[meme]
Last seen at the journal of alixtii.
Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc. Then write your reaction to each pairing (or a snippet of a hypothetical fic featuring each pairing).
Last done here. I used last names then, so I'll use first names this time:
[spoilers for Serenity.]
Aeryn Sun (Farscape)/Alan Turing (RPF)
[She! is a pilot from an alien culture. He! is a pioneer computer scientist, and also gay. Together! They fight crime.]
Alex Wilder (Runaways)/Alexis Denisof (RPF)
["I don't care, Joss, I'm not dressing up like anyone named Sister Grimm"]
Allison Cameron (House)/Anastasia 'Stacey' McGill (BSC)
["So, why did you decide to become a doctor?"
"I like helping people."
"Oh."
"Yes."
"So it wasn't because you can buy lots of cool clothes with all the money you make?"
"No."
"Or because you meet lots of hot chicks this way?"
"No."
"Oh."]
Angel (eponymous)/Angelus (Jossverse)
[I will call this fic "Orpheus"]
Ann M. Martin (RPF)/Anya lame-ass made-up maiden name (BtVS)
[Wow, Anya would *eat her alive*. I don't think they're terribly compatible.]
Beka Valentine (Drom)/Buffy Summers (eponymous)
[They're both sexy and blonde, but they don't have much else in common.]
Charles Gunn (Angel)/Chiana (Scape)
[This would be really hot. That is all.]
Cindy 'Mac' MacKenzie (VMars)/Claudia Black (RPF)
[I don't think Mac really strikes me as a starfucker.]
Claudia Jean 'CJ' Cregg (tWW)/Cordelia Chase (Jossverse)
[They would have v. little patience for each other.]
Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin (DA)/Daniel Jackson (SG-1)
[He! is an archaeologist cum intergalactic soldier. She! is a bike messenger, and also, gay. Togther! They fight crime]
D'Argo (Scape)/David (biblical)
[This is too weird to contemplate. Um, they're both soldiers?]
Dawn Schafer (BSC)/Drusilla (Jossverse)
[Dawn likes horror stories. Drusilla likes little girls. So.]
Faith (Jossverse)/Fleur Delacour (HP)
[Um, if Fleur drives the Weasley women batty, imagine how much patience Faith would have for her.]
George Hammond (SG-1)/George Herman "Babe" Ruth (RPF)
[... this really. No. I have nothing.]
Gregory House (eponymous)/Harry Maybourne (SG-1)
[This would actually be a lot of fun.]
Hermione Granger (HP)/Illyria (Angel)
[This would also be a fair amount of fun, I think.]
Inara Serra (FF)/Jack O'Neill (SG-1)
[This, otoh, doesn't do much for me.]
Jennifer Honey (Matilda)/Jesus (biblical)
[.... Right!]
John Crichton (Scape)/John Blackwood 'Blackie' Ryan (eponymous)
[I don't really have an icon of Blackie, but I decided that since the bishop symbol on that icon is intended to represent him, it kind of counts. Anyhow. While I can suspend disbelief about Blackie's sexual orientation for the purposes of shipping him with Sean, the fact that he seems to be fond of attractive young men (like John)... oh, dammit, now I'm starting to write this in my head. How John comes back from the Uncharted Territories all confused and such about his relationship with Aeryn, and he ends up having in-depth conversations with Blackie about it... but dammit, they both belong in their respective OTPs!]
Jonathon (biblical)/Josh Lyman (tWW)
[I don't think that Biblical characters have good crossover potential, somehow.]
Joss Whedon (RPF)/Kaylee Frye (FF)
[Wait, this is canon, right?]
Keith Mars (VMars)/Kevin Durand (RPF)
[Kevin Durand doesn't, as far as I know, have much of a fanonical persona.]
Logan Cale (DA)Lorne (Angel)
[So, have I ever mentioned how I don't really have interest in crossover boyslash, because my impulse to boyslash comes from the intricacies of pre-existing relationships, while my interest in crossover is mostly in getting hot people into bed together?]
Mallory Pike (BSC)/Marilyn Monroe (RPF)
[I can kind of imagine Mal getting this obsessive retro crush on Marilyn and pasting pictures of her all over her room and such. Throw in a pinch of magic and voila... they're still not v. compatible!]
Martha 'Marti' O'Dell (S60)/Mary Anne Spier (BSC)
[If this were canon I would think I'd died and gone to heaven.]
Mary Magdalene (biblical)/Matilda Wormwood (eponymous)
[So, the thing is, I am actually trying to make this work in my mind. It involves time travel, which is fine, and I think it would be set at that point of Magdalene's life when she's an apostle. She's obviously attracted to charismatic miracle workers, so that's there, and if Matilda's a little older and has invented time travel and for whatever reason has decided to leaven Miss Honey and WAIT. I ALSO got Jesus/Jenny Honey in this meme. I didn't have any thoughts on it at the time but now it's totally all starting to fall into place. So. Hm. Maybe Miss Honey gets religion for some unknown reason and refuses to fuck Matilda, and Matilda gets upset for obvious reasons and decides the correct course of action is to build a time machine to go back and eliminate Jesus from the picture because he is her rival, but she miscalculates and ends up with Magdalene-the-apostle who is older and wiser and a very, very good lay. (Sometimes I am a little ashamed of myself, actually, thanks for asking.)
Max (DA)/Meeklo Braca (Scape)
[I think Braca would make a v. good bitch for Max.]
Minerva McGonagall (HP)/Paula Danziger (RPF)
[Oh, tell me how much fun this would be! Because Paula would totally be a) open to magic, b) interested in magic and c) interested in loosening Minerva up and getting her to use her magic for fun things! And together they would have wacky hijinks! Eeeee!]
Rita Skeeter (HP)/River Tam (FF)
[Totally boring! Because it would be all dubconny and Rita would of course be interested in River because she makes a great sensationalist newspaper article -- is this set in the Incurableverse? Because that would be awesome. Oh, River, so screwed up, so insane, and so frelled over by your admirers authors.]
Rodney McKay (SGA)/Rupert Giles (BtVS)
[See above, on boyslash]
Ruth Ellen 'Ari' H./Samantha Carter (SG-1)
[See icon! Ha! I was hoping one of these pairings would be iconically representable.]
Samuel Seaborn (tWW)/Samwise Gamgee (LotR)
[Okay, first, their universes don't cross well, second, Sam Gamgee has an unbreakable OTP3, and third, they aren't very compatible]
Scarlett O'Hara (GwtW)/Scorpius (Scape)
[This would work remarkably well. They're both Slytherins, and they both tend to be attracted to -- well, at least highly compatible with -- other Slytherins. I think they'd really enjoy manipulating each other trying to accomplish their own agendas.]
Seamus Z. Harper (Drom)/Shau'ri (Stargate)
[Hee, Shau'ri would totally kick his ass. I mean, if we had a situation similar to the one that happens in Stargate, then I can well imagine Shau'ri being attracted to Harper, and since she's hot, he would be attracted to her too... yeah, this could totally work, and one could frell with the continuities and make this almost work canonically.]
Simon Tam (FF)/Spike (Jossverse)
[See above, boyslash. And not a dynamic that appeals to me in the first place]
Tara Maclay (BtVS)/Tammy Metzler (Election)
[They're both canonically lesbians, more or less. Beyond that, they don't really have much in common. For a short term relationship, like right out of high school, that might be enough, but in the long term I don't think it works.]
Thor (SG-1)/Tobias 'Toby' Ziegler) (tWW)
[This is just profoundly weird, but... the weird thing is I can almost picture it happening. The universi are mostly compatible; you get Toby in a situation where he's negotiating with the Asgard and maybe he's intrigued by Thor... and... okay, I don't know why I want to make this work, but, I can really almost see it!]
Trance Gemini (Drom)/Veronica Mars (eponymous)
[This is another one where they're both Slytherins and would really enjoy using each other -- and here, not just in a ruthless way, but in a sort of joy-of-the-game way. It would be shiny sparkly girllove on the one hand, and fun secret hidden agendas on the other. No bad!]
Wallace Fennel (VMars)/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Jossverse)
[See boyslash, above. I don't think Wallace would have the patience for Wesley.]
Willow Rosenberg (BtVS)/Winifred 'Fred' Burkle (Angel)
[Well that's just canon.]
Zoe (FF)
[Still grieving for Wash, I suppose]
Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc. Then write your reaction to each pairing (or a snippet of a hypothetical fic featuring each pairing).
Last done here. I used last names then, so I'll use first names this time:
[spoilers for Serenity.]
Aeryn Sun (Farscape)/Alan Turing (RPF)
[She! is a pilot from an alien culture. He! is a pioneer computer scientist, and also gay. Together! They fight crime.]
Alex Wilder (Runaways)/Alexis Denisof (RPF)
["I don't care, Joss, I'm not dressing up like anyone named Sister Grimm"]
Allison Cameron (House)/Anastasia 'Stacey' McGill (BSC)
["So, why did you decide to become a doctor?"
"I like helping people."
"Oh."
"Yes."
"So it wasn't because you can buy lots of cool clothes with all the money you make?"
"No."
"Or because you meet lots of hot chicks this way?"
"No."
"Oh."]
Angel (eponymous)/Angelus (Jossverse)
[I will call this fic "Orpheus"]
Ann M. Martin (RPF)/Anya lame-ass made-up maiden name (BtVS)
[Wow, Anya would *eat her alive*. I don't think they're terribly compatible.]
Beka Valentine (Drom)/Buffy Summers (eponymous)
[They're both sexy and blonde, but they don't have much else in common.]
Charles Gunn (Angel)/Chiana (Scape)
[This would be really hot. That is all.]
Cindy 'Mac' MacKenzie (VMars)/Claudia Black (RPF)
[I don't think Mac really strikes me as a starfucker.]
Claudia Jean 'CJ' Cregg (tWW)/Cordelia Chase (Jossverse)
[They would have v. little patience for each other.]
Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin (DA)/Daniel Jackson (SG-1)
[He! is an archaeologist cum intergalactic soldier. She! is a bike messenger, and also, gay. Togther! They fight crime]
D'Argo (Scape)/David (biblical)
[This is too weird to contemplate. Um, they're both soldiers?]
Dawn Schafer (BSC)/Drusilla (Jossverse)
[Dawn likes horror stories. Drusilla likes little girls. So.]
Faith (Jossverse)/Fleur Delacour (HP)
[Um, if Fleur drives the Weasley women batty, imagine how much patience Faith would have for her.]
George Hammond (SG-1)/George Herman "Babe" Ruth (RPF)
[... this really. No. I have nothing.]
Gregory House (eponymous)/Harry Maybourne (SG-1)
[This would actually be a lot of fun.]
Hermione Granger (HP)/Illyria (Angel)
[This would also be a fair amount of fun, I think.]
Inara Serra (FF)/Jack O'Neill (SG-1)
[This, otoh, doesn't do much for me.]
Jennifer Honey (Matilda)/Jesus (biblical)
[.... Right!]
John Crichton (Scape)/John Blackwood 'Blackie' Ryan (eponymous)
[I don't really have an icon of Blackie, but I decided that since the bishop symbol on that icon is intended to represent him, it kind of counts. Anyhow. While I can suspend disbelief about Blackie's sexual orientation for the purposes of shipping him with Sean, the fact that he seems to be fond of attractive young men (like John)... oh, dammit, now I'm starting to write this in my head. How John comes back from the Uncharted Territories all confused and such about his relationship with Aeryn, and he ends up having in-depth conversations with Blackie about it... but dammit, they both belong in their respective OTPs!]
Jonathon (biblical)/Josh Lyman (tWW)
[I don't think that Biblical characters have good crossover potential, somehow.]
Joss Whedon (RPF)/Kaylee Frye (FF)
[Wait, this is canon, right?]
Keith Mars (VMars)/Kevin Durand (RPF)
[Kevin Durand doesn't, as far as I know, have much of a fanonical persona.]
Logan Cale (DA)Lorne (Angel)
[So, have I ever mentioned how I don't really have interest in crossover boyslash, because my impulse to boyslash comes from the intricacies of pre-existing relationships, while my interest in crossover is mostly in getting hot people into bed together?]
Mallory Pike (BSC)/Marilyn Monroe (RPF)
[I can kind of imagine Mal getting this obsessive retro crush on Marilyn and pasting pictures of her all over her room and such. Throw in a pinch of magic and voila... they're still not v. compatible!]
Martha 'Marti' O'Dell (S60)/Mary Anne Spier (BSC)
[If this were canon I would think I'd died and gone to heaven.]
Mary Magdalene (biblical)/Matilda Wormwood (eponymous)
[So, the thing is, I am actually trying to make this work in my mind. It involves time travel, which is fine, and I think it would be set at that point of Magdalene's life when she's an apostle. She's obviously attracted to charismatic miracle workers, so that's there, and if Matilda's a little older and has invented time travel and for whatever reason has decided to leaven Miss Honey and WAIT. I ALSO got Jesus/Jenny Honey in this meme. I didn't have any thoughts on it at the time but now it's totally all starting to fall into place. So. Hm. Maybe Miss Honey gets religion for some unknown reason and refuses to fuck Matilda, and Matilda gets upset for obvious reasons and decides the correct course of action is to build a time machine to go back and eliminate Jesus from the picture because he is her rival, but she miscalculates and ends up with Magdalene-the-apostle who is older and wiser and a very, very good lay. (Sometimes I am a little ashamed of myself, actually, thanks for asking.)
Max (DA)/Meeklo Braca (Scape)
[I think Braca would make a v. good bitch for Max.]
Minerva McGonagall (HP)/Paula Danziger (RPF)
[Oh, tell me how much fun this would be! Because Paula would totally be a) open to magic, b) interested in magic and c) interested in loosening Minerva up and getting her to use her magic for fun things! And together they would have wacky hijinks! Eeeee!]
Rita Skeeter (HP)/River Tam (FF)
[Totally boring! Because it would be all dubconny and Rita would of course be interested in River because she makes a great sensationalist newspaper article -- is this set in the Incurableverse? Because that would be awesome. Oh, River, so screwed up, so insane, and so frelled over by your admirers authors.]
Rodney McKay (SGA)/Rupert Giles (BtVS)
[See above, on boyslash]
Ruth Ellen 'Ari' H./Samantha Carter (SG-1)
[See icon! Ha! I was hoping one of these pairings would be iconically representable.]
Samuel Seaborn (tWW)/Samwise Gamgee (LotR)
[Okay, first, their universes don't cross well, second, Sam Gamgee has an unbreakable OTP3, and third, they aren't very compatible]
Scarlett O'Hara (GwtW)/Scorpius (Scape)
[This would work remarkably well. They're both Slytherins, and they both tend to be attracted to -- well, at least highly compatible with -- other Slytherins. I think they'd really enjoy manipulating each other trying to accomplish their own agendas.]
Seamus Z. Harper (Drom)/Shau'ri (Stargate)
[Hee, Shau'ri would totally kick his ass. I mean, if we had a situation similar to the one that happens in Stargate, then I can well imagine Shau'ri being attracted to Harper, and since she's hot, he would be attracted to her too... yeah, this could totally work, and one could frell with the continuities and make this almost work canonically.]
Simon Tam (FF)/Spike (Jossverse)
[See above, boyslash. And not a dynamic that appeals to me in the first place]
Tara Maclay (BtVS)/Tammy Metzler (Election)
[They're both canonically lesbians, more or less. Beyond that, they don't really have much in common. For a short term relationship, like right out of high school, that might be enough, but in the long term I don't think it works.]
Thor (SG-1)/Tobias 'Toby' Ziegler) (tWW)
[This is just profoundly weird, but... the weird thing is I can almost picture it happening. The universi are mostly compatible; you get Toby in a situation where he's negotiating with the Asgard and maybe he's intrigued by Thor... and... okay, I don't know why I want to make this work, but, I can really almost see it!]
Trance Gemini (Drom)/Veronica Mars (eponymous)
[This is another one where they're both Slytherins and would really enjoy using each other -- and here, not just in a ruthless way, but in a sort of joy-of-the-game way. It would be shiny sparkly girllove on the one hand, and fun secret hidden agendas on the other. No bad!]
Wallace Fennel (VMars)/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Jossverse)
[See boyslash, above. I don't think Wallace would have the patience for Wesley.]
Willow Rosenberg (BtVS)/Winifred 'Fred' Burkle (Angel)
[Well that's just canon.]
Zoe (FF)
[Still grieving for Wash, I suppose]