Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-108.49.79.202-20130619092230

Applegirl wrote:

I actually don't ship anyone on the show, so I don't know what that's like to pair two characters together and create a possible romance between them. When I say ship, I mean pairings between characters who aren't already paired together officially on the show. Same as me. I don't see the sense in it. I relate shipping to fanfiction and vice versa-the way I see it, the point of fanfiction is to add to the dimensions of characters that are already there, that are already in the original story. Fanfictions and their events should be supported by the content of the original stories. And there's a fine line between adding to the stories and adding to characters in a way that's supported by what's already in the original stories, and disrespecting the original characters, books, and author by taking them and writing your own stories with them that don't add anything to the original story whatsoever, and are purely written for your selfish desires to use those characters. The way I see it, if you're going to do that, write your own story with your own characters that are similar to the ones they are based off of but that actually fit together and have characteristics and traits that bring them together. That way, you can even publish it to boot. Ships are the same-some work, and some are crossin that line and, frankly, are disrespectful. What's worse though is that, in 95% of the cases with fanmade ships...they don't work, because if they did, they'd probably be in the original story somehow, or be supported at least, or evidenced at some point. It's why you will almost never see me, like Applegirl, ship non-canon ships. It's just not the way it works, the way I see it.