Pairing Meme

[thisbluespirit]

I've seen this go around, and I finally thought of some descriptions/quotes/moments to use for some ships, so here they are. Your mission is to guess the pairing by the description. (There is probably some proper meme blurb for it, but I'm a bit behind the times.)

I am pretty sure I have at least mentioned them all, I've written fic for some and definitely mentioned the fandom. There's one threesome (so, there's a clue, but it was either that or I'd have to have the 3 component pairings in separately). The pairing in my icon is not included. I don't think I'd describe some of them as OTPs, though. One or two might be a little random...


1. A broken clock keeps better time.
2. She's definitely winning in this relationship.
3. What was it Holmes said to Watson?
4. He's got a thing for her cardigans.
5. There are no people like them.
6. The ranger and the thief.
7. Aliens made them do it.
8. In future, she'll know where to go for mating advice.
9. He's no deb's delight.
10. Their beginning is unimaginable.
11. If he says that again, she'll spit in his eye.
12. She's after his lunch.
13. Imagination is their only limit.
14. He expects her to believe in little green men.
15. He doesn't say these things to just anyone.
16. She's the girl he made fun of in elementary school.
17. They'll never be free of each other.
18. Their whole relationship is the result of an alien experiment.
19. He might be the strangest man she's ever met.
20. He's welcome.
21. She's only the ghost.
22. She'd kiss him if he weren't so ugly.
23. She can explain the pencil.
24. She's contaminated his spores.
25. She may kiss him. (It's an order.)

Comments

[paranoidangel]

I've not seen this meme at all. But I know some of those pairings! And there are others I'm sure I know, I just can't think at the moment of who they are.

2 is Lynda/Spike

4 is Ian/Barbara

11 is Sarah/Harry

23 is definitely Sam/someone else, but I can't think who she was explaining the pencil to now. Perhaps Sam/Kenny?

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, to all of them! :-) And, yes, I should think that you might know a few of the others. (You share so many of my fandoms!)

Of course it was Kenny! :lol:

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

5 - Sapphire/Silver/Steel

[thisbluespirit]

No, I'm afraid not. You do know the pairing in question (and, indeed, ship them yourself), but I was a bit evil with the quote, I don't know why.

:-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Really?! Now I'm puzzled and intrigued. Darn you!

It can't be Magnus/Watson or James/Alesha, or Foyle/Sam because those aren't fandoms you share.

Harry/Ruth?!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, it's Harry/Ruth. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Really? Wow!

[thisbluespirit]

You might able to recognise 19 as well. ;-)

[john_amend_all]

I'd guess:

1: Five/Tegan
10: I think this has to refer to Elements, so some combination of Sapphire/Silver/Steel
21: Nat/Tilly
24: Cliff/Jo

[thisbluespirit]

Well done! 4 out of 4 is excellent. :-)

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd say #9 is definitely some Georgette Heyer couple, but possibly not one I've read? Or possibly Hugo/Anthea. I can't recall.

#3 is S&S(&S), but it took me a minute. LOL! (It might have taken me longer if my geology professor hadn't been making "Sedimentary, my dear Watson" jokes all yesterday's class. *g*)

#14 is Brig/Liz, isn't it? I haven't seen "Spearhead" in way too long.

Also, I keep feeling like I should recognize #6, but I can't quite. Is it a fandom I know at all? *fishing for hints, yes* ;P

I think I will steal this meme. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

No (you're about 150 years too early); no (LOL, that would have been clever had I thought of it!); YES, yay, it is; and I don't think so.
:-)

I'm actually not sure you'd know many of the ones that haven't been guessed above.

Oh, except you are one of only 2 people on my flist who know about 15. (I realised that after I did the meme. Although I have sort of mentioned in a post or two. Heh.)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

10 is Sapphire/Steel/Silver (the first thing I thought of when you said threesomes and a nice description btw), but I see johne was ahead of me there. :D
25 is Helga/Herr Flick.

And 21... Awww, those crazy cross-temporal kids! ;D

[thisbluespirit]

Yes. And most of the descriptions are actual quotes/paraphrases of quotes from the ships in question.

25 is correct, yes! :-)

I couldn't leave them out. Even if they're only out of my head, after all.

[john_amend_all]

Some more tentative (or outright tongue-in-cheek) guesses:
6. Those look like D&D character classes to me. <hits wikipedia> which would be Hank/Sheila. Either that or hammer Neele/Dove until it fits.
7. Could be Brig/Liz as well, given Happy Endings, Hasty Exits.
18. Jamie/Victoria.
22. Ten/Martha, because they played Beauty and the Beast in Storytime.

[thisbluespirit]

6. Yes. I didn't think there was any point in my being obscure in that fandom.

7,18,22 - no, no, no.

Well, on balance 5 out of 8 is still pretty good. ;-)

22 is a very well-known ship with a misleading quote (it's just my favourite thing that character said to the other). And you in particular should be able to get 7, even though it's not a fandom of yours...

[john_amend_all]

Ah, so 7 is Clyde/Rani Dayna/Tarrant?

And I wasn't too concerned with getting the other ones right, just finding something that (plausibly or not) matched.

[thisbluespirit]

It is! Well done. :-)

[pedanther]

I don't know any of the ones that haven't already been got, although there are a few that I suspect I'll recognise when somebody else gets them.

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: I know the feeling. It's much more fun to make them up and watch everyone else guess!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I'll just sit here and guess quietly without embarrassing myself :D

[thisbluespirit]

That's not fair! You're supposed to guess, and amuse me. :lol:

(there's always one...)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Lol. A part of the problem is that half of these look like I should be able to recognise them, and yet I can't figure out what they are! My brain's gone all mush.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I've been having that same problem. I'm really embarrassed now that I didn't get Sarah/Harry, because I *knew* I recognized that quote, but I couldn't place it.

The only one I was semi-sure about was #3 being Sapphire/Silver/Steel, but it turns out that was a wrong guess. At least I was right about that being the threesome. Partial credit?

[thisbluespirit]

Don't worry. I found it really hard to guess when other people did it a while back. I did get a couple, but most... what?

And, you know me, it's not as if I'm not evil and obscure over these sorts of things. ;-)