Snooker and Meme

[redfiona99]

Snooker - much is being made of this being the first all-Chinese final of a major. I live in hope this means that there will be a minimum of the kind of commentary that verges on 'jolly inscrutable, these Orientals'. The advantages of Stephen Hendry being on commentary is that, as Marco Fu was his training partner for a while, he just commentates on the snooker. It's mostly the older commentators who cause me to face-palm, but they do get pretty chronic.

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On to happier matters (because I will be sad no matter who loses the snooker), a meme pinched from saruwatari.

Tell me a pairing (current fandoms, former fandoms, whatever), and I will tell you:

1. When or if I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:

Comments

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

HMM.

How about Spock/Uhura?

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

1 - It's not a ship I considered before the film, so my answers are for Star Trek XI verse. In so far as the film goes, I think the moment I started thinking that it was a fun ship was when Uhura convinces Spock to let her go on the Farragut. It because his look is half 'I will never hear the end of it if I don't let her' and half 'her logic is flawless'.

2. What I think their challenge is: I don't think it's the obvious one. Or rather, I think it is but not because she's Human and he's Vulcan. The problem is that he is one of the last Vulcans left standing, and I think his people might want him back. I know lots of people think around this by going 'that's what sperm donation is for' but I actually imagine that he's more likely to be wanted for cultural purposes than for procreational purposes. As any Vulcan will tell you, there's more to a civilisation that just genetics. The Vulcans have just lost most of their middle ranking scholars, and that's going to cause a vacuum that they will want to be filled, and Starfleet will want him too. She's going to be staying with Starfleet. That might well put a strain on their relationship.

3. What makes me happy about them: I think that the stresses in their relationship are all from the outside. I think they've got their heads screwed on straight and are aware of the difficulties they face. I like to think that they communicate well.

4. What makes me sad about them: Even if they stay together despite everything, Spock is going to live at least three times as long as Uhura will. It's not the upset that I mind, that could happen to anyone, and it's not the idea of Spock marrying someone else, because I know Uhura would be okay with that if Spock found someone else he loved after he died. It's more I know that Spock would then spend the rest of his life having to explain himself to people.

5. What moment I wish had never happened: I am not looking forward to them screwing them up in the next film, which you know is going to happen, for the purposes of 'drama'. (If this doesn't happen, I will willingly watch any episode of Alias with their chronically bad German that makes me wince in penance.)

6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Anyone but Jim Kirk.

No, really, I mean that.

7. My happily ever after for them: Because I'm not sure whether Spock is more into teaching or adventuring, and Uhura is an action linguist (which makes me gleeful), I'm envisioning a deep space research vessel with the ability to deliver long-distance (really long-distance) lectures.

[one-more-cherry.livejournal.com]

Regal/Molly :)

Sorry for the delay

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

It turns out it takes longer than expected for me to put what I like about them into words.

1. When or if I started shipping them: I think it might well have been you, Missy, because I don't think they ever really interacted on screen, unless my memory is getting worse. I think it's because they're actually quite old-fashioned, quaint characters. Because even when they're both heels, they're very ... I'm not sure what the word I want is, but they're very well behaved. There are lines they won't cross.

They're also a really cute pairing. Not sugary sweet, but sort of adorable.

2. What I think their challenge is:

There's the little matter of one of them having a mean streak a mile long and three miles wide, while the other one is nice as pie, mostly. And not in the 'good girls want to rehabilitate bad boys' way, but in a basic difference in values sort of way.

3. What makes me happy about them:

Did I mention that they're sweetly adorable? I think it's that they're quiet in the same way. Loud pauses and all that.

4. What makes me sad about them: Other than a distinct lack of WWE screen time for both of them. Not much.

5. What moment I wish had never happened: Although I suppose there are advantages to a lack of screen time, since wrestler plus valet normally leads to a break-up of the most unplesant kind.

6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: I think that's the thing, it's a 'ship that I can happily view as being gen and best friends forever instead of being romantic. I'd be happy for Molly to end up with Spike. Or in a Golden Age Comics AU with the Hurricane.

7. My happily ever after for them: Is quite suburban, all two up two down and a front garden with picket fences. She helps out with local youth groups and other charitable causes and goes off to do good works. He potters around the garden, growing things and drinking tea and thinking deep contented thoughts and plots the take-over of the parish council (or rather, the US equivalent).

Re: Sorry for the delay

[one-more-cherry.livejournal.com]

Aww, it's okay! <3 <3

Or in a Golden Age Comics AU with the Hurricane.

....I now want this to happen. I wrote a terrible parody about that a long time ago but I want a GOOD version of it.

...And I can totally picture their happily ever after. It feels like a Britcom <3.