Poll #6: Shipping

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[Poll #937345]

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[ros-fod.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

*eats popcorn and refreshes*

[minim_calibre]

It scares me that my Farscape OTP has, in canon, EVERYTHING but the herpes.

EVERYTHING.

ALL OF IT.

INCLUDING SPACESHIPS.

MANY, MANY SPACESHIPS.

And that in my one Farscape fic, they didn't do anything, because it was Just John Angsting.

John/Aeryn: Who Needs Claddaugh Rings When You Can Share Weapons?

[violaclaire.livejournal.com]

. . . My answers make not so much sense because most of my OTPs are text-based, and I can never get a good picture of the characters when I read--I shipped Luthe/Aerin for years, and all I know about their looks is that Aerin has red hair.

Also, did you see this? (http://robinmckinley.com/) Because . . . there are dragons! And storytelling! And general awesomeness! Squee eleventy!

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

I think maybe I'm too odd for this poll. Or have too many prefences. Which are, I think, shifting somewhat to complicate matter further.

For the record, I filled the poll out for Faith/Dean, who have never even shared screentime, so.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I kept answering, "None fit." There are definitely patterns in the way I ship, just not hair patterns. The "relative size" question was actually the only one I could have answered with some consistency, if only you had included, "big or small, but more or less equal," but even then...le'see...

Buffy/Spike: blond/blond, short/short, good/redeemed, young & stupid/old & stupid, notably antagonistic at some point in relationship
Aragorn/Arwen: dark/dark, 6'+/6'+, good/good, young & wise/old & wise
Thomas Mendip/Jennet Jourdemayne: ?/?, ?/?, good/good, young & smart/young & smart
Neville/Draco: brown/blond, [tall in my fanon]/tall, good/redeemable, young/young
Harry/Draco: dark/blond, [tall in my fanon, because they must be nose to nose, as adults]/tall, good/redeemable, young & stupid/young & stupid, notably antagonistic at some point in relationship
Ellen Fanshaw/Geoffrey Tennant: reddish brown/dark, tall/taller, middle-aged & fucked up/middle-aged & bonkers, notably antagonistic at some point in relationship
Roland Mitchell/Maud Bailey: dark/light, short/tall, youngish & smart/youngish & smart
Elizabeth/Darcy: [dark honey-blonde, in my head]/dark, ?/tall, young & smart/young & smart, notably antagonistic at some point in relationship

The single constant in my OTPing seems to be that all these people have something vital to teach their other halves. Lessons may involve a lot of squawking and snarking. Certain equalities are important to me -- not necessarily age, but experience, or ability to process experience.

You have noticed that H/D = B/S, ja? *cackle*

[lynnenne]

Now I must find out who Stoney ships me with.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

This poll made me nostalgic.

Or maybe it was hormones.

Either way. Nostalgic. *nod*

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I couldn't answer most of this poll. **sobs hysterically**

I find JM/Spike hot on occasion but my normal respinse is not damp panties. My normal response is Oh, he's obviously standing on a box again, you wee little thing. And sometimes my response is have you registered those cheekbones as a weapon? Eat something, already.

I don't have a lot of OTPs. For example, over on BSG, I really don't care who's boffing who. Although Helo & Sharon are cute together.

For me, OTPs arise from whether the couple makes each other better people and, just as important, happier. I do not go for couples that are long term destructive to each other, hence my apathy toward Apollo/Starbuck. They're a train wreck.

So, my OTPs: Buffy/Angel - tiny/huge, blonde/dark, hero/hero, superpowered/superpowered, young/really old

Barbara Gordon (Oracle, formally Batgirl)/Dick Grayson (Nightwing, formally Robin) - tall (5'11")/average (5'10"), redhead/dark, hero/hero, crippled/normal, older (by about 5 years)/younger

Clark Kent (Superman)/Lois Lane (This refers to the comics) tall/medium, dark/dark, hero/morally upstanding, superpowerd (nonhuman)/normal, about the same age.

The only consistency I see is I have a thing for dark haired, very buff guys. Which I already knew.

24. ACK. You'll likely see a recap tomorrow. Part of was lack of time. But a bigger part was the show was making me physically ill, so I could barely watch it, let alone write about it. But I'll talk about that tomorrow.

Hopefully you still love me.

[my_daroga]

God, I love you SO HARD. Seriously.

But when are you coming over to see how big my ASS really is and realize I'm not so weensy?

Anyway, some clarification, though I may be incoherent from laughter.

I don't really feel like I OTP a lot. I mean, I'll read anything good, though all things being equal I'll lean towards Buffy/Spike (but did you notice I answered "Spike is hot and JM's not"?). But I don't think it's indicative of anything. Because in POTO, I'll read anything good. And mostly anything good requires people NOT getting along, because it only makes sense. So in the questions about "my OTP" I answered for Erik/Persian.

What I'm saying is that lots of the options didn't seem to apply. When I can't see him, I'll even read DB.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Is Cordelia petite?

I dunno. Next to Angel, sure. By herself, not so much.

God. I don't know how to answer that question.

*frets*

[canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com]

Make more polls, plz. kthx.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

I mostly filled it out according to S/A, but I may not have been completely consistent. I think I have too many OTPs . . .

[rahirah]

Huh. So I'm counting all the ElfQuest pairings I wrote back in the day, which all involve original ageless characters of every hair color and size differential imaginable (because after crash landing on the primitive magic-dampening human-infested planet, the elves shrunk, generation by generation, from about six feet to about four feet tall, but they were pretty much immortal, so you could have a six-foot firstcomer sexing up a four-foot tenth-generation elf if you wanted) and none of them owned claddaugh rings.

So I'm thinking I kinda skew the answers.

[anelith.livejournal.com]

The question I thought most illuminating for ME was the one about "in CANON, these two characters have...," which showed just how much I like my pairings to hate each other -- to start out. Of course, that's just traditional romance fun, isn't it? Every Harlequin romance ever written begins that way. I guess I haven't changed much from my preteen days. How sad.

I think most pairings I enjoy reading are "one character good/one character bad/reformed/on-the-way-to-being-reformed." I still like the bad boys (in fantasyland). Again, I haven't changed. Damn, I am so immature.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that there's some anti-OTP glee in my soul that mine had canonical herpes? Or at least half of it had oral herpes.

HRG is awesome (and attractive)

[imnotacommittee.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who feels that way? Or dare I hope to think you feel that way too?

[romanyg.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, I am weeks behind!

This was fun but a bit difficult to answer since I have more than one OTP. Even with just the two main OTPs, not everything applied.

Although I did pick Clark/Lex for the 'in canon' portion because they HAVE had a CHILD together IN CANON (comics)! Genetic engineering, ain't it grand? Whee!

And my weensiness made your poll. This makes me grin.

[suspiria-1.livejournal.com]

Seems like finding Spike hot but not James is the "it" thing to do these days. So it was just the bleached hair and personality that did it? If the rest of him is so unattractive to most people, then where did all this fuss about his bones and eyes come from? It couldn't have just been me. LOL *scratches head*

[zibbycomix.livejournal.com]

That was fun! I suspect that I am easily entertained. =P =)