by nagisa kaworu » Fri Nov 28, 2014 1:43 pm
When it comes to real life shipping, nothing upsets me more when people say real life shipping is gross because "it dehumanizes them" or some other variation of why real life shipping shouldn't be a thing.
There is a very, very fine line between shipping some people, to harassing them and their spouse/close friend or whatever.
I mean, when you ship someone with another person in real life, you ship them based off what /you/ have created in your mind. I know to god's sake that Gavin Free and Michael Jones wouldn't get together, and I prefer it that way! But Gavin and Michael - now/they/ should end up together B)
When it comes to celebrities of any sorts, we don't know everything about them - we only know how they are by how they act when they perform and, as such, we fill in the spaces, creating a variation based off that person. As such? Everyone has a different variation of that person, and so they are merely shipping the characters they have created. So heck yeah, people can imagine their variation of Benedict Cumberbatch proposing to Lady Gaga or whatever.
"But what if the people don't consent to being shipped!" You shriek.
Well, every /sane/ fan would know to NOT ship them. Every /sane/ fan would know how to respect their idol for their choices, and every /sane/ fan knows NOT to harass the shippees with the ship. So what you hear might very well be the crazy fans that every single fandom has, shrieking at the top of their lungs and harassing people. Not the fans who know of boundaries.
'then, show me your true heart. the next action you take will be proof of your true feelings towards me.'
amaru
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