Sure, why not?

[enemyofperfect]

Comment with the name of a ship and I will explain why I ship it/don't ship it.

Except that, being me, it's entirely possible that even if I don't ship it to begin with, I'll have invented a rationale before I reach the end of my comment. So, you know. Do with that information as you will!

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[enemyofperfect]

Finch/Reese: Because their love is canon. I'm a little more careful about how I say this since I saw someone making the argument that it'd be messed up if they weren't fucking, on the grounds that it's somehow messed up to care about someone that much without having sex with them (???), but to me, it's kind of like the heat and pressure of their relationship are sufficient that they've passed the emotional critical point: distinctions that previously made sense have ceased to meaningfully apply. Whether you interpret their relationship as sexual or romantic or queerplatonic involved or what, they're still very clearly in love. OTP.

Shaw/Root: So wrong, and yet so potentially exquisite in its wrongness I'm not sure I care that it isn't right. I'm slightly terrified of where the show might take them, but the fannish possibilities are amazing -- and hey, Finch and Reese started out with nonconsensual bondage and threatened strangulation, so what's a little torture and shooting between friends? They're both so isolated and so damaged, in very different ways: Root can actually smile, and Shaw understands what a conscience is and why someone might have one. Basically, the more I think about them, the more I want to keep thinking about them. I think that works out to "do ship".

[hedda62]

and hey, Finch and Reese started out with nonconsensual bondage and threatened strangulation, so what's a little torture and shooting between friends?

Absolutely. :) And yes, I totally agree: Shaw/Root is fascinating to contemplate, and Finch/Reese just is.

Finch/Reese

[pendrecarc]

I have strong feelings on people declaring their ships are canon, no doubt related to my strong feelings on people assuming any sufficiently intense relationship must be romantic and sexual at its core, but this is an exception. You've hit the nail on the head with the emotional critical point. I'll gladly read fic that portrays the relationship as sexual or romantic or queerplatonic, though I don't think we'll ever get anything but the last in canon, but it is very definitely a Romantic relationship, capital R.

(And hello again! I've found my way back to your journal via comments on friends' posts, which I'm taking as a good sign. :) )

Re: Finch/Reese

[enemyofperfect]

Oh, I'm so glad what I was trying to say came across at all! I have so many feelings about the two of them, but I also have a lot of feelings about placing baseless and artificial restrictions on the kinds of connection human beings are capable of. (Also, selfishly, I want all possible stories about these characters, not just variations on one or two.)

Hello again to you as well! Oh my gosh, I adore your icon. She's really something, isn't she?

Re: Finch/Reese

[pendrecarc]

Also, selfishly, I want all possible stories about these characters, not just variations on one or two.

And that, right there, is why we have fanfic in the first place.

Oh, she is fabulous. I am so happy about S3. It is going to be epic.

Re: Finch/Reese

[enemyofperfect]

I'm actually a little worried about how high my hopes for season three are. I mean, I had no idea where they were going to go from "Firewall", and then it was absolutely amazing, so you might think I could have a little trust -- and I do have a little trust, really! It's just that my hope so far outstrips it... *flails*

oh my gosh I tried to bear it

[enemyofperfect]

But I can't: my compulsive little heart just cannot let my above comment stand any longer.

Whether you interpret their relationship as sexual or romantic or queerplatonic involved or what

That, that is how that line was supposed to go.

Thank you.