tagged by @antennapedia, gracias. although i feel like i’ll let you down i mean these are not so surprising, i don’t think?
first off i just want to clarify that i’m a multishipper and this isn’t so much ONE PAIRING ONE FANDOM ONE DREAM as it is pairings that whenever i think about them i will sigh and make heart-eyes
ANWAY
FOREVER ROMANCE BABIES
1. Twelve/Clara, duh (Professor When)
i’d never really quite gotten into Dr/Companion ships; if you dig on my Ao3 account, there’s an 11/Amy fic i wrote during s5 which is basically ‘oh my god Doctor you are a billion years old and such an asshole and please do not fuck your companions’. he’s too old and too messed-up and too much for me to really see him with a human lover. UNTIL NOW. it’s the combo of Clara being so strong-willed and 12 being so vulnerable that makes it work for me, the fact that she so clearly has the upper hand. yes, the age difference is still hilarious, but the power balance is there, and the respect and warts-and-all appreciation of each other. they’re both sometimes the monster, sometimes the savior, and they fuck up and make up and careen around the universe with each other. (and it’s not the 4.5 billion years that makes my heart skip a beat, it’s him admitting to her that the 4.5 billion years was going way, way too far, because she’d told him, hadn’t she? to be the Doctor. she’d told him not to do what he’d just done. and then he repeats her instructions back to her, so she can go be the Doctor too, and so maybe he can remember these few things at least. and then i cry forever.)
2. Janeway/7 of 9 (Star Trek: Voyager)
aka Baby’s First Ship, in Baby’s First Fandom. like, i’d read some Kirk/Spock, as you do, but it wasn’t until Voyager that i really got what shipping was. i read all the fics on all the geocities pages, hoarded the fuzzily-scanned fanzine drawings, i had Impure Thoughts. once in a while i’ll do a grand rewatch of Voyager, and while there’s a lot of it that isn’t nearly as impressive and compelling as it was when i was a kid, these two, oh. they get me every time. just. the way they look at each other, gosh. and how Seven is trying so very hard to figure out what she even is, and Janeway is so wrapped up in her ship, her crew, the scientist very frequently failing to be the Gung-Ho Hero and Supreme Motivator, and they both see something so vulnerable and strange and compelling in each other, and they’re at odds so much but also…not. relatedly, this is part of why i ship Romana/Leela. J7 is the originator of so very many of my emotions.
angst angst angsty angst. i think every fic i wrote for them had them breaking up by the end. this was my first experience in Getting Fandom Wrong – most of the G/E fans were fixated on the early seasons as viewed through a fairly traditional romance lens, i was over in the corner going NO i want sad!fat!Goren and completely-done-with-all-this-shit!Eames. because i loved how much they struggled, these two damaged people trying to make it through the shitstorm, their complicated imperfect love for each other, that hard-won hope they wound up with. also a+ size difference i mean
4. Garak/Bashir (Star Trek: DS9)
He’s the oblivious arrogant greenhorn doctor! and he’s the camp ex-spy traitor tailor! hyjinks ensue! and then everything goes to shit. i love how it starts with Bashir like a baby deer in the headlights, so pleased to meet The Spy, who is super obviously cruising him. like, what a meet-cute. i love how much of their relationship is defined by stories – Bashir’s holodeck programs, Garak’s Cardassian novels and tall tales (my dear doctor, it’s all true – even the lies? – especially the lies). i love their loaded conversations and how they drift apart, how the war just happens to them both; how Bashir gets older and more cynical and Garak very nearly turns into a hero and while they wind up so painfully distant and changed, they wouldn’t be who they are without the other. (they get married and live happily ever after on Cardassia, ps, that is a fact)
5. Doctor/Master or Doctor/Missy or Theta/Koschei or WHATEVER/WHATEVER (Comrade Why)
it starts on the banks of the river Lethe, with Theta killing the bully who very nearly drowned Koschei and them burning the body together, and currently is paused at the point where she tries to trick him into killing his best friend, and saves him from himself and then runs away, once again, from the Daleks. in between: oh, man. give me all of it. give me shitty adolescent Academy nerds, give me Three/Delgado and their elegant, albeit dangerous and stupid, games of chess; give me Ainley leering at Five, give me Eight knowing MacQueen won’t be able to let him go, Shalka!Nine and his robot live-in companion, Simm telling Ten that he likes it when he says his name, Twelve kissing Missy with all the kindness and sadness in the world because he knows, he knows they can never go home again, and he forgives her anyway. you win. JUST FUCK ME UP THE ASS OK
special shoutout to-
Coulson/May, Clint/Coulson, Quark/Odo, America Chavez/Kate Bishop, Suzie/Jon from SexCrimz, Giles/Ethan, Four/Romana, Romana/Narvin, Romana/Leela, *picks out two names from the Gallifrey Hat* – that one/the other one, Reed Richards/Sue Storm, Liv Chenka/Helen Sinclair, Aubrey/Maturin, comicsverse Jessica Jones/Luke Cage, etc etc etc ETC
Can we talk about Goren/Eames? I literally shipped them like whoa (there may be an angst fic or two on my LJ). I shipped them from beginning to bittersweet end and I thought I was all alone. And agreed A+ height difference. Love, love
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