Oh yeah, I've often said that I am a career rarepair shipper. I do ship bigger ships too, but a lot of the time I just kind of get distracted from The Main Ship Fandom Likes, even when I like it too, and start focusing on two minor characters in the background who are, Idk, maybe standing next to each other in the frame. And it's not that I don't like the bigger ship, but I often sort of feel like that other people have that covered or something, so I should really go back to the important and currently neglected work of thinking about character #1, who has two lines an episode, and character #2, who has never met them in canon, kissing, because they Need me more than the big ship does.
What you said about making things make sense is often a part of it for me too, because it's a fun mental exercise for my brain to gnaw on. If a ship is too easy to figure out then I get bored or something, I guess, because I'm like a collie who needs to be out herding sheep for 9 hours a day or I destroy all the furniture.
Thank you! I really do like organisation and formatting things nicely and making spreadsheets, haha. If only I could harness some of this in wrangling some semblance of order out of the chaos that is real life, haha. But in terms of literal real life mess and clutter, I think I'd be a lot more tidy if various circumstances were a little more ideal, so I'll magnanimously cut myself some slack ;)
I love BBC Ghosts! I never got super fandomy about it, possibly because I like it Just The Way It Is and didn't feel the need to fill in any gaps with fandom, but I love it to bits as a more solo activity. I got into CBS Ghosts after finishing S5 of BBC Ghosts (still need to see the final Christmas special though!) because a) I was completely bereft and b) spoilers for Ghosts CBSsomeone I showed this great Fanny/Julian fanvid, which I'd found when I was helping out with checking the eligibility of this years festivids nominations, casually mentioned that the characters who are based loosely on Fanny and Julian in the CBS show get together canonically, which was highly motivating. At first I was a bit disappointed that Trevor is younger and less despicable than Julian, because I have a huge weakness for terrible middle aged fictional men, but he very quickly won me over, haha. Not least because I got a new ship with an age difference out of it!
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Date: 2024-01-10 04:50 pm (UTC)Oh yeah, I've often said that I am a career rarepair shipper. I do ship bigger ships too, but a lot of the time I just kind of get distracted from The Main Ship Fandom Likes, even when I like it too, and start focusing on two minor characters in the background who are, Idk, maybe standing next to each other in the frame. And it's not that I don't like the bigger ship, but I often sort of feel like that other people have that covered or something, so I should really go back to the important and currently neglected work of thinking about character #1, who has two lines an episode, and character #2, who has never met them in canon, kissing, because they Need me more than the big ship does.
What you said about making things make sense is often a part of it for me too, because it's a fun mental exercise for my brain to gnaw on. If a ship is too easy to figure out then I get bored or something, I guess, because I'm like a collie who needs to be out herding sheep for 9 hours a day or I destroy all the furniture.
Thank you! I really do like organisation and formatting things nicely and making spreadsheets, haha. If only I could harness some of this in wrangling some semblance of order out of the chaos that is real life, haha. But in terms of literal real life mess and clutter, I think I'd be a lot more tidy if various circumstances were a little more ideal, so I'll magnanimously cut myself some slack ;)
I love BBC Ghosts! I never got super fandomy about it, possibly because I like it Just The Way It Is and didn't feel the need to fill in any gaps with fandom, but I love it to bits as a more solo activity. I got into CBS Ghosts after finishing S5 of BBC Ghosts (still need to see the final Christmas special though!) because a) I was completely bereft and b)![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
festivids nominations, casually mentioned that the characters who are based loosely on Fanny and Julian in the CBS show get together canonically, which was highly motivating. At first I was a bit disappointed that Trevor is younger and less despicable than Julian, because I have a huge weakness for terrible middle aged fictional men, but he very quickly won me over, haha. Not least because I got a new ship with an age difference out of it!
spoilers for Ghosts CBS
someone I showed this great Fanny/Julian fanvid, which I'd found when I was helping out with checking the eligibility of this years