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[Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway?]

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[Ansatsu Kyoshitsu]

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[Boardwalk Empire]

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[Ore Monogatari]

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[Kid Icarus]

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[Eurovision]

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[Elden Henson, Daredevil]

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[His Dark Materials]

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(Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

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[Elfquest]

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[Psych]

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(Marvel's Agents of SHIELD)

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Pairings where the relationship in canon seems clearly parent/child always kind of gross me out. I feel the same way about Skye/Coulson that I do about Buffy/Giles.

I remember being shocked the first time I heard about Buffy/Giles because when I was first watching the show I wasn't really in fandom and the thought of them together wouldn't even occur to me.

I know for some people that's their kink but when a relationship comes off as too familial I just can't ship them (this is also why I can't ship FitzSimmons, no matter how they show portrays them they still come off as brother and sister to me.)

Close friendships don't ping the same ick factor for me that the power dynamics of a mentor/mentee sort of relationship does. To me, friendships can change really easily, so I don't really see them as brother/sister (and in fact, antagonistic relationships seem more sibling like to me since that's how I relate to my sibling).

A perfect comparison since - and I say this as a fan of the show - the original cast is almost entirely re-imagined BTVS characters.

Well, but in somewhat different roles. I mean, maybe Coulson is a bit Giles but he's the one in charge and the main character. I can see May as Buffy a bit, maybe an older more mature Buffy who has been through a lot more and is more damaged as a result. I don't really see Fitz and Simmons as Xander and WIllow, though. Especially given their dynamic and the lack of a dynamic with May. And who is Skye? And Ward isn't Angel at all.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-06-02 03:24 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2015-06-02 04:10 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2015-06-02 13:55 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah, I was never able to ship Giles with any of the scoobies in the show.

Anya, on the other hand....

I don't mind Anya/Giles, though I mostly love her with Xander. But mostly I just don't ship Giles. He reminds me so much of my dad that he was always just the father figure character for me. I wanted him to be my dad, but I couldn't ship him with anyone other than Jenny really, and even then I don't want to read the sex.

The sex clearly was good. Or she would have changed her mind about staying afterwards.

You and me both! Giles and Anya were great together. Xander/Anya worked for me for a while but I couldn't get behind it after his reaction to her sleeping with Spike. You left her at the alter, dude. You don't get a say in who she sleeps with anymore. And it bothered me that Xander and Andrew were the only ones who had a reaction to what happens to Anya in the series finale. I wish we would've seen more of a reaction from Giles. Not even from a shipping POV but just because next to Xander, he was the closest to Anya.

I can ONLY see Coulson as Skye's father figure. Anything else is weird, I agree.

I know nothing about this show, but that is one of the most adorable pictures I've seen in a long time :)

I can understand this. I'm a bit partial to fanfiction of this ship (though it's far from my favorite MCU ship) but it definitely falls into the "will never be canon, nor should it" category.

Honestly, I think shipping in general would be a lot more laid back and fun if less people cared about whether their pairing should be canon. Half the time, even if there's no "serious" reason that a pairing shouldn't be canon, I still don't want it to be because I don't think I'd like how it would be portrayed in canon. [i]And that's okay.[/i]

I agree so much with your second paragraph.

I agree with both your paragraphs. I like fic about those two, but I don't think it'll ever be canon. The show has been pretty clear about the nature of their relationship. And it's still my fave relationship on the show.

I generally ship things that I know will probably never happen and my life seems SO much easier than the people get stressed about it and involved in fandom wars. I guess I like playing around with ideas in my head but am not invested in being "right" it's all just a bit of fun to me.

Agree completely with your second paragraph. Shipping is great fun as long as you don't take it too seriously. And with a lot of shows, the fic is better than the actual canon so I feel like if my ships became canon, I'd just be disappointed at how terrible the show wrote them compared to the fandom.

Don't ship it either, but good god that image is adorable.

I think fans need to get over the idea that their pairing has to become canon. Ever since the xena fandom this has pissed me off.

I LOL'd at "Touch my butt surrogate daughter!" Cute secret! :)

Is that shopped?

Why do canon relationships have to be healthy?

They don't, but I've never actually seen shippers of this acknowledge it as unhealthy. I've always seen them portraying it as romantic or saying things like "Coulson isn't really a father figure for Skye" and generally ignoring all the unhealthiness.

And also, considering the characters and the nature of canon, an unhealthy relationship like this is unlikely to become canon. Whedon totally writes unhealthy relationships. Very few of the relationships on Buffy were all that healthy. But unhealthy doesn't really fit either Coulson or Skye, and unhealthy in this type of way isn't likely to be canon.

Edited 2015-06-02 03:01 (UTC)

(Anonymous) - 2015-06-02 15:29 (UTC) - Expand

Oh man this is so cute!
Hmm, yanno I do ship it, but I would never want it to become canon. But I feel that way about most of me ships haha.

I've watched some of it, but am not into the fandom, but that pic creeps me out!! Even though there's really no reason it's not possible to ship them in a fannish way.