I have a strong desire to see Ward shot from a cannon on the occasions when I tune into the show, so I only ship him with, like, cannons or man-eating sharks

Hahahaha. This is where I am. Well, OK, I am kinda enjoying dead-eyed sociopath Ward in S2 in a love-to-hate-him kinda way. My top two moments in the entire AoS so far were 1) when May literally nailed his foot to the ground and throat-punched him to silence and 2) when Skye didn't even blink when she shot the hell out of him ("SHOOT HIM IN THE FUCKING HEAD!" I yelled.) But pairing him romantically with Skye, especially given his EXTREMELY creepy obsession with her? So much flesh-crawling, gah!

The one my Flist isn't actually delusional enough to think Ward is a misunderstood woobie, but she's still talking nonstop about how hot he is and how much feels she has about Skye/Ward and their beautifully messed-up epic love and how she's convinced that these two would be endgame (BTW, if I never hear the word "endgame" for the rest of my fannish life, it will be too soon) and I just cannot handle that much flinching, yo. I mean, I know people ship what they ship for myriad different reasons, but oy vey.

I am totally neutral on most MCU ships (except I cannot handle anything that breaks up Tony/Pepper) but I am tentatively intrigued by the hints of Natasha/Bruce they keep teasing in Age of Ultron trailers. Natasha and Bruce were my favourite characters in the first Avengers movie in a way that had nothing to do with shipping, but depending on how they handle it, they can win me over to that camp (although being me, I'd prefer everything to remain subtextual.)

There is no beautiful epic messed up love with Skye and Ward. There's just Ward being a creepy stalker dude.

When Spike says he's going to find Dru and torture her until she loves him, that's one thing Spike and Dru are vampires. That's all kinds of messed up shit but it's acceptable because they are both soulless vampires.

Ward didn't say he was going to torture Skye until she loved him but I'm pretty sure he would! And it's creepy and horrible because he's human and not a vampire.

I was on board with Skye/Ward, in a don't-actually-care-a-lot sort of way, right up to the moment he threatened to rape her. At that moment, I strapped on a mae west and jumped ship.

My Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. OTP is Ward with May's heels, fists, or blunt objects held therein.

Thanks to Sebastian Stan's performance in Captain America the only guy I can ship Steve with is Bucky (seriously, I got the feeling he'd have been happier ditching their dates and letting Steve give him his send off the night before he shipped out), and it's a credit to Peggy that I don't cross her off the list.

RDJ has irritated me enough that I don't want his characters slashed with anyone. No cock for you!

I'm pretty grand on most things in the MCU. It's kind of an open door for me. But I like best Steve/Bucky(+Peggy as feasible), Tony/Pepper/Bruce in any functional combination, and Darcy/convince me.

I do get the Steve/Tony from 616, 'cause the gay is strong with that one, but while I enjoyed it in the context of pre-Winter Soldier MCU I got stuck like a broken record on Steve/Bucky. The only thing that broke the spell from April was falling back into Middle-Earth, where I am now mired in these six-figure-word count stories that range from the epic to extensive descriptions of tea service.

Sigh, Ward. What a miserable use of the character.

Steve/Tony/Pepper makes me very happy.

I keep finding myself reading fic where I have only sketchy knowledge of the source materials. I'll see gif sets or fan art on tumblr and then get intrigued. For example The Losers, I did watch part of it, got annoyed, stopped watching. But then ended up reading every good or decent story on AO3 (and some bad ones) before I watched the movie again.

Or Psych. I've watched some of it. And I like a certain characterization of Shawn/Lassiter but I don't know the show well enough to know if it's accurate. All I end up doing is comparing the characterizations based on the various stories.

I read tons of Sherlock before I watched the show (probably why I'm not bothered by Mycroft/Lestrade). And then there are times when I think, surely someone has written a bunch of stuff for {insert source here} and there's 2 stories on AO3. Maybe I could find more if I could stick ff.net out, but I always wind up with the annoying bad fic, not the fun bad fic.

My personal rant is the fucking Modern AU. The fandom I'm most likely to read at the moment is Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire (the sourece books), and Every Fucking Author writes Modern AU. And I just don't get it. The universe is the whole damn point of the thing. The characters are so profoundly of their world that they cease to be themselves in significant ways if you move them to a modern setting.

That is my rant.

Unless Jules or Gus are involved, 99% of Shawn/Lassie is gonna be OOC like whoa.

Shawn and Gus, on the other hand, are basically the most married.

Those drive me crazy, Debet.