fandom meme!

[janie_tangerine]

Real post is happening tomorrow. It'll probably be long, ee. But for now..

Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.

Well, I'm game. ;)

Comments

[sin-stained-ink.livejournal.com]

What pairing did you never expect to be interested in?

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

Anything in The Vampire Diaries, to be entirely honest. I started watching it because Ian Somerhalder was in it and I didn't care about the rest, then I started shipping Damon/Alaric but I figured okay, after all it's still IS's character. Then they did something between latter S1 and early S2 and right now I'm finding myself shipping Caroline/pretty much everyone (especially Tyler and/or Matt), Jeremy/Bonnie (?!!!!!!!!!! but I kinda do ship it) and STEFAN/ELENA. Which is like, everything I usually hate or don't care for (I mean, het ship, prone to cause disgusting fluff, he's a vampire and she's a human and it's so cliché I should feel ashamed? I usually ship slash, dammit) but idk why I dig it. Idk where I went from 'okay Ian is hot whatever' to 'WTF I SHIP EVERYONE WITH EVERYONE' but apparently it happened. XD for the rest I'm usually very predictable, but just saying that I ship random het would be enough to make me feel strange. XD

[sin-stained-ink.livejournal.com]

Oh, great answer. I've never really seen TVD, apart from part of one of the first episodes.

I usually ship slash, dammit reminded me of something I saw that said something along the lines of 'when you've read so much slash that you think OMG there are girl parts in this!'

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

The first episodes were kinda crap tbh, it got good after the S1 hiatus. Then it got better and then it got kinda awesome, and every time I watch it I always feel like '... when did you start surprising me, guilty pleasure show?' XD and ha lol that's so true! I'm not until that point, but generally I ship slash stuff where two guys have deep platonic stuff going on at least in canon, and if I ship het it's generally some sidelines thing. When I realized that I actually shipped the main couple and that it was HET and it was everything I usually not give a damn about made me feel pretty much like that XDDD

anyway if you'd rather have a SPN answer so that at least I don't pile you with stuff you haven't seen... uhm. It might seem strange now since everyone knows what I ship mainly but.. Dean/Cas, actually. XD or at least, at the beginning of S4 I was like 'uhm, this guy is pretty, could be slashed with Dean, that's an option' and I wrote it a couple times for friends rather than anything else. Then On The Head of a Pin happened and I got hit with a ton of slasher bricks, I saw the light, I realized that it wasn't an option and hi new OTP which actually stuck for three years. ;)

[sin-stained-ink.livejournal.com]

Surprise!OTP! I love the pairings that sneak up on you.