This is the first fandom I've every really partcipated in, but oddly enough probably not the closest to my heart. I do feel i have found that same comradery with people here, because there is a sense of freedom here that I don't always feel in my everyday life because the things that interests me aren't nessicarily main stream or stuff I can talk to my co-workers about with out solidifying my outsider-ness. Though at the same time some of the people I have connected most to here are not shippers in CI, but we have other things in common
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Whoops, that should've said "and I just don't know it." Hopefully the characters know if they are sleeping together. Oh, and should be "NOT pairing up everything with a pulse." Gah.
When I first started reading CI fic I went from "NO. to Really? to huh, to Okay, to hell yes" when it came to G/E. It's defintily something that I slowly built up to.
I think at this point if Joe magically came back or if either met someone else, I don't think I could let the ship go, but if it had already been established before I was turned to the dark side so to speak ;) then I doubt the idea to to ship them would ever have occured to me. But at this point I'm too far gone (and once I'm in something I generally have a hard time letting go...lol).
I think you're right, though that as long as we keep perspective then it's fine
I really think it depends on the fandom. I've been in and around long enough to know that some fandoms will have dedicated shippers of one particular pairing who read stories that have other pairings (Stargate, and Star Wars, for example), and even write them on occasion
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See, I'm not sure if I would want to be involved in bigger fandoms. I mean really I feel I still sit slightly on the fringe in this fandom, despite my partcipation I still don't feel I have been fully brought into the fold so to speak (of course this is the story of my life because I'm distant and blah blah
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AND Let's not forget slash vs. het shippers. That is a whole 'nother can of worms. Time like this, I'm pleased the only fandom I am fully participate in is so small, we simply welcome everyone just for the fresh perspective.
And don't even get me going on how insane Buffy fandom was back in the day. Fun, but in-fucking-sane. BNFs all over the place, driving newbies to tears and ostracizing those who focus only on certain pairings. Then I left, because life is too short to get all sucked into other people's mental illnesses.
Speaking as a non-shipper...I don't flame shippers, in fact I read a great amount of shipper fan fiction on G/E; though I wouldn't write it myself. If I did not I would miss out on a great deal of excellent writing
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See, I think it's ridiculous people have unfriended you because of what you write. If they don't want to read it fine -- if it's not your thing then it's not your thing, but it feels like people judge others solely based on how or what they write in fandom when that's not a true full picture of who a person is. In CI I can see where you would have a harder time being a non g/e shipper, but I guess all fandoms and forums are different.
And I agree, we should always write what is important to us...what interests us.
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Oh, and should be "NOT pairing up everything with a pulse." Gah.
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I think at this point if Joe magically came back or if either met someone else, I don't think I could let the ship go, but if it had already been established before I was turned to the dark side so to speak ;) then I doubt the idea to to ship them would ever have occured to me. But at this point I'm too far gone (and once I'm in something I generally have a hard time letting go...lol).
I think you're right, though that as long as we keep perspective then it's fine
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Let's not forget slash vs. het shippers. That is a whole 'nother can of worms. Time like this, I'm pleased the only fandom I am fully participate in is so small, we simply welcome everyone just for the fresh perspective.
And don't even get me going on how insane Buffy fandom was back in the day. Fun, but in-fucking-sane. BNFs all over the place, driving newbies to tears and ostracizing those who focus only on certain pairings. Then I left, because life is too short to get all sucked into other people's mental illnesses.
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and what does "BNF" mean?
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Read that. It's funny. Clicky the links.
I'll respond more succinctly later when I'm not at work.
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LOL. Ah, so they're like the queen bitches in charge. Scary.
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And I agree, we should always write what is important to us...what interests us.
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