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Yes.We.Did.Dagnabbit. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:01:26 PDT

Cheetara + Panthro 4 EVA

Wow, I guess I was wrong on my personal definition for "shippers". I didn't think it was simply being obsessed with the relationship aspect of a show (usually sci-fi/fantasy) but that it was in opposition to another pairing. Or maybe that's because when I first came across it was in a 20+ page long flame twop.com flame-war over Buffy and either Angel or Spike. Spuffy. SUCH a bad idea.

So someone saying they are a Aeryn + John (god, hot hot hot) shipper sounds strange to me, because what other pairing was there?

Tho now that I think about it I bet there's fraking blue plant lady + John shippers out there... (sorry, forgot her name I came late to that show, I admit it.)Zhaan? Oh shoot, I bet there's fanfic for Chiana and almost every one on that cast, huh?

@goldenthorn: Wow, Jet Black and Faye. If the Redtail's a rocking, don't come a knocking.

@doctor paradox: Get in line, buddy.

@Redfox: Bwahahah, The Gayverse.

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guibom — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:17:19 PST

"4. Have you ever had a dream about your favorite couple from a TV show? Plus 5 points. Plus 20 points if you dreamed that you were one member of the couple."

One member of the couple? What about if we keep the couple + me? How many points do I get for that?!

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Annalee Newitz — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:10:57 PST

@doctor paradox: I'm totally on your ship! Except with Starbuck and myself, of course.

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doctor paradox — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:10:43 PST

do i count as a shipper if the relationship i'm convinced must happen is Starbuck and myself? ;-P

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Micing — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:09:53 PST

I have no shame. I read fanfiction. It's free smut, practical and inexpensive.

@YES_TIM_GUNN: I watch Project Runway and Heroes too! Sadly, I've never had the wonderful experience of someone's head exploding.

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Supernintendo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:28:23 PST

Regarding fanfiction: I don't know if it's been addressed on the site, but there IS quality/creative stuff out there (in particular there is a Heroes fanfic that is pretty awesome and original and isn't completely filled with weird sex, and of course I can't remember the name of it now) it's just really hard to find.

io9 should compile a list of the best to further enable the nerdery!

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Supernintendo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:23:12 PST

Oh my god, I am so Jayne/anyone in the 'verse. Buffy did not ever ever deserve Spike but I am totally guilty of fast-forwarding for that one.

Let's not even get started on Harry Potter because I am too old and should know better.

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lisa pizza — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:06:15 PST

man, i was super-excited when i saw this quiz and that picture, and thought that maybe, just maybe, i had found my place in gawkerland. but the douchey attititude towards lj & fandom is really a turn-off.

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Defendant — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:49:17 PST

@goldenthorn:Maybe we just need to wait until Ed grows up and find her a man. Unless you're an Ed/Ein shipper.
@TDA: Cameron is the sexiest android, thank you very much.
@Redfox: But Mal loved Inara.

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Klebert L. Hall — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:25:30 PST

@JennaW:
Heh. You said I'm cool - there goes your credibility...
-Kle.

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Hekkashesh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:10:25 PST

I haven't shipped since Romana Dvortrelundar hooked up with Birok, the Leonine Tharil time-walker in the third of the E-Space trilogy episodes "Warrior's Gate" in Dr. Who's Tom Baker years (also one of the best-written/directed episodes EVER in the series' history, IMHO, excepting, of course, the episode's moronic villain...)

Oh, okay, there was that business with Buffy and Spike...though, in all honesty, I was a bigger shipper for Willow and Tara...and was crushed with Tara was accidentally killed. But I think I did my best shipping with Sam Hurt's Comic strip EYEBEAM, with the relationship between Eyebeam, the main character, and his girlfriend, Sally... Eyebeam was the closest thing to a science fiction comic strip since Chester Gould took us to the moon in DICK TRACY back in the sixties... The Eyebeam strip is mostly in limbo, I think, but Sam might STILL be drawing episodes in his spare time... [www.samhurt.com] (shameless fan-plugz R Us)

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jennstar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:31:02 PST

@Yatta!: Kaylee/Simon filled the void in my heart left by the emotional disaster that was Willow/Xander. Thanks Joss!

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Redfox — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:29:27 PST

@Yatta!: My mind still reels that Simon actually got with Kaylee, because, HELLO, he's the gayest gay to ever gay in the 'verse! He was totally in love with Mal.

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eskilla — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:17:08 PST

pfft. Het-Shipping? Why would you even want to?
Jack Sparrow/Will Turner for the win.

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Yatta! — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:31:27 PST

I am a Shipper for anything involving Simon Tam. Period.

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Garro — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:47:57 PST

I got -5....

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krazykarot — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:59:56 PST

doctor + rose 4eva fools!!

ahem. 14 points for me. i like a little shipping but whatevs.

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TDA — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:34:50 PST

I'll be skipping on the shipping but first in line for the Cherry 2000 when yall do the sexiest anrdoid quiz.

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World's Greatest Dad — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:18 PST

heh: "shippering."

anybody on this thing watch Mad Men? i know it's not SciFi TV but it might as well be (emphasis on invented history, reliance on attractive surfaces of production design/costume design, props & fake history to dramatize an unreal world, plot lines involving virtual identity, etc)

anyhoo i do believe that Rachel is better for Don than his BORING wife but she is after all easy on the eyes and her "strange men in the house" fantasies are hot-making.

look, watch the show. it's hot as hell. no lasers though. but lots of the guys look like Alien messiah JR "Bob" Dobbs.

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likeelectric — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:16:43 PST

I'm a huge shipper for all of my fandoms. Buffy/Spike, LoVe (yes, I am that girl), and, most recently, Chuck/Sarah on Chuck... I need help.

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thephotoman — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:54:46 PST

I'm not a real shipper. Unless we're talking about that trainwreck that is HP. In that case, I simply beg forgiveness for my sins.

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lurleen — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:17:46 PST

wait..wait wait.. there's really a special dvd about Buffy and Spike??

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:21 PST

@DocGratis: Nobody beats Sarah Jane!

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DocGratis — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:25:40 PST

@JennaW: Ohhh no.. HE is down... HE is not getting back up folks...

Jennaw is the NEW Doctor Who Shipper Champion...

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Yes_Tim_Gunn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:09:54 PST

@Annalee Newitz: Thanks kindly! Sadly it's a dissertation in its early stages at present, but I hope to expand the Smllville slash chapter out into a conference paper later this year. Showing Clex-y clips will be awfully fun.

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Yes_Tim_Gunn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:08:11 PST

@JennaW: Thanks! It's a point of pride how people's heads look in danger of exploding when I mention that I love Project Runway and and Heroes equally, and that I'm not getting enough work done on my (slash-featuring) dissertation because I love to knit while watching hockey too much. I'd like to hang around here more on io9 now that i know it exists!

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Annalee Newitz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:43 PST

@Yes_Tim_Gunn: I await your academic paper so I can link to it!

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:57:54 PST

@DocGratis: Sarah Jane Smith FTW!

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:57:06 PST

@Yes_Tim_Gunn: I should have known you were a Jezzie from your handle.

Huzzah! Academic SLASH -- and good choice in Smallville as your subject.

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Yes_Tim_Gunn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:48:45 PST

@JennaW: Fair enough! I wandered over via Jezebel because a whiff of slash was enough to pique my interest. Actually writing academically right now on slash in Smallville...

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:27:12 PST

@Yes_Tim_Gunn: I just didn't think there were enough hazings at this site...

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femto — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:06:45 PST

@Annalee Newitz: Why are the cute ones always insane? ;-)

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Mouser_UK — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:33:12 PST

ok ido admit to a few gwack thoughts (Gwen and Capt Jack)

squeeeeeeeee

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Yes_Tim_Gunn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:10:44 PST

@JennaW: well I feel welcome now.

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timwayne — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:09:27 PST

"Do you fight with your friends over whether Starbuck and Apollo would be better for each other than Starbuck and Anders on Battlestar Galactica? "

No, me and my friends think Apollo and Anders would make the hottest couple on tee vee.

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Annalee Newitz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:51:08 PST

@femto: Hahaha. Here is the funny thing. I was inspired to write this post because I was shopping for lotion in The Body Shop yesterday, and the woman working there saw my Doctor Who-esque hightops and asked, "Do you watch Doctor Who?" Thus followed the most surreal convo I have ever had with a salesperson in The Body Shop, and ended with her squeaking, "I'm a Rose Shipper!" Damn she was cute.

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regis — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:50:25 PST

my girlfriend is not only a big-time potter-nerd, she's in a livejournal harry potter role-playing game. full of smut.

BUT MY DORKY HOBBIES ARE WAY COOLER THAN HER DORKY HOBBIES, MAAAAAAAAAAN.

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sweetea — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:48:36 PST

Personally, I think the scariest shippers are the Harry Potter fans; they've got the crackiest names for their ships. For example, Wheezing Snitches (Fred Weasley/Harry Potter) and Ssssss (Tom Riddle/Harry Potter).

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femto — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:41:47 PST

I barely rated above 10, with erring on the side of awarding points. This quiz is clearly calibrated wrong.

I think my score may have been hindered by:

a) Possibly there have been slutty Star Trek characters (Original Series), but is it really possible for them to be too slutty?

b) Everyone arguing Martha vs. Rose is insane.

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92BuickLeSabre — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:39:38 PST

@Lizfu: *sighs*

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Justme-again — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:05:21 PST

Not a shipper, but Ripley did get some in Alien3 with Charles Dance's character.

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ohyeth — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:04:52 PST

@ohyeth: supposedly

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Lizfu — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:03:44 PST

In regards to #1, my friends and I agree that Martha is too good for the Doctor. Ideally, if she and Rose meet up in season 4, they should just forget about the Doctor and run off together to be awesome (or in Rose's case, learn how to be awesome from Martha). Martha Jones, agent of UNIT, meet Rose Tyler, Bad Wolf and um, shopgirl in an alternate universe.

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ohyeth — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:57:54 PST

@ jeff-minor: teyla.

can't believe i admitted knowing that, but its teyla. And she got knocked up by an athosian dude.

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:54:07 PST

@Klebert: Yeah, yeah. You and Jay are uber cool and above it all. The cooties have not besmirched you.

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Klebert L. Hall — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:43:45 PST

I'm only the mundane form of shipper in that I ship, and also recieve, for a living.

I'm afraid I don't get the whole use-my-imaginary-psychic-powers-to-act-a... thing. But, whatever floats your boat.
-Kle.

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goldenthorn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:38:39 PST

@Defendant: Spike and Faye? heeeell, no! Faye is perfect for Jet. Jet's problem with women is that he overprotects them. Faye would keep him on his toes and not let him shelter/rescue her except when she actually needs help. And Spike was too hung up on Julia to ever really go for Faye, whatever the undertones. She would only ever have been second-best to his memories. Faye deserves fireworks, and being with Jet would be continuous fireworks (of all sorts!), and probably calm her down a fair bit, after a while... and Jet is much more attractive than Spike, anyway. I've always thought that he'd know how to take care of a woman, ifnyaknowwaimean, winkwink-nudgenudge.
(oh gods, oh gods, I'm a teenager again - I am a shipper... *sobs*)

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richcreamerybutter — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:34:04 PST

does it count if the couple requires rishathra for consumation?

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:18 PST

@Jackson West: Worst. Mashup Names. Ever.

"Kack?"

*shakes head*

@jaylake: It's "shipping," buster. Get it right! ;)

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Jackson West — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:29:21 PST

The "Will Kate choose Jack or Sawyer" nonsense finally turned me off the Lost fandom websites -- especially since the two camps were the "Kack" and "Skate" camps. I'm a strictly spoilers, no speculation man now...

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jaylake — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:25:51 PST

That would the science fiction fandom world, and a specific subset of it at that. There are plenty of us citizens of SFland who never worry about shippering.

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Jeff-Minor — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:25:23 PST

Too much math. How about John and Tayla (sp?) on Stargate Atlantis? Or Kirk and Spock in the new Trek movie? I'd like to see Kirk take it like man. Hehehe.

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Defendant — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:24:33 PST

@goldenthorn: Jet and Faye? Spike and Faye. Get it right.

Oh great, I do have issues.

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Defendant — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:22:17 PST

Clark and Chloe. That's where I started. But now that Lois is on the show, seeing as how I'm a Superman fan, and not a Smallville fan, I'm all for that, because it's what happens, and what has to happen.

I'm also very anti-Clana.

And I have no other issues with shipping, but I have read fan-fic of Chlark and Clois. Of course, I've also read a lot of official Clois stories.

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:14:03 PST

@Yes_Tim_Gunn: *points* n00b!

NO. It works for slash pairings, too.

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:13:25 PST

@Annalee Newitz: Now THAT is some creative crossover fanfic.

I *like* it!

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Yes_Tim_Gunn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:11:48 PST

So uh, is this the tame hetero version of slash?

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Annalee Newitz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:10:58 PST

@Her_royal_Highness: I miss Xena soooo much! I never could ship that show, though I kind of fantasized about Xena being with Ted Raimi as he was in SeaQuest instead of as Joxer.

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Szin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:10:32 PST

I do so love this site. Anyway, I scored only 5 points! I'm not sure whether to feel pride or shame in that regard.

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JennaW — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:10:16 PST

Oh, it works EVERYWHERE: Veronica/Logan -- OTP! Or, let's see... SF... uh...

Mulder/Scully -- OTP!

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DocGratis — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:09:05 PST

Thanks cynical about love eh? Maybe cynical about TV show plots...
Oh nevermind.. I gave myself +5 for the Doctor who Martha thing... (for a total score of 0)
I don't have friends over to fight about it, but if I had freinds who watched Doctor Who, and they said Rose over Martha, ohh how I would fight them....

Bodyblow bodyblow.. UPPERCUT!

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goldenthorn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:09:05 PST

yeah, 45 points-ish. I didn't know there was a term for it - I just thought it was part and parcel of being a geek. Buffy and Spike / Batou and Motoko / Jet Black and Faye, etc. What can I say - sf and anime brings out the pathetic lusting after never-can-be's in me.

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EaterLover — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:07:35 PST

The ultimate shipper show of the 90s--The X-FILES. I shipped long and hard for that show and they rewarded me the way that shippers should be, with a shitty recast and steadily deteriorating quality. Yeeeah shipping!

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aspiringexpatriate — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:02:10 PST

@Her_royal_Highness: Nothing wrong with that.

And yes, Sunn Crichton was good for everyone.

And Martha should stick with the doctor, but not as a relationship type thing. It's just all sorts of wrong for The Doctor. I hated when they wrote her all doe-ey eyed instead of you know, like a smart doctor type.

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MiseAmiee — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:58:54 PST

Tho I am not a SciFi kinda gal, I am really obsessed with Jim and Pam of the American Office. It's actually pretty sick. I found all the things on YouTube that are still images of them from the show played with romantic tunes, and I was actually like "awww"... and then I realized how sad that is.

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Her_royal_Highness — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:58:03 PST

@Her_royal_Highness: right....Xena isn't necessarily science fiction...but the creators did make cheesy sci-fi shows like Cleopatra 25/25. Oh dear...I am a geek!

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Her_royal_Highness — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:55:10 PST

I am not ashamed to say that I was/am a Xena Warrior Princess fan. I am a Xena/Ares shipper.

I fancied the pants off that guy. Hot hot hot!

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Ed Grabianowski — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:54:15 PST

Just to clarify, at no point have I ever written fanfic. About anything. But especially not this.

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Annalee Newitz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:53:05 PST

@haguenite: True. I was just limiting it to SF for the purposes of io9. I even mentioned Buffy/Spike Shipping, which isn't strictly scifi. But I didn't go to the Very Big Ship Place, which as we all know is Harry Potter.

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haguenite — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:50:46 PST

The term shipper is not limited to SF though. It's a fandom-wide thing...

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strider_mt2k — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:49:00 PST

In this context i'd rather be a handler than a shipper, but I'll accept the charges if you wait 6 to 10 weeks.

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Ed Grabianowski — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:46:48 PST

John Crichton/Aeryn Sun. I'll admit it. Also, when I was 15, I had a definite Shipper thing involving Deanna Troi and me.

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hubris — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:46:46 PST

These are like a half step removed from people who write fan fiction. Do. Not. Want.

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