There was a post going around tumblr that really got under my skin - it was a fairy accurate summary of the king and lionheart dynamic, but the line about not being able to find a example with a lady just***... triggered all my past experience of people dismissing het and femme-slash because [pick a square from your slash fangirl bingo card, pick any square].

*** I also want to note that the person I linked from tagged this post 'Kate/Clint' SO CLEARLY I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO THINKS THAT THIS DYNAMIC EXISTS WITH LADIES.

So, queen and lionheart dynamics. The examples that came to mind:

Lydia/Allison (Teen Wolf)
Sabriel/Touchstone (Sabriel, bolded because so much yes.)
Tremaine/Ilias (although that's more spy/lionheart)
Mulan/Aurora (Once Upon A Time)
Jane/Darcy (would be the super-fluffy version of this trope)
Any Evil Queen/Huntsman story would be the evil example of this trope
I'd accept a case for Hermione/Ron here.
I think a case could also be made for Cameron/John from TSCC.
Richard/Cara (LOTS)

There was this Luna icon that I thought I saved but didn't, which was mainly her face (she was injured, I think it was from the last movie) right at the bottom and she was looking super-badass? Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I'm finally, finally starting to feel better, enough that I am going to answer some of the great ship questions I was asked about two weeks ago.

ladymercury_10 asked: How about Dick/Babs, and why you don't ship them in YJ (and who you ship them with instead, if applicable).

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errant_shadows asked: What about your first ever ship? (Maybe something before you even knew what shipping was.)

Were they canon? OTP? Do you still ship them? Did you ever write fic for them? (<== links please, if it's online)

And what about the pairing appealed to your freshly fangirling heart?

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phemyscira asked: Top five OTPs of 2013?

Any ship that you think you may be very excited about in 2014? (e.g. because of upcoming new instalments to a current fandom, fandoms you may be interested in, etc.)

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catteo asked me: Top 5 OTPs of ALL TIME and why. Preferably with awesome gifs!

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hungrytiger11 asked me: Top Five Canon Ships that really shouldn't exist (let alone be canon):

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topazera asked me: If you were suddenly put in charge of ouatiw, how would you handle Alice/Knave in canon? What would you do with Cyrus? Or alternatively, how would you rework things if you had the reins from the start?

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qualapec asked me: Is there something you never expected to ship going into a piece of media (or were actively against ahead of time) but actually really enjoyed once you saw the canon?

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ever_neutral asked: What about fave non-canon ship/s? SHOULD THEY HAVE BEEN CANON? Discuss.


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scorpiod1 asked me: Are there OT3s you are fond of?

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I'm super late on this, but quiet_rebel asked me about what my first fandom was.

This is really easy to answer: Buffy.

I discovered Buffy at the same time my family got high-speed internet and I discovered fandom. Shortly following that, I got into the HP fandom.

Oh! Here's something that tangentially relates: I was super upset to discover that, by length of time invested, Naruto was my longest-running fandom. But I'm pretty sure Avengers have beat that out, at this point. Hell yes.

Return Of The Unusual Opinions Amnesty Post.

Personally, for me, the gem of the post was this comment:

I always take Hermione's daughter being named Rose (while flower-names is a very Harry's Family Thing) as ~proof that Hermione and Harry had an affair at some point. /what canon

I could be down with that. I'm just saying. Also, I've noticed that with these times of things, there is always that ONE OPINION where I disagree and have this visceral need to comment stating my disagreement. Luckily, I have thus far remembered what post I am in before hitting reply.

(masterlist of prompts)

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Finally, I want to mention that I'm still doing this trope meme, just fyi.

You're welcome.



The very first time I heard 'Little Lion Man' I immediately thought of Ron Weasley. And now there is not only a Ron Weasley vid to that song but a perfect Ron Weasley vid.

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I love tumblr as much as the next girl but it is a terrible place to post fic. Usually the formatting sucks and half the time when people reference a fic, it takes me forever to figure out where it actually is.

So it turns out Neville Longbottom turned into a total hottie when he grew up:

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Good to know.

Okay, fannish5 time:

Name five fannish opinions of yours that have changed since you entered fandom.

1.) Super-fanon pairings (as in, characters never interact in canon) are becoming less and less interesting to me. The pairings that I'm really invested in/write a lot of fic for (regardless of whether I think they'll get together in the text or even want them to) are all ones that have a textual relationship, even if it's not explicitly romantic or totally reciprocated (e.g. Zuko/Katara, Jeff/Annie, Damon/Elena). Back when I was a wee, innocent newbie, I was reading a ton of Hermione/Draco and Draco/Ginny as well as Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny, and I've read just about every Buffy pairing possible at least once (including Tara/Spike, Spike/Xander, and Willow/Giles).

2.) I no longer feel that if I find a fic for a show and character(s) that I like, I have to read it. I just don't have the time! Now I basically only read fic for the fandons I'm obsessed with right this very moment or if I know the writer is awesome. And I can't even remember the last time I read a long fanfic.

3.) I used to be really nervous about writing sex scenes. And now I host kink memes. Wow. Just thinking about it kind of boggles my mind.

4.) Well-crafted, beautiful icons of characters I'm not in love with > less awesomely done icons of characters I like more.

5.) I upload less icons of secondary characters than I used to.

So, flist, what has changed for you since you discovered fandom?

Five questions you would like to ask authors or creators of source material in your fandom(s).

Assuming that they would answer honestly...

1.) TVD shooting has been plagued by injury, illness, and foul weather this season. I'd love to talk with the writers about how that changed when they had hiatuses and if/how it shaped storylines.

2.) The TVD writers and I also need to talk about Matt because how they think they're writing him ≠ how I see the character at all.

3.) I'd ask Suzanne Brockmann, writer of the Troubleshooters series (which has a reoccurring cast of characters and several romances that play out over multiple books), if she originally planned to write a Sophia/Decker romance and switched it to Sophia/Dave because even knowing the endgame, early books point in a direction that later books do not bear out. Which is not to say I don't love Sophia/Dave, because I totally do.

4.) I'd talk to TSCC writers about how they intended to resolve Cameron's... corporeal issues.

5.) Dear Carrie Vaughn (author of the Kitty & The Midnight Hour series), ARE YOU DELIBERATELY SETTING UP A RELATIONSHIP EVERYONE WITH TASTE IS GOING TO SHIP JUST TO REFUSE TO WRITE IT? No love, me.