Very nice post from madlorivoldmort, the writer of Paradigm of Uncertaintyhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/madlorivoldmort/287984.htmlRead more... )

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This poll was inspired by a random remark on redmonster's LJ. She was pondering which ship might come first, R/Hr or H/G, and which one she'd prefer to come first.

I've heard people express their opinion of this, but I've never seen a poll about it that I can remember. So, quickly, while we still have time, get your shipping order in.

Poll What When?I'd like everyone' ( Read more... )

SQUEEEEEEEEEE.... new canon in OMG ten days!!! I have a million things to do before then, not the least important of which is this:

The End of an Era?We may be in the last few days of the shipping "war" I have been a part of ever since I ceased lurking in the summer of 2001. It's possible that Rowling may have written Book 6 in a way that ( Read more... )

I was tagged for this meme quite a while ago, so here it is:

1. Pick your 5 favorite OTPs
2. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom* they're from
3. List your favorite moment between them
4. Tag 5 people from your flist to do this meme

I'm adding the "post a pic" modification, too. ( isn't five OTP's a bit paradoxical? )

On my last entry - an essay on shipping in Emma - I got the following comments:

From karet:
Are they really the same thing? Emma contained a lot of what I think of as match-making, but very little of what I have always thought "shipping" to be. To me, shipping is the belief that two people will become a couple, but doesn't involve participation to ( Read more... )

- I pity you. - I thought you cleverer - for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

The quotation is from Emma. I was re-reading my favorite book recently, in the interest of debating ship over at the R/H vs. H/H Debate Thread, when I had one of those Blinding Flashes of the Obvious. I was -- of ( Read more... )