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It's now Day Eighteen for the fandom meme, and today's prompt is a great one:

R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

Given I generally only feel fannish about something if I love the characters, and given that a lot of what makes me love characters is how they interact with the other characters around them, I am a huge fan of fictional friendships.

I'm not sure I could decide on an absolute favourite, though. I really love the central friendship of the four girls in Pretty Little Liars (and I love that the series is a celebration of the power of friendships among teenage girls, and that it is their friendship which saves and uplifts them, time and time again). I also love the friendships of Beatrice and Cat in Kate Elliott's Cold Magic trilogy and among the sisters in Elliott's Court of Fives trilogy (Elliott is just so good at writing friendships between girls and women, especially sisters). Sarah Rees Brennan is another author who writes friendship so well — her Demon's Lexicon and Lynburn Legacy series being prime examples.

I also adore all the frienships between the characters in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart series, particularly Sally and Jim, and Sally and Rosa.

Which fictional friendships are your favourites?


S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.

T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

V: Which character do you relate to most?

W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

Date: 2020-04-20 07:51 pm (UTC)
skygiants: Mosca Mye, from the cover of Fly Trap (the fly in the butter)
From: [personal profile] skygiants
There are a lot of friendships in media I really love, but something that stands out for me as pretty unique are the intergenerational partnerships in Frances Hardinge novels -- Mosca and Clent, Violet and Trista and Pen, Makepeace and her host of ghosts. So often intergenerational relationships in fiction tip over pretty easily into being parental, which is also great but has a different vibe -- but Hardinge's never are, they've always got a really interesting tension and balance to them wherein trust really has to be earned before it can be granted.

Date: 2020-04-21 08:38 am (UTC)
trepkos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] trepkos
Tricky - Kirk and Spock?

Date: 2020-04-27 05:02 pm (UTC)
schneefink: River walking among trees, from "Safe" (Default)
From: [personal profile] schneefink
I'm a huge fan of fictional friendships - so I don't know why this question is so hard to answer!
I really love Rowan&Bel's friendship in the Steerswoman books (many fans ship them but I don't), and Mei Changsu&Lin Chen in Nirvana in Fire, and I think I'm forgetting a dozen more.

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