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[bookelfe]

Aside from OTPs, lacewood also asked me for my Top 5 Platonic BFF Pairings, which is an awesome question but tricky because I am going to try not to overlap with any of the BFF pairings I talked about when I did my top five BFF moments. To make narrowing it down easier, I am also very strictly ruling out anyone I think might be even a little bit not

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[veryclevername]

It looks like I'm going to have to check out Bad Machinery!
I love mysteries and brilliant, wacky, crime fighting schoolgirls. Actually I kind of like mysteries in general and my next step whenever I like almost anything is to go "and then they have wacky crime fighting adventures!" and crave fic.

[bookelfe]

It is so much fun! At least for the first three stories; I am behind and haven't read the most recent one yet. But schoolgirls solving supernatural mysteries! \o/ (Schoolboys also solve supernatural mysteries and are reasonably adorable about it too, but the girls are front-and-center.)

[ceitfianna]

I need to find my copy of Tam Lin since that book was really formative for me. I blame it for some of my fascination with Classics because faeries!

I think one of my favorite plantonic friendships is in a mystery series, Inspector Alleyn and Fox, they just work. I know there are others but I have a headache so I may return.

Rain just makes me want to go home and read good books.

[bookelfe]

My mom was a Classics major, and I totally made her read Tam Lin just so I could tease her about it. (Then she dropped my copy at the beach and half-destroyed it, which serves me right, I guess.)

TOGETHER THEY FIGHT CRIME is always an excellent place to find partnerships and friendships!

[ceitfianna]

I used to own a copy, I know I did. It was one of the good books I read in a really horrible English class. Where the teacher had a bookshelf full of paperbacks, she was a horrible teacher but many books. Thanks to her I stopped writing creatively for almost a year as she just crushed my esteem about writing.

I read it and then went and found my own copy, which was lost somewhere in the mix of moving and things.

I need to find it and reread it since I love the romance and the friendship, also theater, faeries and Classics! Oh my.

[bookelfe]

My copy is really falling apart now, but I love the old cover so much better than the new one that I don't want to replace it! Pamela Dean is very much an id-writer for me.

[kindness_says]

I don't know any of these fandoms but wanted to just express my appreciation for friendships, especially best-friendships.

And I hate picking favorites, but the first one that comes to mind right now is Shawn and Gus from Psych. Probably because I've been watching commentary of it the last couple of days, aaaaand it's the show that most often fills me with sunlight and joy re: what it means to have a best friend.

I wasn't sure if I should say it, though, because 1) so many people ship them, plus 2) I went and read your Psych tag and was like, oh dear, I don't think she likes Shawn very much. But then I decided to, because

[kindness_says]

...Sidebar, I would venture to say that strong platonic friendship is a totally different kind of being in love, actually, but you read my point

[bookelfe]

. . . you make a lot of good points about parental relationships, but man, now I am stuck on the fact that I haven't even seen a lot of Gilmore Girls and now I just want the crossover where Henry and Emily go on a date.

[kindness_says]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

But Emily/Richard!!!! =(

But, omg, LAUGHING FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, MAYBE I WILL WRITE THAT CROSSOVER AUUUGH HILARIOUS TIMES.

Makes me think of my giant cracked-out AU of doom that I started inventing instead of studying for finals last semester. In which Zoey Bartlet was Shawn's sister because the idea of their very different relationships with their AU-shared father CRACKED ME UP. Also, the flip of Gus-and-Shawn's-sister.

[miscellanny]

My whole face has folded up around this question.

[bookelfe]

That is kind of an adorable mental image, I have to say.

(ALSO NNY SPEAKING OF . . . nothing in particular except fiction I guess, there is no good segue here, but! But! The sequel to Fly-By-Night is out!)

[themadpoker]

FLY BY NIGHT HAS A SEQUEL? /comment hack

[ceitfianna]

Yes and its brilliant. I just finished reading the ARC of it because a friend of mine picked it up at an ALA conference. Everyone must go read it so I can flail at you.

[minkhollow]

Daria and Jane were kinda my formative BFF pair (along with Cimorene and Morwen from the Enchanted Forest Chronicles; SO MUCH AWESOME). Claudia and Artie might be my current favorite; he's very much the nutty uncle.
(But just about any combination of Warehouse 13 characters qualifies for 'platonic BFFs,' so!)

[bookblather]

Seconding Cimorene and Morwen, but can we add Kazul into the BFFness? Because they really had this awesome trio of awesome BFFness going on. The badass was strong with those three.

[minkhollow]

We ABSOLUTELY can! Since the question was pairs, I was thinking in pairs, but Kazul is totally part of the awesome.

[bookelfe]

I actually missed out on Daria as a kid (which I know is my great loss!) but Cimorene and Morwen I did love A LOT. (And Kazul too!) They were definitely formative no-nonsense heroines for me.