#etcsaku

[unwiltingblossom]

"good to see multisaku is still toxic" I really hope this doesn't come off as rude and apologize in advance if it does, but why are you surprised? A lot of multisakus hate sasuke (or ship her with random characters to get her out of the way of their otp, some don't even like sakura lol) and only bring up things like feminism or "abuse" to guilt trip/demonize ss shippers. Usually because they don't want to see their self insert shipped w/ a character they don't like. It's been like this for ages.

I dunno, I mean I do get what you’re saying, it’s just that...usually in fandoms a multishipper tends to just really like a character and their chemistry with lots of people. They can have a NOTP involved, including their canon romance, but...it’s not like when you get involved in the main rival romances where you expect a ship war. Of course Harry/Hermione and Ron/Hermione will slapfight for all eternity, but Hermione/Tom is not going to have that as a feature.

Multisaku shippers, on the other hand, have this tendency to do something like “Lee would love and respect Sakura, unlike that abuser Sasuke honestly she deserves Lee” or “TBH Sai’s so much better and healthier for Sakura than Sasuke, Sakura only cares about Sasuke’s looks!”

I’m not saying you can’t ship Sakura with Lee and Sai and also think Sasuke is terrible for her - in example, I really like Ishihime (not enough to remember their ship name, evidently) and disdain Ichihime, but if I’m going to gush about Ishihime, I’m gonna do it separately from criticizing Ichihime. I don’t need to justify wanting Uryuu and Orihime to boink by saying that Ichigo and Orihime are boring or whatever. My enjoyment of the ship can stand on its own.

Naruto, in particular multisaku, is just so weirdly toxic and salty. Instead of just focusing on how lovely LeeSaku or InoSaku is, they just keep focusing on how ‘bad’ Sasusaku is and how by comparison they’re better. But should your ship only be good in comparison to ‘an abusive terrible romance’? Shouldn’t it be good on its own, and able to stand on its own?

I agree completely that the abuse narrative and the feminism/strong Sakura nonsense is complete fabrications made to prop up a shipwar, and it’s NEVER applied equally, just used as a tool to try to stop people from shipping what they don’t like. I just find if unreasonable that years later literal crackships have to build their entire identity around how bad the canon ship is, instead of how good their ship is. This is pretty much a Naruto-fandom only thing and it’s weird.

#ask #anonymous #sasusaku #multisaku #leesaku #saisaku #etcsaku #I kept trying to make this answer less wordy but somehow it's still wordy. #Anonymous