The Shipping News (In Brief)
So perhaps the reason I watch TV the most is because I'm a shipper. Rarely, although sometimes a slasher. Really, I'm a slipper (slash/shipper). But it so much defines what I perceive and what I write. So here's a summary of the ships I support. The shows are in alphabetical order, not by passion for shipping. **Stars** show the ships of which I am I die-hard fan. Plus, the "BUT NEVER..." section shows you what ships I don't like.
30 Rock
Liz/Pete: Because he cares about her and knows her better than she knows herself and her limits. But he's (happily?) married, so I don't mess with that.
Liz/Floyd: Because Floyd and Cleveland are the Fuzzy American Dream.
BUT NEVER...Liz/Jack. It'd ruin everything.
Angel
**Fred/Gunn**: Perhaps one thing I hated most about the season five retcon was that Fred and Gunn's entire relationship--its complicated yet sweet nature, its highs and its lows, its angst and its truth--was gone forever. Forgotten. He killed for her, for crying out loud. Their differences just made their similarities even more adorable and honest-to-God real.
Wesley/Lilah: HOT. And I think she really loved him.
Wesley/Fred: Second best, but I like geeklove! so I can't hate it.
Cordy/Doyle: God, I was pissed when he died. But what a fantastic episode.
Angel/Cordy: At times. I was really torn.
Angel/Faith: Liquid sex, I swear.
Darla/Angel/Drusilla/Spike: Hottest Love Square ever.
BUT NEVER...Cordy/Connor. I still shudder till this day.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
**Buffy/Angel** Hands down, favorite ship. Soulmates. When that Buffy cookie dough is done baking, Angel's going to be chowing down on those cookies like a bear on Goldilocks.
*Willow/Xander*: BFFs forever.
Willow/Oz: Because they were adorable.
Xander/Cordy: Snarky love.
Willow/Tara: Something beyond anything anyone else could ever experience.
Xander/Anya: I really wanted them to get married but Joss Whedon wants my little heart to die.
Buffy/Xander: It's strange until you think about it, and then it works.
BUT NEVER...Buffy/Riley, Buffy/Spike, Willow/Kennedy
Desperate Housewives
Lynette/Tom: Because they can always work it out.
Bree/Rex: For the moments you realize that you're human.
Bree/Orson: For the moments you need a like mind.
Susan/Mike: Because clumsy people need love too.
Gabi/Carlos/Edie: love triangle made of awesome.
BUT NEVER...Gabi/John. Seriously, let the gardener go. We don't care about him anymore.
Everwood
Ephram/Amy: When she wasn't whiny.
Hannah/Bright: a-DOR-able.
Ephram/Madison: Because Amy sometimes is too busy with dead or drugged boyfriends.
Andy/Linda: HIV, shmatHIV.
Andy/Nina: Less annoying than Scott Wolf.
Edna/Irv: Because old people can love too. Before the nasty PTB kill one of them off.
Firefly
Kaylee/Simon: Because he likes to take his shirt off and she's shiny.
Wash/Zoe: Joss Whedon once more kills true love.
Mal/Inara: Like, duh.
Friends
Ross/Rachel: Because you have to love them.
Monica/Chandler: They turned out to be better suited for each other than Ross and Rachel and far more quirky and hilarious.
BUT NEVER...Joey/Phoebe. They don't all have to hook up.
Gilmore Girls
Lorelai/Christopher: He needs her. She always comes back to him.
Rory/Dean: Before they ruined his character, he was so sweet. Season One finale is my favorite episode.
Lorelai/Luke: Because everyone else figured it out before they did.
Lane/Dave: He read the Bible cover-to-cover to appease her mom.
BUT NEVER...Rory/Logan. Spoiled, senseless, irresponsible.
Grey's Anatomy--haven't seen this season
**Cristina/Burke**: The best couple on the show, the one I tuned in to watch. I wanted them to go through with it and was devastated when they didn't.
Meredith/Derek: Why not?
Addison/Alex: Sex. Sexy sex.
Izzie/Alex: More sex.
Mark/Addison/Alex/Izzie: Lots and lots of sex.
Richard/Adele: Her doorway rejection of him last season was heart-wrenching.
BUT NEVER...George/Izzie. In fact, it's the reason I don't watch the show anymore.
Heroes
Nathan/Nikki: What happens in Vegas...
Nikki/D.L.: I can't believe they killed him off.
BUT NEVER...Peter/Claire. Why is the incest love so strong in this fandom?
How I Met Your Mother
Ted/Robin: So complicated and ultimately so wrong for each other, but it was good while it lasted.
Lily/Marshall: Best. Wedding. Ever.
Robin/Barney: Because we all love a little crackfic.
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
**Elliot/Olivia**: Duh.
BUT NEVER...Olivia/Casey. If you're going to slash, it's Olivia/Alex. Come on.
Monk
Randy/Sharona: God, that would have been great.
Monk/Natalie: Let's face it. Monk needs to get some.
BUT NEVER...Monk/Sharona. Just no.
NCIS: Navy Criminal Investigative Service
**McGee/Abby**: Most canon and most adorable.
Tony/Ziva: She wants him so bad.
Kate/Gibbs: Not just snarkiness, but an undercurrent of really mature respect
McGee/Ziva: Sincerest regards for each other. Even Abby suspected something.
Tony/Kate: Because they're the best white trash couple ever.
Tony/Abby: She'll never be done hugging him.
Gibbs/Jenny: They'll always have Paris.
Palmer/Lee: I secretly want to jump the autopsy gremlin.
BUT NEVER...Gibbs/Ducky, Gibbs/Abby
One Tree Hill
Haley/Nathan: I don't care about anyone else.
Private Practice
Addison/Pete: Because he's a slightly more stable than McSteamy or Alex.
Violet/Cooper: They're just messed up enough to be with each other.
Sam/Naomi: Because God doesn't mind if they get it on.
Psych
Shawn/Juliet: ReallyCloseTalking
Juliet/Lassie: Because he has a problem with sleeping with his partners.
Pushing Daisies
Ned/Chuck: Cuteness with UST up the wahzoo.
Ned/Olive: He can touch her.
Scrubs
Turk/Carla: Through thick and thin, man.
J.D./Elliot: On/Off-ness drags on a bit, but they're still oddly well-matched.
Cox/Jordan: How I learn all of my insults and comebacks.
Cox/Carla: Better as a friendship.
Elliot/Janitor: When he takes her out for a date and calls her "Elliot" afterward...I crumbled inside.
Sex and the City
Carrie/Big: Duh.
Carrie/Aidan: Because he was the best guy, but not the best guy for her.
Miranda/Steve: My favorite of all of them.
Charlotte/Harry: Jewlove!
Charlotte/Trey: WASPlove!
Samantha/Smith: Cougar-ing at its best.
Samantha/Richard: For the moment when sex became something more.
BUT NEVER...Carrie/Berger. Breaking up on a Post-It? Tacky.
Smallville
**Clark/Chloe**: Chlois would be the greatest thing ever. EVER.
Lex/Lana: What a twisted web they weave.
Chloe/Jimmy: Because he's cute in a bowtie kinda way.
Lois/Oliver: Duty v. Love.
BUT NEVER...Clark/Lana. Lana can go freeze in the Fortress of Solitude.
Stargate: Atlantis
**Sheppard/Weir**: Sparky love!
Teyla/Ronan: Alien love!
Weir/McKay: Geeklove!
BUT NEVER...Sheppard/Teyla. IT BURNS MY EYES!
Stargate: SG-1
**Sam/Jack**: THE OTP of the Stargate Universe.
Daniel/Janet: Another good one killed off.
Daniel/Vala: It's Claudia Black.
Sam/Daniel: More geeklove!
Jolinar/Martouf: God, that storyline was so good.
BUT NEVER...Cameron/Main Female Character.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
**Picard/Crusher:** So close but no cigar.
Riker/Troi: Imzadis.
Data/Tasha: Yet another one bites the dust.
LaForge/Brahms: Hologram or not, sparks fly.
BUT NEVER...Worf/Troi. What were TPTB smoking?
Star Trek: Voyager
**Janeway/Chakotay**: My first ship.
Paris/Torres: Flyboy Klingon Love
Doctor/Seven: A new sort of humanity.
Kes/Neelix: Because she likes his cooking.
BUT NEVER...Chakotay/Seven. Obviously TPTB were still smoking the Worf/Troi crack.
That 70s Show
Eric/Donna: Even after she went blonde.
Jackie/Hyde: Not as vapid as Kelso, not as flighty and submissive as Fez
Ugly Betty
Betty/Henry: Christopher Gorham is Love.
Betty/Daniel: Because he relies on her more than either of them realizes.
Hilda/Santos: Perhaps you notice a recurring theme of my favorite couples being killed off.
Will and Grace
Grace/Nathan: Because it was fun and serious all at the same time.
Will/Vince: Lawyer and Cop.
BUT NEVER...Will/Jack. Ew.
Veronica Mars
Veronica/Duncan: True love stories don't have endings.
Veronica/Logan: When he's not being a jackass.
The X-Files
**Mulder/Scully**: The ship to end all ships.
Doggett/Reyes: M/S Part 2.
Scully/Doggett: For that moment when what's supposed to be isn't what you feel.
I may have forgotten some. But that's what edits are for.
30 Rock
Liz/Pete: Because he cares about her and knows her better than she knows herself and her limits. But he's (happily?) married, so I don't mess with that.
Liz/Floyd: Because Floyd and Cleveland are the Fuzzy American Dream.
BUT NEVER...Liz/Jack. It'd ruin everything.
Angel
**Fred/Gunn**: Perhaps one thing I hated most about the season five retcon was that Fred and Gunn's entire relationship--its complicated yet sweet nature, its highs and its lows, its angst and its truth--was gone forever. Forgotten. He killed for her, for crying out loud. Their differences just made their similarities even more adorable and honest-to-God real.
Wesley/Lilah: HOT. And I think she really loved him.
Wesley/Fred: Second best, but I like geeklove! so I can't hate it.
Cordy/Doyle: God, I was pissed when he died. But what a fantastic episode.
Angel/Cordy: At times. I was really torn.
Angel/Faith: Liquid sex, I swear.
Darla/Angel/Drusilla/Spike: Hottest Love Square ever.
BUT NEVER...Cordy/Connor. I still shudder till this day.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
**Buffy/Angel** Hands down, favorite ship. Soulmates. When that Buffy cookie dough is done baking, Angel's going to be chowing down on those cookies like a bear on Goldilocks.
*Willow/Xander*: BFFs forever.
Willow/Oz: Because they were adorable.
Xander/Cordy: Snarky love.
Willow/Tara: Something beyond anything anyone else could ever experience.
Xander/Anya: I really wanted them to get married but Joss Whedon wants my little heart to die.
Buffy/Xander: It's strange until you think about it, and then it works.
BUT NEVER...Buffy/Riley, Buffy/Spike, Willow/Kennedy
Desperate Housewives
Lynette/Tom: Because they can always work it out.
Bree/Rex: For the moments you realize that you're human.
Bree/Orson: For the moments you need a like mind.
Susan/Mike: Because clumsy people need love too.
Gabi/Carlos/Edie: love triangle made of awesome.
BUT NEVER...Gabi/John. Seriously, let the gardener go. We don't care about him anymore.
Everwood
Ephram/Amy: When she wasn't whiny.
Hannah/Bright: a-DOR-able.
Ephram/Madison: Because Amy sometimes is too busy with dead or drugged boyfriends.
Andy/Linda: HIV, shmatHIV.
Andy/Nina: Less annoying than Scott Wolf.
Edna/Irv: Because old people can love too. Before the nasty PTB kill one of them off.
Firefly
Kaylee/Simon: Because he likes to take his shirt off and she's shiny.
Wash/Zoe: Joss Whedon once more kills true love.
Mal/Inara: Like, duh.
Friends
Ross/Rachel: Because you have to love them.
Monica/Chandler: They turned out to be better suited for each other than Ross and Rachel and far more quirky and hilarious.
BUT NEVER...Joey/Phoebe. They don't all have to hook up.
Gilmore Girls
Lorelai/Christopher: He needs her. She always comes back to him.
Rory/Dean: Before they ruined his character, he was so sweet. Season One finale is my favorite episode.
Lorelai/Luke: Because everyone else figured it out before they did.
Lane/Dave: He read the Bible cover-to-cover to appease her mom.
BUT NEVER...Rory/Logan. Spoiled, senseless, irresponsible.
Grey's Anatomy--haven't seen this season
**Cristina/Burke**: The best couple on the show, the one I tuned in to watch. I wanted them to go through with it and was devastated when they didn't.
Meredith/Derek: Why not?
Addison/Alex: Sex. Sexy sex.
Izzie/Alex: More sex.
Mark/Addison/Alex/Izzie: Lots and lots of sex.
Richard/Adele: Her doorway rejection of him last season was heart-wrenching.
BUT NEVER...George/Izzie. In fact, it's the reason I don't watch the show anymore.
Heroes
Nathan/Nikki: What happens in Vegas...
Nikki/D.L.: I can't believe they killed him off.
BUT NEVER...Peter/Claire. Why is the incest love so strong in this fandom?
How I Met Your Mother
Ted/Robin: So complicated and ultimately so wrong for each other, but it was good while it lasted.
Lily/Marshall: Best. Wedding. Ever.
Robin/Barney: Because we all love a little crackfic.
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
**Elliot/Olivia**: Duh.
BUT NEVER...Olivia/Casey. If you're going to slash, it's Olivia/Alex. Come on.
Monk
Randy/Sharona: God, that would have been great.
Monk/Natalie: Let's face it. Monk needs to get some.
BUT NEVER...Monk/Sharona. Just no.
NCIS: Navy Criminal Investigative Service
**McGee/Abby**: Most canon and most adorable.
Tony/Ziva: She wants him so bad.
Kate/Gibbs: Not just snarkiness, but an undercurrent of really mature respect
McGee/Ziva: Sincerest regards for each other. Even Abby suspected something.
Tony/Kate: Because they're the best white trash couple ever.
Tony/Abby: She'll never be done hugging him.
Gibbs/Jenny: They'll always have Paris.
Palmer/Lee: I secretly want to jump the autopsy gremlin.
BUT NEVER...Gibbs/Ducky, Gibbs/Abby
One Tree Hill
Haley/Nathan: I don't care about anyone else.
Private Practice
Addison/Pete: Because he's a slightly more stable than McSteamy or Alex.
Violet/Cooper: They're just messed up enough to be with each other.
Sam/Naomi: Because God doesn't mind if they get it on.
Psych
Shawn/Juliet: ReallyCloseTalking
Juliet/Lassie: Because he has a problem with sleeping with his partners.
Pushing Daisies
Ned/Chuck: Cuteness with UST up the wahzoo.
Ned/Olive: He can touch her.
Scrubs
Turk/Carla: Through thick and thin, man.
J.D./Elliot: On/Off-ness drags on a bit, but they're still oddly well-matched.
Cox/Jordan: How I learn all of my insults and comebacks.
Cox/Carla: Better as a friendship.
Elliot/Janitor: When he takes her out for a date and calls her "Elliot" afterward...I crumbled inside.
Sex and the City
Carrie/Big: Duh.
Carrie/Aidan: Because he was the best guy, but not the best guy for her.
Miranda/Steve: My favorite of all of them.
Charlotte/Harry: Jewlove!
Charlotte/Trey: WASPlove!
Samantha/Smith: Cougar-ing at its best.
Samantha/Richard: For the moment when sex became something more.
BUT NEVER...Carrie/Berger. Breaking up on a Post-It? Tacky.
Smallville
**Clark/Chloe**: Chlois would be the greatest thing ever. EVER.
Lex/Lana: What a twisted web they weave.
Chloe/Jimmy: Because he's cute in a bowtie kinda way.
Lois/Oliver: Duty v. Love.
BUT NEVER...Clark/Lana. Lana can go freeze in the Fortress of Solitude.
Stargate: Atlantis
**Sheppard/Weir**: Sparky love!
Teyla/Ronan: Alien love!
Weir/McKay: Geeklove!
BUT NEVER...Sheppard/Teyla. IT BURNS MY EYES!
Stargate: SG-1
**Sam/Jack**: THE OTP of the Stargate Universe.
Daniel/Janet: Another good one killed off.
Daniel/Vala: It's Claudia Black.
Sam/Daniel: More geeklove!
Jolinar/Martouf: God, that storyline was so good.
BUT NEVER...Cameron/Main Female Character.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
**Picard/Crusher:** So close but no cigar.
Riker/Troi: Imzadis.
Data/Tasha: Yet another one bites the dust.
LaForge/Brahms: Hologram or not, sparks fly.
BUT NEVER...Worf/Troi. What were TPTB smoking?
Star Trek: Voyager
**Janeway/Chakotay**: My first ship.
Paris/Torres: Flyboy Klingon Love
Doctor/Seven: A new sort of humanity.
Kes/Neelix: Because she likes his cooking.
BUT NEVER...Chakotay/Seven. Obviously TPTB were still smoking the Worf/Troi crack.
That 70s Show
Eric/Donna: Even after she went blonde.
Jackie/Hyde: Not as vapid as Kelso, not as flighty and submissive as Fez
Ugly Betty
Betty/Henry: Christopher Gorham is Love.
Betty/Daniel: Because he relies on her more than either of them realizes.
Hilda/Santos: Perhaps you notice a recurring theme of my favorite couples being killed off.
Will and Grace
Grace/Nathan: Because it was fun and serious all at the same time.
Will/Vince: Lawyer and Cop.
BUT NEVER...Will/Jack. Ew.
Veronica Mars
Veronica/Duncan: True love stories don't have endings.
Veronica/Logan: When he's not being a jackass.
The X-Files
**Mulder/Scully**: The ship to end all ships.
Doggett/Reyes: M/S Part 2.
Scully/Doggett: For that moment when what's supposed to be isn't what you feel.
I may have forgotten some. But that's what edits are for.