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[snowystingray]

Two memes in one, bam!

Give me a character from any fandom I know at least fairly well, and I will tell you:

A) My OTP
B) The runner up
C) The anti-ship
D) My unpopular fannish opinion on said character
E) One person he/she never fell in love with, and why

and also

Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then re-post this and spread the love.

Comments

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Let's sayyyy ... Hermione Granger! (Kickin' it old school.)

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the days when I actually used to read large tomes brimming with words, as opposed to staring at a flickering screen all day...! How our fandoms change.

A) Hermione/Ron, obviously. OBHWF was basically my life from grade six until HBP came out and I realized how disappointingly lame Harry/Ginny turned out to be. :/ But the Ron/Hermione love? THAT LIVED ON. INTO ETERNITYYYY.

B) Hermione/Krum. Okay, um, to directly contradict what I just wrote above -- I did go through a period where I hoped they were in fact an endgame ship? Errr? Sorry, Ron. He's just so swoony and wonderful and holy mother of wish fulfillment. Over the course of my academic career, I'm sure I've spent literally years in the library, and never once did it lead to scoring hot babes. You get it while the getting's good, Hermione.

C) Hermione/Snape. Really, fandom? Really? (I mean, not that I generally have room to judge other people's shipping tendencies, but -- REALLY??)

D) Hm, I can't really think of any unpopular opinions I have from the books... As far as the movies go, though, I actually really love Emma Watson's Hermione in the first film. I know it's popular to hate the first two movies, but, man, she has so many great Hermione-isms in SS. (The meeting on the train? PERFECT. And "It's leviOOOOsa, not levioSAAAA" remains one of my favorite scenes from any of the films.) In all the rest of the movies I just see Emma-Watson-playing-Emma-Watson, but I think she had such a great Hermione-ish aura starting out.

E) Bellatrix Lestrange. Hermione already knows what she looks like naked, thanks to the Polyjuice Potion taken to break into Gringotts. There can be no romance without some ounce of mystery (for instance, the mystery of how Ron can go to bed every night without thoroughly flossing beforehand is one that will puzzle Hermione for years to come); and, sadly, the mystery of Bellatrix is gone. Two words: nipple piercing.

Meme the second -- I like you because you are just so darned enthusiastic about your fandoms! I don't know where you get the energy to be so continually productive in terms of picspams/fic/vids/cool fandom essays/etc. etc. Have you decided yet whether you want to stay on at university and do some student teaching? I honestly think you'd be awesome at it, because your excitement about your interests is quite infectious.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

look obviously I have to say Marian because this is why are you even asking ok?

(you don't have to respond to me on the second, lovely!)

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

A) Hmm, three guesses?

GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN GUY/MARIAN THEY WILL BE MY OTP FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS AND NO I DON'T PARTICULARLY CARE IF THAT MAKES ME A HORRIBLE PERSON (WELL ACTUALLY YES I DO BUT THERE ARE MORE COMPLEX ISSUES TO HASH OUT WITH THAT AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO READ THIS SCROLL TEXT FOREVER SO) GUY/MARIAAAAAAN

I have a friend from school who just started watching the show (unprompted, I promise! I was honestly shocked when he facebooked me with the news) and I am so super nervous to broach the topic with him because, oh no, what if he doesn't ship Guy/Marian??? This would truly be devastating to me -- not even because I think everybody needs to ship it or anything, but I just get weirdly self-conscious about my investment in them and occasionally need validation that, no, it's not just me. (Actually, oh this just prompted an unrelated anecdote [except in the way that all OMG OMG ARMITAGE moments are related] -- I volunteer with a local botanical garden. As I'm sure you are able to guess, I generally the youngest person there by at least 20-30 years, but usually more like 40-50. Anyway, the other afternoon I was having lunch with one of the ladies I work with and we got to talking about Masterpiece Theatre, as such conversations often go. I was bemoaning the overabundance of Austen adaptations for the upcoming season when she asked, "Wait! Oh! There's this author I've been meaning to check out... not Jane Austen, but those same sort of costume drama romances--" ME: "OMG ELIZABETH GASKELL??!" Her: "Yes, that's it! I just got Cranford from the library." Me: "DUDE I JUST MARATHONED THE WHOLE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, AHHH, BUT BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY -- HAVE. YOU. SEEN. NORTH & SOUTH???!??!" Her: "No..." Me: "I AM SO TOTALLY BRINGING IT NEXT WEEK, OMG, JUST WAIT." [In case you were wondering, yes, I do capslock flail during botanical garden lunches with retirees. IT'S AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE WHEN I SENSE APPROACHING RARMITAGE, I CAN'T HELP IT.] So anyway, I brought my DVD in and she was all, "Oh, this is so exciting! Isn't he a handsome fellow?" while she was reading the cover, ahaha. Then when I went to pick up the movie last week, she had actually been telling everybody else there about how good it was so I ended up loaning it out again to somebody else in the office. UGHHHHH why can't my volunteer job be my paid job? Everybody there is so awesome AND APPRECIATES COSTUME DRAMAS, BLESS THEM.)

B) Mazzabella. lalumena's Mazzabella ballad is pretty much canon as far as I'm concerned. (Runner-up to the runner-up: Archer/Marian, because apparently I can only ship her with those of Gisborne-y origins.)

C) There was a time when I would have said Robin/Marian, but that time is no more. I watched 1.01 a few nights ago and, gosh, they actually made my heart happy. (The dramatic zoom to Robin after he sees Marian for the first time in five years? PURE DELIGHT, my friend. Pure. Delight). So, hmm, I have lost my easy fall-back! What now? Marian/Winchester, I guess (does anybody actually ship them? Not even Winchester shipped them, really).

(In typical me fashion, I have written way too much... tbc...)

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

D) Errrr. Hm. Well, I'm willing to bet that my love of her character probably exceeds that of most fans, because I am a weirdo like that and base my grand loves on dead fictional characters, but I don't know if that is "unpopular" exactly? As far as the opposing groups of "Marian was a maniuplative bitch who broke Guy's heart and deserved to die" vs. "Marian was an innocent victim who appeased Guy for as long as she could to protect herself," I guess my opinions are unpopular in that they are -- both! And simultaneously neither! I just don't get why it has to be a divide between agency and innocence. I've always felt that Marian had agency in her own death, but I think that's different from saying that she "had it coming" -- so, unpopular opinion in the sense that I don't fall in either of the big camps on the issue? I prefer to found my own third party camp where her character was more than just "who's love interest am I now?", thank you very much (IGNORE THE RAMPANT GUY/MARIAN FANGIRL BEHIND THE CURTAIN. Ahem. Dooo de doo dee doo-- oh, look over there!).

E) Will. Marian knew that Will was old than her -- by several years, even -- but one look at that Little Facial Hair That Could, and...

(you don't have to respond to me on the second, lovely!)
GIRL, I WILL TELL YOU WHY I LIKE YOU AND YOU WILL LIKE IT. I like you because -- okay, I hope you don't take this in any sort of bad way -- but I like you because you understand, appreciate, and excel at both the smart AND the dumb things in life and in fandom. I just feel like you have an excellent idea of the delineation between dumb-but-just-really-dumb and dumb-but-hilarious-ow-ow-oh-my-god-I-am-laughing-so-hard-and-yet-so-ashamed-of-myself-but-this-RH/Batman-crossover-manip-is-now-my-screensaver. I think it takes a certain special kind of smartness to manufacture the right kind of dumbness. I love that you're the kind of person I can have a serious fandom conversation with, and then it can flip right over to ridiculous 80s YouTube rec's or speculation as to how long Guy would stand outside Marian's window with the Peter Gabriel and the boombox before his arms get tired and he makes Allan take over.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

as to how long Guy would stand outside Marian's window with the Peter Gabriel and the boombox before his arms get tired and he makes Allan take over.
I love you. All of this. Everything. I'm in pain laughing at it and not even "haha I'm in pain" but no really, this is a literal journalistic description of my state. And I don't have a very good flailing icon so please take this.