Ships meme

[epershand]

So, I've actually got a long meaty post in the works, but for now, here's a meme from killerbeautiful. My patterns, they are... strong.

Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms.

• Elim Garak/Julian Bashir: Star Trek: DS9


• Ethan Raine/Rupert Giles: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


• Clark Kent/Lex Luthor: Smallville and also Superman comics in general


• Dick Grayson/Tim Drake: Batman comics


• Remus Lupin/Sirius Black: Harry Potter


• Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr: XMen movieverse


• The Doctor/The Master: Doctor Who


• Sam Beckett/Al Calavicci: Quantum Leap


• Herman Melville/Nathaniel Hawthorne: history


• AE Housman/Moses Jackson: The Invention of Love

Comments

[epershand]

Hey, see how I totally have at least one buddy ship? (Sam/Al). Otherwise it is pretty much all trust issues all the time. (Also look at the percentage of that list that is middle aged or older. Consider that all my Clex love is for futurefic. Oh my patterns.)

Ges/Aral is totally part of my pattern, but I don't wander around thinking about that ship, even to the degree I think about Miles/Gregor. ::ashamed::

And yes, I am totally a Dick/Tim shipper and it is totally Te's fault.

ETA: The icon is here to say: Molly eliminated us in favor of Melville/Hawthorne! Woe!

[oliviacirce]

Ariel now notices her typo. What is up with not editing DW comments? Anyway, whatever, you knew what I meant.

Sam/Al is only kind of a buddy ship, and it is totally a buddy ship with trust issues. I hear you on not wandering around thinking about that ship, though, especially because in re: conversations we had in London you are probably over-identifying with Miles's romantic patterns.

[epershand]

Sam/Al is totally a buddy ship. They trust each other completely. They have traded bodies multiple times in canon. It's not my fault Al's also canonically homophobic.

Hahaha, our conversation in London. That was the best ever. I'm not the one who actually thinks Miles is a good role model though.

[oliviacirce]

Right, but it is a buddy ship with implicit trust issues if it ever actually goes anywhere beyond canon, because, oh look, homophobia! All I am saying is that it fits your patterns.

I really do think that Miles is the best role model, it is just confusing because you are totally my Ellie Quinn. But actually, you are totally correct, because when it comes to relationship models I do not really follow Miles. I still don't want your mercenary fleet, though.

[epershand]

I will just have to give my mercenary fleet to Zombie Jeremy Bentham then.

[epershand]

Random thought: I've never actually seen any Hous/Jackson (Iackson!) fic. I act like I have read fic, but really all I have read is RL weepy poetry. Huh.

[epershand]

Oh, I think you can't edit comments if someone has already responded to them.