This might be semi-sorta off from your post, but I just have to rant :)
I'm one of these odd people who refuses to piegon hole myself into shipping those two because 1. they are my favorite characters, 2. it just seems like the obvious thing to do since they are my favorites, and 3. shipping bites; however it's a pairing that if you pointed a gun at my head you *might* be able to get me to say it, but take that with a grain of salt because you could get me to say the same thing about Teyla/Beckett of all pairings. I'm just not a shipper in general. If I were to ship them though, it'd honestly be because it *is* a quiet and less popular pairing. I'm not sure if I'd want all those crazy people in my pairing. I know the fans can get a little...hyped-up, but they mean well...I think. I can see where having a lot of people in the pairing would come in handy to write fanfiction, though.
I came in the fandom a year late, so I missed all the anti-Teyla bashings (thank God cause I would have had to whoop someone's ass cause Teyla's my girl, lol), but I'd say that from what I've read of the accountings and heard from people, that that definitely had something to do with the overall hate of the Sheppard/Teyla pairing and then now the small numbers of fans. People rebelled against the idea and this is what is left. A lot of the new people I see who ship the pairing are newbies in the fandom who have no idea about all the back crap of the pairing, which I guess could be a compliment because they accepted the pairing just from what they saw on tv and not online.
As far as the big pairings go, I'd honest to God would rather eat my kidneys and pour acid on my lungs than go Shep/Weir. Who came up with that?! That, to me, is a crack pairing and it's so popular because everyone is just deciding to go along with the crockery. You have this miserable woman who seems pretty lonely now that she and her boyfriend parted ways, so what better thing to cheer her up than to stick her with the gorgeous hero who she supposedly has chemisty with (which all I see is leadership connections and goes about as far as a co-worker relationship) and live happily ever after as the two leaders of happy Atlantis.
Crack. Pairing.
Yes, I am a complete and utter Teyla fan, but I love Weir too, so no I'm not saying that because "omg u don like weir cuz u liek teyla!!1" I just don't think Weir *needs* anyone and I feel like in season 2 they just threw her off on Sheppard much like they were doing with Teyla in season 1. Like this is the writer's way of getting more people accepting to the girls since they are so hated, disliked, least popular, etc. Sheppard is just that ideal person that everyone wants their character with rather it be het or slash. Even if Shep/Weir became canon, which God forbid it doesn't, I STILL wouldn't think it's a good idea, pairing, thought, etc. I will never like that pairing. Ever. Part of my reasons is because it's so popular and once pairings get that big, it becomes collective stupidity as opposed to individual madness :D
And as far as Teyla goes, I've seen a lot of people grow to like her more this season than the first because they think Ronon changed her and made her a new likeable person. I so disagree with that. *Part* of that change I will credit to Ronon since I think he showed her that it is ok to be the "different" one, yet still be yourself while fitting in, or at least trying to cause I think that was part of why she was so "stiff" and "closed off" as people were calling her from season 1 along with other things. But Teyla has always been Teyla. Now she's just Teyla with someone to talk to who understands how stuff in the Pegasus Galaxy goes down without having to explain, AND is more comfortable with the group of people she is with now. The idea of a Teyla/Ronon pairing kinda makes me cringe, but I'm not completely against it...just 95% against, lol.
So, I'd definitely would say that Teyla/Sheppard is a small, unpopular pairing, but I wouldn't say that's a completely bad thing except for in situations like the one you described with fanfiction. It's small, but semi-influential pairing since it still manages to piss people off when certain scenes happen like in "The Long Good-bye", lol.
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I'm one of these odd people who refuses to piegon hole myself into shipping those two because 1. they are my favorite characters, 2. it just seems like the obvious thing to do since they are my favorites, and 3. shipping bites; however it's a pairing that if you pointed a gun at my head you *might* be able to get me to say it, but take that with a grain of salt because you could get me to say the same thing about Teyla/Beckett of all pairings. I'm just not a shipper in general. If I were to ship them though, it'd honestly be because it *is* a quiet and less popular pairing. I'm not sure if I'd want all those crazy people in my pairing. I know the fans can get a little...hyped-up, but they mean well...I think. I can see where having a lot of people in the pairing would come in handy to write fanfiction, though.
I came in the fandom a year late, so I missed all the anti-Teyla bashings (thank God cause I would have had to whoop someone's ass cause Teyla's my girl, lol), but I'd say that from what I've read of the accountings and heard from people, that that definitely had something to do with the overall hate of the Sheppard/Teyla pairing and then now the small numbers of fans. People rebelled against the idea and this is what is left. A lot of the new people I see who ship the pairing are newbies in the fandom who have no idea about all the back crap of the pairing, which I guess could be a compliment because they accepted the pairing just from what they saw on tv and not online.
As far as the big pairings go, I'd honest to God would rather eat my kidneys and pour acid on my lungs than go Shep/Weir. Who came up with that?! That, to me, is a crack pairing and it's so popular because everyone is just deciding to go along with the crockery. You have this miserable woman who seems pretty lonely now that she and her boyfriend parted ways, so what better thing to cheer her up than to stick her with the gorgeous hero who she supposedly has chemisty with (which all I see is leadership connections and goes about as far as a co-worker relationship) and live happily ever after as the two leaders of happy Atlantis.
Crack. Pairing.
Yes, I am a complete and utter Teyla fan, but I love Weir too, so no I'm not saying that because "omg u don like weir cuz u liek teyla!!1" I just don't think Weir *needs* anyone and I feel like in season 2 they just threw her off on Sheppard much like they were doing with Teyla in season 1. Like this is the writer's way of getting more people accepting to the girls since they are so hated, disliked, least popular, etc. Sheppard is just that ideal person that everyone wants their character with rather it be het or slash.
Even if Shep/Weir became canon, which God forbid it doesn't, I STILL wouldn't think it's a good idea, pairing, thought, etc. I will never like that pairing. Ever. Part of my reasons is because it's so popular and once pairings get that big, it becomes collective stupidity as opposed to individual madness :D
And as far as Teyla goes, I've seen a lot of people grow to like her more this season than the first because they think Ronon changed her and made her a new likeable person. I so disagree with that. *Part* of that change I will credit to Ronon since I think he showed her that it is ok to be the "different" one, yet still be yourself while fitting in, or at least trying to cause I think that was part of why she was so "stiff" and "closed off" as people were calling her from season 1 along with other things. But Teyla has always been Teyla. Now she's just Teyla with someone to talk to who understands how stuff in the Pegasus Galaxy goes down without having to explain, AND is more comfortable with the group of people she is with now. The idea of a Teyla/Ronon pairing kinda makes me cringe, but I'm not completely against it...just 95% against, lol.
So, I'd definitely would say that Teyla/Sheppard is a small, unpopular pairing, but I wouldn't say that's a completely bad thing except for in situations like the one you described with fanfiction. It's small, but semi-influential pairing since it still manages to piss people off when certain scenes happen like in "The Long Good-bye", lol.