Maybe some more non-shippers have the courage to out themselves? There will be a nice picnic in a week with devilish lasagne, outlandish New York style pizza, spicy apple cider, and later some steaming apple turnover and hot chocolate with cinnamon for dessert. Trying to hire for dinner music the colorful Fairy Choir featuring the singing half-brother of Robin Hood, known as Galavant, and the wolfpack promised a special serenade with surprise guest after moonrise.
I don’t understand why being a shipper disqualifies me from partaking in character discussion and the like. I am active in almost every single thread on this forum, and not just because I’m keymaster. It’s like saying that I am incapable of conversing with the rest of the fandom without it devolving into ship talk and worse still, it devolving into negative conversation as if any criticisms I have simply stem from “angry shipper”
I–and many others–are more than capable of having rational conversations about character, plot, ect without resorting to the shippyness of it all–and by that I mean trying to sell your ship and your ship’s beliefs to someone who does not buy into them, either because they are on the opposite side of the debate or because they simply don’t care/don’t ship.