#this is about g//limbow

[paperjamz]

some s/pop salt thoughts

im not a fan of g//limbow because it was executed so horribly in the show ._. i feel like i woulda legit shipped it if it didnt feel like they just paired off two (main) characters together because their relationship went from what felt like a sibling dynamic straight into a romantic one IN THE BACKGROUND. even their VAs had felt like their relationship felt like a sibling one!! i just... hate it!! the execution!! you have to admit that up until s5 all their interactions had felt platonic, that you’d have to squint if you wanted to see romantic undertones.

you might say... hey.. JAMZ what about PRINCESS PROM, to which i’d respond what about it?? you can say i can’t prove it wasn’t from jealousy stemming from romantic feelings, but at the same time i can say you can’t prove it wasnt jealousy stemming from completely platonic feelings! like i said, the romantic undertones of the ship is SO SUBTLE it could easily be interpreted as platonic.they had FOUR other seasons to give them more scenes that could be interpreted unmistakably romantic...... but they didn’t, they just crammed it in like, less than 6 episodes in the final one. and the ones in the final one was so... eugh, i legitimately didn’t know they were even dating until someone told me? b//ow kissed g//limmer’s forehead and i thought that was super sweet! i’d kiss my best friend too like that if i had the chance. at the time, i really liked that show was normalizing showing affection like that, because id love to greet more of my friends through kissing their cheeks/forehead. i didn’t even realize it was even supposed to be romantic until i read about it in a discord chat. i’m not the only one that thinks that either, a lot of people were surprised by the sudden fact that they were dating.

anyway, the lack of romantic scenes makes the ship very boring to me. it very much feels like theres no spark there that would attract these two beyond the fact that they have a lot of love for each other, which i’ve already said is so deeply entrenched in what is typically associated with platonic things, its hard for me to see them happy together. im not saying theyre terrible for each other im saying i dont see the romantic chemistry. they do have chemistry but ive never seen any hint of it that was unmistakably romantic. they probably do have the potential to grow it, but i wasn’t given the chance to grow into it and instead it just happened. quietly, in the background. god, the showrunner of the show even said that the ship was a last minute decision and fuck. it fuckin shows

and anyway freakin hate how the show had a chance to show that just because a girl and a boy are best friends, it doesn’t mean they have to date. what did the show do?? THEY MADE THEM DATE...... IN THE BACKGROUND................. THEY MADE THEM.... “FALL FOR EACH OTHER”...... IN THE BACKGROUND............. like....???? i have to be completely honest.......... i hate it so bad.... i cant even describe how much i hate these two characters being paired off like that..... like....... the injustice that happened to these two characters holy shit..... i don’t know how other people ARENT salty these two werent given a better love story than what they have.

would i have shipped this had it not become “canon”? i mean, maybe. it would leave a lot of things to me for interpretation, and how they would become a couple. i probably wouldn’t have minded it, and even indulged a little into it. i love both characters a lot and revel in g//limmer ships, but i just... its ruined for me now. yucky

#half the time i even see it its to support a certain ship so extra eugh #my post #this is about g//limbow #gotta get it off my chest #or imma blow a gasket #text #in a readmore and put slashes on names/ships so it doesnt get tracked by tunglr #hghhdhfh

[curiousscientistkae]

bow!!

do I like them:

yes, he's a good boy

5 good qualities:

his care for his friends, archery skills, tech skills, trans rights, happy spirit

3 bad qualities:

did he really have an arc? lol honestly i just think of much other than more outside stuff of he needed more love

favourite episode/etc:

I did like that ep with his dads

otp:

Bowfuma. Bi trans rights

brotp:

him and adora

ot3:

maybe how about combined Bowfuma and Bow x Jewel Star idk.

notp:

tbh, g/limbow. nothing much against the ship other than i felt it was really fuckin rushed and they would be so much better as bffs (and i dont really like childhood friends to lovers so)

best quote:

im not looking up quotes but i do remember liking the bit where he mentions "we all lost someone" when talking about the war like there could've been a lot to expand on that ya know?

head canon:

he's bi, ace, and trans

#raiicore #kaestions

[anti-spop]

it's sad remembering that glimmadora was fairly popular back in the day. like there were still ship wars with c//a, but glimmadora had plenty of content. i even thought it would've been canon instead of c//a.

after season 5 though, it was completely overshadowed by both c//a and g/limbow. since then, it barely gets anything new, whether it's fics or fanart or long analyses. and people only accept glimmadora if catra is in the mix. otherwise, people fucking hate adora with glimmer. they'll go on glimmadora posts/drawings to shit on it, they insult glimmer because of season 4, despite the fact she never hurt adora like catra did in the ENTIRE show. they literally use the same arguments that apply to c//a, especially the "they're sisters!" excuse.

like glimmadora nowadays has the same popularity as adorpia, adorista, perfumadora etc... i only know a handful of people who actively post about glimmadora, and sometimes they're older posts. it's so sad. i miss it when c//a wasn't the status quo.

#i post #spop critical #anti c//a #anti stans #incest mention tw