Meme: Rate-A-Ship

[extrapenguin]

I have descended upon family, and will spend the rest of December descending upon other branches of family. Expect radio silence on posting until maybe the 7th of January, save for the traditional Yuletide rec post. I'll try to comment on others' posts, and reply to comments on mine, but I don't have the brainspace to formulate a post topic by myself. In the meanwhile, waiting for Yuletide reveals, I'm drinking tea and reading armadda's Coraline AU for Guardian. It's very nice to be in the same fandom as one's best beta, again; I look forward to chatting with her about my outlines. (I have two, for Ye Zun being redeemed, though one is more AU premise with a Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei get-together that segues into a Ye Zun redemption than straightforward fic about Ye Zun being redeemed. Perhaps I'll write the praise kink sex pollen Ye Zun redemption first, that one seems shorter.)

Let's do a meme I can reply to! From journalmemes, slightly modified. Feel free to drop in crossover ships and utter and complete crackships, in addition to the "expected" ones.

Comment with a ship and I will rate it on the following scale:

absolute squick / no way / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / ship forever

And then I will explain why.

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

[trobadora]

Lin Jing/Sha Ya?

[extrapenguin]

absolute squick / no way / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / ship forever
Lin Jing might be a bit too persistent for comfort, and Sha Ya only getting close to him for nefarious purposes, but as far as canon het goes, this is actually pretty good! He really digs her for who and what she is, music included, and doesn't balk at her being Dixingian. She doesn't love him, but I'd buy an epilogue/fixit where she decides to reboot their dating and they later get together.

[trobadora]

Yeah - he does come on very strongly, and there's the whole "plant a bug on her" thing, but then she tries to kill him and he's weirdly sweet about it, and I end up actually finding it cute.

[extrapenguin]

It definitely improved as they went along! I think I started actually finding it cute around the stinky tofu scene, and then he gave her a ring that'd project stars, and the cuteness was cemented. "Weirdly sweet about her trying to kill him" does sum it up quite well!