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tiamatschild) wrote2011-12-16 09:38 pm
tiamatschild) wrote2011-12-16 09:38 pm
Ship guessing Meme
Meme:
1. Think of up to 20 ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your audience guess as many of the ships as they can.
4. Fandom hints will be given if asked in the comments.
1) A goddess who's the pluckiest girl in school, a boy who sees more than most people and when he doesn't photographs it anyway, and the boy who never lets anyone forget that he's the hero of the story (but the other two forgive him – he's a good sort, after all).
2) A dashing gentleman who's a fine hand with horses, something of a rake, and completely commitment phobic, and the passionate, geeky, crumudgeonly romantic who keeps botching his proposals to her.
3) A confidence artist in high command and her sweet natured artist commando.
4) An embittered exiled princess and the kitchen boy who refuses to let her scare him off.
5) Two bishops, both rather overbooked, one with a secret life involving frequent committee meetings.
6) A free-lance artist from the tenements and a social worker from Harlem.
7) An embarrassingly upright naval captain and the radical, high spirited, loving, polylingual aristocrat who stole his heart.
8) He's an economist, she's a doctor, together they exercise enormous amounts of political influence and power while mentoring everyone in range.
9) Two knights who love each other as Jesus loved John.
10) Two ruling princesses, a world to lose, and a world to win.
11) A vigilante who gave up his name and the collaborator who learned from him to act.
12) Two magicians from houses alike in dignity and quantity of cats.
13) An engineer, a diplomat, and a spy.
14) A biologist and a theoretical physicist; both of them revolutionaries, both of them in love with the flow and force of the universe.
15) A geneticist who's utterly a political animal, an explosives specialist who's good with animals, and the supersoldier who's good with both of them but not always sure about everyone else.
16) A photographer who works hard to keep firmly on the wagon; an editor who struggles with having been raised to be Not A Very Nice Person At All; and a reporter who has flung off the tatted piano scarves of gentility and is having much more fun taking notes.
17) A gorgeous bad ass battleship, well educated and sophisticated and worldly wise and generally unshaken and unbowed, and her scrawny, twitchy, angry, refuses to get treatment for or acknowledge his PTSD, refugee genius of a mechanic.
18) An ambiguous refugee from an authoritarian regime, a would be hero in cardigans with some useful science tricks at his command, and a woman who relinquishes her moral agency to no one and nothing, not even the laws of causality.
19) A revolutionary who becomes a prophet, and the war criminal who becomes his ally.
20) An ambitious politician and sorceress with a ruthless streak and a sweet tooth and her librarian/cook/campaign manager/apprentice who's on the run from heteronormativity.
1. Think of up to 20 ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your audience guess as many of the ships as they can.
4. Fandom hints will be given if asked in the comments.
1) A goddess who's the pluckiest girl in school, a boy who sees more than most people and when he doesn't photographs it anyway, and the boy who never lets anyone forget that he's the hero of the story (but the other two forgive him – he's a good sort, after all).
2) A dashing gentleman who's a fine hand with horses, something of a rake, and completely commitment phobic, and the passionate, geeky, crumudgeonly romantic who keeps botching his proposals to her.
3) A confidence artist in high command and her sweet natured artist commando.
4) An embittered exiled princess and the kitchen boy who refuses to let her scare him off.
5) Two bishops, both rather overbooked, one with a secret life involving frequent committee meetings.
6) A free-lance artist from the tenements and a social worker from Harlem.
7) An embarrassingly upright naval captain and the radical, high spirited, loving, polylingual aristocrat who stole his heart.
8) He's an economist, she's a doctor, together they exercise enormous amounts of political influence and power while mentoring everyone in range.
9) Two knights who love each other as Jesus loved John.
10) Two ruling princesses, a world to lose, and a world to win.
11) A vigilante who gave up his name and the collaborator who learned from him to act.
12) Two magicians from houses alike in dignity and quantity of cats.
13) An engineer, a diplomat, and a spy.
14) A biologist and a theoretical physicist; both of them revolutionaries, both of them in love with the flow and force of the universe.
15) A geneticist who's utterly a political animal, an explosives specialist who's good with animals, and the supersoldier who's good with both of them but not always sure about everyone else.
16) A photographer who works hard to keep firmly on the wagon; an editor who struggles with having been raised to be Not A Very Nice Person At All; and a reporter who has flung off the tatted piano scarves of gentility and is having much more fun taking notes.
17) A gorgeous bad ass battleship, well educated and sophisticated and worldly wise and generally unshaken and unbowed, and her scrawny, twitchy, angry, refuses to get treatment for or acknowledge his PTSD, refugee genius of a mechanic.
18) An ambiguous refugee from an authoritarian regime, a would be hero in cardigans with some useful science tricks at his command, and a woman who relinquishes her moral agency to no one and nothing, not even the laws of causality.
19) A revolutionary who becomes a prophet, and the war criminal who becomes his ally.
20) An ambitious politician and sorceress with a ruthless streak and a sweet tooth and her librarian/cook/campaign manager/apprentice who's on the run from heteronormativity.
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3) Mickle/Theo
9) Galahad/Percy
15) Ari/Florian/Catlin
...either 11 or 19 is Scar/Marcoh. I am not completely sure which.
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7. I'd say Aubrey/Maturin... Jack is upright, unless he's been to the port. I could also say Amelia/Doppler.
14. I'm pretty sure it's not Wolowitz/Bernadette. XD
Clearly I know NOTHING about your fandoms!
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7 is close to being Jack/Stephen, since it's from Novik's published AU where there are dragons and the serial numbers have been only lightly scraped.
*laughs* No, but that would be awesome. 14 is a cheat, probably, since I don't think I've ever written it only thought about it lots - - It's one of Le Guin's canon pairings.
*snugsyou* 16 is Discworld! *cough* Quite a few of these are fandom of one type situations. I probably should have resisted and gone for something easier to guess, but they make such good blurbs!
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16 - Otto/Sacharissa/William de Worde?
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16- yes! I really need to write fic for them. There iiiiiisn't any it's sad.
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16 - Otto's popularity as a character surprises me. In the text, he's pretty much just a joke on vampire tropes with little character development, but he seems to have a fanbase. I don't dislike him! I just wonder what I'm missing that other people see in him.
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16 - I don't think it's true of the fandom following at large, but personally I like Otto because I get the sense he's having fun, and I like people who are having fun. He certainly isn't an especially fleshed out character - we're never told where he was putting up before he moved into the cellar, or get any information about people closer to him than "this friend of mine" - but I have the impression he sticks with the Times because he's enjoying the hell out of it. The iconography lets him take charge without being threatening, and I just get the sense he's playing with that. Giving unsolicited romantic advice does the same thing (and lets him flirt with everyone and get away with it). The throw away line in Thud to Vimes, "Yes, sir. But I make them laugh," kind of reinforces that idea.
I think that's kind of it? The sense of play and misdirection. I wrote a bit of a novel here - not trying to convert you or anything! ;) It's just that I've long not been entirely sure myself what I'm responding to about him.
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6) Completely wild guess, but Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson?
17) Rommie/Harper (I don't even know if you watch Andromeda... I would have said Helga/Niall, but I'm pretty sure Niall isn't a refugee?)
19) G'Kar/Londo
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I watched Andromeda with my family on DVD. Made them try it when were all looking for new sci-fi to blow off steam. I really only consistently watched the first three seasons, because then I got busy in the evenings again, but they watched the whole thing, and Mom ranted to me about everyone's particularly stupid relational choices. So I'm pretty spoiled.
I don't thiiiink Niall is, no. I haven't reread that one in ages. Not since I was a tiny! (My plans for an epic reread got thrown off track midsemester.)