pairings i have loved. there are a lot of them.

[cimorene]

I'm going to try to make an exhaustive list of my OTPs (which I define as 'important ships which I read/ship', because occasionally I have two that overlap even if in general I refuse to break OTP and read the characters involved with anyone else). If I forget any of them, and you manage to remind me, I lose! And then, uh, I don't know, this seems like it should result in a drabble promise. I suck at short things, and I probably won't forget any anyway (I am forbidden from checking my recs page/delicious/tags/wip folders/etc!), but... what the hell. Drabbles, okay, drabbles of any pairing that I forgot.



LOTR:
Sam/Frodo
Merry/Pippin
Legolas/Gimli

LOTR RPS:
(at one time, then abandoned) Sean A/Elijah
Dom/Elijah
Dom/Billy
Karl/Viggo
Viggo/Orlando
(I've read other pairings, but they weren't OTPs. Orlijah, for example, or Billijah - I read a bit, but I never really liked it.)

Popslash:
Justin/Chris
JC/Lance
(I wrote a little bit of everything in this fandom, but I had my preferences.)

Star Trek TOS:
Kirk/Spock
Sulu/Chekov
Scotty/Uhura

TNG:
Picard/Q
Data/Geordi

DS9:
Garak/Bashir
Odo/Kira

HP:
Harry/Draco
Harry/Snape
Sirius/Remus
Luna/Neville
Percy/Neville

random RPS:
Tim Roth/Gary Oldman
Patrick Stewart/Brent Spiner
Those swimmer dudes from the '04 Summer Olympics, Ian Thorpe/some European guy
Richard Dean Anderson/Michael Shanks
Santino Rice/Andraé Gonzalo (Project Runway)
Johnny Depp/Orlando Bloom
Keira Knightley/Clive Owen/Ioan Gruffuld
(I've written a handful of rps pieces in other pairings that were one-offs, which I didn't seek out to read or ship)

Askewniverse: Jay/Silent Bob
Batman: Batman/Gordon
comics: Superboy(Kon-El)/Robin (Tim Drake)
Die Hard 4: John/Matt
Due South: Fraser/Kowalski
Finding Nemo: Nemo/Gill
Gokusen: Yankumi/Shin
Good Omens: Aziraphale/Crowley
Highlander: Duncan/Methos
Hikaru no Go: Hikaru/Akira, Isumi/Waya
Hot Fuzz: Nicholas/Danny
I ♥ Huckabees: Albert/Brad
Jeeves & Wooster: Jeeves/Wooster
King Arthur (movie): Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot
Labyrinth: Jareth/Sarah
Meantime (although I've only written, not read it): Coxy/Colin
Phantom of the Opera: Christine/Phantom
Poirot: Poirot/Hastings
POTC: Jack/Will/Elizabeth
RAGAD: Rosencrantz/Guildenstern
Sentinel: Jim/Blair
SG1: Jack/Daniel
SGA: John/Rodney
She-Ra: She-Ra/Frosta
Sherlock Holmes: Holmes/Watson
Singin' in the Rain: Don/Kathy/Cosmo
Smallville: Clark/Lex
Sports Night: Dan/Casey
Star Wars TPM: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan
Starsky & Hutch: (you guessed it) Starsky/Hutch
The Dark Is Rising: Will/Bran
The Pros: Bodie/Doyle
The West Wing: Josh/Donna, Josh/Sam, CJ/Toby
Tombraider: Hilary/Brice (the butler and the hacker)

Bandslash:
Frank/Gerard
Ray/Bob
Pete/Patrick
Pete/Mikey
Ryan/Brendon
Bill/Travis
Alex/Ryland
(It's probable that I've read pairings not in this list, but if they're not here I probably actively disliked them, or even hated them with fiery passion)

Prince of Tennis: (in paragraph form because there are too many of these bitches)
Seigaku: Tezuka/Ryoma, Fuji/Taka, Eiji/Oishi, Momo/Kaidoh, Fuji/Inui, Inui/Kaidoh; Crossover: Inui/Yanagi; Hyotei: Oshitari/Gakuto, Ohtori/Shishido, Atobe/Jiroh; Crossover: Atobe/Sanada; Rikkai: Yukimura/Sanada, Yanagi/Kirihara, Niou/Yagyuu; Fudomine: Kamio/Shinji; Jyosei Shonan: Kajimoto/Wakato; Rokkaku: Bane/Davide; St Rudolph: Mizuki/Yuuta; Yamabuki: Akutsu/Dan, Akutsu/Sengoku

ETA:

Criminal Minds: Garcia/Morgan (bluesbell spotted it)
Arashi: Ohno/Nino (kegom and aeslis spotted it) and Aiba/Jun (jain spotted it)

ETA again the ones I forgot that no one mentioned:

CSI: Nick/Greg, Catherine/Warrick, Gil/Sara
CSI NY: Danny/Mac
The Fast and the Furious: Dom/Brian
Master & Commander: Aubrey/Maturin
Lawrence of Arabia/A Dangerous Man: Lawrence/Feisal

Comments

[bluesbell.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot of shipping, miss! Apropos, your delicious links have provided me with a lot of McShep goodness in the past few days, for which I am grateful. MmmmcShep. (I wouldn't mind reading other pairings- Rodney/Carson, for instance- but it's more difficult to find the good stuff with less popular pairings).

[kegom.livejournal.com]

This is interesting - I never knew you once liked Garak/Bashir! (I'm excited over that one, because it was pretty much the first slash pairing I ever noticed or was interested in on TV.)


I think you also once shipped Arashi's Ohmiya? At least you wrote a couple of fics for them, if I recall correctly.

[copracat]

You know Ian Thorpe was recently quoted as saying he was in a relationship with someone who lives overseas. *squee* Totally Pieter van den Hoogenband.

(Although possibly not since I believe he's married with kids but never mind! Love Match!)

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Sadly I tend to define my OTPs as 'pairings that I love (as an idea)' rather than 'pairings that I read / spend time actively shipping'. So it'd pretty much be an INFINITE list.

I guess I could try listing just the most important ones, but I never know where to draw the line, so it'd still turn into that same INFINITE list. D:

[dexwebster]

Those swimmer dudes from the '04 Summer Olympics, Ian Thorpe/some European guy

Pieter van den Hoogenband?

[thesewordselope.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Now I have to go back and reread the manly yet gay camping adventure. I completely forgot about the wonder that is Karl/Viggo.

[aeslis]

I totally forgot about your Yankumi/Shin shipping.

Man. I'd love to see you write a fic about that, though.

[someblazingstar.livejournal.com]

Damn, woman! Then again, I used to ship, but am now such a fandom whore that I'll read almost any pairing where I find the participants attractive and the dynamic interesting. Which means I won't read, say, Jack/Ianto, because even though I think they're both cuties I find their relationship really boring (much like Torchwood itself, honestly), but meanwhile I've been reading some Sam/Dean lately even though I've only watched 3 full episodes of Supernatural and found it to be unbearably crappy, and I used to read a bunch of Duncan/Methos in spite of it having the same problem. I'll read pretty much anything if it's written well and the author makes it hot and convincing, though; there are just certain pairings I lean towards because they're more likely to be written well, or away from largely because I've found it to be rare that anyone writes them well. (Like, I would like Gerard/Mikey in theory, what with my apparently being an incest-loving perv, but it's so rare to find fics that aren't overly melodramatic or overly casual or where the author feels the need to turn Gerard into a V.C. Andrews-style creepy rapist to make it work, and ugh.) I also tend to have favourite authors where I'll just read pretty much anything they write, almost regardless of fandom, because I know it'll be good if it's coming from them. I'm not sure if this means I'm open-minded, or just indiscriminate, even shallow...

[jain]

What about Arashi: Aiba/Matsujun? I know you've written them, but I don't know if they qualify as an OTP for you.

[brandysniffer.livejournal.com]

Scotty/Uhura's the only one I have issue with. TOoo too weird! (bitch, moan of sickness, please...)