2. screwball Ninga has a huge bias and blinders when it comes to Belle. This taints her view on Rumbelle and Hook and Neal. Except for her willingness to discuss and arguments based on wealth and social class I don’t find her blog compelling.
EVERYONE has blinders and a bias when it comes to their favorite characters. It’s *not* a bad thing so long as you state up front, “this is my favorite character/ship and I openly acknowledge that this colors my thoughts and opinions.” It’s part of fandom that you love certain characters for certain reasons that are very personal to you, your very self. It’s when you don’t acknowledge that you’re biased that trouble happens. Objectivity is just not a thing that happens in fandoms like this.
3. Is the CSF thread open for posting?
It was never once closed. We as a collective whole decided to stop posting because, despite what people want to believe, it never remains civil. It can’t unless it’s a person who swings between both ships talking to people who are set on their ships. We’re all too entrenched in our ships, whatever they may be. I actually went back through that thread a few days ago and read over some stuff. We lasted pretty civily for the first 10 pages and then it fell apart and we started getting hostile and arguing the same stuff over and over and after 40 pages of intense argument, it became clear to the 6 people (people who will never be persuaded to abandon their ship) who were doing the majority of the talking that it was just causing problems.
Honest to god opinion here (and not a Mod order): leave CSF in your individual shipping threads because when it leaves the individual shippy threads it gets ugly and it gets ugly fast.