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segadores-y-soldados · 7 years

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what are your notps? i can tag if you want (breaking up ship names in case people don’t want to see this in tags or whatever)

I’mma put this under a cut so people can avoid my bullshit, but basically, if it’s not in my About page, I don’t ship it. The exception to this is like, light Mc//Gen//ji or Z//arya//Mei which I don’t really list because they aren’t “big ships” but I do enjoy them to some extent and will occasionally reblog them. (Also, paladinodanse, if you want me to remove your URL and name, I will - just let me know)

Basically my policy is this: I have certain NOTP tags blacklisted. Generally, as long as it is not something a person reblogs often (e.g. every day, even every week) and they tag it appropriately, or for whatever reason they seem to be confused about the tag and use it...differently than I would but they still tag it, then I’m willing to move past it, but I make a mental note.

If someone has these NOTPs on their blog but hasn’t reblogged the ships in months then I’m willing to move past it, but again make a small mental note.

Some people will say this is giving an inch on topics that you shouldn’t. While I agree with the sentiment, I do think that everyone has the potential to learn and think critically and grow as a person. I have had my problematic behaviors in the past, and I’m not a perfect person now. I will have my own growing to do for the rest of my life. So I am willing to do a sort of “multiple strike” policy thing - if these strikes “add up” to a point where I cannot handle them, I unfollow. This is what I did approximately one month ago when I “cleaned up” my dash.

This might be “too much” for some people. This might “not be enough” for others. But I run this blog to relax and engage in my silly Overwatch fandom shenanigans. I am not going to fight over ships. I have the ones I actively reblog and write content for in my About page. Followers and friends should ask me about those ships and those ships only.

The only ships that will ever appear on this blog are: (sorry for the // but again, don’t wanna do anything wrong here)

Reap//er//76 (Mor//reyes//on), Mc//Han//zo, Phar//Mer//cy, Gen//yat//ta, Mc//Gen//ji, Ana//Hard//t, Spider//byte (Widow//maker//Som//bra), Sym//bra (Sym//metra//Som//bra), Z//arya//Mei, Bun//ny//Rib//bit (Ha//na//Lu//cio) These are my NOTPs that I have blacklisted:

1. Mc//Rey//es or Mc//Reap//er (including all variations of Mc//R//76 or even Mc//76): This is the big one. This one I have the “lowest amount of strikes” for (at this point it is basically a zero-strike policy). Mc//Cree is underage when he joins Overwatch. He joins as Rey//es’ subordinate. He is also subordinate to Mor//rison. He joins at approximately half their ages. Not only is this the equivalent of me - a young adult - hitting on a young teenager, but there is a heavy imbalance of power existing here. Anything portraying any variation of these two men in a ship with the younger character is not okay with me. That includes anything after Mc//Cree becomes an adult.

2. Mer//cy//76: Same as above. Even if Angel//a joins as an adult, she is still half his age, and it is strongly implied that they knew each other when she was still underage. I also headcanon both as being gay. I also find the implication that an older man cannot be friends with or a mentor to a younger woman without some sort of romance involved to be really frustrating, upsetting, and unsettling. 3. D.//Va//76: same as the second one. Plus like, she’s way younger than “just half his age.” Like. Guys. Please. It’s hard enough seeing people badly characterize both characters (usually him as a gruff, overbearing father and her as some happy-go-lucky gamer who fawns over him) in a platonic relationship, I really am not okay with seeing that go a bad step forward.

4. Shi//ma//da//cest (including any variation of this in a multiple-partner situation): I should not have to explain this one. Much like the first one, this one makes my blood boil. If number 1 is a “zero-strike policy,” this is literally a negative strike policy for this one. If I see it, even blacklisted, on my dash, I will unfollow.

5. Mer//cy//Kill: see number 2. Same situation. 6. I don’t fully know the ship names for these, but the following two are also NOTPs: Widow//maker//Reap//er and Som//bra//Reap//er. See number 1. I see Team Tal//on as a psuedo-family with Reap//er//Rey//es as the father figure and the other two as daughter figures. 7. Any variations of the “younger characters” with characters old enough to be their parents (aka 18+ years older than them). This is not ageism. This is recognizing that a lot of these ships are done out of fetishization or to “see two hot characters paired together simply because.” I’ve seen a bunch of odd “rarepairs” that fit under this category and they’re basically just “no’s” in general. They often have zero real chemistry in any form of Overwatch (the game, the comics, the shorts, etc), which indicates to me that people are pairing them simply because they can. 8. I have certain artists blacklisted. I will not be naming names. The “tea” about them is all over the place. Again - I’m not perfect. I have reblogged some of their stuff in the past, but this sideblog has several thousand posts and I’m not spending time to go back and delete everything, especially the stuff before I established my personal tagging system. Consider it this way: If you haven’t seen me reblog their “newest stuff,” it’s because I have them blacklisted. If you need to unfollow me for the things that I have said, I will not be offended. In fact, if you recognize that my stance on these matters does not work for you, then it’s probably for the best that we go our separate ways. However, I would like to remind people that this is a sideblog - I won’t know if you’ve tried to block me or blacklist my main. If you want me to unfollow you for whatever reason, you will need to let me know so that I can do so on my real blog. Once again, here’s the policy: If it’s on my About page, it gets reblogged. If it’s not, it won’t be. The only exceptions are Mc//Gen//ji and Sym//bra. Thank you to everyone for being understanding and patient with me.

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