Pimp and ships

Jan 17, 2009 14:27

-Angel/Spike ficathon: grazieprego. It's been decided Buffyverse is retro enough to be cool again. Throw your hat in; it's going to be amazing. The awesomesauciest of writers are doing it! Except for you, you're not, so why are you still here? Even if you don't sail that ship, you're welcome to write their canon selves--there was enough subtext ( ( Read more... )

discussion: shipping, me: reflection, rec: comm, ficathon

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raz0rgirl January 17 2009, 22:37:28 UTC
Ships aren't to be explained. They're to be enjoyed ;-)

Have you written any Baltar/Gaeta?

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lettered January 17 2009, 23:06:29 UTC
I haven't, but oh boy oh boy do I wish there was some.

Gaeta is my favorite character. I dunno why, as I tend to love main characters, and am not always as attentive as I should be to secondary and tertiary characters. But for some reason I loved and paid attention to Gaeta right from the beginning.

I'm not in love with Baltar, though I must say I am in love with how despicable he is. But they have a serious thing going on. There was that part where Gaeta came to visit Baltar in his cell, and tried to kill him with a pen. That was right after Baltar whispered something to him, and I honestly believe Baltar whispered something about how he knew Felix would get on his knees and suck his cock if he asked. And Gaeta attacked him because it was true. *nods*

OMG I'm babbling. Partly though I feel the BSG world is so complex; I am intimidated to write in it.

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raz0rgirl January 17 2009, 23:15:39 UTC
Oh, I think a lot of us think that whisper was some variation on the theme you mention. My personal theory is that Baltar and Gaeta has something going on New Caprica before the Cylon takeover and Baltar broke his heart. Mostly because anything between them would be more important to Gaeta than to Baltar. Then Baltar *really* broke his heart by capitulating to the cylon occupiers.

Also, baltar_gaeta.

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lettered January 17 2009, 23:26:34 UTC
EEP. Cool. I join comm now.

YAY I'm so glad other people theorized about the whisper! It seemed like one of those things, where all the people who thought the ship was possible would've totally taken it in a shippy way and everyone would have written their own fic about what was said. But I never found anyone else who shipped them, or anyone to talk about it with.

Baltar and Gaeta has something going on New Caprica before the Cylon takeover and Baltar broke his heart

Sometimes I think that too. Mostly I think it was unrequited on Gaeta's side, but Baltar knew it, and used it to his advantage. Possibly even physically. But I think Gaeta really believed in Baltar, really really believed in him. I think he did from the beginning, more than almost anyone else. And then, yeah, with the Cylon occupation, that faith just crumbled. And that was one reason I loved so much Gaeta being the informant, because he was betraying someone he still loved, but that person he loved and betrayed him . . . OMG.

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noelia_g January 17 2009, 22:41:59 UTC
Ooh, there's so many ships on this list that I had been into, at one time or the other. And I think Anne/Gilbert was my first ship ever, too. Certainly Gilbert was my first literary crush.

I might have kind of, sort of, shipped Britta and Lasse from Astrid Lindgren's novel around the same time, too.

(Which would be when I was five, when I got these books.)

Also, I kind of get the WTFery of finding myself shipping something I've never expected to ship, but mostly, I get the OMGness of retro-explanation of why I shipped something, or liked a certain character, when I trace it back to my issues. It's kind of scary ;D

And now I see the slash in the Godfather. Damn. Another thing the Internet ruined me for. Yay.

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lettered January 17 2009, 23:11:21 UTC
You keep freaking me out with interests we have in common. You have a N&S icon! OMG yay!

Never much got into Lindgren. You make me wonder whether I should have!

For a while (before Buffy) there were ships I was surprised I got into, but they followed a certain pattern. Now sometimes I have explanations for my ships, but it's not consistent with anything that came before. It makes me feel like I'm really changing as a person somehow, which would be fine, except I don't think I am.

I wish to god there was more Godfather slash. So recently this Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino film came out on DvD, I guess, and there's an ad for it at my grocery store. And every time I walk in and see Pacino's face, I'm like, "Oh Michael, you've gotten so old; it makes me sad." And then I think, "Tom Hagen would still find you hot." And then I think wtf, you know, because I came to buy some damn cheese!

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noelia_g January 17 2009, 23:19:37 UTC
*I* am freaking you out? You started with the ships ;P

I've read pretty much everything of Lindgren, but only loved the Bullerbyn kids, and Ronja. Bullerbyn was sweet and everything nice, while Ronja was wild and creepy and scary and I loved it with a great passion. I practically swallowed books when I was a kid, from the age of four, and some I remember and some I don't, but Ronja still freaks me out, in a very good way.

I still have patterns in my ships, and the characters I love, but they come in a greater variety now. Although I'm still bound to love certain kinds of characters and relationships, indeed I'm very predictable in this.

I keep talking to all the Batman DVD posters, so you know, it's not that uncommon. Or maybe we both just need help, I'm not entirely sure.

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lettered January 17 2009, 23:28:42 UTC
I keep talking to all the Batman DVD posters

HEE. I am not alone!

I'll put Ronja on my list. Sounds great!

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kita0610 January 17 2009, 22:42:00 UTC
Yeah. Fod did the same thing to me.

So really, IT IS ALL FOD'S FAULT is my mantra.

OTOH, I'm grateful. So there is that. *hands*

Thanks for pimping the 'thon!

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lynnenne January 17 2009, 22:48:57 UTC
I blame her and swmbo. I never thought Connor was hot until I started reading their posts. But then they were all, "BUT LOOK AT THOSE LIPS!" And I, um... had to agree with them.

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lettered January 17 2009, 23:19:11 UTC
It's weird, because you think I would've found him hot watching him. But I think context is everything. In the shows you are not being asked to find him attractive (you are for Angel. You are not for Wesley--until he starts getting scruffy. You are for Lindsey). But Fod's posts and occasional picspams were all "This is attractive." and it made me scrunch my face and go, "yeah, he kinda is!"

I don't think you can take just anyone and do that, and I don't think just anyone can take even an appropriate person and make you feel that. It takes a certain sort of person being presented and a certain sort of presentation, but I think our ideas of what's attractive being subverted can happen more than most of us think. The combination of VK and Fod was a tour d'force!

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kita0610 January 18 2009, 00:15:52 UTC
The combination of VK and Fod was a tour d'force!

HEE. I will tell her you called her this.

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lynnenne January 17 2009, 22:55:15 UTC
Felix Gaeta/Gaius Baltar

HOMG YES.

I would add:

Jack/John - Torchwood
Gwen/Owen - Torchwood
Sam/Diane - Cheers
Mason/Julia - Santa Barbara (The original Mason, played by Lane Davies, who used to quote Shakespeare in every other episode. Damn, I miss that soap.)
Brooke/Edmund - All My Children
Ryan/Gillian - All My Children. This one baffles me, because Gillian was an idiot. But they were beautiful, and I loved them like burning.
Jake/Greenlee - All My Children. I think I signed an online petition once to get them together. Yes, I was lame.

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lynnenne January 17 2009, 22:56:17 UTC
P.S. Thanks for reccing the ficathon! I'm so excited that you've signed up. <3

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lettered January 17 2009, 23:21:23 UTC
HOMG YES.

I wish there was some. I haven't found any. :o(

Shit, I forgot 10/Martha!

HEE! All My Children. I never watched that! I saw Femme talking about it recently too!

And as I said to Kita: am v. excited for the fest!

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my_daroga January 18 2009, 00:32:14 UTC
I should make a list of my ships. But I don't know if I remember stuff well enough.

Also I wish I could/did write in BtVS. But I don't know why I do. Maybe I just don't feel I have anything to say.

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lettered January 18 2009, 00:47:23 UTC
I wonder whether I should add Anne/Diana . . . I think Stoney wrote some, you know.

I would read anything you wrote (for anything, but also) for BtVS.

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my_daroga January 18 2009, 02:59:50 UTC
Hmm. See, I've enjoyed posts I've made as Buffy on the 'verse, but I've never come up with a story. There haven't been any "oh, I haven't see that!" moments for me. But it'd be novel to be involved with a larger fandom, if scary.

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lettered January 18 2009, 00:47:43 UTC
I would be interested in a list of your ships!

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