#IT ISNT BAD TO NOT LIKE A SHIP PEOPLE

[beybuniki]

gym buddies

#love that she gets to have close combat fights well what if they worked out together!! deku is also there but im wokring on that bad rn #bnha #bakugo katsuki #uraraka ochako #kacchako #for the people who care #honestly this isnt even romantic i like that ship but this is just them going beast mode together

[wispinwish]

i dont go here but i finished both seasons and am enjoying the experience:)

sketch under the cut

#abel walker #abyss razor #mashle #mashle magic and muscles #i actually lied i am on ep 11 of season 2 but… semantics #honestly im glad it isnt a very indepth show #it is very silly and i like to have fun #this isnt directed at anyone i am just havinga good time #vsdoivhsdjidsbv if icould draw people interacting… #I WOULD BE UNSTOPPA #ble #alas i am unable to Converse With Other People #perhaps another time :/ #guppydraws #i do ship them btw i am just bad at Making Scenes

[princsstwilightsparkl]

saying "if aroace people can date, then can lesbians date men?" is absolutely aphobic narrative btw!

#sorry just have to say this lol #so tired of people generalizing all aroace people as romance averse #its absolutely erasure of the rest of the spectrum #the top tweet isnt so bad depending on who theyre talking about #if a character ACTUALLY is canonically romance/sex aversed then yea its weird to erase that #but if they're canonically AROACE and you go 'erm that character cannot date or have sex🤓☝️' ur being aphobic as fuck #the 'shown no attraction to anyone' part kind of throws me off there #i hate when people say 'well this character didnt have feelings for anyone in the one year time span of the show so theyre romance aversed- #and nobody can ship them or else i'll harass u and subtweet u!1!!' #like. a characters life may not involve sex or romance at all fucking times. that does not make them aroace. #ur headcanon- even if you think its based on a logical conclusion- is not reality #sometimes yall just be making shit tf up #complaining about 'fanon' as if ur not the one pretending ur hc is real and treating everyone else like theyre the bad ones #but if that tweet is just saying that IN ADDITION to theyre canon identity then yea. thats valid. #their* </3 #obviously the reply is fucking disgusting #i couldnt reply directly cuz my twitter is priv #people will say this kind of shit to ME- AN AROACE PERSON #u preach about aro/ace erasure but when an actual aroace walks in you tell them their way of being aroace is wrong #not everyone is the fucking same. #non-partnering aroaces deserve more rep but telling partnering aroaces that their way of being aroace is wrong is genuinely horrific #like actually fuck u #aromantic #asexual #aroace #arospec #meowing (yapping)

[sonknuxadow]

another amy and shipping related thing that annoys me is when people (mostly sonamy and shadamy fans from what ive seen) act like sonic is somehow in the wrong for not wanting to date amy. like saying he's immature or mean as if he's required to date her just because she likes him regardless of his own feelings on the matter

#''sonic is so MEAN for turning down amys romantic advances'' THEYRE LITERALLY NOT A COUPLE ???? #why should he be required to play along with that stuff if hes not interested? #amy isnt wrong or a bad person for liking sonic but shes not entitled to his love either hes allowed to turn her down #ALSO WHEN PEOPLE SAY SONIC IS LEADING HER ON. NO HES NOT ????? #if anything hes doing the exact opposite of leading her on. unless you think just being NICE to her and being her friend counts as that ??? #some of you have some really weird ideas about romance and relationships. my god #theres nothing wrong with being uninterested in a specific person. theres nothing wrong with being uninterested in romance as a whole #to be clear i dont hate amy i love amy. people just have awful takes about her in the shipping department

[zabiume]

I really like the fact that Ichigo is a translator it wasn’t something that i ever thought he would do but it somehow works. I never thought he’d become captain I just don’t see it for him which is why it’s confusing when people say he should’ve become one ?? Like no way 😬

What do you think about him being a translator ? Also what did you think about the use of him being captain ?

ohhh, this is such a dead horse topic on my blog at this point, but yeah, i've never vibed with ichigo being a captain, mainly because a) he's much, much stronger than the average bleach captain😅, b) the thematic point of the story was that he's the living world protagonist and rukia is the soul society protagonist (at least during the first arc), and honestly if anyone has a believable motivation for "changing the system," it should be rukia, who grew up in the worst side of that system, and c) it's hard for me to wrap my head around what he would even do there. his duties and narrative goals have long transcended the mere hollow-purging he was doing in the first arc, i mean he was literally fighting a god in the last arc to prevent the collapse of the three worlds 💀 if anything, ichigo cares about all the realms, given how many times characters in TYBW comment on how virtuous he is because he's willing to rescue even his past enemies if they're no longer causing any trouble to him.

i think the reason this comes up a lot in fan circles is not because of how people perceive ichigo, but how they perceive soul society. shinigami characters are very popular, so it's easy to assume a lot of fans see them as the good guys. personally, i think kubo writes them as a very "do whatever is necessary to keep up the status quo" guys who act in soul society's best interest first and foremost, but aren't all necessarily bad people. it's the classic "good individuals ≠ good system" set-up.

i don't think kubo concerns himself with whether a side character is morally good or bad, he just writes them as having motivations that are consistent with who they are as people. for instance, mayuri isn't "good" but he acts in accordance with his own specific set of values. rukia and renji are "good" because their values often align with ichigo's. it's kind of like...the individuals might be likeable or even nice, but the system itself has done some pretty corrupt things. systems are slow to change, so i'd find it pretty unrealistic for one individual to be able to change centuries worth of practices overnight. of course, soul society has changed because of him, but so has everyone else. byakuya met ichigo and byakuya changed, grimmjow met ichigo and grimmjow changed, riruka met ichigo and riruka changed, etc etc. he's the consistent one, it's the others that change because of his influence. he's already done all of this without being captain, so i don't know how it would be interesting, narratively, for him to attain that role. what would it say about the character that hasn't already been said? it's implied that soul society aspires to reach his level, not the other way around, so it doesn't make sense to posit them as aspirational here. as the hero, ichigo is the aspirational one for most of the characters in the series.

also, i know this isn't a popular opinion, but i like that ichigo has parts of every "identity" in his blood (shinigami, hollow, quincy, fullbringer etc etc😂). therefore, it makes sense to me that he's got allegiances to every group, just as he's got enemies. he's bigger than any one particular group.

coming to his living world job, i think it makes perfect sense and i love how kubo phrases it

from a watsonian perspective, we knew from the very start that ichigo is good at english, likes it, etc etc. we also knew from the very beginning that he wasn't much help around the clinic and that isshin actually urged him to stay away from it, even though i would've been equally okay with him being a doctor. ichigo is smart and he has a great sense of compassion, so that's not at all a bad job for him either.

HOWEVER, my most favorite thing about it is, again, coming back to how kubo phrases it. ichigo as a character has always had insight into both sides, the dead and the living, that's what makes him special as a human, so in a way, he's always been a translator, it's just the language that changes. he's understood the language of grief, managed to bridge the gap between the dead and the living. he's been able to convince soul society to return ginjou's body by communicating the real anguish that ginjou felt as a soul reaper. he's been able to understand the arrancars even as he was fighting them, and in silent victory, he's even been able to empathize with aizen! ichigo is all about understanding, as you can see here in one of my favorite bleach chapters:

ichigo is very intuitive, very eager to understand another heart and build connections, and what else is translation other than accessing a whole other language, a whole other mind, trying to understand it? it might not be accurate or exact, but it comes close, and that's the joy of translation, isn't it? finding the most resonant way to have one world connect with another? the way i phrase something might be different from the way you phrase it, but feelings are universal and no one gets that better than ichigo, who has repeatedly understood the feelings of characters whom he shares no culture with. there's also a meta-ness to the "connecting two different worlds:" bleach has always had contrasts (the modern world, which ichigo lives in, vs the ancient world soul society is modeled on; the western influences on bleach's aesthetics, while bleach itself is a japanese story). ichigo ties everything together, so it's just very fitting and satisfying for him to occupy a position like this!

obviously, it also makes sense for practical reasons, considering the work-from-home nature of the job allows him to be on stand-by in case of any emergencies that need him, and it allows him to break the shonen generational curse by being very involved in his son's upbringing😂. kubo mentioned on klub outside recently that kazui's room was built according to ichigo's specifications, and that's a level of involvement i've always expected from ichigo😅 he's a homebody at heart, he loves having a home and a family and i think any job that allows him to be close to them is a good one! kubo gets a lot of deserved criticism, but i think he's always known his characters well, so i like it! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#bleach has plenty wrong with it but i think a lot of it's criticism in the GP stems from people projecting their nrt trauma onto bleach😂 #and like. i'm sorry you had a bad experience there but ichigo is not naruto & ichi/hime isnt a nrt endgame ship & bleach is not nrt! #it might be only slightly better but it IS still...better😅 #do i even tag this....i never check the ichigo tag so idk what the vibe is like there #ichigo kurosaki #asks #i personally enjoyed the idea of it even back then because some ichihime writers were writing him as one well before it was even canon lmao

[satorugojoswiife]

What do you think about gojo ships

I feel like I'm pretty indifferent to most of them. This is super cringe of me, but whenever I fall super in love with a character I don't often like shipping them romantically with anyone. 💀 (im delusional I know)

It doesn't help that for some reason the jjk fandom (especially twt) is weirdly aggressive about ships. I know it isn't all the shippers and it's mostly just the loud minority, but seeing so much of the discourse has kinda put me off and I don't really engage much with the ships in the fandom except for rarepairs and selfships bc alot of the time those communities are more wholesome and cozy (if that makes sense LOL)

#satofie best ship #andnajdjskdjksnfksndjdj im sorry im cringe 😔😔 #anyways i honestly have no idea #its not even about not liking seeing him with others bc i enjoy seeing other ppls gojo × oc/selfships #i just for some reason dont really vibe with any of the existing gojo ships in the series #weirdly enough if i had to choose one i feel like sukugo is the most interesting one LOL they are so funny with eachother #i feel like in a different life they really couldve hit it off #i feel bad for gojohime shippers sometimes #like i personally dont like the ship but oh my god ppl on twitter are so mean about that ship i dont even know why ??? #is it bc alot of them prefer him shipped with a guy ?? or they dont like seeing another woman that isnt them with him?? i dont know #but i see so much hate for it and it makes me sad bc like just move on or mute the account so u dont have to see it if you really hate it #the amount of times ive seen some big jjk account qrt a fanart dissing the ship while also getting more likes than the artists post is craz #why do ppl fight over fake people kissing....... #i remember this one account specifically that was obsessed with gojo but they were so snobby about it and like gatekeeping other fans #and they really hated gjhm and for some reason felt the need to make it into a problematic ship instead of just saying #i dont like this and moving on #but they made this whole thing abt how toxic they actually are bc utahime hates gojo #only to (in the same thread) gush over their fave ship which was nanago #and i felt crazy bc its......literally the same dynamic what #like am i missing something ????? #anyways this got a bit wild but pls be nice to eachother and respect eachothers ships #you dont have to justify why u dislike a ship you can just not like it #no need to turn it problematic

[literaphobe]

“why would you want adrienette to break up surely you hate them and think they’re a bad couple don’t you know that you are actively harming and hurting these very real fictional characters–“

please watch ONE sitcom that features a will-they-won’t-they

like it just really is not that deep guys 😭😭😭 the way tv works esp w couples in messy situations is that they tend to break em up and get them back together again because its um. entertaining…? not to mention love square is in a completely unique situation where their main love rivals are EACH OTHERS ALTER EGOS which means ultimately we all Like The Same Couple. its just funny to see them get back together in funnier and more insane ways ❤️ u can dislike this as a story direction but other people finding it fun is not a crime

#its just a silly poll…….. #i love adrienette i just want EXES ANGST #I HAVE ISSUEESSS THIS IS THE ISSUES WEBSITE #mlbposting #NO ONE KILL ME PLEASE I DONT MEAN ANY HARM I JUST THINK #there isnt any point in getting upset over this…… #we are all just having fun not tryna like wish for anything BAD and AWFUL #genuinely i get feeling upset thinking people want ur fave ship to Drown but #idt anyone had malicious intentions…?

[taikanyohou]

TEAM + WIN | Until We Meet Again (2019-2020) / Between Us (2022). VEGAS + PETE | KinnPorsche (2022).

#vegaspete #teamwin #kinnporsche #until we meet again #between us #asianlgbtqdramas #* #faiza gifs #listen i made this so selfishly for myself and my entertainment i love silhouettes and these 2 have PROVIDED for me. #my two most fave ships EVER EVER EVER???? #YEAH. #and listen its not about comparison of how healthy teamwin is vs how toxic vegaspete is #bc lemme tell yall teamwin GO THROUGH IT in the novel and it ISNT all sunshine and rainbows and roses for them AT ALL. #team can be a LITTLE SHIT when he wants to be and be cold and distant like. yeah. #but yeah its just about the VIBES. like. there is TRUMA embedded in BOTH couples bc of Bad Fathers and not being Seen by people but rather #used and putting up a Front. #ANYWAY #colouring this was SOOOO much fun ugh i LOVE how this came out now WATCH TUMBLR MOBILE RUIN IT.

[strrwbrrryjam]

i don't expect adaptations to be carbon copies of the original, because then what would be the point of the adaptation when we already have the original. i don't expect adaptations to be better than the original, sure, there are a few cases of that happening, but it's rare.

what i do expect adaptations is to be faithful to the source material, keeping to the same themes that were integral to the original, and i do expect adaptations to maintain the integrity of the characters, especially in a show like avatar the last airbender, where much of its appeal and depth come from the growth, development and the relationships of the characters and that's where natla fails.

#changes to characters can be good sometimes. but the changes the creators of natla made are not good. #if you believe that the changes they have made are for the better? im not listening to you. argue with the wall. #i dont really care if you like it. if you like it. good for you! #i didnt. it sucks ass. its... so flat and completely assassinated so many characters. katara. bumi. iroh. hakoda. #there are few positives. it isnt all bad. most of it is though. #its not worse than the movie. ill give them that. some of the scenes were great. but... ugh. #side note - i see a lot of people complimenting the outfits and... sure. they look pretty. but the thing is they shouldn't look pretty. #aang is 12 years old. he's reckless and messy and loves to goof off. his clothes are not going to look pristine and brand new. #sokka teaches children to be warriors. you cannot tell me his clothes wouldn't be dirty and torn. #same with katara. but she's an amateur waterbender who messes up. a lot. #ZUKO HAS BEEN ON A RUN DOWN SHIP FOR THREE YEARS. his armour would be OLD. AND SCRATCHED UP. #especially with how careless zuko is. he is a person who will strive to achieve his goal even at his own expense. #his armour and clothes would be beat up and worn. #its got a cosplay feel to me. like these are just people cosplay characters that they only have a shallow knowledge of. #its. just. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i hate it #natla #netflix avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar the last airbender #strawberry speaks

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

“izzy is dedicated and hardworking and hates when people are lazy slackers” is such a funny interpretation to me bc when have we ever seen izzy work hard at anything aside from trying to tell other people what to do

#bro he even whines when ed is like “can you go run a very simple errand and invite this guy aboard my ship” #he’s such a hypocrite about “your lot’s days of laying around” bro all you do is pout in the corner! #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #izzy critical #dizzy izzy #mine #txt #og #also he’s very bad at telling people what to do. his strategy is just “be mean about it” which is a TERRIBLE leadership/management strategy #if this post is in the izcourse tag no it isnt u just dont know how to use tumblr

[wolfxe]

idk what it is about the way dungeon meshi portrays relationships but it feels so unique to me

i like all of the ships and also want none of them to be canon. it's fun to imagine literally all of them, but it's just as fun to examine the platonic relationships and what they mean

it's so refreshing to see marcille & laios' friendship but i totally get why people ship them. marcille & falin's devotion to each other is amazing to explore in any context. chilchuck & laios, laios & kabru, senshi & chilchuck, even toshiro & falin. literally every character dynamic no matter the romance/lack of it is so interesting to me

it really felt like a breath of fresh air getting into something where the relationships between characters felt both real and substantial the way they are, but also capable of being expanded upon and played with without feeling like they're betraying the main themes/ideas. man i love dungeon meshi

#og #dungeon meshi #i need to make character tags for the meshi crew cause apparently this is gearing up to be a big one #im not really into anime usually #but i had heard a lot of good things about dungeon meshi from people i follow on here that i respect so i gave it a try #watched the anime and immediately started reading the manga #im hooked man this shit is so good #the THEMES man #THE THEMES #it's literally helping me work through some of my own issues i have with myself #especially through laios #god. laios #hes so me and somehow thats helping me examine a lot of stuff about myself and my worldview and repair it a little #im eating better cause i keep remembering senshi when i think about skipping a meal #save me dungeon meshi. save me #im realizing this post makes me seem kind of like i need to be into a ship to like a fandom or something #which isnt true #most fandoms im in dont actually have any ships that interest me #which is why this feels so important. cause its portrayed things so well that i can actually like the ships #its really nice being able to genuinely enjoy most of the stuff made by fans #cause if we're being honest here the majority of fandom content are of ships #which isnt a bad thing but it does mean that if you just like the overall story or individual characters or platonic relationships #then its a little harder to engage with the community #but now i can! very fun

[welcometoteyvat]

jing yuan and yanqing are giving zhongli and xiao if the latter’s canon relationship was Actually fanon’s made up father figure/adopted child dynamic

#idkkkkkkkkkkkkk who looks at zx and is like 'you know what. this is a healthy parent child relationship' #like girl by fitting them into father son boxes you are actively making their relationship imbalance Worse #if you do that and dont shy away from it i respect that but if you say dad/son makes their relationship more wholesome or whatever like WHY #now i wont deny shippers might do that too but i see the dad son version so much i think im just averse to it by default #also because i think father son makes people actively Try to make their relationship something that its not and it erases a bunch of subtlet #subtleties in it. it's the nuanced r/ship -> entirely unproblematic and flavorless r/ship that i hate #also the number of people who'll block if you ship zx. like damn thats crazy you guys really think theyre father son (fake)??? #at their peak they're like. 4000 year old guys who have too much history and repression and some weird entanglement of 'nah im bothering him #too much' and 'gotta protect him w my life' complexes. and then this devolves into theyre never gonna kiss until 3000 more years have passed #listen they just Contain Multitudes idc if you dont ship it just dont make it into dad and son and we will be so gucci #jing.yuan and yanqing are like different i think mostly bc yanqing is actually like a minor and jing yuan is also a normal ish person #plus the light cone and the abouts?? yeah this is an actual like adopted parent/child thing #also good or bad news i caved and am now playing hsr. the plan is to pull yanqing and then go on infinite hiatus in the game 👍 #JWKFLJWEK i dont think theres really any draws for me besides him. personally neutral on turn based combat and the open world isn't giving #the only saving grace i have rn is 1) ive gotten to the part where bron.seele is real and man theyre gay 2) trailblazer trio 3) tall female #mc 4) everyone has way better emoting abilities than genshin 5) su.shang's really cute <3 #the story doesnt really interest me though its like cool but not mindgrippingly interesting #tbf i think genshin is the same way storyline wise (at the beginning) but the difference is that turn based combat isnt really my thing LMAO #ramblings! #zhongxiao #if you want to filter it out ??

[johnskleats]

don't read the comments the comments are whisky fork in your brain don't do it or they will blend your reason like a smoothie dontburrrrrrrrrrrr

#i keep saying im better than this but i am not #please folks if someone makes a ramt post thats tagged as anti why tf are you interacting #do not #yall cant come up into other peoples properly tagged personal posts and then bitch about how #'not to bash anyones ships or anything but zutara people always do this your ship is baseless and bad faith arguments and youre so hateful' #like girl the post is not for you #get a hobbyyyy that isnt engaging with brainrot that upsets you #actively trying io take my own advice #leave us to our echochamber in peace thank you #zutara #agony

[sonknuxadow]

i think that if you try to submit a shipping related question to one of the sonic twitter takeovers you should automatically explode on the spot for the good of the universe

#people who submit questions that arent blatantly about romance and could easily be taken platonically #but are still very obviously trying to get content of a certain ship are on thin ice as well #like stop . no . stop trying to make this about shipping #for one i just dont wanna hear about it in official stuff and mostof the ships ive seen people try to get them to play into suck anyway #but also them answering could have so many bad outcomes. both with the actual answer and fandom reaction to the answer #this isnt about anyone in particular btw just been thinking about it with the new takeover happening today

[wavebiders]

I think we would all get along a lot better if everyone could just accept that "queerplatonic relationships are important rep and shouldn't be diminished" and "romantic relationships between women are often written off as friendships and it's ok for wlw to not feel drawn to that interpretation" are two statements that can and should coexist

#like yeah i understand it sucks if you really want it to be queerplatonic that the fandom as a whole has very much jumped to romance #but at the same time its also nice that for once the f/f ship is this popular #and its not like there havent been any specifically romantic suggestions about it at the table either #i get that queerplatonic rep is important i get that #but i know when i see those at this point bi-weekly post urging people to consider it could be platonic i do get frustrated #cause while i know objectively that isnt whats being said it feels a whole lot like being gal palled does in straighter spaces #(also feels bad when people put all the queerplatonic focus them when cr has several special platonic m/f bonds but thats another post) #but at the same time that doesnt warrant hostility towards people that dont see it as a romance #these people are queer too and deserve rep too and regardless sending hate is never ok #just #maybe everyone stop trying to push your view on others and just wait it out #and block people whose takes upset or annoy you thats much more civil than picking a fight #critical role #cr3 #imodna

[hezuart]

Ok I’m just asking how do…. You feel about the ships of little nightmares 😰 I saw a video about mono and seven on TikTok …..

I see a lot of ship art for the Lady x Thin Man which is funny to me

But our main characters????? They're all kids! I'm uncomfortable if I see ships of them I mean, if they're aged up to adults, then okay, fine But the kid selves? No thank you, no thank you, no thankyou

#innocent ships where they are older? fine #like hey if you wanna do an aged up childhood friends to lovers i aint stopping you #romance isnt just for adults #but people making romance between children under like 14 is a big no no #makes me so uncomfortable for a lot of obvious reasons #theyre kids they just want to play and make friends- or in this case- survive #and a lot of shipping..... is not an innocent #it gets to P*do territory ..... irksome and disturbing #luckily ive avoided any truly nasty stuff #ive only ever seen aged up- innocent shipping thank goodness... #little nightmares #text post #ask #ive made an animation or a comic that people claim looks shippy #and i apologize- im apparently bad at keeping platonic and romantic concepts separated #because everyone has different boundaries or comforts #but just know that if any LN stuff ive made that seems shippy is supposed to be platonic #im just bad at writing clear or strict platonic friendships