[ SECRET POST #6025 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6025 ⌋

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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]



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[Daydream Believer aka The Girl Who Came Late]



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[X-Men]



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[Call the midwife]























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Comments

ok but

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really understand how anyone can't understand one sided shipping - it's one of the oldest clichés. Xander is just one giant cliché.

However I can understand someone not understanding the appeal of one sided shipping, in which the Xander solution doesn't really seem to help.

Either way, sometimes people don't need to understand they just need to accept. Ship your ships and go hardcore on your clichés OP, and if people don't get it, well they don't need to.

Re: ok but

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I don't really understand one-sided shipping, in the sense that it seems like a contradiction in terms to me. Like, if you don't want the interest to become reciprocal at some point (not necessarily in canon but in fanfic and in your own headcanon or whatever), then how is it shipping?

I'm not saying that to invalidate anyone being into this kind of thing; it's totally valid. I just mean that I would consider pining with no desire for eventual reciprocity to be a trope, not a ship.

Re: ok but

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I think it's because I like exploring intimacy in various ways.

Sometimes, yes, that means getting in bed with each other is the endgame.

Sometimes it means two people have a one night stand (fun, but not very emotional) and then... conclude that they prefer being close friends, with all the intimacy and loyalty etc. but sex is not what they want to base that on.

And sometimes that means A would like sexytimes from B but, while B cares about A, it's not in a sexytimes way. And how are they going to negotiate that - are they hugging friends or physically intimate in platonic ways? Does A set themself careful boundaries so as not to rock the boat? Would B give it a go to make A happy, and how does that pan out?

It's all interestingly crunchy and a bit poignant and messy-and-loving.

I totally get why someone just wants the bedding endgame (fiction is about what makes you happy), but that is why I like asymmetical ships sometimes.

Re: ok but

[(Anonymous)]

I definitely respect what you're saying. All my ships are "interestingly crunchy" so I can appreciate where you're coming from. But I disagree that what you're describing is shipping. Like, semantically speaking.

I have fictional relationships I'm invested in without wanting to imagine the characters falling mutually in love or lust. That's no less valid than shipping; it's just not shipping, IMO.

I suppose there are some fairly specific circumstances under which I could see the argument that a platonic or permanently non-reciprocal pairing was a ship, but to me those would be very much the exception, not the rule.

Re: ok but

[(Anonymous)]

Shrug. Sometimes a 'ship' is what the fic-writer says it is. I've seen stories marked as A/B that I would never in a million years have pegged that way from just reading the story. (There's subtext and then there's 'this sure damn looks platonic'.)

As you say, sometimes it's best just to let people do their own thing even if it doesn't entirely makes sense from the outside.