[ SECRET POST #2259 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2259 ⌋

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Comments

[intrigueing]

Most people don't analyze it (or the 13875784 other relationships comparable to it in various other fictional works) that deeply or focus on all the little details of real-world stuff. I mean, it's a movie about a mad scientist building a time machine out of a DeLorean with his teenage assistant while engaging in shenanigans such as getting hit by lightning, climbing clock towers, and being assassinated by Libyan plutonium dealers.

The stuff you're talking about is so, so, so far away from the purview of the movie that most people wouldn't find it remotely interesting to think about, much less actually discuss. In fact, they'd probably find it pointless and ridiculous. It might make for a fascinating fic, but it's...so not the point.

[dreemyweird]

I guess you're right, although I think that, while the cultural background is not "the point" and is not directly addressed, it is a necessary implication. All the DeLorean/lightning/clock towers stuff happens in the material world, it does not invalidate the fact that Doc and Marty are white Americans from the eighties.

It is a part of their characters, that is. And I just don't see it working and being non-OOC - not so much because of the actual historical conditions as because of their personalities.

In any case, I think that "realistic" shipping is fascinating. This is probably the only kind of shippy fic I'd read for the relationship dynamics. Unfortunately, people really don't seem to be interested in it.

[intrigueing]

Oh, liking realistic fic and not liking unrealistic fic is totally fine, and realistic fics can be really amazing when done thoroughly, but that doesn't mean it's OOC to ask for a level of suspension-of-disbelief that doesn't go beyond the level of suspension of disbelief the canon material already requires. Honestly, you're...just not gonna find much sympathy if you bother shippers (of any pairing in any fandom) with this kind of stuff. It's not that they don't acknowledge it or see it, it's that they're not interested in it and will probably feel rather insulted by someone questioning them about it as if it's really never occurred to them. Just a heads up.

[dreemyweird]

Yeah, I know. Not questioning shippers to make them think about it, though; frankly, I just like hearing people explain their fandom preferences.

[intrigueing]

Oh yeah, I understand. But a lot of people get touchy about it because they assume (usually with understandable reasons, due to how much flaming and X vs Y goes on in fandom) that it's an incoming attack on what they like.

[blitzwing]

The 80's? I don't see the problem. I mean, there are people shipping characters in slash pairings back in the 1880's, and in times/situations where being caught could literally mean being executed.

(I honestly can't remember this series but) if the guy's a scientist, how likely is it that he would buy into the whole "gay-is-wrong" crap society peddles?