swim through the fires to stay in this world

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♛: my “FOREVER” pairing

Anya/Dimitri
Katara/Zuko
Clint/Natasha

♔: my “sometimes” pairing (if i’m in the mood)

Fionna Glenanne/Michael Westen (depending on if the writers are remembering that Michael loves Fiona, it's not a one-sided relationship.

旦: my “friends-with-benefits” pairing

Leonie Barrow x Johannas Cabal
Lydia Martin x Allison Argent

☆: my “adele” pairing (“WE COULD HAVE HAD IT AAAAAALL”)

KATARA X ZUKO
ARTEMIS X WALLY

☁: my “angst” pairing

Irina Derevko x Jack Bristow

✖: my “hate sex” pairing

Kate Argent x Derek Hale
Bela x Dean Winchester

۞: my “working on it” pairing

I am not entirely sure what this means.

ℨ: my favorite threesome

Leonie Barrow and her maybe-evil German boyfriends a.k.a Leonie Barrow x Johannas Cabal x Horst Cabal
I am also intrigued by Steve/Bucky/Natasha and Hermione/Ron/Harry.

☄: my “crack” pairing

Darcy Lewis x Steve Roger
Stephanie Brown x Damian Wayne
Stephanie Brown x Jason Todd

If you haven't seen it, Thor 2 trailer.

(masterlist of prompts)

(past answers)


Day 13: The ship you love for the way they hurt each other.

Irina Derevko and Jack Bristow.

Okay, I'll admit, if we're tallying up who hurt who more, Irina is probably going to win by a mile. That said, Jack did shoot that doppleganger he truly thought was her, that one time.

Day 14: The ship you love for the angst, banishing all joy and sunlight.

Lila and Cassel, the Curse Workers series. I was actually just thinking about way that I could get more people to read this series (the first book is White Cat by Holly Black). Fandom would love the book series and this relationship. It has:

• a badass lady


• the snarky, self-loathing guy who loves her ridiculously


• dubious consent treated like the serious thing it is while also being fucking romantic as fuck


• the girl

• trying to 'get over' her feelings for the guy by having sex with someone else

• the guy thinking he is a complete monster and still struggling to make the most moral choices he can, despite his fucked up ethics.

(Oh, also, the main character? I'm 99% sure he's black.)

(Also, side rant: the first two original covers for this series are AWESOME and I still haven't bought the third book because LITERALLY NO ONE sells the awesome third cover, they just have the terrible rebooted cover. So I'm going to wait and hope they reboot the covers again so I can find one that sucks less than these.)

Day 15: The couple that are at their moral worst when around each other.

I had the hardest time coming up with a good answer for this. The thing is, I don't tend to ship bad guy/good guy pairings, so I don't have examples of couples who get together and go on a crime spree. The closest answers I have are Zuko and Katara and Jeff and Annie for the exact same reason. Excuse me while I talk about one of my favorite tropes:

Something that sets my shipper sense tingling is when a female character is comfortable enough with a male character that she doesn't need to be "good" around him. He is the person who is going to go with her on a roadtrip of revenge. He is the person she is going to behave like a selfish adult around.

Basically, when a female character is so comfortable with a male character that she shows him her darkest, unglies parts and his reaction is, 'let me start the car,' I'm hooked.

(Does that make sense?)

Without realizing, I had scheduled my dentist appointment (two fillings, which totally makes my finances whimper) for Friday the 13th. Which was actually kind of fine - I honestly tend to have good luck with Fridays the 13th. And I was totally blase about going to the dentist - 'oh, it's not big deal, except for the expense' I repeated, to multiple people. Until I actually walked into the office, and realized I was jittery with nerves. Which isn't too surprising, since I've had some heavy-handed hacks working on my teeth.

Plus I've watched Alias.

This was the first time I've had a filling with this dentist, and it actually went really well.

And then, since my dentist is literally next door to work, and I wanted to make up some of the hours I didn't work on July 4th, I ended up doing six hours of data entry (plus obsessively refreshing my personal email on my iTouch). Which was actually quite pleasant - I got major points for coming in on a Friday and I listened to a lot of Lana Del Ray*. One of the things I'm doing is taking notes on clients from one database to another and there is a ton of entering dates and oh my fucking god can I rant about this for a minute? In the new program, dates in regards to appointments are written US standard: month/day/year and the date of birth is written: year/month/day (all numeric). They are in different formats, apparently, for the sole purpose of fucking with me. And in the OLD database, which is where I'm taking information from dates are sometimes written US standard and sometimes written day/first three letters of the month/year.

After a couple of hours of this, I have no idea a.) what day it is or b.) which number corresponds to which month.

That said, work is going MUCH better than it has been (there are less problems, the new clinician thinks I'm awesome, and I have a super-low threshold of caring). For me. My friend found out today that due to a weird screw up in the system he's going to have to completely redo the project he'd been working on since Monday.


*Lana Del Ray's song Carmen reminds me SO STRONGLY of a gender-swapped Tony Stark, I can't even tell you.

For her 700th post, stainofmylove decided to list her ten favorite male and ten favorite female characters from television and movies. IN ORDER.

Challenge accepted.

via stainofmylove: "A favorite character is an interesting thing. Sometimes it's aspirational, sometimes it's about feeling a deep kinship, and sometimes the character is just so fucked up and funny and smart and weird etc. etc. that I just find them fascinating."


Discuss.

1.  Comment with "the odds are ever in your favor."
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.

stainofmylove  gave me 'J'.

( Alias, TSCC, TVD, Alias, & The Hunger Games )

I finished the third Percy Jackson novel, The Titan's Curse, and really enjoyed it, despite ( Read more... )

In other news, I've started watching Castle again (I'm up to episode 2x15). I really adore it when Beckett fangirls about things - it's such a nice character note, and really makes her stand out from other well-tailored, by-the-book law enforcement ladies. Also, Alexis fails at Bondage Safety 101. Someone should give that girl a few lessons.

And now that our daily moment of inappropriateness is over, on to the 30-Day Shipper Meme:

Day 01 - What is your current favourite ship
Day 02 - What was your very first ship?
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
Day 06 - The best kiss?
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?

Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?

Let's be honest: there are a lot. If I define this as pairings that I a.) shipped from the first episode/book and b.) never shipped either character seriously with anyone else you have:

Sydney/Vaugh, Jack/Irina
Brennan/Booth
Kitty/Cormac
Max/Logan
Kahlan/Richard
Parker/Hardison
Elizabeth/Will
Sabriel/Touchstone
Soul/Maka
Harry Dresden/Karrin Murphy
Eric/Jaye

Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?

I puzzled greatly over what pairing to put here but talking about books made me realize the only answer I could give, the only pairing where it almost physically hurts that they're not together:

Cormac/Kitty from Carrie Vaugh's Kitty & The Midnight Hour book series. (AKA one of my favorite ongoing urban fantasy series.) I'm trying to imagine how to put this into fandom terms everyone can understand.

Okay, think about Dean Winchester: hot, good with guns, hunter of thing that go bump in the night. Now imagine that Winry Rockbell is a twenty-something music geek werewolf with her own radio show.

That is Cormac and Kitty. Now imagine that their meet cute is when ( it gets super-spoilery from here on in )

Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?

Pick five of your favorite shows, in no particular order, before you read the below questions, then answer them! (I choose five shows that I want to talk about, not necessarily my favorite shows of all time.)

1) Alias
2) Burn Notice
3) True Blood
4) Community
5) Legend Of The Seeker

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 What 5 characters perform their actual jobs well? (Characters from Clerks need not apply.)

My competency-kink combined with my lack of patience with people who AREN'T good at their job makes this a really easy question to answer. That said, there are five people who I think are scarily competent at their jobs (in no particular order):

Jack Bristow, Temperence Brennan, Michael Westen, Nyota Uhura, and the epic Adelle deWitt.

( Q&A on Pilots, Finales, Intos, Exits & The Blossoming Of A Relationship )

( The Negativity Fannish5 )

from last weeks fannish5 :

Name your 5 favorite families, from any fandom.

1.) The Gilmores. First of all, this is the only time I have ever seen a mother/daughter relationship that even approaches my own relationship with my mother. Secondly, EVERYONE is this family loves and cares for each other, even if the sometimes hurt each other and screw up. It is clear that Emily and Richard, even after forty years, love each other very much.

2.) The Bristows. Jack and Irina and Sydney, oh my. How could you go wrong? They're like the Gilmores, only with more betrayal, killing each other, sex, and hot outfits.

3.) The Sabaku Nos aka Temari, Gaara, and Kankarou. Admittedly, like most things in Naruto, I think this family may be more awesome and fucked up in my head. However, I imagine that Temari and Kankarou basically got kicked out of the house once daddy realized that, maybe making my youngest into a monster (and killing my wife in the process) wasn't a good idea, and so they kind of raised each other, and then got shoved into a team with their crazy youngest brother, and then, after he realized that killing everybody on the planet wasn't a good life goal, the Sabaku Nos are left to try and build a family out of the bloody, violent ruins of their familial relationships. (And yeah, I ship it.)

4) The Cortez/Winterbourne family. Paige and Lucas are the best characters Kelly Armstrong ever wrote, and the relationship between them and their adopted daughter hits so many of my kinks: the woman being more experienced sexually, the man knowing he's in love and committed to this relationship first, a father/daughter relationship between two people who aren't related.

5.) The Mars Family. See icon. I can't say it better than that.

So, a year and a half after I started, my mother and I are finally done with Alias.

Thank god.

Really,
Does anyone remember when that show was sheerest awesome? Because the three seasons of misery have blocked the good times out.