(100) Days of Summer

[dante_kent]

Aloha, amigos (huzzah mixing languages!). Summer has unofficially begun, and I think it's about time for some fun. I've had a crazy few weeks of organizing and festivities and holidays. I just got back from a brief but eventful trip which included my birthday, visiting friends I hadn't seen in ages, and, most importantly, no internet access. So

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[catteo]

HI BB GRL! WELCOME BACK HOME. I hope that you had a lovely time playing with the real world and are ready for fandom shenanigans. I definitely have interest in mutually entertaining frivolity. THAT IS THE BEST KIND! Buuuuuut you never alienated me so does that mean that I can't play? I did stop reading TVD recaps by and large, but that wasn't even just you, that was everyone's. I have decided that TVD will either just be LOLworthy or fic fodder for me and so I am avoiding anything other than happy flail about the show. Of which there is zero. So.

YOU NEED TO WATCH ORPHAN BLACK RIGHT NOW.

I multi-ship Gail Peck from Rookie Blue. I think she's my only one. And, of course, the Gail/Luke ship is actually only in my head and the Gail/Nick is on my TV and yet I really cannot choose. Every time I sit down to write fic about Nick being with someone else or Luke letting Gail be with Nick I come to this grinding halt. Perhaps I will create two entirely distinct universes where the other doesn't exist. Yes. That would work.

[dante_kent]

HI MY DEAR THANK YOU. I did have a lovely time traipsing about the real world. But I am ALWAYS ready for fandom shenanigans. Yayyy join me in my pretentiously titled (100) Days of Summer! I am the worst, but it'll be fun, despite all the hipster-ness of it.

Buuuuuut you never alienated me so does that mean that I can't play?

OH NOES I NEVER ALIENATED YOU OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE GET OUT.

No worries about TVD. To be honest, I've barely been keeping up with my flists' TVD posts for anxiety and emotional trauma reasons, so I can't blame anyone for doing the same. I just wanted to make sure that I hadn't lost readers because of anything I in particular was doing, you know? I'm a worrier.

I have decided that TVD will either just be LOLworthy or fic fodder for me and so I am avoiding anything other than happy flail about the show. Of which there is zero. So.Lol, this. Everything about this

[catteo]

I love the idea of (100) Days of Summer. Although it's winter here and so it will be not really summer. Fun nonetheless! HAHAHAHA NOW I FEEL ALIENATED SO GOOD WORK. I WILL STAY.

I think that often people just forget that they've read something interesting and can't be bothered to respond you know? I mean, I have about 15 tabs sitting open that I wanted to comment on and yet they'll probably all get closed after they've been sitting that way for a week cause I'll have forgotten what it was that I wanted to say. I am the worst that way sometimes.

YOU DO NEED TO WATCH ORPHAN BLACK I SWEAR. There are only 10 episodes in total lasting 40 minutes and I am SURE that you can fit that in over a weekend. I promise that it will be worth the effort! Also RB. Although that will take longer to catch up on. And so I say go with OB to begin with!

[dante_kent]

Ah yes, you nifty people in the Antipodes. You're in Australia, yes? Too cool. Even if it's currently winter, you may still engage in summer.

HAHAHAHA NOW I FEEL ALIENATED SO GOOD WORK. I WILL STAY.

OH THANK GOODNESS NOW WE CAN CONTINUE WHAT A RELIEF.

I mean, I have about 15 tabs sitting open that I wanted to comment on and yet they'll probably all get closed after they've been sitting that way for a week cause I'll have forgotten what it was that I wanted to say. I am the worst that way sometimes.

We are all the worst that way, I should think. Except I have about 40 tabs open and I keep them up until eventually my computer has forcibly restarted itself so many times that my browser will no longer restore previous tabs. That's how awful I am.

I KNOW I KNOW ORPHAN BLACK. Except I accidentally read a spoiler the other day, and now I feel like I should wait long enough to forget it (even though I never seem to forget these things). I'll get there. But I have so much to catch up on it's overwhelming. TV IS HARD.

[badboy_fangirl]

So I'm not sure what games you're wanting to play, but more than likely I would be up for it. BECAUSE I LUFF YOU AND MISS YOU. *ahem* Sorry, I'm having a Damon-Salvatore-heart-on-my-sleeve moment.

As for equal parts shipping, I'll say this: I tend to be very monogamous, and think that's a straight-up translation of my own morality into my shipping tendency. On the other hand, I have tried to feel the equal parts shipping on certain ships, like for example, Sawyer/Kate and Sawyer/Juliet from LOST. S/K win because of time investment, smokin' chemistry, and basically what brought me to the show; S/J win because they make sense, Juliet was by far my favorite character period on the show, and thus anything to do with her happiness was super important to me, and let's face it, their scene when they are reunited in the Sideways 'Verse is sheer perfection. But, if I had to pick, my OTP from LOST is Sawyer/Kate. They just are, and I can't make my feeling for them lessen over time, space, or anything. They were simply magic, and they are

[dante_kent]

I LOVE AND MISS YOU TOO. And I don't even know what games I want to play. It's just that fandom has been so fraught this year, and everything has been pretty divided, and I just want some good uncomplicated fun. I miss my flist, basically

[badboy_fangirl]

Just for the sake of canon, Stefan was dumped into the quarry in the Salvatore family safe, not a refrigerator. I mean, they aren't white trash, you know!

You are right that Damon has had much more interesting potential partner choices than Elena--so I suppose, if someone showed up who could make me even consider Elena elsewhere, that would be quite a coup. One I doubt will ever happen, but it's worth imagining. But yes, how will Elena ever be happy unless there is someone around to remind her to revel from time to time? She NEEDS Damon. Badly. :D

[dante_kent]

Stefan was dumped into the quarry in the Salvatore family safe, not a refrigerator. I mean, they aren't white trash, you know!

Dying. Of lolz.

Yeah, I talk a good talk about Elena and potential partners, but honestly, I just don't see it happening. Elena's the sort of person who requires a strong connection to her past, especially her human past, and there are a select few people who can serve as that link. And since I've already ruled out Matt and Stefan (I HAVE THAT POWER TROLOLOL), Damon is pretty much it. Obviously there are a whole host of other reasons why he's perfectly right for her, but that's one of the things that puts them in OTP Forever status. I don't usually believe that there's just one person for everyone, but somehow on TVD, that kind of becomes the case?

[crowandfog]

I feel like I should preface this by saying I am a horrible person, but, to answer your question honestly, during S1 and probably S2 of TVD, I shipped Damon/Caroline every bit as much as I shipped Damon/Elena. Like, I gave D/E a lot of lip service, but I spent most of my time reading D/C fic. I mean, all my posts and comments were about D/E, which I consider my OTP for TVD, but it's mostly because I just knew in my gut that D/C would never truly get explored and/or resolved to its fullest potential. So I gave it up sometime during S3, I think? But, deep inside, I still long for more... I just don't talk about it. D:

Anyway, I think TVD is the only time this has ever happened to me.

[dante_kent]

You are not a horrible person. Damon/Caroline is FASCINATING. Half the time, I am drawn to the really dark, fucked up ships. I'm lowkey obsessed with Katherine/Salvatores, and not for any of the romantic stuff - for the misery and abuse and manipulation. I AM ADDICTED TO IT. So I get D/C totally. That kind of shell-shocked history is just so damn good, particularly in fic.

[tellshannon815]

To be honest, there's not a lot of rhyme or reason to my ships - incest mostly squicks me with the exception of Klaus/Rebekah, and in a lot of shows I might have a preferred pairing but can go with shipping other combinations, apart from Being Human where I only like George and Mitchell with each other.

[dante_kent]

Shipping is a nebulous thing - you never can tell how it'll go. I tend to have a shipping type, but every so often, I'm surprised by what ship I instinctively get attached to. But I envy your shipping flexibility. I think I would enjoy most shows a lot more if I weren't so OTP-minded. It depends on the show, of course, but shipping the wrong thing can ruin my enjoyment of a show. So multishipping is the way, I think.

[ever_neutral]

I have no idea if anyone but Alex is even reading this right now

Because no other Internet romance can compare lbr. You know it in your heart.

As for your question, multi-shipping is the way. (Except for the aforementioned you/me pairing. If you stray then it's over, obviously.)

(I don't understand this comment either.)

[dante_kent]

Because no other Internet romance can compare lbr. You know it in your heart.

Indeed I do. OTP has just been redefined as Online True Pairing. We are the pioneers.

Lol, I literally just wrote that 'multishipping is the way.' We are gross. But I'm never happier than when I can watch a show casually and just multiship everything. OTP-ing is the way towards madness.

(I don't understand this comment either.)

I understand it. You are finally coming to grips with your attachment to me. Shhh. Don't fight it.