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USD POLL : Which are your favourites types of "ships"?
29 Apr 2014
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Not a fan of shipping. Non sexual bromances are always funny on screen, yet a large portion of 'fandom' always ends up making it sexual.
ReplyDeleteAll of them really. I have ships for every show I watch and some I prefer to stay strictly friendship but others I'm happy with M/M, M/F or F/F or the ultimate OT3 which solves so many shipping issues ;)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite types are probably battleships or ferryboats and yes i know that's not the question :)
ReplyDeletei think ur missing an option
ReplyDeleteI prefer cruiseships! Lets start a shipping war about ships ;)
ReplyDeleteThe kind that doesn't have psycho shippers who hold the writers hostage with threats of boycotting the show anytime they do something they don't like. Or pretend to be BFF with the creators and writers when it suits them, but when it doesn't, they're ready to murder their entire family.
ReplyDeleteThe kind that has shippers who don't attack actors and actress because their character is a threat to their ship.
The kind that has shippers who don't automatically hate any female character that could be a love interest to whatever male character they ship someone with.
The kind that has shippers who don't take over the entire fandom to the point where the show becomes less enjoyable because your cast out for not caring or liking that ship.
The kind that doesn't constantly get pandered to the point where a moment gets thrown into every episode just because while other ships are put on the backburner to shove the more popular one down everyone's throat.
Those are my favorite kinds of ships.
But do those kind of ships exist though? Haha.
ReplyDeleteThat would be more interesting... I pick cargo ships..
ReplyDeleteSee this is why I tend to ship things in my own little bubble and avoid fandom and talk about the ships with my best friend who is sane (well as sane as me) and try to be blissfully unaware of all the wank and nastiness.
ReplyDeletefemale female romance?
ReplyDeleteLauren Stamile on Grey's Anatomy for example. Her character was attacked from all directions for coming between precious MerDer, so eventually Shonda got rid of her.
ReplyDeleteSometimes they do. I mean, you're always going to find some of that stuff, but some ships (usually the big ones, or lbr always the big ones), have all of that going on at once.
ReplyDeleteWhat does fandom wank mean? I've heard the term used many times. Being British I think that the word wank means something very different in my head.
ReplyDeleteHah it is basically another way of saying drama, I tend to use fandom wank as it comes from a blog that used to highlight the current dramas happening in fandom www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank there are some really funny and horrifying ones over the years!
ReplyDeletemmmmmmm, it depends on how it is done, if it is badly writen I won't ship anything, but I could if it comes organically and feels real and in that case for me it's the same if it male/female, male/male or female/femela, I have no preference as long as it is well writen and developed
ReplyDeleteAs if that's not enough, you can have a "ship" (as in the article at hand) on a ship (as in cruiseships). So you're shipping on a ship. Yo dawg. :P
ReplyDeleteOh that was hard cause my two 'ships' right now are platonic but so rich and sweet.
ReplyDeleteI still like Dean/Cas from supernatural as buddies in arms
And from GoT I adore Tyrion/Sansa and what they could become. Already the moments so far have me smiling like an idiot.
Depending on the actors and characters, my favorite "ships" are between a boy and a girl. Especially if it's revealed they have feelings for each other, but haven't admitted to it to each other yet. I can just melt inside (I'm a huge romantic, I admit to that :P)
ReplyDeleteDanny and Steve on H50,case in point.
ReplyDeleteSo, basically, you hate the kids from "Once Upon a Time." That being my favorite show, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
ReplyDeleteHah I love this
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the actors and the writing, always. This question is totallty pointless.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind shipping if it's friendly, like on Teen Wolf, an awesome show, but some people turn it into more :( I like Fitz and Simmons' relationship, they are cool friends, and the Knave and Alice on Wonderland, it's nice to sometimes see friendships that don't turn into romantic relationships, because if you watch a lot of shows it begins to become a little cliche and redundant, will they or won't they. But it's still fun to watch. And sometimes it's good, like Kira and Scott on Teen Wolf.
ReplyDeleteThis is truth
ReplyDeleteI've always had a thing for sibling-relationships, non-sexual ofcourse
ReplyDeleteNot really a fan of shipping like whatever the writers put together but I will speak out when I don't see a romance connection but only a friendship connection
ReplyDeleteThe kind that go on water.
ReplyDeleteMale/Male friendship and Male/Female friendship.
ReplyDeleteI'm so with you on everything you wrote! OUAT is one of my favorite shows and I'm so scared about what I read sometimes that it made me sick about Twitter and about fandoms.
ReplyDeleteWell, excuse me, where is the F/F romance?? They do exist, you know, just like M/M and M/F.
ReplyDeleteIt really is kind of offensive that this kind of ship wasn't included in the poll.
Shipping sucks. I think it ruins shows.
ReplyDeleteLike Bones, if Booth is the man the show wants him to be, he wouldn't of waited five years to tell her, no matter the circumstance. Then he tells her, she says no, and the reason is she thinks she will hurt him, give me a break. They dragged it out just to maintain viewership. I don't blame them, its the problem with the tv medium as a whole.
Some shows try to make the story line such to make it a little believable, like Castle but even that at times got ridiculous, putting them in moments where you tell the person, no matter what and not having them do it.
Then you have shows like the mentalist, with Jane and Lisbon, where the chemistry comes off in almost no way sexual, yet people still push for it to happen and the show seems like its about to go through with it, even though to me it makes little sense. Or how i met your mother and to a lot lesser extent friends, which get so obsessed with the will they, wont they plot, they ruin the show.
Shipping is leading me away from shows that are clearly designed to go in that direction. That's why the new show I started watching this year is the blacklist, the only person who matters is James Spader.
Why there's no female/female romance?
ReplyDeleteTHIS
ReplyDeleteI like Male/Female romances and Male/Male friendships.
ReplyDeleteI don't really ship at all, but what has gender got to do with it anyway? :s
ReplyDeleteI prefer the kind that fly through space myself :)
ReplyDeleteMale/Male friendships, hey bro! And Female/Female friendships as well.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the FF romance option......? Frankly I don't care about gender, love is love. I ship plenty M/F and F/F. I haven't find a M/M couple that I really love yet ..... Maybe I could have shipped Dean/Cas but I stopped watching Supernatural after S4.
ReplyDeleteI know it's not very popular with vocal TV fans, but it's a bit weird that f/f romance is the only option missing from the list.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I voted for f/f and m/f friendship, but m/m works too. 98% of the time, TV writes platonic friendships much, much, much better than romance, probably also because they aren't written as pure fan service which is true way too often with romantic ships. As soon as sexual tension, longing stares and whatnot enter an onscreen relationship, it starts to suck. I especially hate how a male character and a female character who are both attractive, roughly around the same age and not related can't share 30 seconds of screen time without a million comments immediately springing up: "OMG, I ship them already!"
okay,, when I think of ships gender has nothing to do with it. I actually like different worlds, uptown girl/downtown boy or vice versa, love/hate but only if it's based on misunderstandings don't really go for two really f....k up people coming together. My favs would couples that are really a "team", work together understand each other because it starts out based in a deep respect/friendship.
ReplyDeleteThe OUAT fandom is the worst. I quit watching the show but during S2 I remember some people calling the show runner a misogynist almost everyday and posting their "explanations" of why they called him that on tumblr and asking other people to attack him.
ReplyDeleteWhile a "ship" can be good, when everyone ships with everyone else, then it loses its storytelling power. Then we need the Tolkiens of the world, to write stories which don't need them, to remind us not everything is about ships (and I say this, knowing there are ships in Tolkien, but he regulated most of them away from the main story).
ReplyDeleteIt used to be one of my favorites too. Sadly I had to quit the show a while because I really couldn't stand some of writers' decisions and the shipping mess everywhere I looked.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a sucker for partners turned romantic over the seasons. Also, since Hannibal, apparently I also ship psychopathic murderer + empathic damaged dog lover... Though I don't agree with people who overreact when their ships don't turn out like they expect them to, truth be told most of my ships are just inside jokes with myself. Except for Scully and Mulder, no one can joke about Scully and Mulder.
ReplyDeleteSam and Dean haha
ReplyDeleteI love male/male friendship :)
ReplyDeleteHaha, well said.
ReplyDeleteI tend to read/write a lot of male/female and male/male relationship stuff in fanfiction in particular. But I'm open to all the varieties listed above in the poll. So long as the people involved have a good chemistry, be it as friends or lovers (or both!), that's the most important thing to me.
And while I've got my favorite pairings I'd love to see happen on my favorite shows, I'm also aware that some of them are just never gonna happen, and that's fine. My favorite shows are about so much more than that anyway.
It's funny, on the one hand I'd be happy if my favorite pairings got together, but on the other hand, cliché though it may be, I tend to really love the "unrequited feelings" trope that happens in TV shows...so I often find myself torn as a result :p!
ReplyDeleteNot the whole fandom but yeah a lot are like temperamental and immature children who need to declare a fictional war in order to feel important or interesting. That's truly sad and annoying.
ReplyDeleteOUAT is still one of my favorite shows ever with one of my favorite cast. But it's just a TV show! I'm trying to stay far far away from haters and so I'm not staying on Twitter or Tumblr too often.
space ships......
ReplyDeleteI feel that rowboats have been sadly overlooked in the shipping world. Yes they may be old-fashioned but anyone who has ever been on a rowboat knows that they have more ambiance than a boring old cargo ship. Cargo ships are far too practical, while row boats are sooooo romantic. There is really no comparison. My ship is clearly better. ;-P
ReplyDeleteAmen to ALL of this. Especially the last two.
ReplyDeleteMale/Female romance, then Male/Female friendship,
ReplyDeleteI like space ships.
ReplyDeleteThis literally made me laugh out loud. Co-workers think I'm crazy!
ReplyDeletePut me down for tug-boats :-)
This website is hilarious! Thanks for sharing :-)
ReplyDeleteSorry for such a late response. I must have completely missed your comment:)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, yeah, I did not like that twist with Peter Pan being a bad guy, I actually spent months between season 2 and 3 getting used to this storyline but sadly it only got worse from there. Then there was another big change for one of my favorite "fairytale" characters of all-time: Robin Hood. The complete destruction of Hook's character. The fact that people like Neal or Belle were constantly ignored, the bad guys getting way more chances than the good guys... And that's just some of the things I disagreed with. Such a shame. I really loved the show, now I can't even look at it. Sigh. But in the end, that's just a matter of opinion. I know that many people still watch and enjoy the show. Good for them:)