If there's an entire shipping community out there that's this sane about the issue, I want in it. I do ship them - I just ship a lot of other people too.

I can understand how this would be frustrating - just as I think you can understand how frustrating it is that 90% of the fics on Teaspoon really do go about degrading, if not dissing, every other companion. So eventually, perhaps we'd do best to cordially agree to disagree.