[ SECRET POST #4043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4043 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand what "won't let" means. Are shippers in your fandom insisting it's romantic and it's not possible that it's platonic, and shutting out the people who think it's platonic or something?

Usually I see some people insisting it's platonic and no other way, others insisting it's romantic and no other way, and most people being okay with either and glad there's both.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you not been in any huge fandom??

[(Anonymous)]

I have. There are always vocal minorities that insist a pair is true love or insist that romance can never, ever happen. But there are always vast swaths of less vocal regular fans appreciating both, in my experience.

But it takes being in and around the fandom to realize the quieter fans are there. From the outside, you only see the vocal people.

[(Anonymous)]

The majority of my fandoms have been huge slash fandoms, and AYRT is right. The majority of people have a preferred headcanon one way or the other but are not adamant that their preference is The Right One.

There's almost always a vocal minority that go overboard and practically crusade for their OTP. There's also almost always a vocal minority that feel they need to explain to everyone why it's stupid and irrational and annoying to ship X and Y together. But those factions truly are the minority, even in the fandoms that seem the most batshit from the outside.

[erinptah]

MTE.

Any pair of friends (same-sex or not) is pretty much guaranteed to have some shippers. Doesn't mean every pair is shipped by everyone in fandom, or that non-shippers are having anything forced on them, or that someone teleported into the canon universe and forced the characters to kiss, or...whatever OP thinks "won't let" means.

[thewakokid]

If I had to guess based on my experiences of fem!slashy fandoms, it's more along the lines of "If you don't ship them and you think they're "Just gals being pals" then you're guilty of lesbian erasure, a disgusting homophobe, don't deserve any number of human liberties, and around 300 other comments along the lines of that.

It's not that anyone can stop you from having your head canon, but they sure as fuck do try.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I've run into those people. I've also run into the homophobes that go "f/f ships are gross, they're just friends how dare you!"

I've never found either of those groups to be the entirety of any fandom like OP suggests though.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Sure, "somebody is wrong on the internet" isn't going to prevent someone from holding an opinion.

But I can see in fandoms that are dominated by a huge ship, combined with the noise that it's "homphobia" if you don't ship it, that a some people would take the better part of valor than call down the wrath of the shipping community on their heads.