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peroxidepirateI'm sure I'm on record somewhere, saying I'm not an OTP sort of girl. I was probably a little self-righteous when I said it. Sorry about that.
Here's the thing: I see possibility everywhere. That's the fun of fandom, the fun of characters, the fun of writing. Everything's wide open, if you want it to be, and I can almost always see more than one option.
But... if I think about it, there are a few cases where I can't. Or maybe I still see a lot of options, but all the good ones involve the same two people being together. If the characters in question are both alive and of sound mind, and past the point in their personal timelines when they first get together, I can't picture a situation where either of them would be happier or better off if they weren't together. Unless I'm forgetting somebody, I've got four:
Alanna and George
Jack and Ianto
Lark and Rosethorn
Zoe and Wash
... which, unintentionally, is a very tidy demographic cross-section. Huh.
But I'm not big on shipping any of those pairings, exactly, because the very truth of One True Pairing makes it less interesting to write. And they're all canon pairings, so it's not like I'd have to find a way to get them together. So no, I won't write loads of fic for any of them (and what I do will probably bethreesome fic anyway exploring what went, or could have gone, wrong). I'm happy just to know they are there, sometimes in the background of things, presumably being shmoopy and adorable and sexy and generally happy, together. I'm gonna ignore the part where some of them are dead.
Um, Buffy and Spike aren't on the list. In season 7, I love them together and I ship them so hard, and that Buffy and that Spike do, for sure, belong together. But that's only if they can keep from treating each other as badly as they did earlier. There's a strong possibility that they could be great together, so I ship it. But there's also, in my mind, a possibility of something else -- so it doesn't make the list.
Here's the thing: I see possibility everywhere. That's the fun of fandom, the fun of characters, the fun of writing. Everything's wide open, if you want it to be, and I can almost always see more than one option.
But... if I think about it, there are a few cases where I can't. Or maybe I still see a lot of options, but all the good ones involve the same two people being together. If the characters in question are both alive and of sound mind, and past the point in their personal timelines when they first get together, I can't picture a situation where either of them would be happier or better off if they weren't together. Unless I'm forgetting somebody, I've got four:
Alanna and George
Jack and Ianto
Lark and Rosethorn
Zoe and Wash
... which, unintentionally, is a very tidy demographic cross-section. Huh.
But I'm not big on shipping any of those pairings, exactly, because the very truth of One True Pairing makes it less interesting to write. And they're all canon pairings, so it's not like I'd have to find a way to get them together. So no, I won't write loads of fic for any of them (and what I do will probably be
Um, Buffy and Spike aren't on the list. In season 7, I love them together and I ship them so hard, and that Buffy and that Spike do, for sure, belong together. But that's only if they can keep from treating each other as badly as they did earlier. There's a strong possibility that they could be great together, so I ship it. But there's also, in my mind, a possibility of something else -- so it doesn't make the list.
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Date: 2010-09-29 01:12 am (UTC)LOL, Daleks building the Empire State building. I have to see this. *resolves to watch moar later*