If your life were a fandom, and people wrote RPF about you, who would they ship you with? What would your fandom be like? (And if my life were a fandom, and you wanted to write RPF about me, who would you ship me with?)
Mine would be one of those long-running soap-operatic series with a lot of shorter story arcs and some longer ones, but no single story arc spanning the whole series, and a lot of people who picked it up mid-series and haven't gone back and watched the beginning stuff yet.
There would be some diehard Season 1 fans trying to make
Season 2 fans who 'shipped canon pairings would be trying to make an
All but the most vocal Season 3 tinhats have given up on
Seasons 4-6 are the ones where most of the fandom goes for the canon UST pairing of
The fandom has gotten onto more and more crack pairings in the absence of actual viable canon pairings in seasons 7 and 8, and upcoming season 9. Some people are shipping
So.
1) There's a quote pertaining to this sort of situation in a QDB that will be familiar to some of you. (If you know what it is, heeeeeeee.)