10 Ships

[melannen]

So there is a meme in which people list ten of their favorite ships that no-one may ever break up, and they try to get people to see if they all have anything in common! So here's some of the 'ships that I'm totally tinhat about, where you can do whatever you want in the story as long as you keep my ship in and I'll be happy:

1. James T. Kirk/Enterprise (Also, Enterprise/Everyone)
2. Jack Sparrow/Black Pearl/Barbossa
3. River Tam/Serenity (Also, Kaylee, Mal, Wash & Inara/Serenity: they're not with each other, they're just all with her.) (The Enterprise crew are all with each other too, though.)
4. the Doctor/the TARDIS (also, the Doctor/Bessie.)
5. Stephen Colbert/the Colbert Report
6. Han Solo/Millennium Falcon/Lando Calrissian
7. Ray Vecchio/the Riv (theirs is a doomed and tragic love.)
8. Dean Winchester/the Impala
9. John Sheppard/Atlantis/Rodney McKay
10. Bruce Wayne/Gotham City

...I may, on occasion, take the word "ship" slightly too literally...

(I was listening to my book on tape of "Presumption of Death" yesterday, for my Dorothy Sayers/Torchwood fest fic that's now officially two days overdue, and I got to the bit where Flying Officer Jerry Wimsey of the RAF is describing what it feels like to stroke a spitfire, and I kind of melted. I mean, young Jerry was win *anyway*, but when you add my pre-existing weakness for flying aces... yeah. mmmmmm.)

Comments

[bessemerprocess]

hehehe :) This is all very true. I like my ships to have ships too.

[melannen]

Ships with ships in them are the best ships of all! (Also see: cities, computers, cars, countries, abstract principles, weapons.)

[stellar_dust]

Somehow one of my aerospace teachers that took us on field trips imprinted in my head the bumper-sticker phrase "have you stroked an airplane today?"

FYI.

[melannen]

I ... did he mean in the "loving caress" way, or some sort of engineering pun on, like, engine maintenance or something?

(You know Kirk strokes the Enterprise all the time.

And Sheppard stroking Atlantis is basically canon at this point.)

[stellar_dust]

Oh, loving caress, definitely. In a "sometimes, I just like to come out here and touch them, you know?" kind of way.

Doctor/TARDIS and Jack/Pearl strokes are 100% canon.

[melannen]

Jack/Pearl stroking is not only canon, it's pornographically canon.

[dancesontrains]

Your ships are my favourite kind of ships <3333

[melannen]

Yay! There should be a ship 'shipping challenge or archive or something. Other than brains_in_a_jar.

[crantz]

I'm keeping my inanimate objects away from you.

[melannen]

There's no such thing as an inanimate object, only things that haven't been loved thoroughly enough. At least, that's what I learned from The Velveteen Rabbit.

:P

[caitlin]

Han Solo/Millennium Falcon/Lando Calrissian

I SO totally agree with this! =D

[lady_ganesh]

Dude, I thought that was canon!

[caitlin]

you mean it isn't?!

given the way Han and Lando acted in Empire Strikes back, etc?

Come on! Perfect triangle! =D The Falcon is the chick in the middle! ;)

[lady_ganesh]

:D

[melannen]

This is trufax. :D

The only part of "Jedi Academy Trilogy" that makes me go back and re-read: the parts where the Falcon is playing Han and Lando against each other.

[lady_ganesh]

Working relationships!

[melannen]

See, I wish, but Jack/Pearl pretty much defines "dysfunctional." (She tries desperately to get away from him! He is crazy-eyed, obsessive stalker! There is a murder-suicide! She runs off with his ex-bff but he refuses to admit it's over! Repeatedly! ...yeah.)

Stephen/the Report defines "codependent". And I'm not sure what's up with Bruce and his city, but, um, they are not exactly a *model* couple. For a start.

1, 6, 7, 8, and 10 are probably the healthiest relationships they each have, though. :D

[lady_ganesh]

I didn't say healthy partnerships, did I? :D

I believe you're right!