Ship meme responses
Responses to prompts from my earlier ship meme prompt.
This was an interesting exercise for me. Pretty much every fandom in, I've only got one or two big pairings, and shipwise I could give a crap what happens elsewhere; other fandoms I don't ship at all. But here goes!
ladylisse gave me The Sarah Connor Chronicles or Harry Potter, so I'm doing both. :P
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One True Pairing Ship: Sarah/Kyle, I guess. I don't get all gooshy over them, but we wouldn't have a Terminator-'verse without them, and even with Kyle long dead, his presence is still keenly felt in this series. And then, you know, there's the doomed/epic factor, which certainly isn't a factor in any of my other pairings. :P
Canon Ship: Sarah/Kyle.
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Any form of incest.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Is there any potential 'ship on this show that's not twisted in some way? Pretty much all the shippable characters are related and/or cyborgs.
"I dabble a little" Ship: Sarah/Derek, solely from indiefic's fics; I'm mixed on actually seeing it in the show. Two already supremely messed up people, one of them the brother of the other one's dead true love. Definitely no happily-ever-after here, but it does make for some twisted sex and angsting.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Sarah/Derek - see above.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: None yet.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: None yet.
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Cameron/John, but that's less to do with the actual dynamic itself than my sheer lack of shippy focus on this show.
"When all is said and done" Ship: I guess Sarah/Kyle again.
Harry Potter
One True Pairing Ship: Harry/Hermione and Harry/Luna. I refuse to choose between the two, you can't make me. :P
Canon Ship: Harry/Cho. This is a realistic teenage romance to me - the stumbling foot-in-mouthness, the moments of genuine sweetness, the eventual drift apart.
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: It did happen. Eyes were sporked. Must remember to wear protective goggles to HBP/DH movies, for moments like this.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Tom/Ginny. The power struggles, the codependency, the mind-warping, the mutual Harry obsession... mmm. I was so disappointed Ginny apparently suffered no lasting effects from Riddle's possession - having your brain taken over by a Dark Lord for a year could have made for some delicious twists for her character... but that's what fic is for.
"I dabble a little" Ship: Neville/Ginny (he treated her way better than Harry did), Hermione/Luna (JKR herself said they were two sides of the same coin), James/Lily.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Harry/Cho. Oh, you two crazy kids. If Harry wasn't so emotionally stunted, or if Cedric had never happened, you might have had a shot.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Harry/Draco. I dig the loathing and the mutual obsession and unintentional subtext; hell, I think one could make a reasonably backed-up argument that Draco did actually want to shag him in canon. But I ship Harry too hard with girls to have given these boys much attention yet.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Harry/Tonks. This is almost totally from the OotP movie, and those couple of flirty looks they had near the beginning. I find the idea of Harry and a slightly older woman intriguing, and a girl who can shapeshift? Talk about a young man's dream come true. (I really do whore out poor Harry... I can ship him with pretty much anyone but Ginny, but even that I could probably do if it was written well.)
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Sirius/Remus. Which is a problem for me in seeking out Marauders-era fic. (And frankly, if I was going to slash anyone from the MWPP era, it'd be James and Sirius - that was practically canon.)
"When all is said and done" Ship: Harry/Hermione/Ron (not in a sexual way, though I don't mind that in fic). My favorite emotional moments in the books and movies have almost always been them: them coming together at the end of HBP and DH (before the damn epilogue), Ron and Hermione being the spur for Harry fighting Voldemort's possession in Film!OotP.
infiniteskies gave me The Office.
One True Pairing Ship: Jim/Pam. ♥ A beautifully crafted relationship on nearly every level: a sweet friendship, two actors with fabulous chemistry making the most out of wonderfully subtle moments.
Canon Ship: Dwight/Angela. One's a toadie fanboy and the other's a hypocritical bitch, and yet somehow they're perfect for each other. The one thing that made the very end of the season 4 finale bearable. :D
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Pam/Toby. I used to think his crush was cute, but toward the end he just got damn creepy.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Michael/Ryan. Hey, at least their ending up in bed together is canon. ;)
"I dabble a little" Ship: Jim/Dwight. ♥ Oh, how I missed their prankage this last season.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Michael/Jan. Oh, M/J. You used to be car-crashtastic in a compelling sort of way, but now I just want Michael to get as FAR AWAY from Jan as he POSSIBLY CAN.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Michael/Holly. What we see of them in the S4 finale seems to hint that she just might be the perfect woman for Michael, and they were sweet together - but I'll need more than one episode.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Erm... Creed/Meredith? That could actually be damn hilarious.
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Kelly/Ryan, I guess.
"When all is said and done" Ship: Jim and Pam. (DAMN you, S4 finale ending.)
jedi_em gave me Buffy.
One True Pairing Ship: Willow/Oz. ♥ ♥ ♥
Canon Ship: Xander/Cordelia. The one canon ship I ever liked for either of them.
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Angel/Cordelia.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Can't think of one.
"I dabble a little" Ship: Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Spike/Drusilla. And oh, what a lovely car crash it was.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Angel/Spike. I totally dig all the deliberate subtext Joss throws in there, and it'd be a hell of a way to resolve the Angel/Buffy/Spike triangle once and for all, but I've just never been a huge slasher.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: In a universe as BYO Subtext as this, is there really a ship we'd have been surprised to see at some point?
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Xander/Anya. Only time I found it remotely interesting was when Xander ditched her at the altar.
"When all is said and done" Ship: Willow/Oz. I don't care if every other couple in the Buffyverse had ended up in shreds (and most of them did)... I would've been ecstatic if these two had made it.
zorb gave me Farscape.
One True Pairing Ship: John/Aeryn.
Canon Ship: Moya. *g* (Hey, it was never said that 'ship' had to refer to a relationship.)
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Ha! On a show where Muppet!porn is basically canon, I don't think there's anything that would shock/horrify or me to the point of self-sporkage. Well, watching Scorpius with Natira (the eye-gouging blue alien chick who ran the shadow depository) didn't exactly whet my appetite any. :P
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: See above. But if forced to choose, I guess John/Scorpius. Now there's some literal mindfucking. *g*
"I dabble a little" Ship: None, really.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: John and Aeryn. Actually, that was a pretty literal comparison for the end of season 2...
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: I thought D'Argo/Chiana got a little more interesting near the end, but I'm not invested much either way.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: None.
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: I have no idea how many actually liked it, but Stark/Zhaan always bored the crap out of me.
"When all is said and done" Ship: John/Aeryn. For once, a couple I shipped actually got a happy ending!
That was fun. :)
This was an interesting exercise for me. Pretty much every fandom in, I've only got one or two big pairings, and shipwise I could give a crap what happens elsewhere; other fandoms I don't ship at all. But here goes!
ladylisse gave me The Sarah Connor Chronicles or Harry Potter, so I'm doing both. :P
TSCC
One True Pairing Ship: Sarah/Kyle, I guess. I don't get all gooshy over them, but we wouldn't have a Terminator-'verse without them, and even with Kyle long dead, his presence is still keenly felt in this series. And then, you know, there's the doomed/epic factor, which certainly isn't a factor in any of my other pairings. :P
Canon Ship: Sarah/Kyle.
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Any form of incest.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Is there any potential 'ship on this show that's not twisted in some way? Pretty much all the shippable characters are related and/or cyborgs.
"I dabble a little" Ship: Sarah/Derek, solely from indiefic's fics; I'm mixed on actually seeing it in the show. Two already supremely messed up people, one of them the brother of the other one's dead true love. Definitely no happily-ever-after here, but it does make for some twisted sex and angsting.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Sarah/Derek - see above.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: None yet.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: None yet.
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Cameron/John, but that's less to do with the actual dynamic itself than my sheer lack of shippy focus on this show.
"When all is said and done" Ship: I guess Sarah/Kyle again.
Harry Potter
One True Pairing Ship: Harry/Hermione and Harry/Luna. I refuse to choose between the two, you can't make me. :P
Canon Ship: Harry/Cho. This is a realistic teenage romance to me - the stumbling foot-in-mouthness, the moments of genuine sweetness, the eventual drift apart.
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: It did happen. Eyes were sporked. Must remember to wear protective goggles to HBP/DH movies, for moments like this.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Tom/Ginny. The power struggles, the codependency, the mind-warping, the mutual Harry obsession... mmm. I was so disappointed Ginny apparently suffered no lasting effects from Riddle's possession - having your brain taken over by a Dark Lord for a year could have made for some delicious twists for her character... but that's what fic is for.
"I dabble a little" Ship: Neville/Ginny (he treated her way better than Harry did), Hermione/Luna (JKR herself said they were two sides of the same coin), James/Lily.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Harry/Cho. Oh, you two crazy kids. If Harry wasn't so emotionally stunted, or if Cedric had never happened, you might have had a shot.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Harry/Draco. I dig the loathing and the mutual obsession and unintentional subtext; hell, I think one could make a reasonably backed-up argument that Draco did actually want to shag him in canon. But I ship Harry too hard with girls to have given these boys much attention yet.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Harry/Tonks. This is almost totally from the OotP movie, and those couple of flirty looks they had near the beginning. I find the idea of Harry and a slightly older woman intriguing, and a girl who can shapeshift? Talk about a young man's dream come true. (I really do whore out poor Harry... I can ship him with pretty much anyone but Ginny, but even that I could probably do if it was written well.)
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Sirius/Remus. Which is a problem for me in seeking out Marauders-era fic. (And frankly, if I was going to slash anyone from the MWPP era, it'd be James and Sirius - that was practically canon.)
"When all is said and done" Ship: Harry/Hermione/Ron (not in a sexual way, though I don't mind that in fic). My favorite emotional moments in the books and movies have almost always been them: them coming together at the end of HBP and DH (before the damn epilogue), Ron and Hermione being the spur for Harry fighting Voldemort's possession in Film!OotP.
infiniteskies gave me The Office.
One True Pairing Ship: Jim/Pam. ♥ A beautifully crafted relationship on nearly every level: a sweet friendship, two actors with fabulous chemistry making the most out of wonderfully subtle moments.
Canon Ship: Dwight/Angela. One's a toadie fanboy and the other's a hypocritical bitch, and yet somehow they're perfect for each other. The one thing that made the very end of the season 4 finale bearable. :D
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Pam/Toby. I used to think his crush was cute, but toward the end he just got damn creepy.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Michael/Ryan. Hey, at least their ending up in bed together is canon. ;)
"I dabble a little" Ship: Jim/Dwight. ♥ Oh, how I missed their prankage this last season.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Michael/Jan. Oh, M/J. You used to be car-crashtastic in a compelling sort of way, but now I just want Michael to get as FAR AWAY from Jan as he POSSIBLY CAN.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Michael/Holly. What we see of them in the S4 finale seems to hint that she just might be the perfect woman for Michael, and they were sweet together - but I'll need more than one episode.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Erm... Creed/Meredith? That could actually be damn hilarious.
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Kelly/Ryan, I guess.
"When all is said and done" Ship: Jim and Pam. (DAMN you, S4 finale ending.)
jedi_em gave me Buffy.
One True Pairing Ship: Willow/Oz. ♥ ♥ ♥
Canon Ship: Xander/Cordelia. The one canon ship I ever liked for either of them.
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Angel/Cordelia.
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Can't think of one.
"I dabble a little" Ship: Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike
"It's like a car crash" Ship: Spike/Drusilla. And oh, what a lovely car crash it was.
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Angel/Spike. I totally dig all the deliberate subtext Joss throws in there, and it'd be a hell of a way to resolve the Angel/Buffy/Spike triangle once and for all, but I've just never been a huge slasher.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: In a universe as BYO Subtext as this, is there really a ship we'd have been surprised to see at some point?
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Xander/Anya. Only time I found it remotely interesting was when Xander ditched her at the altar.
"When all is said and done" Ship: Willow/Oz. I don't care if every other couple in the Buffyverse had ended up in shreds (and most of them did)... I would've been ecstatic if these two had made it.
zorb gave me Farscape.
One True Pairing Ship: John/Aeryn.
Canon Ship: Moya. *g* (Hey, it was never said that 'ship' had to refer to a relationship.)
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Ha! On a show where Muppet!porn is basically canon, I don't think there's anything that would shock/horrify or me to the point of self-sporkage. Well, watching Scorpius with Natira (the eye-gouging blue alien chick who ran the shadow depository) didn't exactly whet my appetite any. :P
"You are one sick bastard" Ship: See above. But if forced to choose, I guess John/Scorpius. Now there's some literal mindfucking. *g*
"I dabble a little" Ship: None, really.
"It's like a car crash" Ship: John and Aeryn. Actually, that was a pretty literal comparison for the end of season 2...
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: I thought D'Argo/Chiana got a little more interesting near the end, but I'm not invested much either way.
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: None.
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: I have no idea how many actually liked it, but Stark/Zhaan always bored the crap out of me.
"When all is said and done" Ship: John/Aeryn. For once, a couple I shipped actually got a happy ending!
That was fun. :)