#shipping things

[secretly-a-catamount]

short(er) girlfriend dragging her tall(er) boyfriend around by his tie, my beloved.

#braedafina #serafaeden #percabeth #tagatha #hophie #malcabel #zelink #saltnubis #helnik #kanej #arlex #ronmione #hinny #the serafina series #percy jackson and the olympians #the school for good and evil #the shadowhunter chronicles #the villains trilogy #the legend of zelda #the kane chronicles #six of crows #the land of stories #the harry potter series #shipping things #shipping thoughts #gender doesn’t matter obviously #how could I possibly forget lucky robins?! #lucky robins #goncharov #goncharov 1973

[glitchedcosmos]

They’re besties , they’re enemies, their relationship is undefinable, they’re acquaintances, they’re lying to each other, They’re gay and in love, they both have 10996446 mental illnesses they are band from most timelines, and are wanted fugitives in most dimensions.

#tag this what you will #looking at you sonadow #looking at you ineffable husbands #looking at you every two characters ever #this is also qp coded #qpr #ship dynamics #character dynamics #sonadow #ineffable husbands #ships #character wrapped #tag this #queerplatonic things #shipping things #character things

[very-small-flower]

My toxic trait is that if the fan art is compelling enough I will ship it.

#hanamusashipping #is what I was thinking about specifically #but this happens so often #shipping things #ship and let ship #crossover shipping #pro shipping

[jacuzziwaters]

I hope that people know that when I say I ship something it almost never means romantically. What I mean by shipping is that these 2 or more people have such a strong bond that even if they were set in another universe they would still find one another. They hold so much love, admiration, trust, and faith in one another that nothing can get in between them. I wish there was another way that I could say it though that's not connected to romance.

#love is non romantic in this case too #soukoku #shin soukoku #satosugu #nanago #itafushi #rekilan #aro #aromance #aromantic #aromanitc #shipping #shipping things #friendship #character ships #jay's attempts at communicating

[princessfayebug]

A day doesn't go by where I'm not thinking about Rasey and Jonatello

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I love them sm its giving me brain rot<333

#tmnt #tmnt 2012 headcanons #tmnt 2012 raph #tmnt 2012 donnie #2012 rasey #jonatello #donnie x casey #raph x casey #i have brain rot #shipping things #ah yes

[p-011-yn]

oh wait, people ship those guys… cool —> y’know that’s actually a pretty good ship —> yeah, i ship them, but it’s not like im obsessed —> im normal about them (said between gritted teeth) —> ok, so it turns out i’m not normal about them —> please, god, just let me be normal about them

#shipping things #trafficshipping #scarian #desert duo #grian #scar #gtwscar #goodtimeswithscar #majorwood #inthelittlewood #martyn inthelittlewood #scott smajor #dangthatsalongname #third life #limited life #team ranchers #double life #jimmy solidarity #tangotek #tango #jimmy #solidarity gaming

[mai0nesa]

I just like the idea of them interacting

#cynonari #haikaveh #kavehtham #genshin #genshin comic #genshin fanart #shipping things #au #idk what im doin lol

[justrustandstardust]

Can I ask your opinion on answer to this : https://www.tumblr.com/gojuo/742796780522061824/is-satosugu-a-queerbaiting-ship?source=share ?

for reference, this is the post anon is talking about. feel free to check it out for context before reading my response.

this person is basically saying that stsg cannot be romantic because there is no romance depicted between them onscreen; all of their interactions are meant to be regarded through a platonic lens because it's never explicitly indicated (in canon) to do otherwise.

this goes back to the whole idea of "projecting" queerness onto geto and gojo despite them being queered already, which i've touched on before. i'm going to respond to this person's ideas in two main parts: 1) queerbaiting and 2) canon, alongside the idea of "shipping".

as an idea, queerbaiting refers to the marketing technique employed by creators and publishers to increase a media's appeal, achieved through teasing a queer connection between two characters romantically unentangled in canon. queerbaiting dangles the proverbial carrot in front of the audience only to snatch it back with forced love interests or open declarations of brotherhood. it operates along the binary of friends/heterosexuals and queered/romance, dangling the carrot in front of the latter only to resolutely plant their feet in the former.

shockingly, i actually agree with this person— gojo and geto are not queerbaiting because they are queer-coded. the blatant difference between baiting and coding is that the former uses the appeal of fetishism as a marketing mechanism and the latter employs subtextual traits, literary devices and narratorial mechanisms that are recognizable as queer without being stated outright.

queerbaiting is always negative; it operates through stereotypes and functions to create the illusion of representation to ultimately reify the sex/gender binary. queercoding, on the other hand, functions in a more neutral space to create all forms of representation. (although western media has historically queercoded villains, which is an example of negative mechanization).

when engaging in discourse around queerbaiting, it's important to remember that queerness does not present uniformly across borders and time periods. when we seek open declarations of love as affirmations of queerness, we are seeking western representations of queerness, which are often founded in romantic love. the person who wrote this post is engaging in a solipsistic analysis from a western perspective, a perspective of which too often assumes the 'default' in anglophone fan spaces.

gojo and geto are not meant to be interpreted through a western lens because they are not borne of the west. applying a western conception of queerness to them as a barometer is unfair, incongruous and downright disrespectful to their characters. it's akin to shoving a box into a circular hole and declaring the box at fault for not being able to fit. simply because gojo and geto do not fit your static conception of queerness does not negate the core tenets of their characters that can only be understood through a queered lens, albeit a non-western one.

this brings me to my second point, which regards conceptions of canon and the practice of shipping. this person applies the same binary to fandom/canon spaces as they do sex/gender, dichotomizing jjk media into 'source' materials and 'fan-generated' content, much of which they relegate to the "stsg shippers [that] forc[e]their headcanons down your throat and manipulat[e] you into believing that shit".

a guiding principle amongst purists of any media is that there is "original" and "unbastardized" content, and then there are fan "mutilations" of said content that come after. they maintain a sanctimonious attitude and imply that people who engage in bastardizing media therefore understand the "source" content to a lesser degree (a requisite qualification to engage in mutilation).

in polarizing fan content and 'source' content, purists willfully blind themselves to the true essence of media— it does not exist independently of the imagination of the populous, it is made and continues to be made of the populous' imagination itself. once created, each re-imagination is not adjunct to the 'source' material but rather an extension of it on an equal ontological plane.

functioning less like an island in the ocean of our worldly milieu, media is more of a current, pushing and pulling on different sociocultural forces and being shaped by them in return. regarding it in a puritanical manner is a perversion of its nature because media does not merely live in the world, it becomes the world around it.

this person divorces so-called 'fan' content from 'original' material, and derisively declares that "Theories you read? That's fandom. Art you reblog? Fandom. Memes you consume and regurgitate? Fandom. Sending me asks about JJK? You're engaging in fandom". in doing this, they fundamentally do not understand that the two are inseparable because they are co-constitutive. jjk is fandom, and fandom is jjk.

fan culture is not supplemental to 'source' content; it a manifestation of media achieving its intended purpose, which is to join the world that bred it. fandom is perhaps the highest form of intellectual engagement with jjk because it executes the understanding that media exists within the world and not outside of it.

the things fans create are not inferior or antithetical to the 'source' media; however, i'm not saying that they're all inherently favourable either— they can be anything because they can just be. media invites itself into our world and in doing so, sends an amorphous invitation back. when you pompously declare that "in canon there is no romantic love between those two and there never has been", you slap the hand that extends itself to you and defy the maxim of media: it is not prescriptive, it is participatory.

when people acknowledge that gojo and geto are queercoded and choose to understand their coding in a romantic context, they are not "forc[ing] their headcanons and misinterpretations of the material down everyone's throats". they optimize media's purpose and reach back towards the waiting hand of fiction instead of isolating jjk and forcing it out of the creative medium that birthed it. "shipping" is one form of engagement amongst many, and is a reductive term that belies the intricate textual analysis required to arrive at its conclusion.

one key dimension of the "shipping" discourse is that it's mainly conducted by people who aren't men. men, in principle, are used to dominating every discursive space. to them, it is utterly flabbergasting that people who aren't them might have more insight into their favourite media than they do; nuanced and complex insight at that. compressing the discourse about stsg into "shipping" is reductive and disregards the complex conceptual and narrative analysis conducted to reach the so-called "shipping" conclusion, a practice which requires analytical capabilities that elude the men who deride them.

maybe the people who are "annoying as fuck" are not the "stsg shippers" but the people who insist on interacting with jjk in a purely prescriptive context, clinging to a vacuous relationship with their favourite media and removing themselves from its most authentic, intellectual and enjoyable facet in the process.

#my jjk thoughts #sorry for the long ass ramble i had many thoughts lmfao #ask #stsg #satosugu #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #satosugu analysis #satosugu meta #stsg brainrot #jujutsu kaisen analysis #jujutsu kaisen meta #queer discourse #lgbt discourse #fandom culture #fandom discourse #jjk fandom #gojo satoru #geto suguru #gojo x geto #satoru x suguru #satosugu brainrot #queer fiction #queer discussions #shipping discourse #shipping things #fan culture #queer media #queer jjk #queer jujutsu kaisen

[itachi86]

when barry tells oliver he's gonna die and oliver just goes no

#coie #pt 1 #shipping things #olivarry #i love that #oliver just refuses

[puzzled-pegasus]

how come it's always "who is the top and who's bottom" and not "when they ride a horse together who sits behind whom"

#shipping things #fandom ships #platonic leo and piper hoo #liper hoo #sanders sides #logince #oc creation #ship prompts

[are-you-romanticizing-murder]

MY HOT TAKE IS THAT ROMANCE SHOULD ONLY BE BETWEEN LOSERS!! THERE HAS TO BE AT LEAST ONE LOSER IN A ROMANCE FOR IT TO BE TRUE LOVE!!

#i'm sick of romances between two smart/attractive/can function in society people #if their is one girlboss in the relationship that is okay BUT THERE MUST ALWAYS BE A LOSER #fitzloved #howl x sophie #ship dynamics #shipping things #shipping thoughts #novacaine #realm of the elderlings #hmc book #the atlas six

[writebackatya]

Fandom

#source: the simpsons #fandom #shipping things #shipping #the Simpsons

[hawkofkrypton]

Favorite genre tbh

#ships #shipping things #shipping #steven universe #greg universe #rose quartz #pink diamond #roger rabbit #jessica rabbit #anime #who framed roger rabbit #manga #highschool dxd #issei hyoudou #rias gremory

[manchicasanchez]

Squidward: 😰

Spongebob: Squidwaaaaaard! 🥰

My random version of this cringe meme.

PS: Sorry 💀🤣

#hazbin hotel #verbalase #spongebob #squidward #spongebob squarepants #squidward tentacles #memes #nickelodeon #vivziepop #vivienne medrano #cartoon #parody #squidbob #spongebob x squidward #squidward memes #spongeward #shipping things #cringecore

[ihhfhonao3]

Rb because I wanna see tumblr user’s stance on this. There was a post on r/aceattorney asking for people’s favorite ships to which a lot more people than I thought replied with justicykes. Got me thinking

Also while I am including an option for proshippers here, I myself am not a proshipper. However if any pros come in the notes, please don’t harass them

Also just like no harassment either way. Y’all can harass each other in your asks but keep it away from my notes

For technicality, people who ship Apollo with Phoenix, Nahyuta or Dhurke would go in the proship section.

If you ship Apollo in a qpr, that would be in “my ship is not listed.” Sorry again, anon!

#ace attorney #oh boy here we go #apollo justice #klapollo #justicykes #junipollo #simollo #emapollo #mayapollo #claypollo #claypollier #klemapollo #ships #shipping #shipping things #otp #poll #polls #tumblr polls

[tuliptheoshawott]

any other Akko x Lotte shippers out there

looking for a friend

#little witch academia #lwa #lotte jansson #atsuko kagari #akko x lotte #fandom ships #shipping things