PGSM Rei/Minako is something of an OTP for me I always thought there was ~something~ going on between them in the manga, but PGSM just went into overdrive! (To this day I swear they were made slashier to make up for the absence of Haruka/Michiru.)
so the relationship is built on what fans project on to the women versus something in their canon interaction. This makes sense...a lot of femslash fic reads this way to me.
What ships have surprised you (either by taking off or not)? In Grey's Anatomy, I'm surprised Meredith/Cristina and Cristina/Teddy aren't the most popular non-canon pairings--Meredith kicks her husband out of bed for Cristina, and Cristina wanted to swap her boyfriend for Teddy! In Dollhouse, Caroline/Bennett was practically canon, but I've seen zero fic; instead Echo/Sierra (okay, they're friends...) and Claire/Adelle (huh?) are more common.
In House fandom, Cameron/13 is ridiculously popular. I think the two characters had one scene together, and I'm not sure they even spoke to each other in it. So I'm baffled by the lack of Amber/Cuddy, since they actually interacted, and there were some strong feelings there (granted, negative ones, but still). River/Amy is huge in Doctor Who right now...I'm not surprised people ship it, but I'm surprised by how big it is.
Even the big fandoms confuse me--Devil Wears Prada, the new Alice in Wonderland, Law & Order? Huh? But the fandom is near non-existent for Nurse Jackie (I know it's on Showtime, but still), where one of the women is canonically bisexual. I've become so confused about what will be popular that I second-guessed myself about Rizzoli & Isles taking off.
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I always thought there was ~something~ going on between them in the manga, but PGSM just went into overdrive! (To this day I swear they were made slashier to make up for the absence of Haruka/Michiru.)
so the relationship is built on what fans project on to the women versus something in their canon interaction.
This makes sense...a lot of femslash fic reads this way to me.
What ships have surprised you (either by taking off or not)?
In Grey's Anatomy, I'm surprised Meredith/Cristina and Cristina/Teddy aren't the most popular non-canon pairings--Meredith kicks her husband out of bed for Cristina, and Cristina wanted to swap her boyfriend for Teddy! In Dollhouse, Caroline/Bennett was practically canon, but I've seen zero fic; instead Echo/Sierra (okay, they're friends...) and Claire/Adelle (huh?) are more common.
In House fandom, Cameron/13 is ridiculously popular. I think the two characters had one scene together, and I'm not sure they even spoke to each other in it. So I'm baffled by the lack of Amber/Cuddy, since they actually interacted, and there were some strong feelings there (granted, negative ones, but still). River/Amy is huge in Doctor Who right now...I'm not surprised people ship it, but I'm surprised by how big it is.
Even the big fandoms confuse me--Devil Wears Prada, the new Alice in Wonderland, Law & Order? Huh? But the fandom is near non-existent for Nurse Jackie (I know it's on Showtime, but still), where one of the women is canonically bisexual. I've become so confused about what will be popular that I second-guessed myself about Rizzoli & Isles taking off.