#I have WAY TOO MANY ships in this fandom

[leopardmuffinxo]

i thought i had escaped the post that tried to take a statement on discord out of context, about durge and astarion being a 'canon ship' or w/e, but alas it showed up on my dash. i don't have the energy to go through this kind of bs w/ bg3.

THERE. ARE. NO. CANON. SHIPS. IN. BG3.

i don't care how much more dialogue a character has w/ another character. i don't care what you think is implied though a vague statement made by a writer or VA. shit like that is what caused a lot of people in the DA fandom to get harassed by so many braindead people in the fandom because their ships were "not canon". the fact that it was also added in because of crunch is a huge disappointment. it's allowed to be your canon but it doesn't make it canon for the game in general.

#this is also in no way me shitting on that pairing #and i know plenty of moots that have that ship #i think some of the interactions are actually quite sweet #but proclaiming that something such a ship is canon in a game with so many choices is just opening a can of worms for harassment #most people are smart enough not to read that far into it #but some of y'all will run with it and act like you're better than everyone else because you read too far into something #i'm not dealing with this in another fandom #random text post #ignore my rambles

[jounosparticles]

suegiku posting again sorry (i’m not sorry) but this is genuine love to me. they won’t say it but the fact that tetchou put aside saving the world from the vampire pandemic when he could have easily went after bram in favour of attempting to save jouno shows how much he loves him. i really hope we see more on this and that the two share a moment where they talk about it and how much they actually care. i need tetchou to assure jouno that he isn’t a bad person, and that being selected for evil isn’t his true self. the potential for character building here is so good.

asagiri said he wants to focus on their rivalry in the future, i hope this does not make them enemies but instead just work partners that argue sometimes. tetchou is the only one who understands jouno, i really hope they get to have moments where they connect and jouno slowly breaks away from his tough exterior around tetchou. two people who just care for each other and want to help the world.

#i’m so glad i realized how good this ship is #like. it’s my favourite ship of all time honestly #out of all franchises #this one is best #i’m so sad i didn’t pay as much attention to them at first in favour of the mafia and ada but now i’m obsessed. like i love tjem so much #i think they’re way too underrated within the fandom which keeps so many people away from realizing the potential they have #ot maybe i’m just overthinking it idk #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd tetchou #bsd tecchou #bsd tetcho #jouno saigiku #bsd jouno #suegiku #suehiro tetchou #jouno x tecchou #jouno x tetchou

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Now that I've finished dungeon meshi I have to say, while I understand the disappointment with fandom's constant obsession with shipping two dudes in fandom typical ways and ignoring the women/men that don't fit a certain mold and basically ignoring the entire rest of the story...

People acting so indignant that people would do gay or even straight shipping, because this manga is such a super women-led yuri show that's all about the power of Marcille's all-consuming love for Falin, are absolutely fucking bonkers and have lost the plot.

That is not to say that these shippers are not insane or can't be annoying in the typical ways that they are, or that Marcille/Falin aren't the most shippable pairing and just about the closest you're gonna get to something romantic in Dungeon Meshi (it's a platonic ass story and I love that), or that it wouldn't be nice for the fandom around something to stay mostly devoted to the closest to a canon pairing most shippable F/F ship. It would. But like. I don't know I'm kind of upset by that attitude now

And my intention is not to be super negative about Marcille/Falin fans, because they are certainly not all like this, it's just. WHOO! That is just so not remotely what Dungeon Meshi is about to a degree I still wasn't prepared for despite being aptly warned.

#dungeon meshi tag #like this isn't a case where you'd have to shove every female character out the way to do your gay shipping exactly. #Again. I would not call these men very shippable with each other. And I would never tell anyone not to bitch and be snobby. #Bitch and be snobby always! #I'm just saying this attitude more than anything else is what gave me a different impression of what the show would be like #and the refusal to engage with a work for what it is is one of the annoying things about fandom shipping culture #like I wasn't expecting the relationship between Marcille and Falin to be SO understated. I wasn't expecting the bathroom hands #to basically be *it* with Marcille and Falin's interactions. Like there's just so little between them. Falin is barely in it. #And being super indignant that people would dare to ship Marcille with what the story clearly acts like is basically boy Falin #a character she actually spends the entire manga with and has a developed relationship with and that she clearly loves #(I think in general there are a few too many posts to my liking that toe a line towards 'gay shipping icky' for my tastes. But I get it) #I don't think I've been this gaybaited by something on tumblr for close to a decade which is also part of what's grinding my gears

[autismguy55]

when people only draw soft ship fanart of lord of the flies and nothing else i side eye them so hard because the only thing you took away from lord of the flies is that jack and ralph were gay? really? that’s it? this book that has so much to say about government and society and colonization and war and toxic masculinity and indoctrination of children and demonization of indigenous people and the social climate of 1940s england and that’s all you took from it?

#lord of the flies #sorry this bothers me so bad #there are so many different ways to read lord of the flies and unfortunately the fandom read the BL manga version #not to hate on shippers because i like shipping too it’s fun #but you guys have got to be serious

[nyxi-pixie]

i dont trust a bitch that hates ronance

like wdym u like stedd1e(<3) or god forbid fucking h4rr1ngr0ve(😒) but you dont like ronance🤨🤨🤨🤨

like if u dnt ship it bc ur rooting for robin and vickie or ur a super yay jxncy person or smt sure whatever. but if u HATE ronance??? i do not trust you.

#anyone thats 100% insistent and totally sure that nance is straight gets my side eye tbh #bc like did u listen to murrays lil expose on her💀 'ur scared to be urself and instead rely on safety of conventional man' #yeahhh not queer coded at all #when we talk abt how mlm ships need 100x as much evidence as straight ships to be considered plausible??? #yeah that but x10000000 for wlw ones jfc #like steve can have a male friend that says hes got nice abs or smthn and everyones WOOF WOOF BARK GRR GAY PEOPLE!!! #sure okay have fun besties #but nancy is like 🥰robin ik i wanted nothing to do w u 5 seconds ago but ive actually decided ur my fav person🥰 #🥰we are gonna spend the rest of our time on this world saving mission glued together ok🥰 #anyway. do i believe it has any shot at endgame?? no! #but i do not like the way that people are like st3ddie<333❗❗❗ (i love it too dont get me wrong fruity four my loves) #and then totally ignore ronance. or worse. see them as side characters 💀 #i have so many thoughts on this but just. im usually a defender of why fandoms fixate on mlm ships bc women tend to have less development #(im a byler first. bc theyre the most obviously romantically coded in a Oh this one has Actual Potential way) #but robin and nancy are fairly well rounded characters. and they interact a fuck ton in s4. so. usual defenses are a no go #and now im ready to sword fight the haters #ronance #this is incomprehensible #but im right #only censoring ship names so i dnt end up in their tags i love stedd1e and jxncy dw

[vegaseatsass]

I'm so exhausted I don't really know where or how to begin my one-day weekend, have spent the day just kind of collapsed into executive dysfunctional confusion when what I WANT to do is post on tumblr about gay tv

#i wanna talk about 23.5 because the latest ep made me feral but for like side couples #i LOVE the main couples but nidabambam and mawinton make me insane #i was rooting for aro ton but now i want mawinton so badly #there's something that happens with the ships that aren't the advertised pairs so whether they happen or not isn't prescribed #i know mawintinh is what everyone on tumblr wants and it's not like i would be unhappy with that ok #but mawinton both obsessed with other people and relationships and oblivious to how they already have a boyf - #thats my shit. #tinh just seems so uninterested in mawin rn too whereas ton is laser focused #and to put a character like charoen into a yuri like come on how many of us who DIDN'T 'just know' we were not into boys #picked a dude to crush on from afar and then went EUGH STOP WHY IS THIS HAPPENING if/when he actually spoke to us #that is way too familiar a narrative to put in a GL and then resolve with her getting with a guy i'm sorry #but her and ton becoming besties who love shipping OTHER people together. hell yes lmfao #that's what i'm talking about! two people who think they like each other but actually just enjoy doing fandom together <3 #buddhism fandom and friend fiction fandom #anyway i can't believe i spent that many words on them but i'm truly invested now. FLOWERS AND KNEE TOUCHES FOR MAWINTON #and i don't even know where to begin with nidabambam?????????????????? #i thought this would be us projecting headcanon onto some women who had some nice scenes together #i didn't dare hope for ?????? lucky/unlucky protective/clumsy glorious t4t grown woman love story #what the heck i felt like my brain was unravelling as i watched them #they really stumbled(/carefully protected the other from stumbling) their way into a STARGAZE DATE #what the heck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i think something magical just happens when you hit a certain point in a story and you've LET the main couples grow and evolve #so they're more or less together and it's hilarious and adorable (oh my god ongsa and aylin taking initiative oh my god) #but they also leave narrative space for MORE LOVE STORIES IN THE BEAUTIFUL ENSEMBLE #and that's where i start to lose control apparently #23.5 #23point5 #dear diary

[wallyslinda]

i'm anti several popular (fanon mostly) ships that my favorites are part of... this is just me keeping track

#anti wallytemis #idk what's their ship name #the young justice #the audacity of this cartoon replacing a canon korean female character love interest (linda park) to a white female character is so :/ #anti jayroy #the whole reducing roy age doesn't make sense #(not to mention the absolute hatred their canon female character of color love interests (which are as powerful as them btw) are getting... #rose wilson i will protect you #jade nguyen i will protect you #back to roy. the way he's actually dick's age #now i'm not dickroy anti but #i prefer dick to be with her tamaranean love interest koriand'r #like stop erasing female character of color for white (fanon) love interests i beg #at some degree fanon ships that aren't weird like incest or age gap etc are acceptable #again for example dickroy #but it's frustrating when seeing their female character of color love interests being sidelined or even demonized #how many fics of roy with some rando white male character which have lian but completely erase jade's existence? too many to count #i am afraid about what will happen in maws when br*ce is formally introduced #it's good that maws clois is a strong fandom #wallyslinda rants

[neptunite-stars]

i need to be stopped

#delete later #rambles #neppy's game talk #anyway ive got the cute lil chibi icons for like 5 characters now :D #aoryugrhgrhrghgr i wanan see whats in this fandom so badly.. but also im scared im gonna see some rly bad takes #but also theres like two sides to this game. the story/art and the gameplay.. im more of a story type guy but idm learning new kits i could #build :O but also like. theres this thing i have where i specifically dont wanna get into a fandom / read fics for a fandom/ship bc i fear #that theres gonna be bad takes and people are writing characters dynamics wrong and reducing characters to one single trait etc etc #to which i find that canon (and the ideas in my head) are good enough for me < this has happened with so many things #to name a few: tri.gun; gomens; hades.game; link.click and a couple of others #i just think Thinking About Them is better than diving deep into the fandom ykno. however this is not true for en.stars because there is #both not enough and way too much to read! anyway ill stop ranting in the tags lmao

[kyliafanfiction]

so, I read the full fanlore page for that whole ‘fandom ghost’ thing about m/m and the way there’s this one character that keeps being written into every character over and over, across pairings, inserted into a usually minor or underdeveloped character, etc

and there was a section on a female ghost that also tends to show up in a lot of these m/m fics, a smart, sassy, beautiful female character who is also reduced to being an enabler for the m/m ship, etc. 

And while I don’t really read m/m, that does track with my limited exposure.

BUT, I think there is also a fandom ghost in f/f fic too. I honestly don’t read the wider f/f widely enough to articulate it as much, just what’s in my fandoms and I don’t really have an expansive set of them or add new ones that easily.

BUT in my experience, and from what I see in summaries and tags on ao3 and posts here on tumblr, there is a common character archtype wedged into characters regardless of if they fit, across a lot of femmeslash stories.

I can’t give a solid point by point as I write this at 5 in the morning, coming off stewing over the thoughts in my sleep, or so it feels, but like:

the m/m fandom ghost is a type a personality, controlled and tsundere and hypercompetent and gets wrecked by the messy guy that comes in and destroys their carefully crafted life, etc.

The f/f fandom ghost that I’ve seen is actually the opposite. That is, when given two characters that seem like a viable ship, one of the characters is whacked with a hammer until she fits a mold: an often clumsy or perhaps more accurately careless, butch (and made more so than her canon presentation), very muscular (again, more so than her canon presentation), often quite a ladies woman, very toppy, definitely plays opposite a more repressed or controlled character (but usually one who is bettered rooted in canon as being that), and destroys that character’s neat little world. They are usually, despite their butchness, a lot sillier or softer outside the bedroom, again, and they think sunshine comes out of the other character’s ass even before they get together and -

I’m starting to run into some limitations on the specific words because I just don’t read this enough to stop and articulate it (because I often close out of F/F fics that get too into wedging the characters into archetypes like this rather than the characters themselves (because it does happen a lot) but I very much do have a ‘I know it when I see it’ thing happening here.

I’ve seen it crop up in Buffy/Faith, Kara/Lena, Regina/Emma and in others I have read less extensively (there are F/F ships I’ve never seen it in, like Tara/Willow) that I’m not thinking of specifically

And like, there is a bit of a difference between the m/m fandom ghost, which is really the same character being dressed in a new skin over and over, and that skin usually being a minor or secondary character, etc, and this f/f one, which is more likely (but not always) to be fit into a fairly prominent character, and is less like one character wearing different skin and more many square characters being badly bashed into one round hole, but

I feel like I’m on to something here. For some femmeslash writers, there really are a lot of fics that feel like they’re not writing the two characters. They’re writing the one character and an archetype that may not actually fit the other character all that well, but damn the Torpedos and full speed ahead.

#Musings #Just Little Fandom Things #Just Little Shipping Things #Femmeslash #The Fandom Ghost #I think the argument in those comments put on the fanlore page about the ghost hux/etc having a lot of classically female traits from #romance fiction etc has a lot of merit and so it makes sense that an F/F fandom ghost wouldn't have the same traits because a lot of female #characters already have them #and instead the f/f fandom ghost essentially inverts the dynamic #rather than inserting a controlled tsundere hypercompetent character to be wrecked by an existing hot messy one #they invite a hot messy one to wreck an existing controlled hypercompetent and often tsundere #Like I've seen this in many ships even if specifics escape me but the specific one where this bashing into a round hole thing #comes to mind for me right now is the way Kara in supercorp fics is all too likely to be butchified #like Kara in the show is *not* butch but my god do some fanfics just bash her into that shape or otherwise try to make her fit an #oft-used dynamic #Kylia Writes a Novel In The Tags #Kylia Has a Thought She Can't Get Out Of Her Head But Also Has Trouble Articulating It As Clearly As She'd Like #Thinky Thoughts Thinking Through The Thick

[pepperpottsandcompany]

Chrissy Cunningham, Edissy and Grace Van Dien

I don't usually make long text posts on here - hopefully I will make more about awesome female characters in the future - but I feel this situation requires it.

There are spoilers under the cut.

First off, I really liked Chrissy Cunningham as a character when she appeared. A lot of people did, and a large part of that is the actress making her so likeable. I assumed we were going for the bitchy head cheerleader stereotype when they introduced her, but I was wrong. She was really sweet, kind and had immediate chemistry with Eddie.

Obviously, the actors (Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien) made their characters so amazing and their acting made the characters have undeniable chemistry. Whether you see that as platonic chemistry or romantic chemistry, it's undeniable that it's there. The scenes they shared were wonderful and I actually got very attached to Chrissy in the short time we had with her.

Now, I ship 'Edissy' (Eddie x Chrissy) and I shipped them immediately. However I understand that some people see them as platonic and see a friendship there, which I totally understand. We don't all ship the same things. I also ship 'Steddie' (Steve x Eddie), and I love both those ships. They're great.

What is NOT great is the fact that a lot of people within the Stranger Things fandom - most of whom seem to ship Steddie as well - seem to think it's okay to post nasty and hateful things about Chrissy, Edissy and Grace herself. A lot of them have even sent Grace hateful messages on social media and genuinely made her fear going to conventions because she's worried about in person hate.

They are also claiming that Edissy is paedophilia because Eddie is around 19/20 and Chrissy is 17/18. They are both SENIORS, which means they are around the same age and even though Eddie has been kept behind a couple of years, he's still a teenager, like Chrissy. That age gap is NOT PROBLEMATIC and if you think it is, you need to log off the internet and go the fuck outside into the real world.

Edissy is a perfectly fine and valid ship, as is Steddie. If you don't ship it, awesome. Just move on with your life and don't harass people who do.

Moving on from people being gross about the ship, the fact that some of you think it's okay to harass and bully the actress who plays Chrissy on social media because you've decided you don't like the ship is vile and horrific. And a lot of people doing that are

a) super weird Steddie shippers who remind me of the horrible Lokius shippers in the Loki/MCU fandom who harass Sophia Di Martino for playing a female character that 'gets in the way' of their white mlm ship and

b) obsessed Eddie Munson/Joseph Quinn stans, who, a lot like the Tom Hiddleston stans in the Loki fandom (who send hate to Zawe Ashton, Tom's real life fiancée, as well as Sophia), or Robert Pattinson stans in The Batman/Twilight fandom (who send hate to Suki Waterhouse, Rob's irl girlfried, and a lot of whom seem to hate BatCat and Zoe Karvitz), seem to hold up their favourite purest bestest boy fictional character and the actor who plays him, but hates any woman who is close to him irl or in the shows/movies they're in, and seems to think they have some weird claim over them

You DO NOT have ANY CLAIM over a fictional character NOR THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS HIM.

The fact that you all have decided to bully and harass and young woman over a fictional romance that NEVER happened (both ships guys, BOTH ships) and are insinuating that the friendship between real people (the actors) is fake because you can't handle a a woman being friends with a man you see as your possession, is absolutely disgusting and you are all scum.

Also, so much of it stems from misogyny, and what's worse is that a lot of the people hurling this misogynistic abuse are other WOMEN. That is vile. It disgusts me. Women are people, and male/female ships are VALID. Also, the fact that you only harass the ACTRESSES in these situations tells so much. You all still see women (other women for many of you) as obstacles to what you want and as lesser then you. Go and revaluate your misogyny, internalised or not.

Also, while I'm here, all the people crying about Eddie being queer - you do realise bisexual and pansexual people exist? As well as a wealth of other sexualities where it's possible to love/be attracted to more then ONE gender. People in male/female relationships CAN BE QUEER. Eddie can like Chrissy AND Steve. It's possible.

Anyway, I got distracted. Chrissy is a wonderful character, Edissy is a great ship (romantic or platonic) and Grace Van Dien seems like a lovely young woman.

If you have been hateful towards Grace, or any other female actor, for playing a female character that you perceive as 'stealing' a male actor/character you like, or as 'getting in the way' of your gay ship? YOU ARE THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM. You need to work on yourself and your misogyny and you need to leave social media and stop harassing real people.

I am ashamed to ship Steddie because so many abusive people ship it too and have decided that this is the 'superior' ship and they need to harass people who ship a different ship or need to harass the actress who plays one part of the other ship. I'm also ashamed to love Eddie Munson as a character because so many hardcore Eddie 'stans' (who also obsess over Joseph Quinn) are also being abusive towards Edissy shippers and Grace as well.

I adore Chrissy, and Grace, and I ship Edissy. I needed to say that. And the rest of it needed to be said.

To all those antis, haters, whatever you call yourselves. If you've harassed and bullied Grace or anyone on social media for liking Chrissy or Edissy, I wish the worst fates on you. Grow up, put down your phone and go and revaluate yourself and how you think.

#chrissy cunningham #eddie munson #edissy #eddie x chrissy #grace van dien #steddie #I had to make a post about this #it's too important not to #I am actually horrified by people #I feel ASHAMED to share a fandom with some of you #the way you treat female characters and actresses is appalling #especially when you do it because you think you have some sort of claim towards the male actor/character #or because you think the female character 'gets in the way' of your mlm ship #and there are too many examples of this sadly #there's the three mentioned above #but as I wrote I thought of so many more #stranger things #stranger things 4 #stranger things spoilers

[kang-yina]

Why do i watch videos of fandoms im not even in

#this is about byler lmao i dont watch st... but i have watched too many byler content #i guess i love shipping lmao #thats a very easy way to make me join a fandom #im.not watching st though...

[eastbluesaga]

guess how many wips i have……. ok now guess how many i’m gonna finish

#:^) #y’all should see which ships i have the most wips for #i don’t think any of my op ships hold a candle to the wips i have for other fandoms #and god do i have way too many op wips #writing

[benetnvsch]

genuinely baffling to me how much of a victim complex some skk shippers have

YEAH yeah aouhghh-

like,, its one thing if people were actively harassing/bothering them but there is no reason for Those Types of skk-ers to be So Upset about other ships just existing (and to just,,doing the same things that they do in terms of relating/redrawing other ships moments to theirs)

I mean come on,, just look the other way,, no need to cry cuz someone chose to make Dazai to kiss different colored pile of pixels today

#the hypocrisy again just really gets me like- WHY ARE U SO upset abt other shippers relating their ship to ur ship's quotes/scenes #when you guys MANY TIMES have done those exact things yourself :'') like yeah im sure it's annoying for both sides but glass houses y know #idk I just ?? it's just wild to me. #they dominate the fandom in such a WILD way I've never seen for how much content they have in proportion to other ships KFJHKF #and it would be fine if they were like... just normal about it but why do so many treat it like it's an entire fucking war KFHFK #u don't need to comment 'I don't ship this cuz I ship x but its cute too ig' on every post u see wth a non x ship just IGNORE IT #u don't see any other ship doing that with their ship regularly like they do (at all personally but don't wonna say it never has happened) #and before anyone gets upset and is like 'oh kite but aren't u actively doing that rn?' #no cuz i only complain abt them when they're actively harassing/bothering other shippers for NO REASON </3 if I was doing the same thing I- #-would want people to call me out too but im not cuz idc who u ship characters with if i don't like it'll ill just block/mute and move on - #cuz im a big fucking kid with grown up feelings and adult levels of empathy and know how to Not invade their spaces just cuz I ship someth

[feartheoldblog]

happy 8th bloodborg-versary

#so many happy times #so many tears shed over playthroughs #so many avoidable deaths #it’s been like 3 years for me as a fan now? #it really doesn’t feel like it’s been that long #8th anniversary though goddamn #i wish i hadn’t let ppl tell me it was too difficult and not play it in 2015 #cuz 15yo me would’ve ate that shit up #any way yeah #i have bb immortalised on my skin also in the form of a tattoo LMAOO #so yeah i love this silly game #i love gehrman and maria fr fr #one of my fav ships of my fandom experiences #so ty to bb for that <3333

[clueless1995]

god i have to start using consistent grammar on posts they keep getting reblogged

#like idc if i use im or i’m but both in the same post feels bad. #and if like three mutuals like it and that’s it it’s Fine but i keep inadvertently making posts that reach outside of the mutuals #honestly a bit scary just bc i had a blog that was semi popular on here when i was a teenager and it was a horror show #it was for a specific fandom and a ship within that fandom too so there were a lot of Strong Opinions. and rape threats #i guess if i get too many followers i can just start blocking people and turning off reblogs when it reaches a certain point #i’m sure it sounds silly bc my friends on here are WAY more popular/have more popular posts and whatever #but like. for a long time i wouldn’t interact with anyone or make posts on here i would just reblog stuff #and now i have friends and mutuals and i get to be silly with them on the internet so its a fair trade off to have to deal with a 200 note #post every now and then

[yazthebookish]

I'm here to release unhinged fandom energy especially about my favorite ships and book stuff.

#but ship drama is so draining I really just want my peace #I'll make posts related to my ship but that's why I have the tag and many from the other side blocked #like don't bother me I don't have the energy to engage #nor do I want to see your content #I rarely check the tags anyways because I like to curate what content I want to see #the inevitable will happen I don't see the point of wasting energy and time arguing #it's been going on for too long #there's no way to avoid arguments in this fandom but I try my best soemtimes #there's always discourse going on which can be fun at times and frustrating at most #like even if there's drama or like vague posts about me I prefer to be in the dark about them #because I'm not really aware of them #like I said I just block #block = peace of mind #so it's really good sometimes to draw boundaries even for your online presence #sometimes you can control what you are exposed to #I'm happier in the fandom now that I actually make content that makes me happier #let me love gwynriel and everything else in peace