*sigh* I had a very long reply typed up, and LJ ate it.
A lot of this has to do with where you hang out online. Most of my experience with fanon shipping until recently(and still some of it) has been taking one element in canon, looking at it one specific way, and then disregarding the twenty elements that, when looked at almost anyway, directly contradict the interpretation of the one element.
There's "I like this idea that's in the text," "I like this idea that's not in the text, but that's ok, the text is fine, too" and "I like this idea that's not in the text, and I want to find a way that the text supports this idea." Outside of pure crackshipping, most of my experience is people completely ignoring the middle part. More often than not, what I've seen is people doing one of 2 things:
1) Seeking authorial validation for fanon 2) Believing that the fan knows better than the author(have you seen all the "how dare JK Rowling actually have people state how they feel?" comments the last few months?)
Until a couple years ago, I literally thought I was the only female anime/manga fan in the world who didn't hate (much less liked most of) every female character in the genre, didn't slash in every fandom with more than one male, regardless of canon sexuality/relationships, and didn't especially hate the love interests. Now, of course, I know that's far from the case, but the first few years I was into anime and manga, that was all I encountered. Even now, most still seem to let whether or not the female canonically interferes with their shipping affect their judgement, even if it isn't stated as such. That most character hate seems to be directed at female characters, and especially ones who are either implicitly or explicitly involved with a popular male, is something that I find to be extremely telling. (Partly, I think, because so many seem to approach fiction as the male is the hero and the female the love interest, and the female seems to mostly be judged by perceived worthiness as a love interest, and not her value as an independent character.)
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A lot of this has to do with where you hang out online. Most of my experience with fanon shipping until recently(and still some of it) has been taking one element in canon, looking at it one specific way, and then disregarding the twenty elements that, when looked at almost anyway, directly contradict the interpretation of the one element.
There's "I like this idea that's in the text," "I like this idea that's not in the text, but that's ok, the text is fine, too" and "I like this idea that's not in the text, and I want to find a way that the text supports this idea." Outside of pure crackshipping, most of my experience is people completely ignoring the middle part. More often than not, what I've seen is people doing one of 2 things:
1) Seeking authorial validation for fanon
2) Believing that the fan knows better than the author(have you seen all the "how dare JK Rowling actually have people state how they feel?" comments the last few months?)
Until a couple years ago, I literally thought I was the only female anime/manga fan in the world who didn't hate (much less liked most of) every female character in the genre, didn't slash in every fandom with more than one male, regardless of canon sexuality/relationships, and didn't especially hate the love interests. Now, of course, I know that's far from the case, but the first few years I was into anime and manga, that was all I encountered. Even now, most still seem to let whether or not the female canonically interferes with their shipping affect their judgement, even if it isn't stated as such. That most character hate seems to be directed at female characters, and especially ones who are either implicitly or explicitly involved with a popular male, is something that I find to be extremely telling. (Partly, I think, because so many seem to approach fiction as the male is the hero and the female the love interest, and the female seems to mostly be judged by perceived worthiness as a love interest, and not her value as an independent character.)