[ SECRET POST #2717 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2717 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Late day at work, sorry!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's not always that easy. I've actually had a pairing soured for me because I *couldn't* avoid the fans who bashed the ~rival~ ship, even in comms that had nothing to do with the pairing. The only real option was to just leave the fandom, or deal with it...and dealing with it soured me [and I liked other aspects of that fandom too much to want to leave.]

I've seen characters who, while not in my fandoms, were as bad if not worse than that pairing where you couldn't say you even remotely disliked them without getting dogpiled...and again, this was general fandom space not a group specifically for that character.

So yeah, easier said than done in a number of cases.

[diet_poison]

True. I suppose though I'd still be able to keep the pairing itself separate from the fandom...and I still don't really understand the association since it's the pairing that made the fandom, not the other way around. Different thought pattern maybe?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe. For me it wasn't overnight, but months of "This pairing comes up and people who don't ship it get attacked" led to "Oh god, fuck this pairing people are always getting attacked over it."

[(Anonymous)]

[Curse you mis-click demon!]

So it's more the constant negative emotions that happen whenever the pairing came up got associated with the pairing since, well, they always happened together.

Objectively there was nothing wrong with the pairing, and I wasn't going to hate someone/bash them/whatever for liking it...but I did *not* like it at all.