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badboy_fangirl

Levels of Shipping: Defcon 4

May 29, 2015 23:42

We Could Have Had It All (But You Played It To The Beat) ‘Ships

This is a step down from the Levels of Shipping: Defcon 5 (which you can see here if you missed it). These are ships that, according to leobrat, you loved, and adored, but if it ended up not working out, you didn’t turn off life for a month ( Read more... )

logan/veronica, ships! ftw, sawyer/kate, lost, veronica mars

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leobrat May 30 2015, 14:08:16 UTC

You are going into much greater detail (and much greater GIF detail) than I did. I'm jealous.

I also saw a Levels of NOT Shipping (NOTP's) post on tumblr, that I'm thinking about...I'd like to do it in a way that's not too insulting or negative driven (might not be possible).

HAPPY SATURDAY!

ETA: Interestingly enough, I waited until the VM movie came out on OnDemand, I kind of put it off for as long as possible (even though I donated to the Kickstarter). I was fairly certain that I would NOT be pleased with it, and my post-series headcanon had been so firm for so long...I still love Veronica though. Always.

badboy_fangirl May 30 2015, 21:00:06 UTC

I had more time to think about it, and what's better than wasting tons of time scrolling thru tumblr for gifs??? I love time wasters like that. I'm terrible ( ... )

leobrat May 31 2015, 05:16:12 UTC

Agreed- they put lots of little love letters to the fans in the VM movie. And there were parts that I *adored*. Just KBell in general, really that's all I need.

I ended up watching O Come All Ye Faithful. I'm procrastinating writing...no good...I'm kind of *nervous* about the next thing I'm writing...

distant_autumn June 11 2015, 21:34:22 UTC

These are ships that, according to leobrat, you loved, and adored, but if it ended up not working out, you didnít turn off life for a month.

Ha! Oh, the joys and perils of shipping. It's so true, though. Some of them (fortunately not many) really do temporarily DESTROY YOUR LIFE ZOMG. And when I say temporarily, obviously I mean "often for a several year period". Heh.

And oh, Sawyer/Kate! As you know, I loved them too. And yeah, I'd put them in the same shipping category as you.

My experience with this show included a ferocious love of this ship, definitely as my OTP because I had a few other ships, like Jack/Juliet (they just made sense, didn't they???) and Boone/Shannon (dirty!wrong!bad!ship). Eventually I got onboard with Sawyer/Juliet, because while they were both of my favorite characters, my emotional investment with Sawyer/Kate made it difficult to accept.I'm completely with you on all of the above. And oh, Jack/Juliet! Sigh. Yes, they did make perfect sense. Like you, I was eventually fine with S/J but yeah. I will ( ... )

badboy_fangirl June 14 2015, 04:49:56 UTC

As much as it pains me about Sawyer/Kate, I have such consternation over Jack and Juliet--simply because the writers had a gold mine there and they just didn't do anything with it! There is a scene in S5 where Juliet marches into the bathroom to rip a strip off Jack as he's GETTING OUT OF THE SHOWER. I mean, WTF? That was the hottest Jack ever had on the show, at least for me. I just imagine them all in the writers room, and I wonder at the fool who kept insisting that Jack and Kate were endgame? Whoever that person was couldn't see the treasures before them. So stupid.

The other reason I'm sure that Kate and Sawyer lived their earthly life together: their AMAZING sparks in the Sideways 'Verse. So good. I will always love them, so much.

distant_autumn July 8 2015, 14:21:04 UTC

I wasn't sure whether or not to still get caught up on my replies to you or not, what with your goodbye post, because I figured you might want to make a clean break of it and might not want people sending more fannish comments your way...? Anyway, in the end I (obviously, LOL!) decided to still reply, but feel free to not reply back if you don't want to. :)

I have such consternation over Jack and Juliet--simply because the writers had a gold mine there and they just didn't do anything with it!

I know, right? They had all that potential right there in front of them with J/J and instead they just chose to waste it. Truly baffling.

I just imagine them all in the writers room, and I wonder at the fool who kept insisting that Jack and Kate were endgame? Whoever that person was couldn't see the treasures before them. So stupid.I know we're talking about J/J here not S/K, but I always loved that quote from Damon's mother just before the finale aired where she was all "...and Kate will end up with Sawyer, if my son has a heart." ( ... )

badboy_fangirl July 10 2015, 04:54:35 UTC

I never knew that tidbit about Damon's mother. Someday I'll meet this man and I will say: YOU SHOULD ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER. Egad. It's insanity when I dwell upon it too long. Like honestly. There is this one moment in the final episode...or the second to the final episode, I can't even remember where Kate just puts her head on Sawyer's shoulder and it's like...heart meltingly perfect. Like, her head should always be RIGHT THERE. Because that's where she belongs.

Honestly, I if could have more conversations like this more often, I'd be more likely to stick around. But that's part of the trouble, blue moons and what have you. Ah, well.

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