The funny thing is now that I am older I can see other ships happening just fine besides the one I back but I can also go to great lengths to discount the other shipping in my mind next to my own. Like come up with very detailed canon backed reasoning why one ship would work over another and then add that reasoning into my AU. Not to make anyone else feel bad about their paring next to mine, but sort of to acknowledge the fandom universe as a real living breathing place where all canon happened, and crushes, break ups, babies, and flings (one night stand=/=love) are real, but love of my pairing could be to :3. I put all those shades in there, not to please other shippers even, but myself. Once you think of their world as real, only with its own rules, things get very interesting :3....