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A few weeks ago I was like "Rargh I am bored I want school to start!"
And then right when school was about to start I got sick. Because my body loves me just that much. So I've spent the last week and a half with approximately zero energy and I already feel like I'm drowning in school. And now I have taken allergy pills and I am going to go to bed, but before I do that I am going to do this pairings meme, because it doesn't require much brain-effort at all and I feel like I've been neglecting DW/LJ in favour of Tumblr. (Which is a lot easier to do when you're sick.) Included are things I have had Feelings and/or Opinions about in the last week or so. Mostly DC, because fandom of my heart.
List Nine Pairings You're Into Right Now:
1 Arthur/Guenever/Lancelot (Once and Future King)
2 Babs/Dinah
3 Deadshot/Catman
4 Scandal/Knockout
5 Steph/Cass
6 Tim/Steph/Jason
7 Renee/Helena
8 Babs/Jason
9 Curt/Mandy (Velvet Goldmine)
List Four Pairings You Don't Really Like:
10 Steph/Kara
11 Dick/Damian
12 Tim/Cassie
13 Bruce/Diana
What would be your ideal scenario for couple three?
I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I have spent uh way too many hours thinking about this! Like, okay, for anything to happen would involve Deadshot admitting that he has normal human emotions sometimes. Which theoretically never happens (but actually happens every six issues or so)! I desperately want something to actually happen but at the same time I think it's perfectly in-character for them to dance around each other, being awkwardly bromancey half the time and fighting to the death the other half, forever. Or until one of them is about to die or something. This makes me sad, because I am stupidly emotionally invested!
BUT I think I could almost make them have sex if Jeannette is there too? Because she would totally be into that, and Lawton needs a chaperone to make sure she doesn't get weird (CANON), and we all know how Blake feels about women who are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING TERRIFYING. But I don't know if I'd call that "ideal."
...I don't know if anything can be "ideal" when the Six are involved.
Which is your favorite moment for couple one?
THE CHAPTER WHERE LANCELOT FIRST MEETS GUENEVER. And he spends the entire first part of the chapter being jealous and hating her because she stole Arthur but then by the end he is in love with her too and ahhh you people, talk about your problems this terrible epic tragedy is not strictly necessary. DOOMED OT3 OF MY HEART.
I also love the bit where White explains Guenever, like "It would be easy to write her as some sort of man-eater temptress that everyone is in love with. But that's bullshit." and about how sometimes real people do stupid shit.
How long have you been following couple six?
Five years, or so? There was a fic, I think probably by Te, which was about Steph being possessed by Jason's ghost, and it did Things to the inside of my brain. Jason was already evil at the time I read it, and Steph was dead, so it's always been an Unpossible thing. Although they are all alive together right now! DC, GET ON THIS.
What's the story with eight?
Okay so there is one page. Not even a page you'd maybe expect, from that Gotham Knights story where they team up as Batman and Robin. It's a page where Babs is talking about how she wishes someone would just fucking shoot the Joker, for all he's done, and it's not like just crossing the line and shooting every criminal, this is different in an important way.... And I just. Damn. It sounded awfully familiar, and since then I've wanted to read a million stories about Oracle and Red Hood being bitter and having Joker issues together. It's a thing.
You have the power to make one ship non existent. Choose between ten or twelve.
Well, Steph and Kara were kind of cute that last issue, I'm just bitter because SHE ALREADY HAS A BEST FRIEND GTFO UNTIL CASS COMES BACK KARA (Which for the record is how I felt when Kara and Cassie started hanging out, only missing Cissie). But Tim/Cassie was clunkily, awkwardly canon for a while! So I would like that not to have happened, please. It was weird.
Which ship do you prefer, two or four?
THIS IS DIFFICULT. On the one hand, Babs & Dinah are my favourites forever, so I feel like overall that is probably the answer!
But on the other hand, this scene happened and it is the absolute sweetest.
If it were a matter of I get to choose: More Babs/Dinah in-canon or more Kay/Scandal in-canon, the answer is clearly Babs/Dinah. But if the question means more, which do you have more Ridiculous Feelings about right at this moment, it is Kay/Scandal, because I have ALL THE FEELINGS about Secret Six right now.
How do you feel about seven?
HUNTRESS/QUESTION CATHOLIC GUILT HOUR! OH THEY ARE SO GREAT. I miss Greg Rucka, I'm afraid they'll never interact again with him gone. (I want Renee to join the Birds so bad, you don't even.)
Does your affection for nine affect your love of theshowmovie?
Not... Really? I think they interact for maaaaybe five minutes. I'm not even sure why they are my OTP, but I have so many feelings! After everything has gone to shit, they could be... Well, not good for each other, really, but bad in sort of helpful ways! Nobody else understands what they have been through, not really! I just want to roll around in how gloriously broken everything is by the end of that movie, idek, maybe I am just a terrible person.
What's a song that reminds you of five?
I have been trying to find more songs for Steph & Cass! Today I was listening to Sleater-Kinney (because BEST, okay) and I think maybe Oh! can work for them? IDK.
Have two kissed yet?
Not in real comics that exist outside my head D:
This happened though. (Someday I will get tired of linking to that panel always. Today is not that day.)
Did four have a happy ending? If the show hasn't ended yet, do you think a happy ending is likely?
NOT SO MUCH, NO. WHAT WITH THE DEATH, AND ALL. But-- Get out of Hell free card! Dangling plot point! Kay will be back at some point, I have faith.
If only one could happen, which would you prefer, two or six?
DDDDD:
THIS IS MEEEAN. CAN I PICK BOTH? I can't pick both.
I am going to vote Babs/Dinah because then we can also have Steph/Cass, because apparently in the Gotham that exists in my head there are no straight girls.
You have the power to decide the fate of ten. What happens to them?
They can still be friends! They are adorable as friends! I just... Am terrified of Cass being forgotten. I mean she's already been replaced as Batgirl by a white blonde girl, I don't want her to be replaced as Steph's bestest friend by another blonde white girl, you know? (Dear DC: You officially have too many white blonde teenage girl heroes.)
Which was your original OTP?
Arthur/Guenever/Lancelot. So the first time I read that book, I had no idea that all the stuff about how much Lancelot loves Arthur was maybe not supposed to be read the way I took it, okay! It is a book about three people who are all in love and they keep being like, "AND IT WAS AWFUL, BECAUSE S/HE LOVED THEM BOTH EQUALLY." about every single one of them, and I was always like "...Why is this awful? TALK ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS, GUYS."
...It didn't help that I was just a kid and had no idea that wanting them to have a happy ending was sort of like wanting Romeo and Juliet to have a happy ending.
A few weeks ago I was like "Rargh I am bored I want school to start!"
And then right when school was about to start I got sick. Because my body loves me just that much. So I've spent the last week and a half with approximately zero energy and I already feel like I'm drowning in school. And now I have taken allergy pills and I am going to go to bed, but before I do that I am going to do this pairings meme, because it doesn't require much brain-effort at all and I feel like I've been neglecting DW/LJ in favour of Tumblr. (Which is a lot easier to do when you're sick.) Included are things I have had Feelings and/or Opinions about in the last week or so. Mostly DC, because fandom of my heart.
List Nine Pairings You're Into Right Now:
1 Arthur/Guenever/Lancelot (Once and Future King)
2 Babs/Dinah
3 Deadshot/Catman
4 Scandal/Knockout
5 Steph/Cass
6 Tim/Steph/Jason
7 Renee/Helena
8 Babs/Jason
9 Curt/Mandy (Velvet Goldmine)
List Four Pairings You Don't Really Like:
10 Steph/Kara
11 Dick/Damian
12 Tim/Cassie
13 Bruce/Diana
What would be your ideal scenario for couple three?
I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I have spent uh way too many hours thinking about this! Like, okay, for anything to happen would involve Deadshot admitting that he has normal human emotions sometimes. Which theoretically never happens (but actually happens every six issues or so)! I desperately want something to actually happen but at the same time I think it's perfectly in-character for them to dance around each other, being awkwardly bromancey half the time and fighting to the death the other half, forever. Or until one of them is about to die or something. This makes me sad, because I am stupidly emotionally invested!
BUT I think I could almost make them have sex if Jeannette is there too? Because she would totally be into that, and Lawton needs a chaperone to make sure she doesn't get weird (CANON), and we all know how Blake feels about women who are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING TERRIFYING. But I don't know if I'd call that "ideal."
...I don't know if anything can be "ideal" when the Six are involved.
Which is your favorite moment for couple one?
THE CHAPTER WHERE LANCELOT FIRST MEETS GUENEVER. And he spends the entire first part of the chapter being jealous and hating her because she stole Arthur but then by the end he is in love with her too and ahhh you people, talk about your problems this terrible epic tragedy is not strictly necessary. DOOMED OT3 OF MY HEART.
I also love the bit where White explains Guenever, like "It would be easy to write her as some sort of man-eater temptress that everyone is in love with. But that's bullshit." and about how sometimes real people do stupid shit.
How long have you been following couple six?
Five years, or so? There was a fic, I think probably by Te, which was about Steph being possessed by Jason's ghost, and it did Things to the inside of my brain. Jason was already evil at the time I read it, and Steph was dead, so it's always been an Unpossible thing. Although they are all alive together right now! DC, GET ON THIS.
What's the story with eight?
Okay so there is one page. Not even a page you'd maybe expect, from that Gotham Knights story where they team up as Batman and Robin. It's a page where Babs is talking about how she wishes someone would just fucking shoot the Joker, for all he's done, and it's not like just crossing the line and shooting every criminal, this is different in an important way.... And I just. Damn. It sounded awfully familiar, and since then I've wanted to read a million stories about Oracle and Red Hood being bitter and having Joker issues together. It's a thing.
You have the power to make one ship non existent. Choose between ten or twelve.
Well, Steph and Kara were kind of cute that last issue, I'm just bitter because SHE ALREADY HAS A BEST FRIEND GTFO UNTIL CASS COMES BACK KARA (Which for the record is how I felt when Kara and Cassie started hanging out, only missing Cissie). But Tim/Cassie was clunkily, awkwardly canon for a while! So I would like that not to have happened, please. It was weird.
Which ship do you prefer, two or four?
THIS IS DIFFICULT. On the one hand, Babs & Dinah are my favourites forever, so I feel like overall that is probably the answer!
But on the other hand, this scene happened and it is the absolute sweetest.
If it were a matter of I get to choose: More Babs/Dinah in-canon or more Kay/Scandal in-canon, the answer is clearly Babs/Dinah. But if the question means more, which do you have more Ridiculous Feelings about right at this moment, it is Kay/Scandal, because I have ALL THE FEELINGS about Secret Six right now.
How do you feel about seven?
HUNTRESS/QUESTION CATHOLIC GUILT HOUR! OH THEY ARE SO GREAT. I miss Greg Rucka, I'm afraid they'll never interact again with him gone. (I want Renee to join the Birds so bad, you don't even.)
Does your affection for nine affect your love of the
Not... Really? I think they interact for maaaaybe five minutes. I'm not even sure why they are my OTP, but I have so many feelings! After everything has gone to shit, they could be... Well, not good for each other, really, but bad in sort of helpful ways! Nobody else understands what they have been through, not really! I just want to roll around in how gloriously broken everything is by the end of that movie, idek, maybe I am just a terrible person.
What's a song that reminds you of five?
I have been trying to find more songs for Steph & Cass! Today I was listening to Sleater-Kinney (because BEST, okay) and I think maybe Oh! can work for them? IDK.
Have two kissed yet?
Not in real comics that exist outside my head D:
This happened though. (Someday I will get tired of linking to that panel always. Today is not that day.)
Did four have a happy ending? If the show hasn't ended yet, do you think a happy ending is likely?
NOT SO MUCH, NO. WHAT WITH THE DEATH, AND ALL. But-- Get out of Hell free card! Dangling plot point! Kay will be back at some point, I have faith.
If only one could happen, which would you prefer, two or six?
DDDDD:
THIS IS MEEEAN. CAN I PICK BOTH? I can't pick both.
I am going to vote Babs/Dinah because then we can also have Steph/Cass, because apparently in the Gotham that exists in my head there are no straight girls.
You have the power to decide the fate of ten. What happens to them?
They can still be friends! They are adorable as friends! I just... Am terrified of Cass being forgotten. I mean she's already been replaced as Batgirl by a white blonde girl, I don't want her to be replaced as Steph's bestest friend by another blonde white girl, you know? (Dear DC: You officially have too many white blonde teenage girl heroes.)
Which was your original OTP?
Arthur/Guenever/Lancelot. So the first time I read that book, I had no idea that all the stuff about how much Lancelot loves Arthur was maybe not supposed to be read the way I took it, okay! It is a book about three people who are all in love and they keep being like, "AND IT WAS AWFUL, BECAUSE S/HE LOVED THEM BOTH EQUALLY." about every single one of them, and I was always like "...Why is this awful? TALK ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS, GUYS."
...It didn't help that I was just a kid and had no idea that wanting them to have a happy ending was sort of like wanting Romeo and Juliet to have a happy ending.