Birdwings

So I watched 'Sunday.' It took me a while to figure out my thoughts on it and put them into words. Best summed up in the phrase "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" because this was actually close to being great, except for all the rampant stupidity and something vaguely akin to sadism with Carson being so nice to everybody who refuse to go fishing with him. So, this made me angry but since I like to lead with the positives...

Various old show spoilers and some degree of profanity behind the cut. ( Read more... )

So I made a list of the twelve least popular pairings I've ever taken an interest in, partly to see what patterns emerge from the task, partly to pay homage. Mostly, because it was fun and I've had writer's block (or whatever it is when you flit between several different drafts writing a mere paragraph for each one, unable to settle).

As I assembled these, I checked AO3 and ran the numbers within each individual fandom. Nothing got tossed on grounds of being more popular than I expected. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I tend not to find romance very interesting by itself and enjoy it most when woven into a plot (or at least some heavy character development) - and since there's nothing more fascinating for me than to spin what ifs and play connect the dots with worldbuilding, all of these pairings turned out to be from speculative shows of one kind or another.

Arranged in declining order of fanfics created. The list therefore happens to conclude with my nonexistent OTP from my beloved dead fandom of choice, but aside from that, these are not in any preferential order.

( Cut for old show spoilers, images and general gushiness. )