Sail your ship into my harbor

[niniel_1]

After hearing from many directions that Merlin is the gayest thing on air since Queer as Folk, I decided to give it a try. I watched the first season and am now well into the second. It’s entertaining and I like most of the characters and most of the episode plots are just cute

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[myworldmytrue]

For the record, in all my months in the Merlin fandom, I've never come across a single fangirl of the “bradley/colin, plz I want u 2 cum on my titz!” variety. Because this just isn't the Supernatural fandom that sort of fandom. Sure, fans say that Bradley's sexy and funny, or that Colin is adorable and pretty (and fans have preferences according to their personal tastes, so the fandom is kind of devided into Colin!girls and Bradley!girls. But there's no stupid, pointless fight about the matter, and fans appreciate both boys, even if they might prefer one over the other), but the fandom squee is always over the two of them and their relationship, either as Arthur and Merlin, or just as Bradley and Colin. And there's next to no shipping wars, there's no wank (at least not the obnoxious, delusional kind), and everyone is just around to flail over the gay and the pretty and the silly. And the quality of the fic is exceptionally good, overall. It seems to me that people in this fandom aren't so much fanatical as they are enamoured and

[niniel_1]

Enamoured and devoted is bad enough for me :D But as I said, I will probably try a fanfic or two. And I do like the characters, I just don't understand all the fuss. And if I went and said that in the fandom, they'd eat me alive.

Anyway, I couldn't help noticing this:
"Pretty, scruffy boys! I kind of want to lick them both. XD" by myworldmytrue. Are you saying that's not the slightest bit disturbed and fanatical? :D Although, I guess I should expect it from you by now :).

I wonder why books are more interesting? Maybe they give more freedom or something. Thank god I found Sirius/Remus before the third HP movie. What if I didn't have my OTP?

[myworldmytrue]

Yeah, well, I'm sure there are plenty of people who like Sirius and Remus as characters, but don't understand why people insist on shipping them (or think that R/S shippers are delusional and pathetic). "Understanding all the fuss" is what being a fan, or part of a fandom, is all about.

Are you saying that's not the slightest bit disturbed and fanatical?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Because it was A JOKE. It's not like I'd actually do something like that. I respect the boys too much, for one. And I'm not interested in either of them that way. I just like the way they are together and around each other (and I don't mean that in the RPS sense. Yeah, I read the fics, but I can still tell the difference between fantasy and reality...sure, the idea of them together as a couple is undeniably sweet, but I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting for them to come out of the closet). I don't consider it "disturbed" for someone to like an actor or his/her work. And I don't like the word "fanatical" or "fanatic" because it seems to

[niniel_1]

No need to get so defensive, I was joking too, you see. I guess I'm kinda jealous that people can find such joy in things I can't :( Makes me feel a bit left out, I suppose, because it sometimes really feels I can't find joy anywhere or in anything.

And anyway, I don't really understand fancying people without knowing them, so all this "lusting after celebs" is quite a foreign thing and hard to figure out.

I obsess over things, too. But I'm jealous about them, sometimes, and I can't understand other peoples' need to shareshareshare. As if it isn't enough to just love things in silence. I suppose the eagerness of the most fandoms is in some way repulsive. They make such a big deal about EVERYTHING. It's scary. Like they need the other fans to fuel their own obsessions.

Maybe I'm just rubbish at sharing things I like. Comes from being an only child :D

[luhtavilla]

I completely understand what you mean about moving pictures not doing it for you. I used to be like that before Merlin (I do love Supernatural to pieces, but I prefer not to wear my slash goggles while watching it). I'm usually way too conscious of the actors behind the roles and can't think of them purely as fictional characters. I'm no fan of RPS so pairing up TV characters feels somewhat like disturbing someone's privacy because I'm using real people's faces in my imagination. For some weird reason it doesn't bother me with Merlin, but I suppose I'm kind of trying to pretend that Merlin and Arthur exist separately from their actors and just happen to share a resemblance with real people. Yeah, I'm still trying to explain it to myself...

To each their own I suppose.

[myworldmytrue]

I'm no fan of RPS so pairing up TV characters feels somewhat like disturbing someone's privacy because I'm using real people's faces in my imagination.

This has always been my problem with RPS. I can ship the characters just fine, because even though they look like the actors, and even if there might be some similarities (in personality or otherwise) between the actors and the characters they portray, it's still the character's actions and motivations, the character's thoughts and words. And if actors are good in what they're doing, I no longer see the real person behind the part, I only see the character. So, for example, I can ship Jack Sparrow and James Norrington like there's no tomorrow, but Johnny Depp and Jack Davenport just feel awful and wrong in every possible way.

That being said...yes, I have become a horribly devoted Bradley/Colin shipper (although I also friend!ship them). I have NO idea how that happened. I feel like such a horrible creep for doing it, but apparently not horrible enough to stop reading the fics. I

[niniel_1]

RPS is weird. WEIRD. What if some sick bastard shipped me and a friend? *shudder* Well, I don't have fans. But if I had.

I should probably try to read more "serious" comics and see, if I can ship them. It would be interesting to find out, if just pictures freak me out or if it is the actor thing.

[snowoh]

I just wanted to say that I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about

[niniel_1]

No worries. If you want, I can explain everything. But I would advice against it :D