Comments | monimala: "This is true love. You think this happens every day?"

monimala

"This is true love. You think this happens every day?"

Feb 14, 2008 13:59

What makes for a memorable love story? If you ask fandom, it's not exactly Noah and Allie in The Notebook (thank God). What's fascinating is that love stories, for people so entrenched in media and bathed in pop culture, they need to be something extra. Putting it baldly: They need to be a little fucked up. That's not to say that the love is ( Read more... )

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razorsmile February 14 2008, 20:28:39 UTC

Battlescarred soldier with no sense of humor carries picture of woman around everywhere, goes back to 1984 to rescue said woman, and is summarily deflowered by her after confessing his undying love.

... Kyle Reese?

angel_grace February 14 2008, 23:38:19 UTC

Ooh, what a fun list! It's funny, though--as much as I loved TPB, and Westley, I kinda thought Buttercup was a twit. Possibly because her name was Buttercup.

Anne and Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables might be my end-all, be-all OTP, though. They hate each other, they become friends, they fall in love. *sigh*

Now I shall ponder other couples. My problem is that I so frequently 'ship UC...

kismeteve February 15 2008, 04:10:11 UTC

All of my bulletproof OTPs are one that I grew up with: Clark/Lois, Elizabeth/Darcy, Indy/Marion, Mulder/Scully...Hmm, I think I have a thing for slightly adversarial relationships.

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monimala February 19 2008, 03:05:05 UTC

Thanks!

And, well, i loved Buffy and Spike and absolutely thought they loved each other in a really dysfunctional way (is there any other kind?). I just figured that, canonically, we were told to expect Angel as the end game, so I sucked it up and went with it. And Spike dying for her in the BTVS finale was such a wonderful, redemptive gesture, that it gave me a lot of closure in the relationship. I got really cranky when they brought him back to Angel and negated it.

And I'm a Sam person, too.

isisgodiva November 8 2010, 19:04:57 UTC

Vivian and Gabriel, Blood and Chocolate (book).

YES! As far as book fandoms go, I love them. You didn't see it coming since it was all about Aiden, but when the possiblity came up, I wanted it so badly. I would love for her to write a sequel to it. I'll like to see how their relationship worked out since they didn't get together until the end.