You know, guys, I'm not sure I can take much more of this

Hmm. No, actually, I think I can withstand quite a bit more, bring it on.

A shipwar has resulted - although, as always, it's 1% people being miffed and 99% other people freaking out about the 1%. It struck me, though, that a shipwar is simply a failure of imagination. Now, imagination is something fans are very, very good at, from the simplest private fantasies to the most elaborate fanworks. If you're certain that character A is sexing character B (and these are characters, stage and public personae, we have next to no access to the real people and that's as it should be) and then something wicked occurs between characters B and C, why not just work that into the narrative you've been constructing? Plenty of opportunities for drama and filth. Or is this the equivalent of a canon war - an argument over which events that didn't occur, occurred? Why is it our preferred narrative has to be validated? Is it like the thing where new writers haven't yet realised they have the power to change every single element in their stories? Well, that's deep, back to the pr0n.