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WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Eastrim on 25 May 2016, 07:55 ---I never really understood why it's so verboten to ship the characters when Jeph does so regularly,
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History; in the years up to 2010 the discussion got so unpleasant that Jeph was threatening to close the board down completely until the mods clamped down and instituted a new era. Now for sure, the shipping wasn't the only thing which led to this, but it was clearly a part of it. It's better this way - trust us!
Case:
Actually, no matter their individual strengths, weaknesses and ... respective "things", their inter-sibling communication isn't half bad.
I shudder to think how this conversation would play out between me & my sistermonster. Lets say that "sibling-induced self-awareness" is not really our strong suit.
I guess its safe to say that if "the talk" only involved harpoons, everybody who knows us would consider that the "Phew! This could have gone a lot worse"-scenario ...
hedgie:
My siblings and I barely even speak. I'd love to have their kind of reaction[1], but c'est la vie.
[1] Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration. I've come to the point where I don't care enough to try to improve things, but there still is an occasional longing.
TheEvilDog:
Yeah, to be honest pretty much all of the interaction between myself and my own sister is the pair of us insulting each other.
Which is still better than when we were kids and constantly fought like cats and dogs.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Eastrim on 25 May 2016, 07:55 ---
--- Quote from: emsilly on 25 May 2016, 07:25 ---(Also, epic foreshadowing.)
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I never really understood why it's so verboten to ship the characters when Jeph does so regularly, both in the sense of writing their relationships and writing characters who are shipping the other characters. Both the board and Jeph act like it's some kind of offense against the material.
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It is, after all, a strip about relationships and we're here to speculate.
One way to look at it is that they're Jeph's characters and he gets to decide what they do.
Another is to look at the spectrum from well-grounded speculation ("Dale and Marigold are squabbling so hard, it may foreshadow getting together") to Hannelore slashfic at the other extreme.
Shipping that violates the orientations of the characters disrespects the characterization. Jeph can tease us with Marten/Steve in gag strips but if we do something like that it should be with our own comic strips.
Does that help?
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