Due South shipping meta!

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I know many of you are waiting for more Star Trek meta, particularly the TMP novel analysis (IT'S TAKING SO LONG BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO MISS ANYTHING), but I've been toying with some Due South meta for a while and finally I decided to just post it already, even though it's not the fanciest thing ever and gets rambly. Also, you may notice that this

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WHOOOO FRASER/KOWALSKI IS THE BEST PAIRING IN DUE SOUTH LET'S HAVE ANOTHER RAY WAR!!!!1111 Um. But, yeah. Word. You've pretty much summed up all the reasons I like them bestest.

I think the only reason I watched as much TS as I did was because my friends and I had weekly slash nights in college and TS is much more fun to mock loudly in groups.

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YES, they are magnificent. And oh dear, Ray wars. Due South fandom will just never work right, will it? Everyone's so polite but really it's only because no one wants to be the one to START SHIT. I mean I hear stories of people banning membership to places just because of who they ship and that's amazingly batshit insane, though understandable. I sort of understand where it comes from, because Like Fraser/Vecchio shippers, in Supernatural fandom I shipped Sam/Dean, and now EVERYONE ships Dean/Castiel and there are so many who think the show is better now than it was, so I'm like a Fraser/Vecchio shipper in that fandom. I mean you fall in love with a pairing and then have it taken away, that hurts, and then have the new pairing stomp all over your pairing, that's even worse.

And now I must ask, what are your favorite TS stories? I've been reading a few here and there, but I was wondering what the "classics" are and the "must reads."

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Um... hmm. Sorry about the delay; this was, like, ten years ago and my fannish memory is rusty.

I liked, well, everything by Francesca (the Nature series is the big fandom classic), Resonant, Laura JV, Lemon Drop, Kass, Bone, Aristide/Mairead Triste, Legion, Sihaya Black, Merry, Lanning, Kim Gaspar/MickeyM, Sandy Herrold (who also did good rec pages), Anna S, Helen (the same one who wrote TPM and Sports Night, I think, though I may mean a different one). Basically, most of the people who had sites on trickster.org are/were awesome (and many other people besides). Oh, and that story by Julad where they go to the supermarket. You ought to be able to find all of this stuff by author search on 852 Prospect.

(Ahaha, I just found the one where they go to Vegas.)

Also, if you can track down the stories that were in the Crossroads zine, that might help. It's pretty much a who's who of the big names in TS fandom at the time. (Though from that zine I don't think any of the actual stories went on to hit it big except "A Quiet War," and that

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Also! You need to go find and watch all the TS bloopers where they kiss. If you're into that. :)

And even if you don't ever watch any other episodes of this show, you need need need to track down and watch the episode of Action that Richard Burgi appears in, because it is hilarious. (I think it might be episode 4? I dunno.)

ETA: Also I posted to ask about recs for you, so we'll see what turns up that I forgot.

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I think Vecchio is cute, but he's definitely not as hot as Kowalski. Oh dear, Callum Keith Rennie. In all honesty, I didn't think he was so attractive at first, because it's Fraser who's my type of guy, but I definitely started to see his appeal, especially when I watched Hard Core Logo. Gee, I wonder why.

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Hi there :D

I'm puttering around LJ and thought I'd look over your posts, and good thing I did. I loved this. Of course, I can't agree with you more. The way you've expressed it is the same way I see it but have never thought to put it in words, really. It is just so obvious to me. I like that this fandom - even though there were full blown 'wars' on the matter - can look at a mere three seasons of television and see such different things!

I've had a few people - one in particular - talk about my opinions like I was dismissing Vecchio. Considering this is my all time favourite show, I would never do that. Just seeing Fraser's heartache in Burning Down The House, that conversation over the phone at the start, it's all so palpable. They had something really special - something that Fraser, as a lone wolf, and Ray Vecchio, as a hard nosed [no pun intended], trusts-you-as-far-as-he-can-throw-you cop never had

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I absolutely hate whenever Fraser/Vecchio shippers say that I don't like Vecchio. Look, just because I don't see him with Fraser doesn't mean I dislike Vecchio. That's just stupid and it assumes that you can't like characters unless you ship them

From Tortiecat

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This is a very good essay that made me think a lot

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I respect your opinion and you're quite eloquent with it. I'm often baffled by the Ray Wars because, well, I was never in them and only found out about this show in 2008, so that colors my perspective a LOT

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I <3 your eloquent F/K meta. *points to icon*

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yesssssss. There are so many reasons to ship them, it's amazing.