[ SECRET POST #2363 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2363 ⌋

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Comments

[aubry]

What kaijinscendre said, but also because canon pairings are, well - canon. A background mention of a canon ship can be scene-setting. We all already know that that relationship is a fact of the universe we're sharing.

Non-canon pairings (or, say, a canon-pairing but in a fic set at a time when they're not together in canon) is different. It's asking the reader to suspend disbelief and accept as true something that's not part of the shared canon. Some people who don't ship that ship aren't going to want to do that. For those who ship x/z or y/w it'd be annoying on a shipper level. For those looking for gen it's annoying because your ship wasn't what they signed on for.

Not saying that's the only way of defining gen, but it is a difference between canon and non-canon as experienced by a lot of people.

[(Anonymous)]

My feeling is that all fic requires that sort of suspension of disbelief, as even the most faithful of fics is still not canon.

[aubry]

I'd argue that shipping is a special case. Shipping is by far the most politicised axis of fanfic, right? I mean, almost all of our archiving is built around it. A lot of fannish migration happens because of similar ship dynamics. Ship wars are more frequent and usually more brutal than any other differences of interpretation. In theory it should be just like any other mutable element of fandom, in practice you'll bother more people with shipping than with even the most egregious of changes to setting or backstory.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but all that equally applies to canon pairings. Canon pairings are just as polarizing.