Of the many, many things I don’t get about the migratory slash fandom--from its seemingly unlimited ability to strip away context, selectively misunderstand common emotions or how it always, always ends with interpreting supposed color symbolism and abusing the shit out of “foils” and “mirrors”--the biggest one must be the blind willingness to accept the idea that shitty story-telling is a deliberate and praiseworthy communication tool. Seriously, granting that your ship is go for a moment, what is it with the willingness to have it be hidden under piles upon piles of obscure symbolism and “stand-ins”, barely relevant to the plot or the characters, not to be revealed until the very last second and then never heard from again because oh, the show’s now over? Because if you’re willing to make do with this level of cowardly crap then at that point you might as well hail Dumbledore as the king of rep.
What I’m trying to say is non-canon shipping is awesome and please go watch some actual queer media ffs.
