Yes, exactly. I've felt judged by people who are really super against poly ships before, but I've also seen OT3s where I'm like "what, no! why would you?" or "eh well I guess? but I don't really care about one of them." So I can see how a bias in one's fandom circles for or against an OTP or OT3 could really get annoying, especially if there was bullshit about how not doing it the juggernaut way was -ist for whatever reason. Also, smugness is annoying (though I do find "being smug" to be one of those irregular verbs, where I have a happy-place headcanon, you are convinced your way of shipping is the best, and they are smug fuckers who need to be knocked down from their juggernaut high horse).
But agreed on prescriptivism. There's almost always an exception when it comes to the trends in how I ship. I mean, right now I've got a ship situation where I ship A/B, B/C, and A/C (also A/D, A/E, and C/E), including some of them concurrently, and I still have a hard time wrapping my head around A/B/C as a triad. Even though I tend to multiship and enjoy threesomes and various other poly configurations.
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Re: wank containment area
Date: 2018-08-11 12:56 am (UTC)Yes, exactly. I've felt judged by people who are really super against poly ships before, but I've also seen OT3s where I'm like "what, no! why would you?" or "eh well I guess? but I don't really care about one of them." So I can see how a bias in one's fandom circles for or against an OTP or OT3 could really get annoying, especially if there was bullshit about how not doing it the juggernaut way was -ist for whatever reason. Also, smugness is annoying (though I do find "being smug" to be one of those irregular verbs, where I have a happy-place headcanon, you are convinced your way of shipping is the best, and they are smug fuckers who need to be knocked down from their juggernaut high horse).
But agreed on prescriptivism. There's almost always an exception when it comes to the trends in how I ship. I mean, right now I've got a ship situation where I ship A/B, B/C, and A/C (also A/D, A/E, and C/E), including some of them concurrently, and I still have a hard time wrapping my head around A/B/C as a triad. Even though I tend to multiship and enjoy threesomes and various other poly configurations.