shipping meme

  prozacpark tagged me for this the other day, though I've seen it before.

Six Ships I Love
1. Laura Holt/Remington Steele (Remington Steele)
2. Shuri/Sarasa (Basara)
3. Chae-Ohk/Hwangbo Yoon (Damo)
4. Sara/Ian (Witchblade)
5. Kyo/Yuya (Samurai Deeper Kyo)
6. Will/Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean)

SIX????  I CAN ONLY HAVE SIX???  Shouldn't I at least be allowed 10?  This meme is MEAN by only allowing you such a small number...No real order...just which popped to mind first...the first three will pretty much ALWAYS immediately pop to mind, though.

Three Ships I Liked, But Don't Anymore
7. Nightwing/Oracle (DC Comics)
8. Wes/Fred (Angel)
9. Paige/Jono (Generation X)

This was actually harder...I rarely STOP liking ships...it's more like "something happened to make the shipping irrelevant anyway" than "liked, but don't anymore"

Three Ships I Don't Like
10. Scott/Emma (X-Men)
11. Jack/Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean)
12. Sara/Gleason (Witchblade)

Now that?  Appalling easy.

Two Ships I Am Curious About, But Don't Actually Ship
13. Spike/Ilyria (Angel)
14. Jayne/River (Firefly/Serenity)

*looks at the questions*  HEY! Can I go back and changes the order a bit?  No? Darn.

I tried as hard as I could to avoid spoilers.  I think anything that's a spoiler is a year to several years old for US comics.

( cut for 20 questions about the various ships )

I hereby tag everyone on my flist who's remotely prone to shipping and hasn't done this yet, and think those who have should link me to their posts in case I missed it.

ETA:  The OTP in the icon is Sara/Ian.  Strong, capable heroine who kicks serious butt. but whose personal life is a shambles + hot, angsty assassin obsessed with her and their shared destiny=complete win. 

shipping meme

  prozacpark tagged me for this the other day, though I've seen it before.

Six Ships I Love
1. Laura Holt/Remington Steele (Remington Steele)
2. Shuri/Sarasa (Basara)
3. Chae-Ohk/Hwangbo Yoon (Damo)
4. Sara/Ian (Witchblade)
5. Kyo/Yuya (Samurai Deeper Kyo)
6. Will/Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean)

SIX????  I CAN ONLY HAVE SIX???  Shouldn't I at least be allowed 10?  This meme is MEAN by only allowing you such a small number...No real order...just which popped to mind first...the first three will pretty much ALWAYS immediately pop to mind, though.

Three Ships I Liked, But Don't Anymore
7. Nightwing/Oracle (DC Comics)
8. Wes/Fred (Angel)
9. Paige/Jono (Generation X)

This was actually harder...I rarely STOP liking ships...it's more like "something happened to make the shipping irrelevant anyway" than "liked, but don't anymore"

Three Ships I Don't Like
10. Scott/Emma (X-Men)
11. Jack/Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean)
12. Sara/Gleason (Witchblade)

Now that?  Appalling easy.

Two Ships I Am Curious About, But Don't Actually Ship
13. Spike/Ilyria (Angel)
14. Jayne/River (Firefly/Serenity)

*looks at the questions*  HEY! Can I go back and changes the order a bit?  No? Darn.

I tried as hard as I could to avoid spoilers.  I think anything that's a spoiler is a year to several years old for US comics.

( cut for 20 questions about the various ships )

I hereby tag everyone on my flist who's remotely prone to shipping and hasn't done this yet, and think those who have should link me to their posts in case I missed it.

ETA:  The OTP in the icon is Sara/Ian.  Strong, capable heroine who kicks serious butt. but whose personal life is a shambles + hot, angsty assassin obsessed with her and their shared destiny=complete win. 

Strange Tales of Liao Zhai: Xiao Cui

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Ok, I THOUGHT I adored Xiao Qian, but it's no comparison to this one.  Of the three Liao Zhai stories, this one is the first "True Love conquers all" story(Xiao Qian was "redemption through true love") It also has some similarities to one of my favorite fairy tales, "The Snow Queen"  One day, a man seeking shelter from a storm sees a wounded fox and saves it.  Later, he learns that the fox is a female fox-demon, and she promises him that if he ever needs anything, to call her and she will help him in repayment for his kindness.  Thirty years later, the man, Wang, is a government official and has a grown son named Yuan Feng, who he loves very much.  Yuan Feng is very kind and sweet and good hearted, and very strong and a good fighter, but he is also very, very simple. Wang calls the fox-demon and asks her if she can make Yuan Feng smart, or if not that, help him to gain a good wife who will take care of him and not hold his simplicity against him.  The fox-demon has a daughter named Xiao Cui who, while very good with magic, is very childlike and she worries that Xiao Cui will fall prey to one of her enemies, and she sends Xiao Cui to Wang, thinking it will solve both their problems.

Xiao Cui and Yuan Feng  are married, and soon fall in love with the love of innocent children who are obviously meant to grow up and make babies, and they are cute on levels that should not be legal.  However, Yuan Feng wishes he were smarter so that he could make his father proud and Xiao Cui knows that he wants this and that if Yuan Feng were smarter, it would make her in-laws-who welcomed her like their own daughter-happy.  She falls prey to the schemes of a snake demon who is an enemy of her mother, who says she can help Xiao Cui make Yuan Feng smarter.

It does make him smart, but it also makes him cold and cruel, and places him under the control of the snake-demon(it also changes him from adorably cute to absurdly hott, but that's irrelevant).  Xiao Cui, though, like any good heroine is far from content to lose him without a fight, and she sets out to break the spell and get him back.

( I bring you vids with insane levels of cute and probably some angst )

Strange Tales of Liao Zhai: Xiao Cui

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Ok, I THOUGHT I adored Xiao Qian, but it's no comparison to this one.  Of the three Liao Zhai stories, this one is the first "True Love conquers all" story(Xiao Qian was "redemption through true love") It also has some similarities to one of my favorite fairy tales, "The Snow Queen"  One day, a man seeking shelter from a storm sees a wounded fox and saves it.  Later, he learns that the fox is a female fox-demon, and she promises him that if he ever needs anything, to call her and she will help him in repayment for his kindness.  Thirty years later, the man, Wang, is a government official and has a grown son named Yuan Feng, who he loves very much.  Yuan Feng is very kind and sweet and good hearted, and very strong and a good fighter, but he is also very, very simple. Wang calls the fox-demon and asks her if she can make Yuan Feng smart, or if not that, help him to gain a good wife who will take care of him and not hold his simplicity against him.  The fox-demon has a daughter named Xiao Cui who, while very good with magic, is very childlike and she worries that Xiao Cui will fall prey to one of her enemies, and she sends Xiao Cui to Wang, thinking it will solve both their problems.

Xiao Cui and Yuan Feng  are married, and soon fall in love with the love of innocent children who are obviously meant to grow up and make babies, and they are cute on levels that should not be legal.  However, Yuan Feng wishes he were smarter so that he could make his father proud and Xiao Cui knows that he wants this and that if Yuan Feng were smarter, it would make her in-laws-who welcomed her like their own daughter-happy.  She falls prey to the schemes of a snake demon who is an enemy of her mother, who says she can help Xiao Cui make Yuan Feng smarter.

It does make him smart, but it also makes him cold and cruel, and places him under the control of the snake-demon(it also changes him from adorably cute to absurdly hott, but that's irrelevant).  Xiao Cui, though, like any good heroine is far from content to lose him without a fight, and she sets out to break the spell and get him back.

( I bring you vids with insane levels of cute and probably some angst )