If fandom were politics, I would be an extremely right-wing conservative. In the stuff I love the most, I don't ship at all, just writing canon pairings when the story calls for it, and even in lesser-loved universes my "fanonical" pairings extend only to extremely boring and un-radical ships like Sirius/Remus or Chekov/Sulu.
Worse, when I settle on an OTP I can never again write either person with anyone else, nor can I truly enjoy reading about them with anyone else, even if I find other pairings hot/interesting (e.g. Sulu/Kirk) because of the crushing guilt afterwards. It sucks, but I have long ago accepted that this is who I am. :( I blame the Catholic upbringing, as usual.
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Date: 2009-09-20 04:23 am (UTC)Worse, when I settle on an OTP I can never again write either person with anyone else, nor can I truly enjoy reading about them with anyone else, even if I find other pairings hot/interesting (e.g. Sulu/Kirk) because of the crushing guilt afterwards. It sucks, but I have long ago accepted that this is who I am. :( I blame the Catholic upbringing, as usual.