In my experience, the die-hard crazy-ass shippers are certainly very likely to appropriate rather than appreciate.
Further on in the thread, someone points out that:
I'd actually extend that further and say that the more spectacularly delusional enthusiastic appropriators are the ones that identify so strongly with a character in the first place that they can't separate the fictional development of that character from the things they hope for for themselves: the character becomes a projection of everything that they'd like to be and to experience. Depending on exactly what the appropriator is dreaming of, you get either a Mary Sue or a rabid shipper (or some combination of the two).
To be honest, this is the kind of appropriation that seems to be rampant in the SGA and SG1 fandoms: over-identification with character to the point where a slight to the character is a slight to the fan.
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Further on in the thread, someone points out that:
I'd actually extend that further and say that the more spectacularly
delusionalenthusiastic appropriators are the ones that identify so strongly with a character in the first place that they can't separate the fictional development of that character from the things they hope for for themselves: the character becomes a projection of everything that they'd like to be and to experience. Depending on exactly what the appropriator is dreaming of, you get either a Mary Sue or a rabid shipper (or some combination of the two).To be honest, this is the kind of appropriation that seems to be rampant in the SGA and SG1 fandoms: over-identification with character to the point where a slight to the character is a slight to the fan.