ETA:
- This post is not about Reylo or any other “dirty bad” ship.
- Even if it were I’d stand by what I said
- I wasn’t trying to make a huge statement that encompasses every single nuance of shipping and fandom trends.
- I was frustrated in a particular moment and vented about a specific situation to my followers.
- THIS POST IS NOT SUPPOSED TO ENCOMPASS EVERY SINGLE NUANCE OF SHIPPING AND FANDOM TRENDS.
- Like, whatever, use it as a jumping off point for discussions if you must but don’t assume my motivations or that just because I didn’t include a particular thing, it means I have never thought of that particular thing, or that not specifically condemning something means I condone it.
- I hate this fucking post so much.
There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.
1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not. Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”
2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.”
Sometimes shipping something does mean that. Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.” Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B. Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.” And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes.
