Got tagged by @wingroad, so... *rolls up sleeves*
First ship you ever read fic for: Hoo boy, here is where I date myself. Taichi/Yamato from Digimon (yes the late 90s original) and that was back in the mists of time when the internet was shrouded in dial-up and Geocities was still a thing and here there be lemons and limes shounen ai boyxboy don’t like don’t read don’t own don’t sue plzzzz.
I had no idea what fanfic was, all I wanted was to collect some screenshots from the show, but then there were FANSHRINES and WEBRINGS and YAHOO MAILING LISTS and the rest is history. Old people high-five if you know what a webring was. XD
First ship you ever wrote fic for: Sephiroth/Cloud from FF7. No, I’m not giving anyone the tools to find that.
Ship you write the most now: Is this some kinda cruel taunt? /writer’s block sucks srsly
Ship you read the most now: Hoo boy, that’s hard to quantify, because the fandoms/ships I love most are not necessarily the ones I read the most, because some fandoms just have a higher ratio of good-quality fic than others and unfortunately my brain is a snobby elitist bitch that cares about things like IC and consistency and will backbutton out of fics if they so much as start referring to characters as “the bluenette” and “the raven” and yeah.
Anyway, there’s a lot of fandom-hopping going on interspersed with great and terrible droughts. XD KnB, Haikyuu, most of the Shin Megaten gamut, some of the older Final Fantasies, some of the Tales of, Guilty Gear, occasional dips into Harry Potter, Ao no Ex, Yugioh, DBZ, D.Gray-man, FMA, Sokyuu no Fafner, some Gundams, hell, even Naruto if I get particularly desperate... idk I’m probably forgetting several dozen. XD
Newest ship: Kai/Aichi from Cardfight!!Vanguard, a very silly cardgame anime a friend got me into which would be utterly forgettable if it weren’t so incredibly fucking gay seriously the end credits have the two protagonists meeting under fucking rainbows I kid you not go watch it it really is that gay.
Rare ship you want to read more of: Well, I gotta separate this from my thirst for quality fic brought on by my snobby elitist bitch brain so... I guess more Kagakuro would be nice? Or KiKasa? Or AoMomo? Or more Vanguard stuff? Or...
Your taboo ship: ...what does that even mean???
They never met in canon ship: nothing comes to mind. I tend to ship characters who have at least some level of interesting canon interaction.
Your unexpected ship: Y’know, I never expect to ship things? So technically all of them? I guess if you really wanna get down to it MayuAka bc that started as a joke ship (yeah thanks @wingroad XD) but now I actually enjoy figuring out the sheer weirdness of these two and their interactions.
The ship you always forget to give love to: I don’t forget, I just either have no ideas that can be turned into viable fics (I mostly write either epics or character study/slice-of-life stuff), or I have severe writer’s block. Like now. This headcanon blog was actually my desperate attempt to jump that blockade. It’s kinda worked in some ways, but not in the fic ways. xD
Ship your OC with a canon character (if applicable): That’s a kiss of death if I ever saw one.
A ship you’re embarrassed to ship: *blink* The only thing about my shipping I’m sometimes embarrassed about is the sheer volume of thoughts I have about my favorites. Srsly though, this whole “I’m ashamed to ship this” thing that seems to be all the rage on tumblr these days is exhausting. Shipping it means supporting it. Own whatever it is that’s tickled your imagination.
Your most romantic ship: That’s impossible to answer because there is no way to universally define what romance is or what qualifies as “romantic.”
I’ve got ships where the most romantic words ever spoken are “try not to die, moron,” and ships whose essence is “let me fully devote my entire being to you and your cause,” and ships that blush and gaze at each other amidst the dancing cherry blossoms, ships that are so fucking emotionally constipated and screwy they can barely even conceive of the concept of “love”... idk.
What’s beautiful is having all these different characters manage to somehow muddle their way to an understanding and some form of affection regardless of their circumstances. That’s what’s most romantic to me.
Your sexiest ship: ...like, who do I think gets the most action or who has the most UST or who looks hottest together? *blink* Dunno how to answer that.
Your most tragic ship: That’s tough, but Cloud’s arc in FF7 has always struck me as one of the most tragic stories ever written. A friend of mine summed up the game as “the drama of a boy who got everything he ever wanted” – he got to be strong, and a hero, but it cost him his sense of self, his family, his hometown, his best friend, his emotional support, and the one he admired the most.
And much of that tragedy spills over into the Sephiroth/Cloud ship; not just because of what happens in the game, but because of how achingly lonely, isolated and similar they both are, and how much tragedy and suffering could have been avoided if they had ever actually met and talked before things went to shit. #shutupwithyourcompilationsqueenix
A ship you want more content for: Every single one, preferably IC and spell-checked. >.> A girl can dream, ne?
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