Okay, this one is hilarious

[branchandroot]

Meme time! It's been a while.

If fandoms were lovers...

The one who seduced you and screwed you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it.

Nirvana in Fire, no question

The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets.

Katekyou Hitman Reborn

The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized they really were fucking crazy.

Yami no Matsuei

The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to get together with again although you're relieved they don't actually live in town.

CLAMP. Like... just... all of CLAMP.

The Steady.

Prince of Tennis. Ask me about the alt-Nationals arc. (No, actually don't.)

The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never got really serious with.

Kuroshitsuji

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good friends because the friendship is there but the chemistry isn't.

Yuri on Ice.

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems really cool except it's never really gone anywhere.

Voltron

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How did they land all these utterly fabulous people?"

Weiss Kreuz

The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and who you measure all other potential partners against.

Saiunkoku Monogatari

The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better and who you think you might have a crush on.

Akatsuki no Yona

The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they cleaned themselves up a bit.

Bleach

Your hot new flame.

Guardian! (So hot.)

The one who stole your people's hearts.

Naruto. As the result of a frustration fling. *hands*

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

Oh, this one looks like fun! A few of my answers would even be even the same as yours, in regards to YoI and YnM. *g*

[branchandroot]

I laughed when I read it. Because yeah, so many of these were an instant "THAT one".

[dancing_serpent]

For some categories I found it hard to pick only one, though. *g*

[ldybastet]

"The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they cleaned themselves up a bit.

Bleach"

Yeah. I think I'd place that as number two, the old flame. But yes.

[branchandroot]

*laughing* Every now and then I think, "gosh that was fun" and then I look at the final arc and sigh.

[edenfalling]

Weiss Kreuz, oh my god. That show was SO BAD and yet so many people wrote SO MUCH fic for it... much of which was utterly stunning (and often also completely batshit, but given the canon, I mean, what else was anyone expecting???) and I still have no idea how any of that happened.

[branchandroot]

So, so batshit. And yet, such amazing fic. I mean, the broken stories leave the most room, but this was more a case of fandom taking a pinch of canon to sprinkle onto a cool story and throwing the rest over their shoulders.

[mekare]

I'm doing this too! An interesting meme.

What's the problem with CLAMP? I admit I haven't read a lot and that was ages ago, but I'd love to know what went wrong there.

OMG Weiss Kreuz, wasn't that the assassin boys and the flower shop?

[branchandroot]

Thaaaats the one, yep. The canon itself was barely worth the name, but my /goodness/ the fic.

CLAMP! OMG, don't get me started on CLAMP! I actually did statistical analysis on how many adult women they allow to live (almost none, always bereft if so). CLAMP is all about the girl power, but the instant, the INSTANT a girl starts to grow up, she's dead (or bereft; sometimes both, hi Yuuko!). Magic Knight Rayearth is the most visceral example, but the trend is all over their work. Dead mothers /everywhere/. And yet, it's so charming if you manage to ignore that, so sweet along several other axes, admittedly sometimes also fucked up but often in an id-tastic way that I keep wandering back over. *headdesks*