Silly Relationships Meme Time
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promethia_tenkI'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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Date: 22 Aug 2011 05:47 am (UTC)re: Harry/Ginny, that's interesting. If it's not too personal, would you mind if I asked how old you were when you started reading the books? I really grew up with the characters and was often within a few years of their age, so of course my focus was mainly on the children and not so much on the adults. (Though I've shipped Fred/Me since I was eleven, not going to lie.)
Dany and Joraaah. Honestly, yeah, I ship them because they're insanely sexy. :| I am really a very shallow individual. XD
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Date: 22 Aug 2011 06:47 am (UTC)Let's see, Harry Potter . . . I probably started reading when I was about 16? (I'm 27) I was always at least a few years older than them and a whole bracket up in mindset, if you know what I mean? And I've always preferred older characters anyway. Often quite a bit older--most of my favorite fictional characters are at least middle aged. So my main sympathies reading HP were with the teachers.
What were your preferences with the younger characters, shipping, etc? (I support your shipping of yourself to Fred--excellent taste.)
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Date: 22 Aug 2011 07:05 am (UTC)I confess that the bulk of my shipping centered around the younger characters, because they were always closer to me in age--I never did catch up. DH came out five days before my sixteenth birthday, in fact. I guess in a way, for me, the main characters were older characters. The main exception to shipping-only-main-characters was one I picked up from an ESL writer I beta-read for when I was twelve, James/Lily. Ever since, that has absolutely been one of my greatest OTPs. I ship it like burning and will not even debate with serious, it-should-have-been-Snape Severus/Lily shippers.
One of the more interesting things for me in having read the books as I grew up and then again now that I'm older is that I did sort of flip to your point of view. I care more about the older and secondary characters now and ship them like mad (in fact, I just converted
But yeah, I'm definitely one of the kids that literally grew up with Harry Potter. Serious portions of my life were dedicated to it, from writing fanfiction to moderating for a fanfiction site to beta-reading to... Just.... lots of things. :|
/sorry long-and-rambly-description-of-MY-ENTIRE-CHILDHOOD.