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WCDT Strips 3516 to 3520 (3rd to 7th July 2017)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 11 Jul 2017, 10:25 ---So what I'm getting from this, then, is it's not that you guys have a problem with shipping, conceptually -- at least, not when it's written as a romantic piece instead of as an erotica piece -- you guys just have a problem in that most of the time it's done superficially or badly.
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Indeed. In fact, even I have written fan fiction - a conclusion following the third Evangelion film in which there are three possible ships with the MC (Shinji) with which I tease the readers ever so gently (ending up with the one they are conventionally least likely to expect, naturally). The shipping is not the essence of the story, though.
Thrillho:
Something I have enjoyed about coming to terms with my own queerness and investing in the queer community more is having a group of male friends that I can be affectionate with, verbally and physically, the same way I am with my female and non-binary friends.
Sometimes I like to tell someone I like what they're wearing or that their hair looks good. This shouldn't need to be something unique to my interaction with females.
I am actually very pleased that a couple of my hetero cis male friends are down with this kind of thing too. It's actually even more heartening. I work with a guy who is a definitive 'lad' but is such a softy deep down and is always quick to comment if I've had a trim or if he likes my shirt.
The world is getting better in some small ways, sometimes.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers ---So what I'm getting from this, then, is it's not that you guys have a problem with shipping, conceptually -- at least, not when it's written as a romantic piece instead of as an erotica piece -- you guys just have a problem in that most of the time it's done superficially or badly.
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Ultimately though ours is not the opinion that matters.
Tova:
You're a moderator. Your opinion of what kind of shipping does or does not constitute a problem matters a very great deal.
pwhodges:
He means that we try to do what we believe Jeph would want in his forum (in the first instance to prevent him feeling the need to close the forum down, which was a real possibility when I became a moderator); and he has in fact endorsed our attitude to shipping - see the sticky thread: "Conduct in this forum". Our opinion matters to the forum because it is what informs our decisions; but it is intended, in this respect, to be a mirror of Jeph's opinion rather than necessarily our own personal one (which, mind you, could be the same).
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