#also if you don't tag it so I can blacklist be ready to be unfollowed

[tenrose]

Instead of spending more time hating this shit, I'm gonna do what I'm best at and completely ignore its existence. I refuse to have one of my most beloved story and universe being tarnished by capitalism once again. I will blissfully keep committing to the masterpieces that we already have.

[betweenlands]

I had to blacklist it and unfollow a bunch of people too :// I'm still looking at some posts occasionally since it's not triggering my romance replusion too badly *yet* but it's very discouraging lmao. not to mention the amount of people who went around talking about how 'well arospec people shouldnt be upset about people simply reblogging/making shipping content' when?? I haven't seen a single person talking about how shipping content is bad just how much it sucks for it to be considered *the norm* for interacting with anything and to have no way to avoid it. arospec ppl will say one single thing that mentions not liking romance and a billion people come out of the woodwork to ""explain"" how we're wrong, except this time they're saying we're completely against shipping instead of homophobic (not that we don't usually get that too lmao) (also absolutely understandable not posting this ofc!)

no yeah this is very much the vibe. literally i have seen nobody going "the shipping is bad" (at least on this site). every single post i have seen abt it has either been "please don't be an asshole about people not interpreting something as romantic" or "please tag shipping so people can blacklist it"

like. okay. i'm sure in some cases people's wording is just a little unclear, and i do not want to Go After anyone for this. i'm sure our wording has been a little unclear, and in some cases may have come off as aggressive even when not intended to. but there's a difference between that and "if i see anyone /p this it's On Sight" which i have seen. multiple times. repeatedly.

and also i cannot make it clear enough how much i don't mind shipping! i just mind when it takes up the entirety of a fandom to the point that characters get Actively Mischaracterized for ships and it becomes almost impossible to find content that isn't ship-focused in some way. like uh. what's currently happening with [DATA EXPUNGED]

just. tag things. it's just one tag. or have like a disclaimer that you don't tag ship content on your blog so people can curate their experience accordingly. that's all people are saying (well, that and stuff about amatonormativity, but. i don't think people are ready to be normal about that conversation honestly)