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[Great British Bake Off, series 5]

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Also inspired by secret 5.

How do you ship?

Do you prefer OTPs or multishipping? Do you latch onto one OTP per fandom? Do you pick one bicycle per fandom, or multiship many character? Do you like pairs or OT3+? Do you like het, slash, femslash, all/none? Do you like more of a sexual or emotional focus? Fluff or angst? What draws you to a ship? Etc.

For me: I'm a mix of OTPs and multishipping. Most fandoms have at least one couple I really love, but unless they're one of my all-time favorite OTPs I'm still willing to ship those characters with other people, and I'll read fic about almost any pair.

I mostly ship het, some slash, some femslash. I think I mostly ship het because I'm more of a quasi-self-insert person than a watching-two-cocks-is-hot person and I'm a straight gal. But I also ship more on how character interaction is written in canon than on hotness, and I'm not super imaginative, so I think I'd ship more slash if more LGBT pairings were canon - already that's becoming more prevalent and my shipping habits are changing as a result.

I like fluff, and angst if it has a happy ending. I like sexy things, but don't go out of my way to find porn (I'll read it sometimes out of curiosity and having a sex scene doesn't make me back-button, I just don't really actively pursue it). I like emotional connection. I like pairings I can relate to or wish I had, especially het where I relate to the female half.

I am pretty eclectic in my tastes. I have a few hard OTPs where I can't see them with anyone else, but I'm almost always open to adding a third character for a threesome. I love threesomes and moresomes. I have a few bicycles, mostly in canons where I love a character but no one pops as a perfect match for him or her. I multi-ship like crazy. I love shipping background characters too.

I am majority slash, then het, and then femslash. My femslash tends to be more character-driven where I have to see some spark. I'm more flexible with other pairings. Sometimes, it's purely aesthetic but mostly it's what I see in the character interactions (although I am happy to *imagine* what would happen if two characters have never met, and sometimes that yields the most desirable pairing for me).

I tend to desire happy couples, even if the dynamics would be fucked up in real life. I am finding, however, that my tastes broaden the older I get. I used to be only het as a kid (and only humans). I avoided incest and stuff like that. Blame Supernatural for kicking down a lot of barriers. Recently, I've branched into my first hate!sex pairing and I'm shipping villains, which I've never done before. But, I still hope for a happy ending, rather than enjoying the fucked-up nature of these pairings.

I think the thing that really hits for a pairing for me is the opportunity to explore differences. So, different fantasy races (fairy/human) or age differences or power dynamic differences - I just like to see people dealing with complicated situations.

I have never shipped on the basis of seeing myself in a character. I'm not sure what character would even be like me. I don't need to relate to characters to ship them.

It really depends on the fandom. Some fandoms I multi-ship (Buffy, Babylon 5, Star Trek, Doctor Who), some fandoms I OTP (Tolkien, Star Wars), and some fandoms I multiship but have a couple favorites (Harry Potter, MCU).

Some fandoms I have a bicycle. Mairon for Tolkien, Thor and Steve for MCU, Harry and Lucius for Potter, The Doctor for Doctor Who, and Spike for Buffy.

I like pairs and OT3s. Some fandoms I do have OT3s (Buffy, Babylon 5, Harry Potter). I like het, slash, and femslash, and which I ship more seems to depend. Right now I have more slash, some het, and only a few femslash. But that changes.

And it depends on the fandom. I'm always down for smutty fics, but for my favorite pairings I also enjoy emotional focuses. I like both fluff and angst. A good healthy mix.

There are different things that draw me to a ship. I like angsty ships. I like ships that strike me as really hot. I like friendship ships or ships where the characters just have really strong bonds. I like villain ships and villain/hero ships.

I've got to believe that my fave will be happier with the other half of the ship than without them. That's usually my guideline.
So if in the series there is one person I think the fave wants most/will be happiest with, I OTP ship. If not, then I multiship.

Honestly it depends on the fandom and the characters, and to some extent the size of the cast. I think I'm more prone to multishipping in larger casts basically because there are more options and more interactions, while canons with very limited casts I generally OTP or OT3.

What I will generally have in any fandom is a favourite character or handful of characters that I'm interested in reading fic about, and whether I OTP or multiship them they WILL be the focus of my shipping in that fandom. Bigger casts I'm more likely to have a few entirely separate favs-and-people-I-ship-them-with groups. In the comics canons, for example, I have about five or six faves that I ship with about three to six people each, sometimes overlapping. In smaller canons, I'll usually only have one or two ships per fav. Het/slash/femslash again depends on which fandom/characters we're talking about. I'm also a-okay for OT3s and polyamory, especially since I tend to teamship a lot.

As for which characters I pick to ship my favs with, it's mostly based on strength of connections in canon, or on things like personality traits that I think could have led to interesting connections had they had more interaction in canon. It doesn't necessarily have to be healthy or romantic connections, either. I shipped Javert/Valjean passionately, for example, just for the sheer weight of effect they had on each other, even if that weight of effect ended up outright killing one of them. I have a lot of fondness for hunter/hunted dynamics, teams, brothers-in-arms, hated rivals, worthy enemies, betrayer/betrayed, lifemates ... My point being, so long as there are powerful emotions involved and/or strong thematic links, I'm probably good for it.

It's all about the chemistry for me. Het, slash, femslash- it's all good if the chemistry is there. Sometimes I have OTPs and sometimes I multiship, either one character in two or more different ships or have multiple ships within a fandom that don't share characters.

I like what ifs and h/c a lot, so I'll read outside of my usual pairings if a fic has an interesting premise based on either of those. But I backspace for OOC faster than anything else. The chemistry is dependent on the characters and if they're not themselves, I'm not interested.

For OTPs, I usually look for the porn first and then go read everything else. But for any other pairings, I just go to the last page on Ao3 and read whatever looks interesting and slowly make my way to the most recent fic.

I'm mostly an OTP'er with occasional multishipping tendencies. Like I'll have a main pair in a fandom and the other characters I'll multiship around if they have interactions that work for me(sometimes though I'll have a secondary fave pair that I won't want to split up either). And sometimes I can multiship the characters in my OTP but that is much less common for me.

As far as ship-types goes I'm into anything, slash, femslash, het and I've got a mixture of canon and non-canon for each(though clearly I have less canon m/m and f/f ships and tbh most of my het ships are/were canon so I think I'm more of a canon shipper than I realise...).

And for me if I ship something it's because I like the dynamic, I've got no set dynamic I gravitate too(though I do have my favourites) but the one pattern I do have is that it will more often than not be my fave character paired with another(I have like 2 exceptions to this, maybe).

I've got a few pairings that are particular favorites, that would be the closest thing to "OTPs", if I had to label them.

But I do love to multi-ship. Generally my favorite characters are the ones who do get shipped with a lot of people, but I've also done multi-shipping for other characters, too.

Despite multi-shipping, though, I'm not one for OT3s or OT4s or things of that sort. Pretty monogamous when I'm focusing on a specific pairing. I also like ships where the characters involved are close friends to begin with, and have a lot in common and things that they can connect and bond over. My "test", as it were, for whether or not a pairing works for me is, "Can I see these two coming home to each other every day?" If so, then I'll ship 'em :D. I definitely like that emotional connection, and getting to see how the couple in question is there for each other in the good and bad times. The physical/sexual connection is great, too, sure, and I love me some good sexy fic, but that's not the first thing I focus on.

I will say, though, that I'm also a big ol' sucker for unrequited love and the angst that comes with that. Especially if they're pining for the other but don't realize the other feels that way about them. Many of my favorite pairings have this at some point in their history :p.

My pairings don't have to be canon for me to ship them. If they do become canon, awesome, but I'll happily ship non-canon, too. And I like a mix of het, slash, and femslash.

Think that pretty much sums it up.

I generally multiship with a biycycle from each fandom. I mostly ship slash with some het. I'll ship any pairings or OT3 that have my fandom bike in it.

All the rest (sex vs emotion, fluff vs angst) depends on my mood.

Though, I only read fics that have a happy ending. Sad endings are for canon media.

Tend to be into het OTPs for the most part, though I have had a couple of OT3s and slash pairings.

Angst and fluff, mostly emotional. Sexual stuff is fine, but if it's ridiculous or out of character, I'm just meh.

I ship anyone/everyone. I've never had a NOTP before, but I'm not a fan of shipping characters from different shows or movies. My exception is if an actor is linked to two pieces of media (e.g. Shipping Barney Stinson/Maria Hill because Cobie Smulders is in both HIMYM and The Avengers).

So many questions!

I generally have one or rarely two (mutually exclusive) OTPs per fandom. The only OT+ I ship is actually an OTP plus two OCs who are also an OTP so I'm not sure that really counts. (Hey F!S want to hear about my awkward self-indulgent gary stus? No, no you don't.) I've never multishipped or been into the fandom bicycle thing. I prefer slash almost exclusively, but there's a few het ships I'm fond of but not to the point of seeking out fanworks/actively shipping.

I definitely prefer a focus on either emotions or actions or both. Sexual stuff is fine if it seems really IC, but I don't go out of my way to seek it out and I often skim sex scenes in longer fic. I lean more towards neutral or fluffy fics, the things fandom finds angsty don't inspire much sad feeling in me compared to overblown sap fics which can leave me a teary-eyed wreck.

I don't really know what draws me to a ship. Sometimes it's the borderline-obsessive codependency (Thorki, Hannigram) or the exact opposite where it's two people who absolutely don't NEED each other but have enough in common to become friends or more (Fenders, Snarry, Altair/Malik), or even two people who just have a great friendship (Cullrian, Stucky). Often I like exploring contrasts and similarities in characters.

Generally before I start shipping something I have to really like and identify with at least one side of the pairing, if not both, and there has to be enough canon or fanon material of both people for the spark to really take hold.

I use Fedex

I will latch on to one pairing and they will be my OTP. I will probably be obsessed with them for years. I have no idea what makes me latch on to a pairing, though. After I've found one, I never expect to feel that way again about a pairing, but then it happens.

I call all of my ships OTPs, regardless of if I ship the characters with other characters. As I said in the other thread, my bicycle, if I have one in a particular fandom, is almost always my favorite character. I love them and I want everyone else to love them too, basically.

I'm primarily a slash shipper, but I also ship het. I have a handful of femslash ships, but it's harder for me to find the dynamics I like between female characters.

I like the emotional focus, but the sexual elements are always a nice bonus. I love fluff & angst, but I probably prefer angst, just a little bit.

My favorite ship dynamics are characters who challenge each other. I love enemies to friends to lovers. I love starting out with two characters who hate each other or dislike each other where the other person just gets under their skin in such a way that they can't be ignored. I like the teasing and back-and-forth barbs and flirty banter.

I mostly lowkey multiship, but I've recently fallen head over heels for a ship where I can't imagine the characters with anyone else (my first exclusive OTP~).
I also have very few true NOTPs, although I prefer not to read stuff that goes against a character's explicitly stated sexuality (if relevant).
It really depends on the fandom and the characters though.

Recently I've been preferring pairs out of convenience, although for the most part I don't mind either way. Definitely tend towards major characters though.

I mostly tend towards slash right now, but I also like het and femslash. Characterisation and canon interaction is key for me, more than anything (and the types of characters I like tend to be mostly male, alas).
Also, I'm a Homestuck, so I like my quadrant-based shipping haha (in any fandom, because it's more fun that way). Mostly moiraillegiance (palerom) or kismessitude (blackrom). Or black/pale vacillation OuO.

I've found I far prefer an emotional focus, if I had to choose between the two, but I've been craving both at once recently.
I like a mix of fluff and angst, I guess. Characters helping each other deal with insecurities/trauma is so my thing. :3
I do prefer happier endings though.

Honestly I think my main thing right now with ships is "these two characters just get each other in a way no one else does (for either of them)". Backstory angst optional but encouraged. :P
Also species differences. And relating to one or both of the pair in some way.

I definitely also do the quadrant-shipping-in-other-fandoms thing. It's really fun :D

There's no real patterns. Sometimes I'll have an OTP, sometimes I'll have a couple of mutually exclusive OTPs. There are a few OT3s. Sometimes I'll ship a group of characters (U.N.I.T. Dating Controversy or the Avengers). And sometimes I'll have a Fandom Bicycle (or Fandom Unicycle, if I only ship them with people of one sex.)

OTPs with the occasional OT3, more often than not constructed of two overlapping OTPs.

I ship mostly slash and het, and I will admit on rare occasions I like the relationship between two female characters... until it comes to sex and then I just get turned off so damn hard.

I want romance, with a huge pile of plot.

I try to OTP, but I usually end up pairing everyone with everyone(within reason), with a preferred "go to" pairing usually developing somewhere down the line.

Most of my pairings end up being Slash, but a handful of Het and Femmeslash are scattered about.

I like H/C or "realistic" relationships the most, with the occasional fluffy story when I'm in the mood for it.

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