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[ SECRET POST #4378 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4378 ⌋

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Fandom can be way more than just shipping, though. There's meta (if considerably less these days), there's gen fic, there's fanart... lots of stuff.

Well, I have ships in more than one fandom, basically

No?

I mean, I've been in both situations aka I've only been in a fandom for one single ship and also for lots of different reasons. It doesn't get boring at all. Especially if it's the most popular ship and there is a lot of content to go through.

Plus, I've never been solely into one fandom forever. Sure, sometimes one is my main fandom, but I also have lots of side pieces and old favs.

I just don't multiship much at all really, it doesn't appeal for whatever reason, don't know why and don't care because I'm not lacking any fun with my one ship in each fandom.

I like lots of different canons so I'll hop about for whatever ship I'm feeling at the moment.

I'm intensely monogamous, and I'm the same with my OTP. When I'm in love, I don't want anyone else. (I do have the odd secondary ship in other fandoms, and I like those ships a lot, but only like 2% of the fic I read is for those ships.)

And no, my OTP being the most popular pairing in a popular fandom is part of what makes shipping exclusively them for seven years delightful. Because at this point I've read some three thousand odd fics for them without having to scrape the bottom of the barrel, and there's still more to read, and I find that a wonderful thing. I get to read them in so many cool permutations!

Same to all of this, pretty much, except I don't have just one OTP at a time. I generally have one OTP per fandom, and I'll be interested in a few fandoms at a time.

For a few large canons I might have two or three 'OTPs', depending on how many characters there are, but there's never any overlap between the characters I ship. Like I ship Thorki, Stucky, and Spiderpool, but I'd never read a Thor/Steve fic. If I have an OTP I have zero interest in reading any other pairings with those characters.

And yeah, I've been into both huge ships and rarepairs. Liking the popular pairing is AWESOME. I will literally never run out of fic to read, there's so much great art, it's amazing.

Depends on the fandom for me. For some fandoms, I need to switch things up and do get bored. However, there are some fandoms and some ships that just never grow boring for me. They have levels and things where every time it is different.

It all depends on the characters for me. Sometimes I can multi-ship, sometimes I can't and I only OTP. The last fandom I was in, I OTP'ed pretty much the whole time and I was active in the fandom for years. So nah, not boring.

I ship pairings that spark my interest (either I like their chemistry or I think they'd be hot together) and it's not uncommon for that to happen for me only once within a fandom. (Sometimes it happens more than once, sometimes it doesn't happen at all.) I don't purposefully shun other pairings or even dislike them, they just don't grab my interest. If a pairing is popular enough, then it definitely doesn't get boring. If anything, there can be way more fic and art and meta and squee than I can consume and I might still be catching up after the fandom for the pairing starts to decline. Plus, as someone already said there other stuff to do in fandom. Even if I only have one ship, I probably still like other characters and their (platonic) relationships, and I might love the world-building or costumes or speculation about what happens next or whatever.

Yeah, this - it's not like I go out of my way to only have single ships. There's just not that many pairings that I find interesting. It's rare enough to find a single one, let alone multiple.

Uhhh... walk me through your thought process here. Do you think that people who only have one ship are secretly veeeeery unhappy, but avoid pursuing other ships for... reasons? If they were bored and wanted more variety, surely they'd... you know... find more variety?

Could it be that they're content with the one ship, even if you wouldn't be content in their shoes?

this. I can't force myself to be interested in other pairings if I'm not interested.

Yeah. I mean, if I'm bored, I find other things to do, and if I find other things to do then I'm not bored and have no reason to lament the fact that I don't have more ships (which wouldn't help me not be bored anyway, if I find the other ships boring).

MTE. This secret just seems irrational to me. I mean, there's absolutely nothing wrong with multi-shipping, obviously. But the whole "I don't understand people who only ship one ship" thing is just...I mean what's there to get? We ship the pairings that make us feel shippy.

Also, how would it be more boring to ship the most popular pairing? Like, yeah, having a nearly unlimited supply of fanfic for my ship is so boring. Having lots of prolific, skilled fanfic writers writing for my ship is the worst. I don't know how I cope.

Honestly, having spent the last..twelve years..shipping the main pairings in two major fandoms, I'm not sure I'll be able to get really deeply into a smaller, less popular pairing/fandom ever again. I've been too spoiled by always having an abundance of reasonably good fic to read.

Exactly. I admit that questions like this annoy me a little because they seem more like an excuse to judge and not really about someone's curiosity. Maybe I'm being unfair and OP is one of those people who simply cannot compute when confronted with other people liking different things than they like, but... it's not a complicated or rare concept.

DA Yeah, this right here. The "no fun allowed" sign is really bizarre, OP. Do you think they're all in denial? That they just imagine they're having fun in fandom?

Also, you say you know people are allowed to enjoy fandom however they want, but obviously not.

Also, you say you know people are allowed to enjoy fandom however they want, but obviously not.

That's not really fair. OP's secret is pretty mystifying, but they're not actually telling anyone to stop doing fandom the way they want to. Just saying that they don't understand it.

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(Anonymous) - 2018-12-31 09:54 (UTC) - Expand

I’m usually a multishipper, but I have a few fandoms where I only ship one pairing and it hasn’t gotten boring so far.

Both with ships or just a fandom in general... I admire people who can stick to the same fandom for years. I get bored and jump to different things and sometimes come back to old fandoms. I really couldn't survive on just one fandom.

Well... no? Isn't that obvious? If I were bored with only one ship per fandom, why would I just wallow in boredom and not do anything about it? It's not like it never occurred to me that hey, there are other possible ships in this fandom I could get into. If I'm not already reading fic for other ships, then I'm not interested. If I'm fortunate enough to ship the most popular pairing, then I'm probably drowning in fic.

I've been happily enamoured with my major OTP for the past year now. I ship other stuff from other fandoms, but I always come back to my main OTP and never stop loving it. And because it's popular, there's always fresh content to enjoy.

idk maybe not everyone is fickle and easily turned on by the next shiny thing they see, OP.

Some people are hyper focused and that's alright. I had an ex who was hyper focused, where I loved to ship like crazy and pair all the people up in a big happy rainbow ship. She however liked to focus on her ship in question-- eat it, drink it, sleep with it and knit it tea cozies.

Different strokes for different folks

Heck, there are some things where I don't ship anything.

I’m the opposite. I’m an OTP shipper and an OTP shipper only, and I don’t understand how people can multi ship. I guess it’s easy if you don’t have any particular draw to a single ship or character, but I tend to see only one real, GOOD relationship for a given character, and I get invested in it, deep. Then even if I can acknowledge that they might also work with another character and that there’s nothing inherently wrong with that other ship, I cannot get into it, at all, am actively repulsed by it, because I cannot imagine how they’d be happy, truly, without the other person (and/or hate the idea of that other person not being happy because the person they love and are meant for is with someone else).

How people can ship A/B and also B/C is beyond me, because if you’re reading B/C, and you genuinely believe that A/B is just as valid, doesn’t it break your heart thinking about how B/C makes A feel??

So yeah *shrug* shipping and how people approach it is weird sometimes.

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