Top 10 Pairings meme

[thrihyrne]

I'm borrowing this from heartofoshun. Name your 10 absolutely favourite fandom ships (try to pick different fandoms). Ask people to see what trends and similarities they notice about your ships. I'll try to come up with 10, and they're not in any particular order. I've also noticed this doesn't specify whether they're favorites to write, read or both. Here goes!

1. Ron/Draco (Harry Potter)
2. Bagoas/Alexander (The Persian Boy)
3. Armand/Marius (Vampire Chronicles)
4. Ashmael/Seel (Wraeththu)
5. Alec/Richard (Swordspoint)
6. John Grey/Percy (Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade)
7. Remus/Sirius (Harry Potter)
8. Lee/Andrei (maculategiraffe's Slave Breakers)
9. Holden/Yves/Bran (not a pairing, sorry; maculategiraffe's Slave Breakers)
10. Cal/Swift (Wraeththu)

I used to love Ron/Harry tremendously, but I don't really seek it out anymore; while I definitely loved Vaysh/Ashmael, I wrote it the way I wanted to see it; what they were like before Vaysh's initial death was only vaguely alluded to in canon. And yes, these are all slashy, I know. Guilty.

Others are welcome to play! What struck me is I have no pairings in LotR that are fave 'ships because I wrote so much genfic. I did write a novella focusing on Thengel/Morwen, but it was a one-time deal. And the only male character I've fallen for (besides Gimli) is Tar-Meneldur Elentirmo. I wouldn't want to ship him with his wife, sadly, but then I was lucky enough to have Ennorwen write a lovely story shipping him with an OC.

Comments

[emansil-08.livejournal.com]

I tried to do this meme, only to realize I don't have anywhere close to 10 favorite pairings. I really need to expand my reading habits.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Aw... and not every area has a pairing, y'know? Hence no Tolkien pairings in that list, and goodness knows I've written and read a BOATLOAD of Tolkien fic. I can think of at least three pairings that I know you like. :)

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

I always forget about Anne Rice characters when it comes to stuff like this...maybe because she is so very anti-fanfic. I do love Marius/Armand, though.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd forgotten about the vampires until I saw wiebke's response to this in heartofoshun's post. I wish my library had The Vampire Armand as a book on tape; maybe I'll request it via interlibrary loan. I was even going to write some Armand slash having just listened to it during a car trip several years ago and instead wrote a vampire!Ron/Harry story. ;)