I have that sort of opposites thing that I crave in my ships. Jensen/Cougar satisfied it perfectly, but I admit it was nothing drawn from movie canon. Just a delightful idea I saw played out well on the page a few times.

I think there was one where they were kittens that was unutterably perfect.

And yes, what Julie said--Jensen doesn't have an unexpressed whim, and Cougar is short on words, but not on expressiveness. What he has to communicate gets said.

Oh, shit, I did like me some Jensen/Cougar. That was one of the few movie fandoms I read in.

It's a great pairing.

Maybe the draw is that movie!Jensen is so mouthy and movie!Cougar is so laconic?

Yeah, and they're the ones working/hanging together before Aisha comes into the picture, and Cougar can answer questions and give suggestions with a few well-placed "you are such an idiot and this is a bad idea" looks (I just rewatched it on Saturday), plus he's smooth without trying and Jensen's about as unsmooth as it gets and trying too hard.

I'd watched it (for JDM, as soon as it was out on video, because I failed at movie theatres) before reading anything (comics or fic), and found it appealing, and every so often, I get a craving.

I admit I especially like the ones where Clay and Aisha are in the background (but not too far in the background), breaking rooms and having noisy, argumentative sex, because that's totally a BOGO for me in terms of bulletproof pairing dynamics.

Oh, the Losers. I will & have read pretty much all of the fic on AO3. Some great werewolf fic came out of that fandom (like this one [link] There's also a really great series about Cougar/Jensen & Aisha coming in to that mix [link]

The Losers comics are definitely rewarding, if you've a mind.

I have no idea about this fandom, but I am enjoying picturing Aisha Taylor, Jensen Ackles and John Cougar As these people

That is a little bit awesome, and a little bit less hot.

Feather also writes some completely addictive to me Steve/Bucky stuff.

I'm weirdly fond of the one where Jensen sometimes turns into a cat.

I'm weirdly fond of the one where Jensen sometimes turns into a cat.

That's a good one, as is the followup SGA crossover. (For never having watched the show, I've read an awful lot of SGA.)

I have just discovered the degree to which fic writers are not like normal people. I got into "The Thick of It", the very dark and cruel British political comedy starring Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker. (The creator/showrunner moved on to create "Veep", if you know that.)

There are three major pairings with Malcolm (if you discount Rose Tyler and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD HOW DID THAT HAPPEN): Malcolm/Nicola (the politician he shepherds), Malcolm/Jamie (his right-hand man during one season), and Malcolm/Sam (his personal assistant).

Somebody put up a video of all Sam's appearances in the show. All of them. They clock in at 3 minutes and 4 seconds total, and most of them she doesn't have any lines.

Fans: we are crazycakes.

Could be worse. Mycroft and Lestrade, the biggest non-John and Sherlock pairing in BBC Sherlock, didn't even share a scene until S3, and even that was a blink and you'll miss it. I mean, the hell?

Never understood that ship, either, Plei and Sherlock fic is about all I read anymore. It irks the heck out of me when a fic spends as much, or more, time on the Mycroft/Lestrade as it does the Sherlock/John. I feel with the mutual antipathy between Sherlock and Mycroft on the show neither would want to share the spotlight.