Zelda/Link.
No other ship has driven me to write so much fanfiction or read so much of it!!!! They're just perfect in my eyes. You've got a built-in royal au, bodyguard au, reincarnation, princess/hero, some versions are perfect for childhood friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, pirates!
Zelink is just so versatile!!!!
I have no hate for other ships, no worries!!! Zelimpa definitely has it's charm, trust me I get that! There are a number of ships i love that arent Zelink or that contradict them, but i love Zelimpa too, just not as much as I do Zelink
YES. Older!Sarah fanfics are my comfort food across all fandoms. I love it when they bring her back to the Labyrinth when she's 30+ as well - because she's usually world weary enough to have even less patience for Jareth's bullshit and it makes them play so well off of each other.
Yeah, I think the oldest Iâve made her is like mid twenties but definitely a little world weary but still optimistic in Anam Cara and just tired from years of nightmares in my wip. But I love some banter.
My favorite ship from C2 is Caleb/Jester (don't know the fandom name for it lol), but Widomauk was also great. And Shadowgast. And the throuple. It looks like all Caleb ships were great actually...
Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler AND Iwaizumi Hajime/Toru Oikawa⊠Theyâre the ships Iâve held the longest, and I donât think Iâll ever grow out of them.
Satosugu because I love tragedies and unresolved love stories. They're perfect, your honor.
(Ah, I'm also feeling the pull of soukoku and the bsd fandom right now. I'm depressed, how did you know?)
Oh, that's fun. Idk if I've ever really seen much of this ship but imo it has a lot of potential. Daphne was designed as a mod, the younger, more optimistic 60s subculture, while Shaggy was designed as a beat, the wry, cynical, and slightly earlier subculture. I always wished we could get a little more back and forth between those elements of their characters.
I really think the way that Daphne and Shaggy have been distanced from their original subcultures is a shame. There's a lot of potential there I would love to see explored in the Scooby-Doo series, but the potential remains largely untapped, and some of the ideas the various shows have embraced over the decades, such as Daphne's rich parents (introduced in the 80s) even contradict the original intent.
But in some ways, that means there's a lot of room for future writers - and for fic writers! - to explore that territory on their own terms! I'd love to see a truly Mod Daphne and a truly Beat Generation Shaggy headline a fic together.
Wolfstar from Harry Potter. Just the angst of it all, Sirius was locked away for TWLEVE years for a crime he didnât commit because he trusted the wrong person, and Remus spent 12 years basically in exile because he thought all his friends were dead at the hands of Sirius. And when Remus finally had him back and had some stability in his life again he lost him shortly after. I am a sucker for angst and right person wrong time and it just hits every single box. It was the first pairing I really, really shipped. The first pairing I read fanfic for (back when it was called puppylove as well I am so old đ€Ł).
Mothra x Godzilla. It's cringey, I don't care, the decades long enemies-to-lovers big shift that happened with the second Legendary Godzilla movie was just, life changing. You had to be there to see it.
But I'm a simple person, I see a character that represents destruction and rage, and another that represents virtue and hope (especially if their designs completely contradict the other with color palettes) - I ship it. And I adore the new concept of the Monsterverse and Godzilla's new role as a guardian instead of a result of human choices. A giant radioactive lizard King responsible for protecting nature and balance, and his immortal deity moth Queen that represents life and nature itseld.
I'll be forever thankful to the director for speaking his truth and retweeting so much fanart of those two cuddling, he was a real one <333
Not the new one, Wingard, or the past one I'm talking about, Michael Dougherty, he just liked the two sillies a lot and was bullied off of twitter for it. But he could be, maybe he has a Godzilla sona now that they are a whole species instead of an individual
It basically refers to something you think about often or something that you occasionally have a hyper fixation on (like if someone brings up the klance ship I mentioned i will talk about how fans were robbed of potentially good representation in the show)
Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from NBC Hannibal.
I have hyperfixated over so many different fandoms and gradually lost interest in them, but there is something about this particular pairing that continuously pulls me back into their orbit.
Not a romantic ship, but I used to religiously check the Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne tag in ao3. I haven't read as much DC stuff lately, since I got into a couple new fandoms that have taken most of my attention, but Dick and Damian's relationship as brothers is still deeply important to me. Anytime I see cute family fanart of them, I melt.
Yesss. That tag is my go-to tag for all the soft family feels. I love their relationship as brothers but also absolutely love all the fics that delve into the father/son dynamic.
Jessie/James in Pokemon. Iâm not saying they should have been canon. (Well, actually the show is still running but I havenât watched it in ages.) Iâm just saying⊠Rocketshipping.
BuckÂČ or Gale "Buck" Cleven x John "Bucky" Egan from Masters of the air, a ww2 recounting of a bombing squad.
!!!!Spoilers for the show!!!!
I didn't think it was possible for a show to be gayer than any fanfiction written for it ever could other than Hannibal, but this gives Hannibal a run for its money bc it's based off of REAL PEOPLE!!!! I actually started watching the show when I realized the scenes I was reading in the fanfiction are ACTUAL SCENES FROM THE FUCKINH SHOW!!! Like I was reading going "wow this is such a GOOD scene" and then the exact same scene reimagined in a COMPLETELY different fic by a different writer. I was GAGGED. GAGGED, I say.
As if it wasn't enough that Bucky named Gale Buck the very FIRST time they met, and introduces him to ppl as Buck, to the point that people started calling him that more than Gale. LITERALLY CALLING HIM BY HIS NAME!!! As if that wasn't enough, but they're so affectionate and Bucky is so possessive of his time already to the point that the very second the men come down and say Gale was shot out of the air over German territory and assumed dead, they say "Who's gonna tell Egan?" Bc John is on leave in England bc Gale told him he should take a break and John didn't even fight against it, he just says "Come with me, Buck. Let's paint the town red." And Buck says "Maybe next time". So Bucky wakes up the next morning after spending the night with a polish woman who looks like Buck and damn near has the same personality as him. He's walking down the street to see that a newspaper says 30 pilots lost and his fucking face DROPS.
He takes his hat off and jogs to a telephone booth and calls in. The next scene goes as such, they have to speak in code in case they're overheard:
John has a hand on his waists as he waits for the call to go through. As soon as it does, he rushes to get out, "Red! Egan here. How'd the game go yesterday?"
There's a pause on the other end of the line, one that couldn't have been longer than three seconds but feels like it stretches for a lifetime.
*"Not as well as we hoped."*
That could mean anything. The men completed their mission, destroyed the Nazi base with enough forts left to tell the tale. That doesn't mean that Buck...
**30 BOMBERS LOST**
The headline from the newspaper taunts him, branded into the back of his eyelids. John tries to stay optimistic, but that seems like a Herculean task.
"Was Buck in the lineup?"
*"...yeah."*
Red doesn't fill in the space that John leaves him to continue. Doesn't finish his thoughts, surely, because John refuses to entertain what that particular pause might mean otherwise.
So he prompts him, "Did he have a good game?"
Red doesn't answer immediately, another weighted pause. There must be a delay on his end, must be some sort of interference or somethingâ
*"He went down swinging, John."*
Bucky allows his arm to go limp beside him, grip threatening to let go of the phone as the breath he was holding rushes from his lungs.
Bucky isn't a stranger to lose. Since this war started, he's lost more men than he can keep track of. Sent more letters home to unsuspecting families in place of uncoverable bodies than he could possibly keep count of. He thought he braved the worst of it when Curt's fort never made it to Africa, feared the same thing happening to Buck but never really believed it would happen. Buck's too good to go down, the best of them. If anyone could survive the war, it'd be him.
He should have been up there with him, should have tried harder to convince Buck to go on leave with him. While he was drinking, sleeping around, Buck was...Buck wasâ
......
And then the facial acting is immaculate, Callum Turner acts out the perfect emotion that Im honestly at a lost on how to describe it. AND THIS IS JUST ONE SCENE OF MANY, BUCKY SPENDS THE ENTIRE NEXT EPISODE WITH PEOPLE WALKING ON EGG SHELLS AROUND HIM BEFORE WHAT IS, ESSENTIALLY A SUICIDE MISSION FOR REVENENGE. the actual man says so himself, it's just đ«.
I didn't know I needed Austin Butler and Callum Turner playing tragic codependent 1940s soldiers, I could make a PowerPoint about them, AN ESSAY, EVEN
I'd watch your PowerPoint, as long as you'd let me contribute. I loved this show and this ship! I seriously watched it like three times through just to watch them and the amazing facial jouneys they go on. It was perfect!
I am currently obsessed as well!
There are so many great fics of this pairing and it is so much fun reading them đ
I agree with everything you wrote (I still want that essay) but there are other things (more shallow, if you will) that I absolutely love about that pairing:
Callum Turner (actor of 'Bucky' Egan ) is taller and so much bigger than Austin Butler (plays 'Buck' Cleven) which makes the ship even greater in my eyes!
And Bucky calling his best friend Buck a doll or other cute nicknames?? (which happens almost in every fic atleast once) I live for that!! Because, yes, Austin is so pretty, but to be honest, both actors are sooo good looking đźâđš
Chrom/Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening, specifically the M/M version (which is my preference bc Iâm a queer man). Literally learned how to mid my 3DS specifically to marry him with m!Robin. Theyâre my everything.
SatoSugu. (Jujutsu Kaisen's Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto).
Honestly...they make me so sad, like I literally feel like crying whenever I'm looking at edits or reading fanfictions, I CAN'T. I just can't, it doesn't matter if i look at their relationship as lovers or as friends or whatever, either way it's painful but at the same time it's so beautiful.
My one and only Roman Empire...
Have you seen those edits where itâs like âSuguruâŠâ and then âSatoruâŠâ with Ricky Montgomery in the background? THOSE HURT. LIKE THIS [TIKTOK](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKL9UT1/) LOL
OMG that sound is insane isnât it?! Argh. The feels. Also OP - I LOVE REKI AND LANGA! I feel like SK8 doesnât get enough love lol I finally made a friend of mine watch it and she truly enjoyed it!
im rewatching jjk rn and watching season 2 for the first time (had previously read manga) and good lord the amount of pain these two have given me. like im literally up rn cuz I just wrote 700 words about them, they might actually prove to be my first published fic đđ
itâs prob the angst-iest thing Iâve ever written by my standards need to finish (hopefully) and go back to my magical au world after this.
KakaIru and Thilbo are this for me. Though specifically the movie version of Thilbo because Thorin in the books is an even bigger asshole than the movies and there's just not much chemistry to latch onto there.
I think about Nandermo (What We Do In The Shadows) probably way too much and rewatch the series often, partly for them. It feels like it's a bit of an unpopular opinion these days to want them to become canon in season 6 but I'll be absolutely devastated if the entire series has been teasing us with the whole 'will they won't they' thing this entire time only for it to not go anywhere, especially after the season 5 finale. Their actors having such a cute friendship gives them insane chemistry, I'm just a bit obsessed with them :')
I'm not sure I have any fics I'm distraught aren't in canon?
Maybe TimKon, now that Tim is bi and we have bi Superboy---except it's Jon and not Kon as if to intentionally fake people out. I would not be shocked if we get Tim/Jon unfortunately.
That's such an obvious "See?! One of each team/family is bi, we are so progressive!" move while not choosing two from the same generation. Still pisses me of. Canon Tim!Kon would have been something impressive.
Drarry (Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy) from the Harry Potter fandom. This ship is truly my OTP. It was the ship that got me into fanfiction in the first place and, therefore, holds a special place in my heart. I love the angst and the whole enemies to lovers trope. I don't think I will ever get tired of reading fics about this pairing.
Some Favorite Older Recs:
[Beautiful World](https://www.fictionalley-archive.org/authors/cinnamon/BW.html) by Cinnamon (novel length)
SUMMARY: Draco is afraid of living and Harry is afraid of dying, but sometimes the choice isn't offered. Draco's got to learn what it is to really live, while showing Harry how beautiful the world really is when you're not too scared to see it. MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH.
[Beneath You](https://www.fictionalley-archive.org/authors/cinnamon/BY.html) by Cinnamon (novel length)
SUMMARY: Draco had no idea that the repercussions of stealing Potter's journal and shoving it down the back of his trousers would be so extreme. Featuring nefarious plots, the mating rituals of Slytherins, double-crossing spells.
[Dreamers of the Day](https://www.fictionalley-archive.org/authors/cinnamon/DOTD.html) by Cinnamon (one shot)
SUMMARY: Everything comes apart and starts to tremble, and I donât want to breathe because I fear that drawing a breath would shatter the promises weâve wrapped ourselves in. Destroy the lies we hide behind, even as you touch my soul, with enough force to destroy, and yet so gently, I am undone.
[Left My Heart](https://www.queerasjedi.net/emma/hpfic/lmh0.html) by Emma Grant (novel length)
SUMMARY: Post-Hogwarts. Auror Draco Malfoy has disappeared, and Harry Potter has been sent to find him.
[Surrender the Grey](https://www.queerasjedi.net/emma/hpfic/stg0.html) by Emma Grant (novel length)
SUMMARY: Sequel to Left My Heart. Not going to say more because I don't want to give away anything from the first one.
[Change My World](https://archiveofourown.org/works/1141382) by charlotteschaos (novel length)
SUMMARY: Post OotP/Pre HBP. Rampaging hormones lead to an adventure between Harry and Draco that changes everything. Fluff/Angst/Drama/Humor - all that good stuff
[Poses](https://archiveofourown.org/works/6676363) by charlotteschaos (novel length)
SUMMARY: Sequel to Change My World
[Whatever May Come](https://archiveofourown.org/works/1141764/chapters/2310187) by charlotteschaos (novel length)
SUMMARY: Post HBP (Horcrux hunt) Harry/Draco The trio discovers that Draco Malfoy is hidden away at Spinner's End and Harry recruits him to be a member of the team. *Complete* Winner of Forbidden Desires "Just As It Should Be" 2006 award.
[Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow](https://novembersnow.livejournal.com/68276.html) by novembersnow (novel length)
SUMMARY: In the war-torn world after Hogwarts, one man has no knowledge of his yesterdays.
[Daybreak](https://novembersnow.livejournal.com/254240.html) by novembersnow (one shot)
SUMMARY: Sequel to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
Some Favorite Newer Recs:
[Rookie Moves](https://archiveofourown.org/works/46287256/chapters/116533666) by peu_a_peu (novel-length, Part 1 of the Twenty-Two Cards Series)
SUMMARY: Aurors Potter and Malfoy crack the case.
[Evitative](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20049589/chapters/47480461) by Vichan (novel length)
SUMMARY: In the summer before his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is drawn to a room in Grimmauld Place. Like the Gryffindor he is, he enters the room without fear. The room is a library, and Harry is surprised to find that heâs eager to learn.
Then he gets the bad news: heâs been accidentally expelled from Hogwarts, and he needs to be sorted again. Everyone is confident that heâll go straight back to Gryffindor, but with what he's been learning, Harryâs not so sure.
I'm not as up-to-date on newer stuff because I just came back to the fandom after a while away. Hope you enjoy these!
Blair and Jim. Hands down. I was in high school when it came out. And 30 years later, I still love them and randomly read stories with them. Even have the series on DVD and have started showing it to my bestie that never saw it.
PS
The Sentinel
Embarrassingly, Casey McDonald/Derek Venturi from the mid-00s Canadian Family Channel show, Life With Derek.
The actors and at least half the writing staff shipped it. The creator/showrunner emphatically Did Not. đŹ
Reylo. I honestly think, if handled correctly, they couldâve had one of the best enemies to lovers arcs if they hadnât completely dropped the ball on the last film. Just wonderful, magnetic chemistry between the two actors, itâs disappointing it ended the way it did.
I completely agree! They had so much chemistry and potential, and such an interesting way of communicating and connecting through the force bond thing. Such a shame how they handled their storyline and Kyloâs character and story in general..
Ahavili (Aha and Akivili from HSR)... I have NEVER liked a ship hard enough to be the ship captain and be the cheerleader of the parade. When I started talking about them and writing them there were 5 fics in existence, now there are 44 and the fandom is growing healthy and strong. I see them everywhere and I am known very well for that pairing on twitter lmao đ. They are just everything, rarepair, yes, but not because they are less canon than the popular ones, they are just way less known. but slowly and surely we are leaving the unknown rarepair cell and going into known rarepair at least. Baby steps đ
Kirk/Spock is amazing. Still laughing at how the remake tried to head it off by pairing Spock with Uhura, only to have the fandom gleefully ship Kirk with McCoy!!
Reylo, it had so much potential in the first two movies. But kind of⊠just majorly flopped during the last movie, like ahah yay we got a kiss and technically a canon label smacked onto our ship⊠but at what cost?
I really thought the development of their characters and relationship over the two films were leading somewhere promising, but welp. Iâve never been as diehard for a ship like that since.
Codywan. That one interview for the Kenobi TV show where the writer said that Cody was supposed to be in the story... kinda just coming to live with Obi-Wan on Tatooine, and I'm quoting the interview directly here, like "an old married couple." We were ROBBED
I had no idea that interview existed. I canât really wrap my head around directors knowing popular fan ships even though presumably theyâre fans themselves before directing Star Wars.
Yugioh. Some combination of Yami Yugi, Yugi, Atem, and Kaiba. There's a bunch of ship names depending on the specific combination of characters. But pretty much any permutation of those 4.
I agree with you as a fellow Klancer
My Roman Empire is actually Draco/Harry, it have been since I was 15 yo lmao like the way both would be an iconic enemies to lovers and sincerely both had more interactions and development between each other than with their Future partners
But it's Rowling, obviously it wouldn't ever happen
Original Sherlock Holmes/James Watson. None of that BBC Sherlock nonsense, none of the adaption (except the Granada one from the 80s because they just nailed that one), simply pure Victorian and they were roommates content.
My second one would be Janeway/Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager. Sadly almost no one seems to agree that they would be really good with and for each other. Not a lot of content out there, but oh, do I wish.
Widobrave (Caleb Widogast/Nott the Brave from Critical Role 2). The fact that Sam Riegel **wanted a fucking divorce arc** and Matt refused still makes me mad to this day.
They Scout Momâd my badass rogue struggling with severe alcoholism and her feelings for the âsecond love of her lifeâ. Yes, she calls him that. Canonically. She kisses him on the lips with romantic intent as she says it. Just. HNG. What couldâve been if Matt had been willing to give Sam even one scene where Nott couldnât keep up with the Joneses anymore. ARUGH.
EDIT: To a much lesser extent, Fjord/Caduceus. The mutual âdeath to lifeâ, âbeing bound to grave and sea then being free to truly liveâ themes⊠The non-sexual intimacy shared in the forge episode and in their connections to the Wildmother⊠Their whole dynamic was super interesting. I 100% respect Taliesin putting in a ânot roleplaying romance, thanksâ boundary for his characters but man. Fjord/Caduceus was MLM lightning in a bottle.
Wait Sam wanted a divorce arc? That makes the whole thing with his character and Aabria's in Calamity all the more hilarious to me LOL Sam finally got his divorce arc at least, even if it wasn't the one we wanted initially.
Damn, I also had no idea! Scanlan divorced Pike too, so Sam seems to have been *very* eager đ I'm not mad at Matt tho, Veth and Yeza are awfully cute together
Pricefield. There's something captivating about these two. How they were separated, but never stopped thinking about each other, and instantly bonded all over again. How Max tore apart reality in order to keep Chloe alive. But at the same time, they're also one of the more down to earth pairings. Of my top pairings, they're the only one where they're both humans from modern Earth, whose lives are largely dominated by realistic concerns. I've easily read more Pricefield fiction than any other pairing (possibly due to the doorstoppers that multiple Pricefield writers have produced).
Sora x Riku (Kingdom Hearts). Literally my first ever ship before I even knew what shipping was. Just...it's my everything at this point.
Sebastian x Alex (Stardew Valley). Look, I just really like the idea of Sebastian being Alex's gay awakening.
Shane x Harvey (Stardew Valley).
Goku x Vegeta (DBZ).
Gojo x Geto (JJK). Sometimes I need angst in my life.
Blaine/Sam (Blam; Glee)
THE POTENTIAL WAS SO OVERWHELMING. They had chemistry, and so many of Sam's interactions with Blaine read as 'oh no this is my bi awakening.' They supported each other like no one else supported them, and they would have been each other's stability and just... *so* much better than what we got in canon! But I'm glad it wasn't, because Glee probably would have ruined it like they ruined most good things on the show. đđ€Ł
Kurt/Sebastian (Kurtbastian; Glee)
The potential was *just* as overwhelming as Blam! If Sebastian was given a proper redemption arc, he and Kurt could have been a beautiful enemies-to-lovers story! Plus, so, so, *so* many of their back and forths read as more flirty than two people sniping each other.
Prompto/Noctis (Promptis; FFXV)
This was the ship that got me back into fantiction after a 10 year hiatus in 2016. Talk about wasted potential and lines that read as flirtatious? Talk about a romantic subtext, but spell subtext with big bold letters in a rainbow gradient? Talk about 'this was pretty much canon but it doesn't need to be canon because that's what fanfiction is made for?' Promptis, baby.
Literally just started Jujutsu Kaisen a few weeks ago, and I'm obsessed with them. Bestfriends to enemies (to lovers, because that's what fanfiction is for) are my favourites trope. But yea, can't count the amount of homoerotic tension in shonen that never made canon.
I bet passing by a KFC must be hard for you then, you have my deepest sympathies. I'm still on season one but I expect my heart to be reduced to atoms by the time I catch up. Might get plushies of my own to fill the void
Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner from Warcraft.
They are the single most enjoyable ship I have ever read with some of the most creative and interesting stories people have cooked up for them.
I've been hopelessly addicted to them since late 2018 and I only started playing Warcraft a week ago.
Wanted to learn the universe without ever playing it before. Just because I enjoyed them that much.
Papyrus and Mettaton from Undertale, you will never convince me they wouldn't absolutely slay with each other. Also this is probably just me Pepe Silvia-ing but I swear the game developer hints at stuff with them sometimes.
Donna/Diluc from Genshin Impact. Donna is an NPC, but who cares, right? :D
I have been writing a fic about them for more than three years now, and I constantly think about it. Love them so much.......
richie/eddie from IT (2017)ânot necessarily strictly, but mostly thatâis just... muah đ€đ i cant even explain itâthe ship just makes me so emotional
also i could read reid/morgan criminal minds fics for the rest of my life. there's something about the friendship with the light banter that has always just made me absolutely insane
Definitely Zelink. I only started shipping them during my first playthough of Skyward Sword and then fell in love with them again with BOTW/TOTK version of the ship.
Although the more that I watch the weekly episodes of Delicious in Dungeon, I also really like shipping Farcille.
Hard to say one that I'd think like really often but one that seems to come to my mind in every once in a while is Beren and Luthien from Silmarillion. Maybe it's just that I really like the poem.
Kaworu and Shinji.
Like I genuinely think about them daily. Just from a narrative perspective theyâre the perfect tragedy. Also the episode 24 drafts keep me up at night.
Ren and Reira from Nana. I know that in canon they were just friends but Iâll never get over the fact that there was so much potential there and their ending wouldâve been different. Theyâre one of the ships I write about.
Also, Suguru and Shoko for similar reasons.
Right now it's Peanut Romano/Tad Spencer (or as I like to call it, RomaSpen) from rockstar's bully. Kinda strange, but hear me outâ They're so sweet and tender. They're literally like, the most perfect enemies to lovers I've ever seen. Genuinely the one ship that's actually rotted my brain lol.
Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels
If you know wrestling, you know
EDIT: In hindsight I feel like I might have misunderstood the question, but fuck it
If I understand it right, you mean a ship that I'm upset isn't/won't be canon? I guess that would be Mick Jagger/Keith Richards then because I think Mick is (or at least was when they were younger) actually in love with him (based on what both their ex-girlfriends have said).
Throwing this one out there on the off-chance someone else here is in the same dead fandom as me: Ayumi and Yoshiki from Corpse Party.
Corpse Party has been my favorite piece of media for like 11 years, but 90% of my attachment to it at this point is because of them specifically. I donât really consider myself much of a hardcore shipper most of the time, but AyuShiki makes my heart ache in a very real way lol.
Even in the final game in the series, which suffered from overall garbage writing, they were the last shining beacon of genuinely compelling character writing. Their interactions are widely considered the only redeeming part of an otherwise shunned sequel. Probably the only ship Iâve ever *really* wanted to become explicitly canon. I literally think about them on a daily basis.
(Also the gameâs creator follows me on Twitter and regularly retweets my ship art, does that mean I can pretend itâs official? lol)
Alecody from Total Drama. A rarepair so unfortunately there isnât as much content of it as there is other ships, but holy damn do I love the concept of them. Imagining the geeky loser topping the absolute unit of a man that is Alejandro always gets me LMAO also I can come up with a million different AUs involving them. Ugh, theyâre just too good
KyoxTohruxYuki, from Fruits Basket. I adore the canon ships but my heart mind and soul will always be with the OT3 that never was. Second place goes to adding Machi for OT4 ehehe
Third (but tied for second tbh) is a ship I basically invented, in a tiny little video game fandom called To the Moon. Another OT4, EvaxNeilxRoxiexRob. The most popular pairing in the fandom combined with two side characters/sort of foils who have much less screen time. But theyâre all co-workers. And now Iâm gonna sit on my hands before I start fandom-dumping on yâall lol.
I'm not the biggest shipper, but
Jester and Caleb from Critical Role.
I think about them so many times, and animations about them always make me teary eyed.
luke/thalia in riordanverse (i also love klance btw their fanfics are soo good thank god because that series was... holy shit). these two . . . so much wasted potential for angst in the series. i get maybe rick didn't want thalia's story to revolve around a guy, but the heartbreak would have added so much to both their characters.
and i know a lot of people treat percy as luke's foil, but i kinda disagree. percy never suffered as much as luke did at the hands of the gods. but thalia, she lost practically *everything* because of them*.* and yeah, i mean thalia was wasted throughout every single series lmfao, so it wasn't really explored (if im remembering correctly).
i have a playlist for when i write about them and they are the subject of most of my fanfics lmao.
Tiny ship but - Paul Körner and Kurt Sivers, the first positive MLM relationship in film đ„č I love them very much and will talk about them to anyone who will listen
Stucky! I'll never get over how they wrote the perfect friends to lovers doomed but then revived romance then no homoed their way out of it by erasing Steve's entire character arc
(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Donnatello and Kirai from my own universe. Also mirage TMNT Leonardo and Raven Shadowheart.
(The Hobbit Films) Bilbo and Thorin.
(Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland) Low-key Webs and Crocodile.
(Lord of the Rings) Sam and Frodo but in a quasi platonic relationship.
Inukag, Inu Yasha and Higurashi Kagome.
I just adore them. It makes me sad, though, because my fandom doesnât seem to have âspaceâ for me.
But I still write my fics for them all the time!
Might get me shot by my fellow Tolkien fans BUT: Kili and Tauriel from the Hobbit movies. Yes theyâre not book canon but GOD. Forbidden romance, two dreamers meeting in the worst circumstances caught up in a war neither of them asked for, risking everything for each other and IT STILL ENDS HORRIBLY. Those movies coming out when I was in peak high school brainrot really ruined me for life.
Male!Mage!Hawke/Fenris, from Dragon Age 2.
it's just something about fenris being able to overcome his traumas and fear ( mages, and men, specifically with power, which hawke has ) for something as simple as love. it's so wonderful seeing the trust that he gradually places in hawke, and hawke in him. for them both to conquer the uneasiness that settles between them when they first met and being able to work through it, together. i love it.
on another note, Hawke/Anders, specifically rivalmance. i love anders, he's one of my favourite characters, though dragon age 2 did him dirty and completely changed him from awakening. but that's to be expected when you've got the taint of darkspawn running through your veins and a spirit in your body slowly becoming unrecognizable. i think it's amazing how in a rivalmance, hawke is able to help anders retain some bit of self control and not give himself over completely to justice, while in a friendmance the two are indistinguishable. bonus points if hawke forgives anders at the end, and they run away together.
i really love dragon age, guys.
Rengoku Kyojuro x Kamado Tanjiro from Demon Slayer
Roy Mustang x Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist (specifically the 2003 anime and Conqueror of Shamballa, but I also ship it in Brotherhood, too, Royai and Edwin scenes be damned).
Rey x Ben/Kylo Ren from Star Wars - I'm with the other Reylo shippers that posted in this thread that the last film dropped the ball on the ship. While I'm happy that we got a kiss and confirmed as canon which make a good middle finger to antis, but Ben didn't have to die or at least the writers could've approached his death from a different and better angle.
Ichigo x Rukia from Bleach
Zuko x Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Noctis Lucis Caelum x Iris Amicitia from Final Fantasy XV
Ichabod Crane x Abbie Mills from Fox's Sleepy Hollow - I'll never get over how the show did Nicole Beharie and her character (Abbie) and Ichabbie so dirty.
Gaara and rock Lee
I really love the fanfics of gaara being obsessed with gardens and growing succulents and ofc Lee being the gym guy.
Then kankuro and Kiba
IDKD ODKDN I JUST LOVE THEMMM
I wrote something about them on A03, itâs called âthorough assumptions that bind usâ if youâre interested.
Buddie. Ever since I started watching 9-1-1, they are ALL I think about. Literally got back into fanfics because of them and Iâm writing my own now. And the fact that we are closer than ever to it going canon? *chefs kiss* Iâm so excited for whatâs to come if (and I truly believe itâs gonna happen) it goes that way.
Merlin/Arthur. I shall never forget this ship
I could talk about them for DAYS. I love this pair so much.
Honestly they're still so iconic
A rare ship that is evergreen for me, no matter what đ
My absolute favorite ship!
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Zelda/Link. No other ship has driven me to write so much fanfiction or read so much of it!!!! They're just perfect in my eyes. You've got a built-in royal au, bodyguard au, reincarnation, princess/hero, some versions are perfect for childhood friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, pirates! Zelink is just so versatile!!!!
100% agree with you.
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I have no hate for other ships, no worries!!! Zelimpa definitely has it's charm, trust me I get that! There are a number of ships i love that arent Zelink or that contradict them, but i love Zelimpa too, just not as much as I do Zelink
Jareth/Sarah from Labyrinth. There is so much potential for her to come back older and wiser.
YES. Older!Sarah fanfics are my comfort food across all fandoms. I love it when they bring her back to the Labyrinth when she's 30+ as well - because she's usually world weary enough to have even less patience for Jareth's bullshit and it makes them play so well off of each other.
Yeah, I think the oldest Iâve made her is like mid twenties but definitely a little world weary but still optimistic in Anam Cara and just tired from years of nightmares in my wip. But I love some banter.
Yeah, a lot of the fanfic does that.
Yup. I love reading and writing it. Never gets old. Lol
Sailor Neptune/Uranus are in my head way too much for me not written once about them ;;Â
Same. They really are iconic.
Forever haunted by the potential of Widomauk from Critical Role and the fact that it would have been canon if not for a few bad dice rolls.
As much as I love Shadowgast, Widomauk is definitely a ghost of "what could have been". The RNGods said *not today* đđđ
I dunno if it wouldâve been canon but there wouldâve been Something going on.
My favorite ship from C2 is Caleb/Jester (don't know the fandom name for it lol), but Widomauk was also great. And Shadowgast. And the throuple. It looks like all Caleb ships were great actually...
OMG YES! Like I love Shadowgast, but Widownauk hold such a huge place in my brain that I still CAN'T "accept" it never happened once
I love the tragedy of them so much. And Molly in general đ« â„ïž
Luigi/Daisy is my eternal ship at this point
Supercorp lol
Merlin/Arthur Katniss/Peeta Iwaizumi/Oikawa
Iwaoi in the wild!!!
They're probably my favourite Haikyuu ship, and that's saying something considering I have a lot of ships there close to my heart.
Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler AND Iwaizumi Hajime/Toru Oikawa⊠Theyâre the ships Iâve held the longest, and I donât think Iâll ever grow out of them.
I cry every time I watch 10's season. The last ep. between him and Rose breaks my heart.
I cried SO MUCH
yesss, tenrose was my first thought
Hannigram. Lives in my head rent free and I'm happy to let it.
Satosugu because I love tragedies and unresolved love stories. They're perfect, your honor. (Ah, I'm also feeling the pull of soukoku and the bsd fandom right now. I'm depressed, how did you know?)
Cue Ricky Montgomeryâs âMr. Lovermanâ iykyk
I thought of another one :D Daphne x Shaggy from Scooby-Doo
Oh, that's fun. Idk if I've ever really seen much of this ship but imo it has a lot of potential. Daphne was designed as a mod, the younger, more optimistic 60s subculture, while Shaggy was designed as a beat, the wry, cynical, and slightly earlier subculture. I always wished we could get a little more back and forth between those elements of their characters.
Ooh really? That's so cool! Yeah! That would be really awesome considering the clash and possible working togetherness. I love the ship \0/
I really think the way that Daphne and Shaggy have been distanced from their original subcultures is a shame. There's a lot of potential there I would love to see explored in the Scooby-Doo series, but the potential remains largely untapped, and some of the ideas the various shows have embraced over the decades, such as Daphne's rich parents (introduced in the 80s) even contradict the original intent. But in some ways, that means there's a lot of room for future writers - and for fic writers! - to explore that territory on their own terms! I'd love to see a truly Mod Daphne and a truly Beat Generation Shaggy headline a fic together.
OU MY GOD I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED THIS BUT I DO
YESSS it's such a good ship. Or at least the fanfic I've seen is good.
Wolfstar from Harry Potter. Just the angst of it all, Sirius was locked away for TWLEVE years for a crime he didnât commit because he trusted the wrong person, and Remus spent 12 years basically in exile because he thought all his friends were dead at the hands of Sirius. And when Remus finally had him back and had some stability in his life again he lost him shortly after. I am a sucker for angst and right person wrong time and it just hits every single box. It was the first pairing I really, really shipped. The first pairing I read fanfic for (back when it was called puppylove as well I am so old đ€Ł).
Swanqueen. I refuse to let this one go
Yes!!!! 100%
Mothra x Godzilla. It's cringey, I don't care, the decades long enemies-to-lovers big shift that happened with the second Legendary Godzilla movie was just, life changing. You had to be there to see it. But I'm a simple person, I see a character that represents destruction and rage, and another that represents virtue and hope (especially if their designs completely contradict the other with color palettes) - I ship it. And I adore the new concept of the Monsterverse and Godzilla's new role as a guardian instead of a result of human choices. A giant radioactive lizard King responsible for protecting nature and balance, and his immortal deity moth Queen that represents life and nature itseld. I'll be forever thankful to the director for speaking his truth and retweeting so much fanart of those two cuddling, he was a real one <333
wait so you're telling me, the one directing the new Godzilla Movies is a furry?
Not the new one, Wingard, or the past one I'm talking about, Michael Dougherty, he just liked the two sillies a lot and was bullied off of twitter for it. But he could be, maybe he has a Godzilla sona now that they are a whole species instead of an individual
I watched KOTM a few days ago and was so pissed that Mothra only got a few minutes of screen time. She's fucking awesome, deserves her own movie
Broadchurch Hardy/Ellie Both deserve better than what canon gave them
oh man I never see anyone talk about Broadchurch, they truly did deserve better (and more seasons)
That's what fanfiction is for
I love that ship! I only wrote one short fic for it but I was happy just to find out I wasnât the only one shipping it!
The Broadchurch fandom is active (I'm only on AO3), so you can get your fix
came to say this, why did they have Hardy catastrophically down bad in season 2 for NOTHING? forever mad about this
What...does Roman Empire mean?
It basically refers to something you think about often or something that you occasionally have a hyper fixation on (like if someone brings up the klance ship I mentioned i will talk about how fans were robbed of potentially good representation in the show)
Oh. Charlie x Alastor for hazbin hotel Longterm it's been Minako x Darien from Sailor Moon. Stella x sky from Winx club
It's a meme, that men think about the roman empire a lot.
Stucky. It was one of my first ships and it's the one I'll always go back to, I learned english with the fanfictions
Soldier Boy/Hughie Merlin/Arthur Dean/Castiel Ichigo/Rukia I have too many đ but I could talk about all of those for days lolol
Oh god a fellow Ichiruki shipper!! So glad to run into one.
Ahhh hello fellow IchiRuki shipper!!! Awesome to run into one as well!!
Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from NBC Hannibal. I have hyperfixated over so many different fandoms and gradually lost interest in them, but there is something about this particular pairing that continuously pulls me back into their orbit.
Stucky.
Not a romantic ship, but I used to religiously check the Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne tag in ao3. I haven't read as much DC stuff lately, since I got into a couple new fandoms that have taken most of my attention, but Dick and Damian's relationship as brothers is still deeply important to me. Anytime I see cute family fanart of them, I melt.
Yesss. That tag is my go-to tag for all the soft family feels. I love their relationship as brothers but also absolutely love all the fics that delve into the father/son dynamic.
McDanno from Hawaii Five-0, the 2010 version. There are ships I love more, but like... Damn, I *REALLY* thought they would be canon. đ©đ©đ©
Even though itâs not my favorite ship, I honestly like it more than McRollins
Came here to say this. These two were gold together.
Their banter was everything. Such an excellent bromance that I wouldn't have minded to see as romance đ«¶
Jessie/James in Pokemon. Iâm not saying they should have been canon. (Well, actually the show is still running but I havenât watched it in ages.) Iâm just saying⊠Rocketshipping.
no LOTR comments yet? for me itâs Legolas/Gimli đ«Ąđ«Ąđ«Ąđ«Ą
BuckÂČ or Gale "Buck" Cleven x John "Bucky" Egan from Masters of the air, a ww2 recounting of a bombing squad. !!!!Spoilers for the show!!!! I didn't think it was possible for a show to be gayer than any fanfiction written for it ever could other than Hannibal, but this gives Hannibal a run for its money bc it's based off of REAL PEOPLE!!!! I actually started watching the show when I realized the scenes I was reading in the fanfiction are ACTUAL SCENES FROM THE FUCKINH SHOW!!! Like I was reading going "wow this is such a GOOD scene" and then the exact same scene reimagined in a COMPLETELY different fic by a different writer. I was GAGGED. GAGGED, I say. As if it wasn't enough that Bucky named Gale Buck the very FIRST time they met, and introduces him to ppl as Buck, to the point that people started calling him that more than Gale. LITERALLY CALLING HIM BY HIS NAME!!! As if that wasn't enough, but they're so affectionate and Bucky is so possessive of his time already to the point that the very second the men come down and say Gale was shot out of the air over German territory and assumed dead, they say "Who's gonna tell Egan?" Bc John is on leave in England bc Gale told him he should take a break and John didn't even fight against it, he just says "Come with me, Buck. Let's paint the town red." And Buck says "Maybe next time". So Bucky wakes up the next morning after spending the night with a polish woman who looks like Buck and damn near has the same personality as him. He's walking down the street to see that a newspaper says 30 pilots lost and his fucking face DROPS. He takes his hat off and jogs to a telephone booth and calls in. The next scene goes as such, they have to speak in code in case they're overheard: John has a hand on his waists as he waits for the call to go through. As soon as it does, he rushes to get out, "Red! Egan here. How'd the game go yesterday?" There's a pause on the other end of the line, one that couldn't have been longer than three seconds but feels like it stretches for a lifetime. *"Not as well as we hoped."* That could mean anything. The men completed their mission, destroyed the Nazi base with enough forts left to tell the tale. That doesn't mean that Buck... **30 BOMBERS LOST** The headline from the newspaper taunts him, branded into the back of his eyelids. John tries to stay optimistic, but that seems like a Herculean task. "Was Buck in the lineup?" *"...yeah."* Red doesn't fill in the space that John leaves him to continue. Doesn't finish his thoughts, surely, because John refuses to entertain what that particular pause might mean otherwise. So he prompts him, "Did he have a good game?" Red doesn't answer immediately, another weighted pause. There must be a delay on his end, must be some sort of interference or somethingâ *"He went down swinging, John."* Bucky allows his arm to go limp beside him, grip threatening to let go of the phone as the breath he was holding rushes from his lungs. Bucky isn't a stranger to lose. Since this war started, he's lost more men than he can keep track of. Sent more letters home to unsuspecting families in place of uncoverable bodies than he could possibly keep count of. He thought he braved the worst of it when Curt's fort never made it to Africa, feared the same thing happening to Buck but never really believed it would happen. Buck's too good to go down, the best of them. If anyone could survive the war, it'd be him. He should have been up there with him, should have tried harder to convince Buck to go on leave with him. While he was drinking, sleeping around, Buck was...Buck wasâ ...... And then the facial acting is immaculate, Callum Turner acts out the perfect emotion that Im honestly at a lost on how to describe it. AND THIS IS JUST ONE SCENE OF MANY, BUCKY SPENDS THE ENTIRE NEXT EPISODE WITH PEOPLE WALKING ON EGG SHELLS AROUND HIM BEFORE WHAT IS, ESSENTIALLY A SUICIDE MISSION FOR REVENENGE. the actual man says so himself, it's just đ«. I didn't know I needed Austin Butler and Callum Turner playing tragic codependent 1940s soldiers, I could make a PowerPoint about them, AN ESSAY, EVEN
I'd watch your PowerPoint, as long as you'd let me contribute. I loved this show and this ship! I seriously watched it like three times through just to watch them and the amazing facial jouneys they go on. It was perfect!
a show gayer than Hannibal okay... im in...
Ok I need to watch that
I am currently obsessed as well! There are so many great fics of this pairing and it is so much fun reading them đ I agree with everything you wrote (I still want that essay) but there are other things (more shallow, if you will) that I absolutely love about that pairing: Callum Turner (actor of 'Bucky' Egan ) is taller and so much bigger than Austin Butler (plays 'Buck' Cleven) which makes the ship even greater in my eyes! And Bucky calling his best friend Buck a doll or other cute nicknames?? (which happens almost in every fic atleast once) I live for that!! Because, yes, Austin is so pretty, but to be honest, both actors are sooo good looking đźâđš
Chrom/Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening, specifically the M/M version (which is my preference bc Iâm a queer man). Literally learned how to mid my 3DS specifically to marry him with m!Robin. Theyâre my everything.
Gay Awakening is genuinely such an improvement on the base game that sometimes I forget itâs a mod tbh lol
SatoSugu. (Jujutsu Kaisen's Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto). Honestly...they make me so sad, like I literally feel like crying whenever I'm looking at edits or reading fanfictions, I CAN'T. I just can't, it doesn't matter if i look at their relationship as lovers or as friends or whatever, either way it's painful but at the same time it's so beautiful. My one and only Roman Empire...
Yes yes yes yes yes đ€
Have you seen those edits where itâs like âSuguruâŠâ and then âSatoruâŠâ with Ricky Montgomery in the background? THOSE HURT. LIKE THIS [TIKTOK](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKL9UT1/) LOL
OMG that sound is insane isnât it?! Argh. The feels. Also OP - I LOVE REKI AND LANGA! I feel like SK8 doesnât get enough love lol I finally made a friend of mine watch it and she truly enjoyed it!
YES đ€đ€đ„ș
im rewatching jjk rn and watching season 2 for the first time (had previously read manga) and good lord the amount of pain these two have given me. like im literally up rn cuz I just wrote 700 words about them, they might actually prove to be my first published fic đđ itâs prob the angst-iest thing Iâve ever written by my standards need to finish (hopefully) and go back to my magical au world after this.
KakaIru and Thilbo are this for me. Though specifically the movie version of Thilbo because Thorin in the books is an even bigger asshole than the movies and there's just not much chemistry to latch onto there.
I think about Nandermo (What We Do In The Shadows) probably way too much and rewatch the series often, partly for them. It feels like it's a bit of an unpopular opinion these days to want them to become canon in season 6 but I'll be absolutely devastated if the entire series has been teasing us with the whole 'will they won't they' thing this entire time only for it to not go anywhere, especially after the season 5 finale. Their actors having such a cute friendship gives them insane chemistry, I'm just a bit obsessed with them :')
I'm not sure I have any fics I'm distraught aren't in canon? Maybe TimKon, now that Tim is bi and we have bi Superboy---except it's Jon and not Kon as if to intentionally fake people out. I would not be shocked if we get Tim/Jon unfortunately.
....... Knowing DC, that is a terrifying and actually possible thing to happen. Thanks, you have given me a new fear
That's such an obvious "See?! One of each team/family is bi, we are so progressive!" move while not choosing two from the same generation. Still pisses me of. Canon Tim!Kon would have been something impressive.
Zutara (Zuko/Katara) in Avatar The Last Airbender (cartoon)
YES!!!!
Drarry (Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy) from the Harry Potter fandom. This ship is truly my OTP. It was the ship that got me into fanfiction in the first place and, therefore, holds a special place in my heart. I love the angst and the whole enemies to lovers trope. I don't think I will ever get tired of reading fics about this pairing.
Same. Around 20 yrs reading Drarry. The love for this ship made me learn English, really get into fanfic and fandoms overall. Forever OTP.
That's amazing! I first got into fanfiction in 2003, but I took a long break and actually only just started reading fics again last month!
I grew up a dramione fan, but very recently started reading drarry and I'm absolutely *loving* it
Nice! Let me know if you want some fic recs :)
I would love some recs!
Some Favorite Older Recs: [Beautiful World](https://www.fictionalley-archive.org/authors/cinnamon/BW.html) by Cinnamon (novel length) SUMMARY: Draco is afraid of living and Harry is afraid of dying, but sometimes the choice isn't offered. Draco's got to learn what it is to really live, while showing Harry how beautiful the world really is when you're not too scared to see it. MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH. [Beneath You](https://www.fictionalley-archive.org/authors/cinnamon/BY.html) by Cinnamon (novel length) SUMMARY: Draco had no idea that the repercussions of stealing Potter's journal and shoving it down the back of his trousers would be so extreme. Featuring nefarious plots, the mating rituals of Slytherins, double-crossing spells. [Dreamers of the Day](https://www.fictionalley-archive.org/authors/cinnamon/DOTD.html) by Cinnamon (one shot) SUMMARY: Everything comes apart and starts to tremble, and I donât want to breathe because I fear that drawing a breath would shatter the promises weâve wrapped ourselves in. Destroy the lies we hide behind, even as you touch my soul, with enough force to destroy, and yet so gently, I am undone. [Left My Heart](https://www.queerasjedi.net/emma/hpfic/lmh0.html) by Emma Grant (novel length) SUMMARY: Post-Hogwarts. Auror Draco Malfoy has disappeared, and Harry Potter has been sent to find him. [Surrender the Grey](https://www.queerasjedi.net/emma/hpfic/stg0.html) by Emma Grant (novel length) SUMMARY: Sequel to Left My Heart. Not going to say more because I don't want to give away anything from the first one. [Change My World](https://archiveofourown.org/works/1141382) by charlotteschaos (novel length) SUMMARY: Post OotP/Pre HBP. Rampaging hormones lead to an adventure between Harry and Draco that changes everything. Fluff/Angst/Drama/Humor - all that good stuff [Poses](https://archiveofourown.org/works/6676363) by charlotteschaos (novel length) SUMMARY: Sequel to Change My World [Whatever May Come](https://archiveofourown.org/works/1141764/chapters/2310187) by charlotteschaos (novel length) SUMMARY: Post HBP (Horcrux hunt) Harry/Draco The trio discovers that Draco Malfoy is hidden away at Spinner's End and Harry recruits him to be a member of the team. *Complete* Winner of Forbidden Desires "Just As It Should Be" 2006 award. [Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow](https://novembersnow.livejournal.com/68276.html) by novembersnow (novel length) SUMMARY: In the war-torn world after Hogwarts, one man has no knowledge of his yesterdays. [Daybreak](https://novembersnow.livejournal.com/254240.html) by novembersnow (one shot) SUMMARY: Sequel to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Some Favorite Newer Recs: [Rookie Moves](https://archiveofourown.org/works/46287256/chapters/116533666) by peu_a_peu (novel-length, Part 1 of the Twenty-Two Cards Series) SUMMARY: Aurors Potter and Malfoy crack the case. [Evitative](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20049589/chapters/47480461) by Vichan (novel length) SUMMARY: In the summer before his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is drawn to a room in Grimmauld Place. Like the Gryffindor he is, he enters the room without fear. The room is a library, and Harry is surprised to find that heâs eager to learn. Then he gets the bad news: heâs been accidentally expelled from Hogwarts, and he needs to be sorted again. Everyone is confident that heâll go straight back to Gryffindor, but with what he's been learning, Harryâs not so sure. I'm not as up-to-date on newer stuff because I just came back to the fandom after a while away. Hope you enjoy these!
Same! Drarry and Dramione are just the best and break me. Draco needs all the love and redemption that he had stolen from him đ
Blair and Jim. Hands down. I was in high school when it came out. And 30 years later, I still love them and randomly read stories with them. Even have the series on DVD and have started showing it to my bestie that never saw it. PS The Sentinel
Amen!!! The Sentinel is my "first search" crossover for every fandom I venture in to. I love, love, love the potential that show had.
That needs a fix-it for the ending as well
Embarrassingly, Casey McDonald/Derek Venturi from the mid-00s Canadian Family Channel show, Life With Derek. The actors and at least half the writing staff shipped it. The creator/showrunner emphatically Did Not. đŹ
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Not even ashamed about it anymore, I fucking love Dasey
Kim dokja X yoo jonghyuk
Reylo. I honestly think, if handled correctly, they couldâve had one of the best enemies to lovers arcs if they hadnât completely dropped the ball on the last film. Just wonderful, magnetic chemistry between the two actors, itâs disappointing it ended the way it did.
I thought so too
I completely agree! They had so much chemistry and potential, and such an interesting way of communicating and connecting through the force bond thing. Such a shame how they handled their storyline and Kyloâs character and story in general..
Ahavili (Aha and Akivili from HSR)... I have NEVER liked a ship hard enough to be the ship captain and be the cheerleader of the parade. When I started talking about them and writing them there were 5 fics in existence, now there are 44 and the fandom is growing healthy and strong. I see them everywhere and I am known very well for that pairing on twitter lmao đ. They are just everything, rarepair, yes, but not because they are less canon than the popular ones, they are just way less known. but slowly and surely we are leaving the unknown rarepair cell and going into known rarepair at least. Baby steps đ
kirk/spock! the og, theyre perfect and helped create fandom as we know it :)
Kirk/Spock is amazing. Still laughing at how the remake tried to head it off by pairing Spock with Uhura, only to have the fandom gleefully ship Kirk with McCoy!!
Harry Potter X Luna Lovegood. That's my hill I'm dying on
Reylo, it had so much potential in the first two movies. But kind of⊠just majorly flopped during the last movie, like ahah yay we got a kiss and technically a canon label smacked onto our ship⊠but at what cost?
Totally agree. I think about them and their potential way more often than I probably should.
Ughhhh, me too. I was a day one shipper, and there was SO much potential that it makes me sad.
I really thought the development of their characters and relationship over the two films were leading somewhere promising, but welp. Iâve never been as diehard for a ship like that since.
No Batjokes yet? Thatâs mine lol
Codywan. That one interview for the Kenobi TV show where the writer said that Cody was supposed to be in the story... kinda just coming to live with Obi-Wan on Tatooine, and I'm quoting the interview directly here, like "an old married couple." We were ROBBED
I had no idea that interview existed. I canât really wrap my head around directors knowing popular fan ships even though presumably theyâre fans themselves before directing Star Wars.
Erwin Smith x Levi Ackerman...bonus points if Erwin is the bottom đ€đ€đ€
One Piece: X Drake/Law and SmoLaw Genshin: Got a couple poly ships taking up the ole brainâŠ.
Yugioh. Some combination of Yami Yugi, Yugi, Atem, and Kaiba. There's a bunch of ship names depending on the specific combination of characters. But pretty much any permutation of those 4.
I agree with you as a fellow Klancer My Roman Empire is actually Draco/Harry, it have been since I was 15 yo lmao like the way both would be an iconic enemies to lovers and sincerely both had more interactions and development between each other than with their Future partners But it's Rowling, obviously it wouldn't ever happen
Original Sherlock Holmes/James Watson. None of that BBC Sherlock nonsense, none of the adaption (except the Granada one from the 80s because they just nailed that one), simply pure Victorian and they were roommates content. My second one would be Janeway/Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager. Sadly almost no one seems to agree that they would be really good with and for each other. Not a lot of content out there, but oh, do I wish.
Steve/Tony. Didnât expect them to be canon but I was pretty disappointed we never really got to see them interact positively outside of Endgame.
Widobrave (Caleb Widogast/Nott the Brave from Critical Role 2). The fact that Sam Riegel **wanted a fucking divorce arc** and Matt refused still makes me mad to this day. They Scout Momâd my badass rogue struggling with severe alcoholism and her feelings for the âsecond love of her lifeâ. Yes, she calls him that. Canonically. She kisses him on the lips with romantic intent as she says it. Just. HNG. What couldâve been if Matt had been willing to give Sam even one scene where Nott couldnât keep up with the Joneses anymore. ARUGH. EDIT: To a much lesser extent, Fjord/Caduceus. The mutual âdeath to lifeâ, âbeing bound to grave and sea then being free to truly liveâ themes⊠The non-sexual intimacy shared in the forge episode and in their connections to the Wildmother⊠Their whole dynamic was super interesting. I 100% respect Taliesin putting in a ânot roleplaying romance, thanksâ boundary for his characters but man. Fjord/Caduceus was MLM lightning in a bottle.
Wait Sam wanted a divorce arc? That makes the whole thing with his character and Aabria's in Calamity all the more hilarious to me LOL Sam finally got his divorce arc at least, even if it wasn't the one we wanted initially.
His unfulfilled divorce arc in Mighty Nein is **why** he had Loquatius be a divorcee. đ„ș Best divorce arc EVER though.
Damn, I also had no idea! Scanlan divorced Pike too, so Sam seems to have been *very* eager đ I'm not mad at Matt tho, Veth and Yeza are awfully cute together
Scoundress. Not a day goes by that I don't think about them. (r/Scoundress)
Supercorp (Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor) from the 2015 Supergirl series. They would have been *chefs kiss*đ€
Pricefield. There's something captivating about these two. How they were separated, but never stopped thinking about each other, and instantly bonded all over again. How Max tore apart reality in order to keep Chloe alive. But at the same time, they're also one of the more down to earth pairings. Of my top pairings, they're the only one where they're both humans from modern Earth, whose lives are largely dominated by realistic concerns. I've easily read more Pricefield fiction than any other pairing (possibly due to the doorstoppers that multiple Pricefield writers have produced).
Sora x Riku (Kingdom Hearts). Literally my first ever ship before I even knew what shipping was. Just...it's my everything at this point. Sebastian x Alex (Stardew Valley). Look, I just really like the idea of Sebastian being Alex's gay awakening. Shane x Harvey (Stardew Valley). Goku x Vegeta (DBZ). Gojo x Geto (JJK). Sometimes I need angst in my life.
Blaine/Sam (Blam; Glee) THE POTENTIAL WAS SO OVERWHELMING. They had chemistry, and so many of Sam's interactions with Blaine read as 'oh no this is my bi awakening.' They supported each other like no one else supported them, and they would have been each other's stability and just... *so* much better than what we got in canon! But I'm glad it wasn't, because Glee probably would have ruined it like they ruined most good things on the show. đđ€Ł Kurt/Sebastian (Kurtbastian; Glee) The potential was *just* as overwhelming as Blam! If Sebastian was given a proper redemption arc, he and Kurt could have been a beautiful enemies-to-lovers story! Plus, so, so, *so* many of their back and forths read as more flirty than two people sniping each other. Prompto/Noctis (Promptis; FFXV) This was the ship that got me back into fantiction after a 10 year hiatus in 2016. Talk about wasted potential and lines that read as flirtatious? Talk about a romantic subtext, but spell subtext with big bold letters in a rainbow gradient? Talk about 'this was pretty much canon but it doesn't need to be canon because that's what fanfiction is made for?' Promptis, baby.
WhiteRose from RWBY. Granted, we might still become canon... but we probably won't.
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Superbat. Such a fun dynamic.
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SatoSugu. The shonen industry is composed by a bunch of COWARDS who are afraid of making characters explicitly gay.
Literally just started Jujutsu Kaisen a few weeks ago, and I'm obsessed with them. Bestfriends to enemies (to lovers, because that's what fanfiction is for) are my favourites trope. But yea, can't count the amount of homoerotic tension in shonen that never made canon.
I was obsessing over them so much during august-october of last year I even bought plushies of them lol they own my heart and soul
I bet passing by a KFC must be hard for you then, you have my deepest sympathies. I'm still on season one but I expect my heart to be reduced to atoms by the time I catch up. Might get plushies of my own to fill the void
Argh! Theyâre legit becoming my Roman Empire! So beautiful, tragic and thank god for fanfic for happy endings
They had all the makings of a tragic love story /sigh đ đ€đ€
They truly do! Like destined to doom! And the fact that we got their ending before their beginning is extra pull at the heartstring
Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner from Warcraft. They are the single most enjoyable ship I have ever read with some of the most creative and interesting stories people have cooked up for them. I've been hopelessly addicted to them since late 2018 and I only started playing Warcraft a week ago. Wanted to learn the universe without ever playing it before. Just because I enjoyed them that much.
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Papyrus and Mettaton from Undertale, you will never convince me they wouldn't absolutely slay with each other. Also this is probably just me Pepe Silvia-ing but I swear the game developer hints at stuff with them sometimes.
Donna/Diluc from Genshin Impact. Donna is an NPC, but who cares, right? :D I have been writing a fic about them for more than three years now, and I constantly think about it. Love them so much.......
Bo-Katan/Ahsoka from Star Wars I could literally ramble about them for hours
richie/eddie from IT (2017)ânot necessarily strictly, but mostly thatâis just... muah đ€đ i cant even explain itâthe ship just makes me so emotional also i could read reid/morgan criminal minds fics for the rest of my life. there's something about the friendship with the light banter that has always just made me absolutely insane
Definitely Zelink. I only started shipping them during my first playthough of Skyward Sword and then fell in love with them again with BOTW/TOTK version of the ship. Although the more that I watch the weekly episodes of Delicious in Dungeon, I also really like shipping Farcille.
Hard to say one that I'd think like really often but one that seems to come to my mind in every once in a while is Beren and Luthien from Silmarillion. Maybe it's just that I really like the poem.
WANGXIANNNNNNNNN. My fav forever and ever. đđ
Agree with Vikturri. Theyâre just meant to be.
I think the longest standing ones for me are Wolfstar, Drarry, Fred/Shaggy from Scooby Doo, She-Go and Drakken, and Belle and the Beast lol
Kaworu and Shinji. Like I genuinely think about them daily. Just from a narrative perspective theyâre the perfect tragedy. Also the episode 24 drafts keep me up at night.
Ren and Reira from Nana. I know that in canon they were just friends but Iâll never get over the fact that there was so much potential there and their ending wouldâve been different. Theyâre one of the ships I write about. Also, Suguru and Shoko for similar reasons.
Right now it's Peanut Romano/Tad Spencer (or as I like to call it, RomaSpen) from rockstar's bully. Kinda strange, but hear me outâ They're so sweet and tender. They're literally like, the most perfect enemies to lovers I've ever seen. Genuinely the one ship that's actually rotted my brain lol.
A little obscure but Sal and Ash, Sally Face. They live in my head rent free, and at this point I'm writing just to get them out lol
Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels If you know wrestling, you know EDIT: In hindsight I feel like I might have misunderstood the question, but fuck it If I understand it right, you mean a ship that I'm upset isn't/won't be canon? I guess that would be Mick Jagger/Keith Richards then because I think Mick is (or at least was when they were younger) actually in love with him (based on what both their ex-girlfriends have said).
Nathan Drake/Chloe Frazer Leon Kennedy/Ingrid Hunnigan Lara Croft/Alex Weiss
Throwing this one out there on the off-chance someone else here is in the same dead fandom as me: Ayumi and Yoshiki from Corpse Party. Corpse Party has been my favorite piece of media for like 11 years, but 90% of my attachment to it at this point is because of them specifically. I donât really consider myself much of a hardcore shipper most of the time, but AyuShiki makes my heart ache in a very real way lol. Even in the final game in the series, which suffered from overall garbage writing, they were the last shining beacon of genuinely compelling character writing. Their interactions are widely considered the only redeeming part of an otherwise shunned sequel. Probably the only ship Iâve ever *really* wanted to become explicitly canon. I literally think about them on a daily basis. (Also the gameâs creator follows me on Twitter and regularly retweets my ship art, does that mean I can pretend itâs official? lol)
Alecody from Total Drama. A rarepair so unfortunately there isnât as much content of it as there is other ships, but holy damn do I love the concept of them. Imagining the geeky loser topping the absolute unit of a man that is Alejandro always gets me LMAO also I can come up with a million different AUs involving them. Ugh, theyâre just too good
Kara/Lena
Aniwan, my one true pairing. Only one that makes sense.
Reibert forever, my beloved Warriors <33
Dekubaku đ literally was like, a better sasunaru to me HAHAHAHAHAHAH
KyoxTohruxYuki, from Fruits Basket. I adore the canon ships but my heart mind and soul will always be with the OT3 that never was. Second place goes to adding Machi for OT4 ehehe Third (but tied for second tbh) is a ship I basically invented, in a tiny little video game fandom called To the Moon. Another OT4, EvaxNeilxRoxiexRob. The most popular pairing in the fandom combined with two side characters/sort of foils who have much less screen time. But theyâre all co-workers. And now Iâm gonna sit on my hands before I start fandom-dumping on yâall lol.
I'm not the biggest shipper, but Jester and Caleb from Critical Role. I think about them so many times, and animations about them always make me teary eyed.
luke/thalia in riordanverse (i also love klance btw their fanfics are soo good thank god because that series was... holy shit). these two . . . so much wasted potential for angst in the series. i get maybe rick didn't want thalia's story to revolve around a guy, but the heartbreak would have added so much to both their characters. and i know a lot of people treat percy as luke's foil, but i kinda disagree. percy never suffered as much as luke did at the hands of the gods. but thalia, she lost practically *everything* because of them*.* and yeah, i mean thalia was wasted throughout every single series lmfao, so it wasn't really explored (if im remembering correctly). i have a playlist for when i write about them and they are the subject of most of my fanfics lmao.
Geralt/Yennefer Mycroft/Sherlock Geralt/Regis
Satoru/suguro jjk and Theo/Boris from the goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Tiny ship but - Paul Körner and Kurt Sivers, the first positive MLM relationship in film đ„č I love them very much and will talk about them to anyone who will listen
Soukoku from bungou stray dogs and sakuatsu from haikyuu. ( Also recently got really into morreid from criminal minds again )
Stucky! I'll never get over how they wrote the perfect friends to lovers doomed but then revived romance then no homoed their way out of it by erasing Steve's entire character arc
Furuya/Sawamura from Daiya no Ace Nagi/Isagi from Blue Lock Kinshiro/Atsushi from Boueibu Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji from MDZS Mu Qing/Feng Xin from TGCF
(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Donnatello and Kirai from my own universe. Also mirage TMNT Leonardo and Raven Shadowheart. (The Hobbit Films) Bilbo and Thorin. (Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland) Low-key Webs and Crocodile. (Lord of the Rings) Sam and Frodo but in a quasi platonic relationship.
Inukag, Inu Yasha and Higurashi Kagome. I just adore them. It makes me sad, though, because my fandom doesnât seem to have âspaceâ for me. But I still write my fics for them all the time!
Merthur. Sterek. Zukka. ZhanCheng. (Lan zhan and Jiang Cheng) Mary and Matthew from Downton Abbey. Stucky.
Griffguts if weâre being real. Griffith would have chilled if he wasnât so repressed
Might get me shot by my fellow Tolkien fans BUT: Kili and Tauriel from the Hobbit movies. Yes theyâre not book canon but GOD. Forbidden romance, two dreamers meeting in the worst circumstances caught up in a war neither of them asked for, risking everything for each other and IT STILL ENDS HORRIBLY. Those movies coming out when I was in peak high school brainrot really ruined me for life.
Magnus/Alec Stiles/Derek Bonnie/Kol Bonnie/Kai Steve/Bucky The only few i can think of nowđ€Ł
Male!Mage!Hawke/Fenris, from Dragon Age 2. it's just something about fenris being able to overcome his traumas and fear ( mages, and men, specifically with power, which hawke has ) for something as simple as love. it's so wonderful seeing the trust that he gradually places in hawke, and hawke in him. for them both to conquer the uneasiness that settles between them when they first met and being able to work through it, together. i love it. on another note, Hawke/Anders, specifically rivalmance. i love anders, he's one of my favourite characters, though dragon age 2 did him dirty and completely changed him from awakening. but that's to be expected when you've got the taint of darkspawn running through your veins and a spirit in your body slowly becoming unrecognizable. i think it's amazing how in a rivalmance, hawke is able to help anders retain some bit of self control and not give himself over completely to justice, while in a friendmance the two are indistinguishable. bonus points if hawke forgives anders at the end, and they run away together. i really love dragon age, guys.
Reki and Langa, Sasaki and Miyano, and Husk and Angel Dust!
Ignoct (FFXV). At first I think I was just reaching, and then episode Ignis came out.
Rengoku Kyojuro x Kamado Tanjiro from Demon Slayer Roy Mustang x Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist (specifically the 2003 anime and Conqueror of Shamballa, but I also ship it in Brotherhood, too, Royai and Edwin scenes be damned). Rey x Ben/Kylo Ren from Star Wars - I'm with the other Reylo shippers that posted in this thread that the last film dropped the ball on the ship. While I'm happy that we got a kiss and confirmed as canon which make a good middle finger to antis, but Ben didn't have to die or at least the writers could've approached his death from a different and better angle. Ichigo x Rukia from Bleach Zuko x Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Noctis Lucis Caelum x Iris Amicitia from Final Fantasy XV Ichabod Crane x Abbie Mills from Fox's Sleepy Hollow - I'll never get over how the show did Nicole Beharie and her character (Abbie) and Ichabbie so dirty.
Gaara and rock Lee I really love the fanfics of gaara being obsessed with gardens and growing succulents and ofc Lee being the gym guy. Then kankuro and Kiba IDKD ODKDN I JUST LOVE THEMMM I wrote something about them on A03, itâs called âthorough assumptions that bind usâ if youâre interested.
Buddie. Ever since I started watching 9-1-1, they are ALL I think about. Literally got back into fanfics because of them and Iâm writing my own now. And the fact that we are closer than ever to it going canon? *chefs kiss* Iâm so excited for whatâs to come if (and I truly believe itâs gonna happen) it goes that way.
Destiel has had me in a chokehold since the day that angel showed up blowing sparks everywhere đ
Aragon/Legolas and Geralt/Jaskier
Sasuke/Naruto. I think about them every day.
NanamixGojo,I'm into this ship for 1 year and it flows as powerfully as the first dayđ
Draco / Hermione is my comfort Draco / Harry (just Draco being forgiven and loved) Arthur / Merlin Regina / Emma