#ps: don't drag me into shipwars not my cup of tea

[bluespiritshonour]

Are you a pro-shipper?

I think I'll call myself ship-neutral.

Like, I don't have strong feelings about ships. I join fandoms because I like character beats in the original—ships are just icing on the cake and I can do without them.

I'm a basic bitch that likes all canon ships. Kataang and Maiko and Sukka in ATLA. Even though I believe it wouldn't have mattered if Maiko and Kataang didn't end up together; they were all so young anyways. Plus it didn't have THAT much narrative significance. They could've hinted at Kataang being a thing in the future and Maiko could have used a LOT of better writing as well. I love them together though, goth babies. But I can accept that they didn't have the best writing. I personally have a lot of problem with how their relationship was written although I do ship them.

But still, I like those ships. And Suki and Sokka are absolutely adorable, I don't have any complains regarding Sukka.

And on top of them you throw Zukka, Zutara, Mailee, Sukko (I guess that's what Zuko/Sokka/Suki is called) fanworks at me and I'll eat them up. But I also wouldn't mind if ATLA didn't have any ships at all and they were all platonic. Anything goes and I don't like all the drama that comes with shipwars.

And I'm an absolute sucker for platonic relationships.

For example I'd take an Azula redemption arc and reconciliation with Zuko over any kind of ship content anyday.

I'd take a “the Gaang realises Katara takes on a lot of adult responsibilities (which they do realise) and tries to mitigate that because she's also a kid like them and she doesn't have to” anyday over some romantic plot. Like, am I making sense?

It's the same with Batman. BatCat or Brutalia? Dickkory or DickBabs? Um, can't I like both? On top of them I have a huge list of favourite SuperBat and GhostBat fics.

But what I'd actually like to see is not the ships but Bruce having some character development and learning to be a good father. Which would never happen so I'm over Batman.

TLDR: I'm ship-neutral. I care more about characters and their relationships with each other, romantic or otherwise. But ships are nice for enjoyment and I don't hate them.

Edit: if this ask was in reaction to my writing “antis DNI” in my blog description then what I meant by that was DNI if you're, like anti-Aang, or anti-Mai or if you constantly compare Sokka and Katara and pit them against each other—or if you pit Zuko and Azula against each other (come on you ain't Ozai!). Like, I understand comparing their characters—that's media analysis. But like, it doesn't have to be a contest. So and so is better than so and so. That kinda thing. I love all the babies. Both of team Avatar and team Azula. They're all well-written, three-dimensional characters.

The only kind of anti I am is anti-Bruce Wayne. He's also a very well written, three dimensional character and he's also a cunt. I know I just contradicted the previous paragraph. So what? What of it?

#atla #batman #avatar the last airbender #shipping #ps: don't drag me into shipwars not my cup of tea #im here for an entirely different reason #it's pretty art and mild character analysis #and before someone comes at me with the fact that canon did deal with the fact that katara takes care of everyone #like sokka acknowledges it and is grateful for her #but id have really liked it if she too learned to let go and be a child #like if slowly she didn't have to do that all the time #she's still caring and compassionate #but the gaang can help her relax #argh I'm bad with words #anonymous letters