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Meme ganked from poisonivory's livejournal. Because I stalk random people, yay. Okay, I'm going to interpret 'ship' in the light of 'pairings I like' rather than actual ships which, like, have a *fandom* or anything. Because making up random crack-pairings is *fun*!

Six Ships I Like:
1. Treize/Zechs (Gundam Wing)
2. Jack/Daniel (Stargate)
3. Raffles/Bunny (EW Hornung's Raffles series)
4. Biggles/Von Stalhein (WE Johns' Biggles series)
5. Blake/Avon (Blakes 7)
6. Merry/Pippin (JRR Tolkein 'Lord of the Rings')

Three Ships I've Abandoned: - man, this is difficult. I never *abandon* 'ships, they just hibernate somewhere in the back of my brain...
7. Buffy/Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
8. Jack Sparrow/James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)
9. Tohma/Sakano (Gravitation)

Three Ships I've Never Liked:
10. Jack/Sam (Stargate SG-1)
11. Treize/Wufei (Gundam Wing)
12. Yuki/Shuichi (Gravitation)

Two Ships That Have Piqued My Interest:
13. Klaus/Dorian (From Eroica With Love)
14. Touga/Saionji (Utena)

1. Why do you dislike #11 so much? - because Treize and Zechs are MEANT TO BE ZOMG!!111. No, but really. I never have understood this pairing, except as a way of getting rid of the problem of 'ooops, five slashy Gundam pilots, what are we going to do with the odd man out?' Wufei is obsessive about Treize, yes, maybe, especially between the series and Endless Waltz. Treize? Treize *really* doesn't care. Treize has an object of obsession, yes, but he happens to be a six-foot bundle of pretty blond ANGST. Also, 13x5 almost universally leads to what I find singularly unconvincing portrayals of both characters, and (a particularly heinous crime), bastardisation/soppyfication of Treize. No no no.

2. Who is someone you know that ships #13? (Klaus/Dorian) - no one I actually *know*, except in that generic online sense in which you 'know' people if you've read their fics and their ljs.

3. What would be your ideal scenario for couple #3? (Raffles/Bunny) - oh, God. Anything which didn't end in DEATH and DESPAIR would be nice. Perhaps that Raffles faked the whole death thing again and Bunny was complicit in it this time, and that they went off to America or something (and somehow implausibly managed to adjust to Life In The Colonies) and burgled their way happy through high society for a few years. And that Raffles managed to stop being such a bastard. No, wait, that's just *too* implausible.

4. Which is your favorite episode for #1? (Treize/Zechs) - oh, man, too many. The episode where Treize lets Zechs escape with Tallgeese and is all melodramatically 'hurry back to me!' maybe. Or the last few episodes, where they snarl at each other across deep space in an angsty way. Or perhaps any given doujinshi where they get teh happy sexx0rs. Whatever.

5. How long have you been following couple #6? (Merry/Pippin) - tricky question. Merry has been my favourite hobbit for many, many years (yay for the sarcastic-and-slightly-rakish Brandybucks!), since I was about nine and first read the book, I guess. And if you love Merry, you've *got* to love Pippin too. It's not Merry without MerryandPippin. But the idea of 'shipping them didn't quite cross my mind until the kerfuffle before the first film came out. I guess I've been reading them on and off since then, though I'm never tempted to write them.

6. What's the story with #8? What made you stop liking them/caring? (Jack Sparrow/James Norrington) - eh, the portrayal of Norrington in the second film didn't help. Nor did the fact that none of the fanfics I ever read for the pair seemed to get their interaction quite snippy enough. And the fact that the main fic idea I had for them was an ENORMOUS EPIC AUing from the first film, and would have taken freaking *ages* to write, which was a little off-putting. I still like the 'ship, but I've never had the energy to follow it.

7. Which ship do you prefer - #2 (Jack/Daniel) or #4 (Biggles/Von Stalhein) ? - tough call. I've certain read much more Jack/Daniel (well, one doesn't really have a choice about that. There *isn't* any Biggles/Von Stalhein fic out there. None at all.) And I do adore the schmoopy archaeological snarkery that is J/D. But Biggles/VS is currently newer and shinier for me, and involves more messed-up issues of honour and rivalry and comradeship, and so for the present I'll come down on that side.

8. You have the power to make one ship non-existent. Choose from #10 (Jack/Sam) or #12 (Yuki/Shuichi). - oh, man. Jack/Sam, every time. KILL IT. I swear, they're only a pairing because she's the only regularly appearing girl on the show >_< Sam deserves *so* much better than Jack. Not to mention that it would break Danny's heart.

9. What interests you about #14? (Touga/Saionji) - this is a bad pairing to answer this question with, as there's *so* much stuff ^_^ For a start, there's all the usual things that are interesting about Utena - the issues of individuality and reality and freedom and role-playing etc etc ad infinitum. (I could ramble about what's interesting about Utena for *hours*, and occasionally do so.) And then there's all that's bound up in Touga and Saionji - the childhood friendship (did it even exist? Akio, I'm looking at you), the betrayals and the reconciliations, Saionji's desperation to beat Touga, his rose-bride parallels, Touga's puppet-nature, how close he is to the Prince but how far away... Gah. This is the trouble with Utena. Once you start talking about how interesting it is, you never stop.

10. When did you stop liking #7? (Buffy/Giles) - *considers* Sometime around the end of season 3, I guess. Right about the point they stopped giving Giles any decent screen-time. To a certain degree this was a 'ship where I just paired up my favourite character with the main character, so when my favourite character started being side-lined, I lost interest. Also, Buffy went severely downhill after season 2, IMHO ^_^

11. Did your waning interest in #9 kill your interest in the show? (Tohma/Sakano) - *grins* I'm not sure I ever had much interest in the *show* as such. I'm still intending to finish my long Tohma/Sakano fic at some point, but I can't say I'll be rewatching the program before I do it.

12. What's a song that reminds you of #5? (Blake/Avon) - man. No idea. Something bad tempered. Unlike Treize/Zechs, this isn't a pairing that has a mental soundtrack for me.

13. Which of these ships do you love the most? - Treize/Zechs. Easily. They took up residence in my head nearly ten years ago, and they're not showing any sign of shifting. Other fandoms come and go, but the voice of snark in the back of my mind still sounds like Treize.

15. If you could have any of these two pairings double date, who would it be? (even better if they're from different shows) - Treize/Zechs + Biggles/Von Stalhein. They wouldn't have a *clue* what to make of each other :D But Treize would choose the perfect restaurant, and would be secretly impressed by Von Stalhein's perfectly-tailored evening dress. And Zechs would be a bit awkward around Biggles to start off with, but then they'd start talking about aircraft / mecha, and Treize and VS would give each other this kind of rueful look because they both know that they're not going to be able to drag them back to civilised conversation for *hours*. I'm not sure quite how their notions of honour would mesh. Perhaps they'd just avoid the subject. All I can be sure of is that they'd all have the most *perfect* table manners.

16. Have #2 kissed yet? Elaborate if you'd like. (Jack/Daniel) - I...don't *think* they did. Or was there a kiss on the top of the head at the end of 'Need'? No, I could be making that up. But there was a lot of hugging and random touching in the first couple of seasons. It's slashy if you squint.

17. Did #4 have a happy ending? If the show hasn't ended yet, do you think a happy ending is likely? (Biggles/Von Stalhein) - well, sorta ^_^ Von Stalhein has retired from being a Hun/Nazi/Commie swine and turned into a pleasant sort of English gentleman who Biggles seems to have dinner with entirely too regularly, much to the chagrin of his crew. That's a happy ending of a sort.

18. What would make you start shipping #14? (Touga/Saionji) - well, I *do* ship them, in the sense that I read fic about them when I find it and I glee about them every time they have a 'shippy moment in the show. But it's pretty much impossible for me to *actively* ship them, since the nature of the show (I feel) doesn't encourage fanfic. Unless I think up a completely new way of writing fic which is rather closer to a Calvino novella, I think these two are going to remain on the back-burner.

19. If only one could happen, which would you prefer - #2 (Jack/Daniel) or #6 (Merry/Pippin)? - ah, well, Merry/Pippin is practically canon already ^_^ And really, their friendship is close and exclusive enough that I don't really care about other aspects. I'm happy enough to leave them to it. (Diamond Took is clearly a beard.) So I guess it's Jack/Daniel, who need the happy schmoopies like whoa.

20. You have the power to decide the fate of #10. What happens to them? (Jack/Sam) - eh, the show seems to have done my work for me ^_^