When it comes to shipping, I am the absolute, most predictable person in the world.
Every time I enter a new fandom, I find the exact same relationships and I ship them until forever.
Same with favourite characters. Female characters that get a lot of hate is like, my number one thing. Cercei in Game of Thrones, I was on that in like 2 seconds. She is the one. Does she murder people? Fuck yeah she does, but am I going to excuse that for the fact that she was treated terribly her whole life, abused by her husband the King, who she was married off to, the only loving relationship she has is that with her twin brother, her son turned out to be a psychopath, her younger brother was the cause of her mothers death in childbirth when she was eight, a fortune teller told her that her brother would eventually take all her happiness and turn in to dust and just in general she is a sad, sad person who has nothing in her life to live for and be happy about bar her children and Jaime, and now she has lost those as well, so yeah, I am going to excuse that she is pretty callous, self serving and perhaps evil. Santana is also like that.
I also have a soft spot for incest pairings in extreme situations. Wincest, Violet/Klaus, Cathy/Chris, Jaime/Cercei, Dexter/Debra (jeez, I have a lot, did not realise that). Like I said, I'm predictable. The relationships I am drawn to are the people that know each other best, that understand each other best, that have been around for the longest. That also explains Katniss/Gale, Ellie/Homer, Bella/Jacob, Harry/Hermione, Beckett/Castle and of course, Brittany/Santana. (Santana is also Cersei level of evil and I-will-stan-until-the-day-I-die). But those are my best friend pairings. Abby/Tony or Tony/Gibbs can also fit into this category based on headcanon. I totally believe that Tony and Abby would have been an incredible pairing back in the early seasons of NCIS. It's been years though, since they really had any significant interaction and they lost that spark, as did pretty much all characters in NCIS really... I haven't shipped Tony/Gibbs hard since about season six, and Tony/Abby I see more, pre-series to season three. A different era. And I just couldn't get properly invested in Tiva. I wanted to be and for awhile I was, but I don't like my ships to be nasty to each other. I don't like the ones that snipe in a mean spirited way or don't appreciate the core aspects of the other person and I don't think Ziva ever really saw the real Tony and I always knew that Gibbs did.
For awhile, I kind of had a Abby/ Gibbs thing. I want to say that goes against my regular shipping policies as younger girl/ much older man isn't really something I support in real life, and that is generally how it works, but I totally found another ship that I also ship that, with April/ Ron. And it's not serious, my real ship for April fits my Tony/Abby theme of 'my dysfunction matches yours' with April/Andy, which is also the best friends 'you make me laugh the hardest, I would spend all day at your house watching movies and drawing dicks on your face when you fall asleep' category. Oh, and Barney/Robin, for sure. Fuck the HIMYM finale, the fight about her job was because he found out she was working for SHIELD and the divorce was a lie, fuck anyone who says otherwise.
So I don't know what this April/Ron fascination is, but all I want to do right now is write a zombie apocalypse story where it is just them and it's very angsty and it's just them and eventually they start having wild crazy sex, it that weird? It totally is, I don't even give a fuck. It's a weird power fantasy I think.
I just really like shipping, it's my favourite part about TV shows. Like, it's not for everyone but it makes me really happy. The only show that I watch without ships is Orphan Black. Normally, if I show has a lesbian couple, I am on that, but I don't really like Cosima/Delphine and my principles do not allow me to ship a couple just because they are girls, and couples that meet and date without the 5+ years of being friends first and going through adventures together is not really my cup of tea.
Like, Destiel doesn't really fit my requirements, which is why I love Wincest and Megstiel as well, but after 2 seasons together, Dean and Castiel had gone through so much shit together, I was ready to give it to them. Plus, they have a fucking profound bond, so fight me. Now, I don't ship it so much but that's the shows fault for making them act like awkward colleagues rather than brothers in arms or close friends. Normally, unless shows spend a lot of time hardcore developing a pairing that was introduced over the course of a show, I won't ship it, because a lot of my headcanon and fondness for ships is from the many years of their relationship that I know came before the show. Daryl/Carol is one of my exceptions to this. With them, I just need to know that in their situation, they are partners. They would chose each other for a heart-to-heart, Carol would automatically be assumed to be riding on the back of Daryl's bike, if people have to share rooms, they'd pair up. Whether that is purely headcanon, we will have to find out in season 5! If not, fanfiction.
And it isn't that I only appreciate romantic relationships. I have so much serious love for friendships as well. Like, the unholy trinity, Quinn and Rachel, literally everyone in Parks and Rec with literally everyone in Parks and Rec (except Jerry obv), sibling relationships, parental relationships, my love of positive female friendship is beyond anything else.
But shipping! Argh, it just makes me so happy, and I love how many ships I have, because it just means that there are SO MANY worlds, that I can just jump into, and have all of these ideas and feels over characters and their relationships with each other and the dynamics of that and oh god, I just love it.
I know this is the most boring post ever but my last 8 posts have been half written and just sit as drafts and I just gunned this out, and I literally mentioned 22 different ships from about 10 or 15 different shows and series that I like so that's a lot of universes to play around it.
Anyway, it's 2am, time for Game of Thrones!
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