If fandoms were lovers

[syrena_of_the_lake]

I should be writing. Instead, thanks to Rthstewart (“the instigator”), I did this.

If fandoms were lovers...

Star Trek Voyager: The one who seduced you and screwed you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it. (Chakotay belongs with Janeway, dammit.)

Harry Potter: The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets.

Maleficent: The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized they really were fucking crazy.

Psmith & Mike: The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to get together with again although you're relieved they don't actually live in town.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Steady.

Arrival: The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never got really serious with.

Mentalist: The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good friends because the friendship is there but the chemistry isn't.

Firefly: The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems really cool except it's never really gone anywhere.

Doctor Who: The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How did they land all these utterly fabulous people?"

Star Wars: The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and who you measure all other potential partners against.

A natural history of dragons (the Lady Trent memoirs): The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better and who you think you might have a crush on.

JAG: The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they cleaned themselves up a bit.

Forever: Your hot new flame. (Not so new anymore, but...)

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries The one who stole your people's hearts. (And my heart for good measure.)

And a bonus:
Blood & Treasure: The one you’re embarrassed to admit you like, because your friends will all say you’re too good for them.

Comments

[marmota_b]

Ha-ha at Doctor Who. I lost interest in the modern one after a fairly long while, because I'm on the side that thinks Moffatt got too big for his own good, but... well, a lot of the Classics have a definite charm and beauty to them, warts and all, and... I don't know, the ethos of doing the right thing because it's the right thing that's present in a lot of Doctor Who (and that Moffat kind of trampled over with his Look at All This Cool Stuff Happening and / or Look How Dark and Cool We Are kind of programming, even though it still was there now and then, thankfully) really, really appeals to me.
On the other hand, I can totally understand that someone has a hard time finding all that underneath All The Stuff Happening and the current Whovian fannish crazy. I stopped identifying as a Whovian because frankly I don't cry whenever reminded of Rose or any of that, and don't need to keep stumbling into that crazy when indulging my own personal fandom love and interest.


Also, Voyager: I confess to having been spoiled in advance and never having watched the ending and never having found the courage to do so. Technically, I don't particularly mind the thought of Chakotay with Seven and simply staying very, very good friends with Janeway ('cause I'm also firmly on the Gen "Friendship is a valid form of relationship" side of fandom), but if they really went with it as stupidly as I hear they did... I don't need to watch that, that's what God gave me imagination for, to put it bluntly. :D

[marmota_b]

P.S. And I suppose I enjoy a lot of Doctor Who precisely because I enjoy stories of a certain kind of hope. There definitely is the underlying feeling that some things make sense regardless of how they turn out. Behold Peter Capaldi's Doctor, at a point where I actually wasn't watching anymore (so I'm not entirely sure what's happening myself, but the speech is worth it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnouj9Yz-Gs

[marmota_b]

P.P.S. Are you familiar with Murdoch Mysteries? I do enjoy Miss Fisher, and I think when I made (and never finished) this meme for myself, I did put it somewhere on the list, but I would put Murdoch in this same spot myself, with the same addendum - if by "your people" you can mean Real Life people, my sister and my grandma both definitely counts. :-)