[ SECRET POST #4486 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4486 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It can be separate, but I think there's a lot of people who do meta solely to push their view of shipping. I don't really mind this - it's easy to ignore - until it gets into RPF and then you get things like that hockey fan declaring that a player couldn't have been a rapist IRL because she doesn't write him that way.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you mean when people meta about ships, or just about the characters but their views are influenced by their shipping preferences? Even so, that's still quite not what I'm talking about when I say that what fanfic people write tends to be a separate thing just by virtue of how the writing process goes. I think engaging in meta discussions in fandom is like any other discussion in that you should only engage with the arguments. If they're inaccurate or misguided or lacking in evidentiary support, they should be accordingly criticized for being poor arguments. That criticism shouldn't come down to whether the holder of said arguments writes ABC fic or ships XYZ pairing, like they did so-and-so in separate context what do they know.

[(Anonymous)]

Both! I mean when people interpret the entire canon via their ship, and what supports it (i.e. everything). So one meta writer might talk about how a scene is about John and Jane's trust in the face of a growing government conspiracy. That might be shippy or not. But the shipping meta writer I'm talking about would discuss how the whole conspiracy is designed to push John and Jane closer together because they are destined and the Men in Black know this and here are the three scenes where John is in front of a green background while Jane is working with Mary, showing how he is jealous and they must be together again.