ninety6tears | Entries tagged with shipping

sci_fi_shipper asked:

Top 5 Romantic Pairings in any fandom (I surprised myself with this list. Are you ready for this?)

5. James T. Kirk/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek)
4. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger & Bunny)
3. James T. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek)
2. Kara Thrace/Lee Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
1. Cassie Maddox/Rob Ryan (Dublin Murder Squad)

(For the record, I agonized over the definition of "romantic pairing" because when a ship is more ambiguous or subtextual or just too far from canon it's difficult for me to consider them romantic? I stopped thinking too hard about it and just went with my gut.)

cosetteferaud asked for:

Top 5 Things I Am Looking Forward to (God, these will probably mostly be fandom-related because nothing is happening in my life right now...)

5. A probable upcoming trip to Pennsylvania with my boyfriend's family/family friends. Last time we went there we ate all this amazing homemade food and went four-wheeling through the woods all day, so I'm up for more of that.
4. Prometheus! (There are a number of movies I'm looking forward to but this one's right around the corner)
3. Reading the several books I recently bought, including this really beautiful-looking box set of the Millenium Trilogy.
2. Finishing In Our Nature/participating in

startrekbigbang
1. Finishing my novel (whenever that might be)

Top 5 In the Woods/The Likeness moments

( guess I should cut this for spoilers )

Top 5 Literature-Film Adaptations

5. Atonement ties w/ Fight Club
4. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
3. The Lord of the Rings
2. Brokeback Mountain
1. Jurassic Park

For

flowrs4ophelia...

Top 5 rock-your-face-off music albums

5. The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash
4. The Stooges - Fun House
3. Tool - Undertow
2. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
1. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal

Top 5 most attractive Game of Thrones characters (Okay, but I'm not going by personalities here)

5. Robb
4. Theon (He's so funny-looking but IDK, I can't explain it)
3. Catelyn
2. Viserys (Harry Lloyd looks a hundred times better with dark hair, but he's still Harry Lloyd)
1. Gendry

(And she gave me a couple others that I don't have the energy to think about right now. Sry, sry.)

We unexpectedly have a new kitten.

( kitten sitting on my arm! )

He was hiding in Shep's dad's barn when he went to go return these tables he borrowed, so of course he went "He's so cute and all alone!" and came home with it. We named him Jones (A+ if you get the reference) and we're grateful the other cat hasn't killed him yet ( D: )

Current Music: Underworld - M.E.

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

My q's from

betweenthebliss( some of them spoilery for BSG... )

Eight ships you like :
1. Cook/JJ (Skins)
2. Kara/Lee (BSG)
3. Kirk/Uhura (TOS/Trek XI)
4. Jack/Doctor (Doctor Who)
5. Lucy/Schroeder (Peanuts)
6. Charlie/Daisy (Anansi Boys)
7. Kirk/Spock (Trek XI)
8. Anders/Barolay (BSG)

Four ships you're curious about :
9. Arthur/Merlin (Merlin)
10. Claire/Gretchen (Heroes)
11. Chuck/Blair (Gossip Girl)
12. Lacey/Zoe (Caprica)

Two ships you don't like :
13. Chief/Cally (BSG)
14. Kirk/McCoy (Trek)

( & questions about my shippidy ships )

Current Music: Stina Nordenstam-I Dream of Jeannie

Got my two essays done and am kind of at the point where I don't have anything unpleasant to do for the rest of the semester. Whoo.
I am too broke right now to actually buy Star Trek and it's kind of depressing that I haven't watched it like three times already since it came out, but it's between waiting a long time and watching it alone, so. And WTH, I keep forgetting that I'll be home on Tuesday. My plans for Thanksgiving break besides reminding my sister to beat me if I'm not working on the novel are for us to watch a ton of Skins. We've been quoting that, "You're not so hot, kid, nobody wants to eat you" line at each other all the time.
And maybe I'll finally catch up on Mad Men since the finale was supposedly quite good.

Today, while folding my laundry, it occurred to me that I ship Uhura/Chapel.
(Such things occur to me while I am folding laundry.)

Current Music: Vines-F.T.W.

Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you:
1. One True Pairing Ship:
2. Canon Ship:
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
4. "You are one sick puppy" Ship:
5. "I dabble a little" Ship:
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship:
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the heck not" Ship:
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:

My sister made me watch a few episodes of Skins, starting with season 3 cause she thinks it has better characters than the first couple seasons. In its happier moments, it reminds me of the atmosphere I attempted to create with my high-school-kids-based-on-Peanuts-characters composite novel I wrote for a senior seminar (I am aware that one, it's absurd that I got credit for writing something like that and two, Dog Sees God exists, but it's a little too dark in my opinion), which makes watching it kind of surreal, especially since in my head I can't stop thinking that JJ=Schroeder. Though actually it didn't take me too long to compare the Freddy/JJ/Cook group to James/Remus/Sirius, and the comparison has really stuck in my head. I have a feeling it all gets way more depressing at some point, but it's also pretty damn funny at some points. Somebody explain to me why Cook is my favorite. I'm too embarrassed to even say who I ship as of yet, so let's let those opinions ferment for a while.

Thank god the seasons are short though. I feel like I no longer want to devote the time to getting into TV fandoms. If I'm not immediately addicted in the first few episodes I just give up.

Current Music: Nine Inch Nails-Only

So, I sorta got tagged, forever ago, to do that Top 7 OTPs meme. I figured, now that I'm finally doing it, that this would be a good post in which to address a question that many a fandom member must ask themselves from time to time:

Just what, exactly, does it mean when I say I "ship"?

Some dictionary of fandom terminology, or as Wikipedia says, would explain, "People involved in shipping (or shippers) assert that the relationship does exist, will exist, or simply that they would like it to exist." This doesn't encompass, though, the popularity of unrequited ships, or ships that we not only accept as absurdly unlikely but sort of prefer that way. My boyfriend, on one of the rare occasions that I went into fangirl-talk around him, described two BSG characters as already having, without acting on, the kind of relationship we would like them to have, and that they were therefore "unshippable."

And I said, "NO," because my little shipping heart hardly prioritizes the actual sexual together-ness of the ship. So maybe I'm not a very good shipper in the conventional sense, because most of the time I enjoy the angst and the agony more than I could ever enjoy A and B being married-with-children without the loose ends. When I say that I ship somebody, I don't think it means I want A and B to be in a relationship as much as it means that I want to be convinced and reminded of A and B's love for one another in continuously interesting, captivating and touching ways.

Considering this, it's not surprising that if I look at my top seven OTPs I find a trend of difficulty, taboo, or impossibility. Only a couple of these are arguably a successful pairing. (WaRnInG: spoilers ahead for lots of stuff.)

( one two three four five six love )

Current Music: Dios Malos-You Got Me All Wrong

Judging from a certain recent evening I came slogging home from a seven-hour work shift to predictably find Sara watching Doctor Who and immediately yelled, "I hate this show! I've been wanting to watch it all day!", my usual new fandom nag that is my sister didn't have to try very hard to get me to watch it. My love/hate relationship with the Who is only emphasized by something which may be a reason for which I have on some subconscious level previously told myself I would probably never watch the new series: Simply by being immersed in the internet I'd managed to figure out I'd probably ship the hell out of Doctor/Rose and, having a general idea of how all the fangirls were devastated by the season two finale, maybe felt a little bit like getting into this show would be downright sadistic of me. All I can say is thank god for David Tennant and the fact that the show doesn't take itself too seriously, because this character has some hella-angst baggage going on and somehow every episode still manages to be a little silly and make you laugh your ass off without ignoring all the past tragedies its main character has to constantly reckon with.

One interesting thing that Sara said to me when I started watching this show is that the Doctor and Rose have the potential to make me question everything I've ever held against Stephenie Meyer over Edward and Bella. I swear I could write a whole meta post comparing the two, because I've actually put a ridiculous amount of thought into how the situations are slightly but significantly different. And maybe I will.

Seeing as I'm only at the beginning of season three, I'm in a kind of pseudo-spoiler-lockdown concerning Doctor Who. There aren't exactly an assload of big reveals you wouldn't want spoiled in this kind of show, but since I went in knowing most of the major stuff that would transpire in the first couple seasons it would be nice to be surprised by something. And some of the stuff I don't know about yet probably seems like ancient history to those who've kept up with torrents (or, um, are British) so it's not like people are being sensitive to spoiling others, and they just finished S4 so the fandom is pretty bubbly right now. So I'm just being. . .eh. . .cautious. Not very active on LJ at the moment for various reasons, anyway.

Will possibly post more detailed reactions to specific episodes later. I don't even know how many Whovians are watching my journal, probably not many.

Current Music: Talking Heads-Take Me To the River

Now that I'm mostly through season three, I can thus declare Brad & Denise my overwhelmingly Aryan-looking but unquestionably adorable Boston Legal OTP.

As a newcomer to the Twilight fandom who has now finished New Moon, I have been in denial, telling myself I was still pretty undecided on Edward/Bella vs. Jacob/Bella, but I was really kidding myself. I fell in love with the Jacob/Bella 'ship really fast. I thought I should introduce myself to others in the fandom with my thoughts - not so much on why the J/B relationship is more romantic or compelling or sweet than E/B, though I'm sure I could make a few points about that as well - but on how it is healthier than any possible present or future she could ever have with Edward. I hope all this babble doesn't come off as more anti-E/B than pro-J/B, but a lot of my points arguing for one required putting down the other. For that, I apologize to Switzerland.

I have only read Twilight and New Moon and ask, please, that you limit your comments to discussion that is only relevant to those books, though of course your opinion can't help but be affected by all three. Because

flowrs4ophelia has spent the last couple months talking my ear off about these books, I'm likely to discuss some information that isn't revealed until the third book, but please keep in mind I haven't read it.

P.S. I fully owe it to

flowrs4ophelia, by the way, for getting me into these books, so you can hold her fully responsible for any of my tomfoolery.

"When Romeo and Juliet Don't See Eye-To-Eye"

( or Most of the Reasons (so far) I Think The Vampire Girl Should Choose Jacob )