Hi! I'm new here (this is my first post actually), but I've been wandering around the wiki and the mission reports and the OFUs for the past weeks, so I'm sort of familiar with it all.

About ships, do crossovers count? Because, though I'm not a shippy person in general, I'm very fond of Susan Pevensie/Maglor post-LB for some reason.

Okay, that's a lie. I ship basically everything, but here's a few:

Stark/Rodgers. Yeah, yeah. I know the Cap and Iron Man have been shipped from here to the moon by now, largely thanks to the movie, but still. When even the comics seem to ship them, to the point that Tony and Steve have been married several times in alternate universes, I just have to go with it.

Stark/Banner: Science Bros. This one is entirely thanks to the movie. Nothing romantic or sexual here, pure pale quadrant.

Victor Mancha/Chase Stein: Another Brotp. The son of Ultron, and the jock son of a pair of evil scientists, from the Runaways comic. They're both awesome, and they're awesome together.

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(Also, Homestuck ships. All the Homestuck ships. All of them.)

When reading fics, I usually don't care that much about the pairing, as long as it's delivered plausibly and the plot's good. I detest Harry/Hermione, but only because I have yet to see it happen without Weasley-bashing and/or Super!Harry.
However, there are some ships I really like, either because I really wanted to see them in canon or because it somehow works and just never occured to me.
Harry Potter: Neville/Luna and Hagrid/Maxime. I was really disappointed these didn't happen... Also, I like Bellatrix/Voldemort for some odd reason.
Angel Sanctuary: Rosiel/Katan. Definitely. Also Uriel/Doll and Layla/Nidvhegg (whatever his actual name is... oh, and that's how he's spelled in my edition). Kurai/Michael also works for me.
The Silmarillion: Maedhros/Fingon *ducks* Seriously, they're cute together! Actually, I like reading fics where they're just friends just as much, so, ummm...

Everyone ships it. But it's not canon. And there's a lot of hate to Moffat because he hasn't made it canon, ranging anywhere from the immature "need my John/Sherlock yaoi" to the contentious "Moffat is queerbaiting everyone we need text, not subtext".

But before I start listing mine, Troi/Worf? To me, it always fell under the category of, as you put, canon ships that completely bewildered me. (It is canon to me, because they get together in a couple episodes of seventh season) But it does make sense - I've never much liked Riker/Troi, and at least Worf and Troi would raise Alexander together, and I really can't argue with that.

I'm not sure I support it, but...Data/Geordi. They have the this friendship that makes you go awwww, and the inherent shippiness of cosplaying as Holmes and Watson cannot be denied. For me, this emphasized because I love BBC Sherlock's John/Sherlock.

My absolute favorite non canon pairing, though, is Janeway/Chakotay, from Voyager. The balance of their personalities (the reckless captain, the cool-headed first officer) and the clear logic of the command team being the mother and father of their crew makes this pairing completely awesome. Not to mention the chemistry whenever they disagree over a big command decision, that comes simply from the fact that normally they are on each other's side, and it hurts to go against that. They dropped hints, and Kate Mulgrew even confirmed that she supports it, and then...

We get into the canon pairing I find most baffling: Chakotay/Seven. Don't get me wrong, it makes logical sense - the icy ex-Borg and the compassionate human - but with absolutely no buildup? Just slapped together at the end, after seasons upon seasons of Janeway/Chakotay chemistry? What were the scriptwriters thinking?

...I'll stop before I start ranting. Most the time, I support canon pairings, so when I do depart from canon, it's because I really like it.

...yeah, but I'll try to make this pretty short. Let's see.

Jessie and James, of Team Rocket. It's always bothered me that this ship was never officially confirmed, since they're so perfect together AND there's all sorts of little moments in the anime that could be interpreted that way.

Susan/Caspian, of the Narnia movieverse, has always seemed kind of unfitting to me, maybe because the books contradict it as well... I don't know.

In Tamora Pierce, Kel/Neal is my ship, although Neal and Yuki are kind of cute together. Also, the Daine/Numair ship, although I love them, still kind of creeps me out in a way, since she's, what, twenty years younger? Something like that...

Ron/Hermione. WORST SHIPPING FAILURE EVER.

For Watership Down, does anyone other than me see Bigwig/Fiver, or is that a crazy thought?

On a shipping subject, what happened to Minerva, from Artemis Fowl? She was a definite love interest in the fifth book, and then she just... disappeared.

There are actually a few canon ships that I just find just plain annoying, and I really would have replaced them with something else. I can't say which one is MORE annoying.

Harry Potter. People know I'm a huge Potter-nut. Ok, more than a Potter nut. Literally, I keep the elder wand in my purse (In my defense, it's a pen) But anyways....

A bit of bickering can mean attraction, I suppose, but in my opinion Ron/Hermione has NO sparky chemistry. Best friends (practically family), tutor-tutored, debate partners, yes to all of these. But LOVERS?? This pairing annoys the heck out of me. I don't see it. I prefer Hermione/HARRY. I mean, come on, those two had WAY more chemistry. Way more spark, and they were a bit more similar in personality. Plus, in a relationship Hermione would always be the smarter one. Ron tends to cut down when that happens, although being in the Golden Trio seems to have calmed down that tendency a bit. I don't know who to pair him with, but ANYONE but Hermione. And Ginny/Harry stories can be cute, but I still think they were better off as good friends. They were still better than Ron/Hermione, though.

I also like Neville/Luna, or even Neville/Ginny can be cute (though I like the first one better as an idea).

Finally, from the Power Rangers fandom (yes, I know). Actually, these people tend to ROYALLY screw up pairings (in my personal opinion). I love the show for some odd reason, have ever since I was a kid, but Tommy/Kat? Kim/SKULL!!??? Kim/Skull should NOT be happening in any universe. He's a complete bully to her towards the beginning. I mean, he gets better towards the end, but COME FREAKING ON!! Friends, I can see. Someone she tells about her being a ranger, maybe. I can even see them keeping contact when she leaves for Pan Globals. But really? And Spike can't be Kimberly's kid. She would kick him in the nuts for being that idiotic about Power Rangers before Samurai even happened.

And while I'm not as upset about Tommy/Kat, Tommy/Kim still had a lot more great chemistry going on. While it may have looked like puppy love, I don't think it was. They were saving the world everyday. They grew up. And some people do find love with their high school sweethearts. Kat is great by herself, but then she takes Tommy away from Kim, so everyone hates her. And the way they made Kim break up with Tommy was completely idiotic, too. The letter? Kim would have called, at least, and probably visited. She and Tommy would have talked for hours about it. They would have set things strait. Kim was no coward. She was the world's first pink ranger, for goodness sakes. And then they would be IN-CHARACTER.

Oh, there are more botched pairings.

There's of course, the famous Kira/Trent, Conner/Krista. WHY? Let me list the reasons: Conner and Kira just had more chemistry and Trent lied to Kira BIG time about his Dad being Mesogog. Kira's crush on Trent was so forced, and Conner and Krista weren't similar enough to make it work. If you're at least not going to get rid of the Kira/Trent (who can have their cute moments, I guess), then pair Conner up with ANYONE else. Because Krista's kind of too up in nature, and Conner, even as a stuck-up jock (and he did a lot of growing being a red ranger) deserved a whole lot more than that. And it was forced.

Trini/Jason wasn't ever confirmed, was it? It should have been, they were cute together. And Dustin/Kelly- everyone thinks it should have been Marah, but I thought Dustin and Kelly were super great together. Kelly's age was never said- I would have placed her to be somewhere in her early twenties, Dustin around eighteen or nineteen- if not in his college years, then very close to it.

Even though they only ever confirmed Ally/Jack in SPD, they didn't really botch much from that season. Almost any combo of the rangers- Syd/Sky, Z/Bridge, or even Sky/Bridge (since apparently they tried to make a season of gay Bridge)or Z/Boom would work, to be quite honest. And Z could have done very well single. I prefer Syd/Sky and Z/Bridge, but any of those could have worked. Kat/Cruger would have been so cute, though. Even though his wife was there. But Kat/Cruger had a better relationship. We saw more of that, though.

And they didn't botch anything in Jungle Fury, I don't think. And in my fave season, RPM, they didn't botch anything, either. So writing got better as it went on. But the first several you were staring at the screen like, "You just did WHAT???"

Sorry, it's not often I get to rant like this :)

I'd say... Well, here's one that at the same time I feel THIS MUST BE CANON THEY ARE PERFECT IN EVERY WAY and also 'this is kinda sketchy I mean seriously'

Reinforce Eins x Yagami Hayate
I mean, on the one hand they are freaking adorable together and Reinforce's noble sacrifice, and Hayate begging her not to, and the whole 'I am the happiest magical tome in the world' line which is cheesier than the best pizza ever but is so heartbreaking when you see it, and the fact that Reinforce says that her love for Hayate is 'deeper than the oceans'...

But then again it's also a millenia-old artificial intelligence in human form and a nine-year-old girl. That is kinda creepy. You see my dilemma.

(I am not including Nanoha/Fate here because that is freaking canon they adopt a daughter and sleep in the same bed and the VAs confirmed it.)

Hm... Oriko and Kirika from Oriko Magica, I think.

I'm not really sure, though I do have some disaster ships, which are basically the WORST SHIPS IMAGINABLE.
Examples:

Rarity/Pinkie Pie

Equius/Karkat

Has anyone else got any hilarious fail-ships?

In all seriousness, I was never a shipper, and one of my friends was basically all of the stereotypes of shippers. For all of the Homestuck readers, she was basically acting out Nepeta's tendency to circle crude drawings of two characters and write "YESSSS!" or "NOOO!" next to them. This inspired me to ship the randomest, nuttiest character pairings I could find, which I originally started to do just to annoy her. To extend the Homestuck reference, these were Doc Scratch/Tavros levels of nutty.

Switching continua for the next bit: I still think she was onto something shipping Gorast/Teridax. Not as a crack-pairing, but as a "this might actually work without knocking them both out of character". I mean, with the obvious "They're energy beings piloting robot bodies! That doesn't even make sense!" factor excluded, they went so well together, personality-wise. Plus, Gorast was the only one who really "got" The Plan, which was basically the defining factor of Teridax's life. It would have been a good bonding opportunity, you know? Scheming psychopaths have got to stick together and all that.

Hewkii/Macku and Jaller/Hahli, from Bionicle. Hewkii/Macku WAS canon until Greg Farshtey retconned it out of existence by refusing to talk about the sex life of plastic toys. Jaller/Hahli was just a crapton of flirting in the first movie.

OH OH OH

Kiina/Mata Nui. For the unrequited-crush type ship, that isn't spelled out but COME THE HELL ON it's OBVIOUS (and understandable, I mean he's voiced by frigging WORF and also he promised Kiina he'd get her OFF that dustball who WOULDN'T have a heroworshippy crush on Mata Nui certainly not me no sirree)

I've got to agree on Troi/Worf and Katara/Zuko.

Troi/Worf: At some point, it felt like even the writers shipped it. Troi just has so much more chemistry with Worf than with Riker. Hell, Riker would have dumped her for his career once.

Zuko/Katara: Again with the chemistry. Okay, that could just be the fact that I don't feel that the whole Aang/Katara thing was written all too well. Also, Aang's kinda twelve.

I couldn't come up with any of my own now, but I recognize them if I see them.

So I just accept the canon ones while ignoring the others.

I dunno. I've never really cared very much about shipping... Buuuuut if there is one that's been floating around in my head that I don't have to explain very much...

Kain/Barbarccia (FFIV).

I think they'd go together in a very Kismesis sort of way.