Ship meme

I was kindly tagged by @seidrade… only 3 days ago. I’m not doing as badly as I thought.

1. Ultimate OTP — Thor/Loki, obviously. It’s not like I’m subtle about it…

2. A ship you’ll always love — Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr, or “Cherik.” I watched X-Men: First Class on a plane in February 2015 and got kind of turned on. At the time I had no desire to read or write fanfiction because it was just so blatant in canon that I wasn’t sure what fanfiction had left to do. Since then I’ve read some fix-it fic and AUs – which weren’t nearly as much of a thing during my first outing in online fandom, ca. 2001-2005. “AU” mostly meant canon-divergent, not a literally completely different universe.

3. Your current obsession — Do I have one, other than being pissed off about what the MCU has done with my favorite characters? @loxxxlay has kind of gotten me into Grandthorki, and I also remember reading a fic of theirs with Thanos coercing Thor and Loki into some stuff, which is something I’ve considered writing about… the dynamic is not dissimilar. Yeah, I have some messed-up kinks.

4. A ship you never thought you’d like — I’m not sure I have any of these. If I didn’t think I’d like it, I probably still don’t. Which doesn’t mean I’m not willing to give new things a try… I guess I just know my tastes pretty well.

5. A ship you liked but don’t anymore — When I first got into Loki fandom back in 2015, after finally watching all the MCU movies, I started out reading mostly gen fic but also some het fic, largely as a function of where I was getting my recs. I read some Sif/Loki and some Loki/Sigyn (where Sigyn is, of course, basically just an OFC) that I liked. Now I can’t read most het involving Loki, mostly because a lot of it involves Loki being a dom and he just isn’t (except sometimes for Thor’s benefit). Fics involving Sif/Loki or Loki/Valkyrie are OK if the dynamic is such that Loki is effectively the sub and/or bottom (I know those aren’t the same thing, but there’s some conceptual overlap). It doesn’t have to be pegging, but… well, I don’t hate the dynamic in the one Sif/Loki fic I wrote.

6. A ship you think should be canon — Stevetony, a.k.a. Superhusbands. Joss Whedon totally agrees with me. I mean… “Put on the suit, let’s go a few rounds”? That log-splitting scene? I hear that it basically is canon in some runs of the comics (they got married when Tony got gender-swapped into Natasha Stark) and in the “Avengers Assemble” animated series.

7. A canon ship you hate — Matt Murdock/Karen Page in Daredevil… though I guess they’ve broken up now, fortunately. It never should have been a thing. They had no chemistry whatsoever. (No, I don’t hate Brucenat like everyone else. Deal with it.)

8. A ship you’ve shipped for years — Harry/Draco. I came into the Harry Potter fandom an innocent little 12-year-old and I knew Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny were in the cards and I was fine with that… but then I discovered the wild and wonderful world of slash fanfiction. It all started with Raincoat!Draco and I never looked back. Honorable mention for Morpheus/Lucifer from the Sandman comics, which I never read or wrote fic about but definitely fantasized about a lot…

9. A ship everyone loves but you don’t care about — Stucky. Sorry, not sorry. I find it boring because they strike me as so similar… and frankly, Bucky doesn’t even have that much of a character in the MCU. I like ships with contrast and tension, which is why I go for Thorki and Stevetony.

10. Favorite rare-pair — I guess it would have to be Tom Riddle/Minerva McGonagall, which I wrote a very chaste, talky fic about in 2002 or something. I looked on AO3 and there are 75 fics in that ship tag, often as a secondary or tertiary pairing. I have no desire to read any of it, but I still kind of like the idea.

Tagging: @fuckyeahrichardiii (if you want to, I know you’re pretty busy), @ghostxforest, @imaginetrilobites, @impalaforthree, @princess-ikol, @whitemage03, @wouldyouknowmore, and whoever else thinks this looks fun!