Ship-shape and bristle fasion

[jack]

Gakked from Senji, just because:

1. Comment with any ship from a fandom[1] that I have some knowledge about, or want to introduce me to.

2. I will ramble for 100 words about aforementioned ship. Or maybe even drabble! This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.

3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

[1] Or cambridge housemates :)

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

ships, I thought. Why ships? There was "Troy", that had a ship in. I suppose Harry Potter had ships in. The boats they got across the lake, and the one the Durmstrang students arrived in. Seems odd, though...

So I clicked on senji, and then on the thread he mentioned. Is it just short for "relationship"? How many people can be involved? Can boats be involved? If I put on a really dodgy accent can I make a terrible pun involving sheep?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Perhaps this was aimed too much at the slashers I know. 'Shipper' roughly means 'someone (usually fanfic author or at least reader) who wants to see a relationship between foo characters in bar fiction'. And often writes fic about it :) You can say what you like, though accents on lj are always difficult to do :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

well, I was thinking along the (harry potter) lines of a sheeeeep coming between veeeektor and 'erm-own-neeeeeeeny...

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

Spike/Angel! *evil grin*

Um, can I be sarcastic and say something like HMS Victory/The Fighting Temeraire?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Did you gack that from senji's page too? OK, Spike/Angel is strange because everyone seems to put Spike first. Spike is obviously wonderful, but by the time of the series I'd say Angel was more proactive. Spike tried, but it never came to anything, whereas Angel, despite much angsting, generally comes out on top[1].

It's an obvious pairing because they're the two strongest male leads in the show, and indeed it can cover only limited amounts of screen time in the show before it overwhelms it, because their antagonism is so strong. And they're always the foil for the other two: anyone investigating Spike's soul will talk about Angel's, and vice versa.

I once planned to write a Spike/Angel fic, partly because I thought Pippa might enjoy it :) but it was very difficult to make it at all plausible. The only way I could imagine was to take it back in time to when Dru and Spike captured Angel in s2, and have Dru instigate it. And even then I could barely imagine more than kissing. Without the stick of holy water I just can't imagine these too going for each other (though I'm sure there's fanfic which will prove me wrong). So in summary, slash is hard enough[1], but I don't think ship is possible.

[1] Pun intended.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Um, can I be sarcastic and say something like HMS Victory/The Fighting Temeraire?

You could have, but Mair beat you to it. Sorry :)