#shipping talk

[yonemurishiroku]

Aphrodite is a regular shipper - she would put her OTP through challenges designed to build up their relationship so that their ending would be even more secured.

Cupid is me - who fixates on one character, builds only said character from sorrows and anguish, and can’t careless about whoever they end up with as long as the journey is satisfying.

[miraculousdeservesbetter2024]

This is no hate towards anyone who doesn’t care for it, but I’m actually surprised that Ninette (Nino x Marinette) is so underrated?? I mean, I get that DJWifi basically killed the possible of it as early as S1 (and not to mention the idea of being the love square being endgame anyways), but still? Multishipping tends to be a thing in the MLB fandom I might add, and I just think Ninette has so much potential to be a nice ship and people are sleeping on it! Lol 😂

I remember around the first time MLB S1 came around, there were a lot more shippers of it, but I guess most of those shippers have up and left the fandom because they can only take so much BS writing 🤷‍♀️ Not to forget that Nino doesn’t get much depth or screentime as a character neither lol

But what are y’all thoughts? Why do you like (or dislike) Ninette?

[alevolpe]

Answering your ask about not giving up a ship on Twitter (what is my i will hang on, teeth and claws). And ive really gotten into multi shipping lately. That all the scouts (the age appropriate ones) are in love with each other. The outers and the inners live separately, but only cuz its hard to find a house that big where they are. (But true to my big fat greek wedding style, thier houses are in a row and they can always see each other)🤣🥰

I have nothing against senshi poly-cule, I think it's fun!

It's not my go-to, but I'm not against it. I like to think some senshi having differing levels of friendship, attraction and respect toward each other.

I'll actually give my opinion on each individual ship. If I think they work, why they do or don't work and why I like them if they do. (p.s. Mamo is not included here, but I do tend to default ship UsaMamo, even if it's pretty poorly written most of the time)

Long post ahead! Hope you appreciate this, it took me a ton of time and I suck at writing.

BEFORE YOU READ THIS, THESE ARE MY OPINIONS, BASED ON MY HEADCANONS/CHARACTER INTERPRETATIONS WITH A BIT OF CANON SPRINKLED HERE AND THERE ( I do not want to see you typing " ..but x character is straight.." , I will come to your house and steal al the toilet paper!!!)

Let's start with Usagi:

(I'll mostly focus on the other side of the party, cause I honestly believe Usagi would be happy with anyone, being able to work though personal preferences more than most people)

🌙💧UsagixAmi: I can see it! They are actually a guilty pleasure ship of mine, they are super cute, and I think they would both respect and love each other enough to work through some stability issues in the relationship. Mostly stemming from not being able to spend enough time with each other. I see Usagi as very clingy and needing to interact physically and emotionally with her partner on a regular basis. While Ami would have the patience to deal with the more emotional moments from Usagi, aka immaturity. This ship works for me, though it needs work from both parties to keep a healthy balance.

🌙🔥UsagixRei: I... don't really see it.. srry. Ik people love it and ik it's an amazing friendship, but I just can't see them interacting healthly on a daily basis. Rei is incredibly independent, while Usagi really isn't. Which is totally fine if matched with the right partner, but Rei would just end up being too frustrated and her love for Usagi would just turn into spite. She needs her space and tbh, she really needs someone who could drop her like a hot potato if the case need be. Overall, an AMAZING friendship, wouldn't work in a relationship. Rei as a friend is just too different from Rei as a lover, and that Rei is not made to be with Usagi.

🌙⚡️UsagixMakoto: I can kind of see it, like AmixUsagi. My only real issue would stem from the fact that Ami has a lot more patience than Mako. Mako is a caretaker, she loves and thrives taking care of others, but she does get frustrated by Usagi's occasional lack of emotional control. Leading me to think Mako would prefer someone with more emotional maturity, tho she would never admit it, or even consciously relate to it as a preference she's looking for in a partner. Tho them cuddling, eating and chilling out would actually work really well, cause I do already see them being very affectionate platonically too. Ship's cute, but quite flawed, would need a LOT of work from both parties do last any significant amount of time and pressure.

🌙💛UsagixMinako: this one's complicated. On one side, yes! I can see it working quite well, on another.. it's a complete disaster. Let me explain. If you were to ask me if I think that Mina and Usagi could work as a couple, I would say yes. They are both very fun, loving, care free gals, who are both emotionally intelligent (Usagi is emotionally intelligent, not mature) and who are very aware of each other's feelings. On the other hand you're asking me if Mina, the leader of a superhero team, the one who's hands would be stained with blood if anything were to ever happen to any of her subordinates, if she would be willing to completely set aside her relationship when it comes to a fundamental rift in ideologies between her and her princess. I don't think Mina would be strong enough to put herself through that, to hurt Usagi when she knows it would be the inevitable, over and over. You cannot save everyone and while she can say that has her leader, I think she could not muster to say it as a lover. Overall cute, if extremely dramatic given the senshi angle, but I don't think it would work.

🌙🗡UsagixHaruka: no. Just no. They are both immature emotional wrecks ready to pass by the McDonald's drive through for a happy meal. They are quite similar in a lot of ways and while I see their friendship as something very precious, they would not work as lovers.

🌙🌊UsagixMichiru: I think I said it quite well once, so I'll reuse it in this situation. "If Michiru had met Usagi instead of Haruka back in S, I think Michiru would've walked into traffic by sunset". Ok, all seriousness, no. I personally find it really hard to see Michiru with anyone that isn't Haruka, let alone someone that isn't a butch lesbian. So, nah, sorry.

🌙🕒UsagixSetsuna: my hc Setsuna is very different from canon Setsuna. I don't see her with anyone. She's just Pluto.

Ami

💧🔥AmixRei: the only way I can see this ship working is in a first fling type of way. Like 2 inexperienced teens wanting to give love a chance with another pretty girl, while being awkward af mfs. If we're talking about them dating after being friends for a long time, I don't see it being stable. Ami is incredibly intelligent, but more like booksmart, not really people smart, while Rei is the literal incarnation of a jigsaw puzzle covered in spikes. There would be little to no direct and clear communication between the two, Rei would feel frustrated like no other cause her 'signs' are CLEARLY SO OBVIOUS MIZUNO! Meanwhile Ami just can't deal with brain games in a romantic relationship (mostly stemming from my autistic Ami hc), with the person she would share a house with.. uh.. l think not, sorry. In the end, I see it working for a bit as a first relationship that ends in them staying close friends, but not anything long-term.

💧⚡️AmixMakoto: AAAHHh, ok I get a chance to talk about them. I'LL KEEP IT BRIEF! I love them, you know this already. They are very simple, direct and loving partners. They have the most boring, loving, drama free, cuddle and love filled relationship in the universe. It's boring, but idc, it's just pure fluff and I love them. The only argument I could see them getting into, on rare occasions, is Ami being Ami and being way too busy for her own good. Mako is a caretaker, yes, but she also wants to be taken care of and spend quality time with her lover. I can see Mako getting silent angry when Ami picks up one too many shifts, while also feeling a bit guilty about it, cause she knows how much her job means to Ami. They would talk and work through it slowly, day by day. Ok, anyhow, love them, NO NOTES!

💧💛AmixMinako: sorry, I think people who follow me are sick of hearing this, but one more time for the people in the back. I do not see Ami and Minako as being good friends. They eventually come to being able to interact one on one without wanting to blow the other's brains off, but I do not ever think they would come to any mutual attraction. It's a bit of a hot take on my part, but I have no issue seeing Mina as a bit of a bully. She loves attention, she knows Ami is an easy target, she bothers Ami, Ami gets mad. Most often silent mad. She eventually does start to snide back, even quite smartly! But they would rarely have that one to one moment I see almost every single one of the girls coming to throughout their friendship. So.... I don't see it, but it's mostly due to my unique perspective of each character.

💧🗡AmixHaruka: AHAHAHAHAHA. ur funny.

💧🌊AmixMichiru: you can refer to my reasoning on UsagixMichiru, srry Ami, you just ain't her type (not butch enough). Though, I do see them becoming really good friends as adults, once Michiru decided to chill tf out and act like a human being and Ami learns a bit more about 'how-to-human 101'. No, no's the answer. I don't see it.

💧🕒AmixSestuna: refer to UsagixSestuna.

Rei

🔥⚡️ReixMakoto: I can see y people like them.. but I can't help but see them driving each other crazy. Rei does not need a caretaker, why would she want a home-made lunch every day, if ramen cups were on sale 10 for 10$, like.. hello!? Ok for real, I can't see it. (Srry Ik I'm breaking so many hearts rn). They are too independent and honestly, they are also two real dumb hardheads when they want to be. Their problems would mostly stem from caretaking and activity coordination, they would fight over everything unless they write down a plan and schedule to stick to it. Also small side note, Rei is really not the cuddly person, while Mako is quite the opposite so that would feel pretty hard to make work without making one feel uncomfortable or the other feel unloved. So, overall, great friendship, but they cannot be living together without a peace maker to ensure they don't eat each other alive.

🔥💛ReixMinako: YES! they got it all! Fluff, check. Drama, check. Interesting and layered dynamics, check. Complex yet comprehensible human to senshi spectrum, check! Funny, CHECK! Even tho Makoami is my personal fav ship, these two (along with Harumichi) are my must ship. Like I NEED to see this, why is no1 making this in canon?! I love how layered their dynamics are, from being the leader and second in command, yet being emotionally mature enough to separate their human counter-parts from their duties, while still truly caring for each other in their own unique way. Getting on each other's nerves, giving off the vibes that they could either be 2 seconds away from kicking each others' asses to taking it to the bedroom (it's impossible to tell the difference). They are just supremely interesting, both alone, but especially together. I could go on and on, but I seriously have no notes, it is just ENDLESS possibilities and endless entertainment.

🔥🗡ReixHaruka: they're two dumb gays. I do not see either of them finding any attractive traits about the other. It's just really that simple and I don't have much to comment on it.

🔥🌊ReixMichiru: again it goes to the attraction factor mostly, though I can see Rei finding Michiru attractive, if a bit psychotic (lol, it's part of the charm). I would love to explore a relationship between the two, and I prob will in the future, but it will just default to platonic. This is really kind of it tho, the major factor for me not shipping a lot of stuff is that I tend to default to friendship instead of romance, cause they both act and feel very differently from each other.

🔥🕒ReixSestuna: r.r.r.r.... refeeeeerrrrr to UsagixSetsuna. Thank you for listening to Meioh102.5 back to you Bill.

Makoto

⚡️💛MakotoXMinako: I love their friendship!... thas about it tho. My major issue is Makoto not being able to keep up with Mina, she would need someone more mellow and low key. Unlike Mako, Rei is not afraid to tell Minako NO, while Mako easily guilts herself from denying attention or needs from her partner to give herself some space. I usually default them as being best friends basically (childhood friends in hc), but thinking about anything long term for them would just make me feel for Mako. Mina needs constant attention and distraction, which is honestly a bit out of her control also, but still draining for anyone who is not 100% willing to put their foot down or have enough energy to match hers. So, great great great friendship, I love how they play off of each other, but being in a relationship, living in the same house... would turn into chaotic exhaustion and desperation.

⚡️🗡MakotoxHaruka: I don't see it. I'm happy to see Mako having Haruka as possibly her first gay awakening, but I tend to think that's as far as it goes (while I see Mako as BI, I do think she looks for different attributes she finds attractive for each gender, mostly looking for more masculine attributes in guys and more feminine attributes in women). I also tend to imagine they have an almost irrational hate-on for each other for a while, 'til they chill out and become sparring buddies, so I find it hard to factor in a relationship on top of that. Kind of a pass for me.

⚡️🌊MakotoxMichiru: i feel like I'll be repeating myself a lot here, so I'll skip to it. TLDR; you ain't Michiru's type. I can see an underrated friendship that could spur after year of reconciliation, but it would stop at a platonic boundary.

⚡️🕒MakotoxSetsuna: I'm def repeating myself. Though, I'd actually love to see them sewing together, that'd be adorable.

Minako

💛🗡MinakoxHaruka: no, I don't see it at all, sorry. They are buddies. Haruka's Mina emotional wreck puppy, she loves her and must protect her at all cost, but would prob hate to have to deal with in a romantic relationship. Haruka can match Mina's energy and spirit, but in a much more charming and almost naïve package. I see the two hanging out on a Friday night enjoying some cheap beer lovingly complaining/gushing about their partner to each other.

💛🌊MinakoxMichiru: ahah, this one's quite funny too. You're lucky if they aren't trying to kill the other. They are just too smart for their own good and they are really the only senshi who refuse to see each other for anything less than Minako as Sailor Venus and Michiru as Sailor Neptune. Like when I say Mina and Ami don't get along, they are still considering each other as basically 4 different individuals (human and senshi), in order to prioritize the mission and in a way as a coping mechanism. But Michiru and Minako, even when they do manage to be in the same room not sniping at each other, they still refer to each other as their senshi selves, even if the name they are calling is their human name. ... srry that was a tangent, yeah, I don't see it at all. Sorry, I don't really have much interesting left to say.

💛🕒MinakoxSetsuna: this one's sort of popular weirdly enough.. I don't really get it, but yeah, refer to UsagixSetsuna.

The Outers

🗡🌊HarukaxMichiru: I mean, what can I even say about this one that hasn't been said already a million times. I consider them the true miracle romance of the show (yes, I like Usamamo, but Harumichi is much better written). I adore how they play off the stereotypical femme and butch roles, while saying yes, but actually no and just doing their own unique thing instead. I find Michiru's fascination with Haruka uniquely intriguing, with Michi being such a complicated character onto herself and Haruka being deceivingly simple-minded. They don't seem like characters that were made just for being with each other; their motivations, experiences and morals are quite different, yet they collide so beautifully and seamlessly. I love everything about them, such a good blend of fluff, drama, tragedy and romance. NO. NOTES.

🌊🗡🕒🎇Outers family (SetsHaruMichi) (with kid Hotaru): ok, extremely hot take incoming, get ready cause I don't think ur gonna like it... I'm not a big fan of the happy outers family. Sorry, I don't hate it (in fact I find it pretty cute), but it's just not what I default to. Let me put aside Setsuna for a second and just explain it plain and simple that I just simply see her as an omniscient being not interested in an corporeal relationship that could interfere with her mission. She's just not human like the others are. Now, let me talk about Hotaru real quick. I've got some problems with her character in general, but that doesn't really matter. I just can't deal with having a character that powerful at a ready for plot convenience, it just kills all the tension and bloats the cast. The only way I'm ok with Michiru and Haruka caring for Hotaru is having them come to the decision themselves. No pushing from the other senshi, no guilt-tripping and no senshi duty related bs. Hotaru is a regular child now with a dead father, the decision is on them to adopt this child or to let her move on to another loving family, otherwise I just can't see it as anything else but 2 almost child murderers redeeming themselves by caring for the child they tried to kill and that just isn't healthy for nobody. Anyhow, not really a ship, but sort of counts, I could like it, but rewrite Hotaru. Give the kid some justice, damn it!

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

I get what you mean about not wanting to see everyone talk about how much they want to fuck Miguel but I have a horrible feeling that if they made him ugly, all people would do is talk about how ugly he was and start with the whole bullshit beauty equating to morality talk

And you would still have people who wanted to fuck him bcs ugliness is a personal thing idk man

That last sentence though!

*Cough*

The Spot

*Cough*

This I understand. Even this I understand.

This VVVVVVVV I DON"T UNDERSTAND. AND I DON'T WANNA UNDERSTAND IN FACT IM QUITE SCARED

THE MANS GOT NO FACE. OLD SLENDERMAN LOOK AHH

I get that it's personal I get it. But i'm not bugging out in saying that if you saw Hobie and came out falling for The Spot - you BUILD DIFFERENT SON

And the thing is, the thing is - The Spot fandom is out there. They're out there in their own little corner of the fandom so much so that they're undetectable. There's hardly any crossover with the Hobie or the Miguel tag - so they just exist

lurking in the shadows, making a rare appearance in the Miles tag. but they're out there. I know they are.

[ghostfilecabinet]

i’ve been in fandom since i was 8 years old, the result of immigrating to a completely different country and experiencing a fair amount of displacement while gaining the internet. this is not that story, but! since those early days, one type of ship ‘aesthetic’ i’ve come across often is the dark/light contrast. sometimes its just a dark haired character with a light haired character. sometimes the dark haired character is also visibly browner. 

for reasons that are probably obvious, i gravitated towards dark haired/dark(er) skinned characters, and began to experience a phenomenon i would not understand until much later in life. i found that light skinned characters were often treated as delicate, fragile and to be protected while dark skinned characters took on the role of protectors, sometimes depicted as uber masculine (in order to protect the light skinned character better). this often translated into the bedroom lives of these characters, where light skinned characters bottomed more often than not. in these sex scenes the dynamic of light skinned character as ‘treasured’ and dark skinned characters as the ‘treasurer’ was emphasised. 

this dynamic presented itself in multiple ships i’ve loved over the years - cecil and carlos from wtnv, zuko and sokka in atla (it is PARTICULARLY BAD in this dynamic, holy shit), barry and iris in the flash, to name a few. within these examples, we can say that its not just the race aspect thats important here, but colour specifically. zuko is drawn to look han chinese, while sokka is dark skinned and indigenous, and though technically they are both poc, zuko’s lightness means he is treated differently than sokka.

while larger watcher fandom very much leans towards shane, and still suffers from whiteness woobification, i found refuge in shyan fic, which flipped this dynamic; shane’s skepticism and bravery (and probably his height) meant that there’s a trove of fics wherein shane is the protector and ryan is the protected, and just like its always been in my observations, it translated into the sexual aspect of their fictional relationship, too. 

i wanted to vocalise all of this because people get frustrated by inequality. sometimes i see people calling to ‘subvert’ the ‘normal’ dynamic (of protector shane and protected ryan, of top shane and bottom ryan). i am not against flipping things around or creating more varied content, but i get frustrated when (white) fans (especially) present their desire for variety as radical because of shane’s height or his lack of fear because it doesn’t acknowledge that there is ALREADY a radical subversion that exists here. here we have a brown “character” who is treasured, protected, made love to.

i have been in fandom since i was 8 years old. i’m 28. i haven’t been in every fandom ever, but i’ve been in a lot, and i can tell you how rare it is that a brown character gets that treatment. 

[eruverse]

I used to ship am*rus, while now I’m p adamant at making Ivan just want to sack Alfred once and for all, and if I think of one thing that blackpilled me on this ship…. That would prob be the 90s tbh

[scavengerssuccotash]

Besides clintasha do you have any other ships marvel and none marvel

No other ship besides Clintasha has quite enraptured me in the way they have which I wholeheartedly attribute to the amazing chemistry between Scarlett and Jeremy. As soon as Clint uttered Tasha I was hooked. And I’ve been stuck there ever since.

I’ve tried to flirt around with other ships in other fandoms namely Reylo

(Kylo Ren and Rey from the sequel trilogy but JJ Abram’s killed my mom and ran over my dog with The Rise of Skywalker and I haven’t been able to find the same level of enjoyment out of the franchise since, obligatory fuck you to JJ!)

and oddly enough Sherlolly

(Sherlock and Molly Hooper, another obligatory fuck you to Moffat, the lazy writing for the last season felt like the equivalent of getting shoved in a locker and called a nerd so my love for Sherllolly is now strictly regulated to A03).

But alas they haven’t had the same staying power as my beloved duo.

There’s something so enthralling about their relationship that I don’t think I will ever be able to accurately portray on page, but that hasn’t stopped me from writing 170,000 and counting in an effort to do so!

I find some other pairing particularly thought provoking even though I hardly read about them nor do I look for such content. I can understand the appeal but it just doesn’t get me excited as Clintasha does.

These pairings include: Stucky (very interesting dynamic and I totally get the appeal, I would’ve preferred that over canon Peggy/Rogers (I just find her character annoying and uninspired imo, tired almost. Let Steve move on, ya know?),

RomanRogers (I get it, she’s Russian, he’s a stand in for America. It’s the Cold War but make them fuck, but I just don’t personally find Chris Evans that attractive. I prefer men who are not conventionally attractive. He’s almost too pretty. For me personally)

and Kate Bishop and Yelena (I don’t know the ship name for this one so if anyone knows that would be cool. I think it has the potential to get me invested but I doubt Marvel will give it the needed depth for it to capture my attention in the same way as Clintasha. If perhaps it can be twisted in a way that it doesn’t quite mirror Clintasha then I could be on board but I doubt Marvel will go that route.

Oh and Yelena and Bucky (weird I know but it lets me have my cake ((Clintasha)) and eat it too ((a Winterwidow equivalent)). If I were to ever indulge in this particular ship Yelena would have to be significantly different and diverge from her MCU counterpart.))

So TLDR other ships that I find interesting enough to read/engage with: Reylo and Sherlolly

Ships that I find intellectually stimulating but otherwise would not specifically seek out but am okay if a minor pairing or otherwise mentioned: RomanRogers, Stucky, Yelena and Kay and Yelena and Bucky.

Again would like to reiterate for the class that these are all my personal opinions and are meant to be subjective. My personal thoughts and opinions are not an attack on you personally because to be frank: “I don’t even know you kid!”

Thanks for asking!

[twisting-echo]

Hello, i was the Lola x Minnie anon! And omg, really!? I too was shipping Bugs and Mickey too! I dunno, but i just really love the idea of the Mice pair to be with the Bunnies as i feel like they would make for some calm x wacky dynamics (Mickey/Minnie being calm, Lola/Bugs being wacky) and yes, i was shipping the exact versions of the two that you were thinking! As i personally have an attachment to the 90s Space Jam's Lola Bunny, it always saddenend me how much people seem to (kinda) dislike her. I also ship The Looney Tunes Show's iteration of Lola with The Wonderful World Of Mickey Mouse's Minnie. Those too would be OBSESSED with eachother (in a good way!) apologizes for rambling but yeah

Oh my gosh, hiiiii!! 👋

HARD YES to everything you just said!

I love the pairing of mice and bunnies too! You're absolutely right about the calm and wacky dynamic of the relationship, and that is what makes them so appealing.

Oh my gosh, the Looney Tunes Show version of Lola Bunny and the Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse version of Minnie Mouse are absolutely perfect for each other! (Now I want to make a moodboard or manip of them.)

Now may I suggest the Wonder Woman World Lola Bunny from Space Jam Legacy and the Minnie Mouse from Disney Mirrorverse?

Just think about it: two warrior badass girlfriends protecting each other. 

And no need to apologize; keep the ramblings coming! I'm hooked!

Nice to meet you, btw. 😊

[tamelee]

Personally I don’t really get people who say they acknowledge Sasuke and Naruto’s romantic bond but still ship Sasuke with a woman… Like, they saw that he was gay (he’s shown to not be attracted to women so he’s not bi) but kinda don’t care?

Actually I don’t really understand the whole shipping culture, or even mainstream fandom culture… I don’t know, I just don’t see the point in just making up content for pre-existing characters while completely destroying what made the characters unique in the first place by ignoring canon entirely (like crack-shipping). I get why people wouldn’t like everything about canon, it’s my case too, but if they don’t like anything about canon… Why are they here in the first place?

Nooo now I sound grumpy. I must be bothering you I’m so sorry 😭😭

Anyway, you’re amazing and I hope you know it 🥰

You don't sound grumpy to me dw 🫶

Well, I don't believe such ships have much to do with Canon either way. And I doubt all of them hate Canon per se, though some change 'Canon' to like Canon, which is funny. "This is my Canon." Yeah, not how it works, but ok- have your Canon your way ofc ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

Side-note though, I don't think Sasuke even knows who Hinata is? 😆 It's as you say; crack-shipping. (I saw that giant/small-yaoi meme here on Tumblr again. No idea what it's called, and immediately thought; a yes, Sukuna and Levi. Kinda want to draw xD Makes no sense at all.) A lot of Headcanon is derived from personal... ideas/desires/inspiration or self-inserting reasons? (Isn't that exactly what 'x-reader' fics are?) Or even trend-posting. As much as characters are used to tell a story for the original author/creator (they're essentially tools), do fans use them to create new ideas. "Ah yes, we all know this character, let's create something around it simply because I want to." Which is completely fine, right? Look at rare pairs. And to be fair, a lot of content, fictional writing and art aren't even based on canon either. The closest thing through fan-work are Manga analyses or meta's, even panel redraws- stuff like that. People adapt 'canon' into fanwork through various degrees or sometimes ditch it altogether. Nsfw/spice is by default made up and entirely Headcanon :') (Though personality can be depicted in a way ig, through expression/behavior and whatnot.)

I totally get what you mean though, although I guess I'm caught up in fandom-culture now. Personally, I do like characters as 'canon' as possible, but it really depends. For some Animanga I don't really care. I think I ship pretty much all TR/BlueLock-characters for literally no reason, but I wouldn't claim it to be Canon in any way (˚☐˚! )/

However, I don't like it when Naruto and Sasuke's characters are butchered. Made-up context or not. The originals are so special to me and it's the reason why I'm a fan, though I don't mind too much in fics, depending on the story. I find it hard to feel the same when they've practically become someone's OC's with only the same name and design. I can't even read height/age-differences because I can't imagine it xD But anyway, this all includes "official" work made for financial/marketing reasons also- especially those damn novels. Those never have anything to do with canon, nor does it align with it. No matter how passionately people claim otherwise.

I'm only a tiny bit petty about it >< u&me grumpy 🤝 And aahhww I don't actually, you should see me sitting here in giant red Christmas socks and a glittery green sweater that's kinda itchy tbh. I don't really feel anything other than those glitters annoying me every 3 seconds... which reminds me I should change -.- anw thankyou <3

[dolceminerva97]

algún otro shipp que te guste? (Que no involucre a Tina o a Arthur)

Uf prepárate para conocer las ships más niche y exclusivas porque son todas canonxoc o directamente ocxoc; son todas ships que trabajan mis amigas con sus ocs y sus reinterpretaciones de países canon!

•De mi amiga Pirenaia:

Castilla (Antonio) x Aragón (Marcia)

Andalucía (Fátima) x País Vasco (Mikel)

y muchas otras ships, pero esas son las principales.

•De mi amiga kavkasia:

Georgia (Giorgi) x Ucrania (Iryna)

Y también me gusta su Rusia x Bielorrusia pero no es una ship que haya dibujado, solo hemos conversado sobre su interpretación de la relación y me encanta y_y amo las relaciones complicadas y sad jajasj

•De mi amiga melondramatics:

Austria (Roderich) x Rep. Checa (Ruzena)

Prusia (Gilbert) x Brandemburgo (Anina)

También tiene otras ships muy interesantes en las que está trabajando como Suiza y Geneva, pero estas dos son mis favs de las suyas

•De mi amiga Lou:

San Juan (Franco) x La Rioja (Rocío)

Córdoba (Bautista) x La Rioja (Rocío)

Como siempre Lou proveyendo las historias de amor (y desamor) más interesantes de las provincias argentinas 💋

Y sé que me preguntaste sobre ships sin Arthur ni Tina pero fuera de estas que nombré y del UKArg, puedo decir que shipeo el scoteng con la versión de Escocia que estamos construyendo con Jade (Kavkasia) y mi ship que nadie juna el WalArg (Gales y Argentina) jsjsdjs

Después, de mis propios ocs tengo pendiente profundizar en la relación de Chile con Perú y Bolivia porque siempre me han gustado superficialmente el ChiPer y el ChiBol pero no tengo una narrativa clara para mis ocs sobre cómo evolucionan sus relaciones, y sé que son complicadas y conflictivas 🤔eso es todo lo que se me ocurre por ahora

[multishippers-paradise]

Its Simple:

Just let others ship whatever they want, and stop portraying every shipper of a certain ship to be toxic, since you been having bad experiences with people who ship it. Not every shipper who doesn't ship what you ship is bad, and ppl who ship your ship but dont fully agree with some points/more openminded about other ships, shouldnt be outcasted due to not fully being devoted to that one ship.

Its great to explore ships possibilities but not if you have just a one track mind, and refuse to accept or at least respect other ships. No ship superiority, since point of shipping, is to have fun and explore the interactions and chemistry two characters have, regardless if they actually meet in canon or not.

No ship contest going on, and doesnt matter how much evidence a ship has, cuz there are endless possibilities of shipping with everyone!

[nightingaleflow]

any bojack ships?

I’m fond of all the main endgame ships. Judah/PC, Diane/Guy, and Todd/Maude were all perfect.

I also really wish either Wanda or Gina had been able to stick around. They were both awesome and deserved more than what Bojack did to them.

And then for non-canon, I ship Hollyhock/Penny and Gina/Kelsey. There’s something comforting about the thought of these women healing from the damage that Bojack inflicted on their lives and finding love in the aftermath.

[pagingdoctorbedlam]

I have just had a realization about a reoccurring ship dynamic that applies in some form to like, at least 90% of my ships.

Character A: Specialized for a specific role they are Very Fucking Good at, to the point where their own needs and sometimes their basic humanity gets shoved aside for sake of their cause.

Character B: Either a protoge in the same role as A or in direct opposition to it, BUT is experiencing the world for the first time with their heart on their sleeve.

A ends up having to look out for B. B's open heart, often combined with wonder at the world (and perhaps a dash of naivety that warrants being watched over) is able to break through A's walls, prompting A to consider life beyond the narrow role they've become entrenched in.

It is just such a good dynamic. So much potential for character growth. Fuel for both fluff and angst. It is...so good.

[soleminisanction]

How would you rank the various Tim ships?

I mean I'm a multi-shipper, so... I don't really? Like, I enjoy almost all Tim-ships pretty much equally, with a few exceptions. Those exceptions being:

Hard-line NOTP: Tim/Steph

I Get Why Other People Like it But It's Not For Me, Thank You: Tim/Tam, Tim/Kara, Tim/Darla as anything but friends or one-sided from her end

There are some fics I like but I mostly only read the porn and even then I'm picky about it because the characterization can be super iffy and the other person can sometimes turn into a black hole of fanon around whom all other characters are distorted beyond recognition: Jason/Tim

Literally all other pairings I read and enjoy in pretty much equal measure.

[northerngrail]

chews on your shipping talk version of TG. affectionately

hes an idiot and a himbo and a smug cat

i love him. chewable

[moobswithsoup]

Let me rant real quick about what exactly happened at the festival and about post I have seen regarding it.

Spoilers for the festival

So katherine rejected both Joey and Shelby, she said she has too much on her plate and just wants everyone to get along (which is responsible and very reasonable considering her cursed) and alot of people are upset about nature wives not being canon. While others being happy that they could possibly actually get aroace katherine.

And I'll like to put my 2 cents in since I'm both a lesbian and aroace spec!

So i was fine with either ending but I quiet like katherines rejection of both and it is the most logical option on her part. Plus this doesn't mean nature wives WON'T happen it just means it's not happening now due to everything going on!

But it is ALSO OKAY if empires katherine is aro spec or aromatic in entirely. The thing I see about the mcyt community is a whole is SHIPPING, shipping is a big part of many fandom's and they often have a track record of shipping canon aromatic characters dismissing their identity.

Now the mcyt community is also big on shipping which is perfectly fine that isn't the problem but ive seen so much chaos over just because of it.

And at this point I'm kinda sick of the shipping wars I'm just trying to vibe but then i feel guilty because I don't feel the way others do about a popular ship. I don't harass people for it I just see the content like it if I think it's good then leave and mind my god damn business.

That's all needed. If you don't like an aroace headcanon cause of shipping then just ignore it.

I'm my book if the creator is comfortable and doesn't mind that stuff. Then it doesn't matter what you do just don't cross the creator's boundaries.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

P. S. aroace katherine is and actually fire headcanon and I think we need more aroace spec characters cause it can really make people like me feel seen!!