fandom meme?

[melannen]

It's a weird day, y'all, and it's been awhile since I've done something like this, so: have a shipping meme.

Give me a fandom in the comments and I will tell you which pairing or poly ship in that fandom:

1. Is the forever ship of my heart
2. Is the one I don't have a lot of feelings about but know I can always go back to for long comfort fic
3. Has the best porn
4. Is just NO

(Caveat: fandom must be large enough to have significant amounts of fic for at least four pairings)
(Caveat 2: it does not have to be a fandom you have heard me talk about much or recently, because let's face it, if it has that much fic I have probably read enough to be able to answer these, although that is not a dare.)
(Caveat 3: all answers to 4 are in the spirit of ykinmkato because I am enough of an Old to believe in that.)

Comments

[melannen]

Have you watched the Christmas crossover special? Rizzo spends the night in Oscar's can, it's practically canon!

I had not read that one! THANK YOU. (I think the only actual explicit Muppet porn I've read either involved Farscape characters, Star Wars characters, or that one Angel episode, none of which quite count.)

I recently learned that there are people who think Honeydew/Beaker is squee-worthy and it made me sad. Beaker is awesome but someone really needs to give him the number for a domestic abuse hotline and/or an academic union organizer.


I ship Thomas/Having Been Happy For Awhile Before The War as a specific subset of Thomas/Good Things, but I feel you. And I have been enjoying the heck out of the Thomas/Abdul that is turning up on AO3 lately, but I sometimes think that maybe Abdul deserves better than Thomas, and also I feel like there must be a lot of Dr. Walid in the canon I haven't gotten my hands on yet because people keep referencing things I don't remember, so I don't personally ship it (yet).

I am not super in to master/apprentice as a dynamic, but (like a lot of people) I got into the fandom via the Wizardry by Consent au, which does not have that dynamic. Also , Peter being Peter, this pairing is probably the power differential pairing I've read that does the best job of being super into healthy communication about the power issues and doing everything possible to mitigate it before the relationship goes anywhere. (But, Beverly exists, so, the m/m version is not the ship of my heart. And Beverly/Peter/Nightingale is interesting because in the wider politics Nightingale and Beverly each sort of think the other one outranks them except not, and Peter sort of has power over both worlds because as the mediator neither side can afford to lose him, so moving that into an OT3 of three people who already respect each other a lot just does super interesting things to the power dynamics.)

...I think I am with you on Molly and porn. As long as you could sell me that Molly was into it.

[jadelennox]

Beaker Becomes A Union Member And Eventually A Labor Organizer is my new headcanon.

[melannen]

Yes good.