I Took My Last Sip Of Water Aboard A Very Tall Ship

[redbrunja]

gacked from leobrat and earnmysong:

Please ask me questions about my OTPs in the comments! Any questions! All questions! Deep questions! Silly questions! Ship questions. (It doesn't even really have to be OTPs. Basically, anything you know I have ever shipped. And maybe even anything I haven't. And, let's be serious, I could talk about certain adorable dorks for freaking ever, so let me do that. Okay? Okay.)

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[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Do you have a favorite comics canon ship?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I realize that Jess/Carol is not canon, but only after that was my first, instinctive, thought.

I don’t think I have one?

I’d say Bucky/Natasha, but I really resent how that romance ended.

There are other based in comics ships I like (Lois/Clark, Batman/Catwoman) but I didn’t fall for them because of comics.

[errant-shadows.livejournal.com]

What do you think makes Felicity and Oliver work as a couple? (Or will, once the show gets them there...)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Jenny Crusie laid out why Felicity/Oliver works with great articulation here. (http://www.arghink.com/2013/07/19/the-felicity-smoak-problem/)

To be frank, though, choices the show is making with Felicity and Oliver combined with fandom wallowing in the elements of that ship that I find the most problematic is in the process of killing my love for the ship.

At this point, if I could make any ship on that show canon, I’d make Felicity/Sara canon. Similar dynamic to Oliver and Felicity, without any of the frustratingly traditional gender dynamics.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Not an OTP question, but:

Sell me on Arrow and Teen Wolf. I mean, I know what I see on tumblr is a bit distorted, but I'd like to know how much. It doesn't have to be long or full of gifs, I just want to know what I am getting in to, because I don't want my expectations to be all weird.

OR

Leverage.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I am the wrong person to sell you on arrow, as I’ve quit the show several times and my love is currently in a severe lull. (Despite the recent one-episode canon lesbian romance between two assassins.) Even when I am full of love for the show, it’s not one I feel comfortable recommending to other people.

Speaking personally, I’d love it if more people were watching Teen Wolf. The pluses: good characters, hot actors, a notable amount of female-oriented fanservice. A hero who’s superpower is kindess. Lady friendships. Great mother-son relationship. The show has moments when it does really great things with regards to its female characters and homosexuality, but it also has storytelling choices (especially related to women who die versus men who live) that are enraging. The other downside is that the show does not get decent until the end of the first season (twelve episodes). From there, though, it’s only gotten better and better.

The biggest warning I can give you about TW, especially if you’re following my tumblr, is that it’s not going to be as lady-centric as my tumblr tag would lead you to believe.

I feel that it is most likely you will like Leverage. The basic premise is that each episode is a robin-hood heist – an ensemble team (again, this show has great characters*) cons a bad guy the law can’t touch, FOR JUSTICE. (Stand out characters for me are the hot, geeky, black tech specialist and the odd,

Again, great characters, and what sets this apart Arrow and Teen wolf is that you don’t have to wait for the show to get good – you start the pilot episode, and you’re probably going to be entertained from the first scene.

Now I’m curious about what Arrow and Leverage and Teen Wolf are in your head, having only (I presume) know them from tumblr.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant tell me your OTP from Leverage. I have seen the whole thing several times. :)

Arrow takes place in Vancouver, where Prettier Chris O'Donnell and his police officer friend somehow hire a hacker and they...have a really cool headquarters with a salmon run? They touch a lot. It's "platonic", and occasionally ladies from his past show up and are evil (or at least ambiguous). Also something about an island. I think this is a Green Arrow reboot.

Teen Wolf I literally have no idea. Martouf-from-SG1 is very strict. Everyone is very pretty. Occasionally there is murder.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay, completely misunderstood your question.

My Leverage OTP is Parker/Hardison. Hands down, all other OTPs need not apply.

One of my frustrations with the fandom is that everyone seems to think that Parker/Hardison is the exact same thing as Parker/Hardison/Eliot.

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

What turns you off a ship you'd previously shipped (if anything?)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Problematic/conservative gender dynamics in fandom or the show (Belle/Rumpelstiltsen; Felicity/Oliver), attempted rape (Buffy/Spike), being a rapist (Damon/Elena), being horrible people that I hate (Damon/Elena, Damon/Elena/Stefan).

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

Characters from comics that you like more in their movies and/or vice versa?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Characters from comics that you like more in their movies and/or vice versa?

All of them.

vice versa?

None.