#nothing against those who ship it

[grayseyebrowscar]

watched the new dw special which means i will be reading too many soulmate au fics with doctor x rose (shut up i love nine x rose n ten x rose okay???)

anyways someone give me a ship to write a soulmates au that isnt one of the big four bc im gay

#milo talks #ima b real the only one you will ever see me writing is gajevy #i hate the big four with a passion #essp gru//via #nothing against those who ship it #im just supermegatotally gay and like gay ships over str8 o wa #doctorrose is a queer ship convice me otherwise #like i will write the big four if they are t4t but like #how do i explain this uhhhhh #natsu is acearo and for gender probably just doesnt care tbh #lucy is a bi cis woman in my head at all times sorry bbygirl #like i like jerza however its not my cup of tea to write it tbh #gray can be trans in any universe if ur not afraid #juvia is a lesbian she just has comphet #as a leabian i can say thaf

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

#as someone who was in an extremely toxic and chaotic fandom and lowkey still traumatized #to the point where I'm afraid to mention which fandom it was/what my ship was #i have to say #i genuinely love it here #i was nervous at first sharing my ships and headcanons but everyone is so chill i was worried for nothing #thank you to everyone I've interacted with who has made this fandom a healing experience for me #i shudder to think about what some of the people i interacted with in a previous fandom would do with ff6 #probably would take edgar's flirting at face value and call him problematic for objectifying women #instead of considering the narrative and what we know about him and the way he actually treats women #my man drinks loving and respecting women juice he's not a creep #or that weird moment with relm that admittedly made me double take before i realized what he meant #theyd have a whole campaign against him lmfao #bc those people boil characters alive until they're just a formless pile of tropes and stereotypes #and seem to disregard all positive aspects of a character they don't like which is fine #but then they go and try to force other people to think like they do and ugh #theres a lot of silly moments in the game and aspects of these characters that make them well rounded and realistically flawed at times #and i fear that would get lost in the chaos if the floodgates opened after a remake #maybe im just jaded lmao #im jaded and i have anxiety so im always thinking about The Worst Case Scenario #the collective positive spirit of the dwellers in this fandom might actually foster a positive space if more people were to come in #ff6 #my post #i was gonna say maybe this is bc we're mostly adults #but that falls flat when i remember how some of the most toxic and immature people in some fandoms are grown ass adults #who bully each other and younger fans #and some of the most mature and cool people were actually younger #maybe ff6 fans are just built different lmao #also idk how old anyone else actually is there might be teenagers here i just don't think about it a lot

[infizero]

listen i was guilty of this once upon a time too but dawg ppl GOTTA stop calling any platonic dynamic they like “siblings” without any precedence 

#there are many characters where there is good right to call them siblings. but ppl have gotten so trigger happy w it #and like theres nothing wrong with viewing a dynamic that way ig but at the same time it makes ppl who may ship those characters really #uncomfortable. bcuz although there is nothing to suggest that those characters view each other in that way by calling them siblings #instantly you've made it weird for anyone who might interpret the dynamic differently #idk this is very nuanced but it just irked me a little bit #absolutely nothing against the person in the tags of my art btw power to you #but. as someone who ships pearl and scar a little it was a bit uncomfortable to see them be called siblings #i dont like ppl making ANY of the hermits siblings. like grian and pearl are a common one i see and i just. i dont get it i truly dont #none of their dynamics read like that to me. idk. again ppl have their own interpretations of things and they didnt mean any harm by it #it just made me feel a little weird #and this is a problem or well. trend ive seen in all fandoms recently #please. people are allowed to be friends and have close friendships and not have a familial element involved #esp with a girl and a boy THEY CAN JUST BE FRIENDS! YOU CAN HAVE THEM BE TOTALLY PLATONIC WITHOUT CALLING THEM SIBLINGS #whatever whatever idrc. just something ive noticed i know other ppl have talked about this before #again this is not a callout or anything im genuinely not mad or weirded out or anything please dont think i am #serena.txt

[partywithponies]

I feel like everyone on both sides blew Reylo way out of proportion. It's literally the most basic inoffensive Baby's First Enemies To Lovers™ ship. The reason there's like three billion published novels that started life as Reylo is because it's so by the numbers that it can be easily adapted to any ETL/RTL AU you can possibly think of.

And honestly I think as a collective the haters were way more unhinged than the fans because everyone acts like their ship is god's gift to romance, you come to expect that, but the way the anti-Reylo crowd at the peak of the sequel trilogy would have had you believe it was the most toxic and problematic ship ever? This? I've seen more moral complexity in Steven Universe.

#were there INDIVIDUAL Reylo shippers who were unhinged or problematic? yeah obvs. #but that's not a reflection on the ship that's a reflection on fandom culture. happens with literally EVERY popular ship. #some of the most insane lunatics in fandom history were johnlockers or destiellers but we still let those ships dominate this website #anyway real talk Anakin and Padme are a more toxic ship than Kylo and Rey #and that's nothing against Anakin and Padme we love Anakin and Padme

[cheetahsprints]

S3 Spoiler

What they meant

Sonic: Grab my hand, no homo :)?

Shadow: Yes homo

Sonic: Ok your idea is better so how ya doin 😏

#sonadow #sonadow prime #I've connected the dots #sonic prime spoilers #spoilers #'stop making everything romantic they're just bros' #well you know what we heard it from Shadow himself they're not brothers /hj #those holier than thou types can miss me with that headassery fr #shippers filling fandom spaces/tags with their adoration over every little thing has been happening for ages wtf #dont mind me ranting in the tags I'm just having a moment #just to be clear I have nothing against people who wanna view them as friends/found family/qp -- just the whiners #some people act like shipping ruins the very concept of friendship? why????? #I may be about the kissie lovey uwu Sonadow but I am fine with them being platonic coded on screen #as long as we are getting Moments:tm: and Shadow isn't being swept under the rug or hidden in the closet #my post

[gayedmundo]

i'm sorry but if you have the audacity to say you just started watching 9-1-1 because you saw buck and tommy got together and then tell buddie shippers that we're delusional and are just seeing things and insist upon eddie's heterosexuality then i will not be kind to you.

#like truly i had nothing against b/t as a ship at first but these shippers are making my brain shut down #whyyyy do you think buck has been implied to be bi all of this time? 90% bc of his interactions with EDDIE #why do you think eddie's sexuality plot was on the table this season before buck's? because of HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BUCK #and both of their INDIVIDUAL sexualities being thought of as less than straight for seasons now by the writers #and buddie shippers are the ones who have helped get us here in the first place like please please PLEASE put your thinking caps on #you simply cannot agree that it makes sense for buck to be bi without also understanding the depth of eddie's queer coding #and the way their relationship has been written together #i don't get how these people can write out this invisible string theory linking stuff from s2 to s7 for b*cktommy #but can't see that buck and eddie have 30 times more of those types of things you could connect. #like i dont wanna be in a Ship War it's just. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[handmemyshovel]

the fact that coriolanus and lucy gray go so terribly together makes me laugh like... i cant even ship them... the only reason i freaked out when they kissed was bc I WAS THE ONE simping for coryo. in reality, all of their interactions, especially after the hunger games, were so bland. where was the chemistry?? they are way too different for each other.

there's lucy gray: wild, free, graceful and fun in everything she does. all she wants is freedom, something she never seems to get. shes trapped by the capitol and the districts. and then coriolanus snow: restricts himself, only wants control. he never allows himself complete freedom in what he does, but instead worries about how other would perceive him. he's trapped by the capitol, the districts, but instead of trying to get away from this control, he tries to be the one in control. he wants to be the one on top of things, have freedom for himself by restricting the freedom of others.

so how would the two ever find freedom in each other? they can't!! they aren't in love! or at least coriolanus isn't in love with lucy. he may love her, yes, but he isn't in love with her. how was lucy first presented to him? as his girl. the one thing in his life that he can control at the time. and in doing so, there's a chance for him. a chance for a better life. he hears her sing, her hope of surviving, the spark of rebellion in her. but does he actually see her? all of these things he sees in her are induced by the capitol. she has to sing for money, for fame (and yes, she enjoys it, but the second she sings a song about something he doesn't agree with, that the capitol may not enjoy, that may make him look bad, he gets all uncomfortable.). her hope of surviving is only because the capitol has made her have to survive. her spark of rebellion helped coriolanus win, but after they won, that spark was only seen as something out of his control.

her view of freedom is so much different than coriolanus'. her view of so much is different than his. and i think at first, coriolanus' idea of her was appealing. in his control, there for him, her life foreign to him. but then he actually knew her. and he couldn't fall in love with her. she contradicted so many of his beliefs, so much of what the world had told him to be. he couldn't possibly change so much, ruin his life like that.

so basically the point is CORIOLANUS NEVER REALLY LOVED LUCY GRAY!! NOT FOR WHO SHE WAS!! and i wish i could expand more on what lucy thought of him. i would love to see inside her mind, see if she was truly in love with him. but i think that's up to the reader's interpretation. anyways ! i'm done rambling.

#i did not mean to make this post so long #but they literally do not go together sorry not sorry #nothing against those who ship them bc i see the appeal i really do #and keep in mind i hardcore ship coriojanus and they also are a terrible pair #if anyone has evidence that disagrees with this post dont be shy share it #coriolanus x lucy gray #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #someone shut me up!

[skysgalaxy]

The more I think about it and seeing it from others in fanarts is that the reason why most I don't do Jedi x Clone as much as ships is because technically the Clones are like little kids-teenagers around Ahsoka 's age and why even though I enjoyed the team works of the Jedi and their clones they were more like a fond family really of anything because of the scene of when one of the Clones says that they're just expendables the fact that Plo automatically said "Not to me." they were literally breathing beings who needed guidance and while sadly it ended on the note of the clones helping ending the whole Jedi regime Jedi's like Plo Obi and Anakin really cared for them and only saw them either as sons or brothers and why I couldn't-can't fully get behind of the shipping idea of them

#i got caught up with the #fanarts of the ships #but it never felt right #nothing against those who do #ship them but to me i didnt #really see them as shipping option #for the jedis cause while #anakin was still very young as well #there was just nothing #so really #star wars #the clones #the clone wars series #plo koon #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #star wars fandom

[muffindaydream]

way back when, sometime after I finished my first playthrough of pokemon scarlet, I brought back some of my old OCs and completely re-made them because the brainrot reached critical mass...

didn’t wanna take the student route so I made my OCs academy faculty members instead (librarians)!

Their names are Raine and Fatima. Raine is a Contest Coordinator hopeful and Fatima is a Dark-type specialist who wants to become a trainer again after previously retiring.

Raine is one of my oldest OCs ever, so I really wish I could have done her justice and made more art for her, especially by completing her full-body ref. My chronic pain won yet again..

You can read an even more detailed description of my Pokemon OCs here on a carrd I made just for them! bask in my self-indulgence.

#ladies and gentlemen........... my cringe *loud raucous applause* #pokemon #pokemon oc #pokemon original character #pokemon fan character #pokemon sv #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarlet violet #pokemon oc x canon #(yeah the oc x canon tag belongs here.. and you'll never guess who fifi will be paired with) #*cough either raifort or larry* #i still have fe3h brainrot so yes i'm gunna multiship my OCs across different AUs. i think for fifi those are like her most “canon” pairs. #most of my oc x canon plans for fifi are qpr coded.. just as an fyi lol. because of headcanons i have for her canon besties. #but if i really do get to work on this story it'll center mostly on raine and fifi's bond the most. found family sisterhood fic. #can i also just say that as cringe as i feel #coming back to fandom OCs has been very therapeautic? i feel like for a time this kinda thing #was frowned upon but maybe i just hung out in lame circles. being self-indulgent is freeing. #also feel the need to clarify that neither of these are self-inserts/for self-ship #getting back into fandom ocs and i noticed how prevalent that is. got nothing at all against it! just not a thing for myself personally lol

[nick-close]

Fuck it!! Drop your red flag dndads takes. 

Mine is anybody who actively hates on Carol Wilson. (Bonus point if they ship oakson.)

#i will not take criticism #i am sad so instead ill be controversial #nothing against the ship itself #but it reminds me of those old shipcourse things of hating women who 'get in the way' of a gay ship #i doubt thats the case but idk it still rubs me the wrong way #carol is a delight #darryl loves her sm and for good reason #dndads #dungeons and daddies

[staticmonitor]

quick psa that I'll add to my rules once I'm free from my mobile hell: pls tag any so.nadow content/mentions as "ven don't look"!

#mobile ooc. #nothing against those who ship!! the ship has just become a hardcore squick/teetering into trigger territory 4 me x__x #anyways... as usual im lurking + on discord

[funkily]

oh hey btw theres no excuse for the ao3 results of an smp with a 4:1 gender ratio, favoring female presenting people, to look like this .

#just so youre aware #fucking 9 . thats ridiculous . #and 14 of those are fh btw . ive got nothing against wcsmp fh (dipped my own toes in it) but to have the number one romantic ship feature #a guy who isnt even in the smp ?? yall . come on #sorry this is meaner than i like to be but it frustrates me #let me know if i should tag this with anything #wcsmp #babbleeng

[auber-dee]

I am the farthest thing away from shipping Ianthe with Gideon, but even I have to admit that their sparring matches would have absolutely astronomical levels of sexual tension.

#just nonstop flirting as they try to skewer each other #neither of them would feel the need to hold back because it’s not like they’re going to *die* #also just because i don’t ship them doesn’t mean i think nothing ever happened between them #they have drunkenly kissed at a bare minimum #(assuming kiriona has the ability to get drunk of course) #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #also addendum just to be clear: this is in no way intended as a slight against those who do ship the tower princes. you do you. i can see it #it just doesn’t do it for me personally #(and as always i am open to having my mind changed by very good fic)

[aaronymous999]

I will never shut up about one of the worst tropes in fiction THAT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT- and ahem the winner is: “Pairing off every main character, and I mean EVERY into a romantic relationship at the end of the story or sometime during the story” even if it makes no sense to the plot, or the character made it clear they aren’t interested in romance, all because some authors for some reason ( there actually is a reason but yknow ) think all the characters need to be paired off for a happy ending. Fandoms engage in this trope too sometimes and I very much so dislike it. And then there’s the weird cousin of this trope, “Most characters get paired off, but mostly the women, the men don’t need a partner and three kids, mainly just the women.” LOOKING AT YOU WARRIOR CATS DONT DENY IT YOU ARE GUILTY AS CHARGED.

#aaronymous ramblings #warrior cats #tropes #actually though it bothers me so much when romance is seen as the happiest end for a person so creators and fandoms enforce it so hard #meanwhile my aromantic ass is sighing and banging my head against a wall because the only single owl house character is Gus yet who knows I #thought the same way about hunter and vee and willow but then oops shipping #nothing wrong with those ships or shipping in general but sometimes it starts to feel like they are just a result of this world’s #insistence that romance is better than platonic or any kind of affection #where are my platonic love stories I want more of them #as much as I love romance anime sometimes it has this problem too #biggest critique of Horimiya despite how much I love it #Also WARRIOR CATS. STOP INSISTING YOUR FEMALE CHARACTERS SETTLE DOWN AND HAVE BABIES #Like the only ones who dont are like. Feathertail because she’s dead. Hollyleaf because she’s dead but she also apparently had ghost cuddles #and then Bristlefrost. because shes dead. #this sounds like a really dumb thing to complain about but nobody talks about this trope and it annoys me to no end!!

[zhongrin]

thoughts on childe x zhongli???

rules

#rin answers #rin is having tea with: anon 💟 #i think this sums it up pretty well #i have nothing against people who ship characters together #they're just not my cup of tea and i don't want to consume those kinda contents esp with my f/os because of personal reasons #thank you for your understanding <3

[verdantmeadows]

Ostracized in the Layt0n fandom for being the only person who really doesn't like R/nlay

(Absolutely nothing wrong with it, I just don't like it. Ranh3n is my OTP and I love how they are so much I can't like either ships with them and I'm genuinely surprised they're not bigger than R/nlay given than Ranh3n has that flavor of codependent yaoi plus Henry "I built a city just for you while waiting over 18 years for you to return and being basically the only person who believed you'd come back and I kept some toy robot you gave me in pristine shape and immediately forgave you" L3dore)

#book of kells #and also being the only ranh3n shipper who abhors h3nry x ang3la or any other h3nry ships #again nothing wrong with it #i am just delusional. smiles #i really really want to make it clear i have nothing against ppl who ship those things #i know i have many followers who do #i just want to complain but i dont want to seem like im complaining abt those other ships #im just complaining that i feel ostracized for not liking them