Barbieshippers...yeah I mean you

POSTED BY: TheFruityOatyBar
UPDATED: Monday, July 24, 2006 08:52
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THEFRUITYOATYBAR

Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:21 AM

I have been a long time lurker of this site and I just gotta speak out. I just wanted to point out something I noticed and that is that there are a whole lot of Barbieshippers on this board. What's a barbieshipper you ask? I'm glad you asked. (originally taken from: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/97718.html?thread=3453
110#t3453110)

A barbieshipper is a fan of a particular ship who lives out their fandom in a particular way. In XF (where I believe the term originated), the term tends to be applied mostly to Mulder/Scully shippers, but in fact, you find them in any ship, both het and slash.

They tend to be very undiscerning in their choice of fic as long as their couple end up together. They hate with a passion any character or episode that distracted either member of the couple, in even the mildest way. There is no analysis of how or why this might have happened, no allowance for the possibility that the competing character might have merit in her or his own right. For instance, Mulder/Scully barbieshippers still bitch about TFWID, an episode five years ago in which it was suggested that Mulder was in love with someone other than Scully in a past life. They have archives and write fic about the brutal death of his ex-girlfriend, Diana. At its extremity, barbieshippers will even consider fic, etc not involving EITHER member of their couple as a threat to their couple's specialness, just because the very admission that another couple could be interesting impinges somehow on the uniqueness of their preferred one. They will say dismissive and derisive things about people who do not favour their ship or their characters.

The barbieshipper has a lot in common with BOFQ groupies, and there's a lot of crossover. Barbieshippers expect to be warned in advance if there is any hint of their heroes even looking at another person in the fic. They expect to be warned if either of them die. They expect to be warned about whether an onscreen competing love interest is even mentioned, and they will often hit delete at the first sight of that person's name, unless that character suffers some terrible, graphic fate. They consider themselves betrayed if these warnings are absent and will make a rule not to read fic by that author again. They will write terrible things about actors who played competing love interests, or target authors and webmasters who support those actors, and this is accepted behaviour in many places. I run websites for two such actors, and I have been targetted for both, in one case to the point of a personal threat.

Just thought I would share.

MISSTRESSAHARA

Saturday, July 22, 2006 4:24 AM

Um, ok.

Hey my first names Barb.... but that's not what you were apllying here huh?

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting

PHOENIXROSE

Saturday, July 22, 2006 4:33 AM

I was a Mulder/Scully shipper, but I wasn't like that. I liked TFWID just fine, though I didn't like Diana much. I stopped watching the show, though, because it should have ended before it did and they were just stretching it once DD left.
But I digress. Anyway, we're not all that fanatical. And I'm not really that way with FF, even though there are some ships I don't get.

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MORDSITH

Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:28 PM

*giggles*, this is funny

EMBERS

Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:33 PM

if that's true then they are in for a shock when Joss kills Inara in the movie sequel to 'Serenity'

just sayin'

PENGUIN

Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by embers:
if that's true then they are in for a shock when Joss kills Inara in the movie sequel to 'Serenity'

Take that back!

MORDSITH

Saturday, July 22, 2006 8:41 PM

Oh! Off topic, but I got Phantom *squeeee!!!* I've read the first chapter already.

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, July 24, 2006 8:52 AM

I'e still got a helluva wait before I can read it Stupid understocked library.

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