It's That Time Again!

[greeneyedlady]

That's right! It's time for my approximately-once-a-year-but-really-whenever-I-feel-like-it Shipping Survey! This is the third time I am posting it and, like the last time, there are a few new questions to keep it interesting. But a lot is the same. So maybe people are sick of this, of answering the same questions yet again, but there are some new

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[kasumicc]

About the Has shipping ever affected a friendship or relationship, my answer goes like this. Yes, it did. I never liked yaoi until recently, and a friend I had, who's very homophobic and anti-yaoi, wasn't amused with this. She gave me a really nasty teasing, she would look down to my OTP...I got mad, I stopped talking to her, and everything went downhill from there. I ended losing a whole bunch of friends because of this.
I don't regret it. I can't stand intolerant people.

Now the questions:

What are your ships? 90% of times I'll ship the main canon pairing, especially in shoujo anime/manga. Since I ship in every single series it would be hard to list them all, but some heavy ships of mine would include America/England from Hetalia, Ed/Winry from FMA, Usagi/Mamoru from Sailor Moon and Nodame/Chiaki from Nodame Cantabile...

Do you mostly ship slash? Het? Both equally? Mostly het, with the sole exceptions of CLAMP works, and Hetalia. In Hetalia's case, I ship both slash and het the same way.

Do your ships follow certain patterns or have commonalities?
They tend to fall on a) Childhood friends, b) pairs with heavy angst and overcoming of lots of hardships, or c) uberly opposite people who ends somehow complementing each other

Will you pimp this poll out to other people so I can get more feedback? Well, I was lured here xD But I could do that :)

[greeneyedlady]

Thanks for contributing! Good answers! I am actually one of those rare people who refuses to ship most of the heavily implied slash in CLAMP works. I think the only slash pairing I like by CLAMP is the guys from Legal Drug. But ships like Doumeki/Watanuki and Kurogane/Fay I tend to despise because they all follow the same "Let's jam in as much of our usual eye-gouging 'subtext' as possible without any definitive evidence as possible" pattern. So I react by saying, "If you aren't going to actually make them gay, I am not going to read them as such." It is sort of a defiant attitude of mine. I also refuse to ship any slash in Reborn! I think it comes down to me rejecting what I perceive as pandering to fujoshi in shounen manga. Yes, that is definitely it.

My CLAMP OTP has always been Sorata/Arashi from X.