I would also like to do this shipping meme (via @soph_sol). I’m going to sleep now—like this toot and I’ll write some answers in the morning. :)
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All right, let's answer these! I have been quite grumpy today but answering questions will probably cheer me up.
1.Three shipping tropes I love:
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@villainousfriend@federatedfandom.net ohhh identity issues is a good one!
Roll it all together!
Only one bed, identity issues, A thinks B is someone else but wishes B is the person they are thinking of while having sex with B (and same with B)!
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@geraineon yesss, I would read the hell out of that! Now who could this work for...
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@villainousfriend@federatedfandom.net I have a fic rec but it's orv, and though it's AU, it spoils story beats...
(And it's not A and B both who is hiding identity but only one side, and it's only a part of the story but loooots of ORV fics have hiding secrets related to identities with each other because ... Canon reasons)
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@geraineon damnit, I really have to read ORV! Maybe I'll end up doing that on my sabbatical 😂
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@villainousfriend@federatedfandom.net Yes! Read ORV! By the time you get to a quarter, you will see the story differently, and then you get to half, you'll see it differently, and then you get to the end, and it will consume your brain.
It has unreliable narrator (sorta! Kim Dokja is not very good at interpreting people actually caring about him, and for all that it's an apocalypse with death games, it's ... very comforting? I think?) And there's found family stuff and healing from trauma (sorta!!) and the power of stories! Using stories to cope with life and the world. The literal power of stories.
(ORV = Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, a Korean webnovel and webtoon)
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Partners having absolute, justified reliance on one another, fully trusting in each other's abilities and that the other one would never let them down. Especially if the rest of the world sees things very differently!
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I like it when the characters in the ship know each other well enough to always (or nearly always) be able to touch each other with the right amount of care. Grabbing the other one by the hair/wrists/waist and manhandling them around? Great, they're into that right now. Clearly signalling an approaching touch and using just the right pressure? Appreciated! Not touching at all? They are so happy to be able to relax together without worrying about it. 🥰
Obviously, in shippy fic, characters' physical interactions are usually just perfect for the situation, because we're writing a fantasy on at least some levels, and that's fine! I do like it, though, when it's clear that touch could be fraught and that these characters have worked their way through that possibility.
Is this just my answer to #3 rephrased? Yeah, maybe.
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Multishipping all the time, including mutually exclusive ships. For me, transformative fandom is about exploring as many ideas and potential story directions as possible for the characters and setting, so let’s try things out!
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I adore rarepairs for all the unexpected insights and emotions they can bring—not to mention the problem-solving aspect of working out how characters who don’t interact much in the source material might come together in the first place. That doesn’t mean I don’t also love mainstream ships, though!
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Monogamy totally works for some ships. Probably. I mean, some people are monogamous so it's definitely the same for fictional characters, right?
(A bit more seriously: I do have monogamous ships, but I can't think of any cases where I wouldn't also ship the same characters as part of some kind of polyamorous relationship. 🤔)
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I’m generally very Why Not Both? about this question. (As with all these questions!) I’m open to there being ships where I get a very firm sense of who’s top and bottom, but it hasn’t really happened yet. There are some characters I feel might be happier in one role or the other, but even with them, I’m the gremlin in the corner asking, “What might it take to change that up? Oh whoops, now they’re crying.” [makes note in lab book]
I did recently discover, however, that I have a strong conviction that xuexiao are vers together. Just cannot imagine them being strict about top/bottom roles! Make of that what you will.
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No, not always, but often. I didn’t/don’t really have any for Machineries of Empire, which I find amusing because Yoon Ha Lee is quite shippy about his own characters there. (Wait, does Nirai Kujen/Everyone/A Bad Time count? Because that’s truly not romantic.)
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It's often fairly important, both as an expression of the characters and their relationship with one another, and because I personally find sex interesting—but I'm interested in all the other parts of a ship as well!
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I love platonic ships too, and there are some in particular that are very important to me! (Wen Qing and Wei Wuxian, QPPs and mad scientist friends forever <3)
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(With the caveats that I still feel fannish about these source materials, even if I'm not very active in them right now, and that I've a fairly loose definition of OTP.)
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It's not important to me, but for some ships it's more meaningful and I like to see them happy (except when I don't, you know).
I would really like to see lavender marriages more often in fic! I also think that weddings make fantastic set pieces for fics, in that they get everyone together, lower inhibitions, and make people think about the romantic relationships they have now or want in future.
This concludes my opinions on marriage.
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Not something I specifically filter out, but also not something I go looking for or that especially holds my attention. I have definitely seen it done well, but I also doubt that I'd recognise it being done badly, since I don't spend a lot of time around kids in my everyday life. If it gets to the point of an author making a chart of OC children and their ages in the fic notes for ease of keeping track, I will probably lose interest, sorry.
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