#Shipit journal code

(see for example my deep love of hateshipping)īoth of these mean that I look at essays explaining why a rival ship is 'better' because the characters would be happier, or people saying 'I can't believe anyone ships X/Y, they'd be so miserable' and go 'Sure, maybe, but how is that relevant?'. I also ship a lot of relationships because I enjoy the dynamic, not because I necessarily think they should or will actually get together. Unfortunately I also get jarred by happy endings that simply gloss over the flaws in a relationship, so am generally doomed to writing my own fic and feeling hard done by. Thus a believable 'happy ending' is more likely to involve making a flawed relationship work than setting the characters up with other people who suit them better, though I may also 'ship' these alternate pairings in that I enjoy those fanworks that manage not to set off my suspension of disbelief. Fanworks have to have them together or at least take their relationship seriously and then break it up, otherwise I lose my suspension of disbelief. For example, with a lot of canon relationships (or even ships with lots of UST) even if I don't think they're perfect for each other I have trouble imagining them with anyone else. I am able to enjoy fanworks about their relationshipīut I don't always think all of these things.I enjoy fanworks about their relationship.I think their relationship would be happy and healthy.

I have trouble enjoying fanworks where they are not together.

I have trouble imagining them with anyone else, and want to see their relationship explored.

I think they are, or will be, together in canon.

So, when I say 'I ship it', I usually mean one or more of the following: I think this is a cause of a lot of fannish miscommunication, but would be curious to hear other people's thoughts. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites.I've been thinking about the wildly different and sometimes contradictory things that I mean in different contexts by 'I ship X/Y' (Or X/Y/Z/W.), and how this can cause miscommunication when people fail to be psychic and realise which meaning I'm using. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available.

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#Shipit journal code

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