"your best friend becomes a slash shipper because she wants to enjoy creativity in communion with you, a.k.a. the dominant form of play in fan spaces, which may include roleplaying, sharing fic recommendations, trading erotic headcanons, and producing fanworks for/with each other"
yes!!!!!! the social element of shipping/fandom is the source of so much pleasure and it seems like it's very difficult for non-fandom people to comprehend that.
first of all — incredible morning read thank you for writing this, it sums up a lot of my own feelings around this. and also i was JUST saying that them being celebrities in the show allows fans to be parasocial with the characters in an actually satisfying (and completely non toxic) way.
the in-universe celebrity aspect is shockingly underdiscussed — it's only just now starting to be a point of contention in the RPF discourse on twitter, where some people are pointing out that a certain set of deranged fans are doing to francois and connor precisely what the characters in HR feared would be done to them!!!
Russel T Davies × Freya Marske would go CRAZY....everything is possible at this cultural moment so i am manifesting a marvelous light adaptation coattailing on hrs success that ends up airing parallel to the accursed hp remake mirroring the current skip/stucky/avengers: doomsday fever dream
truly the fact that RTD could pull off an insanely good Marvellous Light adaptation came to me in a vision and now i NEED IT 😭 historical gay romance WITH MAGIC what more do you people want
Great article! It really bugs me when people claim one specific reason why a woman would be into slash/yaoi is the universal reason for all women. I saw one article propose that it’s because women are sick of living in a patriarchal world and want to engage in fictional situations where heterosexual men aren’t involved. Maybe some women are feeling this way, but that’s not my experience. I’ve thought about it for years and years, but I don’t even know why I’m into it.
"your best friend becomes a slash shipper because she wants to enjoy creativity in communion with you, a.k.a. the dominant form of play in fan spaces, which may include roleplaying, sharing fic recommendations, trading erotic headcanons, and producing fanworks for/with each other"
yes!!!!!! the social element of shipping/fandom is the source of so much pleasure and it seems like it's very difficult for non-fandom people to comprehend that.
first of all — incredible morning read thank you for writing this, it sums up a lot of my own feelings around this. and also i was JUST saying that them being celebrities in the show allows fans to be parasocial with the characters in an actually satisfying (and completely non toxic) way.
the in-universe celebrity aspect is shockingly underdiscussed — it's only just now starting to be a point of contention in the RPF discourse on twitter, where some people are pointing out that a certain set of deranged fans are doing to francois and connor precisely what the characters in HR feared would be done to them!!!
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Russel T Davies × Freya Marske would go CRAZY....everything is possible at this cultural moment so i am manifesting a marvelous light adaptation coattailing on hrs success that ends up airing parallel to the accursed hp remake mirroring the current skip/stucky/avengers: doomsday fever dream
truly the fact that RTD could pull off an insanely good Marvellous Light adaptation came to me in a vision and now i NEED IT 😭 historical gay romance WITH MAGIC what more do you people want
Great article! It really bugs me when people claim one specific reason why a woman would be into slash/yaoi is the universal reason for all women. I saw one article propose that it’s because women are sick of living in a patriarchal world and want to engage in fictional situations where heterosexual men aren’t involved. Maybe some women are feeling this way, but that’s not my experience. I’ve thought about it for years and years, but I don’t even know why I’m into it.