#i am being so reductive and facetious here please do not take anything i'm saying seriously

[ohcorny]

I don’t think this is most people but for me personally, it’s just really frustrating to see a *trend* where the vast majority of fan content is about m/m and the vast minority of content is about f/f. I especially am seeing it right now with dungeon meshi, where a new fanworks tend to pair together male characters who don’t interact, or pair them in very out of character ways, and completely ignore the women (either ones who do interact or ones who don’t!), and it’s extra noticeable because pre-anime most shipping stuff was around the main f/f duo

and because the dominance of m/m is in a *lot* of fandoms it becomes really frustrating, even for someone like me who does enjoy m/m and m/f ships

I don’t think it’s a moral issue, I don’t think it’s misogyny, but also the internet right now is a place where when you don’t like something you have to justify it by saying the thing you don’t like is evil somehow, for a lot of people

And it’s not like the thing doesn’t happen to female characters, too—I remember a few people from locket tomb fandom who I considered infamous for ignoring the actual personalities of the main female characters in order to fit them into any random au generator prompt or incorrect quote possible. It’s just less common I think because there are a lot more media that have mainly male casts and a lot of people who prefer to do that with male characters

oops sent early but anyway yeah idk I don’t think anyone should feel obligated to write ships they don’t want to, certainly there’s no moral problem with only doing m/m and m/f stuff, and I can understand WHY being frustrated with general trends gets directed towards individual creators (of fanwork AND of original work), even as I think it really sucks that it DOES get directed at them Also, super love your work!! Glad you’re making what you want to make, and I’ll keep enjoying it

you said a lot of other things but yes, dungeon meshi is the cause of every fandom discourse du jour lately and this one in particular is nuts to me. nobody is going to be shipping senshi/chilchuck in five months. marcille/falin is so completely not threatened by the trans masc kabru/laios shippers. dungeon meshi is just a wild example for this issue because out of ANY fandom, it is absolutely the one where the f/f shippers won. marcille/falin is ubiquitous, it is a given, everybody knows it. sure the anime will have brought in the people who'll bang any two dolls together to see what sticks but that's just because it's popular. they are not going to last. they are fandom mayflies. they'll move on to the next popular thing and the marcille/falin fans will ultimately win.

anything getting popular is going to get popular with the wider demographics and that's going to have effects on the representation of fandom interest. it's the same as i said in the initial post. it's numbers.

#i am being so reductive and facetious here please do not take anything i'm saying seriously