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
yesssss. i mean the early seasons had that classic Cop Partners dynamic, these two wildly different people who are so in tune with each other, and the bantering and all. how she’s the only one who can wrangle him and he’s the one pushing her out of her comfort zone. he needs her more than she needs him, which hits my buttons; that one episode where Eames is captured and Goren’s running around sweating and crying uselessly and she just rescues her own damn self, gosh. and then when Goren started going off the rails, it’s not just that she was the one person left tethering him to some semblance of normalcy, the one person he cared about, but that she was basically ‘ok no you asshole you can’t just fling yourself into the void and hope that solves things, and expect me to always be here to pull you back, so get your shit together.’ and then he did, eventually.
which if you think about it is basically the plot of the DW s9 finale. all of my ships are the same ships.
also i would like to specify that i appreciate the width as well as the height difference i mean he’s an overemotional bear and she’s no-nonsense and smol and
yes
Oh man, you’re dragging me back in! I loved them right from the get go. I loved that Eames basically took care of herself, took care of her business and in the end took care of Bobby. You want to talk about hot messes, he would definitely qualify but Eames saw right through that. I loved how he was with her in the early seasons up through the pregnancy but I loved them even more in the latter half, when it was beyond just a copy buddy dynamic but just so much more.
And when he did start going off the rails, Eames was the only one who basically said nah son, we’re not doing it your way, we’re doing it my way so get it together and lets do this. omg, they were the best and i miss them
say you love me 