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

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Strangely, I didn't need to move on (not that there's ever any real moving on from pilots, hehe) to another pairing that has a happier ending in my shipper woes as much as I needed one that's just...at least written well and handled consistently. I am to this day not quite as pissed off about the series finale as most but I still needed to move on to something where the creator(s) seemed to at least care as much as I did? Of course it's also fun to get into ships that you know right off the bat probably won't ever be canon, so you don't have to go through all the bogus of getting your hopes up :/ I'm not resistant to the central/canon ships by any means, at least not on purpose, I just seem naturally drawn to the doomed ones, dammit.

(And LOL, adding my icon to the sea of Avengers shipping going on here - though I don't think I will ever have a Marvel OTP because it's such a massive orgy of shippability IMO.)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I think that's a good place to be, to be honest - I myself don't want to move on from pilots (even assuming that it is possible) but ever since them, I guess I've just been searching for ships that are as intense and all-consuming and multilayered onscreen, and so far, nothing's really come up to scratch. In the meantime, it's nice to distract myself sometimes with what could be, but pilots as a shipping experience are something I never want to forget or really leave behind (and literally the only part of Daybreak I have a problem with, pilots-wise, is the poof).

And oh goodness, there is so much shipping potential with Marvel - but of course I have to go for the one couple that was probably never even intended to be shippy, only because of the actors lol.