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promethia_tenk) wrote2011-08-21 10:17 pm
promethia_tenk) wrote2011-08-21 10:17 pm
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Silly Relationships Meme Time
I'm in one of those moods. Let's be silly and fannish, shall we?
MEME THE FIRST:
Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.
I'm not going to promise to insult anybody's ship in an unadvisedly flippant manner, but how will we ever know if nobody tempts fate? *eyebrow waggle* Feel free to prompt more than one. Off-the-top-of-my-head list of shows/fandoms I have an opinion of (may not be comprehensive) for your reference:
SciFi/Fantasy: Star Wars, Star Treks (all but Enterprise), X Files, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Dollhouse, Doctor Who (New), Torchwood, Heroes, True Blood, Harry Potter, Firefly, Game of Thrones, 10th Kingdom, Pushing Daisies, LotR
Drama: House (4 seasons), Gossip Girl (2 seasons), Dexter, L Word, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy (2 seasons), West Wing (3 seasons), Sherlock, Ugly Betty (2 seasons), The Tudors (2 seasons)
Comedy: 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Community, Arrested Development, Simpsons
MEME THE SECOND:
It's that fandoms as relationships thing that's going around! Admittedly, I'm using a rather loose definition of "fandom" here . . .
The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it.
My first thought here was Battlestar Galactica, but I've become oddly zen about that show of late and have to award the spot to House, MD, which continues to flaunt its degraded status on my television to this day.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp:
Sorry, HIMYM--this seems to be you. But I love catching up from time to time!
The mysterious dark one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 AM at weird coffee houses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized s/he really was fucking crazy:
True Blood, you could have gone insane in the most brilliant way, but no . . . What a waste.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor and whom you'd still really like to get with again, although you're relieved s/he doesn't actually live in town:
Heroes! I never finished the last season and, yeah, it's probably best it's gone. But season three was TOTALLY WORTH IT, y'all have no idea what you're missing.
The steady:
Hmmm . . . I'm more of a serial monogamist, but if I had to put something in here, it would probably be Star Trek in all its shapes and forms. I thought it was consigned to the realms of nostalgia, but then the reboot came back and, dammit, I love it with every earnest, idealistic, campy fibre of my being.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Ugh, so many! Maybe Leverage? It's an ENTIRE SHOW ABOUT HEISTS!
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with, but ultimately you're just good buddies:
Community. The fandom seems really fun, but the characters and relationships don't have quite the same amount of hook that HIMYM did for me.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool person except it's never really gone anywhere:
From the things I hear and the little I've watched, I can tell I'm gonna be mad for Fringe for at least a little while. But I've stalled out about halfway through the first season. I think I just know that when I finally feel like it, it's still gonna be around.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How the hell did they land all these cool people?"
Sherlock. WTF?
The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and against whom you measure all other potential partners:
Doctor Whoooooo! Ok, it's been a year and half, but who's counting?
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they'd clean up a bit:
There's a Gossip Girl-shaped hole in my life, but it's probably all horrid now, isn't it?
Your hot new flame:
Dollhouse. All the hotter for being a little wrong.
The one who stole your significant other:
I don't know that this has really happened to me. I'm badly susceptible to being stolen myself, though.
MEME THE FIRST:
Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.
I'm not going to promise to insult anybody's ship in an unadvisedly flippant manner, but how will we ever know if nobody tempts fate? *eyebrow waggle* Feel free to prompt more than one. Off-the-top-of-my-head list of shows/fandoms I have an opinion of (may not be comprehensive) for your reference:
SciFi/Fantasy: Star Wars, Star Treks (all but Enterprise), X Files, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Dollhouse, Doctor Who (New), Torchwood, Heroes, True Blood, Harry Potter, Firefly, Game of Thrones, 10th Kingdom, Pushing Daisies, LotR
Drama: House (4 seasons), Gossip Girl (2 seasons), Dexter, L Word, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy (2 seasons), West Wing (3 seasons), Sherlock, Ugly Betty (2 seasons), The Tudors (2 seasons)
Comedy: 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Community, Arrested Development, Simpsons
MEME THE SECOND:
It's that fandoms as relationships thing that's going around! Admittedly, I'm using a rather loose definition of "fandom" here . . .
The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it.
My first thought here was Battlestar Galactica, but I've become oddly zen about that show of late and have to award the spot to House, MD, which continues to flaunt its degraded status on my television to this day.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp:
Sorry, HIMYM--this seems to be you. But I love catching up from time to time!
The mysterious dark one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 AM at weird coffee houses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized s/he really was fucking crazy:
True Blood, you could have gone insane in the most brilliant way, but no . . . What a waste.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor and whom you'd still really like to get with again, although you're relieved s/he doesn't actually live in town:
Heroes! I never finished the last season and, yeah, it's probably best it's gone. But season three was TOTALLY WORTH IT, y'all have no idea what you're missing.
The steady:
Hmmm . . . I'm more of a serial monogamist, but if I had to put something in here, it would probably be Star Trek in all its shapes and forms. I thought it was consigned to the realms of nostalgia, but then the reboot came back and, dammit, I love it with every earnest, idealistic, campy fibre of my being.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Ugh, so many! Maybe Leverage? It's an ENTIRE SHOW ABOUT HEISTS!
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with, but ultimately you're just good buddies:
Community. The fandom seems really fun, but the characters and relationships don't have quite the same amount of hook that HIMYM did for me.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool person except it's never really gone anywhere:
From the things I hear and the little I've watched, I can tell I'm gonna be mad for Fringe for at least a little while. But I've stalled out about halfway through the first season. I think I just know that when I finally feel like it, it's still gonna be around.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How the hell did they land all these cool people?"
Sherlock. WTF?
The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and against whom you measure all other potential partners:
Doctor Whoooooo! Ok, it's been a year and half, but who's counting?
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they'd clean up a bit:
There's a Gossip Girl-shaped hole in my life, but it's probably all horrid now, isn't it?
Your hot new flame:
Dollhouse. All the hotter for being a little wrong.
The one who stole your significant other:
I don't know that this has really happened to me. I'm badly susceptible to being stolen myself, though.
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As for the other meme, I don't think I know how you feel about Doctor/TARDIS.
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Doctor/TARDIS fills me with light and warmth and fuzzies and other things I don't usually cop to feeling
except with this show all the time. As far as I'm concerned, the entire point of Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways was the line "I wanted you safe: my Doctor . . ." And then we got a whole episode like that! But then, shipping Doctor/TARDIS is pretty easy, isn't it? All the gooey center of a ship, none of the messiness and fanwank and politics and worry about power dynamics and how A is treating B and so on and so forth. Basically, if you don't like the Doctor, why are you watching the show? And the TARDIS has no real personality (well, maybe until recently), so there's no way to hate her, and they've been a fait accompli forever . . . so there's nothing to argue over except maybe someone's tentacle porn fic.no subject
I'd never stopped to think about the TARDIS not having enough personality to dislike. But perhaps because Doctor/TARDIS is such a given, it doesn't get talked about much. Warm and fuzzy goodness, though, yeah.