I actually like it when ships hurt each other in long lasting and unforgiveable ways. I like it when they leave vicious, glaring scars. I like when they leave traumas. I like when they stab each other and torture each other and ruin each other’s lives and violate every inch of each other’s values. and I like it when they fucking kill each other permanently dead.
Fandom needs to go back to it’s roots of shipping without any expectation of canon agreement, shipping characters that have never even met, shipping characters from entirely different properties that came out decades apart, shipping just for fun, and generally speaking mostly not bothering the creators about it. Put fandom back in the shadows, being profitable has only made everything worse as grifters saw easy marks and forcing creators to play pattycake with fandom has led to so much open resentment.
“you shouldn’t eat brownie batter or cookie dough or whatever because you could get salmonella!” You shouldn’t smell wildflowers because there might be a bee, and you shouldn’t pet puppies or kittens because they might have rabies, and absolutely no frolicking because you might roll your ankle. That’s what you sound like.
I love you Pacific Rim, I love you Ramin Djawadi’s soundtrack, I love you Mako Mori, I love you found footage prologue, I love you entire concept of Drift compatibility, I love you only actual golden retriever man Raleigh Becket, I love you Kwoon scene, I love you “it’s not obedience. it’s respect,” I love you Mana Ashida’s powerhouse performance, I love you Stacker Pentecost’s sun motif, I love you Chuck’s jacket, I love you hallway fistfight, I love you Crimson Typhoon, I love you Otachi, I love you del Toro’s “guy in a suit” approach to creature design, I love you Hansens with flare guns, I love you “for my family,” I love you numerous artful nods to Jurassic Park, I love you “we can clear a path. for the lady,” I love you forehead touch, I lo
