Any ship involving Damon Salvatore (tv version). Most people don't ship him the way that I do that I can tell. He's an awful person, and many fan portrayals soften him up too much. On the other hand, I really hate corruption stories that are treated like happy endings. If Elena, Bonnie, Alaric, or whoever ends up smiling approvingly as Damon remains gleefully murderous, I want to feel like something precious has been lost. I got no time for empty nihilism.
I ship Draco/Hermione as a dirty!wrong ship. I like Draco Malfoy as a spoiled, racist daddy's boy whose genuinely dangerous because he's easy to write off. I don't read any Draco/Hermione in the text of the books, but I tend to put bad boys and good girls together reflexively regardless of what the text says. Anyway, this is one that I read as a one-sided thing that drives Draco nuts while Hermion vaguely wonders why Malfoy is acting so odd. This ship works either as farce or d!w I don't find much of this in the seas of Draco/Hermione.
Boyd/Ava has d!w potential for me. I feel this works more with AUs than with canon which has been threading a particularly fine needle just beautifully for my money. Still, I keep formulating variations like Raylan doesn't shoot Tommy Bucks where things get dirty and wrong really fast.
My true dirty!wrong ship is from A Song of Ice and Fire. My super duper ultra guilty pleasure is Sandor/Sansa. He ... a hideously scarred henchman in his late twenties who likes killing and barely pubescent red heads. She ... a boy crazy goody two shoes who's about the most unpopular character in the series AND a barely pubescent red head. Oh yeah. This is the ship that hits all my twisted power imbalance buttons. I ship about a million other pairings in George R.R. Martin's universe, but this is the one that's sending me to hell. Of all my d!w ships, this is the one that I actively don't want to be canon. Part of it is the sheer wrongness, and the other part is that what I want (happiness! rainbows! babies!) would break a series I dearly love.
Most people don't ship him the way that I do that I can tell. He's an awful person, and many fan portrayals soften him up too much.
Agreed. And frankly, I think the show's writers help them there...
On the other hand, I really hate corruption stories that are treated like happy endings. If Elena, Bonnie, Alaric, or whoever ends up smiling approvingly as Damon remains gleefully murderous,
Agreed. Plus, it's completely out of character for whichever one of Damon's love interests you're using....
Anyway, this is one that I read as a one-sided thing that drives Draco nuts while Hermion vaguely wonders why Malfoy is acting so odd.
Ha ha! That is alway fun. You've seen this comic, right?
Simply Potterific 15 (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/28644730/) by *ktshy (http://ktshy.deviantart.com/) on deviant (http://www.deviantart.com)ART (http://www.deviantart.com)
I must admit, when I shipped Draco/Hermione I did it in the most Draco-in-leather-pants way possible. What can I say? I was a young, fannish newbie.
Boyd/Ava has d!w potential for me. I feel this works more with AUs than with canon which has been threading a particularly fine needle just beautifully for my money. Still, I keep formulating variations like Raylan doesn't shoot Tommy Bucks where things get dirty and wrong really fast.
Or setting it preseries. That's one way to exponentially up the creep factor.
As for ASoIaF.... everyone I know who's read those books is like, 'Sandor/Sansa....so wrong, and yet....' I read the first novel, so I saw it too.
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I ship Draco/Hermione as a dirty!wrong ship. I like Draco Malfoy as a spoiled, racist daddy's boy whose genuinely dangerous because he's easy to write off. I don't read any Draco/Hermione in the text of the books, but I tend to put bad boys and good girls together reflexively regardless of what the text says. Anyway, this is one that I read as a one-sided thing that drives Draco nuts while Hermion vaguely wonders why Malfoy is acting so odd. This ship works either as farce or d!w I don't find much of this in the seas of Draco/Hermione.
Boyd/Ava has d!w potential for me. I feel this works more with AUs than with canon which has been threading a particularly fine needle just beautifully for my money. Still, I keep formulating variations like Raylan doesn't shoot Tommy Bucks where things get dirty and wrong really fast.
My true dirty!wrong ship is from A Song of Ice and Fire. My super duper ultra guilty pleasure is Sandor/Sansa. He ... a hideously scarred henchman in his late twenties who likes killing and barely pubescent red heads. She ... a boy crazy goody two shoes who's about the most unpopular character in the series AND a barely pubescent red head. Oh yeah. This is the ship that hits all my twisted power imbalance buttons. I ship about a million other pairings in George R.R. Martin's universe, but this is the one that's sending me to hell. Of all my d!w ships, this is the one that I actively don't want to be canon. Part of it is the sheer wrongness, and the other part is that what I want (happiness! rainbows! babies!) would break a series I dearly love.
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Agreed. And frankly, I think the show's writers help them there...
On the other hand, I really hate corruption stories that are treated like happy endings. If Elena, Bonnie, Alaric, or whoever ends up smiling approvingly as Damon remains gleefully murderous,
Agreed. Plus, it's completely out of character for whichever one of Damon's love interests you're using....
Anyway, this is one that I read as a one-sided thing that drives Draco nuts while Hermion vaguely wonders why Malfoy is acting so odd.
Ha ha! That is alway fun. You've seen this comic, right?
Simply Potterific 15 (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/28644730/) by *ktshy (http://ktshy.deviantart.com/) on deviant (http://www.deviantart.com)ART (http://www.deviantart.com)
I must admit, when I shipped Draco/Hermione I did it in the most Draco-in-leather-pants way possible. What can I say? I was a young, fannish newbie.
Boyd/Ava has d!w potential for me. I feel this works more with AUs than with canon which has been threading a particularly fine needle just beautifully for my money. Still, I keep formulating variations like Raylan doesn't shoot Tommy Bucks where things get dirty and wrong really fast.
Or setting it preseries. That's one way to exponentially up the creep factor.
As for ASoIaF.... everyone I know who's read those books is like, 'Sandor/Sansa....so wrong, and yet....' I read the first novel, so I saw it too.