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[ SECRET POST #2689 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2689 ⌋

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What the title says. Like, for example, you used to really ship the possible or ex-couple A and B, but when B got together with C in canon, you liked B/C so much you stopped shipping A/B while still liking character A.

Or you used to be a giant slash/femslash fan for A/C, but eventually decided you liked them better as just awesome platonic BFFs instead.

Yeah, all the time. Then again, I've always been a multishipper, and rarely have set-in-stone OTPs. I'm willing to change the pairings I like pretty quickly.

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Pretty much this. Ships are generally way more temporary and negotiable for me than my character loves. I multiship around my favourite characters all the time.

I do, however, usually have certain pairings that I don't like and go out of my way to avoid. Not necessarily because I don't like either characters, sometimes I love both of them, but for reasons of that ship attracting tropes I don't like, or that ship being based on a really bad canon history, or that ship pushing all the wrong buttons vis-à-vis power dynamics, or things like that.

Basically it's more about the characters than the ships for me, and almost always has been.

I used to be rabid slasher. I would slash everything in sight, just for the sake of slashing rather than because the two characters in the ship inexorably inspired a slash interpretation in me. I was in love with the slash genre, not the ships themselves. The ships themselves barely counted.

Nowadays, I no longer ship a lot of those slash ships I was rabidly devoted to, and prefer them as platonic bffs. In fact, I'm not really into shipping in general, especially non-canon ships that aren't part of the actual storyline of the actual shows, but I'm pretty much "over" this whole shipping thing, which I find to be the least interesting or meaningful part of fandom nowadays.

But I do have a couple of slash ships I am still diehard about and probably will always be. Guess what -- they're the rare couple of ships that I actually like because I loved a romantic interpretation of the unique relationship of the characters involved, not because they were easy slash fodder.

Yeah, this has happened to me before. Often with fandoms that are a bit older and which I revisited after a period just to fall in love with it again. It helps that I usually have one character to focus my ships on and don't really get into the whole enemy of my ship mindset (I also rarely have an aversion to any character in my fandom)

Sort of. I used to really be obsessed with a couple of slash ships, like Starsky/Hutch, Jack/Daniel from Stargate SG1, Kirk/Spock from Star Trek, Morgan/Reid from Criminal Minds, Holmes/Watson from the 2009 movie. Like, all slash, no gen, and people who liked gen were devaluing their relationship or homophobic or just didn't get it.

Now, I wonder what all my "it MUST be gay!!!!" stuff was about and why I felt that way, and I am pretty much equally interested in gen and slash (I read more slash, probably, but only due to greater supply, not greater demand.)

Yes. Used to ship Hotch/Prentiss on Criminal Minds. Now I don't really ship anything except vaguely Morgan/Garcia, but Hotch and Prentiss are still my two favorite characters.

I was all over Arthur/Eames when Inception first came out, but after reading what felt like every fic under the sun, prompting everything under the sun, and seeing the same stuff get written time and time again I fell out of love with it. I just burnt out and decided that I really liked Cobb/Arthur more anyway. (I already had a bit of interest in it, but it wasn't until I stopped reading Arthur/Eames that I noticed how much.)

Still love both characters, just aren't really interested in reading about them together anymore.

I don't think I've stopped shipping them per-say but I don't go looking for Dean/Castiel fic anymore, but I also think a large part of the reason for that is my general disillusionment with Supernatural as a whole these days.

I might go back one day but for now, nope.

There are a couple I got tired of because I had a really crappy RP partner who wanted to RP nothing but smut and fluff all the time, and the pairings we did that with... I'm largely really tired of now in any sort of romantic or sexual situation. I still love the characters and their interactions with each other, just I don't want to see shippy stuff because I imagine that old RP and just... ugh. :P

I have got bored of pairings before, in fact I am kinda bored of both Thorin/Bilbo and Fíli/Kíli, because they're so common and often I feel they either rehash exactly the same themes, or are just not done well.

I have grown disinterested in one character in a pairing while still liking the other, so that particular pairing I have lost interest in, while I'll moved on to others for the character I still like.

Yup, for that second example - when I was younger (like, fourteen-ish), I seriously shipped Frodo and Sam. Now, I absolutely adore their (platonic) relationship and consider it to be one of my favourite elements of LOTR (and some passages, like Sam reflecting on the sleeping Frodo in Ithilien, almost make me want to cry because it's written damn beautifully), still adore both characters (Sam is my all-time favourite Tolkien character, Frodo is in my top five), but can't bring myself to ship them romantically - I just don't see it like that any more.

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[ SECRET POST #2689 ]

Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?

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Re: Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?

Re: Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?

Re: Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?

Re: Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?

Re: Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?

Re: Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?

Re: Have you ever stopped liking a ship without falling out of love with the characters?