okay like these meta questions memes; throw me some things to answer when i'm done cooking
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okay like these meta questions memes; throw me some things to answer when i'm done cooking
okay like these meta questions memes; throw me some things to answer when i'm done cooking
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maybe this will help drag my brain up out of the muck
yallternative
1, 3, 9!
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2, 6, 13
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1 - BIG OBSTACLES that either have to be overcome or worked around, with or without full success
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without full success but also without total failure is generally the most interesting to me
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"we're from vastly different cultures(/species for scifi stuff)", "we're morally or ideologically opposed in some way (HERO/VILLAIN SHIPS) or on different sides of a conflict, and while we both might be up for some compromise neither of us are willing to totally give up on our side", etc.
Jay
4, 9, 11
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bickering like an old married couple, or just conflict in general? i love relationships (of any kind, not just romantic) that have a lot of conflict that's worked through/acknowledged/dealt with
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and again, somewhere between "the conflict was solved and it's over and everything's perfect now, no complications!" and "this conflict is unsolvable and we're completely unhappy and we can't be together anymore because of it" is ideal for me
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and that's two things, hmmmmm
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i had a third in mind but it exited my brain
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will take a break to eat and then come back to it 
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god i can't think of the one i originally wanted to say so i'm just going to throw one-sided pining (or mutual oblivious pining onto this
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but i'm annoyingly picky about it
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it has to be done just the way i like it or i'm 
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but when i do like it it's /chef's kiss
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3 - REFUSAL TO GIVE UP ON EACH OTHER 
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people having neverending faith in their loved ones
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9 - definitely not, and when i do it's generally with ships that aren't teased/hinted at in canon itself
Kira🌵
complicated & not fully resolvable conflict + refusal to give up/ lose faith... clasps hands together
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yessssssss
Jay
yesss, another one where I'm going WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT IT's GREAT <3
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2 - literal soulmates, "i'd drop everything in my life for you; you're the only thing that matters" being portrayed as romantic rather than stifling at best or alarming at worst, "will they or won't they" as the weird plot tumor that it is in a lot of media, esp. tv shows
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(re: "will they or won't they", that kind of goes hand in hand with pining as mentioned above; i eat it up when it's done exactly how i like it and despise it when it's not)
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(and "exactly how i like it" isn't an easily definable thing because it's very dependent on the characters, the setting, the plot, the other characters, etc.)
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6 - ehhhhhhhh i suppose i lean more towards rarepairs on the whole but i've liked my fair share of mainstream stuff too
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13 - oh boy let's see hmmmm
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Aziraphale/Crowley from the miniseries specifically, but not if they're going to be portrayed as indistinguishable from any other human couple
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keep their etherealness as a big, central part of it, please
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and look as much as i'll go on about how PICKY i am about CANON/MAYBE-CANON ships, UGH, american TV ESPECIALLY is so ANNOYING about them!!!
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Jim/Pam, Angela/Dwight, and Leslie/Ben from The Office and Parks & Rec especially were gold to me
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i wouldn't say i was a hardcore shipper, but i found them all very cute and the first two especially are examples i'll point to of "will they or won't they" working well for me
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Talia/Ivonova from Babylon 5
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-- oh that's five okay
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i'm sure i could think of more that i like just as much or more than some of these, especially since 3/5 are SITCOM COUPLES, but those are all genuinely the first that popped into my head lmao
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11 - every single one of these answers, especially the favorite tropes answers, could easily fit platonic stuff too for me
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if i ship something i'm generally equally happy to interpret it as Platonic and Intense
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OH i skipped four, hmmm
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emotionally repressed people who show their love through touch (and/or actions) because they're too insecure, embarrassed, or ~gruff to say the damn words
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... god the homestuck discussion in isabelle's plurk is making me remember that i fell deep into john/vriska hell for like six months straight back in 2011
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i should have listed that as one of mine for 13
snowbogan
omg i'm right there with you on loving pining but being super picky about it
snowbogan
it needs to feel organic