*points to icon* I pretty much ship the Giant Squid and the Whomping Willow with anyone (http://bronze-ribbons.insanejournal.com/108766.html) (including each other). I may have been the only person distraught when the US DH cover was released because the tree looked like it had gotten hit...
(I'm also devoted to Snape/Lupin and Tonks/Ginny, so yeah, I had extra reason to hope there would be more to Tonks/Lupin than emo-morph/wimpy-were. I didn't expect to despise the pairing even more. I used to claim I could write around anything canonical (hell, that's half of the fun where I'm concerned), but it's become such a expositionary headache establishing which parts of canon are "true" for any fic that's not outright AU that it's making writing Prydain non-con (*) look comparatively relaxing.(**))
(* Yes, this is actually on my to-do list. One of my dearest fandom friends has a hankering for Achren/Gwydion.) (** Someone who doesn't know me might say this sounds like a bad case of fic-writer entitlement, so let me emphasize: I didn't expect JKR to cater to any of my ships. In fact, I rather hoped she would throw even more curveballs into the mix -- given that there was so much potential -- and there would have potential in the Tonks-Remus canon!plot as well, if they had been those characters from the get-go. However, even though I will happily spend hours concocting Byzantine variations of fanon, I object to having to twist my brain into Gordian pretzels to make sense of canon.)
(tl;dr, I know. Apparently I'm still far more bitter about this than is healthy. *sigh* *rolls eyes at self*)
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(I'm also devoted to Snape/Lupin and Tonks/Ginny, so yeah, I had extra reason to hope there would be more to Tonks/Lupin than emo-morph/wimpy-were. I didn't expect to despise the pairing even more. I used to claim I could write around anything canonical (hell, that's half of the fun where I'm concerned), but it's become such a expositionary headache establishing which parts of canon are "true" for any fic that's not outright AU that it's making writing Prydain non-con (*) look comparatively relaxing.(**))
(* Yes, this is actually on my to-do list. One of my dearest fandom friends has a hankering for Achren/Gwydion.)
(** Someone who doesn't know me might say this sounds like a bad case of fic-writer entitlement, so let me emphasize: I didn't expect JKR to cater to any of my ships. In fact, I rather hoped she would throw even more curveballs into the mix -- given that there was so much potential -- and there would have potential in the Tonks-Remus canon!plot as well, if they had been those characters from the get-go. However, even though I will happily spend hours concocting Byzantine variations of fanon, I object to having to twist my brain into Gordian pretzels to make sense of canon.)
(tl;dr, I know. Apparently I'm still far more bitter about this than is healthy. *sigh* *rolls eyes at self*)