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I am supposed to be working on saying things I suspect will be unpopular, so as expose myself to conflict. Nothing hurtful, hateful, or untrue, of course, but unpopular is the goal.

...I haven't been doing very well on this. I also don't think I've really managed to convey to my specialist just how unpleasant shipping wank can be in fandom. (Shipping wank can be very unpleasant. Also I have managed to keep my resolution from when I was sixteen of staying out of all wank, although serious kerfluffles are okay if I have something remotely useful or otherwise productive to say, pretty well meticulously ever since, except maybe that one conversation about X/1999 on a message board several months after said resolution that got a little heated. But it stayed civil! SO I think that counts.)

(Not that the wank that caused my resolution had anything much to do with shipping.)

(Fanfic writing styles are a touchy business. A very touchy business.)