#ie the classic tamlin is 100% abusive and rhys is 100% not even though both do the same shit | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

a-court-of-moonlight-and-ire · 4 months

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Idk why but i was thinking about the broader acotar fandom's attituide towards "crack ships" and how different it is compared to some other fandoms ive been in because most of the time what a lot of people call crack ships would be considered rare pairs or just. normal ships. Like, ive seen people call gwynriel a crack ship when gwyn is clearly deliberately set up to be part of a love triangle with elain and azriel which is to say, theres a real possibility of it becoming canon and imho thats not a fucking crackship, thats just a normal ass ship. Crack ships arent just non-canon or unpopular ships, theyre usually like shitpost ships that are funny because of how absurd they are and that most people dont earnestly ship. Thats why in ye olden days a lot of crackships were crossover ships from with characters from two very different pieces of media, like fuckin charlie bucket x aang from avatar or batman x sportacus from lazy town or whatever, it doesnt really matter as long as its weird and easy to make fun of conceptually

#obviously there are different standards for this kind of stuff in different fandoms #like in a lot of non-yaoi friendly fandom spaces in the 2000s just any gay ship would be considered crack #but still its interesting #i think its kind of an extension of how interpretation of the canon tends to get policed #not even in the sense that people are very rigid about adhering to what happens in it because its so inconsistant #and there are so many retcons #but in the sense that theres a specific interpretation thats considered the only correct one because its what the narrative presents #the audience with on a surface level even when its contradicted by things that like. actually happen in the story #ie the classic tamlin is 100% abusive and rhys is 100% not even though both do the same shit #idk if that makes sense but whatever #miscellaneous acotar thoughts

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