swim through the fires to stay in this world

I was thinking about Artemis/Wally (as one does, when an OTP rises from the depth of your soul to torment you once again) and I feel the reasons why Artemis is into Wally are:

a.) really obvious and
b.) often talked about

(the creator himself did a damn fine of job, although I think he's underplaying how much Artemis replacing Roy, even though Roy quit first is a legit issue)

but the reasons why Wally is into Artemis are talked about less often. I know it’s tempting to go ‘of course he loves, Artemis, who wouldn’t?’ and while that’s true, don’t get me wrong, that’s not going to lead to a tl;dr shipper post, now is it?

The thing is, Artemis makes Wally better. The flip side of Wally almost giving Artemis as good as he gets is the fact that he has to try – with Artemis, Wally has to bring his A game (both with wise-cracking and with super-heroing). Additionally, Artemis’ own backstory and how that affects her actions (that she lies to the Team to protect her secrets, the fights with Chesire and Sportsmaster) tie into Wally’s arc, which is about becoming not smarter, but wiser. (E.g, how Wally’s souvenirs are about the deeper lesson of a mission, how he will consciously choose what Aesop he’s taking away from each mission. Best example of this is him choosing the cooler that held a girl’s heart over the villain’s sword.)

And now I’m getting sad, once again, that we didn’t get to see more of Wally and Artemis in a committed relationship. (Okay, basically, I buy Artemis and Wally taking a break from super-heroing to get their degrees, but I don’t buy, short of some kind of epic tragedy, them both deciding to quit on a more permanent basis, which is kind of what the dialogue strongly implied and which I am not okay with for several reasons.)

The fanfic I just posted is the first and thus far only Slade/Shado fic on A03.

Fingers crossed that Yuletide changes that.

Also, please enjoy this delightful video of some great Felicity/Oliver moments:



And finally, these two gifsets make it really hard for me to think of Sara Lance as 100% straight.

When Sara first showed up in Star City, I loved that Felicity not only pointed out that Oliver was cheating on Laurel with her and that that’s something that no one ever mentions (anymore). It makes me really want to read a Felicity/Oliver fic where Oliver is into dating Felicity and Felicity is like, ‘your love life is a dumpster fire, Oliver, you’re just going to cheat on me and break my heart.’

Basically, I’d love a fic that deals with Felicity having really serious reservations about being with Oliver and seeing that play out.

I would also be down with Felicity and Sara making out. Sara thinks Felicity is cute! Felicity totally saw Sara’s tits and shared clothing with her! I could go for it.

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Also, this rule!63 Damian/Stephanie fanart came across my dash:


and oh my god YES.

Give me haughty, violent, half-arab assassin princess x cheerful, indefatigable college guy!

I did not know how desperately I needed this until now.

It’s like five billion of my favorite tropes! Violent girl x emotionally open guy! Older guy/younger girl! Defrosting the ice queen! *makes grabby hands at the universe*

This is so fucking true.

One of the most brutal for me was Dov/Gail, on Rookie Blue. I'm quote to quote you something I wrote years ago and then didn't use for the 30 days of shippping wrong meme:

Every episode of rookie blue I watch, I am kind of waiting for Gail and Dov to GO THERE. Dov loves Gail's mean side and is pretty much the only character on the show who snarks back at her. One of the pleasures of watching these two characters is that they will do both the zingers and the quieter moments - I'm thinking of Dov sweetly and non judgmentally explaining what was going on with Chris to Gail or Gail snarkily but kindly calling Dov on the fact that whatever weirdshit he's doing with x and y, one or both of them is going to get hurt, so he needs to figure out where and what his priorities are. AND THEN THERE WAS THE LOVE-CONFESSION THE WRITERS SUBSEQUENTLY FORGOT ABOUT.

Now it's your turn, flist. Share, share. Show me your fannish scars. It'll be like that awesome scene in Jaws.

So, I read Birds of Prey: The Death of Oracle, which was FABULOUS. I didn't want to put in down.

Some thoughts:
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from a figureofspeech:

it's 3 a.m. do you know where your life-ruining otp is?

I'm serious, tell me.

I'm stymied trying to figure out which of my otps most qualifies as 'life-ruining.'

I've decided that I need a quippy pairing tag for Damien/Steph, a la, my tags for Jason/Steph (even-numbered formerly-dead robins) and Bucky/Natasha (red room romance).

No clue what it should be though. Any suggestions?

So far, suggestions are:

otp: robin the cradle

which, maybe, and

otp: there's room for hope (damn, you lj tag limits for not letting me use the whole quote)
otp: tell me what all the sighing's about

because If Only For A Night is a total Damian/Stephanie song for me, ESPECIALLY considering they're both currently dead.

gacked from portions_forfox:

I think I'm going to reprise a meme from ye ages past, because I'm bored and I like to make fandom-y lists and also, as the title would suggest, I like to ship.

(I'm going to be kind of throwing ships onto these lists, in an attempt to shake things up and maybe mention ships I don't often do. But don't worry, some of my old stand-bys are here.)

( ALL THE SHIPS. ALL OF THEM )


So, yeah, come talk to me about these ships.