And now some questions about shipping
Mar. 26th, 2012 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrFrom lea_hazel: What fan interpretation do you hate of a ship (or friendship) that you love? E.G. Alice and Bob as soul-bonded. Also, the opposite, a good interpretation that redeemed a ship you don't like, more or less.
What fan interpretation do you hate of a ship (or friendship) that you love?
So, so many. In general, I hate it when fandom takes a genuinely interesting or unusual m/f ship and forces it into the same tired old heteronormative boxes.
Like: Fenris is significantly taller and darker than Isabela! EDI is passive and naive and needs Joker to take care of her! Elizabeth is irrationally ~feisty~ and the manly Darcy must take her in hand!
Bluh.
Femslash ships are often just made bland, which makes me sad but less angry. Shmoopy romantic GlaDOS/Chell confuses me. (...what is it with me and robots /o\)
And oh man, there's lots of friendships that get written wrong as well but this is already kind of long.
Also, the opposite, a good interpretation that redeemed a ship you don't like, more or less.
HMMMM. Of course the problem with this is that if I don't like a ship I tend not to read fic for it!
I didn't like the idea of EDI/Joker in Mass Effect 2, since it felt like her being all sexbot compliant and him being a disabled guy settling for a fake relationship, but the dynamic changed enough in Mass Effect 3 to make me ship it quite a lot. Don't want to spoil the specifics though.
I did not understand the appeal of Hermione/Snape at all until I read a Hermione/Snape fic by accident based on an intriguing summary, and it was charming: it was set way after canon, and she was very much the more self confident, active initiator of the relationship, and it started by building a solid friendship between them before anything romantic. Still not a pairing I seek out, but I find it much less baffling.
lea_hazel: What fan interpretation do you hate of a ship (or friendship) that you love? E.G. Alice and Bob as soul-bonded. Also, the opposite, a good interpretation that redeemed a ship you don't like, more or less. What fan interpretation do you hate of a ship (or friendship) that you love?
So, so many. In general, I hate it when fandom takes a genuinely interesting or unusual m/f ship and forces it into the same tired old heteronormative boxes.
Like: Fenris is significantly taller and darker than Isabela! EDI is passive and naive and needs Joker to take care of her! Elizabeth is irrationally ~feisty~ and the manly Darcy must take her in hand!
Bluh.
Femslash ships are often just made bland, which makes me sad but less angry. Shmoopy romantic GlaDOS/Chell confuses me. (...what is it with me and robots /o\)
And oh man, there's lots of friendships that get written wrong as well but this is already kind of long.
Also, the opposite, a good interpretation that redeemed a ship you don't like, more or less.
HMMMM. Of course the problem with this is that if I don't like a ship I tend not to read fic for it!
I didn't like the idea of EDI/Joker in Mass Effect 2, since it felt like her being all sexbot compliant and him being a disabled guy settling for a fake relationship, but the dynamic changed enough in Mass Effect 3 to make me ship it quite a lot. Don't want to spoil the specifics though.
I did not understand the appeal of Hermione/Snape at all until I read a Hermione/Snape fic by accident based on an intriguing summary, and it was charming: it was set way after canon, and she was very much the more self confident, active initiator of the relationship, and it started by building a solid friendship between them before anything romantic. Still not a pairing I seek out, but I find it much less baffling.
