because it’s not the fact that it’s hot, hot ~*yaoi*~ or whatever - i have a lot of het ships too. i don’t want to be labeled as one of those fans who will ship something solely because it’s gay/refuses to ship het, so i thought for a while about it, and this is what i came up with.
okay, so the thing about a lot of tv shows (and movies/books/etc., but for the sake of this post i’m generalizing with tv shows) is that when they have a pairing that they want their audience to root for, they force it. like, they really awkwardly force it. they punch you in the face with this pairing.
take scott and allison in s1 of teen wolf.
Thank you Nina for finally putting this into words. This also describes my attraction to non canon straight pairings as well. I remember an interview where Dan Harmon expresses that one of the biggest things he’s learned about tv from fandom is that viewers want to feel like they’ve discovered a ship. They don’t want to be TOLD what to ship. That one of his worst mistakes was making the “main” ship so obvious and in-your-face. I think non canon ships (slash included) tend to interest me because they don’t feel like they were set up to happen. You get to enjoy the platonic element of their bonding first. The natural chemistry. I ship a lot of non canon slash AND non canon het because im typically put off by the whole “designated romantic interests 5eva after episode 2” trope that you see so much on TV.
It’s become a bit of a problem.
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i've been thinking recently about why i have a lot of gay ships.
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