Okay, I don't understand what gives you the impression that I'm not prepared to defend my pairing "to the very end". Before now, I've honestly never ran into a single person to whom I've had to defend the pairing. What am I supposed to be defending against in the manifesto? I figured I'd just put my manifesto up and then defend my points whenever they were called into question. Just like I'm doing now.
You said: What I meant was that if you're going to justify a pairing, you'd want to try and convince as many people as possible, and the way to go about doing that would be to defend your pairing whenever people point out things they think do not support your pairing.
How am I supposed to do that up there in the manifesto before anyone points out anything that does not support the pairing? I simply don't understand how I can argue something before anything has been said.
You keep saying that you never meant to demean Cloud/Yuffie. And I believe you. But what you're saying is that you're demeaning my writing of the manifesto. Which to me is much more offensive. I don't know how much more detailed I can write out what very little evidence there is, at least without going into super long theories about why Cloud/Tifa is not canon and is based on interpretation (just like a million other pairings, generally accepted as canon or otherwise). But would that really be more convincing? Or just plain offensive to Cloud/Tifa shippers?
Obviously, you just don't like my writing style because, according to you, I don't present my miniscule, subtext evidence in a logical and detailed enough manner. And to that, I can only say, I worked with what I had.
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Date: 2006-10-13 09:37 am (UTC)You said: What I meant was that if you're going to justify a pairing, you'd want to try and convince as many people as possible, and the way to go about doing that would be to defend your pairing whenever people point out things they think do not support your pairing.
How am I supposed to do that up there in the manifesto before anyone points out anything that does not support the pairing? I simply don't understand how I can argue something before anything has been said.
You keep saying that you never meant to demean Cloud/Yuffie. And I believe you. But what you're saying is that you're demeaning my writing of the manifesto. Which to me is much more offensive. I don't know how much more detailed I can write out what very little evidence there is, at least without going into super long theories about why Cloud/Tifa is not canon and is based on interpretation (just like a million other pairings, generally accepted as canon or otherwise). But would that really be more convincing? Or just plain offensive to Cloud/Tifa shippers?
Obviously, you just don't like my writing style because, according to you, I don't present my miniscule, subtext evidence in a logical and detailed enough manner. And to that, I can only say, I worked with what I had.