ask me no questions and i'll tell you no (meme)

[harborshore]

Stolen from sansets.

Pick a number from the list and I'll answer it in the comments.

1 - Your current OTP
2 - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind
3 - A pairing you have never liked and probably never will
4 - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t
5 - Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what
6 - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom
7 - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it
8 - Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series
9 - Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why
10 - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr your social network sites
11 - How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom
12 - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for
13 - Your favorite fanart or fanartist
14 - Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor
15 - Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of
16 - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)
17 - A ship you’ve abandoned and why
18 - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships
19 - Show us an example of your personal headcanon
20 - Do you remember what your first fanwork was?
21 - Self-rec: What's your favorite fanwork you've created?
22 - Are you one of those fans who can’t watch anything without shipping
23 - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms
24 - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms
25 - A fandom you’re in but have no ships from
26 - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go

Comments

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

15!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I opened Itunes and Adele appeared first, which means that Rolling in the Deep and its Charles/Erik associations is kind of an inevitable answer, but let's see, oh, Gaslight's Old White Lincoln is either me/kickingrad/soemily or Steve/Bucky, possibly with bonus!crossdressing Bucky. But I can make that song fit many of my OTPs. Alex/Darwin too.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I mean it's totally on the list. Um. ♥

[desfinado.livejournal.com]

Oooh, 2 or 6?

(Also hi hi hiiiiii ♥)

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

2. Well, before The Avengers I really wasn't very keen on Tony/Pepper (because of the way he--according to fic, I hadn't seen the movies--treated her in Iron Man), but they're LOVELY and warm and wonderful. And PERFECT for each other and I ship them to a ridiculous degree. Ridiculous. I don't like either of them with anyone else, really.

6. Bandom. I've only ever really been in two fandoms.

(HIIII lovely ♥!)

[desfinado.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥

[eledhwenlin]

4!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

That's a tough one! I can normally read just about any pairing if it's sold well and doesn't, say, devalue or erase canonical het relationships (I really can't stand it when the story is full of comparisons and "OH HOW MUCH BETTER THIS IS THAN SHE WAS"). I suppose it'd be nice if I liked Steve/Tony more so I could write it, but it's not like I think it's awful or anything.

[cloudlessclimes.livejournal.com]

17!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Frank/Gerard, I guess--it's a pairing I liked so much for a while, but I gradually got bored of it because some of the stories were very same-y, and then I became incredibly disillusioned by MCR as a whole and Frank and Gerard especially. RPS is so vulnerable in that way, it's harder to gloss over things that the "characters" do or to rewrite it, because things like Frank's abortion comments actually happened. So I can't even read most stories featuring them as a central pairing anymore, which is very unusual for me. (Note: this doesn't mean I think any of my friends who still like them/their band/fic about them are awful in any way. I'm in Marvel fandom, I can't cast stones.)

[cloudlessclimes.livejournal.com]

Oh man I feel the same about this pairing. ;(

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Bah :(

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

7. Oh man. That's hard, actually--I didn't really have an OTP in bandom (I read and wrote just about anything)--but I suspect I had OTPs before I knew what fandom WAS. I shipped Willow/Oz so hard, and Buffy/Angel too, in a way, but Willow/Oz were just wonderful. (As were Willow/Tara, but they came later. TARA.)

21. Ooooh. Oh, tough. Hmm. It's actually a story I haven't posted yet! Because editing needs to happen. It's my 20K of tiny bookfandom fic--have you read the Tortall books? Basically I found out that the ambiguous-but-hot squire who sort of turned evil at the end and the angsty-and-talented young sorcerer were supposed to be a canonical gay couple and help the main character save everyone, but Tamora Pierce's publishers didn't let her because it was twenty years ago. So I wrote it. Other than that, it's definitely my Yuletide from two years ago: Journey to make, horizon to chase, a Narnia fic where Susan gets a different ending. ♥

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

12 and/or 16

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

12. The Black Widow Avengers prequel. Every time. Always. Artist or author, it doesn't matter.

16. Lololol have you met me, that is ALL I EVER DO. Hmm. Avengers: the AU I'm tentatively thinking about writing is the one where Steve and Bucky are traveling cowboys who are secretly sleeping together and they hire on at Coulson's farm. And there is lots of angst and basically everyone is in love and afraid to show it (Natasha and Clint also work there and Coulson and them are resisting falling into a polyamorous relationship). So UST and no explicit declaration of feelings.

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

:D UST with no explicit declaration of feelings is my FAVORITE. <3

[sansets]

19! \0/

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

19. I mean I don't know that NO ONE else ships it, but it's a very rare pairing: Steve/Bucky/Natasha is my close second to Clint/Natasha/Coulson. But if we're talking something absolutely no one ships, then it'd have to be one of my weird crossover pairings: Batgirl Steph/Veronica Mars, maybe. I ship Veronica with everyone.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Ooops, that's 18 and not 19.

19. I have so much personal headcanon. I think Natasha and Steve become BFFs before Bucky comes back and their trio either goes somewhere romantic or they continue to be friends because Natasha is already involved with Clint and Phil. They're both faster, stronger, more capable than most people around them; they both have to be careful not to hurt people, but with each other they can spar like nothing's ever going to get to them. This all comes from when he gives her a boost and watches her fly. #favoritemoment

[x_dark_siren_x]

Random comment (hi, hiii, I owe you comments on ficlets, I am working like crazy but I will, at some point), but I freaking adore everything and anything you have to say about Natasha. Ever. Including this. *_____*

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

♥

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

3. I really can read nearly everything! I swear. Usually when I dislike a pairing it's because of how it's written and not because of the pairing itself. For example, I have problems with Bruce/Natasha, because I think the movie establishes that she's scared of the Hulk pretty well, and I don't think that's a good foundation for a relationship, but I've seen it done super well, too and I have read it.

24. Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Clint/Phil/Natasha, Wash/Zoe.

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

9, 10, & 17!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

9. Hmm. I wouldn't say it caused me to stop liking fandoms, but it maybe prevented me from getting into them in some cases? Though I will say that the intense defense of dudes who make shitty comments will generally hasten my exit from fandoms in general (if we're talking RPS--I tend to go with "the author is dead!" as my starting point where I have problems with the creator in fictional fandoms).

10. Football slash :)

17. Frank/Gerard! See above.

[sinuous-curve.livejournal.com]

23!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

1. BTVS: Buffy, Faith, Tara, Oz, Anya.

2. Avengers: EVERYONE. Um. Natasha, Bucky, Steve, Clint, Sif. AND EVERYONE ELSE. Also Thor. And Darcy. Etc.

3. DCU: Barbara Gordon (AS ORACLE), Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Kate Kane, Dick Grayson. Kory. I could go on. Oh! WONDER WOMAN.

4. Veronica Mars: Veronica, Mac, Keith, Alicia, Wallace.

5. X-Men: Erik (but not Magneto), Storm, Mystique, Destiny, young!Charles (in XMFC, anyway).

[sinuous-curve.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE SIF. SIIIIIIIIIIIIIF.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

OF COURSE I LOVE SIF. SHE IS THE BEST. "Me."

[sinuous-curve.livejournal.com]

Jaimie Alexander keeps tweeting about getting back in fighting shape for Thor II, and I keep making real life victory arms at my laptop. SIF SIF SIF, PUNCHING EVERYONE IN THE FACE! My secret dream is that we'll see her in full on berserker mode leading the Valkyries into battle. *_*

[the24thkey.livejournal.com]

20 and 22! :D

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

20. Lololol. Okay, so when I was nine, I read "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and cried SO HARD over the end and how unfair it was, so I determinedly wrote a new ending in the book where he wakes up again at the end and doesn't die. Because unfair.

22. Oh, no, not at all. :) Though sometimes it's INEVITABLE. When Tora and I went to XMFC, we spent half the movie going, "...did he just say that? Wow, that was the most epic first meeting ever. This is actually a romance, isn't it?" etc.

[the24thkey.livejournal.com]

Hee, that is awesome. :D I think I first tried my hand at writing fanfiction when I was around 12-ish. Oh god, there is probably still some of my horrible Anime fic floating around on the Internet...

As for the shipping, I've noticed that there are some series/movies/whatever that utterly fail to hold my interest unless there is a ship (canon or not) I like. But then again I also find myself thinking: "Ugh, why did this thing have to have a romantic subplot, that is so unnecessary." a lot. <.<

[takkatakkatakka.livejournal.com]

26 hiiiii :D

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

26. Oh lord, I'm not sure I have rambling in me at the moment, but, like, okay, so Natasha, yes? I have such epic feelings about her that even after seeing the movie five times and then writing and talking about her for months, I still go "OH" if a .gif shows up on Tumblr or a photo set or a quote or if I'm reminded of a line. "Love is for children, I owe him a debt." MY HEART. My feelings. Etc. She's just kind of really wonderful like that. And if I was actually talking to you about this instead of typing and trying not to spell every other word wrong because, again, exhausted, I'd be able to ramble on and on and on and oooon because I have such feelings about her.

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

i like asking 19 and 20 but they're already gone! um... 7?

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I answered 7 above! Willow and Oz is the one I remember the best, but I suspect I had OTPs even before that, since I started reading at 5. :D

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

oh sorry i missed that one! i tried to scan over the other comments. /o\

that's adorable. yay for early reading and early literary opinions. :D