ff.net hijinks - the CLOSETians are after me
Logged on today for the first time in surprisingly many days (read: I'm not ignoring anyone, but am rather distracted by Real Life at the moment), and found this gem in my inbox:
( cut for a long review from ff.net. To summarize: 'I love Eva (who is NOT Edriss!) and think she should be in every fic in the world and, also, do you want to join my CLOSET club? Initiation consists of hijacking your story and turning it into a 'shipper fic.' )
( cut for a long review from ff.net. To summarize: 'I love Eva (who is NOT Edriss!) and think she should be in every fic in the world and, also, do you want to join my CLOSET club? Initiation consists of hijacking your story and turning it into a 'shipper fic.' )
Ditto. When I come across a shipping discussion, I'd like a little more than 50 replies of "I love Esplin/Edriss!". It's great to know that someone likes a ship, but I'd like to know why. Even more so if it's a shipper board. (Which this one definitely was, though it was advertising itself as a board for everyone.)
I've had problems with shippers in other fandoms before and I'd prefer not to even go there with Animorphs.
I'm sorry to hear that. Out of curiousity, though, which fandom/shippers?
I'm thinking something along the lines of pointing out that I don't intend for there to be any ships in the fic, but if they care to read Eva/Alloran and/or Visser One/Alloran (I don't see how, but whatever) from subtext, that's just fine with me.
I think that would be the most diplomatic way of handling this. Though as a shipper, I'll warn you that might just encourage them to think the story really is a CLOSET fic in disguise. I know that sounds crazy, but shippers are crazy people, who tend to read into things. (For example, there's this one Animorphs fic that I love -- among many other reasons, chiefly that it's a good Ax fic period -- because I think it's packed with Marco/Ax subtext. I know it's not really a shipper fic, but once I found out the author was a slasher, I started thinking of it as semi-shippy...)
Maybe I'll even restrain myself from pointing out that I read it as Tobias/Ax and, horror upon horrors, Alloran/Seerow. ;)
Alloran/Seerow? Have I missed that part of the story? Because, hey, the Tobias/Ax is obvious, but Alloran/Seerow went right over my head.
If it makes you feel any better, though, they'll probably grow out of this in a few years and start to enjoy fics that (gasp!) aren't their ship.
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