Meme - various associated things

[timepiececlock]

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.


irrel gave me:

1. Zutara
2. BrOTP
3. Doctor Who
4. Farscape (don't spoil meeee)
5. Harry Potter


1. Katara/Zuko
I love this pairing, still do. I haven't written fic in eight months since the finale, but my love is still strong. I'm just taking a while to come around, so to speak. But it's probably the pairing I've written the most fanfic for and definitely the pairing I've gotten the most positive fic response for. Say what you want about the fandom, but don't ever doubt the kindness of ATLA fic reviewers. Very generous folk, easy to please, and quite encouraging. Also, I'd like to say that modding katara_zuko is something I've always been proud of, because we're an island of sanity in this fandom.

2. BrOTP
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. OMG, I love this season so much! It's so wonderful when it feels like the writers of a show and the fans of the show are on the same side, wanting the same OTP. I say this with only having seen aired eps, absolutely no spoilers. I've just felt--ever since the season started--that things were going to be legendary. I need to write more fic for these two cats.

3. Doctor Who
I'm a die-hard Doctor/Rose shipper in any incarnation or reTeneration. I adore them, and all their flaws and imperfections. I haven't seen Planet of the Dead, but I will tonight. I am feeling the slow onset of regeneration angst again...it's been four years since last time.

4. Farscape (don't spoil meeee)
Unspoilery: This is the angsty, dramatic, funny, bizarre space opera that makes me happy and hopeful instead of depressed and lonely. I want Aeryn to be my sister, and I want to give Crichton a thousand hugs (my poor, tortured Crichton!) I want to run around an alien planet with Chiana, Rygel, and D'Argo...because that would be the most exciting thing ever. In fact, given a choice between the crew of Moya accidentally destroying a planet and The Doctor accidentally saving a planet, I cringe to say it but I think the Moya crew might be more fun. Of course, the Doctor would also love them, so really, a crossover is the way to go.

5. Harry Potter
I still ship H/L, I liked movie 5 the best, I can't wait for movie 6, and it's taken five movies for me to finally accept Daniel Radcliffe as Harry. I accept him now as movie!Harry, but he's not and never will be the Harry I read in the books. On the other hand, Michael Gambon is totally Dumbledore. He's a better Dumbledore than the late Mr. Harris ever was, may he RIP. Oh, and another thing: I adored Neville in the last couple books, he was one of my favorite characters, and I almost wish the entire series had been about him. Plus, I think he and Ginny had this awesomely sad love affair in book 7 while Harry was off on his Magical Monster Easter Egg Hunt. Why hasn't anyone written the epic tale of Hogwarts during the year that wasn't?

Oh, and more people should have died. MORE PEOPLE. A LOT FUCKING MORE. *cough* That's just my opinion.

Comments

[mekosuchinae.livejournal.com]

Plus, I think he and Ginny had this awesomely sad love affair in book 7 while Harry was off on his Magical Monster Easter Egg Hunt. Why hasn't anyone written the epic tale of Hogwarts during the year that wasn't?

Yesssss omg Neville/Ginny makes me ridiculously happy inside. And yes, it is ABSURD how few decent fics there are out there about Neville and Ginny and Luna being awesome at Hogwarts while the Trio is out camping for like five hundred damn pages.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why people haven't written that fanfic yet. Even from a canon pairings focus! It's so weird to me, because HP is like Naruto and Doctor Who fandoms...in a time when most fandoms tend to produce one-shots and drabble based fanfics, they're still chugging out 80,000 word epics across the board, like it was 2001 or something. So how is it that no one seems to have written what should be such an OBVIOUS fill-in-canon epic?

And, you know, if it had Ginny/Neville it'd be three times as hot. Forbidden love! The lust that comes while fighting for your lives together! Rebellion! ....t'would be awesome.


1. Avatar:TLA
2. Disney movies
3. kataang
4. princess tutu
5. capslock

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Barney/Robin! Doctor Who! Harry/Luna!! When did we get so many interests in common? :D

Do me?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Barney/Robin! Doctor Who! Harry/Luna!! When did we get so many interests in common?

H/L??? I feel like every time I've found someone else who ships them it's a thing to get super-excited about and maybe giggle a bit. I haven't been active in the fandom for a while, but I used to be regular fic-writer for the pairing at The Pit and fictionalley.

1. Doctor Who
2. Rose/Ten
3. fanfiction
4. Barney/Robin
5. ship squee any time, every time!

[the-spin.livejournal.com]

2, 3, and 4 are like some of my favorite things in the Universe! A DW/Farscape crossover would be epic; you are so right that the Doctor (Ten especially) would absolutely delight in that crew. UGH FARSCAPE, WHY SO GOOD?

And I so agree on the Barney/Robin front! I feel like I've never had so much faith in showrunners not to break my heart before, and it's a really nice feeling. I've never been so simultaneously excited for and relaxed about where a ship is going.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

UGH FARSCAPE, WHY SO GOOD?

UGH, FARSCAPE, WHY DID THEY CANCEL ON US? WE COULDA HAD TWO MORE SEASONS??!?!

I feel like I've never had so much faith in showrunners not to break my heart before, and it's a really nice feeling. I've never been so simultaneously excited for and relaxed about where a ship is going.

I know. I've been in a variety of fandoms and shipdoms, and I generally settle on a few interpretations of how I read two characters in canon:

a. I ship them but I don't expect them to get together in canon (Sheldon/Penny)
b. I ship them but their getting together in canon is questionable (Katara/Zuko)
c. I don't particularly ship them, but I expect them to get together in canon because it seems to make sense in the story (Harry/Luna, at first)
d. I ship them, canon ships them, everyone is happy (Robin/Barney, Booth/Brennan, Doctor/Rose)

I've been tripped up by option C a few times, such as with Harry Potter, when the direction I expected them to go was just not the way they went, for reasons that left me questioning my literary analysis skills to see how badly I'd misread something that I thought was obvious. Other times, like with option A, I'm comfortable in knowing I don't have to stress.

Option D, like with BroTP, is such a treat because I feel like I can just let go, enjoy, and trust that the show understands the pairing and loves them as much as I do.


1. Doctor Who
2. in-character Barney fic
3. Farscape (now!)
4. Barney/Robin
5. Arrested Development

[gojira007.livejournal.com]

Mind doing me?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

1. Avatar: TLA
2. Sonic the Hedgehog
3. LJ newbie
4. fanfiction
5. zutara

[irrel.livejournal.com]

I think BrOTP is going to have to be named The Best TV Pairing Ever. It's that epic!

DW: I have to watch the new Doctor Who too! But I think I'll watch Farscape instead...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

1. fanart
2. Zuko/Katara
3. boredom texting
4. Dr. Horrible
5. Disneyland!

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

This is a cool meme! Do me please?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

1. anime in general
2. FMA
3. people I know through/around octopedingenue and about 54 others
4. Princess Tutu
5. books

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

No one has written the epic tale because they don't have the time?

of course I would have to write my Draco/Ginny fic first as well. Hah like that's ever happening.

hit me baby one more time.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

1. fanfiction
2. Katara/Zuko (rain & tea leaves!)
3. KakaSaku
4. Harry Potter
5. poetry

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, and more people should have died. MORE PEOPLE. A LOT FUCKING MORE. *cough* That's just my opinion.

Agreed. Although the Lupin/Tonks relationship and their death was so fucking wrong on so many levels.

[oyster-district.livejournal.com]

Word.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

see below for comments. =)

want the meme?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Although the Lupin/Tonks relationship and their death was so fucking wrong on so many levels.

Say que? I never understood why so many fans seemed to have hair-raising shitfreaks over that pairing. Granted, I'm not a slasher so I didn't have my pairing stomped on by canon...but I guess I never paid much attention to their characters, for good or ill. I thought it was kind of sweet, and I liked that by introducing it as out of left field just highlighted how narrow Harry's world view is, and that the books are about him and his experiences, so of course there's stuff going on around him he's not privy to.

Their death was pretty irritating, though. I can think of a lot of characters I'd rather had died more than them. I still can't believe Ron didn't bite it. No way Harry should get to keep BOTH his best friends AND his girlfriend AND all his body parts intact.

want the meme?

When I stop shipping when my pairing becomes canon, you're doing it wrong.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, you know me, so it totally wasn't that I was upset about Lupin/Black.

Actually, I totally shipped them in OoTP. I just got really, really frustrated by Tonks being so depressed about Lupin (yes, there was a war going on, but her depression is presented as solely because of boy trouble, plus it ties into problems I had later). I disliked that Lupin didn't seem invested in the relationship until there was a kid (and Harry was right to yell at him for leaving his pregnant wife - that said, I was really disappointed in Lupin for offering). I hated that they both died (it was both trite and unromantic, imho), and I was frustrated that when we see Tonks rushing off to battle not in the context of 'she's an auror, there's a battle on' but 'I must find my man!' To sum up, that was my whole problem: Tonks got downgraded from a capable auror to Lupin's girlfriend, and Lupin turned into Sasuke.

I still can't believe Ron didn't bite it. No way Harry should get to keep BOTH his best friends AND his girlfriend AND all his body parts intact.

Agreed. And thank you, but no. I've done this before and I'm rather busy at the moment.

Re: When I stop shipping when my pairing becomes canon, you're doing it wrong.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

yes! that's like, all my problems with Lupin/Tonks, because it was SUCH AN AWESOME SHIP until it--wasn't. (well, the whole "I don't care" thing was awesome, in a REMUS. GET OVER IT. way.) But the whole abandoning her thing? Lame. Also confusing.

I liked that by introducing it as out of left field just highlighted how narrow Harry's world view is, and that the books are about him and his experiences, so of course there's stuff going on around him he's not privy to.

and really, that stuff is what all those epic fanfics should be about. Instead of Draco doing Harry. Or vice versa.

Re: When I stop shipping when my pairing becomes canon, you're doing it wrong.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

But the whole abandoning her thing? Lame. Also confusing.

Yes. It was utter reverse character growth.