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yukie1013Thank the lord no one on my flist does this. But - oh christ, bear with me, I have to yowl.
Okay, fandom denizens of idiotville?
Your choice of pairing does not make you morally or intellectually superior to someone who ships differently.
I know this is difficult for many people to grasp, as they're quite hellbent on scrambling for any 'high ground' they can get their smudgy little fingers on, but honestly - shut up, children.
If you do not ship a 'majority pairing' or if your OTP is less popular, you are not persecuted. No, you're not. Hassled on occasion by evangelistic shippers, probably (and the fact that you're so incredibly blind to your own rampant evangelism most of the time is quite laughable). Flamed, likely. But not persecuted, and comparing your so-called 'plight' to the genuine difficulties faced by people who are actually discriminated against is utterly pathetic, and a sure earmark of a privileged, sheltered, spoilt child who wouldn't know true persecution if it sat upon you.
Shipping a less popular pairing (or 'uglier characters' or etc.) does not make you morally or intellectually superior. There are no secret coded messages from the PTB. Someone who likes a popular ship is not 'a sheeple' (mind your plurals, if you please, you're embarrassing yourselves further).
Also, when neither ship has canonical confirmation, neither of you are right. The 'DESTINED LOVE FOREVER' fen who honestly believe that their unconfirmed ships are totally endorsed by the PTB and supported universally in canon are, to borrow a bon mot, delusional. And so, dear 'oppressed minority', are you!
If one pairing is nothing but foeyay, pure and simple, and the other is based solely on speculation or a brief exchange in an extended canon, neither ship is more valid than the other. Though I'm curious as to where the people who don't know what foeyay or rival-shipping or what-have-you came from. Were you under a rock when people began to ship Mulder and Krycek? Were you under a rock when people shipped Malachite (Kunzite) and brainwashed Mamoru-Endymion-wossname? I can name any number of ships to this effect. The vast majority of foeyay is about the rivalry and sublimating two rivals'/enemies' desires to mangle each other into extremely rowdy sex. it's not love. It's lust, and sarcasm rallies. the TWOO WUV crew are another matter. Nonstop eeeeeee and attempts to coax someone into shipping your ship is annoying, so quit.
it's not twoo wuv, it's either 'they don't like each other' or 'they don't like each other but still want to plow one another into the mattress'. Liking someone and wanting to do them don't always go hand in hand. There is such a thing as stupid, stupid lust and if your characters aren't the sort who adhere to usual moral boundaries and expectations, then they may be more likely to just plow one another and insult each others' moms all the while or something. Or they may not be, but for purposes of porn, we decide that they may be.
Likewise, there is nothing wrong with speculative fic. Contemplating what a couple of characters would or wouldn't do if they were to chat over coffee is fun. Whether they're similar character types or complementary, whether they're in the same social spheres or not, whether they're on equal footing or senpai/kouhai or oldbie and newbie - it's fun. I've seen EXTREMELY well-done speculative fiction in many fandoms. I've seen really, really GOOD what-ifs. Hell, one of my ships (not an OTP, I don't really have those) is like this. Braig and Dilan, or their other sides. I fully admit some of it's aesthetic. They're both attractive in an 'unusual' way (this is why 'i am better because I ship not attractive' is bunkum - standards of hotness are relative), and the interplay of personalities is fun to bounce around. You may well think I'm insane, and that's your prerogative. But your thinking I'm insane isn't going to stop me from writing fic. And quite frankly, if you passive-aggressively message me a billion times with irritating little hints about how stupid my ship is, I'm going to block you for being insufferable. Because what you're doing, really, is trying to get me to adhere to what you think i should and shouldn't write through cowardly little guilt-trips and shaming. I'm sorry, Felecia, but no. The same goes for ranting over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again about how depraved/stupid/secretly-abusive/morally-bankrupt/nasty-bad-mean anyone who ships your 'rival' pairing is. Especially if someone on your FL ships it, and you know they do, and you know they read the comm. Query - WHAT moral high ground, again, you pitiful child? You can't even muster the brainpower to CLICK BACK OR SCROLL DOWN PAST a TAGGED FIC. You can't even manage the maturity or courage required to address something your friend is doing that you don't like. If they keep linking you fic and you don't ship it, just say the pairing doesn't interest you! What 'wank' are you preventing!?
I feel the same way abut the sort of craven who isn't brave enough to speak frankly and tactfully about something someone in their RP is doing that bothers them...but have no difficulty crying an crying and crying to anonymemes about how m34nz0rz their partner is for...not reading their minds, essentially. Entitlement brats irritate me, and they come in all ages. My age, younger, older - it doesn't matter. The Harry Potter blowups proved that it's not limited to age group or gender or anything typically given as a guideline for 'inevitable wankery'; it's not only women, or only younger or older people.
Everybody wanks! (I smell a filk coming on!)
But I suspect respectful address of issues is far too much to expect of the likes of idiots who really think they are oppressed over their choice of pairings.
Christ-cakes, if rarity of fic meant oppression i;d have more claim to it that you do, o shrill ones. I can't find a hell of a lot of good Hakkai-Yisou, or Ukoku-Koumyou, or 1!Ansem-Sephiroth, and so on. Therefore, I'm more oppressed than you, by your logic. Kneel before your queen.
I don't begrudge or debate anyone's right to ship what they want, when they want, but I strongly dislike the sort of immature netizen who compares shipping something less popular to being barred from a job because of their sexual orientation or ethnicity or level of ability it is NOT the same, you indescribably stupid children! It is not the same.
Let me make it sparkly, so the more empty-headed of you can grok it -
IT IS NOT THE SAME
Get over here so I can beat you into a pulp with this clue-bat!
Neither the foeyay nor the speculative pairing has any canonical confirmation, therefore NEITHER is more valid than the other and you shrill, empty-headed, cowardly, passive-aggressive 'oppressed minority' kiddies are making the rest of us 'crackshippers' and speculative-shippers look BAD.
And the same goes for people who whine about how cracky slash/femmeslash is killing fandom while shipping their OC author-avatar with like - Solid Snake, and vice versa, and the whiners about non-canon het versus ambiguous pairings that could go either way and other things and the stuff and junk and the thing and NOBODY CARES Djkhdfgjkhdfgjldfgjlkdfsh shut up shut up shut uppppp.
You wanna fic, FIC. You wanna write your brand of porn? Dude, WRITE. No one's stpping you, and the world needs more smut variety! But it's not gonna write itself while you sob and WHEN I WAS at people who really don't care or who, like me, really don't have patience with sympathy-scramblers. Sit down, shut up, and write your goddamn porn.
Oh, and if anyone whimpers that I was less fair to their side, cry moaoaaaoaooar. I dislike any kind of evangelistic hypocrite, majority or minority, and evangelizing further to me about how I'm oppressing you too is going to get mockery, not guilt. I feel no guilt for defenestrating you or your ilk. Cry to someone who gives a damn and/or who has enough patience not to boot you for being goddamn pity-fishingly annoying.
Okay, fandom denizens of idiotville?
Your choice of pairing does not make you morally or intellectually superior to someone who ships differently.
I know this is difficult for many people to grasp, as they're quite hellbent on scrambling for any 'high ground' they can get their smudgy little fingers on, but honestly - shut up, children.
If you do not ship a 'majority pairing' or if your OTP is less popular, you are not persecuted. No, you're not. Hassled on occasion by evangelistic shippers, probably (and the fact that you're so incredibly blind to your own rampant evangelism most of the time is quite laughable). Flamed, likely. But not persecuted, and comparing your so-called 'plight' to the genuine difficulties faced by people who are actually discriminated against is utterly pathetic, and a sure earmark of a privileged, sheltered, spoilt child who wouldn't know true persecution if it sat upon you.
Shipping a less popular pairing (or 'uglier characters' or etc.) does not make you morally or intellectually superior. There are no secret coded messages from the PTB. Someone who likes a popular ship is not 'a sheeple' (mind your plurals, if you please, you're embarrassing yourselves further).
Also, when neither ship has canonical confirmation, neither of you are right. The 'DESTINED LOVE FOREVER' fen who honestly believe that their unconfirmed ships are totally endorsed by the PTB and supported universally in canon are, to borrow a bon mot, delusional. And so, dear 'oppressed minority', are you!
If one pairing is nothing but foeyay, pure and simple, and the other is based solely on speculation or a brief exchange in an extended canon, neither ship is more valid than the other. Though I'm curious as to where the people who don't know what foeyay or rival-shipping or what-have-you came from. Were you under a rock when people began to ship Mulder and Krycek? Were you under a rock when people shipped Malachite (Kunzite) and brainwashed Mamoru-Endymion-wossname? I can name any number of ships to this effect. The vast majority of foeyay is about the rivalry and sublimating two rivals'/enemies' desires to mangle each other into extremely rowdy sex. it's not love. It's lust, and sarcasm rallies. the TWOO WUV crew are another matter. Nonstop eeeeeee and attempts to coax someone into shipping your ship is annoying, so quit.
it's not twoo wuv, it's either 'they don't like each other' or 'they don't like each other but still want to plow one another into the mattress'. Liking someone and wanting to do them don't always go hand in hand. There is such a thing as stupid, stupid lust and if your characters aren't the sort who adhere to usual moral boundaries and expectations, then they may be more likely to just plow one another and insult each others' moms all the while or something. Or they may not be, but for purposes of porn, we decide that they may be.
Likewise, there is nothing wrong with speculative fic. Contemplating what a couple of characters would or wouldn't do if they were to chat over coffee is fun. Whether they're similar character types or complementary, whether they're in the same social spheres or not, whether they're on equal footing or senpai/kouhai or oldbie and newbie - it's fun. I've seen EXTREMELY well-done speculative fiction in many fandoms. I've seen really, really GOOD what-ifs. Hell, one of my ships (not an OTP, I don't really have those) is like this. Braig and Dilan, or their other sides. I fully admit some of it's aesthetic. They're both attractive in an 'unusual' way (this is why 'i am better because I ship not attractive' is bunkum - standards of hotness are relative), and the interplay of personalities is fun to bounce around. You may well think I'm insane, and that's your prerogative. But your thinking I'm insane isn't going to stop me from writing fic. And quite frankly, if you passive-aggressively message me a billion times with irritating little hints about how stupid my ship is, I'm going to block you for being insufferable. Because what you're doing, really, is trying to get me to adhere to what you think i should and shouldn't write through cowardly little guilt-trips and shaming. I'm sorry, Felecia, but no. The same goes for ranting over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again about how depraved/stupid/secretly-abusive/morally-bankrupt/nasty-bad-mean anyone who ships your 'rival' pairing is. Especially if someone on your FL ships it, and you know they do, and you know they read the comm. Query - WHAT moral high ground, again, you pitiful child? You can't even muster the brainpower to CLICK BACK OR SCROLL DOWN PAST a TAGGED FIC. You can't even manage the maturity or courage required to address something your friend is doing that you don't like. If they keep linking you fic and you don't ship it, just say the pairing doesn't interest you! What 'wank' are you preventing!?
I feel the same way abut the sort of craven who isn't brave enough to speak frankly and tactfully about something someone in their RP is doing that bothers them...but have no difficulty crying an crying and crying to anonymemes about how m34nz0rz their partner is for...not reading their minds, essentially. Entitlement brats irritate me, and they come in all ages. My age, younger, older - it doesn't matter. The Harry Potter blowups proved that it's not limited to age group or gender or anything typically given as a guideline for 'inevitable wankery'; it's not only women, or only younger or older people.
Everybody wanks! (I smell a filk coming on!)
But I suspect respectful address of issues is far too much to expect of the likes of idiots who really think they are oppressed over their choice of pairings.
Christ-cakes, if rarity of fic meant oppression i;d have more claim to it that you do, o shrill ones. I can't find a hell of a lot of good Hakkai-Yisou, or Ukoku-Koumyou, or 1!Ansem-Sephiroth, and so on. Therefore, I'm more oppressed than you, by your logic. Kneel before your queen.
I don't begrudge or debate anyone's right to ship what they want, when they want, but I strongly dislike the sort of immature netizen who compares shipping something less popular to being barred from a job because of their sexual orientation or ethnicity or level of ability it is NOT the same, you indescribably stupid children! It is not the same.
Let me make it sparkly, so the more empty-headed of you can grok it -
IT IS NOT THE SAME
Get over here so I can beat you into a pulp with this clue-bat!
Neither the foeyay nor the speculative pairing has any canonical confirmation, therefore NEITHER is more valid than the other and you shrill, empty-headed, cowardly, passive-aggressive 'oppressed minority' kiddies are making the rest of us 'crackshippers' and speculative-shippers look BAD.
And the same goes for people who whine about how cracky slash/femmeslash is killing fandom while shipping their OC author-avatar with like - Solid Snake, and vice versa, and the whiners about non-canon het versus ambiguous pairings that could go either way and other things and the stuff and junk and the thing and NOBODY CARES Djkhdfgjkhdfgjldfgjlkdfsh shut up shut up shut uppppp.
You wanna fic, FIC. You wanna write your brand of porn? Dude, WRITE. No one's stpping you, and the world needs more smut variety! But it's not gonna write itself while you sob and WHEN I WAS at people who really don't care or who, like me, really don't have patience with sympathy-scramblers. Sit down, shut up, and write your goddamn porn.
Oh, and if anyone whimpers that I was less fair to their side, cry moaoaaaoaooar. I dislike any kind of evangelistic hypocrite, majority or minority, and evangelizing further to me about how I'm oppressing you too is going to get mockery, not guilt. I feel no guilt for defenestrating you or your ilk. Cry to someone who gives a damn and/or who has enough patience not to boot you for being goddamn pity-fishingly annoying.
