#I’m generally not a shipper

[hanighul]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy pride month, everyone! 🏳️‍🌈

#my art #happy pride month! #just wanna mention #I’m generally not a shipper #but I saw that like half of my new followers were Harringrove shippers and wanted to make something nice for y’all #☺️💖 #harringrove #stranger things #stranger things art #stranger things fanart #steve harrington #billy hargrove #art #pride month #artwork #digital art #illustration #digital illustration

[chillbean3210]

……

Do I even need to say anything?

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic x shadow generations #sonadow #sonic games #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #shadow #like come on #at this point sega isn’t even bothering to hide it #I know what you are #you can’t just call a game Sonic x Shadow (generations) and not know what you’re doing #hehhehehehehe #I’m getting some good content right now as a Sonadow shipper lol

[turtleblogatlast]

Do you ship any of the turtles with anyone? or do you ship anything in rise at all?

(This ended up being a lot longer an answer than I intended hoo boy sorry about that)

Hmmm, I’m not too big a shipper tbh! Especially since I really enjoy canon interactions backing my ships, so it’s hard for me to actively like any that don’t really have that going for them. There’s plenty that I see around that I think are cute, but that’s usually the extent of my thought process for them.

For ships I more actively have, I guess I like AprilxSunita! They’re very very cute and I think they have some huge meet cute energy in their first episode together, and their chemistry is genuinely adorable (plus them being featured means more April screentime which is ALWAYS a good thing.)

I also think AprilxCasey (and when I say Casey I mean our OG girl) is really good, as I’m a sucker for enemies to lovers, and I think they have a lot in common and just bounce off each other very well (not to mention this ship in other iterations of TMNT has a loooooot going for it.)

Keeping the chain going, I think RaphxCasey (again, OG Casey) is also one with a tonnnnn of potential. They have a lot of common characteristics, and considering Raph’s whole thing with Franken-Foot, I really think there’s a lot of room there for a relationship to develop. Plus, like AprilxCasey, Raph and Casey tend to have a close relationship throughout the iterations of TMNT and it would be great to see that more with these two, even if not romantically.

Actually going back to enemies to lovers, I unironically think there’s a ton going for DonniexKendra. I know a lot of people hate this ship, but I don’t and I actually think it could very easily work whether in a love-hate way or a slow burn way. There’s a lot to like here and honestly they’re good together! Kendra is legit Donnie’s type too haha (cute, but mean.)

Lastly, SplinterxDraxum is good…when done right. I really like when people take it and don’t undermine the very real trauma that Splinter has gone through. As I’ve stated a lot, I love me some enemies to lovers, so I can see the potential here. Plus lbr Draxum was down BAD for Lou Jitsu when he first saw him haha.

I think that’s the extent to what I actively like? Everything else usually falls into “aw cute” or “ehhh not for me thanks”. And before you ask YES leosagi is cute and I’ll read fics with it if the premise is appealing, but I’m afraid I need some canon interactions to establish base character dynamics before I actively ship it alas.😔 Super cute though, no hate to it or any of the other CanonxCharacter-they’ve-never-met ships, I genuinely think people should just have fun! And for what it’s worth I really do wish we got a Usagi and Leo interaction in Rise like we have in other iterations.:(

So yeah. Overall, I have a few ships I enjoy, but I fall much more in the “prefer to keep everyone to themselves and make the focus family and friendship” category.

#non au ask #can you tell I’m an enemies to lovers person yet 💀 #I had a dream once that the Fox yokai working for big mama was a teenage employee and he and Leo had a cute thing going on does that count #(the bellhop guy we see often with Big Mama) #that dream had like all of big mama’s employees basically be her adopted children #including frida #(Big Mama’s assistant) #AND Gus #(the guard dog) #so like she was literally big MAMA lol #pretty interesting story tbh too bad it ended when I woke up and I forgot a good 70% of it #lol this is also enemies to lovers I just realized- #but yeah overall I’m mostly a friendship or family platonic dynamics person #pfft of the ones I listed only AprilxSunita was not enemies to lovers wait 😭 #nah but like I’m not really a big shipper tbh #I tend to fast forward through romance plots in shows that don’t focus on romance #and I tend to avoid romance genres in general most of the time #no hate at allll it’s just not typically for me y’know? #I was reallyyyyy scared to post this because people can get MEAN about ships 💀

[wynandcore]

Able: mechanic by day, music star by night

I wanna know how they met so badly

#tron #tron uprising #tronblr #how did these two bickering programs become friends. how long have they been friends. this is important info I must know #if you can’t pick it up from this art: #I hc that Able was both a mechanic and a niche musician back in the day #and Tron and Able met when Tron received too many noise complaints about one of Able’s gigs #tron able #tron x able #tronable #trable #<- ppl better start using both of these ship names I NEED MORE TRON X ABLE CONTENT NOW 💥‼️ #I’m not a shipper generally but if ya gotta ship #ship the Good Ship 🫡 #i am not biased at all wdym- #art tag

[batlovestomarry]

A portion of my thoughts on the tomarry t/b discussion going on since probably forever, as a bottom!tom lover

I want to start this off by saying I am asexual. I’ve certainly become more okay with reading smut over the past year, but because of my asexuality (and my slightly less resolute but still prevalent sex repulsion as well as my incomprehension of people’s shockingly stubborn preferences (that I have no issue with, but for obvious, previously stated reasons, I don’t fully understand)), my experience with seeing and interacting with all sides of the fandom, and my general lack of care for who is topping or who is bottoming in general, I can approach this topic with some semblance of rationality that isn’t affected by, you know, a staunch opinion on something that people are as passionate about as sex. This is an opinion that I haven’t always held, because prior to FULLY joining the tomarrymort fandom (to be more specific: being active on social media and meeting people who prefer either dynamic), I didn’t even have an opinion on it. I didn’t even know t/b discourse EXISTED. This is an opinion I have gained after seeing many many many people from both sides discussing it, so to anyone who disagrees with my opinion miss me with that “oh, well you’re just biased from only interacting with one side of the fandom and having always enjoyed bottom!tom” bullshit, lmfao.

That being said, it is abundantly clear that the issue for some people is more than just “untagged dynamics” as they insist. To this insistence I have two things to say: 1. If you are so bothered by one sex scene in the midst of a 200,000 word, novel length, beautifully written with a beautiful plot MASTERPIECE, perhaps don’t read untagged fics. Simple as that! Authors don’t owe you anything. 2. You know so damn well that your issue isn’t just untagged dynamics (which often only happen when authors are simply UNSURE about what they’re going to write in the future, rather than a desire to make fixed shippers angry and to fish for interactions and are NOT a personal attack or “protest” against tagging, contrary to what many believe).

Are you threatened by twink Tom riddle???? Are you disgusted by the concept of big strong masculine Tom being railed senseless ? Just asking the essential questions.

Furthermore, I see many fandom members persisting in the idea that non-fixed shippers call fixed shippers misogynists and that’s why “we” “start discourse” with fixed shippers (I am using the term “non-fixed shippers” to mean basically anyone who enjoys bottom!tom, because, regardless of whether you’re a fixed!bottom!tom shipper or not, it’s easier to do it this way. apologies for the generalization shdkdhdjdjd). There are many other posts that talk about this topic in much greater detail than I ever could, and I have to admit I’m not educated about the history and nuances of this to talk about it, so I’m just going to say that I genuinely do not give a fuck if you like bottom Harry or bottom Tom. I could not care less. I enjoy both. I’m not here to preach about whether it’s misogyny to prefer one thing another or not, because I simply don’t know. However, what I do know is that this whole thing about “bottom!tom enjoyers calling fixed bottom harries misogynistic” is a classic case of an echo chamber!! Non-fixed-shippers aren’t getting angry and upset at fixed shippers because you guys like bottom harry (which, according to them, is something we call a “misogynistic concept”!! who would have known!! i certainly didn’t know we were doing that!!). I haven’t honestly seen any instances of that. No, people are upset because you make “call-out” posts about authors and fics and blogs to say “oh, this fic/author is Bad Horrible Bad Bad because they didn’t tag t/b”, talk shit about people who mind their own business preferring bottom Tom (which can go both ways, but I see content from every side of the fandom and I have noticed that the non-fixed shippers side only really has an issue when the fixed shippers come in and start being senselessly rude. This irrational anger at those who have different preferences than you does tend to come from one side more than the other), and obtain a victim type mentality when an author of a long-form is either unsure about dynamics or just… doesn’t feel it’s necessary to tag. It’s as if certain people have a distorted view of what everyone is ACTUALLY upset about. No, we don’t care if you like Harry James Potter with a cock up his ass. As a matter of fact, I can say a lot of us do enjoy seeing that too!

I genuinely would like anyone to direct me to an instance of a non-fixed shipper calling out a fixed shipper over something that ISN’T retaliation for something ridiculous or simply mean a fixed shipper said about people just minding their business. Some people walk around here talking shit about anything that even dares to whisper the words “bottom Tom riddle” to their cultish circle of friends, calling them “freaks of nature”, “insane”, “detached from reality”, and “stupid bitches” (to name a few examples I’ve read). It is insanity. Some people just live in permanent delusion and insist that they are the poor victims here and that they can do no wrong and that they’re just “minding their business 🥺” enjoying their bottom!Harry yet FREAK OUT when they come across a bottom!tom fic/artwork/enjoyer who never even INTERACTED with them and act like they committed a grave sin of humanity.

In general, I feel it is just SILLY to get so fed up over seeing bottom Tom. the reaction that some people in this fandom have when they see anything that insinuates bottom Tom would make you think the person who created the art murdered 12 people and buried their bodies In a coal mine. It is ridiculous. Your inability to see past someone’s preferences and automatically labeling someone as “annoying” or “weird” over a fictional dynamic is bewildering.

I would like to say that this is not to resurrect any discourse!!! Nor is it meant with any disrespect to ANYONE in this entire fandom. I am appreictaive of every person here, whether I know you or not, because I love the tomarry fandom and I love how much effort artists and writers and everyone in between puts into keeping the ship alive! This isn’t intended as a target to ANYONE. I’m simply giving my opinion that I’ve held in for a long while now.

To sorta summarize:

Authors don’t owe you a certain dynamic or a certain tag in their own fic that they dedicated time, love, and care into.

Talking shit about people existing and enjoying different things than you is embarrassing behavior and makes you appear 14 years old to observers.

Public call-out posts for specific people doing absolutely nothing to you are weird as hell. Like why is this considered a normal thing to do.

Some people in this fandom have entitlement levels that are OFF THE CHAAARTTSSSS.

Telling people to “go outside and talk to actual gay people” over what is not “just t/b dynamics and/or preferences” but is actually normal, real life people being upset that you dragged their name through the dirt all because they posted once or twice about liking a certain character bottoming reeks of a lack of awareness. The moment a non-fixed shipper calls someone out for sending dozens of people to harass them over having a preference, millions of silly think pieces are created and non-fixed shippers are seen as “whiny”, but it’s somehow okay when the fixed shippers do it over much less?? 😭??? The hypocrisy!

How do I get it through people’s heads that NOBODY! OWES! YOU! ANYTHING!!! Everything that I’ve said has already been said time and time again and yet it still isn’t sinking in for many. You aren’t a god, you aren’t more important than anyone else here, you aren’t entitled to automatic perfect tagging on every fic you read. You don’t have to like it, but it’s the reality. There many tropes that people dislike in fics, but usually what they tend to do when it surprises them in an untagged fic is skip and move on with their lives rather than sending nasty anonymous messages, writing criticizing comments, tweeting about how much you hate this one untagged thing and everyone who enjoys this one untagged thing, etc etc

#this isn’t even in response to anything specific I saw #I just enjoy ranting and giving my opinions #if you have a different one than me i am willing to listen and respect !!! #kinda just wanted to get my thoughts out there I don’t even think there’s any sort of t/b discourse going on rn (as far as i know) THANKFUC #don’t want to generalize fixed shippers either I think you guys are cool !! it’s mostly just a few bad apples tbh #I’m not tagging this #the people who are meant to see it (mostly my bottom!tom moots <3) will see it and that’s all that matters #long post #too long… but I’m past the point of caring #this is my blog 🤗

[pitrsattabhaadmeinjao]

i’m so sick of all the percabeth posting about the show like i was also as excited in the start but now i’m so tired of every post being about the romance

im so tired of only a small minority of posts being not about percabeth like THEYRE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ROMANTICALLY LINKED THIS EARLY. IS NO ONE ELSE BOTHERED BY THAT. and also fuck us allos bro i get the aromantics now why is everything about romantic love

#i’m a hater today #i’m sick and tired of love #i’m so tired also i’m general #fuck love all my homies hate love we want silly best friends and familial relationship exploration #percabeth #like i get it guys im also a huge percabeth shipper but please. no more. 🙏🏻 #pjo tv show #pjo #pjo series #pjo fandom #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #annabeth chase #aromantic

[the-somwthing]

What about Pearl x Cleo?

1. Limited Life - I saw loads of fan art during this time, they both got possessed, neighbor rivalry, all sorts of drama, fun stuff.

2. Secret Life - THE PUPPER ALLIANCE. Hashtag Almost Had It All. This is the way of Life.

3. Double Life - omg divorce!!! But not… with each other…? But… still divorced…

4. Last Life - Gaslight and Girlboss, this is where it all started

5. 3rd Life - Pearl wasn’t even there man

#trafficshipping #moonrot #pearleo #this is a personal tierlist by someone who has not yet seen a major shippers analysis on the ship so sorry if u think it doesn’t reflect it #very well. I have been meaning to look into this ship deeper to understand the shippers but atm I’m just like ‘generally see a vibe’ yknow #like yeah I can see it. it’s cool. But I’m Pretty Sure There’s Something Big That I’m Missing lol #limlsmp #dlsmp #llsmp #slsmp #3lsmp

[werepires]

hey just letting you know that desertfox555 (who you rb’d) is a wincest shipper

Good for them? I’m not quite sure what I’m supposed to do with this information

#I appreciate the motivation behind your message anon #however I’m very much a ship and let ship person #as long as they’re not engaging in harmful behaviour towards others (which I didn’t find on their blog but correct me if I’m wrong) #I don’t mind reblogging gen stuff from people who ship wincest #also nothing on their blog was filtered for me? nor did I see any ship art in general #so not quite sure where the wincest shipper allegations are based on #answered asks #anonymous

[lulushishii]

if anyone hasn’t seen the SBS about careers part two, NOBODY TOLD ME KIDD WAS SCOTTISH??? IM IMAGINING HIM WITH AN ACCENT NOW I’ve got to draw this later

#one piece #eustass kid #one piece manga #one piece sbs #worst generation #I’m kind of a kid law shipper but I’m definitely making something about this #I’ve been a bit busy so I haven’t drawn lately

[vampirepunks]

It’s important to understand that, at the heart of the matter, pro-ship equals anti-harassment.

Yes, pro-ship can mean different things to different people. No label is a monolith. Some pro-shippers have underage/incest/Dead Dove/etc ships and some have zero. Being pro-ship doesn’t automatically equate to being okay with that kind of content, but sure, some are. What’s important is: “I’m pro-ship” doesn’t directly translate to, “I have controversial ships,” but rather, “I don’t believe it’s okay to ostracize people over fiction.”

At the end of the day, it’s about recognizing the line between content that is measurably harming real human beings and content that simply makes you uncomfortable. Do you believe it’s immoral to attack and harass another person over a disagreement about fiction? Do you believe the appropriate action is to block and move on, rather than publicly shaming and/or privately berating whoever posted it? Do you believe it’s possible for someone to use “dark” content as a means of emotionally processing trauma? Then I consider you pro-ship.

#saw another anti ranting about this issue and yknow what? hate that noise #like I’m generally squicked out completely by certain content #but at the same time I’ll gladly defend someone’s right to enjoy it in their own space on the internet and not receive hate mail over it #fiction is fiction! there’s a gap between what we accept in real life and enjoy in concept! #example: most people who love fictional murderers wouldn’t defend a real-life serial killer #which again—MOST. there are exceptions but that’s another matter #so why are ships held to a much more rigid standard of what a person is allowed to enjoy and share? #enjoyment of fiction ≠ moral beliefs about reality #take Wincest as example. personally I HATE IT. i find it disgusting and disturbing. i block wincest shippers because of that. but! #if I see someone being literally cyberbullied over it I’m going to step in and say ‘hey not cool’ #does that make me okay with Wincest? absolutely not. but I am NOT okay with potentially damaging a human being’s mental health over it #pro ship #on fandom #logan.txt #on politics

[zutaralesbian]

Truly nothing gets a fandom to accept lesbian headcanons faster than when they want to get a female character out of the way of their non-canon mlm ship 😭

#I’m mostly thinking of the stranger things fandom right now #(certain shippers doing this with el and chrissy) #but it happens a lot in general #*

[eunr0]

hux and ren finding out about kylux

#kylux #PLEASE EXCUSE MY ROUGH DRAWING #I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS SCENARIO #i’m talking to all the kylux shippers in this app ^_^ #jk you guys’ art are amazing #general hux #armitage hux #kylo ren #drawing #fanart #fan art #sketch #manga #comic

[willthecleric]

That feeling when you refresh the Byler tag on AO3 and 9 out of 20 fics on the page are Steddie and you know that Byler is only mentioned and we probably don’t even really see them do anything. And of course if you filter out Steddie then you lose out on Byler fics that also contain Steddie on the side. And some of those fics you might actually want to read.

#i’m begging you steddie shippers #stop tagging byler in your fics unless you actually see byler in the fics #it clogs up our tag #we don’t want to read fics that main tag our ship just to see that it’s only mentioned in passing #you can just tag background byler outside of the main ship tags #in the general tags #please

[nanapina]

Am I the only one that thinks that the reason Travis is keeping Laura and Max in the jail is because he already tried the whole talking and explaining the werewolf situation thing with the lost hikers, and they ended up dead because they didn’t listen, and so he doesn’t want another repeat? He’s literally trying to just do anything he can to keep them safe?

#the quarry #travis hackett #max brinly #laura kearney #the quarry headcanons #I just can’t think of Travis as a creep sorry #I don’t ship him with anyone but I want to protect him at all costs #(also no shade if you do ship him; I’m just not a shipper in general)

[moophinz]

Y8 Thoughts I Guess 🤔

I keep pacing the kitchen while repeating the same things in my head over and over again so here is my thought vomit. Long vent post incoming

• Really concerned about how likely it is that we’ll only see the Jimas interact with Kiryu one or two times in a similar manner to 6. It’ll feel even worse this time for me considering Kiryu has cancer. It’ll also be a grievance for me given something I’ve complained about a lot. How weird they are about Kiryu and Majima’s relationship. It feels like ever since the ending of 3, they haven’t allowed them much of any interaction while simultaneously making a point that they’re close to each other even with the distance and it throws me for a loop every time. It’s made even more frustrating that their social medias have no problem posting about them (especially from Majima’s angle) as though they’re an actual ship. Plus, recently sharing blatant Kazumaji art on stream. If they keep doing that after this game I’m going to catapult myself to the sun. Obviously, I never expected the ship to actually happen. All I want is for their bizzaro relationship to have some sort of proper conclusion, but I have zero hope of that. It just makes no sense to keep making them out to be besties of some sort and then not allowing any follow through on that. Hell, they were weird in Ishin, too. It’s just SUCH a strange thing to do so often.

•At this point, it feels like the Jimas are only together because no one knows what else to do with them so they just end up together for years and years. My issue here is that it puts all of them on the back burner even though there’s still stuff missing about them. Like the biggest one being that we never get to see the real Daigo. They tell us about him a lot, but we never get to see him. RGGO of course bridges this gap. It’s just disappointing to know that’ll only ever exist there.

•If Mine is back (Yokoyama talked like the only thing stopping him from that was his voice actor), would he interact with Daigo? He was such a core part of his character, and it’d be interesting if they did see each other again. I would of course like it if Mine got to tell Daigo that he loved him straight to his face even though I’m more than certain they’d never do that.

•The Ichiban and Saeko proposal and all that still has me on edge. I do N O T know what all that’s about. Yokoyama claimed the game isn’t romantic, but he’s been on a kick lately with saying one thing and the exact opposite happening so I’m feeling pretty hesitant to believe him. I admittedly have a very hard time with media that contains a prominent pairing that I do not care about, but the plot keeps pushing in my face. Like with the second Kiryu saga game. To expand on Ichiban and Saeko, I mean that in 7, there’s nothing to show they have anything romantically going on despite the player’s ability to choose to date her or any other lady. I made sure to date nobody in my playthrough since I don’t care about that kind of stuff personally. They do, however, keep teasing Saeko and Nanba in a subtle way that really surprised me. I did find it interesting since visually they’re a really unexpected pairing and a possible romance that doesn’t involve the lead character seems pretty rare. RGG also typically isn’t that good at writing romantic notes so it was another surprise for me. All in all, this is just a personal issue I have pretty often with romance in media.

I know the game is still months away, and I’m not jumping to any conclusions. Just voicing a few concerns and one thing that’s sort of me hoping for something. It’s going to be a long wait to have all my questions answered 💀

#yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #like am I crazy for thinking Kiryu should interact just a little bit more with characters from his old saga #it’s also a frustrating ordeal that Majima gets crazy merch and Ugaki is around a lot #but then Majima’s appearances deminish so much it starts to feel like fan service when he does appear #im not asking for him to have a major big time role or anything like some people want #i might be a shipper but romantic media might be my least favorite thing ever #I don’t know if I missed something in the trailer or what but im still so cautious about that element in 8 #anyway I was also feeling hesitant about sharing this and will probably delete it later #just wanted to share a few of my thoughts #nothing to say about Gaiden #oh my god typing on mobile for too long is a disaster #the keyboard lags and disappears #repeatedly after a certain amount of time #this shit sucks #also I’m always hesitant to share ‘hot takes’ and the sort given the type of behavior I’ve received before in fandoms #these aren’t even remotely hot takes and just general thoughts but sometimes life makes you shut up

[deathofdolls]

I had a dream they added fujoshis to IDV and after they updated the game, you’d have to unlock the exit gate by putting in your favourite mlm ship though only one ship would work for each match (if you put in the 'wrong' ship you couldn’t try again, and needed to let someone else try)

#In the dream I was playing duos and went to open the gate #I entered JOSNORT out of all ships #I don’t even ship it #I have a friend that does though #Either way it was the wrong one #And guess which ship was correct! #At the third attempt this LG player entered TONTON #AND IT WORKED #I’m so done with my own brain #Nothing wrong with TonTon in general btw #I just hate how the majority of the shippers portray them #Like why is Mike always half a centimetre tall and looks like a child #Meanwhile there’s Norton who is three mountains tall and has a six pack at five different body parts #id5 #identity 5 #identity v #idv