I'm not necessarily writing this in order to explain to every random passerby every single thing that made me see the potential for this relationship in the canon. I'm writing it because there's something I want to explore
I totally agree! I wonder the extent to which anyone really reads that much fic for a ship they don't ship. One of the pleasures of reading romance stories is to watch the interaction of the couple, but showing the way that the couple get along and are good together is not, IMO, the same as making a case for the ship itself.
Of course, the dynamics of fandom make this much more fraught, between het ship wars and the "believability" of slashing various female and male characters, such that it's rather dangerous, I think, not to be aware that some readers think all shipfics are arguments about canon. Which of course isn't true; I can write a non-canon ship without thinking it will be canon.
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Date: 2009-03-04 11:22 pm (UTC)I totally agree! I wonder the extent to which anyone really reads that much fic for a ship they don't ship. One of the pleasures of reading romance stories is to watch the interaction of the couple, but showing the way that the couple get along and are good together is not, IMO, the same as making a case for the ship itself.
Of course, the dynamics of fandom make this much more fraught, between het ship wars and the "believability" of slashing various female and male characters, such that it's rather dangerous, I think, not to be aware that some readers think all shipfics are arguments about canon. Which of course isn't true; I can write a non-canon ship without thinking it will be canon.