#I think Greek and PLL are next

[the-unsea]

I’ve been thinking about my trajectory of shipping in my life.  The first couple I can remember ‘shipping’, as in they weren’t together on the show and I wanted to see it happen, was Joanie and Chachi on Happy Days.   They would eventually get married in the final season.

As I got a little older, I started liking more ‘grown up shows’.   Scarecrow and Mrs. King started a love for crime solving partnerships, it would lead to Hunter and DeeDee, then Harm and Mac.   

Bickering co-workers started with Tony and Angela from Who’s The Boss, which would lead to Rebecca and Sam from Cheers and then to Donna and Josh on The West Wing, and Chandler and Monica from Friends.

I was really invested in online fandom from about 1999-2007.   By that time, I had 4 kids and not a lot of time to focus on watching anything.

Sometime in the spring of 2018, I got so fed up with the usual posts on Twitter and Facebook being about politics and how terrible the world was.  At that time I had also become really, really invested in Lyatt (Timeless), in a way I hadn’t been since Harm and Mac in 1998.  I found my way to Tumblr, and that led me to Bellarke (The 100).   You’ll notice I have now given them a shipper name, when I was first in fandom we didn’t do shipper names.

But, since falling back into fandom, (and the huge exception to this is Naley)  I have since become obsessed with the hero/villain concept.  Darklina, Damerya, Haladriel!  I mean my hubs and my kid have been on me for 20 years to watch LOTR, and I haven’t yet!   And now my latest obsession seems to be Chuck and Blair!    I can’t help but wonder what it says about me that the older I get the more I seem to fall for the bad guy in the scenario.  I was never that way in the past.

[sleepynerdcollector-blog]

Arcturus is the protector of the Bear, his mother according to mythology. I saw a theory by kara jade on youtube, and Heathers McQueen commented on this. I did some research and found this. In Greek mythology Zeus has an affair with a human named Callisto. Hera gets angry and turns her into a bear; later in life somebody tries to kill her. So Zeus takes her and puts her in the sky. I started thinking that Zeus could be Peter. Mary is Callisto. Maybe he put her in Radley to keep her safe. Hera could be Jessica. The myth says Zeus was continuously saving his family from each other; and as shady as Peter is maybe that's what he's been doing. He's been saving his family members from his other family members. In PLL we see that Lucas and Charles made this comic book claiming that Arcturus was this woman that protected Lucas from his bullies. Although I think that's true, I think the underlying factor is that they are protecting their mother or Mary by getting revenge on the liars and their families. The next myth says that Arcturus was robbed of everything by his brother and wandered about. I know people think Marlene sucks, but this can't be a coincidence.