pauraque_bk | Ship meme. Part two. (Reply)

First, I have to show you guys the coolest thing ever, gacked from

prillalar:

Michael Jackson's "Thriller", re-enacted in stop-motion LEGO.

Yes, the whole thing. My hat is off.

And here's the second part of the ship meme. The first part's here. I think this batch is somewhat less crazed than the first. Still, same idea -- exactly 100 words about a variety of ships.

heartstencil: Elim Garak/Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

I was never really in DS9 fandom, though I did used to read a lot in it, very often this pairing. I know there's some really good Garak/Bashir, yet somehow the fic that always sticks in my mind is some hilariously cliché-ridden thing where poor Julian had been a teenaged prostitute in his youth (and who hasn't?) and needed Teh Healing Sex0rz from Garak. Good times.

But seriously, this is a great pairing. Cardassians are dead sexy, and you couldn't ask for heavier subtext. They were totally dating. Years later, I remember the interspecies homoeroticism better than the galactic politics.

duckpuppy: Remus Lupin/Draco Malfoy

Heh. I haven't given this pairing too much thought, though recently

slippyslope has been showing me the light. Do they even interact in canon at all? I think Draco is said to dislike Lupin in PoA, though I can't remember if there's any given reason aside from an ornery insistence on hating anyone Harry likes.

I'd like to see this pairing as a collapsed triangle with Snape at the vertex. Somehow I find it easier to believe each of them having an intense and interesting relationship with Snape on separate terms than engaging interestingly on their own without that influence.

millefiori: Draco Malfoy/Neville Longbottom

I've never read the Epic Fic for this pairing (and probably never will), but I have seen it in shorter fics. I'm not sure why some writers want to make it cute and romantic and inevitable, when it seems that it would be so much more interesting to make it messed up. Power play. Revenge fantasies. Rich material there. (Is someone doing Neville/Draco for the

pornish_pixies D/s fest? They better be.)

It's tricky in some of the same ways that I find Snape/Sirius tricky. I remember the kids who bullied me, and I distinctly did not secretly lust after them.

linaelyn: The Titanic

Biggest ship ever!

Way back in the mists of time, some friends and I took a bus to Colorado for a Rocky Horror Picture Show convention. On the way there, we encountered another group of travelers who were taking the bus to Colorado for a Titanic convention. This was shortly after the DiCaprio flick came out; while I guess it's possible they were history buffs, it seemed more likely to me that they were along the order of squeeing fangirls with period costumes in their suitcases and notebooks full of Suefic.

It's hard to say which group was more bemused.

biichan take two: Lucius Malfoy/Lionel Luthor (HP/Smallville)

Hard to say much about this that

nopejr didn't say already. Earlier I had occasion to describe Lionel to somebody as "Lucius without the magic", though that's not entirely accurate. For one thing, Lionel falls into that rarefied category of Villains Whose Evil Plans Actually Work (which endears him to me in the extreme), whereas Lucius seems pretty ineffectual by comparison. I suspect the HP villain whose efficacy most closely approaches Lionel's is Peter, though of course they go about it in rather different ways. (Lionel/Peter? Heh, no.)

In conclusion: Can I watch Jason Isaacs and John Glover shag? Pleeeeeeease?

marksykins: Remus Lupin/Neville Longbottom

I love this ship! You know Neville had a crush on him in PoA. The pairing can be written sweetly, but can also support some delightful messed-up-ness. The Boggart scene can be read as giving Neville positive reinforcement, but there's cruelty in it as well-- vengeance. You can also take it in a triangular direction: when all is said and done, Remus is more invested in Harry than any of the other kids, Neville included. And of course there's also the inherent dirtiness of the teacher/student sexual dynamic, which-- mm. Tasty.

There should be much more Remus/Neville. And Remus/Neville/Harry. Yep.

_hannelore: Otto Octavius/Peter Parker (Spider-Man movieverse)

~~Did you know Doc Ock anagrams to "do cock"?~~

These movies are tough on a slasher, because they're narratively unqueer. The hero is reaching toward straightness, normalcy. The villains' heterosexual love interests must be lost before they can indeed become villainous. Otto loses his wife, and he re-bonds with... monsters? Aspects of himself? Intimacy outside the movie's framework of acceptability-- we don't understand it. It's queer. He has to kill himself at the end.

He doesn't die in mine, of course. To slash him with Peter, I had to kill off Peter's heterosexual love interest too, even though I like her a lot.

I could write more about this.

anaid_rabbit: Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Malfoy

Now, HP *is* narratively queer, which I think is why HP het holds relatively little interest for me. But I actually like Lucius/Narcissa, maybe because it tends to be written in a queer way. A threesome with Snape, or a triangle with Voldemort, or Narcissa is a boy, or Lucius is a girl, or they're cousins, or.... It tends to be very villainous and decadent, too, which is fun when I'm in the mood for it.

I wonder if we'll ever learn anything of interest about Narcissa in canon. Is she a Death Eater? How would that affect Bellatrix's status?

eponis: Percy Weasley/Draco Malfoy

Another one where I'm not quite clear on whether they've actually had any canonical interaction. One thought that occurs to me is that (some of) fandom likes to make Percy evil, and (some of) fandom likes to make Draco good. Might it be cool to see them pass each other going opposite directions? Maybe? (If I wrote that, the title would be a reference to "As I was going to Saint Ives".)

Percy's cool, in any case, no matter who you pair him with. There should be much more Percy fic. He's so much fun to despoil. *pinches his cheeks*

And that's it. Unless someone wants more. ^_^