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I think the other reason I don't really get into ships as portrayed by fandom culture is that it seems like the mindset is more like. "I want these characters to be in a Romantic Relationship(TM)" instead of "I want these characters' relationship to be romantic"

What I mean here is that, so often I see pairings enacting romance tropes to the point of heavily altering or downright replacing their original dynamic - as if the people behind it only understand romance as a series of checklists to tick off. Couples like to kiss and sleep in the same bed and flirt with each other, so it doesn't matter who the characters are, if they're a couple then naturally they'll do those things, right??

And that's where the whole thing starts to lose me, because I would assume that the appeal of shipping characters is, y'know... the characters? Rather than just, the idea of a couple? If I'm thinking about how it'd be cool for them to be in love, my first thought is always "so how would they show it," because just like everything else about a person, the answer is going to be different on a case-by-case basis.

Maybe the characters involved aren't really into kissing, but they like arranging date activities. Maybe they aren't committed to the structure of dating at all, and just want to be around each other whenever they can. And even if they are the types to like doing traditionally romantic things, that doesn't suddenly erase whatever else they had going on before they started adding that on top of it.

I'm not saying that the more typical romance tropes and activities are bad, just that they're applied kind of excessively, regardless of whether or not they actually work for the characters involved. I want to see my favorite characters having relationships that are true to who they are, not what the stock depiction of a couple says they should be.

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Why did the worms not win? I liked the worms

I’m not through the cold open yet and I already hate this episode, mainly because it’s about Space Eurovision, which might manage to be even more annoying than the regular thing

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I’m not through the cold open yet and I already hate this episode, mainly because it’s about Space Eurovision, which might manage to be even more annoying than the regular thing

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I keep seeing that stupid post about Orpheus on other sites, I hope you’re happy. But I’m sorry (no I’m not), but “turning around” is in no way definitional of love. What do you mean turning around is what it is to love someone. That doesn’t make fucking sense! This is why Socrates gets mad when people half-ass examples instead of giving definitions. It’s trite garbage for the witless, which is why it sounds profound to so many people.

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Hallmark Christmas movie but the salt-of-the-earth small-town guy moves to the big city and falls in love with the cynical career woman and they stay in the city and work side by side to make the world a better wait that’s Superman, once again I have just written Superman

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WKRP 🎧s01e07 "Turkeys Away"

"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

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There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

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Blade Runner 🤝 Star Trek: Picard

Not understanding the difference between androids and genetic engineering

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@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

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star wars, but it’s just the memes

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

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Fire tornado soap bubble

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I’m sorry, but if you think “who is this unknown character in a season which doesn’t come out until May” is a mystery box, you need to delete your account and never engage with fiction again

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there's a kind of characterization drift that I've seen happen a lot in fandoms that lowkey infuriates me because it ends up with fanon characterization that is a full 180 degree turn from a character's original personality but I also understand and sympathize completely with how it happens. the character in their original work has a personality based around a few key traits, for the sake of explaining let's say the character is really kind and caring, and maybe in one or two scenes they're pushed to their limit and act really mean in a way that is very unlike them. as the nature of transformative fandom is often about exploring elements that were missing/barely there in the og works, fans think "oh I really want to delve in on this character's mean side, it's an interesting nuance to them and I want to examine it," and through feedback loops you end up at a place where their prevailing fanon personality is a borderline violently aggressive asshole. again, I totally see where this comes from, and it drives me insane.

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they're prepping me for autopsy but i sit up and say "oh no thank you" and walk out of the room

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