OTP poll

[xparrot]

I've seen OTP ("One True Pairing") used a bunch of different ways around fandom, sometimes leading to confusion and misinterpretation. I'm curious what the general trends for its use are.

(For this poll, please answer the way you personally use OTP, not the way(s) you may have seen it used by other fans.)

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Comments

[naye]

Actually, you guys are probably better judges of how I use "OTP" than I am. *g* I do tend to use it more around you than I do when I'm having fan conversations elsewhere - I mostly don't identify as an OTP'er. There are exceptions, of course, but right at this moment the only "OTP" I can think of are animanga. (Hakkai/Gojyo and Ban/Ginji.) I'm sure there are others - well, if it still counts as an OTP when you can't even remember that they exist. *g* And in most cases I still read/like stuff that explores other pairings.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

IMO you do have OTPs, just not many of them - but then my opinion is weird anyway in that I have gen OTPs. So back in Sentinel, I wasn't slashing them, but I wouldn't have wanted Jim or Blair to move out or stop being partners. But then, you know I'm more sensitive about these things! (I'd try to change that - but then I wouldn't fic at all. And that would be sad XP)

[naye]

Yeah... See, my view of it is, I guess, influenced by canon, too? In TS, I never even occurred to me that Jim and Blair would could out or stop being partners, because if they did, it just wouldn't be The Sentinel anymore! Kind of like with Ban and Ginji, or - hey, Starsky and Hutch. They're integral to their story, and to each other, and of course they belong together, but I don't really reflect over it much beyond that? I squee, though. And flail! And maybe that's what it's really all about, no matter what you call it? I have characters that, when they are together, make me happy. ♥

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I have characters that, when they are together, make me happy.

That's pretty much exactly what OTP means to me! It's just that, being as inclined to fic reading and writing and meta as I am, I tend to think about it more...