Suffice it to say, by way of an answer to this question, that if you pick any Western live-action media megafandom of the past decade, and pick the juggernaut m/m pairing in that fandom, I am going to be completely uninterested, and no amount of fic and meta is going to change my mind. Not that I've got anything against people who enjoy those pairings — if anything, I envy them because they have so many riches at their disposal in terms of fanworks, community, and so on. I've just never found one that has worked for me.
That's exactly it for me. Nothing against anyone who likes those pairings, like you I actually envy the access this gives those people, but it's just never been what I've been into.
Actually, for me it goes a bit further in that I don't really care that much about shipping, period. I have ships, but I'm in fandom more for the love of the universe, and that's why I love fanfiction - be it shippy, gen, some combination. However, ships themselves aren't that huge a part to me the way they seem to be for the vast majority of fans. And let me just reiterate that it's totally fine to into that aspect of fandom. It's just not why I do fandom.
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Suffice it to say, by way of an answer to this question, that if you pick any Western live-action media megafandom of the past decade, and pick the juggernaut m/m pairing in that fandom, I am going to be completely uninterested, and no amount of fic and meta is going to change my mind. Not that I've got anything against people who enjoy those pairings — if anything, I envy them because they have so many riches at their disposal in terms of fanworks, community, and so on. I've just never found one that has worked for me.
That's exactly it for me. Nothing against anyone who likes those pairings, like you I actually envy the access this gives those people, but it's just never been what I've been into.
Actually, for me it goes a bit further in that I don't really care that much about shipping, period. I have ships, but I'm in fandom more for the love of the universe, and that's why I love fanfiction - be it shippy, gen, some combination. However, ships themselves aren't that huge a part to me the way they seem to be for the vast majority of fans. And let me just reiterate that it's totally fine to into that aspect of fandom. It's just not why I do fandom.