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[sidleypkhermit]

An old classic, come around again via tamsinwillougby.

The problem with LJ/DW: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your journal and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[tamsin]

What makes you ship a pairing?

[sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com]

What a fun question! After all these years in fandom — back since the age of the dinosaurs when "shippers" were exclusively people who wanted Mulder and Scully to get together and didn't want any slash pairings — I'm still not sure I know the answer. I like pairs with a common goal who complement each other...but that seems like a really boring and almost tautological description. I like ships where they each kind of think the other is out of their league. But I also enjoy something with a unidirectional totally devoted (but still healthy) loyalty, like Leia/Evaan from the Star Wars comics.

I'm terrible at answering these things. But I remember I answered a bunch of shipping-related memes back on tumblr so here (http://sidleyparkhermit.tumblr.com/post/159582412095/top-5-shipping-tropes) they (http://sidleyparkhermit.tumblr.com/post/95442235220/1-and-16) are (http://sidleyparkhermit.tumblr.com/post/95444977725/2-3-and-4).

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

Why LiveJournal? Or why your username? I know the second one is a bit boring but I was wondering as I copied it to my journal so I can post this meme.

[sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com]

Man, "why LiveJournal" feels like a dissertation, but the short answer is: because I'm 35 years old :D

The username: I picked out "sidleyparkhermit" for my fandom tumblr when I created it four years ago, and now I've just carried on with it from platform to platform like ya do. It's a reference to Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and I first set up the tumblr to put some stuff up where one of my fandom friends who also likes Tom Stoppard could see it. (I went through various previous lives in fandom on LJ and other platforms in the 2000s, but dropped out for a while and just started over with that tumblr when I got back into it.)