Well, I'm thinking mostly in the context that 99% of the internet fandom always seems obsessed with shipping(something I really don't get) and if you remove authorial intent and textual context, then it seems that what you're mostly left with is character type ideals, which removes everything that makes the characters interesting(IMO, at least.)
There's also a difference between "what I like, and think would be fun" and "what the property encourages me to think/want" and most seem to miss that. The first is fine, as long as you remember and realize there's a difference, but more often, I see the latter. A lot of character hate, for example, often seems to be directed at a character being in the way of what a reader/viewer wants, even if the speaker doesn't put it that way. Look at the Bleach fandom(or other fandoms with two females in the "main girl" role.) Large chunks of it seem to think that you can only like Rukia or Orihime, and that they have to be in competition as lead female/Ichigo's love interest, even though the manga doesn't put them in competition, or really imply that Ichigo has strong romantic feelings for either one. Or look at the Avatar fandom. I never heard one negative word about Mai, but as soon as the trailer with Mai and Zuko kissing got out, I suddenly saw how horrible and wretched she was and how the idea of Mai and Zuko was terrible, before the episodes had even aired.
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Well, I'm thinking mostly in the context that 99% of the internet fandom always seems obsessed with shipping(something I really don't get) and if you remove authorial intent and textual context, then it seems that what you're mostly left with is character type ideals, which removes everything that makes the characters interesting(IMO, at least.)
There's also a difference between "what I like, and think would be fun" and "what the property encourages me to think/want" and most seem to miss that. The first is fine, as long as you remember and realize there's a difference, but more often, I see the latter. A lot of character hate, for example, often seems to be directed at a character being in the way of what a reader/viewer wants, even if the speaker doesn't put it that way. Look at the Bleach fandom(or other fandoms with two females in the "main girl" role.) Large chunks of it seem to think that you can only like Rukia or Orihime, and that they have to be in competition as lead female/Ichigo's love interest, even though the manga doesn't put them in competition, or really imply that Ichigo has strong romantic feelings for either one. Or look at the Avatar fandom. I never heard one negative word about Mai, but as soon as the trailer with Mai and Zuko kissing got out, I suddenly saw how horrible and wretched she was and how the idea of Mai and Zuko was terrible, before the episodes had even aired.