The usual manifesto guidelines require (amongst other things): "Canon or subtext evidence for why your characters work in a pairing."
That doesn't mean you have to go though each and every episode and detail every bit of canon supporting your ship, I promise. Hell, the 'suggested' word limit for a manifesto is 5k. One of my shows ran for 100 eps, which works out at 50 words per ep (without even taking into account the rest of the manifesto!) and my boys were in just about all of them and did a lot of subtexty interacting. There's no way anyone could be expected to document it all.
Just one or two moments that jump out at you, (or five...or however many you decide to include) would be totally acceptable. Think about which episodes (or volumes or comics or whatevers) you would cue up if your best friend asked to see what all the fuss was about, and take it from there.
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Date: 2011-05-12 03:34 am (UTC)That doesn't mean you have to go though each and every episode and detail every bit of canon supporting your ship, I promise. Hell, the 'suggested' word limit for a manifesto is 5k. One of my shows ran for 100 eps, which works out at 50 words per ep (without even taking into account the rest of the manifesto!) and my boys were in just about all of them and did a lot of subtexty interacting. There's no way anyone could be expected to document it all.
Just one or two moments that jump out at you, (or five...or however many you decide to include) would be totally acceptable. Think about which episodes (or volumes or comics or whatevers) you would cue up if your best friend asked to see what all the fuss was about, and take it from there.
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