RP shipping when one of the parties is happily hooked up with someone else? Narsty.
For slash ships, I get it. (Of course I would. Sheesh.*) Beards, blah blah. I also (again, of course) get it if you assume they're poly or otherwise fine with the extracurricular.** And if you're just plain gossipping, I get that, too. Lord knows there were plenty of people flailing about Brad and Angie when he was still with Jen.
But shipping a m/f pair of co-stars who have perfectly happy marriages or even kids as if those other partners don't exist, or implying they're cheating--or should be? Going on about what an awful troll someone's beloved partner is just because s/he's getting in the way of your character-inspired pair? Ick.
I'm generally not a "your fic is not OK" sort, FWIW. I'm just talking here about actual RL shipping, not fic writing. I'm talking about people who claim to be fans of someone, and yet have so little respect for the people they love because they confuse chemistry between on-screen pairs with what's actually going on in RL. I don't care how pretty your pair looks in your show, or how they're good, close friends in RL. If one or both of them goes home to other people, it ain't happening. Let it go.
(That said, I do find it hi-larious that my show's fictional OTP is also a RL OTP. Heh.)
This message brought to you by the creepy Anna/Josh shippers in Fringe fandom. Dude. He's married to Diane Fucking Kruger. He already has that Hot Nordic Blonde thing, yeah? Also, the people who want Ben to date Ruth Kearney instead of Vicki. Gross.
*FTR I still think much of the D/E hate came from people who confused Sean and Elijah with their characters. Bleh. Yes, S/F is the OTP. No, that doesn't mean Sean's cheating on his wife with a teenage boy toy. No, it's not "wrong" that said teenage boy toy might (according to informed theory at the time) have instead been dating someone he wasn't paired with on screen. Egad.
**Why yes, I have had the occasional mental image that involves Andrew, Hannah, Ben and Vicki. WHAT OF IT, YO?
For slash ships, I get it. (Of course I would. Sheesh.*) Beards, blah blah. I also (again, of course) get it if you assume they're poly or otherwise fine with the extracurricular.** And if you're just plain gossipping, I get that, too. Lord knows there were plenty of people flailing about Brad and Angie when he was still with Jen.
But shipping a m/f pair of co-stars who have perfectly happy marriages or even kids as if those other partners don't exist, or implying they're cheating--or should be? Going on about what an awful troll someone's beloved partner is just because s/he's getting in the way of your character-inspired pair? Ick.
I'm generally not a "your fic is not OK" sort, FWIW. I'm just talking here about actual RL shipping, not fic writing. I'm talking about people who claim to be fans of someone, and yet have so little respect for the people they love because they confuse chemistry between on-screen pairs with what's actually going on in RL. I don't care how pretty your pair looks in your show, or how they're good, close friends in RL. If one or both of them goes home to other people, it ain't happening. Let it go.
(That said, I do find it hi-larious that my show's fictional OTP is also a RL OTP. Heh.)
This message brought to you by the creepy Anna/Josh shippers in Fringe fandom. Dude. He's married to Diane Fucking Kruger. He already has that Hot Nordic Blonde thing, yeah? Also, the people who want Ben to date Ruth Kearney instead of Vicki. Gross.
*FTR I still think much of the D/E hate came from people who confused Sean and Elijah with their characters. Bleh. Yes, S/F is the OTP. No, that doesn't mean Sean's cheating on his wife with a teenage boy toy. No, it's not "wrong" that said teenage boy toy might (according to informed theory at the time) have instead been dating someone he wasn't paired with on screen. Egad.
**Why yes, I have had the occasional mental image that involves Andrew, Hannah, Ben and Vicki. WHAT OF IT, YO?