Shipping, derived from the word relationship, is the belief that two characters, fictional, non-fictional or real people, would be interesting or believable in a romantic or platonic relationship. Do you have a canon ship? ghost ship? crack ship? brotp? OTP? Hear my thoughts on today's popular and not so popular ships.
Bam! Bam! Bitches. I'm high on that Beyonce new shit so nothing can control my hype and phenomena right now. I've also decided to kill two birds with one stone because my couple Today is .. drumroll please .. Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew!
Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew are characters from David Nicholls' novel 'One Day.' Firstly, I would like to say that this book completely ruined me as it was so beautifully written and I get wicked sad whenever I think about it. Emma and Dex have been going to university together since forever and they never actually meet until graduation day. The entire novel landscapes their friendship on one day, July 15th. So basically what I'm saying is this book is clearly meant to give you pain. Everyone knew that they were the couple that belonged together because it was Emma and Dex.
There were an emotional ride. I was so invested in this couple. Dex's mother always knew that Emma was the one for him. When Dex insulted Emma and she told him that they couldn't be friends anymore, my poor shipper heart. Like my pain knew no bounds an I wanted to throw my book and laptop across the room. He got married and had a kid, but there was only one person for him and that's Emma fucking Morley. I just have lots of feels for this couple.
SHE MADE HIM DECENT AND IN RETURN HE MADE HER SO HAPPY.
Mind you, Dex was a total asshole most of the time and Emma made some pretty fucked up choices, but I believe that what they needed was each other and that's why they were so fucked up before they finally got together. BUT of course anything I ship is toxic as fuck and Emma Morley died. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (I laugh to hide my tears) RIP Emma Morley-Mayhew.
So my roommates pointed out that I've only been talking about TV Shows and that I should mention my others ships in books and movies. I thought about it and today I'm talking to you about Clara Gardner and Christian Prescott a fictional couple from Cynthia Hyand's Unearthly trilogy. They were perfection and I am very much bitter because they were not endgame. Matter of fact, I got spoiled when my friend read the last book in the trilogy and I was like "nahh ain't reading that shit" especially since my couple was not endgame. This is my problem with all these YA books and TV shows, they all gotdamn triangles and I never choose the couple that ends up together. LIKE CAN I PLEASE JUST HAVE FUCKING NICE THINGS?
Christian and Clara were the true power couple of this series. They were DESTINED for fucks sake! And usually I'm not one for the whole destiny bullshit, but seriously these two were simply exceptional. As an angel she had to move to the town for her destiny which she thought was to protect Christian, but I her destiny was just to be with him. She ended up falling for Tucker and blah blah blah. No fucks to give. Now, don't get me wrong, Tucker's a nice guy and all but Clara was not for him. He didn't understand the complications of being an angel. She wasn't herself around him and that is a major thing for me when shipping couples. She couldn't even go into fucking 'Glory' because its not a thing for humans and Tucker himself couldn't even handle that. He didn't have a plan for his life. Tucker wanted to stay in the hoe dink town and move his father's lawn or what the fuck ever. Christian and Clara were supremely much better, for one he never asked Clara to be anything but herself and him being an angel helped that as well. Christian was simply the sweetest guy ever and there fucking first kissssss.
I can respect that Clara loved Tucker, but don't come to me and tell me that they were internal and devoted because they aren't. I WILL ALWAYS BE TEAM CHRISTIAN. I WAS ROOTING FOR TEAM CHRISTIAN.
My only saving grace is that eventually there will be a book or something where she shows the destruction of Tucker/Clara and the progression of Christian/Clara because in all honesty Tucker will probably die before Clara because she lives a lot longer than him. Also there was this quote from Cynthia:
“One thing that annoys me about the tropes of YA lit is this idea is your main character is going to stay with one guy (that she meets at age 16, of course) FOREVER. Statistically speaking, this isn’t true of most human beings. It makes even less sense for people who are going to live as young people well past 100. I tried to show this with my books, both with Maggie and Michael, who didn’t start their romantic relationship until Maggie was 99 years old and had already had 2 great loves in her life, and Billy and Walter, who don’t get married until they are post-100, either. Yes, Clara marries Tucker. But that doesn’t mean that they are going to last FOREVER. Clara and Christian will definitely have their time. In their own time.”
In the true spirit of my poor life choices, I present yet another couple from the CW network, Liam Court and Annie Wilson. Now, I have very mixed feelings about this couple and re-watching the series has led me to a few eye openers. Now, I can honestly say that Lannie isn't too bad, but they are not otp material. I don't know they are just different because some days I'm like "Man that's my otp", but then other days I'm like "Man, that's shit." Of course by now you should be able to guess what this couple would have in common with all my other ships. If you guessed love-hate relationship then you are absolutely correct.
Liam Court came into Annie Wilson's life by chance. He was dating Annie's best friend Naomi Clark and they hated each other. Annie and Liam had a few squabbles here and there and ended up kissing behind Naomi's back which got Naomi pissed and in all honesty, I would be too! I mean can Annie keep her Kansas hands off Naomi's boyfriends? (See Seasons 1 and 2 with Ethan) After this whole debacle they kept fighting their feelings for each other in what was basically a tug of war which lasted throughout the majority of season 3, 4 and 5. Annie hates Liam, Liam loves Annie, Annie realizes she loves Liam, Liam finds other girl. Liam realizes he loves Annie? Too late. Annie finds other boy and no I am not exaggerating in the least because this is straight up what happened in the show.
Honestly Annie and Liam have had their intensely cut moments, but I felt like after a time they just dragged on like a really bad soap opera couple where you just want it to stop. I can honestly say that it made sense for them to be endgame because any other couple together would be simply unimaginable. When Annie wrote her tell all book about her life as a prostitute (biggest 90210 flop ever) she wrote her hero as Liam. Liam was always too troubled for my liking, I like my men troubled, but home boy was stupid too. Annie was also too fake goody two shoes for my liking because we all know she was a secret bitch who pretended that Naomi was the worst and that's probably why I'm a little bitter about this show.
His end monologue was everything I ever wanted and more after all this couple has been through, they no doubt deserved a happy ending: View Here
“I read the end of your book. That person that you made me- The guy who rides up on his motorcycle and says exactly how he feels and what he wants, even if it’s complicated - that’s the guy I want to be. And I’m here to say I don’t care how hard it is, it’s what I want because what we have is worth it. Annie, I love you, and I always have. Annie Wilson, will you marry me? It’s romantic as hell and I’m not taking no for an answer this time.”
I know, I haven't written a post since the last of October which equals to me to sucking ass, but let's be honest and reasonable here, I am a university student who has had at least thirty papers to write this semester. It's stressful. Like, I have literally not even gotten the chance to watch most of my television shows because I'm buried in books (THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FINE PRINT TO SIGNING MY LIFE AWAY TO THE MADNESS CALLED UNIVERSITY). I apologize sincerely.
Dan Humphrey and Blair Waldorf not the power couple of the popular hit CW Television Show (seriously I need to stop watch the shit shows that this network produces). Dan is from Brooklyn, never quite fitting in to the greatness that is all the Upper East Side (UES) beauties. I will stand firm in my belief that this one possibly one of the bet couples on Gossip Girl. For one the eventual endgames of the show was just a complete slap in the face which mean zero sense at all. Moral of Gossip Girl? Marry the men who treat you like shit. Before I get sidetracked with all the hate, I'd like to say that Dan and Blair made sense. I believed that the writer's were leading up to this eventual endgame, but as with every CW show that is fan driven, the masses wanted Derena and Chair endgame so bye bye Dair. You know the relationship that was "four seasons in the making". Bet you thought I forgot that huh?
No CW. I did NOT forget. Just keep showing why I am a bitter viewer of all your shit shows.
Dan and Blair were your typical enemies turned friends turned lovers story. Dan despised Blair at the beginning of series and the hate was very much mutual. Eventually they became friends, realizing that they have quite a few things in common which eventually led them to becoming a couple. Now see the thing is that because I don't believe the bullshit that Dan was Gossip Girl, I can honestly say that he never hurt like how Chuck hurt her. I mean ffs the dude traded her for a fucking hotel! (ANTI CHAIR) I think Dan was the overall better choice for Bliar because he treated her like she deserved to be treated. He always had encouraging words for her: view here and he treated her like the true princess that she was.
I could never choose and all time favorite Dair video so I've narrowed it down to these two:
It's kind of funny, but Dair is not an OTP it's just that Chair and Derena are NOTPs. If you dair, come a little closer.
So, it's been a while and I'll give you my sincerest apologies. I promised my friend Allis, that I would write about a ship on The Vampire Diaries (recently renamed to The Doppelganger Diaries), but y'all ain't ready for me to write about bamon (jesus. fuck. fuck. too many feels. can't breathe. otp of otps.) and I'm not really feeling very stelenaish after thursday's episode. So I figured, why not write about one of my biggest notp on the shows and if you guess delena aka dullena then you are 100% correct.
Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert from the only show the CW actually seems to give a shit about (my ever growing bitterness at the way they treat Nikita will never be quenched.) There are so many things wrong with this couple, I don't know how to begin without being consumed with rage. First of all, Damon is Stefan's brother (i.e. Stefan and Elena were dating at the time Damon was introduced.) Now don't get me wrong, I don't disapprove of this union solely because Damon is related to Stefan, no, I disapprove because as a couple they do not fit. They do not work and they will not work. I am not a Damon hater, I quite like Damon a lot when he's not around Elena. I just happen to think they are extremely toxic together.
First of all let me just straight up tell you that what delena lacks is TRUE LOVE. She cares about him, yes, I will never deny that, but the love she feels for him can never, and will never compare to Stefan's. The love she has for him is solely rooted out of the sirebond. Damon around Elena is extremely unlikable, he does shit that you're just like really Damon? really? Also, Damon fell for Elena as his Katherine substitute. I swear one episode he was all "I love Katherine" then the next episode he was all "I love Elena." Secondly, Damon completely disregards Elena has a person and her choices. He doesn't understand who she is or rather who she was (since home-girl has just become completely unrecognizable). Also, I don't even know what they do besides fuck and talk about Stefan. Can I just LOL at the fact that in order for her to fight the compulsion to kill him, she had to think about Stefan? AHAHAHA that is so endgame material right there.
I think I despise Delena a lot because of it's fans and all the fuckery they make up in their mind. Like I understand you being delusional about your ship, but there is a line to this delusion. For example, I know when my ass is being wicked delusional about Bamon (my headacanons are the shit though, you can't fucks with this kind of crazy) and if I have to defend Bamon against someone, I merely state the facts (because my ship is a canon mother fucker that sails itself) and not add my own headcanons to this shit. The shit that delena fans make up just has me sitting there like, "really? really bitch? really?" Buckle up because here comes the bullshit train.
DE fan: "Damon handled her rejection and being with Stefan for so long very well."
Did he? Did he really? Do you want me to refresh your memory of this scene?
Oh and don't even start will the whole, "he knew Jeremy had the ring on" thing because he didn't. He even said so himself, but no, you're right DE fans. Damon handles rejection, oh so well.
DE fan: "Damon respects Elena's choices unlike Stefan."
Remember that time Elena didn't want to become a vampire and Damon force fed her his blood against her choice? No? Wow. Maybe I made that up, but we all know I didn't.
DE fan: "Damon loves her so much. He deserves to finally get the girl."
DE fan: "Stefan is the worse brother ever! He is even an awful vampire and boyfriend. Damon is so much better for Elena."
I honestly can not at some of these DE fans logic. For one, Damon slept with Elena's mom, so we're gonna let that one sink in. Damon's way of fixing things is always compulsion, sex and booze. Also, it is possible to be a fan of Delena and not make up these stupid as fuck reasons to hate Stefan because the fact is Stefan Salvatore is the better brother and the perfect boyfriend. And I promise you I'm not pulling this out of my ass because in the last episode Elena Skankbert (coughs) Gilbert, herself said the Stefan was THE PERFECT BOYFRIEND.
I could go on for days about why this is my anti ship, but eh, I'd rather paint my fingernails and look pretty. So enjoy this little blurb on why Delena sucks and for those who ship delena and you have now seen the light ..
So, two of my suite-mates and I are addicted to this show called The Mindy Project, it's on Fox and premieres after New Girl on Tuesday's at 9:30. My suite-mate and I were talking and I asked her, which couple does she ship (because she has now been converted into my fangirl talk) and her response was "Mindy and Danny all the way!" These two have that friendship relationship where they pretend they hate each other, but deep down inside, you know he cares. To quote said suite-mate, "I love how they work together and how Danny is always looking out for her and he respects her so much. The fact that he couldn't get it up with his ex wife, but was totally able to give Mindy those lustful looks and drop everything to meet her in the hospital (insert her squealing here) .. They're just so perfect. They have to happen HAVE to." [Seriously babe calm down, there's only room for one creepy fangirl in this apartment.] Although, I must agree with Mari because the chemistry there is simply fantastic. I know it'll probably be a slow burn with this couple, but I definitely picture an endgame for them. They just work. He knows her so well and she knows him. Exhibit A:
Danny: Was he a man?
Mindy: What do you mean? Yeah, of course he was a man.
Danny: No, I mean, like, was he a man?
Mindy: Danny, don’t just repeat it and expect me to understand what you’re saying.
Danny: Was this the kinda guy who, if he heard glass breaking in the middle of the night, is he gonna jump out of bed, say, “stay here,” and look through the house naked with a baseball bat, or is he gonna hide under the covers with you? Is this the kinda guy who is gonna get grossed out when you give birth, or is he gonna dry your forehead and tell you you look beautiful while all that disgusting stuff is coming out of you? Is this the kinda guy that’s not afraid to get into a fistfight at a Springsteen show because someone really disrespects him? And he’ll just put it out… And he’ll take ‘em down right there, right now?
Mindy: You’re just talking about yourself.
And they really do care for each other as shown by these two separate scenes so articulately crafted in a gif set found here: Mindy/Danny Caring Parallels
Oh and let's acknowledge the way he looks at her.
Oh and in the season finale when he was fixing her hair and this UST moment happened.
Mindy x Danny are OTP (We need a ship name for them)
Breathe in the endgame. Taste it. See it. Live it. Until next time. See ya! :)
Spoby (Spencer Hastings and Toby Cavanaugh) from ABC Family's hit TV drama, Pretty Little Liars or as I like to call it, 'Pretty Same Shit Every Episode.' I suppose one could say Spoby is my ghost ship because I will only ship it prior to the big reveal that was him being A (Yes it shocked even me!) Lets's talk about the beauty of this ship.
So I have this weird thing in my head where I just HAVE to see people who hate each other start loving each other which was why I originally started to ship Spoby. Spencer pretty much despised Toby and I was okay with that because love and hate are opposite sides of the same coin. I remember when Spencer would speak all kinds of crap about Toby and you just knew the writers were planning something for them because no one hates someone that much without wanting some dick game as well. Slowly they eventually start working together and then we see Toby showing moments where he truly cared for Spencer, cue motel half naked, Toby scene (JFC Teegan can you not with your abs?) and then the big kiss and you knew Spoby was in your heart.
Now you're all wondering, why Nicki? Why would you abandon such a chemistry filled ship? Well, let me tell you why. I don't give a rat's ass about whoever says that Toby being a part of the A team was to save Spencer and her friends because nothing about that made sense to me. How are you going to tell me that it was okay for him to torture and terrorize Spencer as well as her family and friends?
Spencer is my baby and that completely ruined her. I do not approve. My baby went into the fucking psychiatric ward! Nothing will ever get me to ship Spoby sans season three. I can't and I won't. I mean, just look at the video below:
Nope. Nope. No. I'd sooner ship her with pervy Wren than with Toby ever again, I just can't.
Overall, Spoby is one of the better ships on the show because you guys don't even want me to go in on the shipwreck that is Paily (Paige and Emily) I dub thee the anti-christ ship. A piece of my shipper heart will forever belong to Spoby.
