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I was debating the possibilities of Ron/Luna vs. Harry/Luna on a Harry Potter fanforum, and I had this sudden, horrible thought.

What if, somewhere out there, there's a whole carnival of people debating online about my love life and analyzing the possible meaning behind every word, look, and motion in order to prove that I'm destined to marry the guy I went on a date with last week? What if I couldn't escape the shippers?

I would think it was all silly, and say "You can't determine my love life from how long I stare at someone's hair or whether or not one conversation means I'm destined for a person."

And then I feel profoundly silly, for a moment, for reading between the lines so hard (in every fandom) that I practically torture the shippiness out of them.

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[hiddenw.livejournal.com]

Ive had the same sorts of thoughts myself.

Like imagining people arguing until they were blue in the face that I was meant to be with Friend X and me shaking my head like a maniac at how wrong they were. It wouldnt matter how good their argument was because I cant change whether or not I have a certains feelings for a person. If the feelings arent there they are not there.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

yeah, exactly! I just was reminded that as much as this kind of thing works for characters, it would never apply to real life. Probably, I think, because we, the debators, are relying heavily upon the knowledge that the events are controlled, and thus foreshadowed, whereas in real life that's not true, so it's not predictable or a sure thing.