Two questions
Oct. 3rd, 2011 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bk#1: What do you call it when you support a pairing that is canon and always has been? To me "shipping" means it's a potential pairing that you'd like to see, so it sounds weird when I try to apply it to something that is already happening. Although, I don't find it weird when applied to a pairing that was once only potential and then later became canon, like it sounds natural to talk about "Harry/Ginny shippers". But maybe that's because I'm used to hearing it. But if I love (let's say) Sarek/Amanda and write fic about them all the time, am I a Sarek/Amanda shipper? Does that sound weird to anyone but me? Do I just say I love Sarek/Amanda and that's it?
I'm actually having a hard time thinking of a good example of a fandom where lots of people love a prominent always-canon pairing; the ones I can think of generally have to do with pairings of tertiary characters. But then, are there a lot of source materials where the primary characters are in stable relationships?
#2: Do any of you have a portable DVD player that works really well? We had one I loved and it broke and isn't made anymore, and the replacement we got was sufficiently disappointing that we returned it. The main issue was that the aspect ratio setting did not work, like we knew where the setting was and choosing the different options did nothing. It wasn't defective, or if it was, the one on the sales floor was too. All the other ones had really screwy controls (looking at you, Sony).
I don't suppose we need a portable DVD player, but it is nice to have when you want to watch a movie but you also want to lie in bed.
I'm actually having a hard time thinking of a good example of a fandom where lots of people love a prominent always-canon pairing; the ones I can think of generally have to do with pairings of tertiary characters. But then, are there a lot of source materials where the primary characters are in stable relationships?
#2: Do any of you have a portable DVD player that works really well? We had one I loved and it broke and isn't made anymore, and the replacement we got was sufficiently disappointing that we returned it. The main issue was that the aspect ratio setting did not work, like we knew where the setting was and choosing the different options did nothing. It wasn't defective, or if it was, the one on the sales floor was too. All the other ones had really screwy controls (looking at you, Sony).
I don't suppose we need a portable DVD player, but it is nice to have when you want to watch a movie but you also want to lie in bed.
