Here's the thing about canon ships: MOST of the time, we don't get the character's first POV perspective, so we don't REALLY know EVERYTHING about them. Just because two characters are in a relationship, doesn't mean that one of them couldn't have feelings for someone else -- or that they wouldn't be open to the idea of someone else or whatever. We just DON'T KNOW. Forget the whole gay/straight/bi thing. We have no REAL idea what a character would and wouldn't do. We can extrapolate from canon and get a good feeling for who we think the character is and what they'd do in any given situation, but because we can't ever REALLY know for sure, I don't see what's the difference between writing a fic where character A loves character B and one where character A loves character C.
Do you see what I mean? Just because canonically character A is in love with character B, doesn't mean that IN THE FICTIONAL WORLD THEY LIVE IN they couldn't ever fall in love with character C. You have to look at in the context of these characters actually existing in some parallel universe.
Some things in canon are unquestionable. If someone has blue eyes, that's canon and it's unquestionable, because we can see it for ourselves. There is no other alternative reading of the text. But if character A and character C have a ~touching scene, there is no one way to interpret it, because we can't possibly KNOW EXACTLY what is/was going on in their heads and what it means to them. We might have an IDEA of what their feelings are, but we can't know with 100% certainty.
SO. It's perfectly fine to only want to ship canon couples, whether they be gay/straight/bi/whatever. But to say that non-canon couples aren't canon -- no, that's just not right. You're taking canon events and simply interpreting them differently. That doesn't make any of the events non-canon, especially since pretty much all the time canon fem/slash fics acknowledge a canonically heterosexual's character's orientation in some way (usually by making them bi or having their same sex attraction to be an ~exception -- which really can't be disproved by canon anyway).
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Do you see what I mean? Just because canonically character A is in love with character B, doesn't mean that IN THE FICTIONAL WORLD THEY LIVE IN they couldn't ever fall in love with character C. You have to look at in the context of these characters actually existing in some parallel universe.
Some things in canon are unquestionable. If someone has blue eyes, that's canon and it's unquestionable, because we can see it for ourselves. There is no other alternative reading of the text. But if character A and character C have a ~touching scene, there is no one way to interpret it, because we can't possibly KNOW EXACTLY what is/was going on in their heads and what it means to them. We might have an IDEA of what their feelings are, but we can't know with 100% certainty.
SO. It's perfectly fine to only want to ship canon couples, whether they be gay/straight/bi/whatever. But to say that non-canon couples aren't canon -- no, that's just not right. You're taking canon events and simply interpreting them differently. That doesn't make any of the events non-canon, especially since pretty much all the time canon fem/slash fics acknowledge a canonically heterosexual's character's orientation in some way (usually by making them bi or having their same sex attraction to be an ~exception -- which really can't be disproved by canon anyway).