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

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"Okay," says Nino automatically, "bye," and hangs up after Jun leaves him with the dial tone.

He stares at the tv for a while, blankly, but he doesn't turn the game back on because for the life of him, he can't remember what exactly the brilliant strategy that he had just figured out was. He wanders downstairs into the kitchen, grabs a rice ball from the fridge and stands munching it and looking out the window.

His Mom comes home from running errands or something, "Tadaima"s, wanders into the kitchen and kisses his cheek and says something about dinner or his dad or maybe his job, Nino's not sure.

"In love," Nino mutters, frowning, and wanders out of the room before she can say anything else.

In the front hall he kicks off his slippers and steps into the closest pair of shoes - black and brown long-toed dress laceups, even though there's snow on the ground and he probably shouldn't get them wet - and walks out the door. On the step he stops and takes a few more bites of the riceball. His mom's rice balls are the best.

"Fuck," Nino mutters to himself, "Sex?" Then he walks down the path, kicking slush out of the way, and opens the gate. No one's gotten the mail yet today, and there's a sealed letter from his agent inside. He closes the lid again and leaves it there, and just then he remembers the way Jun said heart-breakingly and feels something hard and tight squish inside his chest, not exactly like a heart breaking, but maybe like his heart just got kicked in the guts, or elbowed with Aiba's bony elbows.

His hoodie's not meant for wearing outside and the wind is cold and cutting right through it; if he really wants to wander around like a homeless freak in a daze of personal crisis he should probably go back inside and grab a coat, Nino thinks, and takes another bite of riceball.

Ohno is standing at the end of his street wearing a fluffy parka with his hands clasped in front of him, his newly-bleached bangs blowing in the breeze. He looks small. He looks strong. He looks sad, his pointy little face smoothly expressionless until he meets Nino's eyes and it's like a cloud moving across the sun, not because he smiles but because his eyes come to life. He watches Nino come until Nino walks right up to him.

"Want some?" Nino offers him the rice ball.

Ohno nods solemnly and opens his mouth; Nino stuffs the edge of the rice ball in and Ohno takes a bite. While he chews, Nino unzips his parka - Ohno holds his arms out of the way cooperatively - and slips inside it with him. Good thing the parka is kind of big.

"Cold?" says Ohno calmly, with his mouth still full of half-chewed rice ball. He wraps his arms around Nino gingerly, pulling the coat around him. It doesn't close all the way.

Nino shrugs the question off. "Nnn." He tilts his head and regards Ohno's round girly face, the dusting of unshaven stubble around his mouth, the sleek droop of his long narrow eyes.

Ohno lifts his eyes to Nino's face and stops chewing for a moment. He licks his lips and blinks, focusing closely on Nino's face, something that Ohno has to consciously do because his default setting is a vague undirected gaze that only focuses directly on you when you grab his attention. Nino has been trying hard, demanding, extorting that look of focus from Ohno for years.

Nino eats the last bite of riceball himself, though he kind of has to stuff it in his mouth and it's a little hard to maneuver his arm up inside the confines of the coat. He puts his hand down on Ohno's shoulder after, wrapping his other arm around Ohno's waist comfortably. Ohno's unfazed by Nino in his personal space, of course, he's been used to it for years. He just tightens his arms around Nino a little, and doesn't say anything after he finishes chewing and swallowing.