Oh, what the heck

[hedda62]

Comment with the name of a ship and I will explain why I ship it/don't ship it. Or, you know, am completely indifferent to its existence.


Person of Interest
Lost
Lewis
Vorkosigan Saga
Sherlock
White Collar
Castle
New Who
Firefly
Slings and Arrows, if I can remember enough
Buffy ditto
Orphan Black maybe
Cabin Pressure
Aubrey/Maturin series
anything else you know I missed...
ETA: The Good Wife (hadn't had caffeine yet)

Comments

[philomytha]

I can't decide between Miles/Gregor and Alicia/Kalinda, so take your pick :-)

[hedda62]

Oh, I can do both, why not.

Miles/Gregor I just have never seen the point of, though it's not like "get that away from me!" and I will read the fic. But Gregor is deeply pragmatic, and Miles, while prone to quixotic fits, would tend to shy violently away from a) anything that put him closer to the throne, b) anything that made his already-obvious vulnerabilities more subject to condemnation, and Barrayar is a seriously homophobic society - which, no, neither of them really buys into completely, having been educated by Cordelia after all, but they understand how most Barrayarans feel. Okay, if they were really truly hopelessly in love, then they'd both buck convention, but I don't see that either; they grew up practically as brothers and that's the relationship they have, at their best though not always. They range from fond of each other to ready to throw themselves in front of a nerve disruptor for each other (with frequent bouts of mutual irritation) but... well, obviously I'm blind to what some others see, but there it is.

Alicia/Kalinda: I think I ship this more in a theoretical sense than a real one, but it appeals to me in several ways. First, I think it's utterly cool that a femslash ship is the most popular in the fandom. Second, it fits very nicely into their character arcs because of the estrangement and the way they moved beyond it. Third, Kalinda is already canonically queer, and Alicia is... reluctantly adventurous, so it's not difficult to imagine something happening between them. And God knows Peter deserves it.

[philomytha]

I feel the same way about Miles/Gregor, but I thought I'd try you on it because I've seen more almost-UST between them in your fic than anywhere else ;-). Oddly, while Miles/Ivan would seem impossibly incestuous to me (not that that stops fandom, but it would bother me), Miles/Gregor doesn't feel quite like that even though they are foster-brothers and raised together.

Alicia/Kalinda - well, I feel that Kalinda has quite a crush on Alicia, but the extent to which Alicia reciprocates that ... well, she's good at keeping her cards close to her chest.

And for all that he deserves it, I can't help liking Peter a lot more than Will.

[hedda62]

I can make it work in my head that Miles and Gregor had a brief... thing, of the holy-shit-oops variety, when they were young (although when exactly is hard, because by the time Miles was old enough Gregor was old enough to know better), and that's what I'm playing with in the UST moments, I think. I almost wrote it into the Gregor/Ekaterin story, but I just can't quite go there.

I can't help liking Peter a lot more than Will

Me too. See below. :)