Snowflake Challenge #3

[snowynight]

Challenge #3

In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

- When I was a younger fan, I felt somewhat uneasy about ships with huge power difference. My feeling then was inconsistent, and didn't have a good rationale. I didn't talk about it nor judge others for their preference. I just thought that this wasn't a thing for me.

Then I came across and got intrigued by the ship manifestoes about Gibbs/Tony (CSI: Original), and Dumbledore/Snape (Harry Potter ). Nowadays I have quite a number of pairings with power imbalance. It's the feature, not the bug.

- When I learnt about the term OTP, it meant loving character A and B most and exclusively shipping them together. I was confused when people used a much looser definition and secretly judged them as being wrong.. Nowadays I accepted that meaning changes, and my way isn't the only way.

Comments

[silveradept]

Power differential ships and the changing definitions of an OTP. (Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure I ever got a definition of an OTP.) Either way, hooray for a greater understanding and for finding things that you do enjoy in the tropes.

[snowynight]

Thank you! It's better to expand my horizons.

My first definition of OTP came from Star Trek: TOS fandom, so it's kind of old school. Sometimes I wondered how my fannish life would change if I got into newer fandoms first.

[wendelah1]

When I learnt about the term OTP, it meant loving character A and B most and exclusively shipping them together. I was confused when people used a much looser definition and secretly judged them as being wrong.. Nowadays I accepted that meaning changes, and my way isn't the only way.

I thought much the same thing, wondered how people could have more than One True Pairing but people do, and that's okay.

[snowynight]

Yeah, it's all right for people to be different from me. It makes fandoms more fun.

[barbaratp]

Eu até gosto de casais com dinâmica de poder diferentes (NCIS assim como você). Porque isso aborda toda uma gama de problemas extras que os casais devem resolver além dos factíveis comuns a qualquer relação. Feliz que você esteja tranquilo no fandom agora

[snowynight]

Eu concordo!

[tjs_whatnot]

Power and control are such fun things to play with in the fictional world. I'm glad that you've asked yourself the freedom to explore them.

And yeah, my first fandom was a huge one with so very many characters and the concept of OTP made no sense to me, how can you only have this one relationship, these two characters? It wasn't until I joined fandoms with fewer characters, or a relationship that was so strong and perfect (even if flawed) that no one messed with it, but they still played with those dynamics and circumstances that it started making sense.

❤️❤️

[snowynight]

It's fun for characters to manage (or not) navigation of power issues.

yeah, sometimes, a pairing is so perfect for us.