#so many ships and fandoms

[sighed-the-snake]

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This line hits differently after S2.

You two?

The Antichrist KNOWS ALL ABOUT THEM?

What did he do for them that he told them so confidently not to worry about their future? What did he change while he was in God Mode editing reality? WHAT DID ADAM DO?

#the antichrist knows the angel and demon are in love #Adam Young ships AziraCrow #so what if I'm writing too many fics at once THERE IS ROOM FOR ONE MORE #good omens #good omens meta #good omens fandom #good omens analysis #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #aziraphale #crowley #adam young #aziracrow

[the-great-kraken]

if you see a male character kiss a male character, you assume they are gay.

if you see a female character kiss a female character, you assume they are a lesbian.

if you hear a character say they don't feel like their gender, you assume they are trans.

so why do a-spec characters have to jump through so many loops?

a character saying they've never had a crush or don't want a relationship or that they don't understand romantic love is so often ignored or used as fodder for other queer or autistic headcanons (reinforcing stereotypes that aroace people are secretly gay or always autistic)

why is it that our stories are always "up to interpretation"? why do we have to wait for the words aromantic or asexual to be said to be taken seriously? why is it that even when characters say they don't want relationships, fans will scream and cry about sex/romance favourable aspecs and qprs?

when it comes to gay and trans characters, even the likes of bisexual lighting is often treated as though it canonises their sexuality. for aroace characters, even the most explicit coding possible is swept under the rug in favour of other "interpretations"

i'm so tired of fighting for representation just to have it ignored and minimised by fans. let characters be aroace. please.

#obviously there are a ton of circumstances where the qpr and sex/romance favourable is completely fine #but when characters explicity say they dont have sex or dont want relationships it feels so hollow #fandom is fandom and there is nothing i can do to stop you shipping or writing smut or headcanoning or whatever #but please just think it through. the characters aren't real but there are so many geniunely harmful ideas doing stuff like this reinforces #rhi rambles #aroace #aromantic #asexual #a-spec #a spec #aspec #aro #ace #aspec representation #asexual representation #aromantic representation #lgbtq+ #queer

[kiwinatorwaffles]

i’m not gonna lie fandom alwaysoften feels like an actively hostile environment towards aromanticism. even if it’s not intentional most of the time. like the way everyone jumps towards romantic ships and prioritizes those relationships over everything else and stripping aro coded characters of their aromanticism to be like “normal people”. maybe everyone just needs to slip away just this once from the amanormativity whispering in their ears to kick aros to the curb

#the only fandom i’ve been in that isn’t actively hostile towards us is hermitcraft probably #many people here are focused on friendships and bonds and most people tag their ships properly #so if any hermitblr friends are reading my tags. thank you all genuinely #kiwi’s calls #aromantic #aspec #kiwi’s aspec posting

[misaothewitch]

#the flying gays #rooster x hangman #maverick x iceman #sereshaw #hangster #icemav #top gun #iceman x maverick #top gun maverick #payback x fanboy #god there are so many gay ships in this fandom

[kelpermoosee]

“Summers flew on the wings of fall

Simple life and world so small

(Say I haven’t lost it all)” -🎶

#krillerfiller #moomin fanart #moomin fandom #snufmin #springdove #moomin #moomins #moominvalley #moomintroll #the moomins #snusmumriken #Snufkin #moomins snufkin #moomin x snufkin #mumintrollet #I’ve missed them so so so much #I rotate through so many ships in my brain it’s not even funny I HAVE to draw them all #if you’re curious the song in the caption is called ’Say I Haven’t Lost It All’ by Vania Junco #ngl the song is literally them!!!!

[mintaikcorpse]

It's been chaos ever since

#tried getting my friends to do the same #didnt enjoy it that much sadly #they all thought it was weird and gross #anyways one of those friends called me a deragatoey term to another guy when i was right in front of him so i dont talk to him anymore #stolitz #tomco #starco #originalshipping #bendy x alice #shipping #fandom #n x uzi #n x v #goldric #lumity #huntlow #jesskas #kiribaku #honestly too many tags to type #talking #rambling

[sparrow-in-boots]

"My heart is beating, It keeps repeating for you constantly. You're all I'm needing And so I'm pleading, Please come back to me."

#dunno man i'm not happy with this one but #fuck it we do it live #(shoves so many effect layers on it) #my favorite gimmick for my John design is touch as his ultimate love language (nonrom) #malevolent #malevolent podcast #john doe malevolent #arthur lester malevolent #jarthur #private eyes #[face in hands] the pain of having a qpr ship but fandom ships imply romanic feelings GOD #pardal does art

[berryliciousjam]

✨SHOWTIME✨

I KNOW I AM SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE TRANSFORMERS FANDOM BUT AFTER FINDING OUT THAT THERE'S CAINE X POMNI SHIPPERS ON TUMBLR, I FEEL A LOT MORE COMFORTABLE THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE SHIPPING THEM AAAAAA!!! Shoutout to my s/o @beefborgar for helping me draw Caine's pearly whites and jaw :3 . I am really happy how it turned out too, especially since I am slowly coming back to drawing. Do expect more of TADC fanart(and possibly FNAF movie fanart) but for now, AI x Human gang gang ✨🙏

Hope you all love it! Thank you again! 😭💗

P.S: WHOEVER CAME UP THE SHIP NAME SHOWTIME—YALL ARE SO CLEVER AND IM GIVING YOU FLOWERS💐💐💐

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc fanart #tadc fandom #caine x pomni #showtime #tadc caine #tadc pomni #tadc showtime #pomni x caine #the brainrot is real #was hesitant to ship them but then i saw many fanarts of the ship #so i dove right in and YIPPEE #glad im not the only one shipping these silly fellas #silly lovers #berryliciousart #showtime tadc #tadc ship

[aceofallspades]

aroaces: hey guys could u not keep shipping this cannon aroace character please

allos: BUT AROACE PEOPLE CAN DATE

aroaces: well yes but our relationships work differently and very few people are acknowledging the nuances of our identity-

allos: B-BUT THEY CAN DATE

aroaces: you’re not listening are you

#yes this is about alastor #but it goes for other fandoms too #you can ship aspec characters because it is a spectrum #but so many people are completely ignoring his identity #it’s very frustrating #aroace #aromantic #asexual #alastor #hazbin hotel

[evanbuckleykinard]

i do not think some fans understand that even if buck and tommy do break up or whatever, people are.. still gonna ship them 😭 like i’m here for the long haul now, if they break up or whatever i’m not gonna stop writing them or enjoying content of them 🙏

#bas posts #bucktommy #so many of my ships in other fandoms never even TALKED bro #a break up isn’t gonna stop me #i think people should just have fun

[theminecraftbee]

so a thing this fandom does that remains FASCINATING to me, as a function of the fact a lot of this fandom is people's first fandom or only current fandom, is just... assume a lot of things it does is a scourge that this fandom has invented or doesn't exist outside of it? or like, is uniquely bad here? and i won't deny that sometimes mcyt fandom is a bit more intense by virtue of numbers, but like...

duo names: confusing fandom-injokes to describe duos and groups tend to be an anime fandom thing specifically for many historical reasons, but they're not uncommon. hey quick--if you haven't been in KHR fandom, can you guess what 1827 is? no? i'll give you a hint: that's actually a ship name. or, ygo fans, tell me the difference between puppyshipping, prideshipping, violetshipping, and rivalshipping. my hint is that they're all kaiba ships and two of them are actually the same ship. good luck!

reducing characters to a specific trait: have you read fic in another fandom before? i would recommend you go do so and come back to me. my example here is "sasuke likes tomatoes", for the record.

common au fanon that's confusing to outsiders: my deep cut here is "when i got into certain tv fandoms i was baffled by the existence of sentinel/guide fics", which is a slightly older tv fandom thing so many of you probably don't know what i'm on about. but trust me: in certain fandoms it's ubiquitous and unless you've watched a completely different tv show you're gonna have to entirely pick it up from reading fic. oh hey, hybrid aus and watcher!grian, nice to see your relative here,

fanon being treated as canon: did you know there's this whole bnha character, naomasa, who is treated as canonically having a lie detector quirk? did you know that, best i can tell, that's not in canon anywhere, it just got echoed through fanon enough that everyone treated it as canon? 'fanon trait becomes so ubiquitous everyone assumes it has to be there' is not a new thing. also, batfamily fans, i have been lead to understand the tim and coffee thing is also this.

characters being treated badly to make a different dynamic look better: the fact we have the term 'character bashing' tells you all you need to know, here. if anything my one complaint on this front isn't even that it's happening--it's that i wish bashing and/or "not [character] friendly" was tagged a little more frequently, haha.

characters being reduced to their family dynamics: tale as old as time. "even the family dynamic thing" yes even that. just because this fandom tended to be particularly ship-adverse in the past didn't mean it didn't do basically the same behaviors as any fandom with shipping did with those dynamics, just gen. and other gen fandoms also do that. yes, down to the "and shipping reduces them to a ship, unlike my gen dynamic, which is very in-character; why can't people just be friends?" thing. some of you have to have been marvel fans right.

characters being reduced to their ships: some of you have to have been marvel fans right.

The Discourse: yeah this is an "actively running show" fandom thing, but also a hiatus fandom thing. ask a homestuck about vriskourse sometime. as much as i hate to say it, it probably made doomsday discourse look cute.

and those are just like... some things i've seen people complain about on my dash recently. idk it just hit me there are probably fans in mcyt fandoms who are assuming that some things (like hybrid aus or duo names) are the kind of things that only happen here, so i thought i'd offer some examples of other places they happen! i also have even more examples if you'd like.

to be clear: this isn't shaming anyone for complaining about any of these things. lord knows i go complain to my friends about it all the time, just the other day i was complaining in the category of 'they keep bashing my guy'. it's more of just... a gentle reminder that maybe we're big, maybe we're loud, maybe we have problems... but these problems aren't always unique.

so uh. we're all suffering together i guess...?

#discourse #<- because. yeah. #this isn't meant to start a discourse this is more me laughing about Fandoms Is The Same #its also why i'm not bringing up the More Serious types of Fandoms Is The Same because i don't want to make light of it #and am instead bringing up the pettier ones #this sparked initially by someone acting like duo names are a this-fandom only phenomenon after years of being a ygo fan #and i was like. oh i've done this song and dance many a time. #and then i was thinking about posts complaining about things like fd and ships and everything else and i was like. oh that's an OLD song #so here. so we all remember sometimes that we all suffer together lol #this isn't a vague of anyone in particular i just constantly waver about making this specific post #anyway back to my usual discourse-free self

[yardsards]

the thing about labru vs kabumisu is that both of them have the same core appeal to me, specifically from kabru's side of things: kabru being someone who is constantly agonizing about social rules and putting on the right mask, and meeting this Weird Fucking Guy who does not (cannot) care about all those things, and so kabru slowly allows himself to be more genuine. they're both such good relationships (whether you view them romantically or platonically), why must there be so much hostility between enjoyers of these ships?

#they are ALSO both ''just when you think you've hit rock bottom you want to fuck a blonde guy'' #(yes ik mithrun's hair is technically silver but it's blonde enough) #eliot posts #dunme #ships #dungeon meshi #dm spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #labru #kabumisu #i love both so i feel like i'm winning either way. multi track drifting! #i think i like kabumisu slightly more bc i am an acts of service enjoyer at heart #but both are good #the only ship that i'm that gung ho about is farcllle (but also i'd never get into a shipping war over it bc im not fucking 12 years old) #why is there so much shipping war in this fandom??? it's so fucking bonkers. is it fucking 2014??? #what makes it more annoying is that this series is so light on romance and focuses on platonic relationships #how did this series attract so many rabid shippers??? #this post has been up for 2 hours and someone was already posting bad take reductive ship hate in the replies #get blocked <3 you are a deeply obnoxious human being god bless your heart

[nouverx]

Ok, so Vox and Alastor have a funny dynamic and Alastor and Rosie have a funny dynamic. What about Rosie and Vox?

I think if Al and Rosie were QPPs Vox would be jealous af of Rosie, and she would KNOW IT and tease him about it. What do you think?

AAAAAAAHHH ok I need a minute to calm down I love this

First of all I'm sure Vox doesn't understand Rosie and Al's relationship at all, all he sees is that she's allowed to be affectionate with him and he's not, sees them as a couple because he doesn't understand Al's aroaceness or the relationship he has with Rosie (all he thinks is "what does she have that I don't??")

Rosie on the other hand, I love the idea that she teases him about it! Even if she doesn't have any romantic interest towards Al she understands she has a really special place in his non existant heart and is happy to rub it off on Vox's face any chance she gets (like hug Al or scratch his ears shamelessly when Vox is around eheh) and sometimes even has a "he's mine :)" energy when she teases Vox about it.

Would be even funnier if Alastor has absolutely no clue that the two of them have a silly rivalry over him

I didn't explore that yet in my art but that's such a great idea I'll note it somewhere in a corner of my brain 👀 I really need to explore Rosie Al and Vox as a trio more they could be so fun in so many ways. There's the amazing meteor shower fanfics by @cringefailvox about the three of them developing a polyamory queer platonic relationship and I'm an absolute fan I love their characterisation so much. I wanted to fanart it so many times but never got the time URGH

#ask #answered #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fandom #radiorose #radiostatic #one sided radiostatic #radiosilence #(apparently its the one sided radiostatic shipname? idk) #hazbin alastor #hazbin headcanons #it's funny because on tumblr I'm much more passionate about radiorose and my tl is full of radiorose #while on twitter its all about radiostatic and my tl is full of it I love the duality #my two favourite ships ❤ #SORRY IM SO LATE TO ANSWER THIS I JUST DIDNT SEE THIS ASK AT ALL UNTIL NOW OOPSIIIE #It was squished in the middle of a few differents asks and I overlooked it so many times AAAAHH

[nartml]

Nah, you know what makes my blood boil?

Seeing characters degraded, vilified, and desecrated in the name of ship wars.

No, Aang did not strip Katara of her agency nor did he only accept the "digestible" parts of her, leave my baby alone.

No, Zuko isn't just a selfish colonizer, bro did not have one of the greatest arcs of all time for you to reduce him to that.

No, Katara wasn't just a mother to everyone, for fuck's sake, did we watch the same show?

I can go on and on and fucking on, but all I'm gonna say is I'm fucking tired of y'all's shipping discourse.

It was never that serious, it will never be that serious.

I think that both Zutara and Kataang are great ships in their own right, with their respective pros and cons. I also think it comes down to personal taste.

Of course, people can have differing opinions on characters, regardless of the inclusion of ships or not. But at the very least, stick to your own.

Ship and let ship. Remember when this was fun?

Don't invade spaces that aren't yours to start trouble, and stay appropriate with the tags. Fandom etiquette, it's pretty neat.

Y'all suck the joy out of everything.

#the way i can apply this to half of the ships amd characters i like #ive seen things #ive seen some crazy shit #heard some wild takes #take a chill pill #and sit your asses down #kataang #aang #zuko #atla #shipping wars #shipping discourse #fandom etiquette #this applies to every ship btw it just so happens that i stumbled upon yet another kataang vs zutara ordeal and im fed up #ruining it for the rest of us #i get it and i do think the passion is beautiful and a show of how many emotions and how much love these characters still make us feel #but hot damn enough is enough

[kumeramen]

Hello! I love your art! Idk if u watched bleach but can you draw Sakura x Byakuya?

Maaan Bleach was probably part of my younger days maybe because I'd always draw characters whether it's from Bleach or from other fandom in Tite Kubo's art style. I gradually stopped and find my own style but thank goodness I still haven't lost my touch ✍✨

Add extra character for more interesting interaction just because~ I choose Yoruichi because she somehow reminds me of Tsunade and I have no doubt she and Sakura get along well!

Also, she's there to annoy certain captain 😂

To see more, consider support me on Ko-fi ☕❤️

#accepting the challenge just to relive my bleach phase #i assume person A x B mean its romantic relationship #but im not gonna cross the line #already have so many pairings to ship in nart fandom #but i'll consider drawing crossover still #with the possibility what if they interact #this is platonic btw #but yall can tag them as ship i dont mind #crossover #bleach #naruto #byakuya kuchiki #sakura haruno #yoruichi shihouin #my art #asks

[florenceafternoon]

You're not less of a marauder fan for not having read/ not liking popular fics btw

#I don't like atyd #don't think I can bring myself to read the life and times since I know I'll get obsessed and be sad that it's abandoned #still haven't read tcoptp since I'm intimidated by how long it is #I haven't read alright evans or and all the wolves cry #will never read crimson rivers or choices because I don’t like the ships #despite that I'm still actively engaged in the fandom and have made so many friends #I can still enjoy content and connect with people even though I haven't read or liked popular fics #marauders era #marauders fandom #discourse i guess