Shipper Cage Match - Round Four

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Rules/Directions

1. Only one pairing per question will advance to the next round, so vote for your FAVORITE pairing in each poll.

2. NO WHINING. NO BASHING. NO BADMOUTHING. This is a space for positive love only. If you have a problem with adhering to that, I won't hesitate for a micro-second to ban you. This comm is an awesome, friendly comm, and if this thing gets wanky, I'll just shut it down. Please, please pretty please don't make me do that. You want Pairing X to win over Pairing Y? Then spam the comments section with love for Pairing X. Don't bash/badmouth Pairing Y. Don't start ripping on a character, or fellow LJ users. (If you see problematic comments, please inform a mod (peanutbutterer, hariboo_smirks or myself) by PM immediately.)

3. There will be six rounds. The first round will have a 128 ships in 32 questions (4 ships per question). Only the top choice in each question will proceed to the next round. (Mods picked the top 128 ships by rummaging through our tags and picking only those ships that had five or more usages.) Then, there will be 2 ships per question in the following rounds, and each round will successively eliminate half the pairings. So it'll be 128 ships -> 32 ships -> 16 ships -> 8 ships -> 4 ships -> 2 ships -> WINNER. The dates of each round will be held on: 10/1 Round 1, 10/6 Round 2, 10/11 Round 3, 10/15 Round 4, 10/20 Round 5, 10/25 Round 6. Winner declared on the last day of the month.

4. HAVE FUN. Start up threads below. Title your subject lines with the pairing/topic. Make banners! Pic spams! Gifs! Quotes! Meta essays on why your OTP rocks! POSITIVE LOVE ONLY.

PIMP THIS OUT TO YOUR FRIENDS!

( Fourth round! )

Challenge 100

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Challenge 100: Keep on keepin' on. Memes and cage matches and het reccing, OH, MY!

Day 15: The Planets by Quagga (Teen)

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Day 15 - A fic that convinced you of a pairing you previously hated.

Fandom Category: Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)
Pairing: Winry Rockbell/Roy Mustang
Fic Title: The Planets
Author: Quagga
Link: The Planets
Rating/Warning(s): Teen. Violence. Mentioned character death. AU (doesn't consider the movie).
Genre: Angst/Romance/Futurefic
WIP?: No. Completed MC.

Why This Must Be Read: During a time of war, Winry gets a strange, desperate visitor in the night.

Ok, so before I read this story, the idea of Roy being paired with anyone but Riza was something I did not want and blocked out of my mind, and I'm a multishipper by nature too. But this story. There's so much intensity, character exploration, and even a strong plot, for all that it's primarily a drama. This story peels back everything you assume about Roy and Winry and it is both painful and astonishing.

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Day Fifteen: Combine and Complement by hardly_loquacious (G)

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Day 15 - A fic that convinced you of a pairing you previously hated.

Fandom Category: Mentalist
Pairing: Teresa Lisbon/Patrick Jane
Fic Title: Combine and Complement
Author: hardly_loquacious/h_loquacious
Link: Here
Rating/Warning(s): G
Genre: Romance, friendship
WIP?: No

Why This Must Be Read: First, I have to say that I didn't hate Jane/Lisbon, I just didn't see it. Then, this fic was written for the 2012 het_bigbang, and I have to say that I read it because there were so few fics for my pairings, I needed something else to read. And I picked this one because it's a show and characters that I love. This fic is beautifully written, they're all in-character, and really, it's just like watching the show. This is how they would act in the show. I have to say that yes, this fic helped me ship these two, so, if like me, you're unconvinced about Jane/Lisbon, give this fic a try!