DPP: The Recovery Ships (or shipping, post-pilots)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

In my entire life in fandom, there is no fictional couple that captured my heart as entirely as pilots did, and absolutely none that came even close to the kind of ruin and devastation they inflicted.



Post-Daybreak, I've been reluctant to ship, but earlier this year, after some fellow pilotshippers reported that a certain pair from the Avengers did function as a 'recovery ship' of sorts thanks to some similarities to pilots combined with the lack of epic pilots-scale heartbreak, I got curious.

So what I want to know today is, is recovering from pilots even possible? What has post-pilots shipping been like for you? And are there any fictional couples who make you feel better about it all, for even a little bit (using reasoning along the 'at least someone can be happy' lines) ? 

Or is it all just a load of ship? 

Comments

[im-ridiculous.livejournal.com]

Duuuude... I feel like you're calling me out. ;P

[winegums.livejournal.com]

ahaha, well, between you and Bee, you really did get me thinking about the possibility of recovery ships at all, even if nothing will ever really match pilots, for me :)

(and I blame Bee for making me see Loki/Sif in that light in the first place, only they'll never happen so canon can't break my heart on that score and i can stay in ficland for good).

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

I'm to blame for Loki/Sif too???

What's next? Clint Eastwood's RNC speech? Slap bracelets? Milli Vanilli?

**cue mock outrage**

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Well, one of those things is not like the others (clue: the one with Tom Hiddleston)! And they were a lovely hot summer distraction, I cannot lie about that.

(I really can't get enough of the fic about them. This is the second time in my life I've been brought on board a ship purely by fanon, but it's so so good)

[im-ridiculous.livejournal.com]

*snort*

Althoooooooo... I feel like there's a joke in there somewhere about the insanity of shippers and the insanity of Clint Eastwood's RNC speech and how maybe you could be responsible for it after all.... Oh well. This is why I'm not a standup comedian. ;p

[im-ridiculous.livejournal.com]

Ha! And you do know that nothing's ever going to match pilots for me either, right? Inasmuch as no other ship, or pairing, or, frankly, anything, is ever going to affect me as much as pilots, nor get me to a point where I am ok with what happened to pilots.

There is nothing, no amount of canon, or fic, or AU, or new ship - NOTHING - that is going to get me to a place where I can watch Daybreak (or UBEX for that matter) and go, "Oh, ok. Sure."

Never going to happen.

But given I thought I'd never be able to ship anything ever again post-pilots, that RDM had broken the shipper in me for good.... well, it was nice to find that wasn't the case.

Does Assassins make me ok with what happened to pilots? Pft. Not even close.

I guess Assassins aren't about 'fixing' pilots for me, but about mending my own poor little pilotshipper heart. About giving me something less painful with which to try and claw my way back to being a less angry and distraught fangirl/person. To (because I haven't been melodramatic enough already :s) allow me to process what happened, and move on to the acceptance and healing part of the stages of grieving. Maybe less of a 'recovery ship' after all, more a 'safe haven'? :)

Does that make any sense?

ETA: Oh and seriously? I'm gonna have to hit you up for Downton debriefing once that all kicks off again too... I'm simultaneously ridiculously excited and terrified at what they're going to do to them and I have noone else to talk to about it! :D

[winegums.livejournal.com]

There is nothing, no amount of canon, or fic, or AU, or new ship - NOTHING - that is going to get me to a place where I can watch Daybreak (or UBEX for that matter) and go, "Oh, ok. Sure."

**sigh** I think that's the pilots curse, really - we can't STOP having these feelings about them. But I wouldn't stop, even if there was actually something that could do it.

(and aaaaagh Downton Abbey! I have my fingers crossed on that one, we must discuss come next week!)