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geekns · 6 years

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I am at the point where i love the fanfic versions of my ships more than the actual canon versions of them because my ships rarely, if ever, actually get to a point where my hopes and fears and anticipation and tears are actually rewarded. Like...

Five years of Philinda for one kiss and then they’re off the team (i’m sure they’ll be back... they better be back).

Three years of Twissy to no real fruition, nowhere near enough screen time for Michelle and the tragic death of Missy with no reward, then the regeneration of my favorite Doctor.

This after getting my heart broken over Doctor/Donna and feeling like i was being forced to accept Doctor/River (i love Alex Kingston but ship her with the Doctor i do not, which sucks in a way because i love River, too).

Kylo and Rey still haven’t even kissed... they’ve got one movie left to fix things and it’s just too depressing for me to put myself through watching the Last Jedi repeatedly because they’re still not together...

...and i would love for Star Wars to actually do pregnancy right in recompense for ruining my then-favorite female character in the SW verse.

One of my first ships ever having a ~decade long separation after apparently being the shitiest parents of all time, and no happy ending.

Carter/O’Neill with the no fraternization and RDA not even being in the final episode

Roslin/Adama happening just in time for Roslin to die (just one of the ships that frustrated me to no end on this show)

Janeway/Chakotay never happening

Picard/Crusher being promised for the TNG films, never actually happening, and then we don’t even get TNG films anymore like...this is one of the best shows of all time and i don’t even get to find out what they’re up to without reading books that are not considered to be canon.

No happy endings for anyone. Like what happened to true romance? Are they even making RomComs anymore (which aren’t even my standard go-to in terms of enjoyment, like Fools Rush In being my fave because it makes fun of Rom Coms and Decoy Bride being amazing because of its witty awkwardness)? Because i can’t find anything on Netflix that isn’t old. It’s a bunch of international stuff that i don’t even want to get into, i know the K-Drama is all full of angst and pining and they apparently never pay off (at least, the one my sister got me into has driven me up a wall in this way. And she told me that no one kisses in these things, so that must be where they’re going with Reylo).

The current trend in sci fi and action films seems to be to eschew romance entirely as unnecessary or unwanted.

Hope/Scott seems to be on hold if in the works at all.

No real T’Challa/Nakia

Peter (Parker)’s a free agent

Christine doesn’t want Stephen and Stephen is too much of a coward to commit to what he obviously wants.

There’s no Thor/Valkyrie (not complaining, but what happened to Jane? not that Natalie and Chris have chemistry)

We get Agent Cap (or whatever else they call it, no idea) where they never even had a first date and knew each other for a couple of years out of four score...

...and Hulk (who is still hung up on his ex last we actually checked in?) gets Nat (but then discards her) rather than Cap or Bucky or even Hawkeye (any of which would make more sense).

Pepper doesn’t want babies and Tony does?!?

Loki, the apparent womanizer of the comics and father and mother of monsters in the mythology, never gets so much as a flirtatious look in his direction from any significant characters (yeah the tittering party-goers in the background of Ragnarok do not even count). All the ships for him are with Thor (his brother, so incest, and i know it’s not genetic incest but they grew up together and still love one another as brothers. It’s canon that Thor is abusive and dismissive towards Loki and the couple of times i’ve tried to read Thorki fanfic they were wildly OOC) or with characters he has zero screen time with (i loved TaserTricks for a while). And he’s the most popular character in the MCU but gets his abilities and redemption arc retconned repeatedly to the point that he’s just a guy with knives who doesn’t even know how to use magic.

Oh and Scarlet Vision, which is apparently in fact canon from the comic books but is just boring. And is already over.

I could go on.

I mean even in Frozen and Moana there isn’t anything going on there and this is Disney we’re talking about. Perhaps i should clarify that Anna clearly fell in love but then spent the rest of the movie with a guy who she was just friends with (are they more in the shorts???) when her fiance was only using her. And Elsa has zero chemistry with anyone. So yes, all of these films have some moments of chemistry, flirtation, but no real character development of a romantic bent, no real intention of even forming an exclusive, long-term relationship that might lead to cohabitation, marriage, babies, etc. Like even Peter and Gamora are not quite an official thing even as Infinity War did a lovely job of making it feel like Peter was meeting her dad because they are a thing.

I miss romance. So apparently shared disaster scenarios do not equal lasting love in today’s storytelling (Jurassic World, Speed, Age of Ultron, etc.)...and everyone is so busy kicking butt that who really has time for relationships? Unless they are the relationships that i do not care for in the slightest and i feel like are being forced on me. I’m not against pining, i’m reading tons of it as Reylo fic, but the pairing eventually needs to get to the point where the characters are actually together and working on doing things as partners.

I love Robin Hood, Tangled, the Princess Bride, Much Ado about Nothing (Beatrice/Benedick), and Pride and Prejudice. I want some tension there, for the man to actually pursue a woman and prove himself to her. I want verbal sparring. Even better, i’d like for the dynamic to shift to where they are fighting side by side as equals (which to be fair Philinda and Hope/Scott is working towards). And apparently i really dig it when the older couple is the one that gets to finally find love (because yeah, now i’m getting to the point where i’m the woman who’s running out of time).

But my real question is how Feige is supposed to give us Young Avengers when none of the Avengers are pairing off? The settled with a family dynamic is sadly missing in the MCU and watching Incredibles 2 has made me bitter about it. Like it feels like Pepper is nowhere near as invested in the relationship as Tony is. Thor wanted Jane but wanted to wander around looking in all the wrong places for info about the stones even more (like why didn’t he go back to his father? Odin clearly knew a little about the stones in Dark World and, result, Loki knows more than anyone else?). Nat can’t even have a family, Clint and Scott are the only ones with kids. Christine and Nakia and MJ aren’t even a shadow of a thought in IW.

Does anyone have a fandom to recommend that actually has this sort of dynamic to it? I’m hoping that Judy and Don heats up a bit in season two of Lost in Space (as my niece puts it, they need to repopulate) but that could be ages yet like post-A4 or even post IX. I am so tired of feeling like the people who i want to be happy together are doomed to be working together but never together together. Please help.

#mcu #rant #confession #meta #romance

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chronotopes · 7 years

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STAR TREK TRIO, Kirk Spock and Bones for the game!:D

THANK YOU YES

jim -

hogwarts house: gryffindor!!! | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff

best quality: i’d argue his belief in humanity but i’m biased because everything i love is the same . also i looove what a fuckign …. romantic he is

worst quality: i could answer this seriously but i could also say ‘that outfit in search for spock through voyage home, what was up with that’

ship them with: take a wild guess lads

brotp them with: bones obviously but also the entire bridge crew! i like him and uhura being pals particularly

needs to stay away from: any starfleet rank that isn’t ‘captain’, also, since i know the events of the seventh movie, the next generation people. not that the seventh movie, like, happened, or anything, but if it did.. yeah lmao if it did i’d say kirk and picard shouldn’t hang out, at least not in those circumstances.

misc. thoughts: so audrey is gonna make me watch the first jar jar abrams movie this summer, and i already know most of what happens in it, and…. like i get it on some level, a lot of the ooc-ness by jim there can be explained with canon-divergence, but it’s just permanently upsetting to see him star in an edgy au. it’s like jj-trek is this constantly-updated fic on ao3 that everyone’s really lost their shit over but you don’t feel that great about and then you go on ao3 and everyone’s changed their jim characterizations to fit THAT instead and it’s all dark and edgy and like! i knoow it makes sense for it to be different from tos , but there’s ALREADY an edgy star trek au, it’s s02s04 mirror mirror and it’s good so can we have some people we, like, Recognize. also blowing up planets we care about is really very extra and weird. like i don’t think the franchise is Ruined by jj or whatever because that’s a generally silly train of thought, but… it sucks that this reboot happened in an era of edgy sci-fi and not when i become an adult and know to write everything to be gay and brightly-colored .

the others are under the cut:

spock -

hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff

best quality: i mean a lot of things but he’s got an enormous respect for life and a very finely tuned sense of justice - like he catches on to the power dynamic in the cloud minders soooo quickly and i love it

worst quality: self-sabotage :(

ship them with: t a k e a w i l d g u e s s l a d s

brotp them with: the bridge crew forever! hurrah, boys, hurrah! also: bones.

needs to stay away from: radiation poisoning and edgy canon divergence aus that blow up his fuckin planet. also, the FUCKING kolinahr. since seeing tmp i have not known peace

misc. thoughts: imo spock’s internal conflicts are among the most memorable and fascinating parts of the show, and also of how to (authorial intent nonwithstanding) write a romance that stands the test of time. just in terms of general writing advice! i’m just saying! like i was editing my ‘16 nano , as you do, written 4 months before i ever knew a thing about tos, and with one of my leads i was constantly like #spock? i just feel like he in particular has had such an impact on the way we write fantasy/sf beings .

bones -

hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff or whatever i’ve become quite bad at sorting people lately

best quality: the bit in the empath where he pushes gem away because he can’t let her die even if she’s saving his life, and the bit in mirror mirror where he saves evil spock’s life even though it’d be much easier to just run off and leave the universe to itself because it’s not like he’ll ever see him again… idk he’s just . A DOCTOR, man, don’t let anyone forget it

worst quality: buddy sometimes you push the boundary when it comes to the Being Mean To Spock category

ship them with: honestly, um, a nice quiet shore leave and some frighteningly sweet iced tea. but seriously i don’t know i don’t have any bones shipping opinions

brotp them with: obvious trio feelings aside, chapel!!!

needs to stay away from: in theory, stressful situations. he’s just an old country doctor with - i’m starting to think spock had a point there - a bit of a martyr complex!

misc. thoughts: it’s so infinitely funny to me that bones is to this trio what grantaire is to the party trio, in that he’s there for, like, every stage of his friends’ relationship development. jim flirtin on the bridge in the early years of the five year mission? bones is there. love confession in the sickbay in tmp? bones is there! just chillin! the fight in amok time, which pushes the boundaries of what can’t be considered a first sexual encounter? as much as he regrets all the life choices that have led up to this point, bones is there! (and thank god he is.) like…. give this man a raise.

#asks #pilferingapples #THANK YOU THIS WAS LOTS OF FUN #and probably incoherent #tos liveblog

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