Subject: I can take it or leave it.
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Posted on: 2017-10-12 19:06:00 UTC

Mostly I'm content to accept the canon ships or lack thereof. There are some that I've cheered on more than others (Roslin/Adama springs to mind), and some I haven't cared for (the whole love triangle in The Hunger Games, Buffy/pretty much any of her LIs), but it's not something I get really worked up about. Probably because it's not something I've ever been really worked up about in real life, either. Throughout middle school, high school, and college, I had a total of three boyfriends and was only really interested in kissing (let alone doing anything else with) the last one, whom I went on to marry. So yeah. I'm hanging out somewhere on the lower lefthand side of that bell curve. {= )

I've never had strong enough feelings about a canon/canon ship that I wanted to write about it myself. I used to have some negative feelings about shipping in other people's fanfic, mostly to the tune of either "ew, they wouldn't do that!" or "ugh, can we please focus on something more interesting?", but nowadays I'll read other people's ships with characters I like, and as long as it's well-written and has a reasonable basis on the characters' personalities, I can get into it. Canon/canon, canon/OC, straight, gay, whatever.

As for shipping my own characters, I've typically had a bit of an aversion to it unless in an RP scenario, with someone else playing the other character in the relationship. Firstly I wasn't interested, secondly it felt like cheating, and thirdly it's just really satisfying to get someone else to like your character enough to imagine that their character would want to be with them. I still prefer hooking up my characters with other people's characters, but if you've been watching my writing lately, you may have noticed I'm sometimes willing to ship my characters with each other, too. {= ) Also, I'm writing an OC in a relationship with a canon character in my Skyrim fic, which I think works for me because it's something you can do as part of the game, so it feels legitimized in sort of the same way an RP ship does in that it came about organically during gameplay, not just because I up and decided it. Everything is better with consent!

~Neshomeh

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