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[ SECRET POST #2441 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2441 ⌋

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True, there is that. Mostly, I attributed that to the fact that, like I said, romance was never central to the story. It was a secondary concern at best. (Though I'm not going to lie, at times I can't help but wonder if Ginny was always supposed to end up with Harry, or if she was shoe-horned in at a romance angle to satisfy her publishers and/or fans and/or consumer market).

Yeah, it's because the canon romances are done awkwardly that I stand where I do on the het shipping field, but I'm a slasher at heart, and I will always gravitate back to slash eventually.

I am content to ship non-canon and do not need the validation of a canon pairing.

I've never understood the weird need some people have to see "their" pairing validated by canon. If anything, I've found the fact that my pairings are almost never canon-validated to be half the fun! o.O And even if not...why is canon-pairing such a big deal? Still don't get that...but then, I mostly like slash pairings that never show up in canon, anyway.

The times I have had canon pairings, I have found myself to be let down by how canon handled them. It has made me rather cynical about canon pairings in general.

At this point, the only canon pairing that I genuinely ship and predominantly read fanfic for is Peter/Gwen from The Amazing Spider-Man. While I like many other canon pairings, I usually ship them on the surface but otherwise prefer fanart and fanfic of non-canon (usually slash) pairings.

Many canon pairings make me want to rip my hair out, though. (I'm looking at you, Mako/Korra!) Then again, I'm an anti-romantic cynic in general. Mostly because my parents were every other romance cliche in college, and I got a front row seat to their marriage falling apart and the nasty divorce after that. (It's nearly impossible for me to watch a romance movie without imagining how the divorce will be afterwards).

Right at the moment I am in a fandom where most of my pairings are either life-long bachelors or canonically dead. The canon pairings I passively support, but my main pairings... dead guys and singles.

My old fandoms, I passively support the pairings I supported as an active fan, but passively.

Curious, what fandom? :) And how do you passively support them?

My current fandom is The Hobbit, current pairings are Thorin/Bilbo (one dies, one remains a bachelor his whole life), Fili/Kili (both die), and Kili/Boromir (also, both die - at least in canon).

Passive support, as I think it, is that I will generally express fondness for them in discussion, even for fandoms I'm not active in. Like SPN - the fandom I was in before The Hobbit: AUJ hit cinemas - I still voice my opinion in SPN discussions and am not shy about saying I ship both Destiel and Wincest, and the combined threesome thereof. I'll still readily comment on my opinions about them, but I don't go hunting fic for them any more, and am more likely to note that I have shifted fandoms.

Passive support of a pairing within my active fandom: I like Aragorn/Arwen. I like Faramir/Eowyn. I even mildly like Legolas/Gimli, which I know is not exactly canon, but it's a fanon pairing that's close to it. I would currently feel less likely to read fics that have pairings that go against those at the moment.
Aside from the fact that it goes against two of my active pairings, one reason I don't like Thranduil/Kili is that Elves are very very monogamous and I'd rather think Thranduil is waiting for the eventual day he sails to Valinor, in hopes of seeing his wife there.

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