Top Ten OTPs
Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week is a Valentine's Day themed freebie: Top
Ten Books That Would Make Great Valentine's Day Reads (or
anti-Valentine's day reads), Top Ten OTPs, Top 10 fictional crushes, top
ten great love declarations in fiction, swoony quotes from books, etc.
I thought and thought about what topic I'd pick for my list, but since I'm not a romantic at all, except when it comes to my ships, I went for the boring but hopefully relevant option. So here are my top ten OTPs, mostly from TV (again). Warning: there is little heterosexuality on this list.
1. Xena & Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
I'm a bi girl from New Zealand who was born in the mid-late 90s. No further explanation necessary. My mum saw some pictures of these two on my phone recently and asked if they were a couple. To paraphrase, I said, "Sit down and let me tell you a thing..."
Yeah... "subtext"...
2. Achilles & Patroclus "Patrochilles"
A love that has lasted millennia. The Iliad is an amazing story, and to anyone who thinks these two were not lovers: their ashes were mixed together! That is not a symbol of friendship!
BTW, if you haven't already, read The Song of Achilles. Now.
3. Agron & Nasir "Nagron" (Spartacus)
I don't know how to talk about these two without having a massive fangirlish ramble so let's leave it at "they're adorable and hot together". *Spoilers* In a show where everyone dies, they survive. Wise decision, Steven DeKnight.
Look at these adorkable cuties.
4. Gaia & Lucretia (Spartacus)
Two beautiful, intelligent, manipulative Roman women. The hair and the costumes alone are shippable. What's brilliant about their relationship (apart from the insanely hot sex scenes *fans self* (it is an R18 show, peoples!)) is that it has a huuuge impact on Lucretia's character development. Because darker versions of characters are always better.
Insanely hot, I tell you.
5. Piper & Alex (Orange Is the New Black)
A relationship that's totally not healthy but I love it all the same. I just want them to be together, is that too much to ask?
Why can't they just be happy and together? At the same time.
6. Leia & Han Solo (Star Wars)
Probably
my first ship, long before I knew what shipping was. I was attracted by
the love-hate relationship, and I still love it every time I watch the
original Star Wars trilogy. By the way, I haven't watched The Force Awakens yet, so please no spoilers!
Is it just me or does Leia look bored?
7. Joel & Maggie (Northern Exposure)
Would
you look at that, another love-hate relationship! Theirs is classic.
They have this tension season after season and it's amazing. Too bad
the last season of the show was terrible.
8. Clara Oswald & Jane Austen (Doctor Who)
This
one is a little bit of a crack ship, but it has canon foundations! In
the ninth series of Doctor Who, Clara has a couple of lines that suggest
a romantic relationship with the writer Jane Austen. Cue the headcanons and fanfiction.
The one line that started it all.
9. Jack & Ianto "Janto" (Torchwood)
Over the past few months I've been moving on from this show, but Janto was a huge part of my life for about 18 months and it would be wrong to leave them off this list. Their relationship is Tragic and has too many parallels with Patrochilles to keep a fangirl sane.
Caption that.
10. Alec & Magnus "Malec" (The Mortal Instruments)
Likewise, these two have similarities with Janto. I wish I'd watched Torchwood when I saw Cassandra Clare at the 2011 Readers and Writers Festival, because then I would've asked her if she based Magnus and Alec's relationship on Jack and Ianto's.
This post ended up way longer than expected. That's what happens when you let me get started on my ships. Moral of the story: don't let me do it.
