What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?

[effervescible]

The more time I spend in fandom, the more I'm convinced that the most extreme, hardcore members of a given 'ship faction don't actually care about their own pairing. They just want the opposing pairing to be Wrong. It's like the emotional equivalent of minmaxing number-crunchers who will do complex math about the propulsion and weapons systems of fictional spaceships in order to prove that Star Trek/Wars totally sucks compared to Star Wars/Trek, when the actual point is that laser swords and laser guns both rule.

I think my analogy went a little off-course there. Eh.