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

[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.