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Although if you divided all my favorite pairings into types they would be pretty overwhelmingly slash, I actually like het, femslash, and various OT3's sometimes too. My favorite slash pairing at the moment is overwhelmingly Jim/Artie from The Wild Wild West, and since I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that in about half these posts, I'm just going to talk about my favorite het and femslash pairings, and my favorite OT3 instead.
My favorite het ship at the moment, as we discussed on "Day 20", is Belle/Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon a Time. See, when I first found out that fanfiction was a thing I was reading het- but not canon het. I liked May/December type relationships and good girl/emo bad boy type relationships. I just dipped my toe into slash at first- only reading teen rated or lower- and when I finally dove in it was sort of an accident- somebody hadn't labeled their NC-17 fic very well, or at all- but to continue with the metaphor I never really planned to swim back after I decided I liked the waters- but every once and a while I'll find a pairing that so perfectly hits all those old buttons that it resets me to factory settings. Rumbelle is such a ship. In the name of all the tragic ships I've liked before it and never seen come to fruition, I really hope this one ends in happily ever after.
My favorite femslash is definitely Myka Bering/"H.G." Wells from Warehouse 13. Femslash can be sort of thin on the ground unless you're dealing with a girl powered show like Once Upon a Time- otherwise, even when there is a femslash pairing there will usually also be a great big slash one there to distract me with pretty (case in point? Stargate SG-1). But Myka/H.G. sort of is the slash pairing of Warehouse 13, and it had me from all the longing glances and that bit with H.G. saving Myka by carrying her away with grappling gun. Dreamy sigh. And then Joanne Kelly went and told everybody that she was playing Myka as in love with H.G., so on top of everything else my pairing was telling me, for once, that I wasn't crazy to see all the chemistry I saw.
My favorite OT3 is Ava/Boyd/Raylan from Justified. I took a lot longer to warm up to the idea of an OT3 than a slash pairing. Eliot/Parker/Hardison from Leverage held my hand through the transition, and I maintain that the show had to end when it did, or the writers would have had to admit that that OT3 was happening, and most Americans aren't ready for that. I still love it, but I like Ava/Boyd/Raylan best. I didn't really like Ava with Raylan when that was a thing, and though I like Boyd and Ava together I was honestly so astonished that they were even speaking to each other that I didn't really notice they were falling in love until it had already happened, so I can't rightly say I was shipping that either- and though Boyd/Raylan really should be a perfect slash ship for me, it just didn't really work. Boyd and Raylan have such a complex dynamic that slash writers are often in danger of undercutting everything that makes it great by making it about sex instead. So though I'll enjoy a Justified fic about pretty much any pairing- or no pairing at all- if it's well written, I had trouble finding something I would really call a ship. But when I discovered this OT3, it all came together. All the components that never really worked for me on their own jelled into awesomeness. It's really perfect.
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that needs more viewers
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired THIS TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Although if you divided all my favorite pairings into types they would be pretty overwhelmingly slash, I actually like het, femslash, and various OT3's sometimes too. My favorite slash pairing at the moment is overwhelmingly Jim/Artie from The Wild Wild West, and since I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that in about half these posts, I'm just going to talk about my favorite het and femslash pairings, and my favorite OT3 instead.
My favorite het ship at the moment, as we discussed on "Day 20", is Belle/Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon a Time. See, when I first found out that fanfiction was a thing I was reading het- but not canon het. I liked May/December type relationships and good girl/emo bad boy type relationships. I just dipped my toe into slash at first- only reading teen rated or lower- and when I finally dove in it was sort of an accident- somebody hadn't labeled their NC-17 fic very well, or at all- but to continue with the metaphor I never really planned to swim back after I decided I liked the waters- but every once and a while I'll find a pairing that so perfectly hits all those old buttons that it resets me to factory settings. Rumbelle is such a ship. In the name of all the tragic ships I've liked before it and never seen come to fruition, I really hope this one ends in happily ever after.
My favorite femslash is definitely Myka Bering/"H.G." Wells from Warehouse 13. Femslash can be sort of thin on the ground unless you're dealing with a girl powered show like Once Upon a Time- otherwise, even when there is a femslash pairing there will usually also be a great big slash one there to distract me with pretty (case in point? Stargate SG-1). But Myka/H.G. sort of is the slash pairing of Warehouse 13, and it had me from all the longing glances and that bit with H.G. saving Myka by carrying her away with grappling gun. Dreamy sigh. And then Joanne Kelly went and told everybody that she was playing Myka as in love with H.G., so on top of everything else my pairing was telling me, for once, that I wasn't crazy to see all the chemistry I saw.
My favorite OT3 is Ava/Boyd/Raylan from Justified. I took a lot longer to warm up to the idea of an OT3 than a slash pairing. Eliot/Parker/Hardison from Leverage held my hand through the transition, and I maintain that the show had to end when it did, or the writers would have had to admit that that OT3 was happening, and most Americans aren't ready for that. I still love it, but I like Ava/Boyd/Raylan best. I didn't really like Ava with Raylan when that was a thing, and though I like Boyd and Ava together I was honestly so astonished that they were even speaking to each other that I didn't really notice they were falling in love until it had already happened, so I can't rightly say I was shipping that either- and though Boyd/Raylan really should be a perfect slash ship for me, it just didn't really work. Boyd and Raylan have such a complex dynamic that slash writers are often in danger of undercutting everything that makes it great by making it about sex instead. So though I'll enjoy a Justified fic about pretty much any pairing- or no pairing at all- if it's well written, I had trouble finding something I would really call a ship. But when I discovered this OT3, it all came together. All the components that never really worked for me on their own jelled into awesomeness. It's really perfect.
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
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Date: 2014-02-06 11:52 pm (UTC)