Call me crazy, but I think I'm tired of shipping.

Ok, call me more than just crazy, because this site (and tumblr) is just one major harbor for ships of all kinds (yes, I made a bad pun. Sue me) and I'm still here, still writing on it. I've been noticing that while I love the kpop guys like crazy, I'm not totally excited about pairing them up with anyone anymore. Like when I was writing Do It, I just could not picture Yonghwa and Jonghyun together. Honestly, it was easier to picture two random guys and then stamp their names there. At one point, I almost swore Eunhae was real... and now? Now I shrug, and not care either way. Maybe I just need a vacation from all this. Or maybe I really have lost all urge to imagine a secret relationship between two guys in a group.

I mean, I found this site because I majorly shipped the Suju members together, but after writing the first story or two, I stopped really being crazy about shipping, and I after reading story after story, the common ships got boring, and the uncommon ones are usually by some random author who wanted her fantasy to be written out, not that that's a bad thing, just not my cup of tea. For me, it really has been more about finding good stories, than to read about my favorite pairing finally realizing their love for each other. I'd be more happy with a story that was well written that had not a single drop of romance, than something where the plot is generic or lost entirely in order to create some happy story for the shipped couple. It's to the point, that when I write, I don't at all think of which guys I want to put together, but instead, what guys fit the characters I create in my mind. If I change the names and characters' appearances, I'd have an orginal story that's just as good as it was as a fanfiction. And I read stories like that. I like Myungyeol and Kyumin, because I typically like the personalities authors give those people, not because I totally ship them (though I do cringe whenever I see Myungsoo with anyone but Sungyeol, and especially when he's with Sungjong *shudders*).

And I don't care about hurting the "people" either. To me, they're characters. So if I crush Character A's heart by putting Character B with Character C, when we all know that Character A deserves Character B, I don't bat an eyelash. I'll even kill off Character B for good measure, though I do like happy endings, so Character A would probably end up falling in love with Character D (or money, since that's always a good plot twist) and Character B would be forgetten. But I digress.

My point is, I'm wondering if I'm the only one like this. Am I the only one on this site writing because they love writing and kpop guys are good (and easy) subjects to write about, and to read good stories, not just the ones where the couple happily becomes a couple and only has a few minor obstacles that you know won't be much of a problem?