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What are your favorite f/f ships?

Hmm… Well, as far as canon f/f goes, I loved both Saving Face and But I’m A Cheerleader enough to request both for Yuletide a few times. Oh! Also 40 Love, which is a super fuckin cute f/f short that I def requested one year.

I really like Elle/Vivian from Legally Blonde (and btw Serious by Toft is a really cute YT fic for that pairing) and it’s like half the reason I rewatch that movie. Two girls fight over a boy, then realize he’s overrated and they want each other instead is a great trope that we should get all the time. I have similar feelings about Jess/Jules in Bend It Like Beckham, which apparently was canon in the original script?? Instead now I have to see them bicker over some guy when they clearly want each other instead. At least they ditched him at the end of the movie to go to college together, lol.

Doris and Mary-Anne Are Breaking Out Of Prison is my jam and I ship Doris/Mary-Anne a lot. I actually considered writing fic for that last yuletide, but I got caught up in my Arsenic and Old Lace fics and didn’t have a lot of time.

I did like Amethyst/Peridot in SU, but I’ll admit I don’t really watch SU anymore. I was kind of mildly into Mabel/Pacifica in Gravity Falls, but I don’t tend to ship children that much so it was only kind of a mild thing.

Heathers the Musical is way gayer than Heathers the movie and I ship basically everyone in this bar!! My two main ships, though, are Veronica/Martha (childhood friends torn apart by schoolyard bullshit, then they learn the value of each other and have a lot of homoerotic moments in the musical!) and Veronica/Heather McNamara (Veronica saved her! They’re best friends by the end of the show!) but I could also be swayed by some dark Veronica/ghost!Heather Chandler. Ayyy.

Speaking of musicals, like all queer women, I ship Elphaba/G(a)linda. I mean, do I even have to explain my reasoning here? lmao

Back in my anime days, I shipped literally every combination of the main four characters in Princess Tutu, so Ahiru/Rue is still a ship of mine. I really love their relationship, the way that Rue sees herself as unlovable and the way that Ahiru is probably the only character who genuinely loves her for who she is. The way that Ahiru is sunny and loyal and wants to save Rue even as Rue hurts her. Like that whole character dynamic is my jam and I was very into that and I’ve now talked myself into being into it again!!

For a more obscure one, there’s this ballet that I studied for one of my classes, Giselle, and I got a chance to actually see it live when my local ballet company put it on. I ship gay all over the place in that one. For the uninitiated, Giselle is a story about a peasant girl named Giselle who fell in love with a man named Albrecht. He really leads her on, but then it turns out that he’s a fuckin dick nobleman playing peasant. He’s actually got a rich noblewoman fiancee – which Giselle finds out the worst way possible after befriending his fiancee. So Giselle is broken-hearted, she can’t even be mad at Bathilde bc she genuinely likes her, and she eventually dies of a broken heart. (Which is a thing in romantic ballet, don’t worry about it.) BUT THEN SHE BECOMES A GHOST!! And she joins these forest spirits called Wilis led by this scary-ass ghost lady named Myrtha, and all the Wilis dance men to death as revenge for all the ways they’d been wronged by men while they were still alive. The Wilis get hold of Albrecht and Giselle pulls a Little Mermaid where she doesn’t want to kill him and instead sacrifices her (after)life to save him. Which is bullshit! But Myrtha’s so upset about it that, so I mean. Yeah, I ship both fluffy Giselle/Bathilde and creepy Giselle/Myrtha and Albrecht can go dance himself to death or whatever.

I also have some where I headcanon as being gay and even maybe having a relationship with a female character, but I don’t care much about the relationship so I’m not sure I’d call it a ship. Like Mahiru in DR2, who I firmly believe had a thing with Hiyoko and Satou, or Mikan/Junko. I don’t really ship those, but I still think they happened, lmao. (I shipped Mikan/Junko more before it was revealed that Junko didn’t manipulate Mikan into loving her, she just brainwashed her.) Oh, but I do actually ship Aoi/Sakura from DR1 and I really ship Touko/Komaru in UDG. Dang.

I could go on longer, but uh. this is already a pretty long post.