Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25097457-20140701225048/@comment-74.65.44.12-20141018192710

TreepeltA113 wrote: @ Anon: It's not so much that I stopped shipping it as I stopped openly supporting it and reading fanfiction and doing fanart and whatnot, and once you stop doing that, well, the excitement goes with it. Shippers of other ships kind of smothered my enthusiasm for it and left the excited flame to die down. I stayed away from being an open Mericcup shipper to avoid the overly aggressive Hiccstrid shippers on a vendetta to erase every HiccupxNotAstrid pairing that ever existed. If you ran into them, you'd want to stay away from them, too.

@ Mr. Nightingale: No, no, you're free to disagree with whatever reasons I've given. Your first point is correct; Astrid changed her mind about dragons. But I still find it highly unlikely and unreasonable for her to suddenly start loving Hiccup. And yeah, I get what your second point means. We'll never really know the true canon interactions between the two, but we can guess at it and get as IC as possible.

(I'm the anon from before) I actually totally get what you mean by this. I almost always ship unpopular couples in every fandom that I'm a part of and sucks when other shippers who don't agree are mean to you. But that shouldn't keep you from fully enjoying a pairing you love! It's hard but I'm sure you can find a way to avoid aggressive Hiccstrid shippers and enjoy Mericcup. I've managed to do it in other fandoms, some of which have crazier shippers than this one (I know, pretty hard to believe). Shipping is supposed to just be for fun anyways, so enjoy it :)