but I wouldn't go on to a fan of said pairings tumblr or whatever and interrogate them about it.

Unfournately there are a number of fans on tumblr that see harassing people that ship things and like characters they don't approve as some sort of higher calling.

See also the anon concern trolling me on my tumblr about my history of being abused and how that 'worries them that I'm falling into a pattern of whitewashing' by writer Cronus as a three dimensional character.