#sorry Jen completely forgot to tag my day 1 post

[gracelesslady23]

ProngsfootWeek Day 2: What’s your favorite type of Prongsfoot Story?  And if you’ve written it - link it?

I pretty much love any Sirius/James story that I come across. But broadly speaking my utmost favs are the getting together (or getting back together) with some kind of B plot of Sirius and James being their usual brilliant selves.

All the unresolved sexual tension, the pining, the longing, the heartache that comes with being so close to each other... but its just not close enough - I can't get enough of it. I don't even really mind what's keeping them apart whether its external factors, their own differences in what they want out of a relationship, one or both being obvious to their feelings or misunderstandings. I particularly love a canon divergent AU, where its still set in the magical world, but S&J don't yk die tragically (although in saying this I love a well done muggle AU too).

I think anyone who has read even one or two of my fics already knows all of this lol. 95% of the fics I write centre on this trope (? or is it a structure?) . The closest I've come to writing a proper prongsfoot slow burn, getting together fic is this one.

Luckily for me, it seems to be a fairly popular in prongsfoot, so there are a lot of stories of this kind already published that I adore.

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[lezziemanville]

Rules: List 5 OTP’s from 5 fandoms and tag 10 people to pass it on to

I was tagged by @muddlethrough - who is just the sugar in your tea let me tell you.

1. Berena [Holby City] Let me tell you. This pairing came out of nowhere for me. Someone posted a gif where Bernie was kissing Alex way back in the day and it peaked my interest because hot middle aged blond. Anyways, I downloaded the episode to my computer and it sat in my downloads folder forever. Finally I put it on and watched it and was very interested. Then life happened and I forgot about it. Then when the first Berena kiss happened I made a post about it and a bunch of people wrote to me with links and whatnot and I was hooked. This pairing has been a pairing I’ve cared about more than any other fictional couple in the history of entertainment for me. I’m totally in love. Even more than Mirandy and I was big in to that. It’s just refreshing to fall for a pairing that first of all, makes an epic couple to ship (two sexy older British ladies) but also something that actually happens in the show instead of in between the lines on fanfiction sites.

2. Dr Michaela Quinn and Dorothy Jennings [Dr Quinn Medicine Woman] God these two. Okay so like I’m always there for a strong female lead and her bestie but to me these two characters had a ton of chemistry that reached beyond friendship. They knew each other so well and managed to reach each other in very important ways. Dorothy helped Michaela grow into a more adult, experienced woman and Michaela helped Dorothy get over the scars of her abusive husband and broken life. Together they could do anything.

3. Janeway and B'Elanna [Star Trek: Voyager] Ugh these two perfect people. Love love love from the moment the first strains of tension erupted between them. Janeway held Torres to incredibly high standards and she matched and exceeded them. They were well suited to one another with pure intelligence and drive and skill set but also balanced by strikingly dissimilar personalities. That balance created this perfect storm for me that made this completely OTP material.

4. Mulder and Scully [The X Files]

Ah yes the original OTP of my life, MSR. I’ve been shipping this since The Gossamer Archive was a new thing on the internet. I was trolling Geocities (what a nightmare that was) for photos and snippets and fanfiction. Pure and absolute love for these two still to this day.

5. Sister Jude and Lana Banana [American Horror Story] This is going to be bizarre for most people because it isn’t a ship that’s even a thing really but I liked it. I don’t know why, I just did. I had hoped that when Lana Winters was investigating the asylum that she would discover some of the horrors going on above Sister Jude’s head and despite Sister Jude trapping her in the asylum (in my head it’s for her own well being - I’m messed up, shut up) I like to think they began to understand each other. Also Sister Jude’s homophobia is deeply routed in her not so latent homosexuality.

BONUS:

Shoutout to Matt and Kitty [Gunsmoke] which was a pairing of mine until I realized how wrong for Kitty Matt was. Like I’m sorry, you can only only put a woman last so many times before I start to loathe you for it. It’s not about protecting her by pretending you two aren’t a thing (when she’s horribly attacked multiple times because of it anyways). And for the writers wanting to turn up angst for their viewers - I’m sorry but 19 years is too much of a slow burn. And then when you reunite the two years later, by having them STILL not get together, you’re basically shitting on the slow burn you worked so hard to create. No thanks. I now ship Kitty and a variety of fictional characters I’ve written for her - mostly women.

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