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Meme
So I did this meme, and I was surprised that all but one of the pairings I love are het. When did I stop loving slash and femmeslash so much? Also, yes I am aware that I took this pretty seriously, but it was fun psychoanalyzing my ships.
SIX SHIPS I LOVE
1. Mulder/Scully (X-Files, the CLASSIC ship, as well as my first)
2. Teyla/Elizabeth (Stargate Atlantis)
3. Matt/Audrey (Heroes)
4. Goren/Eames (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
5. Ororo/Logan (X-Men)
6. Snape/McGonagall (Harry Potter)
THREE SHIPS I LIKED BUT DON'T ANYMORE
7. Sam/Janet (Stargate SG1)
8. Tara/Spike (Buffy)
9. Sun/Jin (Lost)
THREE SHIPS I DON'T LIKE
10. Sara/Grissom (CSI)
11. Jean/Logan (X-Men)
12. Sheppard/McKay (Stargate Atlantis)
TWO SHIPS THAT I AM CURIOUS ABOUT, BUT DON'T ACTUALLY SHIP
13. Claire/Peter (Heroes)
14. Tia Dalma/Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
1). Why do you dislike #11 so much?
Jean/Logan
Because Jean is way too high maintenance for someone like Logan. They don’t click together for me. She would try to “tame” him because his wilder side (his animal nature) would scare her, he'd let her drag him around by the balls and then he'd resent her for it. It just would not be a healthy relationship.
2). WHO DO YOU KNOW WHO SHIPS #13?
Peter/Claire
It seems like everyone in the Heroes fandom ships these two.
3). What would be your ideal scenario for couple #3 (even if the show isn't on the air anymore)?
Matt/Audrey
Well, Matt first has to get divorced, because his wife is an extremely annoying heifer. Then he and Audrey have to meet again, I’m thinking somewhere in New York, since as of the end of season 1, that’s where they both are. And then she has to apologize for being a heinous bitch to him earlier in the first season, and he has to apologize for getting her in trouble. And then they just have to go from there. But there needs to be a good friendship there before they jump into the sack.
4). Which is your favorite episode for #1? Try to pick just one.
Mulder/Scully
Oh man, this is a hard one. I mean, there are so many good ones! The one that comes immediately to mind is The Unnatural, for the baseball scene at the end, followed closely by Millennium, for the New Year’s kiss. But then the two Pusher episodes come to mind, too, and Small Potatoes, and Bad Blood. I like the end of Field Trip too, for the hand holding. I could go on and on and on, because this relationship was seriously the most developed reltionship on any TV show I've ever watched and there were so many episodes that added a little more depth to their potential romantic relationship. But, if I have to choose just one, I’m going to have to go with Syzygy, because although that wasn't the episode where I started to ship for them, that was the first one where I thought that the relationship might actually be possible.
5). HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN FOLLOWING COUPLE #6?
Snape/McGonagall
Since book 4, in which my brain went “Hmm, Dumbledore’s left and right hands. OMG HAY BRAINZ LETZ SHIP THEM!” Seriously though, I think that Snape and McGonagall have probably had a lot of history together as they are Dumbledore’s left and right hands. Snape is the one that he moves in the shadows, against the Dark Lord, and McGonagall is the one he moves in the light, for everyone to see. I think the dynamics between them both would be fascinating, and I also think that they are more similar than anyone would realize.
6.) WHAT'S THE STORY WITH #8? WHAT MADE YOU STOP LIKING THEM/CARING?
Tara/Spike
Ok, in case you haven’t noticed, my brain makes huge leaps in pairings a lot. I love rarepairs, slash pairs, and the like. Spike/Tara came about one day when I was thinking that instead of wasting his time with Buffy, Spike could do much better with a woman who wasn’t going to spend most of the time they spent together either beating the shit out of him or trying to convince them both that he was a monster. He needed someone that wouldn’t be ashamed to be with him, and who wouldn't deny his past as an evil blood sucking vampire, but who also wouldn't hold that past against him. This was also the point where Willow was becoming especially unbearable, and I was thinking that Tara deserved someone who could love her without any undercurrents of competition or any expectations of her, someone who would treat her like a human being. Then I realized that even though Spike and Tara were extreme opposites, that’s actually what would balance them out. I also realized that since they’d both had shit relationships in the past, and since they’d both let themselves be used and abused, they’d know how to treat one another. But it’s hard to ship a pairing, no matter how fucking awesome they are, when there aren’t very many others in the fandom who ship it too. The fic I read featuring them were absolutely wonderful, there just weren’t that many to be found. So, I stopped caring. Though I have to say, my interest in the pairing lasted longer than my interest in the show.
I also liked Tara/Faith for pretty much the same reasons.
7). WHICH SHIP DO YOU PREFER - #2 OR #4?
Teyla/Elizabeth (SGA) or Goren/Eames (CI)
Hmm… this is hard. I’m going to have to say Teyla/Elizabeth. But only by a little bit.
8). YOU HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE ONE SHIP NON EXISTENT. CHOOSE FROM #10 OR #12.
Sara/Grissom (CSI) or Sheppard/McKay (SGA)
I don’t even have to think about this one: Sara/Grissom. Even if Sheppard/McKay were cannon, it’d still be Sara/Grissom. That pairing just squicks me the fuck out.
9). WHAT INTERESTS YOU ABOUT #14?
Tia Dalma/Jack Sparrow
The fact that both of them have really strong, really eccentric personalities. Jack is flamboyant and brash and witty, and Tia Dalma is mysterious and half mad and intense. They both have keen senses of humor and wit, senses that are often misunderstood because of their oddities, and the two of them together is just a fun idea for me. Plus, oh my god the pure friggin’ eye candy they’d make together! I’m not quite a shipper yet—still too much in love with Tia Dalma all by her lonesome—but I have a feeling that it’ll only take one really good fic to do the trick.
10). WHEN DID YOU STOP LIKING #7?
Sam/Janet
When they killed the better half of the pairing. Yes, Janet died and then I lost interest in the show. But it’s kind of hard to really continue shipping a pairing when your favorite of the two is dead, and you have a really hard time with resurrection plot lines anyway.
11). DID YOUR WANING INTEREST IN #9 KILL YOUR INTEREST IN THE SHOW?
Sun/Jin
Nope, I still love Lost. I even still enjoy Sun/Jin, but after they reconciled their relationship I found myself loosing interest. They were so damn cannon, and so damn cute, that it wasn’t really all that fun to ship for them anymore.
12). What's a song that reminds you of #5?
Ororo/Logan
As dorky as it sounds, Hey You by Shakira. It’s totally an Ororo point of view song. If you listen to the lyrics of the song, this is the only type of relationship I can see Logan letting himself commit to long term: one in which he has total possession over his partner, but also one in which his partner has total possession over him. And I can see Ororo being the one he trusts to have control over his heart.
13). WHICH OF THESE SHIPS DO YOU LOVE THE MOST?
It’s a tie between Matt/Audrey and Ororo/Logan. I just can’t choose one right now.
14). WHICH DO YOU DISLIKE THE MOST?
Sara/Grissom, hands down. It’s just EW.
15). IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY OF THESE TWO PAIRINGS DOUBLE DATE, WHO WOULD IT BE? (EVEN BETTER IF THEY'RE FROM DIFFERENT SHOWS)
I like Matt/Audrey and Mulder/Scully, for the obvious law enforcement connections (since everyone at the table but Matt would be an FBI agent, and even he worked with the FBI for a while). Goren/Eames can be interchanged for either couple, for the same reasons. I also like Ororo/Logan and Teyla/Elizabeth, oddly enough. I think Logan and Teyla could relate well, and so could Elizabeth and Ororo. It’d be an interesting date, at least.
16). Have #2 kissed yet? Elaborate if you'd like.
Teyla/Elizabeth
No, and they’re not likely to either. That’s what I get for shipping femmeslash.
17). DID #4 HAVE A HAPPY ENDING? IF THE SHOW HASN'T ENDED YET, DO YOU THINK A HAPPY ENDING IS LIKELY?
Goren/Eames
If by happy ended, you mean are they together, then the answer is no. I don’t think it’s likely that they’re going to end up together in cannon, either, just considering what the show is and how the L&O series is handled. But since I actually really like the way their relationship is portrayed anyway, that’s not really a huge issue for me. At least, not so huge that fanfic can’t satisfy it.
18). What would make you start shipping #13?
Claire/Peter
You know, I’m not sure. It’s not like I’ve missed the way they undress one another with their eyes every time they have a scene together. And oddly enough, the fact that they’re related has only increased my interest in the pairing (yes, I know, that’s creepy). So I guess a really, really good fanfic would do it. But it would have to be pretty bloody spectacular, because this pairing really doesn’t interest me enough that I care too much about it.
19). IF ONLY ONE COULD HAPPEN, WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER - #2 OR #6?
Teyla/Elizabeth (SGA) or Snape/McGonagall (Harry Potter)
Teyla/Elizabeth. Snape/McGonagall is an interesting pairing, but fanfic satisfies my need for them pretty well. Plus, Teyla/Elizabeth is a whole lotta eye candy that I’d just love to see.
20). YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DECIDE THE FATE OF #10. WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM?
Sara/Grissom
Sara realizes that she can do so much better than a socially inept, awkward man that just so happens to be her SUPERVISOR and they break up. And since I’m dreaming anyway, Sara hooks up with Sofia, who is a much smarter match than Grissom, and Grissom pines away silently (maybe spouting the occasional line of melancholy poetry) for the rest of their careers together.
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