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posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 01:13am on 26/05/2011 under , ,
It's all over the flist, I couldn't not post it!

Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that I am or have been been involved with, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.


Two other points:

1. Saw Pirates 4 today! And it was a lot better than I thought it would be! I really benefited from being free of all the entangled subplots of the last two movies and starting fairly fresh. And also Penelope Cruz was fantastic and I don't know why she wasn't in all the movies. And I have some spoilery thoughts but they'll have to wait till tomorrow when by some chance I may have caught up on comments or something.

2. Have been keeping TGWTG reviews on as I work for background sound, and in light of the recent crossovers I am discovering another reason why I love Phelous so much: he's basically the No Sell of the cast. People keep trying to construct plot threads and events and tie-ins around him, and no matter how dangerous or eventful said plot thread is it loses power simply because he ignores it. If he weren't already a Time Lord I would want to write a fic where he's a part of a different Lantern Corps whose rings are powered by skepticism.
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posted by [identity profile] airie-fairy.livejournal.com at 05:28am on 26/05/2011
BEN/POLLY

Penelope Cruz is amazing. I have a very high opinion of her since watching her in Spanish movies instead of all the romances she was stuck in in the English language for awhile. Now she seems to be getting better English stuff too, as well as going back to Spanish movies, so whoo!

 
Is it weird that, as hard as I ship Ben/Polly (and I ship them really damn hard), they're actually one of the ships that I'd be most interested in seeing as specifically poly (as opposed to an OT3)? I mean, I love them just as they are, don't get me wrong, it's not that I'd want them to break up or anything, but...I always feel like it'd be difficult for them, to go back to any kind of normal or traditional life - Polly's a free spirit anyway, and because Ben returned the same day he left he still has to ship out if he doesn't want a reprimand, so after spending this really intense year together they already have to seperatw, and then even once he's done his duty to the navy I can't see them settling down and having an ordinary domestic life. I've planned out fics before where they go back to check up on Dodo once they get home, and upon finding her still a bit fragile, try to take care of her and eventually make her part of their family; or Polly meets Benton while she's living through the future that she already travelled to and serves as a direction for him once he leaves UNIT, and once Ben meets him he finds Benton provides a kind of stability and familiarity that Polly isn't quite able to give him, or...

...yeah, that kind of thing. For some reason I love the idea of them having another person in there to kind of even out their two personalities. But without that third person, I always imagined Polly deciding that they were going to jet off to Paris or Berlin or New York, and Ben putting up a token protest but coming along because, well, he's come to like the adventure too.

Oh, yeah, I wasn't really familiar with Penelope Cruz at all until I saw her in Volver, and she was amazing in that - just so perfect for the strange, off-kilter atmosphere that Almodovar's movies can create. And I think she has been getting much better film roles that let her show off, but I'm glad she was also in something fun like a Pirates movie.
 
posted by [identity profile] ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com at 05:41am on 26/05/2011
How about the Third Doctor and Jo Grant? (Or him and Sarah Jane Smith, whichever you prefer.)
 
posted by [identity profile] caiusmajor.livejournal.com at 11:30am on 26/05/2011
Galvatron/Cyclonus!
 
posted by [identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com at 01:13pm on 26/05/2011
I'm glad I keep hearing good thing about PotC. =D

For the meme, Optimus/Blackarachnia?
 
posted by [identity profile] bodyline.livejournal.com at 02:35pm on 26/05/2011
Doctor/TARDIS
 
posted by [identity profile] curuchamion.livejournal.com at 06:25pm on 26/05/2011
Amy/Rory! *random*
rainshaded: Livia from I, Claudius (UNIT Love)
posted by [personal profile] rainshaded at 12:06am on 28/05/2011
In honour of your fic (which was marvellous, by the way, and I am totally going to comment properly once my internet stops crashing every five minutes), Liz/Brig?

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