Meme from samuraiter

[heavenly_pearl]

A.) One of your current OTPs.
Helios/Chibi-Usa (Sailor Moon), always and forever.

B.) A pairing you initially did not consider, but picked up because another fan changed your mind.
Hmm, I'm not sure if that's ever really happened to me. I suppose maybe Seiya/Usagi (Sailor Moon)? It's not really that somebody wrote or said something that made me change my mind, but a person requested I write a story about them, which subsequently led to me realizing that I really do ship them together after all. (Not so surprising, considering that their "date" is my favorite episode, but I guess I was just in denial or something... I dunno.)

Edit: I thought of a better example: Prince Endymion/Helios. Don't get me wrong, Helios/Chibi-Usa will always be my OTP, and I'm not even a fan of m/m usually, but I read a couple of fics with them together (because I'll read almost anything involving Helios as long as the grammar is good enough) and discovered that I actually rather liked the idea. (As long as it's in the past. Otherwise, it's just...wrong. Helios belongs to Chibi-Usa!)

C.) A pairing you have never liked and most likely never will.
Shigure/Akito (Fruits Basket). Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate!

D.) A pairing you wish you liked, but cannot.
Um, well, I do like them a little, but I guess I wish that I liked Leon/Sora (Kaleido Star) more, since they seem to be the most popular pairing in the fandom. I just can't fall in love them, though. Ken and Sora are a much better fit together, personality-wise, and so, so cute!

E.) Have you added anything cracky to your fandom. If so, what?
I don't write much crack, but I guess the two crackiest things I've written is Helios M-Preg (Unexpected Surprise) and a story in which Hawkseye develops a thing for Sailor Pluto (Hawk's Eye View).

F.) What is the longest time you have spent in a fandom?
Talking about actually being involved in fandom, I wrote my first Sailor Moon fic in 2002 and I'm still in the fandom, so that makes it about a decade now. However, I was a fan long before that, so it's probably been more like sixteen or seventeen years.

G.) Do you remember your first OTP? If so, who was in it?
Neflyte/Molly (or more properly, Nephrite/Naru) from Sailor Moon.

H.) Do you prefer characters from live action series or anime series?
I don't know if "prefer" is really the right word, since I like characters from both, but I write almost exclusively for anime/manga fandoms. The only exceptions are some Harry Potter stories and a video game fic I wrote as a gift for samuraiter when we were dating. (Well, I guess you can count the live-action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, too.)

I.) Has the Internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms? If so, which and why?
No, not really.

J.) Name a fandom you did not care or think about until you saw it all over the Internet.
Gurren Lagann. Never would have picked it up if the memes hadn't been so overwhelmingly popular, but I'm glad I did, 'cause it's awesome.

K.) How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom?
Nothing much to say, really. Other than the people on my FL (who are all great), I don't really interact much with other fans.

L.) Your favorite fanartist / fanficcer gives you one request. What do you ask for?
Oh, my, just one request? I don't know... Probably something Helios related, knowing me. *laughs*

M.) Your favorite fanart or fanartist.
Utobu, a talented Japanese Sailor Moon fanartist. He/she draws the most amazing Helios and Helios/Chibi-Usa fanart (among a few other characters like Nehelenia and Endymion). This is probably my favorite of their pieces:

N.) Your favorite fanfic or fanficcer.
Fanfic? I used to say the Judge's Sailor Moon Millennials, but that story is incomplete and has been abandoned for a long time, so I don't really consider it my absolute favorite anymore. That title now belongs to either Lord Chaos' Tales of the Dreamworld or Angus MacSpon's Sailor Moon 4200 (which is also incomplete, but not abandoned).

O.) Choose a song at random. Which OTP does it remind you of?
*opens up iTunes* First song that came up was Charlotte Church's "Easy Way Out", which reminds me of George and Yukari's relationship in Paradise Kiss.

P.) Invent a random AU for any fandom.
Sakura is a princess of a desert kingdom, and Shaoran is the adopted son of an archeologist... Oh, wait, that's Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle!

Q.) A ship you have abandoned and why.
Can't think of any.

R.) A pairing you ship that you do not think anyone else ships.
I'm not usually into random pairings with no canon backing, but something about the idea of Rei's father and Ami's mother in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon getting together just works for me. (Plus, it would be fun if Rei and Ami became stepsisters!)

S.) Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
Blood On His Hands is pretty much my headcanon for how things happened when Yuri and Layla won the International Circus Festival, pre-canon Kaleido Star.

T.) If you mostly have same-sex ships, do you have any het ships?
Mostly a het shipper.

U.) If you mostly have het ships, do you have any same-sex ships?
Some, but not a lot, and mostly canon. I don't have the so-called "slasher goggles", so the subtext usually has to be really strong before I ship a non-canon same-sex couple. But that's mostly true for het couples, too. I'm not somebody who tends to ship characters just because they would look good together or I think they might make a good couple (barring a few exceptions, such as the aforemented Mr. Hino/Dr. Mizuno pairing). There usually has to be some hint in canon that at least one person in the pairing might be romantically/sexually interested in the other.

V.) Are you one of those fans who cannot watch anything without shipping?
No. I'm perfectly capable of watching a show and not being shippy about it.

W.) Five favorite characters from five different fandoms.
Sailor Moon - Helios
Kaleido Star - Sora
Fruits Basket - Shigure
Card Captor Sakura - Touya
NANA - Yasu

X.) Three OTPs from three different fandoms.
Sailor Moon - Endymion/Pluto
Kaleido Star - Yuri/Layla
Princess Tutu - Mytho/Rue

Y.) A fandom you claim, but in which you have no ships.
No ships at all? Um, none come to mind. Like I mentioned before, I can watch a show and not get shippy about it, but I don't tend to get involved in fandoms unless I do have at least one ship I like. The one fandom that might apply is Death Note, since I'm not really interested in it for the romance, but I do ship Light/Misa and Matsuda/Sayu a little, so...yeah.

Z.) Ramble about anything fan-related.
I'm almost finished with my sailormoonland Big Bang, yay!

Comments

[mellowcandle.livejournal.com]

A pairing you have never liked and most likely never will.
Shigure/Akito (Fruits Basket). Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate!


With you on that one. Ugh.

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous fanart! Wonder why I never heard of that artist before?

Yuki / Machi ended up being my favorite Fruits Basket pairing, oddly enough.