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

Re: from Marjorie

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I'm trying this now.

(It was Melville's house, for the record. I remember because I sent a souvenir magnet to my Melville teacher, not because anything the tour guide said had anything to do with Melville.)

Re: from Marjorie

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Oh, right, it was! I thought that it might be, but I have been to so many Hawthorne houses it seemed more likely that it was another one of those...

Re: from Marjorie

[eccentric_hat]

This comment doesn't seem to have been e-mailed to me. Hm.

I can't remember if you read Hawthorne's Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny? It's basically a very short journal of a time when H. was left alone at home with his son. Melville shows up once or twice and they have conversations. It's not really all that exciting, but it is kinda neat.

Re: from Marjorie

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Try playing around with your settings. IIRC, you have to add an email address to an Open Id account, and you can also do things like creating a friends list and maybe even uploading icons?

Sad fact: I have only read "Young Goodman Brown" and the introduction to The Scarlet Letter. And I haven't read any Melville. I've been thinking about seeking out their correspondence, but Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny sounds really interesting too.

Re: from Marjorie

[eccentric_hat]

I don't seem to have settings? I'll stop bothering you about this, though, as it isn't terribly important.

I haven't read even the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, so I think we're about even on Hawthorne reading--Twenty Days counts in my mind as half a book, maybe.

Re: Melville, you haven't read Bartleby the Scrivener? I thought we had a conversation about that book once. But then I haven't read it, either, so that doesn't mean much. Moby-Dick is certainly worth reading. It's long and sometimes it's powerfully boring, and it's really really masculine, and people who love it tend to have had teachers who loved it, but in addition to all those things it's really pretty awesome. Also, there is Ahab's Wife, which in my heart of hearts I love more than Moby-Dick itself...

Re: from Marjorie

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Bartleby the Scrivener was staged by another student in the class where Ariel staged Flying Lessons. It was a very literal translation to play, though. It's as though I watched a staged reading where one person was the narrator and other people voiced the other characters.