Anonymous asked: C and F for the fandom meme? (I hope you're having a good day!)

From this ask meme!

C: A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can’t

Oh, wow, sit tight, all of these are entirely predicated on God my life would be easier if I shipped the most popular ship in the fandom.

Charles Xavier/Erik Lensherr: I got committed to the tragic friendship way too young to change my mind, but I have nothing against the ship.

Any configuration at all of Jim Kirk/Spock/Bones McCoy: I just…struggle?  I concur that Spock/Kirk is pretty gay in TOS and I want to ship it, and honestly Kirk/Bones should be my exact shit, but I just–look, Kirk is too in love with the Enterprise for anyone else to have a claim.

Buffy Summers/Spike: nope, nope, nope, nope, can’t do it.  Too rapey, too much sexual assault, even if I didn’t like Angel I wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Doc Holliday/Wynonna Earp: the show clearly really wants me to care about that pairing and like…I guess there’s nothing wrong with it, but I raise you Doc Holliday/Wyatt Earp and Wynonna/Dolls because Dolls is wonderful and Doc is so blindingly obviously in love with Wyatt and trying to work his issues out by fucking Wynonna, which, no judgement, because Wynonna is clearly trying to work out her own adequacy issues by fucking Doc.

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter: I want to ship it just so I could stop feeling this level of seething wrath about it, I feel similarly about almost EVERY ship that the HP fandom likes, including literally anything that includes Severus Snape.

F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?

I mean…I was a late-comer to the concept of internet fandom (the last…four or five years?) because of various reasons, but I’ve been a devoted consumer of any X-Men content I could afford to get my hands on since I was 7 and I’ve been collecting Animorphs books about as long, so there’s those.

Anonymous asked: P for the fandom meme? :)

From this ask meme!

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom

Here are several arbitrary universe mash-up AUs I’ve been thinking about lately.

Mediator AU of Jessica Jones/Luke Cage

Jessica is basically Susannah Simon (from the Mediator series, which I read as a kid and am rereading) all grown up with an alcohol problem, so this is the universe in which Jessica can see, talk to, and punch ghosts.  This can either be a straight up nothing-is-the-same AU where the entire plot is Jessica moving into a new apartment haunted by a beautiful guy from (help) maybe the 20′s who just never left for reasons that are unclear, or it can basically be canon, except that Jessica could always talk to ghosts and then acquired superstrength and *gasp* TRISH KNOWS EVERYTHING.  Clearly that is the superior AU.  But so then Jessica moves into her new office/apartment at the start of her show and it’s already haunted by a kinda grumpy recently dead guy who…possibly she murdered his wife still, that would be debatable.  Regardless, Luke (after about an hour of arguing about this is my goddamn apartment–  excuse you, you can’t just kick me out, I was here first, she finally does get a name out of him) has the strongest telekinetic powers she’s ever seen, and Jess can still lift cars.  Stuff proceeds apace, but with more Luke and maybe Kilgrave is an evil mediator or an extra-solid and terrible ghost or maybe he’s just Kilgrave, and I have no idea what the plot would look like or how Luke’s show would happen.  But it would have Luke appearing in Trish’s apartment to push something heavy over and yell “JESS IS GETTING HERSELF KILLED” until Trish woke up and went to help Luke deal with the situation.

Rogue One AU of Animorphs

Obviously.  I’ve seen a couple casual comments about a Star Wars AU of Animorphs where people are Jedi or whatever, but listen.  No.  The Animorphs are Rogue One.  Jake is Cassian, obviously, and Rachel is Jyn but less intensely disillusioned and more Ready To Go To War (both for the cause and for the war).  The major difference here is that it’s Jake who delivers the stirring speech, while Rachel is the one who recruits a small force of mutineers to back them up.  And no sexual tension.  I feel like Ax is Chirrut but like a baby, like he was really REALLY young when the war went down, and Tobias is Baze (ditto) and Rachel is like “…nice shoulder cannon” the first time they meet.  Instead of being gay married space warrior priests, Ax and Tobias are best friend space warrior priests.  Elfangor was definitely the older priest initiate who survived the massacre on Jedha and raised the two of them in the old ways and then dies tragically during Rogue One’s attempt to reach…Naomi?  I’m not sure who Saw would be in this argument.  CHAPMAN MAYBE.  Because Naomi has to be an engineer rather than a lawyer so that the plot can progress.

Wait, actually, no, Eva is the engineer, they don’t have to go on a hunt to find Rachel for the contact information because Marco already has it and MARCO IS K2 except he’s not a robot, he’s still a human and Jake’s best friend.  They go pull Rachel off an undercover op on Jedha because they need reinforcements, and Ax and Tobias basically just invite themselves along, and CASSIE IS THE PERSON WHO IS DRIVEN TO RISK HER LIFE BY REBELLING AGAINST THE EMPIRE WITH WORLD-SAVING INFORMATION.

This story would be like 95% Cousin Feelings with an additional 5% Ship Feelings, but the point of it all would be that Jake and Rachel die sitting on the beach shoulder-to-shoulder like they did when they were little kids, and Rachel says that Jake’s brother would have been proud of him and Jake smiles and it’s all terrible.

Mrs. and Mrs. Smith AU of Atomic Blonde

No, that’s it.  That’s literally it.  AU where Delphine and Lorraine have been married for five years and spend a few days trying to murder each other as couple’s counseling/the complications of the job and have wall sex in their destroyed kitchen.  Alternatively, Good Omens AU of Atomic Blonde, where Delphine is a sweet-natured demon who loves music and dancing and photography and Lorraine is a rather embittered angel.

Anonymous asked: W for the fandom meme?

From this ask meme!

W: List five favorite characters from five different fandoms

Does this mean…one character per fandom, or five characters per fandom?  I’m doing five characters per fandom.  Plus some rampant cheating.

MCU

Jessica Jones

Luke Cage

Claire Temple

Steve Rogers

Natasha Romanoff

+ Elektra Natchios as Honorable Mention since I just spent eight hours of Defenders crooning over my murder girl

Animorphs

RACHEL, A THOUSAND TIMES RACHEL

Tobias

Ax tied with Jake

Eva

…Cassie but she and I have some major ethical differences, thus the tie with Marco

+ Elfangor and Loren as Honorable Mention because I will take any opportunity to remind the whole world how much I love them

Star Wars

Rey

Finn

Poe Dameron

Leia Organa

and all of Rogue One because I am a filthy cheater

Star Trek

JANEWAY

Jim Kirk

Nyota Uhura

Seven of Nine

Spock tied with Bones McCoy

X-Men

Rogue

Kitty Pryde

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Gambit (Remy LaBeau) tied with Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Anonymous asked: What about... T and U? (for the fandom meme)

From this ask meme!

T: What are your favorite M/M or F/F ships?

Um…Enjolras/Grantaire from Les Mis, Baze Malbus/Chirrut Imwe from Rogue One, Waverly Earp/Nicole Haught from Wynonna Earp, Hamilton/Laurens from Hamilton and also HISTORY, Legolas/Gimli from LotR, and Aziraphale/Crowley from Good Omens, probably.  Those are the ones that come to mind.  Oh, and of late Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin from The Man From UNCLE.  And Breq/Seivarden(/Mercy of Kalr) from Ancillary Justice.

U: What are your favorite M/F ships?

Rachel/Tobias and Elfangor/Loren from Animorphs, Jareth/Sarah from Labyrinth, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff from Avengers, Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori from Pacific Rim, Aerin/Tor and Aerin/Luthe and Harry/Corlath from the Damar series, Jame/Torisen from the Kencyrath series, and any arrangement of Rey/Finn/Poe Dameron from Star Wars.  I’m also currently watching B99 and feeling a great deal of affection for Amy Santiago/Jake Peralta. 

Anonymous asked: D For the fandom meme?

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D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?

Pretty sure the first thing I ever actually contributed was THIS Scarlet Witch/Vision post-Civil War fic, which is entirely fluff originating in a conversation I had with my best friend about the lack of fic for the two of them and the fact that no one had written a mid-air kiss for these two FLYING SUPERHEROES.

An excerpt:

Vision’s hand reached out, hovering just over her shoulder.  “Are you having nightmares again?”

“Nothing shocking,” she said.  “The same.”  The wreckage of her house, her brother’s body.  Strucker’s failed experiments.  Straitjackets inside cages inside prisons.  The Avengers, twisted and shattered in red light.  “Some new.”  Men without limbs, and sinking into the sea, and Vision, turning his clear cold eyes and terrible power toward her.

Vision lingered for a moment, then lowered his hand so that his palm was up, an invitation.  “Come with me.  Just for a little while.  I promise to bring you back.”

I love this ship, y’all.

abrightshiningstar asked: D, for Star Wars!

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D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?

I’m pretty sure it was this fluffy Rey/Poe/Finn fic, featuring the three of them on a forest planet, cute shy pre-relationship flirting, BB-8, and flower crowns.  And Rey attempting to eat the foliage.

Here is an excerpt:

Finn’s teeth flashed in a grin as he laced his fingers through Poe’s–Poe stomped down on a blush, he was a grown-ass man, he was not going to turn into a kriffing Academy kid over a pair of pretty young things.  Even if they were as pretty as Rey and Finn.  Finn didn’t seem to notice his moment of internal struggle, pulling him after Rey and BB-8 with a laugh.

The trees gave way to low growth, shrubs and wildflowers and grasses, near the lakeside.  Rey nearly shrieked in delight at the discovery of a patch of flowers in a shade of brilliant red, dotted here and there with the tiny light blue blooms that practically infested this system.

“They come in colors!” she cried, and Poe made a mental note to get Rey out more.  This was their first free day since Finn regained full function and Rey brought back a very reluctant Jedi master, but he could probably trade some favors to get her a few flowers to keep on the base.

If you require an antidote to the sheer density of fluff in the above fic, I also wrote this one.

Fandom-Related Questions

  • A: Your current OTP.
  • B: A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind.
  • C: A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can't.
  • D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?
  • E: Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what?
  • F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?
  • G: What was your first fandom?
  • H: Do you prefer real-life TV shows or animated TV shows?
  • I: Has tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
  • J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr.
  • K: How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom(s).
  • L: Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for?
  • M: A person who got you into a fandom and what fandom they pulled you in to.
  • N: Your favorite fandom (for the people; not the thing you fangirl over).
  • O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
  • P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
  • Q: A ship you’ve abandoned and why.
  • R: A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships.
  • S: What's a headcanon you have?
  • T: What are your favorite male/male ships or female/female ships?
  • U: What are your favorite male/female ships?
  • V: Do you have any 3-way ships? If so, what?
  • W: 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms.
  • X: 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms.
  • Y: A fandom you’re in but have no ships from.
  • Z: What's a ship that you want to ship publicly, but everyone on tumblr hates it so you keep your mouth shut about it?