Um... hmm. Possibly I should have considered the fact that I don't have ready answers for some of these. *grin*
I'm not sure I've ever abandoned a ship I was really attached to, except for being less intensely invested in various fandoms than I used to be. I have, however, started out willing to read certain ships and gradually become less so. A lot of that was in Harry Potter fandom -- early on I was reading very indiscriminately, and I'd go along with anything that made an interesting story, and later I wound up being pickier about characterization and attitude. So: Tom/Ginny -- yes, really. But on the condition of redemption, and that's hard to pull off, and maybe even that can't really get it past the creepy elements unless you go AU very early. Harry/Hermione -- I didn't start out with any stake in the ship wars, so stories where the romance went another direction didn't bug me. But the H/Hr shippers' arguments for why H/G and R/Hr shouldn't happen soured me on this pairing even speculatively. Hermione/Snape -- Once Hermione's an adult and not working for him, the past student/teacher dynamic doesn't really upset me and the age difference steadily becomes less of an issue. But the frequency of offputting characterizations of Ron, Harry, and their friendship with Hermione (and/or the odd "Marriage Law" trope) went past my level of tolerance.
I'm not sure I've ever abandoned a ship I was really attached to, except for being less intensely invested in various fandoms than I used to be. I have, however, started out willing to read certain ships and gradually become less so. A lot of that was in Harry Potter fandom -- early on I was reading very indiscriminately, and I'd go along with anything that made an interesting story, and later I wound up being pickier about characterization and attitude. So:
Tom/Ginny -- yes, really. But on the condition of redemption, and that's hard to pull off, and maybe even that can't really get it past the creepy elements unless you go AU very early.
Harry/Hermione -- I didn't start out with any stake in the ship wars, so stories where the romance went another direction didn't bug me. But the H/Hr shippers' arguments for why H/G and R/Hr shouldn't happen soured me on this pairing even speculatively.
Hermione/Snape -- Once Hermione's an adult and not working for him, the past student/teacher dynamic doesn't really upset me and the age difference steadily becomes less of an issue. But the frequency of offputting characterizations of Ron, Harry, and their friendship with Hermione (and/or the odd "Marriage Law" trope) went past my level of tolerance.
Basically I got pickier about characterization.
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