why did this take so long. D:

[stunt_muppet]

And for some reason I felt obligated to finish it tonight, so now I'm up way too late again and I'm already all thrown off for this week and have missed stuff, this is just bad karma. I was doing so well. D: After this I'm done. I promise. I'll get back on track.

Ahem. The answers to the shipping meme, all 7 pages in Word of them. I talk a lot.

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[stunt_muppet]

I always tl;dr a bit on memes like this. I feel like just listing pairings is sort of unhelpful, so I end up writing a few thoughts, but then those "few thoughts" metamorphose into a paragraph and then I've got 7 pages of meme.

On my more cynical days, I suspect that the latter is more popular because Greg is white.

I think that even when I'm not feeling particularly cynical. There's very little fic for Warrick in general, and even less shipping him with anyone. Possibly Greg's also more conventionally attractive (part of which, sadly, is being white), but I'm really not sure what "conventionally attractive" even is anymore so I can't make that statement with any certainty.

I call the father/daughter relationship explicit because there's one episode where Wendy states "you're the closest thing I have to a father", but part of the reason I can ship them in spite of that is because it doesn't feel father/daughter to me. The Middleman in something of a mentor figure to Wendy, but he's not necessarily authoritative in the manner of a father figure - even he doesn't know what or where O2STK is, for example, whereas I feel like a father figure would know but would refuse to tell her. He's more in the manner of an older brother, like you mentioned.

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Possibly Greg's also more conventionally attractive

I think Warrick's gorgeous and Greg is only cute. But I don't know if my tastes are conventional anymore either. For instance, I think both the guys on Supernatural are fugly.

[stunt_muppet]

I think Greg can be attractive when he puts on a business suit and fedora, but the spiky-haired look does nothing for me. And I don't know what it is about Warrick, but it doesn't matter *what* he's wearing.

(I waver on the Supernatural boys myself - I find the actors attractive in that outtake where one of them is air-guitaring to "Eye of the Tiger", but actors goofing off is a weakness of mine - but for some reason I find whoever plays Castiel adorable. Though I think that has less to do with him and more with his shocked and bewildered expressions in the promos that have been circulating round LJ.)