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There's meme/challenge/whatever for writing a short description of your OTP that makes it sound as bad as possible. Now that I've started, I can't stop.

Alcoholic jerk stalks insurrectionist.

Different alcoholic jerk finds peace with someone way too good for him.

White girl with dysphoria checks her privilege to win over brown girl with robot fixation.

AU Ryan Lochte loves budding ornithologist.

Super awkward coalminer’s son is gay for a boy named after a crayon.

Scarred pyromaniac who hallucinates rainbows and one-handed redneck who talks to machines dream of raising an alien child together.

Giant gun nut loves disgraced physician.

Spree killer bros realize that if they had souls, they’d be soulmates.

Clumsy boy falls for girl with dorky earrings.

Girl pulls boy out of ocean, boy tells girl that kissing her wouldn’t be as bad as being trapped in a dark cave forever.

Two minor characters are shown near each other; I ship it like FedEx.

Patient warrior tries to talk partner out of getting herself killed unnecessarily and/or saying horrible things to allies.

Calculatedly obnoxious conman can no longer repress attraction to man who talks to rats.

Ecoterrorist changes stereotypical American dude’s life.

Mechanic with father figure issues picks up nerd with anxiety disorder, drives like a bat out of hell despite screaming from passenger seat.

Old guys who broke up for the first time before I was born are on again until the next plot twist.

Samurai has angst over manic pixie dream boy.

Woman with terrible relationship history convinces blind woman and adopted daughter to join terrorist organization with her.

Give me the name of a character from anything you know I've read/watched, and I'll give you three headcanons about them.

I was in the mood for memes, so I went and found one. The original was a little too TV-oriented for me, so I altered it a little, replacing "favorite TV show" with "favorite manga" and "TV boyfriend/girlfriend" with the two distinct categories of "most admired character" and "most adored character."

Your main fandom of the year?
This is the year I unexpectedly fell down the rabbit hole into Team Fortress 2!

Your favorite film watched this year?
Kung Fu Panda 2

Your favorite book read this year?
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
I know I’m late to the party, but this is the year I started paying attention to Scissor Sisters, and now I can’t stop listening to them.

Your favorite manga/comic/graphic novel of the year?
Claymore

Your favorite LJ community of the year?
[Bad username or unknown identity: ”piper_trickster”] even though I wasn’t as active this last year as I was in the previous year

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Embarrassingly enough, TF2

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
How Irene Adler was treated in A Game of Shadows

Your most admired character of the year?
Master Tigress from KFP

Your most irrationally adored character of the year?
Pyro from TF2

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
The True Meaning of Australian Christmas

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Pre-movie X-Men and pre-X3 X-Men Movieverse—no, it’s not the same anymore.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Hmm . . . maybe Portal? All I know about it, I learned from crossovers

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Legend of Korra!!!!!!!