In the comments to the "would slashers support het couples"-post I often read that het-couples were not as interesting, because their relationship was often canon
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Honestly? Several of my favorite slash pairings are canon (Apollo/Midnighter, for example), and I also ship a lot of canon het ships. So I don't see being canon as any sort of drawback (if anything, I see it as a bonus--I get canon support for my interpretations of characters).
As long as the ship was handled semi-decently, I'd be thrilled, just as I was thrilled when Kate/Sawyer became canon.
A couple being canon doesn't mean you have to lose fic potential or variety, either. For one thing, there's no limit to the number of AUs you can write for a pairing--so what if guy A and guy B first had sex in the finale of season three? You can still write a branching-off-from-canon AU where they got together in season two. And while het pairings often are executed less interestingly in canon than in fic, that's not always the case nor necessarily something that will limit the size of a fandom or popularity of a ship. Look at Buffy/Spike, which exploded in popularity from season five of BTVS on. Look at all the Beecher/Keller fic that was written for OZ. Look at the jump in popularity that Jack/Elizabeth experienced after DMC came out.
As long as the ship was handled semi-decently, I'd be thrilled, just as I was thrilled when Kate/Sawyer became canon.
A couple being canon doesn't mean you have to lose fic potential or variety, either. For one thing, there's no limit to the number of AUs you can write for a pairing--so what if guy A and guy B first had sex in the finale of season three? You can still write a branching-off-from-canon AU where they got together in season two. And while het pairings often are executed less interestingly in canon than in fic, that's not always the case nor necessarily something that will limit the size of a fandom or popularity of a ship. Look at Buffy/Spike, which exploded in popularity from season five of BTVS on. Look at all the Beecher/Keller fic that was written for OZ. Look at the jump in popularity that Jack/Elizabeth experienced after DMC came out.
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