Fandom meme

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Another meme, snagged from randi2204:

Comment to this entry with any fandom. If I'm knowledgeable enough in the fandom, I'll tell you one non-canon ship I like, one canon ship I like, and one ship I really don't like (either canon OR fanon). Then post this in your own journal to offer up the same responses.

Sidebar: I'm getting bored. I really wish I were writing fic. *sigh*

Comments

[scarlett2u.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll bite. As a fellow Veronica Mars fan, that's the fandom I'm picking. Please share your ships :-)

Maybe I've been under a rock (RL has felt like it lately), but why no writing now? Also, have you considered writing VM fic too? *accent on the "too" because you must never stop writing Spuffy*

Hugs to you!

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Oh yay!

Non-canon ship: Wallace/Mac. Mac deserves a nice guy, and Wallace totally is.
Canon ship: Veronica/Logan! They're my VM OTP.
Ship I don't like: Veronica/Duncan. That was like the worst of Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Riley all rolled into one. Gah. Can't tell you how thrilled I was when he ran off to Mexico.

Also - you haven't missed anything on the non-writing front, just my muse being stubborn. I've had occasional vague notions of VM fic (mostly while watching season 1, trying to get Veronica and Logan together), but never wrote anything down. I read a fair amount of VM fic when the show was on, but haven't really paid attention this past year.

[teshara1973.livejournal.com]

for purly selfish reasons I wish you were writing fic too only because I love your spuffy and your angst!!! (oops did I say I like agnst out loud!!!! me bad!!)

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Nothing wrong with liking angst. I'll admit it freely - of course, it'd be hard to deny, considering the fic I write. :) I don't think I could write fluffy Spuffy if my life depended on it.

And I will be happy to get back to writing, just as soon as I get some inspiration. I've been fiddling around with a couple different things, but nothing worth posting.

[randi2204]

I think I'll take a hint from your name, too, and ask about LotR.

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Disclaimer: Although I love LOTR, I've never even taken a peek at the fandom (I first read the books way before there was a fandom to get into). And as I mentioned on your LJ, I don't see LOTR as a very pairing-centric work, so I don't have much to work with.

I feel like this meme comes out sounding rather self-centered, lol, but it's hard to vary the pairings when I have no conception of non-canon ships, and there's only maybe 3 canon pairings in the whole thing.

Non-canon ship: Can I say Aragorn/Eowyn? It's only canon in a one-sided kind of way...
Canon ship: Eowyn/Faramir. I think Eowyn deserved the King of Middle Earth, but Faramir was a decent second choice.
Ship I don't like: Aragorn/Arwen. Not only because of Eowyn, although the comparison doesn't help. I just dislike Arwen in general, wet blanket that she was, and she wasn't really suited to Aragorn. I disliked her even more in the movie, because they tried to turn her into Eowyn to make her more worthy of Aragorn. Bah.

[randi2204]

I agree - if you're not into all the 'shipping post-movie, LotR is not a very pairing-centric fandom, and I must apologize for limiting you in that way. I wish I'd thought of this before, but if you wanted, you could include the non "'ship" relationships, such as the friendship between Merry and Pippin. I'd consider it perfectly acceptable if you want to revise your answers. ^^

In the books, Arwen simply did not have that great a role, and that made it difficult to consider whether she was "worthy" of Aragorn or not. Her non-presence made her rather a cipher. (JRRT was much more intent on telling the story of the adventure and creating the mythology, and gave short shrift to some of his female characters.) So, because there needs to be a strong female lead - or at least, she's got to have screentime, which she did not in the books - in a movie to bring appropriate focus to the Hero's Love Story, they had to increase Arwen's role (cutting out Glorfindel in FotR, the "dying" scenes in TTT, etc.) in order to make her more present and thus more worthy. Or so it would appear to me. It's been a couple of years since my last reading, and inevitably, the characterizations from the movies are getting tangled up with those from the books in my head.

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Oh, no worries, I don't need to revise. :) To be honest, it wasn't until I tried to think of pairings that I realized how little I consider them.

Tolkien did give short shrift to many female characters, which is what made Eowyn stand out to me. She's the only one who really has what you'd call a character arc, and it's a damn good one, too. She really overshadows Arwen, which is why it always seemed strange to me that Arwen the non-entity ends up with the big hero. I can understand why they had to beef up Arwen's role for the movie, but I don't have to like it. :)

Now that I'm thinking about it, it says a lot about our story-telling conventions, that it's imperative for the movie hero to have a worthy love interest, to the point of departing from the source material to create a worthy love interest when there is none. It's an integral part of the modern adventure story - or almost any story, come to think of it. LOTR is so very striking in that most of its heroes (and it's unusual that there are so many to begin with) don't get a romance at all.

[dee81.livejournal.com]

I'm a little late, but how about Friday Night Lights? :)

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Ooh, good one. :)

Non-canon ship: Tim/Julie. There was just so much potential during those episodes when he was living with the Taylors, and I think he could use Coach as a father figure.
Canon ship: Matt/Julie. Still the most adorable couple on the planet.
Ship I don't like: Tim/Lyla. I pretty much don't like Lyla at all (although she and Street had a few endearing moments), and Tim's just starting to look desperate now. Give it up, man. Have some self-respect. (Also, if Lyla turns him into a good Christian, I will be very cranky. I want my bad boy!)