But I'll also say this: It really says something that there are DL shippers who now hate the ship and left it. That's the price shippers pay when their ship goes canon and TPTB royally fucks it up; only the most pathetic and clingy of the lot will continue to like it ... not because they're actually happy, but because they literally have nothing else to live for.
The real winners are the ones whose ship will never go canon and never be messed with by TPTB. Why do ya think slash fandoms are so enormous and powerful? Fandom runs on subtext and imagination, not canon validation. And anyway, if you even need canon validation just to feel like your ship means anything to begin with, how sad is that?
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But I'll also say this: It really says something that there are DL shippers who now hate the ship and left it. That's the price shippers pay when their ship goes canon and TPTB royally fucks it up; only the most pathetic and clingy of the lot will continue to like it ... not because they're actually happy, but because they literally have nothing else to live for.
The real winners are the ones whose ship will never go canon and never be messed with by TPTB. Why do ya think slash fandoms are so enormous and powerful? Fandom runs on subtext and imagination, not canon validation. And anyway, if you even need canon validation just to feel like your ship means anything to begin with, how sad is that?