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I was going to blog about my Bangkok trip, but I got distracted by this...anyway, honestly it was mainly four days of gratuitous shopping and eating and watching mtv (repeat and alternate) and I am now in love with Edison Chen et al's MTV Whatever Things, because it is so stupid and irreverent it has to be some form of genius.
So! Meme, gacked from epicyclical
1. Ron and Hermione from the Harry Potter series
C'mon, you know it's going to happen. :) they're collectively the most obviously-going-to-be-a-couple non-couple of all ficdom.Which is why D/Hr is the uttermost wrong thing on earth. *sticks tongue out at aud*
2. Stevens the butler and Miss Kenton the housekeeper, from Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Doomed, sad, and very bittersweet and ironic, but quietly and sensitively so. I melt.
3. Richard Mayhew (Wet) and Lady Door, from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Another open-ended non-couple-in-reality, but my fanon heart can dream. Hapless, accidentally-chivalrous Richard and pragmatic Door is almost like a R/Hr parallel and couldn't be more adorable. No really. :p
4. Nicholas and Jordan, from F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Epitome of wrong-place wrong-time. Hey love is a many-facetted thing.
5. Eowyn and Faramir, from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy
So it was very much behind-the-scenes, but there's a lot of hope and truth in Eowyn's story. We hope.
6. Aziraphale and Crowley, from Gaiman's Good Omens
ALright, first things first - I'm a non-slasher (then again, angels are supposed to be sexless), and I know this is another non-couple, but as cass claire said, it's irresistable the kind of rapport the two of them have. In their own way, they're each others best friends and best enemies, and there's support and a unique brand of affection even as there is competition. Plus the description of Crowley accidentally sauntering down to hell with the rest of Lucifer's lot is one that will stick forever in my head. So they're one of my fave PLATONIC couples.
7. Vicky and Zachary Gray, from Madeleine L'engle's A Ring of Endless Light
Old book from early sec school days, and this isn't the eventual couple even, but still, there's something oddly beautiful about plain-ish, good-hearted and awkward Vicky trying to understand beautiful, mercurial and irresponsible rich prat Zachary.
8. Adrian Mole and Pandora, from Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole Diaries series
A long-running crush on an impossible person, is something perhaps some of us can identify with, even as Mole remains one of the funniest characters I've ever 'dealt' with - and thus the whole thing going between the two of them was the funniest doomed romance ever, despite all the possible angst.
9. Steerpike and Fuchsia Groan, from Mervyn Peake's classical Gormenghast series.
So Steerpike was the quintessential villain, but somewhere in his black little heart, I still want to believe that he did love awkwardly passionate Fuchsia, somehow, when he first crash-landed in her attic, despite all his lies and machinations. Very gothic, very tragic, and its own way, because of the almost silent way the chapter closes itself on Fuchsia, very beautiful. Reminds me of Larkins' poem, Photographs of a young girl (something something, can't really remember).
10. Calvin and Susie, from Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic series.
They couldn't be more funny and ironic. C'mon, you know it'll happen, sometime in Calvinworld!
Actually, it might be a bit disturbing how most of my favourite couples are either doomed or non-explicit in status. Hmm.
So! Meme, gacked from epicyclical
1. Ron and Hermione from the Harry Potter series
C'mon, you know it's going to happen. :) they're collectively the most obviously-going-to-be-a-couple non-couple of all ficdom.Which is why D/Hr is the uttermost wrong thing on earth. *sticks tongue out at aud*
2. Stevens the butler and Miss Kenton the housekeeper, from Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Doomed, sad, and very bittersweet and ironic, but quietly and sensitively so. I melt.
3. Richard Mayhew (Wet) and Lady Door, from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Another open-ended non-couple-in-reality, but my fanon heart can dream. Hapless, accidentally-chivalrous Richard and pragmatic Door is almost like a R/Hr parallel and couldn't be more adorable. No really. :p
4. Nicholas and Jordan, from F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Epitome of wrong-place wrong-time. Hey love is a many-facetted thing.
5. Eowyn and Faramir, from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy
So it was very much behind-the-scenes, but there's a lot of hope and truth in Eowyn's story. We hope.
6. Aziraphale and Crowley, from Gaiman's Good Omens
ALright, first things first - I'm a non-slasher (then again, angels are supposed to be sexless), and I know this is another non-couple, but as cass claire said, it's irresistable the kind of rapport the two of them have. In their own way, they're each others best friends and best enemies, and there's support and a unique brand of affection even as there is competition. Plus the description of Crowley accidentally sauntering down to hell with the rest of Lucifer's lot is one that will stick forever in my head. So they're one of my fave PLATONIC couples.
7. Vicky and Zachary Gray, from Madeleine L'engle's A Ring of Endless Light
Old book from early sec school days, and this isn't the eventual couple even, but still, there's something oddly beautiful about plain-ish, good-hearted and awkward Vicky trying to understand beautiful, mercurial and irresponsible rich prat Zachary.
8. Adrian Mole and Pandora, from Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole Diaries series
A long-running crush on an impossible person, is something perhaps some of us can identify with, even as Mole remains one of the funniest characters I've ever 'dealt' with - and thus the whole thing going between the two of them was the funniest doomed romance ever, despite all the possible angst.
9. Steerpike and Fuchsia Groan, from Mervyn Peake's classical Gormenghast series.
So Steerpike was the quintessential villain, but somewhere in his black little heart, I still want to believe that he did love awkwardly passionate Fuchsia, somehow, when he first crash-landed in her attic, despite all his lies and machinations. Very gothic, very tragic, and its own way, because of the almost silent way the chapter closes itself on Fuchsia, very beautiful. Reminds me of Larkins' poem, Photographs of a young girl (something something, can't really remember).
10. Calvin and Susie, from Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic series.
They couldn't be more funny and ironic. C'mon, you know it'll happen, sometime in Calvinworld!
Actually, it might be a bit disturbing how most of my favourite couples are either doomed or non-explicit in status. Hmm.