Animu tangent split from LTD (there are spoilers...you've been warned)

[Vendel]

Take a joke dipshit.

 

[Strangelove]

It's pretty much unanimous in the fandom that it was terrible so dissatisfied fans muse on alternate scenarios.

There's a TVTropes link to be made somewhere in here, maybe more.

I won't do that, though. You're all busy people with lives and don't need hours of your time sucking into that abyss

Also I'm lazy and cba finding the link.


On the slightly related subject of good art, I started reading Vagabond. That's some nice art

 

[looneymoon]

Cloud and Sefiros were not implied as wanting each others cocks.

To be fair, Squenix does like to fanservice them as much as possible.

Some people just like that kind of chemistry (stalker/victim relationships, I presume). Actually, I do too I just don't ship Cloud/Sephiroth


editting: echoing all the Harry Potter sentiments

 

[Gabranth]

And obviously I agree with Karen Smith. Shipping is just enjoying one aspect of the story.

I can see where I'm Batman is coming from though. I don't get why people ship Silent Hill characters for instance. Henry x Eileen doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.

But most fiction I read or watch has some romance to it and so focusing on that romantic aspect is perfectly logical IMO.

To be fair though, there are few ships I completely support as in I'd go out of my way to argue for them.
One of those rare examples of ships I wholly support Fuffy (Buffy x Faith).

 

[Max Payne]

bleh

you people are infected by nihonland obviously

gtfo my pure and sterile america

Spoiler

 

[looneymoon]

And obviously I agree with Karen Smith. Shipping is just enjoying one aspect of the story.

I can see where I'm Batman is coming from though. I don't get why people ship Silent Hill characters for instance. Henry x Eileen doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.

But most fiction I read or watch has some romance to it and so focusing on that romantic aspect is perfectly logical IMO.

To be fair though, there are few ships I completely support as in I'd go out of my way to argue for them.
One of those rare examples of ships I wholly support Fuffy (Buffy x Faith).

FAITHXBUFFY IS MY BUFFY OTP. I'm not even kidding. Fuck Angel/Buffy or Spike/Buffy, this is the true Buffy ship

but yeah shipping for shipping's sake is pretty dumb. Like back in the Digimon days, I would read Tai/Sora fanfic that would pair up Matt/Mimi just for the sake of pairing them up and I was like "wut."

 

[Zee]

I wouldn't have minded Harry/Ginny or even Ron/Hermione if JKR stopped trying to force the idea they were all "soulmates" rather than what they actually were -- HORNY FUCKING TEENAGERS. Dating in school is one thing, but the idea these characters got married to each other is fucking laughable.

Actually i think JKR has answered all of that in other sources but it doesn't change the fact the actual epilogue told us jack shit beyond the superficial.

Yeah this. She actually had all this information and just decided the pairings were more important? Goddamit, lady.

After Hermione and Viktor broke up I lost all interest in the romance subplots anyway.

 

[Max Payne]

I'm not a shipper, but I never liked Angel and Buffy as a couple simply because I loved Angel in his show and hated Buffy

 

[Vendel]

I wouldn't have minded Harry/Ginny or even Ron/Hermione if JKR stopped trying to force the idea they were all "soulmates" rather than what they actually were -- HORNY FUCKING TEENAGERS. Dating in school is one thing, but the idea these characters got married to each other is fucking laughable.

One would think that the years of fighting evil wizards and the like together would make them all closer then HORNY FUCKING TEENAGERS.

 

[Gabranth]

I like Ron/Hermione. Unlike most other HP ships, it was properly built up. Even before the blatant hints in Book 4, I was positive they'd get together.

Though HIP shipping is definitely a dull subject.

FAITHXBUFFY IS MY BUFFY OTP. I'm not even kidding. Fuck Angel/Buffy or Spike/Buffy, this is the true Buffy ship

Well they work great together. Unlike her vampire lovers, Faith and Buffy could grow old together.
They also have the ever lovely Hot n' Cold chemistry.

Plus there's tons of hints at Fuffy and a lot of it was intentional.

 

[Strangelove]

Evil wizards are a metaphor for the evil teachers and troubles all teenagers experience.

I'm also reading Spanish Harry Potter but that's neither here nor there

 

[Zee]

I hated Ron/Hermione mostly because I hated Ron and in my eyes she will forever be too good for him.

Plus I just thought more often than not he was a dick to her.

One would think that the years of fighting evil wizards and the like together would make them all closer then HORNY FUCKING TEENAGERS.

no



I do love how we got off topic in the off topic thread. : D

 

[looneymoon]

I'm a Harry/Hermione shipper, the plague of the HP shipping community

Actually, I liked Ron and didn't mind Ron/Hermione. Harry/Ginny was terrible though. Other than maybe Bill/Fleur I didn't care much for the canon HP ships.

I think there needs to be another thread "shipping tangent split from anime tangent split from that other shipping debate that's now on its fourth thread."

 

[Zee]

I'm a Harry/Hermione shipper, the plague of the HP shipping community

Aww. :C I don't ship H/Hr, but it doesn't grate on me the way R/Hr does. I have no idea why.

But honestly I think some people's reaction to H/Hr shippers is way out of line. Let people ship what they want, yeah?

I think there needs to be another thread "shipping tangent split from anime tangent split from that other shipping debate that's now on its fourth thread."

Best topic title ever.

 

[null]

I didn't GAF about the HP pairings, and I don't care if JKR sucks at romance. Romance wasn't the point. /Renegade Shepard

I do think she did a realistic job depicting Harry's personality as his life morphed into a waking nightmare, and a great job exploring the theme of identity in general, keeping the story suspenseful and interesting, not being afraid to murder half the protagonists, and ending with a bang.

 

[Eerie]

I never shipped in HP because the romance side is not what interested me. As someone who writes, though, I had an interest - did I guess right? Heck, turned out I did guess out right. I guessed Ron/Hermione since book 2 [they were exactly what idiotics teenagers attracted to one another do, seriously, for that she got them right] and Harry/Ginny in book 5. I still think that she sucks at writing romance, period.

I don't ship often [Cloud/Tifa, Ichigo/Rukia mostly] mainly because I tend to mostly "support" silently pairings, or I am more interested in what their interactions will produce. Even in my shipping, I tend to be like that, not too much on the "and what if they had babies" [even though I write smut for the lulz] side. It's the interactions and how the pairing functions that interests me the most, and how they can make each other evolve. Not many pairings are really good - and nowadays, when I compare them to the Ichigo/Rukia interactions, I tend to think that I'm spoiled because they are that awesome to and for each other, so I'm kinda "yeah, main pairing is that, and...? XD

I tend to think that romance is usually a part of a story - be it big or tiny. The facts that fans go on about that is I think quite natural - may they want to fill the blank or to support the pairings they like, people are attracted to different kind of interactions. It generates both positive and negative things - I tend to think that fandom is a tiring thing - but yeah, it's nothing out of the ordinary. It just got bigger with the internets - before that, you could only talk about it with your friends, now it's instant all over the world. I heard that even back then, people complained about Little Women's ending haha.

The fact is that nowadays, I think that authors should be aware of this and become more cautious with the romance side. I think that Rowling is the perfect example of author who didn't give a damn about shipping, who had decided her pairings long ago and didn't try to weave them in the story, and ended her book the way she wanted with the pairings she first thought about, which resulted in the general assessment that she doesn't write romance well.

 

[Zee]

I didn't GAF about the HP pairings, and I don't care if JKR sucks at romance. Romance wasn't the point. /Renegade

Shepard.

 

[Dana Scully]

It's the interactions and how the pairing functions that interests me the most, and how they can make each other evolve.

Pretty much this. I'm an avid shipper of many pairings, many of them very crack (Yuffentine or Grangersnape, yesplz), but I don't ship because I want to see them have babies - I ship because I want to see those two characters interact. Hell, I don't even care if it's romantic, friendship's dandy too.

This is also why I tend to find canon pairings, like CloudTifa, simply uninteresting. It's not that I don't like them - it's just that their relationship has already been explored in the canon material and leaves little room for interpretation/development, and that's boring. I've always found crack to be the most creative.

Of course, 70% of fanfic writers in any fandom don't seem to grasp the concept of staying in character, which makes finding decent pairing fics, even canon pairings, tedious as hell.

 

[Gabranth]

Yuffentine isn't all that crack. DoC did a great job in establishing some Ho Yay between Yuffie and Vincent.
More of the Hot 'n Cold pairings I like.

 

[Splintered]

I would qualify Yuffentine as crack. DoC was heavily Vincent/Lucrecia and I didn't see any other romance going on.

I guess I ship, but never too seriously. Ironically, I avoid all shipping debates or discussions like the fucking plague. FFVII is my exception, obviously, since I started when I was eleven and didn't know any better, it's like a crack addiction.

But pretty much every other fandom I have disliked shipping wars and shipping factions. Naruto's was just... ugh.

 

[Gabranth]

SasuNaru is canon. Neither Naruto or Sasuke have any heterosexual ideas after the Timeskip.

 

[Splintered]

Neither Naruto or Sasuke have any heterosexual ideas after the Timeskip.

Does anybody in Naruto?

 

[Gabranth]

Kakashi has. He's always awesome.

 

[null]

Shepard.

 

[Splintered]