Fry/Leela getting together

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This 26th TOTPD did contain some useless images that just slowed the loading time of this page several innocent people.

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How is it possible that #3 only has 33 votes? You all are just to negative...

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Kill him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He even picked a name I hate!
And thats not negative it should have even less votes That Bastard Fry should never get Leela
Goddamn Shippers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Pedro La Loco:
Kill him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He even picked a name I hate!
And thats not negative it should have even less votes That Bastard Fry should never get Leela
Goddamn Shippers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOMEbody forgot to take their blood-pressure medication today... 

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Why must you hate, Pedro? Why can't we just co-exist peacefully?

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Originally posted by HopelessShipper
Why must you hate, Pedro? Why can't we just co-exist peacefully?

Don't pay attention to him.  He hates everybody who implies that Leela might like her best friend who's saved her life at the risk of his own a few times, more than some internet ubernerd who skirts the ragged edge of trollhood on a daily basis.

Just remember: the madder he gets, the better WE must be doing. 

And I    your name.


And while I'm at it, I clicked on page 1 of this thread and noticed something...
 

Originally posted (a looooooong time ago) by BrainSluggo:
...then, of course, he starts talking about Amy--which is a bad move in itself, but it also reminds Leela of Fry's tantrum about needing to end THAT relationship. And who here honestly believes she slept peacefully the rest of the night? Bitter tears, cursing and Häagen-Dazs.

Damn - Brain Sluggo posted this in May, 2002, and I didn't write "The Other Side of Parasites" until three years later.

I didn't read that post before I wrote it, I swear! 

Damn morphic resonance, grumble mutter growl...

Shiny "Happy in her own Uber-nerdness" J. Fangirl

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Originally posted by HopelessShipper:
Why must you hate Pedro? Why can't we just co-exist peacefully?

We could if you took my side Instead of being an asshole(a.k.a. shipper)

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You seem to misinterpret the definition of the term "co-exist."

Welcome to PEEL, HopelessShipper. 

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Or at least the term "peaceful".  Wow, what a surprise... 

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lol   I suppose it is too much to ask that a forum doesn't have trolls.

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@ Hopeless Shipper:

I don't how long you've been a Futurama fan, but if you just found PEEL, the there's a chance that you don't know about Futurama Madhouse: The Leela Zone - www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/  .

FM:TLZ has a very large base of fanfics that are for the most part, excellent.  (The crap at fanfiction.net is not as good, in my opinion).  Some PEEL'er have stories there, such as Kif White (several very involved epics), Layla made her debut there last month, I think Shiny has a few of her earlier fics there and my overall favorite - Background Noise by Dave Vincent.

Some are shippy, some are serious, some are humorous and even one anti-shipper story - Leela's Affair.  (Poor Xanfor is still having nightmares about that one.)

Even PEEL's own uber-mod, Kryten has a few stories there - all enjoyable reading.

FM:TLZ also boasts the largest amount of fanart dedicated to Futurama.  Too bad The Voices had his beautiful art pulled from the site, but there still great stuff from FemJesse, Demeter (aka Sarah), El-Man, Cap'n Skusting, Sofie Fenwick and so many more that I don't have time or space to mention.

Let me know if you find this information useful.

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Thanks for the tip. I found out about FM:TLZ through a Xanfor link to a Shiny fanfic. It's a good website. I read the synopsis for Leela's Affair, it made me sad, no, suicidal. Naturally, the masocist in me will force me to read it.

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Don't Be a dick hs(initials used because I can't stand the name) since you're a shipper I already know you're gay

You All piss me off so damn much,I hate all the shippers,kill them all 

Why are there shippers anyway,What's their Problem??? 

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I ask you what is your problem is with me. I haven't said anything about you or your views. I'd rather try and come to some middle ground seeing as we haven't talked before. So please lets just agree to disagree before we fly the white flag of war.

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Originally posted by HopelessShipper:

Thanks for the tip. I found out about FM:TLZ through a Xanfor link to a Shiny fanfic. It's a good website. I read the synopsis for Leela's Affair, it made me sad, no, suicidal. Naturally, the masocist in me will force me to read it.

Shiny and I've discussed this - the story worked for me because it was different - actually it's one-of-a-kind.  Shiny's problem with it was that it took the personna's involved out of character and she has a valid point.

Almost all shipper stories have Fry maturing somewhat to please Leela - this story had him stay the same, insensitive, selfish person he was before he met Leela.  In real life, how many times have we seen people marry somebody that was not good for them in hopes of changing that person?  That was where Sofie was coming from with that fic, and that's why it worked for me.

Fry and Bender being a robosexual couple made me blow beer through my nose...

Overall, I do like the shippy eps.  One thing that I've noticed in the shippy fics:  Fry has Bender and Amy to confide to; Leela sometimes confides with Amy, but otherwise our favorite Cyclops is standing alone.  I have to wonder if anybody, including her mother, realizes how lonely Leela is?

(Hint!  Hint! to our writers...)

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Originally posted by HopelessShipper:
I ask you what is your problem is with me. I haven't said anything about you or your views. I'd rather try and come to some middle ground seeing as we haven't talked before. So please lets just agree to disagree before we fly the white flag of war.

You're Quoting zapp?
Now I Hate you even More!!!

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Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
 Shiny's problem with it was that it took the personna's involved out of character and she has a valid point...Almost all shipper stories have Fry maturing somewhat to please Leela - this story had him stay the same, insensitive, selfish person he was before he met Leela.

Yeah...my problem is it turned him into a totally different insensitive, selfish person than he has ever been.  Fry can be insensitive and selfish, yes, but he's still a fanboy, not...whatever the hell he was in that story.

 

Overall, I do like the shippy eps.  One thing that I've noticed in the shippy fics:  Fry has Bender and Amy to confide to; Leela sometimes confides with Amy, but otherwise our favorite Cyclops is standing alone.  I have to wonder if anybody, including her mother, realizes how lonely Leela is?

(Hint!  Hint! to our writers...)

OW!  Watch it with that sledgehammer, Ralphster, I gotta get up and go to work tomorrow...

 

 

Originally posted by HopelessShipper
I ask you what is your problem is with me. I haven't said anything about you or your views. I'd rather try and come to some middle ground seeing as we haven't talked before. So please lets just agree to disagree before we fly the white flag of war.

It's a noble thought, and I commend your honest effort, but...there's a saying the natives here in Houston have: never try to teach a pig to sing.  It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Your time is too valuable to waste. Spend it talking with the rational folk here instead. 

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After reading about half of it I can see where it is coming from. I do enjoy the non-shippy fanfic from time to time. It's just that it seems that Fry has had a natural progression through the series to be less self centered (Guess what im going to use a refrence? You guessed right, "The Sting." Although that did have the biker moment. Ouch.)To be honest, super way out there shipper fanfic is of little intrest to me also. I prefer a happy medium, as the show had.

PS. H-Town shoutout to Shiny!

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*also lives in Houston for nine months of the year*

Huh.  Something about the town must attract emotional weirdos.  Nah, just kidding, you're all cool people.  Except Pedro.  Seek professional help, man.

Anyway, regarding fanfics...I've said it repeatedly (mostly in Layla's thread), but when I read Futurama fanfiction, I prefer stuff that sticks as close to the show as possible; that means short, episodic, and funny (see JBERGES, Kryten).  Shipfics are often long, melodramatic, badly characterized, or all three.  That last one especially gets on my nerves.

However, when ship is worked in subtly (as a secondary plot) or well-written* (with less ham-fisted development and more, you know, using the characters from the show), it's a damn good read.

And of course, the ship-oriented episodes are great.  The Sting (though that relates more to FriendShip than Romantic RelationShip in my opinion) remains my favorite episode, up there with The Farnsworth Parabox (see?  there's the "secondary plot" shippy) and Godfellas (what?  I like Bender.)

*this is the one that applies to all of the writers I noticed in this thread.  Except Xanfor, I haven't gotten around to reading his stuff yet.

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am i the only one that feels that they did get together after the last episode? I think that making an episode when you actually see them get together would ruin their relationship becuase it relies on such sublties. So I personally feel that the ending we got is the best thing there is to express their relationship into the future.

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What last episode?  .

They'll need to do something with it.

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They will get together in the last episode, silly. Keep up with Ralph's postings!

Now excuse me while I make link to this in a certain other thread. This is what I miss when I leave for five minues...

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[Originally posted by SvenTheConquer:]
am i the only one that feels that they did get together after the last episode?...So I personally feel that the ending we got is the best thing there is to express their relationship into the future.

Well, it’s lost its status as “last,” (see Nerd-o-rama’s link) but I thank you, Sven, for giving me the opportunity to shamelessly plug yet another of my fics

It’s called “What Might Have Happened Next,” and now I’m especially proud of the title & delighted that it’s shortly to be an Alternate Universe story.

   

[Originally posted by HopelessShipper:]
...It's just that it seems that Fry has had a natural progression through the series to be less self centered (Guess what im going to use a refrence? You guessed right, "The Sting." Although that did have the biker moment. Ouch.)

Eh, remember he’d been hardly sleeping for like two weeks, and personally I think anyone who motorcycles without a helmet (they didn’t actually SAY that, but I assume that’s why the spleen was up for grabs, futuristic medicine being advanced and all) falls into the “evolution in action” category and doesn’t deserve a whole lot more sympathy than Fry expressed.  (A little more, but not much. )

   

[Hopeless Shipper:] PS. H-Town shoutout to Shiny!

[Nerd-o-rama:] *also lives in Houston for nine months of the year*

Really?  I thought most Futurama fans were more sensible than to live in a nearly sub-tropical area that gets more rainfall annually than London.  You do escape for the three worst months, right Nerdmeister?  Don’t tell me you’re gone for the three months that are actually liveable...   

   

[Nerd-o-rama:]Huh.  Something about the town must attract emotional weirdos.  Nah, just kidding, you're all cool people.  Except Pedro.  Seek professional help, man.

Something tells me his parents would have to pay for it and drive him to the appointments.

   

Anyway, regarding fanfics...I've said it repeatedly (mostly in Layla's thread), but when I read Futurama fanfiction, I prefer stuff that sticks as close to the show as possible; that means short, episodic, and funny (see JBERGES, Kryten).  Shipfics are often long, melodramatic, badly characterized, or all three.

Click on that link right up there, HopelessShipper, and be highly amused!

   

And of course, the ship-oriented episodes are great.  The Sting (though that relates more to FriendShip than Romantic RelationShip in my opinion) remains my favorite episode, up there with The Farnsworth Parabox (see?  there's the "secondary plot" shippy) and Godfellas (what?  I like Bender.)

I love Bender, and adore Godfellas…you’re right, it’s a good friend-shippy ep for him and Fry, and a good ep to show that, though Bender talks a good talk about not caring for anyone but himself, he reveals a deeper side every now and then.  And it was touching the way Leela supported Fry (and I personally think she missed Bender a bit more than she said she did).

And yeah, you could read "The Sting" as an intense friendship story rather than romantic...it's just as satisfying either way, to me.

   

However, when ship is worked in subtly (as a secondary plot) or well-written* … it's a damn good read. *this is the one that applies to all of the writers I noticed in this thread.  Except Xanfor, I haven't gotten around to reading his stuff yet.

It’s worth the read.      And thank you, I do try!

Ta-ta till later...

Shiny 

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Really? I thought most Futurama fans were more sensible than to live in a nearly sub-tropical area that gets more rainfall annually than London. You do escape for the three worst months, right Nerdmeister? Don’t tell me you’re gone for the three months that are actually liveable...

Well, since you guys seem to be in permanent typhoon status lately, I'm going to assume the three worst months are summer and say yes.  If I'm wrong...well, we might have different opinions.  I took a vacation to Toronto last month just to get out of the damn heat, which I assume is worse in Houston (I'm currently in Arlington).  Personally, I tend to stay inside except for the couple of weeks of gorgeous weather in the spring.

Anyway, that's enough offtopicness.  But September through May I'm at Rice, so feel free to drop by sometime.

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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama:
What last episode?   .

They'll need to do something with it.

ok so it is no longer the last episode.

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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama: (I'm currently in Arlington).

I guess I am an emotional wierdo cause now I'm crying for you. No, no, no, PEEL doesn't need any Houston v. Metroplex rivalry. Besides I'm going to school at UTD so I'd rather not give anyone a reason to shoot me over that.

 

Originally posted by Shiny:Click on that link right up there, HopelessShipper, and be highly amused!

That is good stuff right there! It had me laughing a number of times. Especially, "Your life is such a mess that it sometimes gets hard to breathe. Maybe you should succumb to the sweet embrace of death." That story also rases the interesting point of fanon vs. canon Leela. Even the better shipp fics will use Leela as less something. It annoys me that I can't quite put this thought into words. The other important thing to remember is that alot of fanfics are written to fulfill something for the writer. As such it makes me feel bad to just go around saying that if you can't nail the characters than you have no use writing fanfic. After all... "Leela's a complex character! She doesn't have to make sense!" Sorry I'm so off topic.

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I'll tell you what: we'll give Houston baseball if they give the Metroplex Basketball.  We'll call football a draw, as long as DFW gets historical credit.

Now let's go beat up some San Antonians!

EDIT: And thank you for referring to it as "the Metroplex" and not "Dallas".  Urgh, those famous jerks annoy me.

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As far as sports go, yall can have whatever you want as long as i get my sweet, sweet basketball. On that subject im all for beating it out of San Antonio. What did Cuban call the river walk? Well whatever it was I agree.

EDIT: I have too much family in Fort Worth to get away with calling it Dallas.

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@HopelesslyShipperoo: My favorite part was this: 

Sometimes he [Fry] suffers from the sort of deep depression that can only be fully comprehended by teenagers with raccoon eyeliner and Winamp playlists that're two-thirds Dashboard Confessional. You should take this route if you want your fic deemed "meaningful".

Hilarious. 

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@Ralph   I just finished reading the three parts of "Demons From the Past" on FM:TLZ. I realy enjoyed it. Fry improving himself has been done, but...
1) The way you do it is more logical and likely. (It didn't happen overnight.)
2) Fry learned responsibility. I like that.
3) Bonus points for using Olde Fortran.
Being the noob I have to ask, are there more parts elsewhere, future parts, or is that the end?

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My hard drive got scragged last year - but ask Spaccase.  Spacey was my beta and like a packrat, keeps everything.  Yes, there are a total of 6 chapters and I am not much of a writer.  I shall henseforth leave such endevours to the pros like Venus, Shiny, JBERGES, Xanfor, Layla and DaveMac.

But thanks for the compliment...

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I shall henseforth leave such endevours to the pros like Venus, Shiny, JBERGES, Xanfor, Layla and DaveMac.

And thank you, Ralph, for including me on your list of pro writers. 

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It would only make sense for Fry and Leela to get together. They've been through so much together. They have gotten close to hooking up multiple times and the next time should follow through.

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Sorry to double post.

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The double post was my fault, SlumDrinker1 is my sister. I forgot to check what the name was on the QuickPost (Not to mention I didn't know she joined...)

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I'd like to see a story arc of them trying to start a relationship and not working and them trying to go back to being friends

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You mean being friends after they break up?

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(Xanfor backs quietly out of thread. Then slowly reenters with large cast iron fry pan)

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Sic him Ani!

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Leela and Fry should get together. Permanently. They complement each other. Once they learn from one another enough, all their deficiencies and insecurities will be lessened. Fry will learn to be a little more confident and a little less impulsive. Leela will learn to take everything a little less seriously and to be a little less rude (insecure). It should take some time, and they should grow as people while they grow as friends. Once they've gotten over their individual hang-ups it is likely they'll be happy for a long time to come.

It should happen in the last episode.