*snorts at your description of the average shippers fair* So true. I'm not one to go for that either. I like it dark, complicated, twisted most of the time, though I can do fluffy on occasion. But yeah, I lose patience a bit with the overzealous one ship forever and ever mindset which is why I never got going with S/T even though I do like it. After my experiences on the GW thread I can't abide with a lot of the S/T people and simply avoid going near them, with you and a few others being exceptions. The sockpuppet thing over there made me wary, too.
Similarly, I didn't get into Ronon/Teyla, a ship I had a passing interest in that could have gone further, because most of the people are also squeeful OMG they're so doing S/Wers and I didn't see it likely I'd find enough people tolerant of the fact I don't do S/W - plus I can't get into R/T fic when 90% of the time S/W accompanies it.
Hence, I'm rather happy with how nice people are in M/W section of SGA fandom, and on the forums I run for M/W, because rarely is anyone much like that and it's really easy going shipping with variety/multishipping, that's nice to experience and feels sort of rare to me.
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Similarly, I didn't get into Ronon/Teyla, a ship I had a passing interest in that could have gone further, because most of the people are also squeeful OMG they're so doing S/Wers and I didn't see it likely I'd find enough people tolerant of the fact I don't do S/W - plus I can't get into R/T fic when 90% of the time S/W accompanies it.
Hence, I'm rather happy with how nice people are in M/W section of SGA fandom, and on the forums I run for M/W, because rarely is anyone much like that and it's really easy going shipping with variety/multishipping, that's nice to experience and feels sort of rare to me.