NaNoBloPo: Day Eleven

[author_by_night]

Talk about your ships.

First, in general ships have never mattered to me that much. With some exceptions.

Doomed ships? Pretty much every Joss Whedon show I've ever watched, or movie made after the show was cancelled. Especially Wesley/Fred. That lasted what, five minutes?

Ships that never were? Well, technically this WAS, but Ann/Tom from Parks and Rec - they were never written as a serious couple, and I sort of wish they'd tried to be more serious with them. As we know from Wendy, Tom really does know how to treat a woman when he stops being so... Tommy and just regular ol' Tom.

Canon ships?

Ron/Hermione (Harry Potter): I love their dynamic throughout the series as characters, and that's why they work for me as a romantic couple. I just love the way they're two sides of the same coin, and how they seem to bond through protecting Harry.

April/Andy (Parks and Recreation): April brings out the best in Andy, and vice versa.

Monica/Chandler (Friends): I may mostly like this ship because it was everything Rachel/Ross wasn't, and why I hated Rachel/Ross. If they fought, they made up like adults, and they didn't bring up old problems constantly. And in the end, I felt the show was really their story more than Rachel and Ross's, as much as the show wanted us to believe otherwise. They even got a very serious story arc, infertility and exploring other options. I believed they were a mature couple in their thirties in the end, whereas Rachel and Ross always felt like stupid early twenty somethings.

Wash/Zoe (Firefly): I love the way they interact. I love the softness Wash brings out in Zoe, how clearly in love they are, etc.

And I've added a category...

Types of ships that bug you?

I'm kind of getting sick of young women with unusual or *meaningful* names (Nymphadora, Buffy, Willow, Bella Swann) falling in love with brooding dark creatures who dump them for their own good. I don't necessarily hate the ships in question (except Bella/Edward, but I'm not exactly a Twilight fan), I just don't like how they end up being handled. I realize that there has to be some angst, but if you're going to love a lady, don't tell her she makes you crazy and you're worried your inner monster will hurt her. Or if you do, for once can she hit you in the head with something as opposed to crying as you disappear into the blue?