Shipping meme day 27

[jedi_of_urth]

So I’ve been kind of distracted for a few days but okay, let’s try and finish this off.

Day 27: Another couple you shipped a long time ago

Another part of the delay was that I wanted to think of something to say for this one that I haven’t already touched on. I’ve talked about a lot of long term ships I’ve had, because I tend not to so much stop shipping something as just lose interest in the fandom or possibly just the ship. And while my shipping tastes can change over time, so there are some ships I’m not as in to or find less appealing now even when I drift back into a fandom, I wasn’t really sure what to answer to this.

But I did finally decide that, in part in keeping with the question, I might want to talk Star Wars. I do not remember a time in my life when I didn’t know the Star Wars movies (well, the original ones anyway) and when I was young I definitely liked Han/Leia because I didn’t really question canon shipping when I was young, and why would I? But when I look at it now I think, if I saw it for the first time as an adult with my developed attitudes towards ships, I would not have approved of the series going that way. I would have called foul because Luke and Leia being twins was clearly pulled out of Lucas’s ass when they were a much better shipping choice.

The thing is, I’ve never cared about Han in these movies the way I do about Luke and Leia, even as a kid and not thinking about it I have never had a thing for bad boys. But as a kid I went along with it because I didn’t have a reason not to, and it seemed like a happy enough ending. So I kind of shipped it for Leia’s sake and because kid-me didn’t consciously call bullshit on the way the series went. Making Han/Leia a ship I shipped a long time ago (in a fannish mindset far away).



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