[ SECRET POST #3188 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3188 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

eh I'm okay with it if one of the ships is only in the past~ kinda thing

[(Anonymous)]

that is hilarious. you somehow think the writer is being unfaithful to multiship?

[vethica]

Do you mean in the same fic, or across their entire body of work?

[(Anonymous)]

I think they mean one author writing several different ships involving one character.
Like, having a favorite author that usually writes for a/b but they start writing for a/c.

I guess if the person got attached to the dynamic the author set up for a/b it feels like cheating to see a/c.

[likeadeuce]

I don't understand the definition of multishipping being used here. I thought it was 'being OK w/ character A having more tgan one possible ship. What kind of multishipping DOES OP like? Is it like 'will read a/b from one author, and a/c from a different author, but wants the author to pick?'

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like the OP is saying they have the right to ship A with multiple characters but they don't like it when fic writers do the same. Which, to be fair, is a good reason for this sort of sentiment being a secret.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so confused about this secret. Is OP the only one allowed to multiship?

[elaminator]

Yea, maybe I'm just tired but I feel like my brain broke reading this secret, lol. (I am not saying the secret is badly worded, though. It might be fine for others.)

They might just be saying they don't like when authors multi-ship their favorite characters. I was kind of wondering if they meant "Don't include a/b and a/c in the same fic', but I'm guessing it's more them liking when authors lean towards a certain pairing and don't multi-ship the characters involved in that pairing at all. (Maybe OP thinks the authors are more 'passionate' if they don't multi-ship? IDK.)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't multiship when I write as I have my preferred ships but I'll read many ships with my fave characters.
I need to work on my secret making skills, this's just embarrassing.
-op

[(Anonymous)]

This is an interesting secret because it speaks to the motivations of why people ship in the first place. The OP is assuming that the writer is shipping for the same reason they are, which of course they might not.

I ship my favorite character with many different characters. Because I'm in love with my favorite character. Nobody is quite perfect enough for him, not even the OTP of my fandom. So I'm not being unfaithful to anyone in my mind: my fave is always there. I ship him both slash and het and once with an inanimate object (hard to explain). So yeah, I multiship.

[likeadeuce]

Yeah, this is what I thought multishipping meant??

[ketita]

Yeah, this is kind of how I feel.
Yet for other favorite characters, I'll have an OTP. It's a question of dynamics.

[(Anonymous)]

I ship my favorite character with many different characters. Because I'm in love with my favorite character. Nobody is quite perfect enough for him, not even the OTP of my fandom

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Seriously, A-Okay, and you don't need me to tell you that.

But personally, people who love one character more than they love their OTP tend not to be my favorite fic writers, because often that dynamic comes through in their writing. And that's just not how I ship or how I write (though admittedly I don't write much these days). I've been in fandoms where I loved one half of my OTP way more than the other, but ultimately I still loved the OTP - them as them - most of all. The OTP is what it's about for me, and sometimes I can tell when a fic writers is really just in it for one particular character.

[(Anonymous)]

WHAT. What does this even mean? I don't think multi-shipping means what you think it means, OP. Or else you are a huge hypocrite.

[(Anonymous)]

They're a huge hypocrite.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm assuming you mean one ship per fic.

i think that's fair thing to desire, even if you love both pairings unless the fic is going for an OT3, someone's going to get the short stick and that's no fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you saying you hate threesomes, or what?

[(Anonymous)]

They're saying they dislike when authors write both A/B fic and A/C fic. As in, some of the author's fics are A/B and some are A/C, not where the pairings coexist in one fic. OP will read both A/B and A/C fic because A is their favorite character, but they prefer it when authors commit fully to writing only one of the pairings.

Upthread they say that it's because they feel like authors are more serious and passionate about the pairing when they don't multiship.

[philstar22]

What is this secret? People write what they write. My two OTPs contain one of the same characters. So yes, I write both of them. They are two very different ships that I ship in very different ways. And they come at very different points on the character's timeline.

[(Anonymous)]

Well put.

And sometimes, if I have a particular OTP involving a favorite character, sometimes the person I really love shipping my favorite character with is with someone else in canon.

So in that case, sometimes I like to look at other characters that my favorite character clicks really well with, and I'll wonder, "If my OTP doesn't ever happen in canon, what would happen if my favorite character moved on and got together with this other character instead?" And then I'll have those side ships that I wind up liking and will read/write about as a result.

It doesn't mean I'll ever stop loving or shipping my OTP, of course. But it is fun to explore the sort of dynamics my favorite character creates with other characters sometimes, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought multiship means you ship everything including the same character with different people?

To be honest I hate multishipping because I feel guilty for leaving the other character out, which is stupid because they are fictional. It's the same feeling where I can't ship anyone who is married or in a good relationship. It just doesn't feel right unless it is a really good AU.

I also hate polyshipping because fandom does it wrong so often. They usually have two (or more) people loving one person of the group instead of everyone loving each other equally. That is a harem, not poly.

[(Anonymous)]

My approach with that stuff is quite similar to yours in a lot of ways. I have shipped people who are married with other characters, but I usually like to try and find a way to make that relationship happen at a time when said character isn't married. If I ever do break up the canon relationship, I always want to do it in a way that treats the canon relationship with respect (no adultery or turning the person said character is married to into an abusive jerk if they're not or things like that). To say nothing of the fact that it would feel very out of character for some of my favorite characters to have affairs or move in on someone who's married or whatever, so I want to have them stay true to who they are, too.

Like you said, it really does sound weird in some ways when you state all of that aloud, since these are fictional characters. But I completely get your mindset with that stuff all the same.

I've never written poly relationships and probably never will. I just don't think I could pull it off well, and it's just not my sort of thing personally as it is.

[likeadeuce]

Ok but there are all kinds of poly relationships & the ones I'm most familiar with IRL are of the poly-V sort (poly person is in a relationship with 2 or more people separately, not a triad, though obviously the latter happens. That's a fairly typical poly structure, I wouldn't call it a harem.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree, OP. If I'm reading a fic with the pairing that I prefer, I don't want to see either person in that pairing with someone else. Period. Those are the fics that I tend to stay far, far away from.