swim through the fires to stay in this world

For the first time in months, I had a Saturday off.

A glorious, glorious evening to do nothing but relax and chat with my flist. Seriously, if you're in the mood to talk fandom, ask questions about shipping, share cute/sexy/funny/eye candy gifs, this is the post for you. (And I'm also going to be hanging close to the computer tomorrow as well, so if you're out having an amazingly fun Saturday night, come chat on Sunday. I'll still be in the mood to gab.)

Things that are going on in my life, to get the conversational ball rolling:

~I went and did this amazing self-defense seminar today. It was amazing and I am going to have some glorious bruises tomorrow. (Frankly, you can already see them.)

~I rewatched Tangled with my mom (she hadn't seen it yet). It was just as adorable as it was the first time and I think Flynn and Rapunzel make a fabulous couple.

~I may go get ice cream. In fact, I think I shall.

~I have been looking at upfront trailers for the upcoming fall season and frankly, I have only seen two that even look worth checking out:



This look funny but also distressingly close to what my life could be this fall.



No idea what this is about but I'm actually intrigued.

All the rest, frankly, look various flavors of boring.

~But that's okay, because in the next two months BURN NOTICE, HAVEN, AND TRUE BLOOD ARE RETURNING. Sing hallelujah.

~In fact, I'm so excited about the new season of TB, that I'm rereading Dead Until Dark. Which, frankly, I have a suspicion I can no longer recommend as a qualitatively good vampire story, even though I retain a lot of affection for it. Your thoughts, flist?

Okay, so in one of the ZILLION top 5 question and answer session running around on my flist (and seriously, I don't check my flist for a couple of days and I'm at skip=300, my god you people type like maniacs), the_sun_is_up  asked okroginator  for her Top Five Ships That Make Me Feel Like Kind of a Sicko for Shipping.

Which was such a great question that I just had to answer it for myself (I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes.)

Snape/Hermione (Harry Potter)

First of all, all the actual teacher/student power differential that pairings like Kakashi/Sakura avoid are SO FREAKING present with Snape/Hermione. Plus, he's such a bastard.

Nathan/Shilo (Repo: The Genetic Opera)

He's her father. Enough said.

Winry/Roy (Fullmetal Alchemist).

And when I say 'Winry/Roy' I mean anime Winry/Roy where he's the one who executed her parents and she discovers this and is trembling in Gracia's living room and crying and going 'that is so... that is so...' because she's not about to make Gracia's life harder?

Harper/Tolliver (The Harper Connely series)

They were raised as step-siblings, were basically the parents of their blended family, and now travel together using Harper's supernatural abilities to find out how people died. The fact that it's canon doesn't make it not deliciously twisted.

Haruhi/Kyouya (Ouran)

Thanks, beach episode, for making what had been a perfectly awesome ship suddenly horribly problematic.