There are many reasons to read and enjoy fan fiction, not only because of ships. But for those of you, like me, who do enjoy it primarily for that, especially when OTP is not canon, I sometimes wonder (and almost fear), what would happen if it would become canon? Would you still read/write fan fiction if your OTP would become canon?
I’ve got this uncanny habit of rarely having an OTP, but every time I have one it goes canon (I’m 3/3 y’all). It’s great - right up until it’s not. The problem for me is that because I so rarely latch onto ships as being “it” for me, I start finding watching the ship in canon to be difficult. The show writers just end up doing things that don’t jive with what I want to see happening or don’t fit my headcanons for how that couple would behave. Eventually I either stop writing entirely or I set all of my fics pre-canon so that I can continue to be happy with them.
What about the rest of you?
I never expect my ships to be canon (unless I happen to ship the series’s ship) or aspire for them to be canon, mostly because when I started Fandom expecting ships to be canon wasn’t really a thing. That saves me a lot of disappointment when my ships don’t become canon. When my ships do become canon as treat it as a pleasant surprise. Sure the writers’ characterization of the ship may not be the same as mine, but I get to see how the writers view their dynamic. When their interpretation clashes with mine, I sort of just ignore it. I keep what I like and discard what I don’t just like I did when it wasn’t canon.
There was a period where I actively rejected shipping and only read gen fic. After that period I took a break from reading fic, when I came back I went back to shipping. Because, well, shipping is fun. Since I don’t find caring about a ship being canon fun (I’ve seen way too many ship wars), I just decided not to care and to just enjoy the dynamics between the characters that made me ship them.
I honestly genuinely cannot think of a single canon ship I have that I’d classify as an OTP. The closest would be Surana/Zev since Zev’s romanceable, but idk if that “counts”.
I love it when I click on a recipe link because it sounds yummy and instead of a recipe I get a several page dissertation on a food blogger’s boredom with her marriage and lies she was told in childhood
this ending in a recipe literally changed my fucking life i thought i was being spread some fucking truisms abt the ugliness of marriage but it was literally a preamble to creme brulee brownies. writing is fake
what kind of boring life is this woman leading and what kind of boring husband does she have that she can’t just say “is replicator meat kosher” and guarantee a rousing dinnertime debate
For the first time in its 127-year history, the American Psychological Association has issued guidelines to help psychologists specifically address the issues of men and boys — and the 36-page document features a warning.
‘Traditional masculinity ideology has been shown to limit males’ psychological development, constrain their behavior, result in gender role strain and gender role conflict and negatively influence mental health and physical health,’ the report warns.
The new ‘Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men’ defines ‘masculinity ideology’ as ‘a particular constellation of standards that have held sway over large segments of the population, including: anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence.’ The report also links this ideology to homophobia, bullying and sexual harassment.“
And this is news?
On an individual basis? No, not remotely alas.
However, it is news that this is now formally recognised and codified by a respected learned body. It can now be cited with supporting evidence after scientific analysis. That has meaning in and of itself
We been knew.
However, now we scientifically peer reviewed been knew.
A friend of mine posted this on fb (and I know I already reblogged it, but I have comments this time.) and like I said to him…I’m of two minds. I’m glad there’s like a concise evidence thing from a fairly reliable source. But like…highly educated women have been saying this for ages, publishing for ages, and only now that a bunch of guys write a thing on it it’ll get taken seriously? Such bullshit.
I have a lot of questions about The Lion King. Did Simba experience culture shock when he went back to his pride? Like, did the other lions think it was super weird that he had never learned how to hunt and spent most of his life exclusively eating bugs? Could he even digest fresh meat after that or did he end up having weird dietary restrictions? How many bugs did he have to eat per day to sustain himself? As the king, did he have to continue foraging for his own bugs, or were they gathered and brought to him? Did entomophagy catch on as trendy new thing among the other lions? If the other non-lion animals recognize Simba as king, are they his subjects? Is it weird that their king hunts and eats them? Is there civil unrest among the herbivores who resent the tyranny of a ruling class that literally feasts upon their flesh?
Some people: Pokemon have to have good lore and an interesting naming scheme for me to like them. They can’t just be some stupid, slapped together design! It has to be well thought out and deep.
My dumb ass: I love Whiscash because it’s a catfish with whiskers. That’s why its called Whiscash.
It also has a w on his forehead. The w stands for Whiscash :-)
my husband says that Whiscash “looks like he wants to make you pancakes” and honestly that’s just the tea
Dogs on TV always look so stiff. Like they’re supposed to be just sitting there but you can tell that the dog is like “!!!! Am good boy!!! Am hold position!!! Am look off stage at handler!!! Hi handler!!! Ready your finest treats for the good boy!!!”
My favorite are dogs who are supposed to be fierce but are so clearly playing at it. Just dubbing in growls can’t change that butt-wiggle of “I’m doing THE THING and soon I’ll get PRAISE and play with MY TOY”
Yes. This too.
In the Lion the Witch and the Wardobe movie (the one with Tilda Swinton, not the BBC one) the wolves all have CGI tails. Because they’re actually Malamute or Huskie crosses and wouldn’t stop wagging their goddamn tails all the time because they were so excited to be playing with all these nice people on this nice set with their nice handlers just out of shot holding lots of nice sausage.
hot take: the word “queer” exists as both a slur and an identity, and to say otherwise is erasure of both the struggles that people went through getting harassed/etc by people who called them that, and the struggles and activism that went into people reclaiming the word for themselves.
it’s called giving other people respect. if they’re uncomfortable with the term, then don’t force them to accept it, but if someone else is using it as an identity, don’t force them out of it. trauma is not an excuse to be an asshole
ya’ll headcanoning Miles shoplifting art supplies on the regular when canonically he can’t even get away with tagging a postal box with a removable sticker…is very sus…
Whites: so he uhhh is black…so they STEAL but he does it artistically….UwU
It shows they really want to apply racist stereotypes to miles even though it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever lol. First of all Miles is a good kid who would never steal and his family clearly has enough money to buy art supplies, even the expensive kind lol. And even if he wanted to steal something, you think Jefferson would let him get away with it?? Never have I heard someone headcanoning Spiderman as a thief. Spiderman, the friendly neighborhood hero who walks people home and stop people from robbing stuff, is gonna steal stuff from art stores????
miles wouldn’t steal anything ever. he’s too good a kid to
tired: spiderman steals art supplies
wired: local art supply store gives him a 75% discount for being spiderman
