't really get people who get them together in season 5. Like, why wait?) Although I have enjoyed pre-Stanford relationships, they usually bother me (esp. if Sam is under 16) and I don't find them consensual (not that there's anything wrong with that (... in fiction), I just wouldn't call it an ideal scenario). Um... I don't know, go and read some![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Which is your favorite moment for couple one?
Dean/Castiel. Ooh, good question. Well, "personal space, Cas" is a classic from an episode which has a Dean and Castiel subplot that I quite like (that is from Free to be You and Me, right? I haven't really rewatched season 5) Um, what else. Oh ... I really like in The Children Are Our Future when they argue about killing the Antichrist (altho that argument might have been more with Sam? IDK.)
How long have you been following couple six?
J2. Yikes, that makes me sound like a tinhat. I don't really “follow” or believe in them as a couple. I've been reading J2 for about four years, I guess, since awhile after I started reading SPN fic. Typically with J2, though, I read it when I'm bored and want to watch a romantic comedy (or read a romance novel, although I have never actually read a profic romance novel. SO MUCH Harlequin fic, though, because I like schmoop, and let's face it, if you like schmoop, J2 AUs are where it's at.)
What's the story with eight?
Steph/Cass! OMG. Once upon a time there were two young women who had embarked on a life of vigilantism. They were both uncertain of themselves and had unreliable endorsement from their mentor (this did go away for Cass, but when they met Bats was still putting Cass through the wringer) and they both had villains for dads. "When my dad was mad at me, he locked me in the closet. What did your dad do?" "Shot me!" "Ahaha!" "Ahaha!" They bonded and fought crime together and fell in love. Then one of them died and the other one was devastated, even as no-one else seemed to notice much. She hallucinated the other one taking care of her in dangerous situations, looking a bit angelic (although rather less attractive now that she was all corpsified and gross.) Then she got better, just as the other one experienced a period of awful, awful writing and went a little homicidal. When she recovered, she went undercover for awhile to find herself. The other one took on her mantle and continues to fight crime in her absence, waiting always for her return ...
You have the power to make one ship nonexistent. Choose between ten or twelve.
Jo/Ellen or Dairine/Roshaun. Oh, harsh! Jo/Ellen is not to my personal taste because I dislike parent/child (I dislike mixed generation generally – see Bruce/Tim - which is weird when you consider what isn't a squick for me, but whatever.) On the other hand, you never get it in canon and Jo/Ellen shippers/writers don't exactly get in my way (except when I'm desperate for Jo fic and there's none out there, but hey.) On the other hand, I have actually written D/R and I don't really mind it as a background ship, I just dislike it as an omg-together-forever-destined-to-be kind of thing which I worry that canon is actually going for with the born-on-the-wrong-planet thing, and which I sometimes think fandom really does want to happen, like marriage and alien babies and everything. Which 1. Dairine would be a TERRIBLE PRINCESS, gdi and 2. no :( she's 11 :( no :( So ... I guess Dairine/Roshaun?
Yeah, that was the noise ofbad_mushroom defriending me.
Which ship do you prefer, two or four?
Sassy or Dairine/Carmela. Oh, Dairine/Carmela, easily. I like Sassy but I can live without it. I'm rapidly starting to become OTPish about Dairine/Carmela. It has pretty much everything I like – snark, hot, smartness, bitchy truth-to-power girls (I have a TYPE, OK.)
How do you feel about seven?
Steph/Tim. I love its stupid awkward teenage face. Actually, while I really love Steph/Cass, I might actually like Steph/Tim even MORE. She's the only girl I ever really see Tim with, tbh, and I'm dying for them to get back together in canon. I love everything about their dynamic, I think they're super-hot together, and I also kind of desperately want them to get together and get married and have lots of vigilante babies (Tim is the SAHD, obviously. Steph does something incredible.) And they snuggle. I really like that one fic by Te where it's an AU where Black Mask didn't Steph, only beat her up and she goes to recover in Bludhaven (so I guess now it's more an AU where !@%$ing Lesley doesn't hide this from the Batfamily) and lives with Tim and he learns to bake and buy juice and then they start having sex again and it's awesome and domestic and ridiculous. SHUT UP. CURTAIN FIC: I LIKE IT.
Does your affection for nine affect your love of the show books?
Rory/Paris (Gilmore Girls). Erm... good question. My affection for Paris definitely does (in the good way ... usually). For the ship? IDK. It definitely made me happier about the Rory/Logan breakup, which is weird because as far as canon pairings go, I'm a Rory/Logan girl. I usually detest the Logan type, but Rory and Logan had had their ups and downs and argued about things and they both had worked really hard to make their relationship work. In the end, I felt their breakup was a little pasted on because they felt that they couldn't end the show with Rory in a two-year relationship looking permanent – which would have been fine if they'd done any work on it, but it kind of seemed to come out of nowhere and it sort of bugs me. BUT because I am a Rory/Paris girl AT HEART, I was more like, yay! And then she and Paris get together and live happily ever after!
On the other hand, it makes every Paris/Doyle scene a torture. I goddamn hate Paris/Doyle. Ugh!
What's a song that reminds you of five?
Stefan/Elena/Damon. Hah! I don't really have a song for them yet, I've only liked them for like, five days, cut me some slack. "Help I'm Alive" by Metric really reminds me of the show, but only because they used it in this one episode and I happened to already like the show. Hm. Probably something by Florence and the Machine, I guess.
BONUS: because there is a pairing I have a good answer for this for: "We Looked Like Giants" (Death Cab for Cutie) and, to a lesser extent, "Indie Rock & Roll" (The Killers) are my Steph/Tim songs. God damn the blackknight/and all its foul temptations/I've become what I've always hated/when I was with you then/We looked like giants/in the back of my grey subcompact/fumbling to make contact/while the others slept inside. "Campus", by Vampire Weekend, is my them-getting-back-together-next-year-when-Tim-goes-to-Gotham-U song.
Have two kissed yet?
Sam and Castiel. Nope, and unlikely to happen in canon, IMO.
If only one could happen, which would you prefer, two or six?
So many Sassy questions! Sassy or J2. Sassy! Because Sassy would involve less personal heartbreak, divorces, cheating, etc (also because speculating about the lives of real people in a this-could-actually-happen way squicks me.)
You have the power to decide the fate of ten. What happens to them?
Jo/Ellen again. LOL um well these people aren't together in canon yo! (Ew/YKINMK.) Er... there's this one fic where Jo was secretly part of the Stargate programme, and she and Ellen got beamed out of that building and onto the bridge of the Daedalus seconds before it blew up? Yeah. I want that to have happened, please, and then they move to the Pegasus galaxy and have awesome adventures and lots of sex with other people. *hands* Alternatively, they escaped through some other means! I don't much care how! And Ellen sets up another bar (or finds another job, again, I don't care) and Jo is a badass hunter and marries a nice girl, or has awesome casual sex for the rest of her life, I don't really care.
Which was your original OTP?
I took the "ships you're into right now" requirement pretty seriously so I'm actively into all of these RN, meaning none of them are super-oldschool pairings. Erm ...I don't actually remember if I read in comics fandom or SPN fandom first. I would say Steph/Tim, but if it's not Steph/Tim it would be Sam/Dean. OK, I just checked tags: my first post about SPN was on 25 May 2006 (here), my first comics post was in April 2006! (this one, in which I said: "Dairine ... can't deny that she's attracted to the obnoxious, blond Chase" (Stein, from Runaways), which means I really did ship it at one point.) I'm guessing that I posted about comics earlier (that was just a meme), which makes sense b/c I remember getting into SPN in second year, and I was definitely reading DCU all the way through first year (2005). So, Steph/Tim! My original OTP Evah was Ron/Hermione and Remus/Sirius, pretty equally I guess.
ilyena_sylph.Pick nine ships you are currently into and three ships you don't like and then answer questions about them.
1. Dean/Castiel
2. Sam/Castiel
3. Sam/Dean
4. Dairine/Carmela
5. Stefan/Elena/Damon
6. J2
7. Steph/Tim
8. Steph/Cass
9. Rory (GG)/Paris
10. Jo/Ellen
11. Bruce/Tim
12. Dairine/Roshaun
What would be your ideal scenario for couple three?
Sam/Dean. Um... wow, I nearly didn't put Sam/Dean on this list (I did in the end just because I thought I might look like one of those anti-Wincest people which makes oldschoolers mad and I srt of like to prove that multishippers really do exist) and I'm sort of wishing I hadn't now, since although I like a lot of happy, fluffy Wincest, I have to admit that there aren't that many times when incest presents a viable happy ending. Also I don't really like “Sam and Dean ride off into the sunset” as a happy ending because I keep thinking, what happens when they're sixty and can't run anymore? One of them gets killed, the other one goes crazy and suicidal and gets himself killed too? Delightful.
Um, how to answer that question? OK: I like them to get together probably half-way through season 1, season 2 at the latest usually. (I don't really get people who get them together in season 5. Like, why wait?) Although I have enjoyed pre-Stanford relationships, they usually bother me (esp. if Sam is under 16) and I don't find them consensual (not that there's anything wrong with that (... in fiction), I just wouldn't call it an ideal scenario). Um... I don't know, go and read some
sevenfists and get back to me.Which is your favorite moment for couple one?
Dean/Castiel. Ooh, good question. Well, "personal space, Cas" is a classic from an episode which has a Dean and Castiel subplot that I quite like (that is from Free to be You and Me, right? I haven't really rewatched season 5) Um, what else. Oh ... I really like in The Children Are Our Future when they argue about killing the Antichrist (altho that argument might have been more with Sam? IDK.)
How long have you been following couple six?
J2. Yikes, that makes me sound like a tinhat. I don't really “follow” or believe in them as a couple. I've been reading J2 for about four years, I guess, since awhile after I started reading SPN fic. Typically with J2, though, I read it when I'm bored and want to watch a romantic comedy (or read a romance novel, although I have never actually read a profic romance novel. SO MUCH Harlequin fic, though, because I like schmoop, and let's face it, if you like schmoop, J2 AUs are where it's at.)
What's the story with eight?
Steph/Cass! OMG. Once upon a time there were two young women who had embarked on a life of vigilantism. They were both uncertain of themselves and had unreliable endorsement from their mentor (this did go away for Cass, but when they met Bats was still putting Cass through the wringer) and they both had villains for dads. "When my dad was mad at me, he locked me in the closet. What did your dad do?" "Shot me!" "Ahaha!" "Ahaha!" They bonded and fought crime together and fell in love. Then one of them died and the other one was devastated, even as no-one else seemed to notice much. She hallucinated the other one taking care of her in dangerous situations, looking a bit angelic (although rather less attractive now that she was all corpsified and gross.) Then she got better, just as the other one experienced a period of awful, awful writing and went a little homicidal. When she recovered, she went undercover for awhile to find herself. The other one took on her mantle and continues to fight crime in her absence, waiting always for her return ...
You have the power to make one ship nonexistent. Choose between ten or twelve.
Jo/Ellen or Dairine/Roshaun. Oh, harsh! Jo/Ellen is not to my personal taste because I dislike parent/child (I dislike mixed generation generally – see Bruce/Tim - which is weird when you consider what isn't a squick for me, but whatever.) On the other hand, you never get it in canon and Jo/Ellen shippers/writers don't exactly get in my way (except when I'm desperate for Jo fic and there's none out there, but hey.) On the other hand, I have actually written D/R and I don't really mind it as a background ship, I just dislike it as an omg-together-forever-destined-to-be kind of thing which I worry that canon is actually going for with the born-on-the-wrong-planet thing, and which I sometimes think fandom really does want to happen, like marriage and alien babies and everything. Which 1. Dairine would be a TERRIBLE PRINCESS, gdi and 2. no :( she's 11 :( no :( So ... I guess Dairine/Roshaun?
Yeah, that was the noise of
bad_mushroom defriending me. Which ship do you prefer, two or four?
Sassy or Dairine/Carmela. Oh, Dairine/Carmela, easily. I like Sassy but I can live without it. I'm rapidly starting to become OTPish about Dairine/Carmela. It has pretty much everything I like – snark, hot, smartness, bitchy truth-to-power girls (I have a TYPE, OK.)
How do you feel about seven?
Steph/Tim. I love its stupid awkward teenage face. Actually, while I really love Steph/Cass, I might actually like Steph/Tim even MORE. She's the only girl I ever really see Tim with, tbh, and I'm dying for them to get back together in canon. I love everything about their dynamic, I think they're super-hot together, and I also kind of desperately want them to get together and get married and have lots of vigilante babies (Tim is the SAHD, obviously. Steph does something incredible.) And they snuggle. I really like that one fic by Te where it's an AU where Black Mask didn't Steph, only beat her up and she goes to recover in Bludhaven (so I guess now it's more an AU where !@%$ing Lesley doesn't hide this from the Batfamily) and lives with Tim and he learns to bake and buy juice and then they start having sex again and it's awesome and domestic and ridiculous. SHUT UP. CURTAIN FIC: I LIKE IT.
Does your affection for nine affect your love of the show books?
Rory/Paris (Gilmore Girls). Erm... good question. My affection for Paris definitely does (in the good way ... usually). For the ship? IDK. It definitely made me happier about the Rory/Logan breakup, which is weird because as far as canon pairings go, I'm a Rory/Logan girl. I usually detest the Logan type, but Rory and Logan had had their ups and downs and argued about things and they both had worked really hard to make their relationship work. In the end, I felt their breakup was a little pasted on because they felt that they couldn't end the show with Rory in a two-year relationship looking permanent – which would have been fine if they'd done any work on it, but it kind of seemed to come out of nowhere and it sort of bugs me. BUT because I am a Rory/Paris girl AT HEART, I was more like, yay! And then she and Paris get together and live happily ever after!
On the other hand, it makes every Paris/Doyle scene a torture. I goddamn hate Paris/Doyle. Ugh!
What's a song that reminds you of five?
Stefan/Elena/Damon. Hah! I don't really have a song for them yet, I've only liked them for like, five days, cut me some slack. "Help I'm Alive" by Metric really reminds me of the show, but only because they used it in this one episode and I happened to already like the show. Hm. Probably something by Florence and the Machine, I guess.
BONUS: because there is a pairing I have a good answer for this for: "We Looked Like Giants" (Death Cab for Cutie) and, to a lesser extent, "Indie Rock & Roll" (The Killers) are my Steph/Tim songs. God damn the black
Have two kissed yet?
Sam and Castiel. Nope, and unlikely to happen in canon, IMO.
If only one could happen, which would you prefer, two or six?
So many Sassy questions! Sassy or J2. Sassy! Because Sassy would involve less personal heartbreak, divorces, cheating, etc (also because speculating about the lives of real people in a this-could-actually-happen way squicks me.)
You have the power to decide the fate of ten. What happens to them?
Jo/Ellen again. LOL um well these people aren't together in canon yo! (Ew/YKINMK.) Er... there's this one fic where Jo was secretly part of the Stargate programme, and she and Ellen got beamed out of that building and onto the bridge of the Daedalus seconds before it blew up? Yeah. I want that to have happened, please, and then they move to the Pegasus galaxy and have awesome adventures and lots of sex with other people. *hands* Alternatively, they escaped through some other means! I don't much care how! And Ellen sets up another bar (or finds another job, again, I don't care) and Jo is a badass hunter and marries a nice girl, or has awesome casual sex for the rest of her life, I don't really care.
Which was your original OTP?
I took the "ships you're into right now" requirement pretty seriously so I'm actively into all of these RN, meaning none of them are super-oldschool pairings. Erm ...
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Date: 2010-09-22 10:49 pm (UTC)(also i just started watching TVD OH BONNIE HOW ARE YOU SO AWESOME and also aaaaaaaaaaa why does damon have to be my type)
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Date: 2010-09-22 11:07 pm (UTC)BONNIE IS SO GREAT. Damon has to be your type because, hello, LJ Smith made him up, duh. Also Ian Somerhalder doesn't age.
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Date: 2010-09-23 02:38 am (UTC)Damon is my id so much and I want to PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE. Like. DAMON YOU ASSHOLE. I want Caroline to punch him. I want Vicky to punch him. I want to watch Elena slapping him SO NANY TIMES. And yet. Looooooooooooove.
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Date: 2010-09-23 03:38 am (UTC)I CAN'T RESPOND TO YOU TVD STUFF BECAUSE EVERYTHING I WANT TO SAY IS A SPOILER. *zips lips firmly*