[ SECRET POST #2689 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2689 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

This font is small for the secret's size.

[(Anonymous)]

*shrug* Big feet don't always pan out, what you gonna do?

[rubbertea]

one of the reasons i prefer my shows to have no canon pairings is that neither of these solutions satisfy me. on one hand, ignoring the canon love interest feels cheap and bash-y, but on the other hand when i'm in the mood for slash, i want to read slash, not het or threesomes.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I tend to find that preferable to when they brutally murder the hypotenuse, or turn the canon love interest into a horrible piece of shit, or something. I'd rather they just handwave the relationship. It's so much less nasty, to me.

But I do like some to end in threesomes. I was all for a Scott/Allison/Isaac 3some at the end of 3a, for instance.

[souljelly]

When a writer.completely ignores a canon love interest it tends to throw off my suspension of belief for some reason. I prefer to have the canon acknowledged and given a plausible reason for it not happening in-fic. But more and more I've just turned to shipping OT3s.

[(Anonymous)]

My secret: I don't want threesomes, ever. I get annoyed when people tout it as the best of both worlds solution to conflicting ships. I am too monogamous-minded to enjoy that, even in fiction.

[elaminator]

I'm more fond of the canon love interest staying in the story but their relationship never being a romantic one than I am of people leaving out the character altogether. (Unless I truly hate the character, which rarely happens.)

I also enjoy fic where you see the couple decide they aren't right for each other, but ignoring canon romances doesn't always stop me. It really depends on the individual story and how it's handled.

I don't tend to ship OT3's so that doesn't work for me.

[littlestbirds]

Depends how plausible the breakup is for me. Harry/Ginny? dude, who cares. But the movies were pretty convincing on pepper/tony, so if she's not included I'm a hard sell...

[(Anonymous)]

Me too.

I prefer it if the canon love interest is in the story. Being totally supportive and there to help their canon love interest come to terms with their feelings for whoever the auhor pairs them up with. There to help them with relationship and life troubles. Theres's little fic with this for any of my OTPs and it saddens me. I crave fic like this.

[mautradutor]

I'm actually fine with the canon love interest being written out, sometimes when I'm just reading for wish fulfillment. But the best and most rewarding stories dealing with the canon relationship in a believable way.

So I think I'm halfway to your thought, maybe.

[(Anonymous)]

See, for me, if I'm shipping a non-canon pairing, it's because I thought the canon pairing was badly writen or the characters had no chemistry, so I feel no compunction about breaking it up.

[cloud_riven]

I don't mind the handwaving, but I will wish there was a mention of the canon pairing when that pairing is one that has a big factor in the source. Like already mentioned, MCU fic where Tony/Pepper barely have a friendship has me going, "Where's Pepper? What happened?"

Of course, that's only when the canon pair is something I also happen to care about along with whatever ships I'm having. When the love interest is such a blandy bland, especially a dude, I don't even give a fuck. Put 'em on a bus or run them over idc. Well, I will care if they're bashed, because then I'll feel bad.

See, I would nod along to this . . .

[feotakahari]

. . . if I hadn't seen how it plays out in the MLP fandom. Sure, Spike probably wouldn't take it well if Rarity fell in love with Twilight instead of him, but it's not like Rarity has some obligation to be with him, and I hate how entitled Spike fans can get about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, anon.

Unless love interest is evil.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, to be completely honest, I don't care if the canon love interest is never mentioned/completely ignored.

And I prefer that to having the CLI written in the fic as an OOC suddenly horrible person to give reason for dumping them and getting together with author's other ship-mate.

I also prefer it to killing off the CLI and then having the ship-mates quickly jump in bed together in an orgy of psuedo grief and comfort.

Try the White Collar fandom.

[nyxelestia]

The fandom loves slash but also loves Peter/Elizabeth too much to break them up. One of the very few fandoms where an OT3 is the most popular ship. :)

Anyway, I definitely love this ending, too. My current favorite is Steve/Tony/Pepper, though Steve/Bucky/Nat is coming in close. :)

[nightscale]

Personally I'm not one for OT3's so the threesome idea often doesn't work for me, and quiet honestly if I ship a character with a different character than the canon love interest then I don't really dig the canon romance enough to OT3 it.

But that's not to say I want the canon love interest gone, I still want them in fic just as a friend instead of a romance, and it depends on the fic as well as to how much the canon romance being ignored will bother me.

[kallanda_lee]

In a lot of cases I just go slight AU or find a reason it would happen. Yeah, that does usually involve cheating, but I don't really have a squick about it, and a lot of people I ship are just morally grey anyway.

You know, unless there's infidelity or someone is made OOC, I don't care.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even need anymore explanation than "AU - Canon Divergence" or the like. But, if they include the break-up in the fic, I'm fine with that, too. I don't really get why it matters so much. People break up all the time.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Well while I am a fan of threesomes, not every supposed triangle will work out in my mind as one. Mostly I agree with the stance of, if there's a canon love interest, I want at least a line or two explaining why they're not there, preferably without bashing, unless it's Harmonian fic, which I expect bashing in.

I am currently in an interesting place with my OTP - neither of them have official love interests and the one who does come close to it, I think the romantic implications are easily deniable. It makes me realise that shipping canonically unattached characters has a certain freedom to it.

[(Anonymous)]

I am so with you here, OP. If a character already has a canon love interest, forget about shipping them with anyone else.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, anon. Your secret inspired me to go search for Arrow fics with Ollie/Sara/Felicity.

[dancing_serpent]

For me, that depends a lot on the fandom and the characters. I'm not all that fond of threesomes, often prefer open V-relationship to OT3s. And there are characters I dislike so much, or canon relationships that make so little sense to me that I'd rather have authors ignoring them outright.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind triangles, but turning the slash pairing into a full blown threesome with the (usually female) original love interest is a big no-no for me, personally. Especially when the new love interest is gay in the canon (looking at you, Percy Jackson fandom).