Meme: Make me Choose

[extrapenguin]

I am trying to write a Yulefic. I am procrastinating. Please help me procrastinate more productively:

Make me choose between:

• two ships
• two characters
• two fandoms
• two anything at all

Meme provided by journalmemes.

(Fandoms include: A:tLA, A:LoK, Guardian (镇魂), Honor Harrington, Imperial Radch, Modao Zushi, Nirvana in Fire, Revelation Space, Rivers of London, KOTOR, KOTOR II, Vorkosigan)

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I used to ship Peter/Nightingale, but now I'm more of a gen fan, as the canon ... hasn't been providing me with stuff that makes me ship. I don't ship Beverley/Nightingale or Peter/Beverley, either, so of the triangle, I half-ship one side and am bleh to indifferent on the other two sides, and then it just doesn't work. It's also been pushed a lot by people as the "solution" to a nonexistent ship war, which makes me go meh.

[anehan]

Canon has actually surprised me with how few scenes there are of Peter and Nightingale directly interacting, considering that they're supposed to be working together, not to mention the whole apprentice thing. I still ship them, but that lack of canon material does make it a bit challenging.

[extrapenguin]

I think they interacted a lot more in the early books, but now they've been cordoned away from each other, and Aaronovitch is writing about stuff other than magic learning and the apprenticeship. Perhaps there'll be a pivot back to the mutual figuring out of the magical apprenticeship and agreement enforcing, once the Faceless Man plot is done and Lesley's off doing something else?

[anehan]

Also, hmm, I don't really see how a threesome could be a real solution to any ship war, if there had actually been one, because a threesome is inherently a very different dynamic from a twosome.

[extrapenguin]

Indeed, it's not an actual solution, but some people like threesomes and think it's a solution, or have been brainwashed into believing it's a solution. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯