curious teal deer about shipping

Because of the Five Things meme that is going around, I've seen lots of people post answers to "five favourite canon ships" and I had a sudden brainwave: miraculously, I have a new system that helps me separate my OTPs with those other things I like to ship. That system is: I assume my OTPs are actually canon. I'm not sure this is a hard-and-fast rule, and it might also make me slightly nuts, because most of my OTPs are not actually canon, but I think it's a cool shorthand.

And because I am a little compulsive and like mapping out my fannish whatevers, here is my ship list, with OTPs and those other things I ship. Please adjust your tinhats before takeoff.

( I have more OTPs than I thought, actually: fifteen under the cut, plus a couple of extra ships. )

So does this identifying-your-OTPs method also work for you? Are any of my 'canon' ships so astonishingly laughably not-canon that you don't know quite what to do with them? What are your OTPs? These questions intrigue me!

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In other news I'm now mainlining Flashpoint; I came to the conclusion pretty quickly that I really need to be around comforting people before I can give Durham County a real go, but then I started having, um, Hugh withdrawal. (Oh my god, didn't I say I knew it was a bad, bad idea to watch Hard Core Logo? I want my fucking life back, Mr. Dillon. And also my ability to refrain from swearing every other word; it hasn't been this bad since that time I RP'd an angry British man who liked to blow shit up. Good times.)

In any case, Flashpoint! I am really easy for shows About The Team anyway, and probably nothing in the 'verse can erase my Enrico Colantoni love after the sheer awesome of Keith Mars, so it's all good. On the other hand, I so actively don't care about Sam that every time he's on screen having manpain I want him to go away yesterday, possibly to make room for Ed's angst instead. And to my massive bewilderment, the fact that Hugh Dillon has no hair is not actually making me find him any less attractive. I don't know quite what to do about this, but on the other hand maybe when Hugh has normal people hair he breaks the laws of physics or something. (And I would link to fic to prove my point, but then I would actually be admitting that I was reading fic about Hugh Dillon's attractiveness breaking the laws of physics.)

And look, I have a new goddamn fandom tag and everything.