Outer limits of shipping imagination reached, everybody go home

[unjapanologist]

Home from Tokyo, will get cracking on a bunch of replies now. In the meantime: I looked at the list of pairings on the cover of this dojinshi and felt like a really, really undeveloped fannish person because I only know how to ship mere humans. I should get more practice at looking at the world around me and finding the shipping angle in everything.



(Mukibutsu Anthology 7, multiple authors)

And this is just one book in a series of large thick anthologies about objects getting it on. Anthropomorphic (gijinka) manga have been all the rage for several years now, ever since Hetalia: I don't remember if Hetalia started it or if it was simply the most succesful representative of the trend. I bought a bunch in the beginning - the ones with the antropomorphic trains and the antropomorphic Japanese prefectures and the antropomorphic condiments and the antropomorphic fast food restaurants - because the idea seemed novel and possibly interesting, but most of them were pretty boring comedy stuff with some nudge-nudge-wink-wink hints at shipping. The stories in this dojinshi are not boring. Clearly, all that was necessary to get me extremely interested in shoeshine/shoes was the addition of explicit and, um, fully realized shipping.

Comments

[angrymermaids]

Butter/Garlic OTP.

Or Chocolate/Nuts.

[unjapanologist]

There was a Chocolate/Pretzel dojinshi too.

Boomerang/Space Sword? Jee's arm braces/Zuko's arm braces? *points to icon*

[angrymermaids]

Pipa/Tsungi Horn? Yes please?

[unjapanologist]

I might write that.

Speaking of writing things: is the Mai-and-Ming's-scandalous-pamphlets one working out? :)

[angrymermaids]

DO IT.

It's floundering a little. I just need to pull up the thing and write a sentence or two. Because writing it isn't the hard part--starting is.

Writing funk. Woe is me.

[unjapanologist]

I will, after I finish these other twenty-eleven comments and mails and draft chapters I need to write :P

Maybe stare at screenshots from "The Storm" a bit and imagine just how broad of a chest Jee must have under that uniform to look that massive next to Zuko? I find that activity quite inspiring.

[angrymermaids]

*strokes imaginary beard* That sounds quite inspiring indeed. My goal for this evening is to write something. Hopefully lots of somethings.

[unjapanologist]

*assists*

Start with a description of his chest?