coldangel
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You aren't all fourthright and shameless like me.
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coldangel
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Originally posted by jle1993:
Well I want Amy/Leela, they need more lesbians on the show. I was actually thinking seriously... for once. A thousand years into the future one would assume that sexuality would have become somewhat amorphous in nature. (Let's face it - it already is). Bisexuality in primary characters (not Fry, as he's from more primative times) would be pretty cool - it works well in Torchwood. Leela could have a fling with a woman. Bender's already (sort of) had a gay fling with Calculon.
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coldangel
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Hermes and Zoidberggggguugh!! Oh... I threw up...
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Frida Waterfall
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You're all sick freaks, that's what you are.
I wouldn't be surprised (actually, I would be a bit) if Leela and Bender had some romantic tension between each other. Leela was Bender's best friend at one point in the series ("The Honking" ).
Leela and Amy? Leela already has Fry (or Bender), and Amy has made a commitment to Kif. The most action we have ever got of the two would be the wrestling scene in "Jurassic Bark".
With Hermes and Zoidberg, that would be a "love/hate" thing going on.
Last, the Cubert and Dwight gay relationship actually seems pretty plausible. Though they're only kids and have made very seldom appearances on the show, they never shown any attraction to the opposite gender. In fact, Dwight screamed out in "Three Hundred Big Boys" that he wished that he had two mommies. He was probably just too terrified, but it sort of helps support this relationship.
I wonder if there are any closeted shippers for the Randy/his boyfriend relationship?
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Frida Waterfall
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« Reply #330 on: 08-08-2007 13:05 »
« Last Edit on: 08-08-2007 13:05 »
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Well, the two might experiment with the possibility... Futurama just doesn't seem like the show to destroy two relationships that they have made out over the past five years and create a wild lesbian relationship. If it was a temporary, one episode deal, that might work out, but I'd doubt it. Of course, it's still fun for the episodes to hint towards a relationship between the two. It kind of reminds me of the nasty robosexual relationship possibility between Fry and Bender. Yes, they may silently hint towards it, but anything further just would not really be like Futurama. By the way, the "sick freaks" thing was supposed to be a joke. As a dedicated Fry/Leela shipper, I find it a bit sick to think of Fry or Leela being with somebody else. However, that doesn't mean that I'm not a sick freak too and look at the possibilities with the oddball relationship between other characters at times.  On this topic, there is a fan fiction on the Leela Zone that is against Fry and Leela's relationship and supports the Fry/Bender relationship. I didn't like it very much- though I do admit that I don't like any fan fictions that much either. But that's just my personal taste. Also, if you search on YouTube, there is a short music video inspired by the Fry/Bender relationship possibility (done to the song "One Fine Day" ). It was actually quite entertaining, but doesn't nearly match up to the quality of Simple Nick's videos. If you haven't watched any of Simple Nick's Futurama videos, go and have a look- he just recently made a Fry/Bender friendship one, too. |
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SonicPanther
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I love Simple Nick's videos...But I shall not go off-topic!
I do support the Fry/Bender ship because I love slash and I few more reasons I forgot. Also they're already like... supersquishybestbuds <3.
Did I just say that?
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Frida Waterfall
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Futurama has had more male pregnancies than female. Bender was pregnant with beer in "The Route of all Evil", Kif was pregnant to Leela in "Kif Gets Knocked up a Notch", and Zapp was pregnant with a bunch of aliens in "DOOP the Right Thing" (issue 4). I think that's a bit much... or not. It's all the funner with the males doing a female's job.
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Frisco17
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I don't think the Leela/Amy thing would ever happen either. With Amy always insulting Leela. In fact Leela kills Amy in both AOIs just for insulting her, unlike everyone else who she killed for discovering she was the one behind the murders. I'm not saying they hate each other as there have been alot of times when they seem to be good friends. I just think that they wouldn't be able to spend too much time together without Leela jamming her into the clock again.
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gaschief
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It could perhaps be plausible in the context of a parallel universe Futurama episode along the lines of the Farnsworth Parabox. in fact the possibility for various 'shipping' themes gay or straight could be accomplished in this context.
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SonicPanther
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Woah, hey there WAVer. If you ship something it doesn't mean you expect it to happen on the show. It's simply liking the idea of the relationship.
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Xanfor
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« Reply #349 on: 08-10-2007 23:33 »
« Last Edit on: 08-11-2007 00:00 »
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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Bisexuality in primary characters (not Fry, as he's from more primative times) would be pretty cool - it works well in Torchwood. Torchwood... Isn't that supposed to be an anagram of 'Ow! Hot Cord!'? No, wait... 'Crowd Hoot'! I refuse to befoul any other combination of letters by acknowledging any other connections. No other connections at all. No, wait, hold on... Maybe one...  That's it. An appropriate metaphor, to say the least. And my feelings on this discussion are over. Call me back when we've eased off sex(uality). Originally posted by Frida Waterfall:
On this topic, there is a fan fiction on the Leela Zone that is against Fry and Leela's relationship and supports the Fry/Bender relationship. I know the one you you mean. Originally posted by Shiny:
But here's something that used to help me when that happened. First, understand intellectually that this story is NOT about Leela and Fry. It's about two other people entirely to which she's just grafted Fry and Leela's appearances and names to. Let's call them Frank and Lola. Now, the story may be a very good one about Frank and Lola, but not the kind of thing I'm interested in. I want Fry and Leela, by which I mean ones that bear an actual resemblance to the people I got to know and love on Futurama. ------------------ My other signature is also from Shakespeare.
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SonicPanther
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Wow. Um, the writing was nice, I'll give it that, but it was simply the most OOC fanfic for anything I've ever read, and the ending was so forced, sudden, and awful...Fanfics like this temporarily soil the characters on the show completely for me.
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coldangel
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I apologise for my part in provoking this course of discussion.
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SpaceCase
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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Hermes and Zoidberggggguugh!! Oh... I threw up... I have similar reactions. Let's face it, the only reason Hermes & Zoidberg are juxtaposed together is that it's funny.
Nauseating, I grant you, but funny. Originally posted by coldangel_1:
I apologise for my part in provoking this course of discussion. You made a comment that others picked up and ran with - It's not like you forced them.
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Frisco17
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More like picked up, lit on fire and thrown over a cliff into a canyon filled with angry ferrets.
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coldangel
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Deca... funniest thing you've ever said...
I may steal it from you.
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Xanfor
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« Reply #359 on: 08-12-2007 16:15 »
« Last Edit on: 08-12-2007 16:15 »
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Originally posted by Frisco17:
More like picked up, lit on fire and thrown over a cliff into a canyon filled with angry ferrets. I feel sorry for the ferrets. Originally posted by jle1993:
Ferret? Draco Malfoy? Ummm bad boy hotness...wait, wrong site. What? You and Draco!  Does your fiancé know? Originally posted by jle1993:
I don't really know to be honest, I like Fry and Leela, because it's cannon and it's got a decent chance of happening, but I think Leela and Amy would be interesting, I like them both in different ways. 1) Canon, you mean. Cannon is what you shoot things out of. 2) Decent chance? Yes, certainly. And Yul Brynner just might be missing a few hairs. 3) Leela and Amy, interesting? You would have to throw far more than canon out the window in order to make that work. Like, say, the dynamics of their enviroment. The dynamics of their relation. Their personalities, to wit. By the time it's all brought together, and assuming they are open to 'bending that way', what you've got left would not be Futurama, and thus, would not be interesting. This thread needs a reboot... Originally posted by Shiny:[/i]
The Xanforsthread Address
Two score and one years ago my mother brought forth on this continent a new fangirl(1), conceived in liberty,(2) who became dedicated (eventually) to the proposition that a remarkable ’Ship(3) was conceived for Futurama, and that this ’Ship is the True Love of Leela and Fry.
Now she is involved in a great fandom, testing whether that ’Ship, or any ’Ship so conceived and so written, can be discussed thoroughly into the ground. We are all met on a great forum known as PEEL. We have come to dedicate a portion of that forum as an especial blathering-place for those who here give their valuable free time(4) that this One True ’Ship might be grokked(5) in its fullness. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, who says it isn’t?!
But, in a larger sense, we can not define -- we can not foresee -- we can not resolve -- this ’Ship. The brave creators, Matt & David and all the others who with them wrote the series, have already envisioned it, far above our poor powers to add or subtract.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what The Futurama Staff did (and shall now do so once more)(!). It is for us the fans, rather, to be dedicated here to exploring the ’Ship which They Who Created have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored writers we take increased devotion to that ’Ship for which they gave a reasonably full measure of effort -- that we here highly resolve that these writers shall not have written in vain -- that this ’Ship, under Groening, shall have a devoted portion of this fandom -- and that a fine animated science fiction action comedy drama containing Fry and Leela,(6) pairing Fry and Leela, and ’Shipping Fry and Leela, shall not go unpraised nor perish from this ’verse.(7)
(1) “a new fangirl...” Yeah, I think I was born fannish...the first song I learned to sing was the Batman theme(8), and my invisible companions were Ruff & Ready(9)
(2)”conceived in liberty ...” ...or at least while taking a few liberties 
(3) “a remarkable ’Ship...” if you’re tuning in late to the glory that is Futurama fandom, ’Ship is short for RelationShip (10)
(4) “valuable free time....” Valuable to SOMEBODY... sometime... somewhere in the world.... it could happen!
(5)”grokked....” “It’s from the books of Robert Heinlein, it’s a word in the language of his Martians, and it means roughly “to understand utterly, with all your being.” See here for more.
(6) “containing Fry and Leela,...” No detraction of any other character is implied by this statement! Of COURSE Bender and the rest of the cast are vital to Futurama as a whole; they’re just not centrally involved to the Fry&Leela ’Ship, and that is what we are discussing here. 
(7)”...from this ’verse.” Short for “universe.” It’s from Firefly
(8) “first song...Batman theme...” If anyone’s interested, I pronounced it: “Loidle loidle loidle loidle Baa-baa!” (Hmmmm....didn’t think so. )
(9) “Ruff and Ready” (on reruns)
(10) “’Ship” in this usage originated in X-files fandom...and I’m not gonna elaborate any farther. Darned if I’ll do a footnote from a footnote from a footnote!
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