Meet the Shippers: TV’s Weirdest Fans (From Entertainment Weekly’s 2/10/12 issue)

mattdavisexual:

Love gets expressed in some wonderful and very weird ways in the world of television, from the passionate kiss to a penetrating bite on the neck. But last spring on Fox’s Fringe, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) set a radical new standard for romantic gestures: He tried to change the future in order to save the life of his destined-to-die soul mate, Olivia (Anna Torv), and wound up erasing himself from history (and her memory) in the process. All together now: Awwwwwwwww.

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Interesting article, least the guy talked to actual fic writers etc. But I do hate that he called Shippers, which includes pretty much everyone I know on the internet, weird. 

I don’t understand why it is weird or crazy to be invested in a television show. Aren’t you meant to care about the characters? 

Also maybe I’ve been hanging around in the wrong communities but I’ve never heard the term noromos? 

But I will say one fandom it would have been interesting to include is Glee and the Glee fandom because all that show does is changes itself to please the shippers and the fandom.

(Source: alaricsfangs)