Comments | aurora_0811: Fangirl Infidelity...fact or fiction?

aurora_0811

Fangirl Infidelity...fact or fiction?

Mar 12, 2012 14:00

OMG A POST! It's been awhile (as usual) since I've checked in with the flist so I thought I would say hello and discuss/diagnose my fangirl problem.

( Do I have PTFSD? (Post-Traumatic Fangirl Stress Disorder) )

bsg, all the feelings, fannish questions, lee/kara, what is my life, pilots, fangirl cheating, doctor/rose, doctor who

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aurora_0811 March 12 2012, 19:00:49 UTC

fangirl slut ♥ That is an awesome title to be proud of.

I definitely have a compulsive need to see pilots in almost everything else I ship. I always have to make the "who would be the Lee and who would be the Kara" connection. It's a sickness but I adore it!

This feeling is just weird, I remember being knocked for a loop when I felt so intense for K/L and didn't think it would happen again. Lightning rarely strikes the same place twice. It's been a great feeling though to enjoy a ship that had so much angst but also felt like I got rewarded for enduring that at the end. *sigh*

RDM why are you so mean?!

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aurora_0811 March 12 2012, 19:47:53 UTC

I ship lots of ships but not crazy intense like. Jax/Tara was the closest I've come in a long time because it's SUCH a roller coaster ride but at least Sutter has been giving us pretty big steps in keeping them together. Even though they face awful things, they are doing most of it together! I love Sons of Anarchy...SUCH GOOD STORYTELLING! GAH. I need it to come back ( ... )

scifishipper March 12 2012, 18:42:47 UTC

I would love love love to have another OTP that fight for my heart the way Kara and Lee do. I'd say consider yourself BLESSED that you can find joy in a ship that pulls in you just as fiercely. I keep searching, bb. I really really do. I am completely smitten with Peter/Olivia but I read fanfiction and it's all, well, IDK, tame and calm and sweet. Maybe if Peter and Olivia punched each other once in a while, I'd be more on board. :P (SACRILEGE!!) IDK. I guess that intensity and angst is just what gets my heart pumping in the morning ( ... )

aurora_0811 March 12 2012, 19:21:05 UTC

The angst is absolutely made me a pilot shipper. It was that intense history and the pain and all that wondering just how the hell they were going to get around it. I lived on pins and needles always trying to figure out how to make it right. So I 100% agree with you about loving a ship so much more when there are things "to fix". It's definitely one of the main reasons I think so many of us stuck around after the finale. We couldn't accept it and as a community we found a way to give us what we needed with fic and commiserating ( ... )

scifishipper March 12 2012, 22:33:35 UTC

I think I'll be really sad, too, if/when another ship comes along and wins my heart. I've only had three REAL ships, ones that I won't ever stop thinking about, even though I never went to such fannish lengths for them: Mulder/Scully, Spike/Buffy, and K/L. I love so many more, but GUH, those are the shit for me. K/L just blows them away. Unfortunately. (fuckers broke my heart)

It's so interesting what you say about Finale!kara and ten2. If Kara hadn't poofed, then she WOULD have been Ten2 and I bet just about every K/L shipper would have been pretty satisfied with it. The problem, I guess, is that Rose and Ten2 both knew. :( I think even if Lee had known, his speech in Islanded took care of it. He didn't care. He loved her.

Shipping is such a magnificent and wrenching thing - I love your whole post. <3<3<3

callmeonetrack March 12 2012, 21:07:23 UTC

Traitor.

(Look at Jamie, totally judging you. AS AM I. AS. AM. I.)

;P

aurora_0811 March 12 2012, 21:22:19 UTC

I AM STILL HERE GODSDAMMIT. DON'T YOU JUDGE ME.

JAMIE WOULD NEVER JUDGE ME. *runs away crying*

I still love them, I'm just jealous that the other ship I love got a happy ending and I want them to trade places. You know I'm always going to be a pilots girl at heart. They are my first love!

I just want to get back that crazy shippy feeling I had. We need new episodes. heh.

callmeonetrack March 12 2012, 21:37:33 UTC

Lol, I know. I'm afraid you can't ever get that first rush of shippy love back, I don't think. Or I haven't figured it out anyway. I am grateful there is still some pilots fandom action though, because ain't no ship like the OTP for me. :( Sigh.

rdave1 March 12 2012, 23:11:42 UTC

I don't think it is cheating, have as many ships as you like. Whatever makes you happy! For me, I had ships before Lee/Kara but my love for them seems different when I look back on it now. I don't think I obessed over them like I do pilots so long after the shows have ended. I guess for those ships, I knew that somewhere in the future they would get their bright, shiny futures, I just had to hang in there while they got their shit together. Pilots on the other hand was a mystery, we never knew what was going to happen with them and out of all of my ship they were the most tortured, together and individually.

So as I stop my rambling, ship away bb! I think if we stop measuring all of our new ships to K/L may be we won't feel like we have to turn in our fangirl badge.

aurora_0811 March 13 2012, 00:39:52 UTC

I think the mystery behind the pilots love is the torture you reference. We rooted for them to be happy together because of how hard everything else was for them. They were yin and yang. It's still so surprising to me that neither of them ended up with any sort of personal happiness at the end. There was just loneliness and loss. SO SAD. That's why I'm glad they've been given so many different positive endings by fandom.

We'll never turn in our fangirl badges! They'll have to pry them out of our cold dead hands first!

rdave1 March 13 2012, 00:53:51 UTC

I think the reason I don't root for my new ships as hard as I ship Lee and Kara is because of their ending. On all of my other ships, even if the didn't end up together it was left open ended with a hint that things were happening behind the scenes. On BSG, both of these people were so tortured in their personal lives and their lives together that in the end you kind of wanted some sort of happiness for them because they had truely deserved some peace at the thing. It's still breaks my heart, that in the end they were even torn apart from each other, the only other person who could truely make you smile and bring you peace.

If they pry that badge from my cold dead hands, I'm unpoofing and coming to haunt who ever took it.:)

angelicalangie March 13 2012, 00:14:56 UTC

Let me see. I used to ship 10/Rose - unfortunately I found out the DT is a bit of an asshole and that completely killed my enjoyment of 10, because I can't seem to separate the actor from character at times (not so much JB though hmm ( ... )

aurora_0811 March 13 2012, 00:37:25 UTC

Oh wow, I think I ship Ten/Rose harder because of all the amazing things I've read about DT and BP. I really haven't read anything negative about either one of them. I see story after story about how lovely they are with the people they work with and have always been extremely generous with the fans (especially DT). I will admit I fangirl him pretty hard (he's approaching Bamber like love for me) so I'm genuinely shocked to see something negative about him. I know he's a very private person regarding his personal life and fiercely protective of that part of his life which kind of makes me love him more, much like Jamie. You've thrown me for a loop! *sticks fingers in ears* lalalala I can't hear you! :P ( ... )