#people only talk about the early gens in the context of canon x canon ships so I’m like (imagine an emoji with eye bags)

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i want to know from gen 3! that's our source jfjdjf

- Bel

Hell yeah! I love gen 3. I really like Wallace. I’ve always really loved contests and water types, so I was like “WOW HE’S SO COOL!” and then they went and made him super cunty in the remakes, so that’s extra fun.

I also like Lucy a lot! I think that she’s really pretty.

As for platonics, I really like Juan and Drake! Drake because I like to imagine that all of the dragon specialists are my friends, and Juan because he has so much swag.

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tag game: shipping edition

I was tagged by @ancientreader and @a-candle-for-sherlock, thanks!

This is... probably going to be pretty boring, to be honest. I consume and enjoy a lot of media, but I don't really get that head-over-heels fannish excitement for very many things.

First ship you ever read fic for: Mulder/Scully. The year was 1997, and I was thirteen years old with a brand spankin’ new AOL account and a computer with a modem (connected by PC card!) You better believe the first thing I did was type "X-Files" into the search bar.

I found my way to the AOL XF message boards, and realizing that there were people out there who not only wanted to *talk* about the X-Files, but actually *write* about it completely blew my mind. I think I found the Spooky Awards archives first and read my way through everything I could get my hands on, age-appropriate or not. Mostly not. Definitely not.

First ship you ever wrote fic for: Mulder and Scully again, but *years* after my first blush of infatuation with the show. I was always too intimidated to dive in while it was still on the air. I think I first tested the waters around 2006 with a short little (gen) horror story called The Barn, and then followed it up with my heavily-revised but still-probably-pretty-terrible casefic Gerber Daisies where a recently resurrected Mulder hunts a group of serial killers and slowly repairs his relationship with Scully over the course of S8.

Though I will say that before I knew what shipping or fandom or fanfiction even *was*, as a young child I used to make up stories in my head where Kyle Reese from The Terminator managed to come back in time again and live happily ever after with Sarah Connor. I never wrote them down. But maybe that counts?

Ship you write the most now: Sherlock/John. I have mixed feelings about S4, but the love is still there for me and not likely to fade any time soon.

Ship you read the most now: Sherlock/John. I tend to be somewhat fandom monogamous, so if I ever switch gears and start reading/writing a lot of another ship, it's probably a sign that I've moved on for good.

Newest ship: Hmm... I've watched a lot of Supernatural, but almost entirely out of order, so I have a kind of muddled idea of what happens when. But though I'm not particularly invested, I can totally see why people ship Dean/Cas.

Rare ship you wanna read more of: None that I can think of at the moment.

Your taboo ship: I don't have very many ships at all, so I can't really think of one that fits this criteria.

They never met in canon ship: I have a mild curiosity about what might happen if Irene ever met up with either Eurus or Molly.

Your unexpected ship: Possibly Jaime/Brienne from Game of Thrones. I don't know if it's so much a romantic ship as a please-have-these-characters-on-screen-together-all-the-time sort of thing. I just really enjoy their interactions. 

Oh! And Hannibal/Will Graham. It never even crossed my mind once while reading Red Dragon, but the show... hooooo boy.

The ship you always forget to give love to: Mulder/Krycek. I haven't read all that much, but there was such a simmering hate/attraction between the two of them onscreen that was kind of hard to ignore at times.

Ship your OC with a canon character: I'm not entirely sure I have any OCs well-drawn enough to ship with anyone. Um, Mac Gerber, the serial killer from Gerber Daisies is probably my best bet. It's been a while since I revisited that story, but I'm pretty sure I wrote Charlie Scully at least partway in love with him, so I'll go with that. Does Charlie Scully count as a canon character if he was mentioned but never appeared on screen?

A ship you’re embarrassed to ship: Erm, Cathy/Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, maybe? It’s hard to really call it a love story, but I find the depths that they push one another to to be incredibly compelling.

Your most romantic ship: Given the right context, I think they're all pretty damn romantic.

Your sexiest ship: All of them, I think?

Your most tragic ship: Hm. I guess I'll go back to my early childhood proto-shipping and say that Sarah Connor/Kyle Reese was pretty damn tragic. The whole thing where he fell in love with her photo and always wondered what she was thinking when it was taken? And it turns out she was thinking of him after he died? Yeah. Preteen me shed SO MANY tears over the end of that movie.

Not sure who has already done this one, so if you feel like filling it out, consider yourself tagged!