[ SECRET POST #6107 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6107 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Mm, I feel you. Whether or not I LIKE it, I can tell when ships are being set up purposefully. Sometimes creators are throwing possibilities out there, sometimes I can tell they're committed to a specific endgame.

And that's a COMPLETELY different thing from whether two actors have chemistry! Sometimes the showrunner is pushing a couple where the actors don't particularly have chemistry, meanwhile one of them will have OFF THE WALL chemistry with someone else in the cast, and OFTEN that will lead to shippers in the writers' room who will put in more moments between those characters because they want to see them play off each other, even knowing they will never become a couple.

And both those things are completely different from the issue of what characters would have the 'best' relationship by whatever metric a group of shippers might choose! Maybe there's a canon relationship A/B where the characters don't have a mutual respect and things are really emotionally uneven, and there are fans who would love to see A with their friend C who talks them up or provides the emotional support they lack. Sometimes there's a canon relationship X/Y where the characters are nothing but a source of love and respect and support for each other... and fans want to see Y with their nemesis Z, with whom they have a fascinating and charged dynamic and more potential for drama.


To me, I think it's a problem that so many modern fans place such a high priority on a ship going canon, and make it a problem when it's not, or complain that they've somehow been played or lied to. There are a lot of factors that go into shippability, for canon and non-canon pairings alike. But a lot of people run with the word 'queerbaiting' when it's NOT really accurate-- not all of those ships are intentionally teased in the marketing just because the actors have chemistry or someone in the writer's room prefers them to the endgame ship! And when it's the case of an actor or writer who does not get to make the decision as to what is and isn't canon, but who genuinely loves the non-canon ship... like, babes, that's not malicious, that's them agreeing with us and wanting to give us something nice, and it's up to us how we play with it once we get it!