Shipping meme day 1
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jedi_of_urthSo I've been feeling like I need to chatter about things, and I'm just not inspired enough by TVD/TO these days to actually review them (I haven't even watched last week's TVD yet). I finished my B5 rewatch and could probably put together some summary thoughts on that but haven't (am trying to poke at some fic and vid ideas about it though, because I don't express my B5 love often enough). Anyway, I'm going to give one of these 30 day memes a try (snagged from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladyhadhafang as is becoming usual it seems (I think this is slightly different than the one I tried a couple years back))
Day 1: Your first ship ever
It sort of depends how you look at shipping. There were romantic relationships that I enjoyed as a kid but didn’t necessarily “ship.” Anne/Gilbert, Maria and Captain von Trapp, various Disney happily ever afters, Troi/Riker probably from time to time, a few sitcom romances I suppose, Kermit/Miss Piggy. Yeah, there were definitely a few.
I sort of took steps towards actual shipping with a couple of book series I read around 10-11 where I started noticing the romance subplots as more than just window dressing or Disney-esque forgone conclusions. In an ongoing universe where things developed over the course of several books in the series and I wanted to see the lead girls end up with the guys they were with, and ultimately they pretty much did.
But if we’re talking SHIPPING, devoted to a pairing, playing out ideas for them in my head, probably would have written fanfic if it had been a thing I saw back then (and kind of maybe did when I found out about it); that came another year or two later. And there two of them and I don’t remember what came first exactly.
-Lois/Clark (L&C version): given that their relationship WAS the show, and not just too my tweenage mind, I can’t image anyone not shipping them. But oh man did my tweenage heart eat it up. I still do love this show, these two are my version of the Superman story, even if I now admit it’s campy as hell, and I still love these two.
-Sheridan/Delenn (Babylon 5): while Lois & Clark got me shipping by having the story focused on the ship, B5 managed it with a subplot. An important subplot, but there’s a lot of shit going on on B5that a romance between two of your lead characters is really a subplot. And having just done a B5 rewatch, oh my do these two still work for me; stupid, perfect, life-long OTP. But this equal parts life affirming and heartbreaking love story is just...still so great.
A few extra observations:
-While the road-to-shipping ships included some high school drama ships, my early SHIPPING ships were adult ships, B5 was middle aged adults at that. I think I have (somewhat) more patience for teenage drama at 30 than I did at 13.
-I look at the fact that my early big ships were clearly canon, actually ended up together, and rarely had doubt that they would end up together, and it's something that I miss in my entertainment these days. I think it’s why I’ve embraced Castle/Beckett the last year or so; because yeah, there can be obstacles for a ship, but I want to see them overcoming them instead of repeatedly running into the same walls.
-While I sort of babbled about it a few years back, I think my early and continued love for John/Delenn is why I can never respect the Doctor’s wither and die issues. I know it’s not *quite* the same issue; but damn it, they got it right, and DW just couldn’t.
-It kind of comes from being a giant nerd, but when I look back at a lot of my ships I see a fondness for pairings of people from different worlds, often literally, that was there pretty much from the start.
Day 1: Your first ship ever
Day 2: A ship you've just discovered
Day 3: Your OTP
Day 4: Favorite crack pairing
Day 5: A crossover pairing you think would work
Day 6: Series that you have many ships in
Day 7: A pairing that disappointed you
Day 8: A pairing only you seem to like
Day 9: Your least favorite couple
Day 10: Ship that became canon even though you didn’t expect it to
Day 11: Character you like with several others
Day 12: Character you don’t like seeing paired with anyone else
Day 13: Couple you ship that causes intense feelings in its fandom (read: flamewars and the like)
Day 14: Couple you liked even though you knew it would end up badly
Day 15: A ship canon really messed with
Day 16: Favorite villain pairing
Day 17: Ship you talk(ed) about with people in real life
Day 18: Most annoying character that tried to come between a ship
Day 19: Favorite Hero/Villain pairing
Day 20: Favorite couple played for laughs
Day 21: Favorite opposites attract couple
Day 22: Saddest unrequited love
Day 23: Couple you only shipped after a long time
Day 24: Couple you like, but is overshadowed by another couple in a fandom
Day 25: Most popular couple in your favorite fandom (do you ship it too?)
Day 26: Best historical couple
Day 27: Another couple you shipped a long time ago
Day 28: A couple you shipped not nearly as long as you thought you would
Day 29: Favorite ‘birds of a feather flock together’ couple
Day 30: Couple you will still ship a few years from now
ladyhadhafang as is becoming usual it seems (I think this is slightly different than the one I tried a couple years back))Day 1: Your first ship ever
It sort of depends how you look at shipping. There were romantic relationships that I enjoyed as a kid but didn’t necessarily “ship.” Anne/Gilbert, Maria and Captain von Trapp, various Disney happily ever afters, Troi/Riker probably from time to time, a few sitcom romances I suppose, Kermit/Miss Piggy. Yeah, there were definitely a few.
I sort of took steps towards actual shipping with a couple of book series I read around 10-11 where I started noticing the romance subplots as more than just window dressing or Disney-esque forgone conclusions. In an ongoing universe where things developed over the course of several books in the series and I wanted to see the lead girls end up with the guys they were with, and ultimately they pretty much did.
But if we’re talking SHIPPING, devoted to a pairing, playing out ideas for them in my head, probably would have written fanfic if it had been a thing I saw back then (and kind of maybe did when I found out about it); that came another year or two later. And there two of them and I don’t remember what came first exactly.
-Lois/Clark (L&C version): given that their relationship WAS the show, and not just too my tweenage mind, I can’t image anyone not shipping them. But oh man did my tweenage heart eat it up. I still do love this show, these two are my version of the Superman story, even if I now admit it’s campy as hell, and I still love these two.
-Sheridan/Delenn (Babylon 5): while Lois & Clark got me shipping by having the story focused on the ship, B5 managed it with a subplot. An important subplot, but there’s a lot of shit going on on B5that a romance between two of your lead characters is really a subplot. And having just done a B5 rewatch, oh my do these two still work for me; stupid, perfect, life-long OTP. But this equal parts life affirming and heartbreaking love story is just...still so great.
A few extra observations:
-While the road-to-shipping ships included some high school drama ships, my early SHIPPING ships were adult ships, B5 was middle aged adults at that. I think I have (somewhat) more patience for teenage drama at 30 than I did at 13.
-I look at the fact that my early big ships were clearly canon, actually ended up together, and rarely had doubt that they would end up together, and it's something that I miss in my entertainment these days. I think it’s why I’ve embraced Castle/Beckett the last year or so; because yeah, there can be obstacles for a ship, but I want to see them overcoming them instead of repeatedly running into the same walls.
-While I sort of babbled about it a few years back, I think my early and continued love for John/Delenn is why I can never respect the Doctor’s wither and die issues. I know it’s not *quite* the same issue; but damn it, they got it right, and DW just couldn’t.
-It kind of comes from being a giant nerd, but when I look back at a lot of my ships I see a fondness for pairings of people from different worlds, often literally, that was there pretty much from the start.
Day 1: Your first ship ever
Day 2: A ship you've just discovered
Day 3: Your OTP
Day 4: Favorite crack pairing
Day 5: A crossover pairing you think would work
Day 6: Series that you have many ships in
Day 7: A pairing that disappointed you
Day 8: A pairing only you seem to like
Day 9: Your least favorite couple
Day 10: Ship that became canon even though you didn’t expect it to
Day 11: Character you like with several others
Day 12: Character you don’t like seeing paired with anyone else
Day 13: Couple you ship that causes intense feelings in its fandom (read: flamewars and the like)
Day 14: Couple you liked even though you knew it would end up badly
Day 15: A ship canon really messed with
Day 16: Favorite villain pairing
Day 17: Ship you talk(ed) about with people in real life
Day 18: Most annoying character that tried to come between a ship
Day 19: Favorite Hero/Villain pairing
Day 20: Favorite couple played for laughs
Day 21: Favorite opposites attract couple
Day 22: Saddest unrequited love
Day 23: Couple you only shipped after a long time
Day 24: Couple you like, but is overshadowed by another couple in a fandom
Day 25: Most popular couple in your favorite fandom (do you ship it too?)
Day 26: Best historical couple
Day 27: Another couple you shipped a long time ago
Day 28: A couple you shipped not nearly as long as you thought you would
Day 29: Favorite ‘birds of a feather flock together’ couple
Day 30: Couple you will still ship a few years from now
