Yuuuup -- everything you say here is pretty much exactly what OTP means to me, and it's how almost all my fic-fanning works. Which is not how it is for everyone, I know! And sometimes I think it would be really fun to be a multishipper and have more to read...but then, the feels my OTPs give me, I wouldn't want to give that up.
For me this is almost always true, unless something exceptionally weird is going on with the way I relate to that particular canon.
Yeah, I've had a few exceptions. The oddest was probably One Piece, in which I kind of OTP'd the whole crew. Which created this weird effect that I was sort of a multishipper, except I found I had trouble reading most ship-fic, because I was bothered by stories that implied any one pairing of chars had a closer relationship than those chars did with anyone else. Like a reverse OTP effect ^^;
For SPN, Dean is my favorite, but I do like him basically platonically married to Sam, and really like overall how they've developed. So while I actually like Cas as a char and like his friendship with both brothers, him being OTP with Dean, noooope cannot handle. Which did make being in SPN fandom a bit of a fraught experience ^^;
For me, it's clear these people need each other, and they will never be truly happy without each other, so it's incredibly sad and depressing to imagine them ending up with anyone else. Even when the author writes it as a completely happy pairing!
Ahaha oh yeah... it's worse if they're happy, really; if they're in another relationship but it's lacking, that can be angstily satisfying. While as I can't even skim-read a happy shipfic that breaks up my OTP because I'll actually get depressed ^^; I basically care about my favorite relationships more than the people in them (in fiction! I always feel the need to emphasize this ^^;;;;;)
Could your porny ideas perhaps all be about addressing intimacy issues through sex / the physical? Whether it's h/c or comedy, I could see that as a possible common theme. (I love analyzing these things, but please do feel free to stop me! *g*)
No, please do, I love it too! Intimacy is definitely a big part of it...really it's the theme of most of what I write. The comedy one I'm not sure on, though...I might have to write that one just so I can figure out what it is about! I wonder if some of it is just that I've written a lot of Guardian fic at this point, so writing the sex is an angle on their intimacy I haven't done as much of -- more fertile ground for me? Hmm....
It'd definitely be more of a theme in one of my as-yet unwritten story ideas where they're just embarking on the relationship. Not a central theme, but more present, and so actually noticeable to people who are not me. :-)
Sign me up for wanting to read this one too, if/when it gets written! I haven't read much of obviously demi!Zhao Yunlan and am curious to see how it plays out (he's demi-romantic in my mind for sure, but in the drama it is true that there's not much evidence that he had any kind of interest in anyone, until Shen Wei...)
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Re: writing sex and angst (and being a fannish romancer)
Date: 2020-04-27 08:23 am (UTC)For me this is almost always true, unless something exceptionally weird is going on with the way I relate to that particular canon.
Yeah, I've had a few exceptions. The oddest was probably One Piece, in which I kind of OTP'd the whole crew. Which created this weird effect that I was sort of a multishipper, except I found I had trouble reading most ship-fic, because I was bothered by stories that implied any one pairing of chars had a closer relationship than those chars did with anyone else. Like a reverse OTP effect ^^;
For SPN, Dean is my favorite, but I do like him basically platonically married to Sam, and really like overall how they've developed. So while I actually like Cas as a char and like his friendship with both brothers, him being OTP with Dean, noooope cannot handle. Which did make being in SPN fandom a bit of a fraught experience ^^;
For me, it's clear these people need each other, and they will never be truly happy without each other, so it's incredibly sad and depressing to imagine them ending up with anyone else. Even when the author writes it as a completely happy pairing!
Ahaha oh yeah... it's worse if they're happy, really; if they're in another relationship but it's lacking, that can be angstily satisfying. While as I can't even skim-read a happy shipfic that breaks up my OTP because I'll actually get depressed ^^; I basically care about my favorite relationships more than the people in them (in fiction! I always feel the need to emphasize this ^^;;;;;)
Could your porny ideas perhaps all be about addressing intimacy issues through sex / the physical? Whether it's h/c or comedy, I could see that as a possible common theme. (I love analyzing these things, but please do feel free to stop me! *g*)
No, please do, I love it too!
Intimacy is definitely a big part of it...really it's the theme of most of what I write. The comedy one I'm not sure on, though...I might have to write that one just so I can figure out what it is about!
I wonder if some of it is just that I've written a lot of Guardian fic at this point, so writing the sex is an angle on their intimacy I haven't done as much of -- more fertile ground for me? Hmm....
It'd definitely be more of a theme in one of my as-yet unwritten story ideas where they're just embarking on the relationship. Not a central theme, but more present, and so actually noticeable to people who are not me. :-)
Sign me up for wanting to read this one too, if/when it gets written! I haven't read much of obviously demi!Zhao Yunlan and am curious to see how it plays out (he's demi-romantic in my mind for sure, but in the drama it is true that there's not much evidence that he had any kind of interest in anyone, until Shen Wei...)