OTP Quote Meme Part 2: Wherein I have too many ships
1). Buffy/Angel:
Buffy: Sometimes I do think that far ahead.
Angel: Sometimes is something.
THIS WAS MY FIRST SHIP. I mean I think I vaguely shipped Sailor Moon/Tuxedo mask at the tender age of 8, but Buffy/Angel just CONSUMED me. I was writing fic before I even knew that it existed. The day I learned that there was an online community where I could post the fic I was writing and other people would read it was basically the greatest day of my life.
2). Dan/Blair
Blair: This job offer won't last forever.
Dan: No way am I going to work for you. I came here to see if you wanted to have lunch, not sign up for indentured servitude.
THE PLOTLINE IS THE GREATEST THING ABOUT GOSSIP GIRL, THIS IS FACT. For a while there I was even reading more Dan/Blair than anything else and emailing shinyopals, mrv3000, and _thirty2flavors about it just to horrify them. I just love who they are around each other. Dan especially never lets Blair take advantage of him (like he’s let Serena do for four seasons), but at the same time, he hugely admires her and wants her to be happy (UNLIKE CHUCK BUT LET’S NOT EVEN GO THERE BECAUSE THAT IS TOO MUCH RAGE). They watch old movies together over the phone! They snuck around behind people’s backs for the sake of maintaining a “friendship!” BEST EVER.
3). Wesley/Lilah
It's not always about holding hands.
-Wesley, to Fred re: Lilah
Sometimes it’s about really hot sex with your sworn enemy and then kind of/sort of falling in love with them and wishing in your heart that you can “save” them and help them see the light of good even though they gave that up a really long time ago. SOMETIMES IT IS ABOUT THAT. AND IT WAS GREAT. This ship was so beautifully tragic and fucked up.
4). Doctor/Rose
Rose: They keep trying to split us up, but they never ever will.
Doctor: Never say ‘never ever.’
MOST PERFECT OTP FOREVER AND FOR ALL TIME. Everything about the Doctor and Rose felt so organic. Yes, the RTD era was very much defined by their lovestory, but it was more than that. They were two people who found each other when they each needed something “more” and who loved travelling and being together. It wasn’t really about the “will they/won’t they” or the ~drama as much as it was about two people who loved each other and loved being together even if they weren’t having wild monkey sex. I could have watched the “Ten and Rose are happy and adorable and in love” show forever. PLUS THEY FELT EACH OTHER THROUGH PARALLEL UNIVERSES. WHAT OTHER OTP CAN MAKE A CLAIM TO THAT.
5). Stefan/Elena
Stefan: Okay, how about this? Today when we’re fighting, if I say ‘I can’t do this anymore, Elena’ what I’ll really mean is ‘I love you.’
Elena: And when I say, ‘Fine, Stefan, whatever’ it really means ‘I love you too.’
Stefan: Deal.
THEY ARE THE MOST ADORABLE OTP. Which I don’t even understand sometimes since they are a vampire/human relationship on the CW and so by rights should be spending most of their time staring into each other’s eyes and talking about how doomed their love is. BUT THEY NEVER RARELY DO ANY OF THAT. Instead they have fun together and talk out their issues until they come to an agreement and sometimes they arrange entire fake fights and speak in code just to fool psychotic ex-girlfriends. (The faux breakup arc did not last long enough. What was it, three episodes? IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TEN. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL SEASON. I would have watched it.) It constantly amazes me that the same people who write for Damon are also writing Stefan/Elena tbh.
6). Veronica/Logan
I spent my formative years watching people while they lied to, and cheated on, and betrayed each other, so the trust thing... it doesn’t come naturally. But I’m trying to act unnaturally, I swear.
-Veronica (to Logan)
I AM ALWAYS SO TORN ON S3 OF VERONICA MARS. On the one hand, it was terrible and the writers messed up the OTP but on the other hand, Veronica and Logan make-out a lot. I kind of dug at the beginning though, you know before it turned into the Veronica Deserves A Nice Guy Like Piz show, because it was about Veronica’s massive trust issues and how she and Logan were working them out together. But anyway, Veronica and Logan are the best. AND THEY MAKE-OUT BETTER THAN PRACTICALLY ANYONE ELSE ON THIS LIST AND MAKE-OUTS ARE IMPORTANT TO ME OKAY.
7). Mal/Inara
You want me..... You want me on your ship.
-Inara
MAL AND INARA, THEY STILL DO THINGS TO ME. SPECIFICALLY, MY HEART. Sometimes I like a little bit of UST and angst in my ships, what can I say. And man did Mal and Inara bring that. Plus there was snark!
8). Barney/Robin
You're the most awesome person I've ever met. Well, second.
-Barney
Okay so I flounced pretty hard from HIMYM after Barney and Robin broke up which I guess is the very definition of “I am way too involved in the shipping than is healthy for a reasonable person.” BUT THEY WERE SO PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER IS THE THING. And their breakup was the actual worst. But I will always have the episode where they go to Canada.
9). Elena/Elijah
Elena: I’ll be back. You have my word.
Elijah: That doesn’t mean anything to me until you live up to it.
This pairing! 2x19 made me fall so hard for it. I think it’s all the way that Elijah looks at her? Like she’s something so amazing that he can’t quite believe that she exists. I love that even though there is like a billion years separating them and Elijah is a fucking badass Original vampire, Elena always has so much agency in all their scenes together. They even developed this understated relationship of trust and mutual respect. Askjkjkkk. I love it. I want them to have ALL THE SCENES TOGETHER next season.
10). Harry/Hermione
“...And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am, too," Hermione added as an afterthought.
"But I don't think you're ugly," said Harry, bemused.
-Order of the Phoenix
I always think I am over it, but then I go see the movies or someone says the word “delusional” and my left eyebrow starts twitching SO I GUESS I WILL NEVER BE OVER IT. I respect JKR’s choices in the romance department because, hey, they are her characters and I won’t argue, but Harry/Hermione was still the relationship that resonated the most with me. I think it’s the potential for what they could have been that draws me in. Hermione’s steadfast loyalty to Harry, his absolute admiration for her and belief in her abilities... I can’t read the books and not think of them on some level as being subconsciously in love. PLUS HE DOESN’T THINK SHE’S UGLY AND THAT MOMENT WAS CUTE SO.
11). Elena/Katherine
Klaus: Let’s just hope that Elena isn’t as stupid as you are.
Katherine: She won’t run. She’ll die before she lets anyone that she loves gets hurt.
Picking a Katherine/Elena quote was really difficult. This one is a little misleading too since it’s between Klaus and Katherine (which I cannot ship due to all the “ew” involved), but omg Katherine, is that admiration that I hear in your voice?? I THINK THAT IT MIGHT BE. scorpiod1 said it all here but Katherine/Elena works for me because Katherine sees Elena as something of an equal-on her level, whereas the Salvatore boys were ultimately playthings/prey/something to be chased. And despite the way the show plays up how different Katherine and Elena are, I think that Katherine still sees a lot of herself in Elena (or the self that she repressed/stopped being a long time ago). A part of her can’t help but admire the way Elena refuses to give up the ones she loves to save herself. Basically they need to have angsty and messed up doppelganger sex.
12). Gwen/Rhys
Rhys: Well let me carry the bag!
Gwen: Huh?
Rhy: You want your trigger finger free, don’t you?
TBH, I didn’t really care much one way or another for Gwen and Rhys in the first two seasons of Torchwood but then RTD came in and now I’m clapping my hands at them. THEY ARE CUTE AND A LITTLE CHUBBY TOGETHER AND HAVE A BABY AND GWEN IS THE PROTECTOR IN THE FAMILY AND ASKJKJKJKJK. They better make it out of Miracle Day okay.
13). Damon/Katherine
Katherine: What happened to you, Damon? You used to be so sweet and polite.
Damon: Oh that Damon died a long time ago.
Katherine: Good. He was a bore.
OH SNAP. At the end of the day, I ship Damon/foreveralone, but I also ship Katherine/everyone and I have a soft spot for Katherine/Damon because I just need them to have really screwed up and angsty sex next season IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK. They are just so snarky and hilarious together is the thing. And there is no way that after 150+ years of pining and devotion that Damon is completely over her (which Katherine seems to be very aware of). I also love that Katherine could not be less interested in the Damon who was devoted to her, but as soon as he’s started to show interest in someone else (i.e. Elena), Katherine suddenly gets interested in him again. LOL KATHERINE, YOU WOULD. And I might have ‘awed’ when she took the time to save him in As I Lay Dying instead of rushing to save her own skin. You don’t know, you weren’t there.
Buffy: Sometimes I do think that far ahead.
Angel: Sometimes is something.
THIS WAS MY FIRST SHIP. I mean I think I vaguely shipped Sailor Moon/Tuxedo mask at the tender age of 8, but Buffy/Angel just CONSUMED me. I was writing fic before I even knew that it existed. The day I learned that there was an online community where I could post the fic I was writing and other people would read it was basically the greatest day of my life.
2). Dan/Blair
Blair: This job offer won't last forever.
Dan: No way am I going to work for you. I came here to see if you wanted to have lunch, not sign up for indentured servitude.
THE PLOTLINE IS THE GREATEST THING ABOUT GOSSIP GIRL, THIS IS FACT. For a while there I was even reading more Dan/Blair than anything else and emailing shinyopals, mrv3000, and _thirty2flavors about it just to horrify them. I just love who they are around each other. Dan especially never lets Blair take advantage of him (like he’s let Serena do for four seasons), but at the same time, he hugely admires her and wants her to be happy (UNLIKE CHUCK BUT LET’S NOT EVEN GO THERE BECAUSE THAT IS TOO MUCH RAGE). They watch old movies together over the phone! They snuck around behind people’s backs for the sake of maintaining a “friendship!” BEST EVER.
3). Wesley/Lilah
It's not always about holding hands.
-Wesley, to Fred re: Lilah
Sometimes it’s about really hot sex with your sworn enemy and then kind of/sort of falling in love with them and wishing in your heart that you can “save” them and help them see the light of good even though they gave that up a really long time ago. SOMETIMES IT IS ABOUT THAT. AND IT WAS GREAT. This ship was so beautifully tragic and fucked up.
4). Doctor/Rose
Rose: They keep trying to split us up, but they never ever will.
Doctor: Never say ‘never ever.’
MOST PERFECT OTP FOREVER AND FOR ALL TIME. Everything about the Doctor and Rose felt so organic. Yes, the RTD era was very much defined by their lovestory, but it was more than that. They were two people who found each other when they each needed something “more” and who loved travelling and being together. It wasn’t really about the “will they/won’t they” or the ~drama as much as it was about two people who loved each other and loved being together even if they weren’t having wild monkey sex. I could have watched the “Ten and Rose are happy and adorable and in love” show forever. PLUS THEY FELT EACH OTHER THROUGH PARALLEL UNIVERSES. WHAT OTHER OTP CAN MAKE A CLAIM TO THAT.
5). Stefan/Elena
Stefan: Okay, how about this? Today when we’re fighting, if I say ‘I can’t do this anymore, Elena’ what I’ll really mean is ‘I love you.’
Elena: And when I say, ‘Fine, Stefan, whatever’ it really means ‘I love you too.’
Stefan: Deal.
THEY ARE THE MOST ADORABLE OTP. Which I don’t even understand sometimes since they are a vampire/human relationship on the CW and so by rights should be spending most of their time staring into each other’s eyes and talking about how doomed their love is. BUT THEY NEVER RARELY DO ANY OF THAT. Instead they have fun together and talk out their issues until they come to an agreement and sometimes they arrange entire fake fights and speak in code just to fool psychotic ex-girlfriends. (The faux breakup arc did not last long enough. What was it, three episodes? IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TEN. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL SEASON. I would have watched it.) It constantly amazes me that the same people who write for Damon are also writing Stefan/Elena tbh.
6). Veronica/Logan
I spent my formative years watching people while they lied to, and cheated on, and betrayed each other, so the trust thing... it doesn’t come naturally. But I’m trying to act unnaturally, I swear.
-Veronica (to Logan)
I AM ALWAYS SO TORN ON S3 OF VERONICA MARS. On the one hand, it was terrible and the writers messed up the OTP but on the other hand, Veronica and Logan make-out a lot. I kind of dug at the beginning though, you know before it turned into the Veronica Deserves A Nice Guy Like Piz show, because it was about Veronica’s massive trust issues and how she and Logan were working them out together. But anyway, Veronica and Logan are the best. AND THEY MAKE-OUT BETTER THAN PRACTICALLY ANYONE ELSE ON THIS LIST AND MAKE-OUTS ARE IMPORTANT TO ME OKAY.
7). Mal/Inara
You want me..... You want me on your ship.
-Inara
MAL AND INARA, THEY STILL DO THINGS TO ME. SPECIFICALLY, MY HEART. Sometimes I like a little bit of UST and angst in my ships, what can I say. And man did Mal and Inara bring that. Plus there was snark!
8). Barney/Robin
You're the most awesome person I've ever met. Well, second.
-Barney
Okay so I flounced pretty hard from HIMYM after Barney and Robin broke up which I guess is the very definition of “I am way too involved in the shipping than is healthy for a reasonable person.” BUT THEY WERE SO PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER IS THE THING. And their breakup was the actual worst. But I will always have the episode where they go to Canada.
9). Elena/Elijah
Elena: I’ll be back. You have my word.
Elijah: That doesn’t mean anything to me until you live up to it.
This pairing! 2x19 made me fall so hard for it. I think it’s all the way that Elijah looks at her? Like she’s something so amazing that he can’t quite believe that she exists. I love that even though there is like a billion years separating them and Elijah is a fucking badass Original vampire, Elena always has so much agency in all their scenes together. They even developed this understated relationship of trust and mutual respect. Askjkjkkk. I love it. I want them to have ALL THE SCENES TOGETHER next season.
10). Harry/Hermione
“...And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am, too," Hermione added as an afterthought.
"But I don't think you're ugly," said Harry, bemused.
-Order of the Phoenix
I always think I am over it, but then I go see the movies or someone says the word “delusional” and my left eyebrow starts twitching SO I GUESS I WILL NEVER BE OVER IT. I respect JKR’s choices in the romance department because, hey, they are her characters and I won’t argue, but Harry/Hermione was still the relationship that resonated the most with me. I think it’s the potential for what they could have been that draws me in. Hermione’s steadfast loyalty to Harry, his absolute admiration for her and belief in her abilities... I can’t read the books and not think of them on some level as being subconsciously in love. PLUS HE DOESN’T THINK SHE’S UGLY AND THAT MOMENT WAS CUTE SO.
11). Elena/Katherine
Klaus: Let’s just hope that Elena isn’t as stupid as you are.
Katherine: She won’t run. She’ll die before she lets anyone that she loves gets hurt.
Picking a Katherine/Elena quote was really difficult. This one is a little misleading too since it’s between Klaus and Katherine (which I cannot ship due to all the “ew” involved), but omg Katherine, is that admiration that I hear in your voice?? I THINK THAT IT MIGHT BE. scorpiod1 said it all here but Katherine/Elena works for me because Katherine sees Elena as something of an equal-on her level, whereas the Salvatore boys were ultimately playthings/prey/something to be chased. And despite the way the show plays up how different Katherine and Elena are, I think that Katherine still sees a lot of herself in Elena (or the self that she repressed/stopped being a long time ago). A part of her can’t help but admire the way Elena refuses to give up the ones she loves to save herself. Basically they need to have angsty and messed up doppelganger sex.
12). Gwen/Rhys
Rhys: Well let me carry the bag!
Gwen: Huh?
Rhy: You want your trigger finger free, don’t you?
TBH, I didn’t really care much one way or another for Gwen and Rhys in the first two seasons of Torchwood but then RTD came in and now I’m clapping my hands at them. THEY ARE CUTE AND A LITTLE CHUBBY TOGETHER AND HAVE A BABY AND GWEN IS THE PROTECTOR IN THE FAMILY AND ASKJKJKJKJK. They better make it out of Miracle Day okay.
13). Damon/Katherine
Katherine: What happened to you, Damon? You used to be so sweet and polite.
Damon: Oh that Damon died a long time ago.
Katherine: Good. He was a bore.
OH SNAP. At the end of the day, I ship Damon/foreveralone, but I also ship Katherine/everyone and I have a soft spot for Katherine/Damon because I just need them to have really screwed up and angsty sex next season IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK. They are just so snarky and hilarious together is the thing. And there is no way that after 150+ years of pining and devotion that Damon is completely over her (which Katherine seems to be very aware of). I also love that Katherine could not be less interested in the Damon who was devoted to her, but as soon as he’s started to show interest in someone else (i.e. Elena), Katherine suddenly gets interested in him again. LOL KATHERINE, YOU WOULD. And I might have ‘awed’ when she took the time to save him in As I Lay Dying instead of rushing to save her own skin. You don’t know, you weren’t there.