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Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

So Reylo shippers really want rapey violent emo boys and Kylux shippers really want white neonazi scumbags then? good to know.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

>>/shitreyloshipperssay/

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

Nah I hate Reylo. I just also hate armchair psych comments about how shipping is what a person subconsciously desires or whatever bullshit.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

*raises hand* I'm a Kylux shipper, and I can tell you from firsthand experience that neo-Nazi scumbags can be great in bed.

But they are not good to date.

I don't really care about xenophobia in the First Order, though, as far as I'm concerned they're perfectly generic bad guys with no particular ideology besides "Rule the galaxy!" and just find stuff to talk shit about the New Republic.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. That sounds like a load of bullshit, sorry.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

It may be that way for you, but as the rest of the comments on here have shown, it's not that way for everyone.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you're wrong about gravitating to fiction or elements of fiction because they're things we like but may miss in our personal life, but I also think it's a bit more complicated than just being about relationships. Hux is my favorite character because he represents my hopes and fears for my professional life, and I 'ship him with Kylo Ren because a) most of the good Hux fics are Kylux and b) it's nice to know that you can have the respect and fear of the galaxy and also a decent sex life with someone who challenges you.

I'd never ever want a Kylux relationship, but I want a Hux career that ends with fewer explosions.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno. The things we go for in fiction can reflect things we want for ourselves... or things that interest us, frighten or horrify us, make us sad... Fiction is all about evoking an emotional response, but that response is usually a lot more complicated than "yeah, I (subconsciously) want me some of that."

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

"at the risk of going full freudian on you" nah man not a risk you fucking did it already
you had good ideas but they were hidden in a load of self-congratulatory bullshit.

Re: What is shipping?

[(Anonymous)]

You're only saying that because you subconsciously want to fuck your mother.