SHIP: Evidence in GoF (from the main list)

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

Naama wrote:
> In short, you might say my consciousness was raised to explicit 
> R/Hsness simply by disagreeing with the arguments against it. 

Wow, I could really relate to this statement!  I didn't become that 
stubborn about H/H until I started discussing it on list... and at 
first, it was just that... mild discussion.  Curiosity about what 
others thought.  Posing questions.

The more and more I thought about it, read and participated in ship 
debates, talked to people with opposing points of view, and began 
writing fan stories of my own... the more I was convinced I was 
right.  Several times this summer and fall, I asked for R/H shipper 
theories and R/H fanfic.  I read them.  But with a notable few 
exceptions (waves at B, grinning), I was no more comfortable with it 
than I was when the Author Herself wrote R----->He into GoF.

And then I started writing shipper theory and fanfic of my own.  This 
level of thinking about potential romantic pairings has definitely 
has cemented my preferences. For instance, it's only recently that I 
figured out 1) why I was bewildered by H/G and 2) what didn't 
convince me that the R/H spats were indicative of true love.  

I still think the "dedicated" shippers on list, with a few 
exceptions, are that way because of personality types and life 
experience.

--Ebony