“Ship means something you want to see happen.” Bitch, no it don’t. This weird-ass modern culture of lobbying show-runners to make your ship canon didn’t emerge until the advent of social media. (And recent social media like twitter, not shit-you-forgot-existed like MySpace.) Shipping and fandom in general have been around much longer, so you can stop acting like “this is the way it has always been uwu” right the fuck now.
Until relatively recently, most fans I’ve known have been perfectly okay with their ships never being canon. I, personally, would be actively offended if certain ships of mine became canon. That is not why I ship them. What I want from canon and what I want from fandom are often entirely different things that only intersect on the margins.That is why fanworks are called “transformative” ffs.
Someone put it into words.
ALL OF THIS.
My ships actually getting together is like a nice bonus. But some idea that they have to be together in canon or even that they should be together in canon is not the reason that I ship.
100% this! Varies for me though. Sometimes I’d really like it to be canonical and that would be amazing and change my life, sometimes I really wouldn’t like it to be canonical for a variety of reasons.
Question of Smoke 