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AYRT. Which is completely irrelevant to what anyone in this thread was discussing, so I'm going to assume it's a joke.
For me, shipping means finding a character I like, then seeing who they have the most interesting interactions with - for instance, in TFA I took one look at General Hux, a villain with a hot uniform (yes I have a villainous uniform kink) and an incredibly passionate scene, saw how he reacted to immature manchild Kylo Ren, and knew I would be shipping them. However I'm equally happy with fics featuring JUST Hux, because my interest is primarily in Hux, not the Kylux pairing.
For me, shipping is just a way to more fully appreciate a single character. There are occasionally exceptions of course, but those situations tend to lead to rarepair shipping, because my interests are weird.
For me, shipping is just a way to more fully appreciate a single character. There are occasionally exceptions of course, but those situations tend to lead to rarepair shipping, because my interests are weird.
In my experience in other fandoms, Shipping is insisting two or more characters ought to be fucking and anyone who doesn't see the possibility or thinks a different set of characters ought to be fucking is an idiot or worse. This is why I don't ship anyone ever.
Dude, that's a bit like not eating sugar because Hitler did...
Only if Hitler was really obnoxious about it, like eating white sugar being the one true way to Aryanism and anyone eating brown sugar or honey was a moronic fuckface wallowing in their own history of self-hatred. Kind of puts one off.
If you replace "eating sugar" with "not smoking", than that's exactly what happened.
Huh. That is completely different than the way I ship. Cool.
Don't get me wrong, there are ships that I genuinely think have two or more characters that should totally get together because it would be AMAZING and, like, good for them and stuff. However, the vast, vast majority of the time, "ship" for me means "I would love to see these characters interacting in a sex-based situation because that dynamic would be really interesting."
I don't think it would necessarily be a sustainable or healthy relationship, but it would be compelling. You know, like watching an explosion in slow motion. Basically I'm hungry for novel ideas and weird dynamics. I'm interested in the way authors can sell me on the idea of a ship by bringing characters together in a plausible way, while still keeping them in character.
So give me rare-pairs, give me cross-overs, give me crack-pairs treated deadly seriously. Give me all the ships because I want to see how the hell you could pull off character X and character Y (spoiler, it's sex-pollen).
Don't get me wrong, there are ships that I genuinely think have two or more characters that should totally get together because it would be AMAZING and, like, good for them and stuff. However, the vast, vast majority of the time, "ship" for me means "I would love to see these characters interacting in a sex-based situation because that dynamic would be really interesting."
I don't think it would necessarily be a sustainable or healthy relationship, but it would be compelling. You know, like watching an explosion in slow motion. Basically I'm hungry for novel ideas and weird dynamics. I'm interested in the way authors can sell me on the idea of a ship by bringing characters together in a plausible way, while still keeping them in character.
So give me rare-pairs, give me cross-overs, give me crack-pairs treated deadly seriously. Give me all the ships because I want to see how the hell you could pull off character X and character Y (spoiler, it's sex-pollen).
Sex pollen is like a gift from the porn gods.
Except smoking can kill you. Maybe going vegan, or only buying "organic" foods would be more accurate to the levels of "moral superiority" involved.
It was a reference to the trope "Hitler ate sugar," thank you very much. *faux snobby voice*
A good author can sell you anything. I read a Kylux-fic (which I don't ship) a few days ago and I was like "Huh, I am buying this". I still remember a Remus/Snape fic(which I also don't ship) fic from 10+ years ago, which made this relationship totally believable.
For me shipping the intense wish to see characters having romantic feelings for someone else. What kind of definitionis that?
Well, let me explain:
1) The intense wish: I am not the creator and a relationship maid not be possible in/favorable for the story arc, so the pair maid not happen. That's okay.
2) Characters having feelings: one-sided, love triangle, star-crossed lovers, love/hate... their passion is mine.
3) Sometimes I ship a character with... love? Like Zuko from Avatar. I didn't care much if Zuko/Katara or Zuko/Mai or whatever happened, as long the poor boy got some love!
Hmm, writing this made a lot of things clearer for myself.
Well, let me explain:
1) The intense wish: I am not the creator and a relationship maid not be possible in/favorable for the story arc, so the pair maid not happen. That's okay.
2) Characters having feelings: one-sided, love triangle, star-crossed lovers, love/hate... their passion is mine.
3) Sometimes I ship a character with... love? Like Zuko from Avatar. I didn't care much if Zuko/Katara or Zuko/Mai or whatever happened, as long the poor boy got some love!
Hmm, writing this made a lot of things clearer for myself.
Hitler was also a vegetarian, and made a big deal about not eating "fancy" food because the German ppl were starving and he didn't think it was right.
So, not dissimilar to food fads and food-based moral superiority on the left today.
So, not dissimilar to food fads and food-based moral superiority on the left today.
That's a lovely way to put things. "Their passion is mine" is the perfect way to express that--vicariously enjoying the intensity of someone else's love.
Coruscant would be the origination of human in the SW 'verse. If my memory serves me correctly.
Not necessarily. Artoo is the narrator, telling the story to the Whills thousands of years in the future. It could be OUR future, just also someone else's past from the point of view of a much farther future.
Where did this come from? Last I checked, it wasn't movie canon, so it doesn't count.
i really think shipping is less a concious decision, whether we think it or not, and more of a desire-based action. we seek out pairings and dynamics that we crave or find attractive, regardless of whether it's healthy or not or the characters involved. if it's a pairing that is frowned upon, whether due to fandom opinion or unhealthy dynamics, some try to quash the attraction and "choose" not to ship it (ie; ignore the desire to act upon it) though the attraction remains. please don't think i'm implying that you want a relationship like your ship. that's not it. you *do* find a dynamic similar to your ship's to be interesting enough, sexually or otherwise, to fantisize on it a bit.
TL;DR at the risk of going full freudian on you: you unconciously ship what you want but cannot have in a physical or emotional relationship in real life, and therefore toy with the idea in a safe, fictional setting that allows you to play through scenarios without consequences.
TL;DR at the risk of going full freudian on you: you unconciously ship what you want but cannot have in a physical or emotional relationship in real life, and therefore toy with the idea in a safe, fictional setting that allows you to play through scenarios without consequences.
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