petermorwood:
crankywhitemage:
alluringalliteration:
There are 4 absolute OTPs that the Young Wizards fandom can agree on:
-Dairine/Roshaun
-Tom/Carl
-Diane Duane/Peter Morwood
-Erin/Mycroft
Haha I only really ship one of those, as two are real people and therefore what they do is their own business and one is one I think of as the rare cross-gender friendship. Fandom exile ftw?
#Attn dduane!
Hey hon, are we the real people or the cross-gender friendship? ;-D
(bemused) NOW he asks me. :)
…But we were the cross-gender friendship first. It went like this:
(1) Spring 1985: This guy is hot and is also a writer. Woot! Let us sit around in this pub and I will debug his never-ending rewrite and then we’ll tell each other Russian fairy tales until closing time and he can make airplane noises at me. (Isn’t it funny that we know all the same fairy tales?)
Why is the hot guy making eyes at me when he’s engaged? Oh, never mind. He may be off limits romantically but he’s a ton of fun.
(2) Autumn 1985: This guy is still seriously hot and is ex-RAF** and has a really cool accent and is an even better writer than I thought. Woot woot! Let us sit around this convention and discuss everything under the sun for hours on end. (Isn’t it funny that our libraries have so many duplications?)
Why is the hot guy spending time making eyes at me when his fiancee has just dumped him and half the other women at this convention are now plastering themselves all over him whenever he’s not talking to me? Oh, never mind. He’s on the rebound and he’s plainly enjoying himself.
(3) Summer 1986: This guy is without a doubt the hottest thing I have ever laid eyes on and is a fabulous conversationalist and is emotionally sound and very very funny and extremely smart and seems to like me a whole lot and suddenly I seem to want to spend all my time with him. All of it. I mean all.
Hmm, we seem to have locked ourselves in my suite. When did that happen?
(72 hours later) Oh, never mind. Your continent or mine?…
Meanwhile: (mystified) Who the hell is Erin? (ETA: Oh. Okay.) (Also: reality? We’re fantasy writers ffs. Reality is way overrated.)
*ETA: Another picture here now. I couldn’t find it before.
**They almost gave him nukes. There’s a concept to conjure with.