Go Down With The Ship

November 21, 2013 8:55 PM

An Icona Pop Parody for the tumblr-reblogging, fanfic-writing, livejournal-updating squeeing fandom masses "I Ship It!"
posted by The Whelk (24 comments total)

Whenever anyone posts a fannish parody video to the blue, this is basically what I hope it's going to be like.

Great production values. Charming nerds. Excellent filking. Actually funny. Just insidery enough to be even funnier if you've spent any time in fandom.

Double Thumbs Up, Sir.
posted by Narrative Priorities at 9:05 PM on November 21, 2013 [3 favorites]

The problem with my favorite non-canon ships is that I'd have to make a sockpuppet account to talk about them or I'd never be able to show my face here again.
posted by Narrative Priorities at 9:10 PM on November 21, 2013 [7 favorites]

I basically made this post for you two so now i"m filled with a large number of powerful emotions
posted by The Whelk at 9:11 PM on November 21, 2013 [3 favorites]

This is brilliant.

Raine Sage/Jade Curtiss forever. I don't care that they're from different games. They would be awesome.
posted by NoraReed at 9:24 PM on November 21, 2013

1. Faith and Buffy. Obviously.
2. Jane and Beth (Mary Robinette Kowal's Shades of Milk and Honey. I'm still grumpy this didn't turn out to be canon.)
3. Siuan Sanche and Moiraine Damodred (they never even I mean come on they should have gotten to RRRAAAAGH)
4. Sansa Stark and Margaery Tyrell? Apparently this is a TV show thing but I am totally willing to ship it even in advance of watching season 3.

I don't actually watch enough mainstream media to have much other than literary ships. When I do, there aren't enough female characters to even ship together. Hmm. Will have to think more.
posted by restless_nomad at 9:26 PM on November 21, 2013

Are you sad that Beth hasn't shown up in the other books yet too? She's fabulous, though I never imagined her with Jane. I can see why you'd go for that, though. They'd make a fantastic old lesbian couple. They'd have a life of reading to each other and snuggling in front of fires.

Great, now I want to go read Privilege of the Sword again.
posted by NoraReed at 9:42 PM on November 21, 2013

No, it was really just situational. Beth's scandal could have been a lesbian affair! Jane and Vincent are adorable together, it's fine, I just always want more lesbians.
posted by restless_nomad at 9:46 PM on November 21, 2013 [1 favorite]

Norm Abram and Bob Vila 4-EVA
posted by Lucinda at 10:03 PM on November 21, 2013 [4 favorites]

Jack and Kelly.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:22 AM on November 22, 2013

Carey and Will and Diane and Kalinda Good Wife.
posted by PinkMoose at 2:22 AM on November 22, 2013 [2 favorites]

Hamlet and Doctor Faustus.
posted by Pallas Athena at 2:37 AM on November 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

Fandom left LJ behind SO LONG AGO. The only time I think anybody ever goes there anymore is for the anonmeme's.
posted by joyceanmachine at 4:35 AM on November 22, 2013

I think I included it as some strange homage to Cleo linda, who's recaps never fail to crack me up.
posted by The Whelk at 6:37 AM on November 22, 2013

Commissioner Gordon and Herman Munster
posted by KingEdRa at 8:19 AM on November 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

The accused stood mute and the judge ordered a plea of nolo contendere entered into the record. I don't even get on the shipping bus that much and I know these feels.
posted by immlass at 8:28 AM on November 22, 2013

Ah, someone just posted this on my Facebook wall and I rushed here to post it to the blue but OF COURSE The Whelk has beaten me to it.

Johnlock and Stony forever!
posted by Jacqueline at 10:25 AM on November 22, 2013 [2 favorites]

But those are popular. Here we are to celebrate cracky unpopular abandoned ghost ships!
posted by The Whelk at 10:27 AM on November 22, 2013

(really unsettling ones should, of course, be Haunted Pirate Ships)
posted by The Whelk at 10:27 AM on November 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

....okay well the thread's been up a while and probably not many folks are reading it anymore, sooooo....

I used to be in Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom, and I shipped Jet/Zuko something FIERCE.
posted by Narrative Priorities at 10:42 AM on November 22, 2013

I have been blowing off steam at work by reading Sherlolly. Lots and lots of Sherlolly.
posted by pxe2000 at 12:25 PM on November 22, 2013

restless_nomad: If you haven't---and if I haven't misunderstood your comment, you haven't---read Jordan's New Spring you really want to. The independent-book novella version, not the novelette in Legends I.

Really.

Really really.
posted by seyirci at 1:55 PM on November 22, 2013

Of course I have, that's why I'm so annoyed about the situation.
posted by restless_nomad at 2:02 PM on November 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

We're all familiar with The Toast's Femslash Fridays, right? (yes the link goes to Kaylee/Inara, because it's a cohesive argument damnit, "Simon Tam is perhaps the least convincing heterosexual on television in the last fifteen years. He has a lovely face and is a terrific brother and really outstanding moral fiber, but he has never once in his life wanted to touch a woman’s body outside of his capacity as a doctor. Search within yourself; you know it to be true.")
posted by The Whelk at 2:12 PM on November 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

I have not been following it but I need to. Yes, someone to pay attention to Alex Cabot! I do not ship her with anyone but me, but yes!
posted by restless_nomad at 4:34 PM on November 22, 2013 [1 favorite]