[ SECRET POST #2221 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2221 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I was still interested in shipping even when I had a boyfriend.

Judges from most responses before mine, is that a rare thing...? Now I feel abnormal.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in a long term relationship and I definitely care about shipping, and read romance fic all the time! But I don't care about it in the all consuming, every-waking-moment obsession way I managed when I was a teenager.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Yeah, don't forget OP is 17. So this is probably her first real taste of the irl thing (and good for her). no doubt she'll level off, but most of the younger fans who haven't had a relationship yet get invested a lot deeper, so it's no surprise they notice a difference from their new perspective.

[caecilia]

Nah. My former girlfriend and I shipped stuff together.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm like that too. I think people just ship for different reasons? Some people do it (subconsciously or not) to fill a void in their romantic lives, so if they're in a relationship, their interest in fictional relationships disappears. But not everyone ships for that reason. For me, romance just provides another situation to explore character dynamics, and it remains interesting whether I'm in a relationship or not. I don't know, I've never really been one to get super invested in a pairing, so although I do ship lots of stuff, I don't feel like I'm pouring myself into those relationships or that I'm getting anything out of it beyond entertainment. But everyone's different!

[(Anonymous)]

This. I ship because I love the character dynamics and getting to see the characters I love interact in ways they cannot onscreen. It isn't to fill a romantic void in my life or anything. And also, I wouldn't consider myself to really have OTPs either. So maybe that is related? I'm not really hard core shipping, just exploring character dynamics? IDK.

[perfidiousfate]

Yeah, same. :) It's really fun, seeing how all the character dynamics change depending on pairings and whatnot. Shipping is just another way at looking how characters interact and change with one another.

It's probably not an uncommon way to ship, even if large amounts of people focus on OTPs and such.

[(Anonymous)]

My partner and I got together because of shipping :P

I'm not quite as adamant about it, and I don't write as much fic as I used to, but I don't know how much of that is because it used to mimic something I now have, and how much is just me getting older and having more responsibilities and less energy to be a fandomite. We've not entirely abandoned shipping, of course - we're working on an original story with several couples and we love all of them - but yeah, it's quieted down.

OP might get back into it, they might not. It's not uncommon for interests to shift when your life changes, but it's also not uncommon for them to change very little.

[velvet_mace]

I think it depends on the stage of the relationship you are in. I'm married for coming up on 23 years, do I ship? Oh do I ever. And so it's been for pretty much the entire 23 years.

But take me back to the first few months of dating my husband-to-be, and I pretty much shut down everything that wasn't me/him. I spent pretty much every minute I could with him. I can't imagine being interested in fictional relationships when my own was so obsessively interesting to me.