I feel like that "Vox" article about "Supernatural" tried to talk about fandoms and shipping along a liberal/conservative axis and it's like, way too primal and weird for that.
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My go-to example is, apparently some people honestly watch "The Flash" rooting for Barry and Caitlin to get together, even though they have so little interaction those fans have to make up dialogue between them. But they do and have whole accounts posting them. Why? I don't know.
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I suppose it can be a way of exploring character archetypes, this is one of Sarah Z's theories in these videos. But IDK it seems to go farther than that.
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Whether or not you agree about Barry/Iris, this was maybe Sarah Z's most incisive point, that shipping can fill the vacuum left by desultory and inorganic "canon" romances.https://twitter.com/TodDidier/status/1333628691885088771?s=19 …
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I do think a lot of pop and prestige culture these days is pretty bad at romance and relationships. I don't know if it was ever any better...
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Yeah and conversely TV shows can be very reluctant to upset character/ensemble dynamics that "work".https://twitter.com/sleavitt1/status/1333630347343523840?s=19 …
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I ship Bucky/"having any dialogue ever".https://twitter.com/sleavitt1/status/1333630857509281792?s=19 …
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Anyway, of course people can relate to art/entertainment in any number of ways. But even if you're not interested in shipping culture...it's interested in you, because the people making your favorite shows are navigating around it in the cultural space.
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I assume even on "Yellowstone" there are fan accounts shipping...Kevin Costner and the Yellowstone geyser itself? IDK I don't watch that show.
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Who is on "Yellowstone" anyway...oh. I wonder what the morality of "Malcolm Beck" is. Nice guy presumably.pic.twitter.com/J73AvoNpTQ
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My vague understanding is that some of it (*some*) is about straight women liking to imagine two men making out?
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The gender-reversed situation is a huge cultural trope, so no need to do it in marginal spaces like AO3.
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