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⌈ Secret Post #3188 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I consider myself a multishipper, and sometimes even ship my favourite character with more than one person. I don't see how doing that is shallow if the reason behind it is that one appreciates the different dynamics that happen with different pairings.

I think the trouble is that you and the anon you replied to have very different ideas about what it means to care deeply about a ship.

A lot of diehard OTP shippers tend to only ship pairings who are Weird About Each Other (see link below if you're interested), and one of the primary tenets of two characters being Weird About Each Other is that there's no one else in the entire world that matters as much to the characters as they matter to each other.

Personally, that's a quality all my ships have had. If they didn't have that quality (or if I couldn't at least invent a believable headcanon in which they have that quality) then that ship would just not appeal to me nearly so much. It would feel kind of bland and like it had shallow roots, so to speak.

Personally, I need my OTP to be #1 with each other. It's extremely unpleasant to read about them not being #1 with each other - unpleasant enough that I never voluntarily do so. That's just where my intensity level is at where my OTP is concerned. If I could stomach seeing my OTP with other people, I would personally consider my attachment to my ship very shallow, in comparison to how strong my feelings have been about my other OTPs.

It seems to me that you go about shipping in a very different way. You care for your ships differently and probably have different standards for what attracts you to a ship. Therefore your way of shipping and my way are not really comparable. I would guess the same is true for the anon you replied to.


Weird About Each Other (abbreviated meta at Fanlore): http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Hth_Field_Guide_to_Slash_%26_Other_Associated_Strange_Attractors

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I don't know, I think I like a "Weird About Each Other" vibe in pairings too... but I think I can compartmentalize [some] pairings and not let the things in one fic affect my views of the things in another fic.

I do have some ships that blank out everything else, but some don't, and it really depends on if I like the potential dynamics of a given pairing.

So... I may have a bit of exclusive shipping tendencies, but it isn't universal.