Ship wars

[floranna]

My parents have told me since I was a kid that: Everyone's tastes are different. I can't stand liquorices nor grapefruits, but I love rye bread brand called Real and ridiculous tv-shows like Say Yes to the Dress. Shut up. XDD

It's just...I don't know how to say it. I have my favourite parings and some I honestly can't stand or see any logic in them. I started as a Zutarian, and have learnt to like Maiko. I can't stand Kataang and incest makes my run from the fic faster than light. So I don't read them. That's it. I won't waste my energy telling people who are fan of those things how terrible/illogical/disgusting those parings are, like those people who just can't seem to shut up about it.

I really, really like Makorra. I don't see the joy of the parings like Bokorra, Tahnorra or Tarrlorra. Or whatever you call those ships.

I really don't like confrontations, and sometimes I feel like I am missing something in the text, especially if it's written in the internet so I rather stay quiet and wait for the clarification.

I stay the heel away from character bashing and shipbashing, and have been quite good at it especially in AtLA fandom. But in Glee I have had to face the utter crazyness of the fans, their bashings and lunacy and honestly? It was that and the uneven writing in the show that have pretty much alienated me from it.

I don't want confrontation. If I don't like the ship in the fic, I won't read it. As simple as that. I won't make you read a fic that has a paring you don't like, and I expect the same courtesy from you. And I sure as hell not won't make you feel bad for liking it.



Oh, and please click my dragons.

Comments

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I am the same way with ship wars (except that there are some authors I will read just about anything they write barring PTSD triggers.) And then there are the people who tell me "Glass Faces" sucks because Koh won. It's right there in the summary, for crying out loud.

I do wish you would wake up to the glory that is Linroh, however. (I have a thing for people in uniform, apparently)

[floranna.livejournal.com]

I haven't quite gotten into Korra fandom yet, I'll wait until the biggest waves have eased until I start reading the fic there. But Linroh sounds iunteresting, but I am not very easy with parings tat have a large age difference, so I am waiting some sort of clarification on their ages.

Oh for... those summaries are obviously for reason, why people complain about things that are made clear even before the wholefic starts?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who ships Linroh. There is no fic that I haven't requested anyway.

(I think there's a a 15-20 year age difference, because she's 50 and I think he's in his mid thirties - give me some answers,Bryke! - and usually I don't go for age gaps either, but they're so pretty)

[floranna.livejournal.com]

That sounds much better, I always think he is 25-30.

I think I saw a one, but can't remember who wrote it or to whom...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

clicked and I agree. A lot of my friends write ships I don't care for. i usually just don't read them and mostly they respect that. I don't expect them to read my ships if they don't like them.

[lady529.livejournal.com]

I don't ship the way most people seem to ship - that is, I have my opinions on who should get together and why, but I've never understood how someone can stop being friends with someone else over a fictional pairing. I have also only properly, actually shipped maybe two pairings? And at least one of them is explicitly canon anyway. I have stopped watching shows because they started focusing too much on a pairing I couldn't see the logic in whatsoever, but if someone loves that pairing? Fine by me, why should I care? : )

And I've clicked all your dragons and eggs : D

The Lady 529