giving in

[fanbeatsman]

I was really tempted to fill this out using only the pairings that my and eulogytobiko's morning of playing with the Ace Attorney Random Pairing Generator threw out for me. I may do that anyway at some point.

Six Ships I Love
1. L/Light (Death Note)
2. Neku/Shiki (TWEWY)
3. Franziska/Ema (Ace Attorney)
4. Sephiran/Zelgius (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn5. Klavier/

Comments

[fanbeatsman]

¬_¬ You saw nothing heh, I originally had that slot pencilled in for Klavier/Ema, and then Klavier/Apollo as my third ship I don't like, but then my girlfriend reminded me just how much more I hate Snape/Hermione and I didn't think it was fair to leave K/A (which I don't at all hate, just don't love) up there :D. But that's why the mistake.I'm actually kind of relieved you're not a fan, heh. I was sort of worried that I'd end up offending people who might ship it with that one with how much I hate it :3

[fanbeatsman]

Ohhh, I love Squall. He's still one of my favourite ever game protagonists. He's an overthinker, and he's emotionally stunted, and he's brave and a great leader and shoulders huge responsibilities efficiently and inspiringly and basically is an object lesson in How to Write a Character Clare Loves and then RINOA HAPPENS TO HIM and halfway through the game he suddenly turns into a mess of irrationality and hormones who abandons the Garden he's supposed to be commanding to CARRY RINOA ON HIS BACK ON FOOT ACROSS A WHOLE CONTINENT TO GET HELP FOR HER. It is deeply upsetting.

[0x]

A Tithe To Hell link plz?
gawd do I ever agree with snape/hermione dislike.
THE TENNIS MATCH god, so lulz.

[fanbeatsman]

With pleasure: A Tithe To Hell :) Take heed of the warnings; idk what your squicks/triggers are, but it hits one of mine (knife/bloodplay), so I'm always a bit cautious about reccing it - it's also really explicit, which might put some people off, idk. It is astonishing, though - an object lesson in how to tell a really powerful story through sex; I'm horribly envious.

The tennis match makes me :D :D :D every time I've watched it. It is simultaneously made of massive win and massive lulz.

[0x]

Knife-bloodplay = YAY so I'm happy to take that rec, ty. I don't have any to share back, the only DN stuff I have is doujinshi.

IT REALLY IS!

[fanbeatsman]

Haha, different strokes, eh? And I have to say, although knife/bloodplay is a huge triggery squick of mine (to the point of me being unable to watch it), the scene in A Tithe to Hell was so good and felt so completely important and non-gratuitous that it didn't at all throw me out of the story. So yeah, sounds like you'll enjoy :D

And that's cool; it was kind of a shot in the dark, tbh, given how hard I've found it myself to find anything approaching decent DN fics. Oh, Death Note fandom, why so alarming?

[miss_prince]

The only Sephiran/Zelgius I have seen.

And Fire Emblem has its own kink meme that doesn't see a lot of activity but keeps chuggin' along, and it has made me ship Ashera/Laura. WHY CAN'T I BE NORMAL.

Man, I have a copy of FF8 and I want to play it, I do, but I've never gotten past the very beginning. Like, go to the cave and come back beginning. There was a hundred-chapter shoujo-ai epic someone wrote for it (Quistis/Fujin, I think? I dunno who Fujin is though) that I have been intensely curious about -- in addition to just loving Final Fantasy games, of course.

I shipped Snape/Hermione way, way back when, when I was thirteen and shipped Snape/Everybody, Possibly at the Same Time. Now I look back and... urgh.

I like this meme too, and may borrow it as well! ;D

[fanbeatsman]

omg, someone's written it? That's awesome. Cheers for the links :) Ashera/Laura? Haha, that is a new level of crack. Although I guess with the priestess aspect...augh, I was saying to my girlfriend today, you just can't tell me crack pairings, because I end up thinking rather obsessively about how they might work and then I want to write them :3I love FFVIII; it's my favourite Final Fantasy game. Although I'm not sure how much of that is nostalgia - it's the first one I played, and the first fandom I ever wrote fic for, so it'll always have a special place in my heart. I love the story (apart from the Squall/Rinoa plot, sigh), and I love the game mechanics (which a lot of people hate, I think because they're quite different from others in the series, but like I said, I played it first, so it seemed to me like it was the others that were weird :D). And the characters...well. I love them, but they might be an acquired taste. They're all wonderfully dysfunctional, and so much fun to write (and there's a lot of potential for f/f, trust me

[miss_prince]

Yeah, all it took was a sentence-long request to get me shipping it, and then someone filled the request and it stuck with me. The request's here, if you're interested. Ooh, and there was this Ashera/Yune kinda thing I really liked.

FFVI was my first Final Fantasy, so that's the one that has a special place in my heart. Great cast of characters, everybody has their own motivations. And the girls really take the lead, although there's not really a main character. I love it so much. :D But I'm thinking over Christmas break (when I have a nice big TV and a brother to play it with) I'll make another attempt. The story is Frozen; I haven't read it, but I've heard good things. And it's really, really, really long. Probably longer than Absence, the ginormous Rei/Usagi story that's probably the longest femslash piece I've ever read

oh don't worry, neither can I

[fanbeatsman]

Except I'm going to disprove that right now, because I'm going out right this second, BUT before I do I wanted to say YES drive-by Snape/Sirius love :D Will get back to the rest of it (because predictably, I do indeed have more to say :3) tomorrow :)

[valentinite]

One: Yay for Fire Emblem love. I'm not especially fannish about the FE games but I love playing them. I should finish FE6, which I imported, but haven't gotten very far in. I think all my ships tended to be based on good luck with the RNG on my first playthrough and which characters I ended up sending off on missions, rather than any actual story

[fanbeatsman]

I really need to play more Fire Emblems, because I do love the gameplay mechanics. I've only played the Gamecube and Wii versions, because it's only this year that I've really got into handheld gaming - I'd like to get hold of some of the GBA ones, though. And haha, I'm the other way round - I play my missions based on my ships ¬_¬ Making a particular effort to get Soren healing Ike, that kind of thing. But I do agree that a story sort of comes out in the experience of actually shifting the characters around - you end up narrativising the strategy elements, or at least, I do.

Hm, a trioshipper, eh? I've always quite liked the idea of that setup. I've never read much of it, but then I've never tended to read much younger generation HP fic anyway, tbh. My favourite Harry ship, though, is actually Harry/Luna - I never really thought it would happen, but it was still kind of irritating to see him end up with Ginny instead.

I love FFVIII, but like I said to miss_prince, I wonder if it's something of an acquired taste. I've explained that more in my

[miss_prince]

I have to jump in and totally agree with you on lucky RNG determining favorite characters and pairings in Fire Emblem. Although Jill/Lethe in Path of Radiance had the double bonus of potential in their support conversations and both of them being in the Most Likely to Decimate Everything in Their Path category. I was so upset that Lethe got nerfed in Radiant Dawn. And I could go on and on about loving character X because they kicked so much ass all the time.

Is there any good Hermione/McGonagall fic? I would totally read that.

[valentinite]

I have not kept most of my HP fic bookmarks. I know I've seen Hermione/McGonagall, but not where, or if it was good or if the idea was better than the execution. Books 6&7 kind of killed my HP love. I just didn't like them. I could live with Remus/Sirius being completely torpedoed, since I actually liked Remus/Tonks pre-book-6, but not the character changes. And I never liked Harry/Ginny -- way too Oedipal. Liked Harry/Luna in principle (with side R/Hr, Ginny/Neville), but was mostly a Marauders-era fan.

I should get my Wii fixed. I'd just started PoR (never had a Gamecube) when it bricked itself. My GBA (FE7 -- FE8 was kind of lame) pairings were the two heavily-implied-in-canon Lyn/Hector and Eliwood/Ninian (the only one I did extra work for the supports), plus Lowen/Rebecca (horsetank + best. archer. ever. and my Lowen won the RNG sweepstakes -- I could just throw her onto horseback, rush them behind enemy lines, and unload and they'd just kill everything).

[shahni]

The answers to this are so much love-- I don't have much to say about the Harry Potter pairings because anything I've risked liking in that fandom (which I have thankfully spared myself from being a part of) has been proven completely impossible and unlikely and not enough to garner any interest for. Either way, squee squee squee, Daryan/Klavier. Viva la Gavinners!

[fanbeatsman]

♥ :D You've had a lucky escape with the HP fandom, honestly. I just can't seem to quit it, no matter how much it hurts me (and it does, oh god). And it's weird, because I've never really been that invested in any ships - I'm actually a real polyshipper as far as HP is concerned, much more so than I am for Ace Attorney. I think it's the characters that keep me there - I'm still a sucker for Snape, for one thing, even the post-DH version, but there's just so many characters that I'd still be happy to read more about, more than I could probably remember to name. So I still find myself drawn to fic.

I'm interested in your ships now, you know :D I'm all about the HP rarepairs; you might give me new ideas.

I wrote a little Daryan/Klavier again last night :D Was playing with a half-finished fic set just after 4-1. I've still got so many things I want to say about these two; I just wish I had the time to write them all.