Wasn't a topic we really did yesterday, although we skirted the edges of it I think.
befriending people who end up being virtually slashers-only
This is something I really try not to judge people for but I can't help that a small part of me does. After all probably 80-90% of the ships I support (at various different levels) are het and I hope they aren't judging me for that (though I get the feeling that some do/would). But at the same time, whenever I see a comment like "this is the only het ship I actually enjoy" I balk because...really? I often feel like slashers are more in love with slashing than the pairings they slash. Certainly not all of them, but that's a feeling I get from some.
It's gotten so that I usually have two (usually no more and no less) major, functioning, invested ships in a show
It depends on the show, but I can have more that one OTP (by my definition) for a show, just not involving the same characters. Or one or none OTPs but with a lot of ships I'm interested in.
If I have any issue with OTPs, it's this resulting guilt that happens when you have an OTP and it begins to wander into not-so-entirely-the-O-part-of-that territory in spite of retaining the last two letters in the acronym for me
My Daniel/Rose shipping issues, let me show them to you. Or not, but that's really what makes that ship of mine so VERY WEIRD. because I OTP Doctor/Rose like nobody's business but somehow I still seriously ship Rose with someone else, even if it's in a very extenuating circumstance way, it's still almost unprecedented for me.
Somehow, even though in canon Rose ended up with the Doctor but not the Doctor with Rose (oh Rusty, you make it difficult don't you), it's still the Doctor I can't picture with anyone else.
We all love people based on circumstance, and the fact that he so happened to be in a situation where he was more likely to let himself open up to a human doesn't mean it's less special that he did.
Exactly. Circumstances had changed for him, and then they changed again when he lost her, that's why he had different relationships with each of his companions, circumstances just kept changing. Was he BFF with Donna because of the loss of Rose and the guilt over how he treated Martha? If it was, does that devalue his friendship with Donna? Was he so desperate to cling to the Master because they were the last of the Time Lords? Largely, but does that mean he didn't care a hell of a lot about what happened to him? So why do people use circumstance to dismiss his relationship with Rose?
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befriending people who end up being virtually slashers-only
This is something I really try not to judge people for but I can't help that a small part of me does. After all probably 80-90% of the ships I support (at various different levels) are het and I hope they aren't judging me for that (though I get the feeling that some do/would). But at the same time, whenever I see a comment like "this is the only het ship I actually enjoy" I balk because...really? I often feel like slashers are more in love with slashing than the pairings they slash. Certainly not all of them, but that's a feeling I get from some.
It's gotten so that I usually have two (usually no more and no less) major, functioning, invested ships in a show
It depends on the show, but I can have more that one OTP (by my definition) for a show, just not involving the same characters. Or one or none OTPs but with a lot of ships I'm interested in.
If I have any issue with OTPs, it's this resulting guilt that happens when you have an OTP and it begins to wander into not-so-entirely-the-O-part-of-that territory in spite of retaining the last two letters in the acronym for me
My Daniel/Rose shipping issues, let me show them to you. Or not, but that's really what makes that ship of mine so VERY WEIRD. because I OTP Doctor/Rose like nobody's business but somehow I still seriously ship Rose with someone else, even if it's in a very extenuating circumstance way, it's still almost unprecedented for me.
Somehow, even though in canon Rose ended up with the Doctor but not the Doctor with Rose (oh Rusty, you make it difficult don't you), it's still the Doctor I can't picture with anyone else.
We all love people based on circumstance, and the fact that he so happened to be in a situation where he was more likely to let himself open up to a human doesn't mean it's less special that he did.
Exactly. Circumstances had changed for him, and then they changed again when he lost her, that's why he had different relationships with each of his companions, circumstances just kept changing. Was he BFF with Donna because of the loss of Rose and the guilt over how he treated Martha? If it was, does that devalue his friendship with Donna? Was he so desperate to cling to the Master because they were the last of the Time Lords? Largely, but does that mean he didn't care a hell of a lot about what happened to him? So why do people use circumstance to dismiss his relationship with Rose?
Apparently I'm venting a little too.