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Kestrel
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Stolen right from the WQ forums. Ah yes. Basically, you say what the person above you is known for on the 17th Shard forums. Not yourself, the person who posted above you. It can be anything, somethi

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FeatherWriter

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*does a wordsearch for "Feather" across the forums to check in on things*
 
Huh, that's weird I wonder why my handle came up in this thread...

 

It was a joke ship... Plus, it makes more sense than Feather's Kalarin ship anyway, especialy if Szeth gets less insane and Eshonai leaves stormform.

 

 

So wait. Apparently... I'm known for Kalarin of all things????

 

Really? Me? Kalarin????

 

This very odd to me, since I have been a fairly vocal opponent of Kalarin for way longer than I've been a semi-begrudging supporter of it. I mean, I once tried to convince someone away from the "treacherous waters of Kalarin" in a long-form essay. Seriously. How did I get associated with this ship? If anything I should be associated with Shallarin, which I practically captained and defended to the death for years.

 

I didn't start "shipping" Kalarin until WoR, and it was entirely begrudging and annoyed at the fact that I could halfway see that they could be cute maybe A LITTLE BIT OKAY. MAYBE. Here I was, having to concede ground to my mortal enemy the Kalarin ship. And then the rest of Words of Radiance stomped on my poor Shallarin loving heart in spiked cleats so I kinda just decided I was going to be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  about Stormlight shipping in general. Shallarin? I've got nostalgia. Kalarin? Sure they've got some cute moments. Dalinavani? Always good. Shasnah? Not really my interest, but I could write a fic if I had to. Shadolin? Cuter than expected, so alright. 

 

Honestly the only Stormlight ship that I actually care about with like, emotional responses is Shaladin, and that's mostly negative because I'm really not a fan of Shaladin.

 

So... I'm wondering how a ship that I was dragged into kicking and screaming until I begrudgingly admited it had some merit could be... "Feather's Kalarin." 

 

THAT SAID.

 

I've got plenty of friends who do ship Kalarin with an extremely passionate and well-thought out reasoning, and while I don't do much contributing to their ranks, I'll stand beside them. Even if I'm not a front-line shipper of it, I'll defend its right to exist and be recognized as a valid pairing. I know the arguments and I agree with pretty much all of them. Now, I'm not going to do that here, because I don't want to derail. (PM me if y'all need Kalarin explanations/meta/talk. Or... any other Stormlight ship stuff. I'll hook you up with the good ones.)

 

Mostly, I came in here and wrote all this up to say... please don't be dismissive of other people's ships. Yeah, I'm not a stalwart fighter for Kalarin, but there are many who are. To say "Haha, well this was a joke ship that I wasn't even serious about, but it's still better than that one" is... very hurtful actually. You don't have to agree with the Kalarin shippers. Or any of the other shippers. But you should be respectful of them, please.

 

And if you are going to be rude about ships, for the love of Harmony, don't put the shipper's name beside it where they'll probably find you. Seriously.

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If it helps, I associate you with Shallarin, general Renarin-loving, writing great fanfic and owning a soulcaster.

Oh, and Splintercast of course.

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FeatherWriter

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If it helps, I associate you with Shallarin, general Renarin-loving, writing great fanfic and owning a soulcaster.

Oh, and Splintercast of course.

 

See those are great things to be known for. That, and destroying the souls of the innocent with really horribly tragic AUs. 

 

...speaking of, I should be editing Splintercasts. We've got a new series coming up and I need to get them done. 

 

And I associate you with one of the earliest members of Newcago and also forgetting that you're not my RP character, Eliane Casuana, from Elendel... since she used Chloe Bennet as a face claim. I keep seeing your icon and thinking "It's my adorable barista Seeker!" Heh, not so much.

FeatherWriter

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Yeah, the Elendel RP had writers choose an actor to represent your character. And I chose Chloe Bennet. So Skye is like... half Eliane in my head at all times. Ha. 

 

Edit: Can I RAFO the Splintercast question? I'm gonna RAFO. (First episode should be up sometime this week, I think ;) )

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*does a wordsearch for "Feather" across the forums to check in on things*

Huh, that's weird I wonder why my handle came up in this thread...

So wait. Apparently... I'm known for Kalarin of all things????

Really? Me? Kalarin????

This very odd to me, since I have been a fairly vocal opponent of Kalarin for way longer than I've been a semi-begrudging supporter of it. I mean, I once tried to convince someone away from the "treacherous waters of Kalarin" in a long-form essay. Seriously. How did I get associated with this ship? If anything I should be associated with Shallarin, which I practically captained and defended to the death for years.

I didn't start "shipping" Kalarin until WoR, and it was entirely begrudging and annoyed at the fact that I could halfway see that they could be cute maybe A LITTLE BIT OKAY. MAYBE. Here I was, having to concede ground to my mortal enemy the Kalarin ship. And then the rest of Words of Radiance stomped on my poor Shallarin loving heart in spiked cleats so I kinda just decided I was going to be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about Stormlight shipping in general. Shallarin? I've got nostalgia. Kalarin? Sure they've got some cute moments. Dalinavani? Always good. Shasnah? Not really my interest, but I could write a fic if I had to. Shadolin? Cuter than expected, so alright.

Honestly the only Stormlight ship that I actually care about with like, emotional responses is Shaladin, and that's mostly negative because I'm really not a fan of Shaladin.

So... I'm wondering how a ship that I was dragged into kicking and screaming until I begrudgingly admited it had some merit could be... "Feather's Kalarin."

THAT SAID.

I've got plenty of friends who do ship Kalarin with an extremely passionate and well-thought out reasoning, and while I don't do much contributing to their ranks, I'll stand beside them. Even if I'm not a front-line shipper of it, I'll defend its right to exist and be recognized as a valid pairing. I know the arguments and I agree with pretty much all of them. Now, I'm not going to do that here, because I don't want to derail. (PM me if y'all need Kalarin explanations/meta/talk. Or... any other Stormlight ship stuff. I'll hook you up with the good ones.)

Mostly, I came in here and wrote all this up to say... please don't be dismissive of other people's ships. Yeah, I'm not a stalwart fighter for Kalarin, but there are many who are. To say "Haha, well this was a joke ship that I wasn't even serious about, but it's still better than that one" is... very hurtful actually. You don't have to agree with the Kalarin shippers. Or any of the other shippers. But you should be respectful of them, please.

And if you are going to be rude about ships, for the love of Harmony, don't put the shipper's name beside it where they'll probably find you. Seriously.

I am sorry, Ididn't nean to be rude or demeaning. What I meant by "joke ship" was any ship not likely to happen in canon, abd I am sorry if I was judgemental of those who ship Kalarin. I am not even seriously interested in those things, so I often forget how other people can take comments like mine more seriously than I do. I fully respect those who ship Kalarin, and regret my accidentaly demeaning comment.

As for why I associated you with Kalarin... I honestly don't know. I made the connection long ago based on something you posted and I didn't bother to analyse.

I truly hope this is forgiven.

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FeatherWriter

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Of course, and thank you for the apology! All is forgiven, just try to be considerate! Trust me, I'm very much not the type to stay upset about things and I figured you probably just weren't thinking about the way it would read when you put it there.

I kinda I tend to write a lot when I respond. Probably more than I should. Perhaps that's what I'm known for: Dropping an essay where a comment would have sufficed. I hope you can forgive me for that? Friends?

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I think I'm rather alone in that I don't like any fanfiction that involves shipping. It always seems so fake to me. No offense to the writers. The actual writing is often excellent, it's just that the concepts seem wildly unrealistic. The only way I can enjoy it is if it's just something completely zany, like Patternblood. Now that's a ship I can get behind! Imagine those love scenes!

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I think I'm rather alone in that I don't like any fanfiction that involves shipping. It always seems so fake to me. No offense to the writers. The actual writing is often excellent, it's just that the concepts seem wildly unrealistic. The only way I can enjoy it is if it's just something completely zany, like Patternblood. Now that's a ship I can get behind! Imagine those love scenes!

 

Nah, I don't think you're really alone. Trust me, there's plenty of people, especially around here, who aren't so interested in shipping. The way I see it, everyone has their own kinds of theories that they like. Some people like worldbuilding theories, some people like plot twist theories, and some people like relationship theories. It's all good and you like what you like! So long as you're being nice to the people who like different stuff from you, everything's fine.

 

That said, I'll admit shipping tends to be a little bit different from other kinds of theory crafting perhaps, in that shippers seem to like to dig a lot further into "character above all else" even beyond sticking to perfect canon. It's why you see so many alternate universe fics from people who like shipping. Like, yes. I really like Kaladin and Renarin and Adolin and Shallan and all the different relationships between them. But what if they were baristas in a coffee shop. Or maybe in the Dragon Age series. Or all in college sharing an apartment building.

 

And whenever you start straying from canon, you start to lose some people who don't like to leave it behind. That's all good. I mean, the source material is excellent, so why would you want something different, right? I'm just fond of the more creative and character focused aspects of shipping. It's definitely a practice I like to defend as having merit, especially since there have been some other fandoms that can be really dismissive of shippers. Cosmere fandom's still the best fandom though, and we're better than that! We like to accept all!

 

Ha, that said, I will definitely agree with you on how fun crackships can be. Crackships are humor goldmines. (Though, the trouble with being a shipper and crackshipping something is if you think about it for too long, you might start justifying ways that it could actually be serious, and they you just kind of stop and go "oh no... I have made a dangerous mistake... this was a joke but now I'm feeling things and daaaaaang it.")

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