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Why or why not?

Generally, yes. But I like it more when the ship is left in the hands of competent writers... *still glaring in D&D's direction*

Arn't ships in D&D horribly expensive given that you have to pay to build the ship and at least a half-dozen skilled hirelings?

I don't know, but at this point I'd be willing to accept this as an explanation for what happened in Game of Thrones season 8.

It rarely happens in my case but it hugely depends on how it's done. There certainly are cases where I would have preferred something to remain non-canon because it was just badly executed.
What happens though is that I don't read fanfic anymore when a ship is canon (at least not of the kind that is mainly focused on the romance part).

Depends. If it is done well, fine. But I've seen ships I like become ruined and then I no longer ship them (House/Cuddy and Bones/Booth for example). On the other hand, I think Castle did a decent job for the most part of making Castle/Beckett canon.

Castle/Beckett was great right up until they got engaged. Everything fell apart after that for me but I was mightily impressed that the writers were able to maintain the chemistry and relationship for so long after they hooked up.

It's cool when it's done well and when it's not done well I can just ignore it. So. Eh. I will say there's nothing quite exactly like the feeling when two characters you wanted to get together, but didn't dare hope would get together, actually do get together, it really is great.

They pretty much never do, so....i can't say. The only m/f 'ships I like, i like them because they *are* canon, so.....

Mostly yes. There are perhaps one or two cases where I didn't like what the canon did with the ships, but otherwise I love seeing my fave couples being actual canon in-love. I just think it's neat.

Also I generally am pretty easy to hoik with canon ships, so long as it feels like both characters actually like one another I will be there cheering them on.

It very much depends on the ship. If I would be *surprised* by my ship becoming canon it’s even more complicated because it can rarely happen in the way I’ve built it up in my mind...but I’m open to being pleasantly surprised.

Short answer: Yes, but.

Long answer: My ideal shipping scenario is a TV pairing where you have absolutely no idea if you're even meant to ship it for the first couple of seasons - you just want to because they're dynamic is compelling. Then, the narrative slowly gives you indicators that, yes, they definitely do have non-platonic feelings for each other. But It's Complicated, and they're definitely not prepared to act on it. So then they're just completely in love with each other but acting like it's not a thing for several seasons.

And then eventually, probably in the final season, they get together. But it's subtle and doesn't really change that much about the story. They were always 100% all-in about each other, it's just now they have the certainty that it's reciprocal. Plus now they have sex.

I probably wouldn't. But my ships don't even happen in fandom, let alone canon so I'll never know.

No. I tend to ship the fucked-up or abusive pairings because I love angst, but if that happened in canon I'd feel so bad for the characters!

I don't have enough examples to judge (especially if we only count hard core shipping couples before they were canon and not just sorta-shipping of couples who were clearly going that way in canon, anyway). In retrospect, Mulder/Scully becoming canon wasn't that satisfying after all, but by that point I was just so overjoyed that it happened that I didn't care whether it matched what I had imagined or whether it could have been done better.

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