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⌈ Secret Post #3091 ⌋

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Re: Ship War Question

[(Anonymous)]

I think we get that impression that het shipping disputes are more volatile because the most famous ship wars have involved het ships, not because het fandoms are inherently more volatile than slash fandoms. But the really big ship wars do seem to skew towards het, and I think it's because:

1) Canon validation potential. If BruceNat hadn't been canon, its shippers wouldn't have been at odds as much with Clintasha shippers, because neither ship would be "getting in the way" of the OTP. There might be passive aggressive posts about one getting more fanworks, or about how one obviously has more canon support/is healthier/is more interesting/is generally uperior, but I doubt it would have been as vicious. But you make one canon, or bring in an actual chance of one being canon, and suddenly it's a competition. Those shippers are the enemy, because without their ship, yours would be canon! Most slash/femslash pairings have zero chance of ever becoming canon, so it doesn't matter as much if someone doesn't ship your ship.

2) Fandom size. Slash fandoms are usually dominated by one ship, with every alternative to the juggernaut pairing having much smaller fanbases. There's often just not enough people to get a big, bona fide ship war going. So you'll get people making passive aggressive posts on their blog about that ship that everyone likes even though it totally sucks ugh!!but unless their ship has a fanbase big enough to compete with the juggernaut's fanbase, they're just one hater screaming into the void.

In fandoms like Supernatural, where there are two or more similarly popular ships, with enough shippers who are in deep enough to think that there's a genuine possibility that their ship will become canon, then you start to see really nasty slash ship wars. And that was the crux of the Nu!Trek ship wars too, IMO: Spirk shippers started to think of Spock/Uhura (and by extension, people who shipped Spock/Uhura) as being the only thing standing in the way of their ship happening.

It's all about whether or not "rival" ships are actually a threat to your OTP, and it seems more likely for het shippers to feel this way, because there's often a chance that their ship will actually be canon. Slash shippers usually have so little chance of their ship being canon that there's nothing to threaten.