[ SECRET POST #3661 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3661 ⌋

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

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation, S01E04 "Code of Honor"]


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(Boku No Hero Academia)


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[Shaun the Sheep]


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(FAKE)


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[Drakengard]


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Comments

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[a_potato]

So...the reason I've posed this question is because I just identified the pattern underlying my shipping habits, and it's both fascinating me and weirding me out.

I only really ship het and femslash. Turns out the reason why is that, in order for me to ship something, it has to involve a female character that I admire and am attracted to. If I pick up on a connection between two characters and either they're both male or I'm not attracted to the female character, then while I'll be able to see the ship, I won't have that passionate, gotta-go-consume-and-produce-fanworks sort of feeling.

On top of that, I have a type: the majority of the time, the woman I'm attracted to is a soldier (e.g. Susan Ivanova, Max Guevara, Aeryn Sun, Sharon Valerii/Boomer/Athena, Jyn Erso). When she's not a soldier, she is, nonetheless, able to kick ass in some way (e.g. Scully, Lara Croft, Laura Roslin). I've thought about it, and realized that I like female characters who either have or attain radical, often physical agency.

And I want them to be happy, and I'm a romantic. So, if it comes across like they've got a connection with another character, I ship them.

Since I'm also attracted to men, and married a dude, why does this only go in one direction? Why do I never ship as a result of being attracted to a male character? Well, that's partially because I'm almost never attracted to male characters, which is also weird as shit to me.

Anyway, I'm not sure what the point of this is, other than to get it all out and add to the discussion that I've started, but...yeah.

That's my pattern.

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[(Anonymous)]

Being asexual, I'm never actually physically attracted to anyone in my ships. I've always been curious about how that works for sexual people, like do they only ship people they are personally attracted to? So yeah, not really much to add, but it's definitely an interesting discussion you've started.

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[a_potato]

Based on the other comments, I think I may actually be in the minority on the personal attraction front!

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't mention it in my comment but physical attraction is definitely also a part of my shipping secret sauce. Though not the only part.

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[(Anonymous)]

That's really fascinating. You could almost say that the pattern is seeing strong female characters with radical physical agency who can also attain romantic happiness - on other words, maybe the kind of narrative you like specifically has to do with resolving the perceived tension between those two ideas?

But I guess that doesn't get into why you're not into male characters.

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[a_potato]

Maybe, but it doesn't seem to be narrative-dependent at all. It's basically, "I like her, for X reasons. She likes him/her. She should be with him/her, because that would make her happy."

So...I guess my kink is...making strong, attractive women happy?

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[(Anonymous)]

well, it's not a bad kink

Re: Is there a pattern to how you ship?

[a_potato]

Haha, I guess you're right.