The fact that they're varying degrees on canonical (except for my crossover OTP obviously) and het have a lot to do with each other.
I need there to be a good canon reason for my shipping. Canon may never actually go there (and in the case of Harry Potter JKR decided to more or less shit on my ship in the last couple books), but canon friendships with an undercurrents of could become more more are often my favorites.
In that sense why I'm not more drawn to slash is a bit odd. And it's not that I don't get several slash ships, and sometimes even ship them just very seldom as my primary ship on a show.
But I guess I tend to to want to agree with canon on shipping, so unless there's a reason I'll follow as close to it as possible (even in my grand crossover love story, it more or less follows SG1 canon storywise, I just this Rose would be awesome with them and she and Daniel would fall in love). Canon through my eyes may read a little differently sometimes, but there is usually an in-canon reason why I ship it.
it's two people who spend a lot of time around each other, and start as close friends, and then it develops into something more, but they don't act on it right away and you're like "ARGH WILL YOU OR WON'T YOU."
I can be a total angst ho sometimes. When there are so clearly feelings involved that could be more than friends (and I'm a sucker for friendship ships, although there's one example listed that's at most on the fringes of that taste) but for some reason they *don't* (sometimes canon sometimes making me yell "WHY WON'T YOU JUST LET THEM BE HAPPY?!?!" towards the writers) doesn't mean I'll walk away from thinking they'd be amazing together and wanting that.
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Date: 2009-05-24 05:57 pm (UTC)I need there to be a good canon reason for my shipping. Canon may never actually go there (and in the case of Harry Potter JKR decided to more or less shit on my ship in the last couple books), but canon friendships with an undercurrents of could become more more are often my favorites.
In that sense why I'm not more drawn to slash is a bit odd. And it's not that I don't get several slash ships, and sometimes even ship them just very seldom as my primary ship on a show.
But I guess I tend to to want to agree with canon on shipping, so unless there's a reason I'll follow as close to it as possible (even in my grand crossover love story, it more or less follows SG1 canon storywise, I just this Rose would be awesome with them and she and Daniel would fall in love). Canon through my eyes may read a little differently sometimes, but there is usually an in-canon reason why I ship it.
it's two people who spend a lot of time around each other, and start as close friends, and then it develops into something more, but they don't act on it right away and you're like "ARGH WILL YOU OR WON'T YOU."
I can be a total angst ho sometimes. When there are so clearly feelings involved that could be more than friends (and I'm a sucker for friendship ships, although there's one example listed that's at most on the fringes of that taste) but for some reason they *don't* (sometimes canon sometimes making me yell "WHY WON'T YOU JUST LET THEM BE HAPPY?!?!" towards the writers) doesn't mean I'll walk away from thinking they'd be amazing together and wanting that.