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⌈ Secret Post #3281 ⌋

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[Sam Smith, Duran Duran, a-ha, Madonna, Alicia Keys and Jack White]

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[The DCU]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]

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[Paladin Danse - Fallout 4]

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[A Song of Ice and Fire]

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[Candy Candy]

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[Agent Carter, Jessica Jones and others]

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AYRT - Not sure if you think that's why I was implying, but if so, nope, not what I meant at all. :) Really I'm talking less shipping and more about the idea I've seen that "friendship is boring."

If you weren't being rhetorical, I think it's more that people see the potential for sexual tension. I shipped Ron/Hermione in Harry Potter not because I didn't think their friendship had value, but because I saw their relationship as transcending into something else. At the same time, I thought Harry and Hermione had just as special a relationship - but in their case, it was strictly platonic.

(reply from suspended user)

I've always had a hard time being objective about a platonic relationship if it's something I ship. like, you have to hold these two different ideas of the characters in your mind at once and interpret the same scenes in two different ways, one "regular" and one with the extra romantic dimension, and I always feel like I'm neglecting the "regular" version of the characters in the source material because ship bait and subtext is more interesting. does that make sense?

NAYRT-I get that, yeah. I wonder the same thing sometimes. It also doesn't help that some of the ships I like come from shows where the characters are working on some sort of team or they're part of some united force to fight something or other. So it's like, "Well, of COURSE they'll save each other's lives here-that's what you're supposed to do for your teammate/co-worker in those sorts of jobs!", you know?

At the same time, though, sometimes if I look at a scene between characters I ship without the romantic subtext clouding my judgment, that actually makes the friendship between the characters even more special to me as a result, because they're doing things for each other just 'cause they genuinely care about each other as people and as friends, and not because they're hoping to get some sort of romantic attention out of it. It's really fascinating the way certain scenes can be interpreted sometimes, and what they can reveal about character dynamics.

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