I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

[flemmings]

I see memes going around- the Fandom Sins meme, the shipping meme, and I... um, am at a loss. 'My concept of shipping'? 'Cosplay and mimicking characters?'

Have you ever
Stalked some one online/at a con/at school, because of who they cosplayed/RP/remind you of?
Claimed a character as your muse/soulbond/head mate?
Claimed you ARE a given character?

To paraphrase the Brit sitcom that ran before, well, most of you guys were born, "they didn't do things like that when we were alive."

Trundles off with her walker and her fleecy booties...

...still muttering 'Concept of *shipping*???'

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It's not that I didn't like it, really, but that the people who made those memes thought that *this* is how fandom is conducted. From the fanficrants and fandom_wank material of the Fandom Sins list, to the metafandom smell of 'shipping and its practice', those memes managed to hit all the lowest points and most deplorable practices of fandom.

when I say "I love A/B", it doesn't mean "I want them to be together forever", it can mean "I feel that the one-sided feelings from A to B in this part of canon are well-written".

See, that's the rational approach to shipping (or pairing or whatever.) It says something that shipping now has automatic connotations of batshit fervour and fandom holy war in people's minds. Mind, the religious fundamentalists are always there in RL giving lessons on how it's done; the fans just took lessons from their environment.