meme, love, lyrics, J/D
Feb. 3rd, 2004 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wisdomeagleThis meme has been intriguing me for awhile. When I first got into fandom, I actually started a word .doc called "If my life were a fandom." It includes an episode list, a cast of characters, a list of possible pairings, and the first sentence of a fanfic. *headdesk*
If my livejournal was a fandom....
a. Who would the shippers pair me with?
b. Who would the slashers pair me with?
c. What would a Mary Sue in my fandom be like, OR who is most likely to be turned into Canon Sue?
d. When or how did I/will I jump the shark? ("Jumping the shark" means the point at which a series goes irretrievably down the tubes in your opinion.)
e. Write a one sentence summary of the story that would win the Best Fanfic Award in my fandom.
f. What would be the biggest cliché in pairing-focused fanfic?
Some thoughts on true love and soulmates, in response to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oceana_'s comment here.
I believe that you are absolutely responsible for your own happiness. No one else, no other person, no deity, no impersonal force of fate or destiny is going to make you happy. I believe in choice, I believe in personal responsibility. I think that the idea that there is one person somewhere out there destined to be my soulmate, my one true love forever, is an excuse not to take charge of one's own life, including the romantic components thereof.
I believe in soulmates in the sense that there are partnerships between people that are just... amazing in their closeness. I sometimes wish I had a platonic soulmate, and B & Jeane continue to be my paradigm for the ideal friendship. But I don't think that soulmates are born. They're made. Yes, sometimes there are people in our lives with whom we just connect. But it's overly idealistic to say that we don't have to work on these relationships.
Okay, I know. I thought, she thought, we said, thatnoreverchaste and I were soulmates. And we were. But now we aren't, becasue we've moved away, moved on, and the day-to-day closeness that we needed to achive soulmate-dom just isn't there anymore. I still care about her and always will, but she's not a soulmate in that sense.
But enough of pragmatic realism! I do believe in true love. Not that there's One True Love out there for me, but that there can be and will be and is (?!) One True Love in my life. Not something that will emerge out of nowhere, not something that's fore-ordained, not something that's predestined, not Fate. A gift (the capacity for love) and incredibly precious.
That's why I love my RPS 'ships. (Not actors. Not celebs. My friends. My adult friends who've been married for ten or twenty or thirty years.) B&Jeane (as platonic soulmates), and their friendship, the ministerpeople, hell, even the ho's. I believe true love is possible, because I've seen it.
I don't think of "OTP" as meaning the only pairing that could possibly have happened. I think an OTP is the pairing that did happen, and that to me is more precious and magical, because it's all the more precarious. Where's the mystery in falling in love with someone with whom you were destined to be? To me, the mystery is in the string of events that led me to a place where I fell in love with my best friend and now cannot imagine loving anyone else.
Continuing in the hopelessly romantic vein, some song lyrics (Yes, it's one of those days.)
From "My Best Friend" by Tim McGraw. J/D shippers should also download the vid by Beth.
You're more than a lover
There could never be another
To make me feel the way you do
Oh, we just get closer
I fall in love all over
Everytime I look at you
I don't know where I'd be
Without you here with me
Life with you makes perfect sense
You're my best friend
You're my best friend, oh yeah
I've fallen in love with Jack/Daniel all over again today. Felt compelled to watch vids, so I've been sitting here for the past three quarters of an hour watching them be all cute together, and I realize that no, I don't need to hand in my membership card and switch my OTP to Daniel/Sam just yet.
*watches tag scene to "Serpent's Lair" on repeat* They need each other. They love each other. Theirloveissocanon. It is.
If my livejournal was a fandom....
a. Who would the shippers pair me with?
b. Who would the slashers pair me with?
c. What would a Mary Sue in my fandom be like, OR who is most likely to be turned into Canon Sue?
d. When or how did I/will I jump the shark? ("Jumping the shark" means the point at which a series goes irretrievably down the tubes in your opinion.)
e. Write a one sentence summary of the story that would win the Best Fanfic Award in my fandom.
f. What would be the biggest cliché in pairing-focused fanfic?
Some thoughts on true love and soulmates, in response to
oceana_'s comment here.I believe that you are absolutely responsible for your own happiness. No one else, no other person, no deity, no impersonal force of fate or destiny is going to make you happy. I believe in choice, I believe in personal responsibility. I think that the idea that there is one person somewhere out there destined to be my soulmate, my one true love forever, is an excuse not to take charge of one's own life, including the romantic components thereof.
I believe in soulmates in the sense that there are partnerships between people that are just... amazing in their closeness. I sometimes wish I had a platonic soulmate, and B & Jeane continue to be my paradigm for the ideal friendship. But I don't think that soulmates are born. They're made. Yes, sometimes there are people in our lives with whom we just connect. But it's overly idealistic to say that we don't have to work on these relationships.
Okay, I know. I thought, she thought, we said, that
noreverchaste and I were soulmates. And we were. But now we aren't, becasue we've moved away, moved on, and the day-to-day closeness that we needed to achive soulmate-dom just isn't there anymore. I still care about her and always will, but she's not a soulmate in that sense.But enough of pragmatic realism! I do believe in true love. Not that there's One True Love out there for me, but that there can be and will be and is (?!) One True Love in my life. Not something that will emerge out of nowhere, not something that's fore-ordained, not something that's predestined, not Fate. A gift (the capacity for love) and incredibly precious.
That's why I love my RPS 'ships. (Not actors. Not celebs. My friends. My adult friends who've been married for ten or twenty or thirty years.) B&Jeane (as platonic soulmates), and their friendship, the ministerpeople, hell, even the ho's. I believe true love is possible, because I've seen it.
I don't think of "OTP" as meaning the only pairing that could possibly have happened. I think an OTP is the pairing that did happen, and that to me is more precious and magical, because it's all the more precarious. Where's the mystery in falling in love with someone with whom you were destined to be? To me, the mystery is in the string of events that led me to a place where I fell in love with my best friend and now cannot imagine loving anyone else.
Continuing in the hopelessly romantic vein, some song lyrics (Yes, it's one of those days.)
From "My Best Friend" by Tim McGraw. J/D shippers should also download the vid by Beth.
You're more than a lover
There could never be another
To make me feel the way you do
Oh, we just get closer
I fall in love all over
Everytime I look at you
I don't know where I'd be
Without you here with me
Life with you makes perfect sense
You're my best friend
You're my best friend, oh yeah
I've fallen in love with Jack/Daniel all over again today. Felt compelled to watch vids, so I've been sitting here for the past three quarters of an hour watching them be all cute together, and I realize that no, I don't need to hand in my membership card and switch my OTP to Daniel/Sam just yet.
*watches tag scene to "Serpent's Lair" on repeat* They need each other. They love each other. Theirloveissocanon. It is.