In that sense why I'm not more drawn to slash is a bit odd. And it's not that I don't get several slash ships, and sometimes even ship them just very seldom as my primary ship on a show.
I actually don't have any m/m slash ships (lots of femslash though) because I think I have a genetic inability to see the hoyay (except in Farscape, John/Scorpius holy shit, I don't exactly ship that though and I think a lot of it is that Ben Browder can't not have chemistry with anyone he happens to be on screen with - so I guess I technically ship Crichton/everybody *grin*). Sure, the boys are pretty and would be pretty together, but I just don't usually see the emotional/sexual connection between them that's so important for me in a ship.
Most of my ships are also canon or at least partially so (as in, I ship a lot of couples who had a relationship at one point which then ended). I don't like ships where you need to make a huge amount of stuff up just for it to be viable.
I'm sort of over angst as a thing, which is why John/Aeryn didn't make my list - by the end I was just so fed up with the writers' arbitrary means of keeping them apart that it lost a lot of its power for me. By the end of s3 I didn't really care anymore, and the end of s4 was just "oh come on, that's just MEAN." And like I said above I probably ship John/Aeryn equally with John/D'Argo, John/Scorpius, John/Chiana, and John/Zhaan, so...
I don't think I'm going to do this meme on my own journal, but if you're curious about similarities in my own favorite couples:
Roslin/Adama (BSG) Marcus/Ivanova (Babylon 5) Zoe/Wash (Firefly) Kaylee/Inara (Firefly) Wesley/Lilah (Angel) Sofie/Libby (Carnivale) Scorpius/Sikozu (Farscape) V/Evey (V For Vendetta) Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (A Song of Ice and Fire) Ten/River Song (Doctor Who)
(This was actually really hard to do with characters not from RPGs I've played in, but if I said Brie/Leah or Ally/Jack or Maggie/Skipper it would be meaningless to you, so...)
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I actually don't have any m/m slash ships (lots of femslash though) because I think I have a genetic inability to see the hoyay (except in Farscape, John/Scorpius holy shit, I don't exactly ship that though and I think a lot of it is that Ben Browder can't not have chemistry with anyone he happens to be on screen with - so I guess I technically ship Crichton/everybody *grin*). Sure, the boys are pretty and would be pretty together, but I just don't usually see the emotional/sexual connection between them that's so important for me in a ship.
Most of my ships are also canon or at least partially so (as in, I ship a lot of couples who had a relationship at one point which then ended). I don't like ships where you need to make a huge amount of stuff up just for it to be viable.
I'm sort of over angst as a thing, which is why John/Aeryn didn't make my list - by the end I was just so fed up with the writers' arbitrary means of keeping them apart that it lost a lot of its power for me. By the end of s3 I didn't really care anymore, and the end of s4 was just "oh come on, that's just MEAN." And like I said above I probably ship John/Aeryn equally with John/D'Argo, John/Scorpius, John/Chiana, and John/Zhaan, so...
I don't think I'm going to do this meme on my own journal, but if you're curious about similarities in my own favorite couples:
Roslin/Adama (BSG)
Marcus/Ivanova (Babylon 5)
Zoe/Wash (Firefly)
Kaylee/Inara (Firefly)
Wesley/Lilah (Angel)
Sofie/Libby (Carnivale)
Scorpius/Sikozu (Farscape)
V/Evey (V For Vendetta)
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Ten/River Song (Doctor Who)
(This was actually really hard to do with characters not from RPGs I've played in, but if I said Brie/Leah or Ally/Jack or Maggie/Skipper it would be meaningless to you, so...)