Shipping meme
May. 23rd, 2009 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples* (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:
*Or at least 10 of my favorite couples
1. Doctor/Rose (Doctor Who)
2. Guy/Marian (Robin Hood)
3. Mulder/Scully (X-Files)
4. Sheridan/Delenn (Babylon 5)
5. Jim/Pam (The Office)
6. Harry/Hermione (Harry Potter)
7. Buffy/Giles (BtVS)
8. John/Aeryn )Farscape)
9. Ned/Chuck (Pushing Daisies)
10. Rose/Daniel (Doctor Who/Stargate)
*Or at least 10 of my favorite couples
1. Doctor/Rose (Doctor Who)
2. Guy/Marian (Robin Hood)
3. Mulder/Scully (X-Files)
4. Sheridan/Delenn (Babylon 5)
5. Jim/Pam (The Office)
6. Harry/Hermione (Harry Potter)
7. Buffy/Giles (BtVS)
8. John/Aeryn )Farscape)
9. Ned/Chuck (Pushing Daisies)
10. Rose/Daniel (Doctor Who/Stargate)
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Date: 2009-05-24 08:09 pm (UTC)The emotional connection is the biggest thing for me, has to come before I consider sexual connection beyond just wanted pretty people to shag each other already. I can enjoy ships like, where I first enjoy their sexual chemistry, but I can't think of a case where I really believed in those ships (you mentioning Wes/Lilah brings it to mind).
There are a lot of slash ships out there that I get in the sense that I see why people would ship them but they just never clicked with me. It's not even that I don't seen the chemistry that could be seen as sexual it just never struck me that way I guess.
I don't like ships where you need to make a huge amount of stuff up just for it to be viable.
Again ignoring the fact that these days I count my crossover shipping as a big deal, I agree. I need canon to give me a reason to go there. Different people focus on different aspects of canon so they can read things different ways, but it needs to strike me the right way with what's on screen (or text for the occasional book shipping) for me to consider it a "ship" as opposed to a pairing.
Hmm. I can definitely see where sexual chemistry is a factor to you (Wes/Lilah, Scorpy/Sikozu, Kaylee/Inara), that plus a couple others would lead me to say you like more adult ships (Jaime/Briennae Zoe/Wash, Roslin/Adama). But you do seem to deal with at least some will they/won't they pull (again Bill/Laura, Jaime/Brienne, Susan/Marcus)
(A couple of them I can't comment on and one I won't because I don't think you'd like what I had to say.)
Hey, if you ever want to talk RPG shipping I'm all there, we'd just have to spend a lot of time explaining this to each other no doubt.
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Date: 2009-05-27 09:59 pm (UTC)Heh, that would be Ten/River Song, wouldn't it? (c;
You know the things that everyone else hates about Doctor Who? Those are my favorite things about it. For example, my favorite episode of all time? Love And Monsters. I'm not even kidding. So I am pretty much incapable of being offended by anything Who-related because in my fandom for it, it's always opposite day.
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Date: 2009-05-27 10:24 pm (UTC)I actually do like L&M, I didn't at first but it really grew on me; and my least favorite ep in s3 isn't the Dalek eps unlike most people, 42 takes the spot for me. I'm not a whole side opposite day person, but a little off center in places.
But still I don't need to go off on anti-your-ship rants over this meme.