Tag: shipping

arbryna:

acedamian:

there are different levels of notps, y’see.

  1. i don’t really care about this ship but i’m sick of seeing it everywhere
  2. this ship makes me slightly uncomfortable for no reason
  3. this ship makes me slightly uncomfortable for personal reasons
  4. this ship makes me heavily uncomfortable for many reasons
  5. this ship disgusts me to my very core because of all it is
  6. this ship disgusts me to my very core and beyond because it’s entirely based around something that is despicable and morally wrong

7. i didn’t used to mind this ship but the shippers are assholes and now the mere thought of it makes me want to set people on fire

I used to think I was tired of het ships, but…

sourcedumal:

eshusplayground:

I’m tired of heterosexist ships.

I’m not gonna go “Ew, het!” just because a male character and a female character become an item. Some of my biggest OTPs are M/F ships. Did you not see me raving about Southside With You? Do you not see me tag Morticia/Gomez or David Bowie/Iman with “relationship goals”? Elisa/Goliath was one of my first OTPs, mkay?

So it’s not M/F that irritates me.

What irritates me is an awesome woman attaching herself to some (usually white) ain’t-shit fuckboy who only drags her down.

What irritates me is “breathing the same air” is the basis for their relationship.

What irritates me is when a (usually white) female character has much better chemistry with other female characters, or even with–gasp!–a man of color (and don’t let him be BLACK!!!), but she’s head over heels for some conventionally attractive white dude.

What irritates me is that 99.9999% of the time, a (white) male character chooses a (white) female character as “The One” before she has feelings for him.

What irritates me is that the vast majority of women in M/F ships conform to Eurocentric beauty standards that amplify the association of whiteness with beauty and worthiness.

What irritates me is that the vast majority of M/F ships are about his gaze and his wants and his needs and not hers.

THIS THIS THIS

5 OTPs meme

tagged by @tsaomengde

The rules are to post 5 OTPs from different fandoms and then tag ten people to continue the meme.

1. Babylon 5: Susan Ivanova/Marcus Cole/Talia Winters/Neroon – because fuck if I am ever going to be able to decide in what configuration I like them most, so the four of them together suits me best.

2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak – they are one of the few pairs I have a hard time with pairing either one off with anyone else (or adding a third to them), at least while writing. (Reading is a whole different thing.)

3. Leverage: Parker/Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer – I don’t remember the name of the episode, but the one where they were running the con inside a rehab center, and at the end when they’ve finished, the bit with Parker and Hardison and Eliot… and I just. Yes. These three. Forever and always. Maybe someone outside the trio for Eliot, because he likes being casually romantic and is awesome, but mostly just the trio, yes please and thank you.

4. MCU Avengers: Everybody/Everybody – everyone is poly because Avengers, and you can pry that headcanon out of my cold, dead hands, because this fandom hill I will die on. Every ship is possible, and all the ships are possible, and it’s not a closed polycule with the Avengers themselves, it’s the Avengers and Pepper and Jane and Darcy and Betty and Peggy and Bucky and Loki and every-fucking-body the Avengers decide they love and/or can negotiate having a fling with.

5. Henry V – Shakespeare: Henry V/Montjoy – because the 1989 Kenneth Branagh adaptation. Just. Because that.

(Star Wars is not on the list, because there are too many possibilities to chose from. Just. Too. Many.)

And I’m not going to tag anyone, I do not have the spoons for it today. If you want to play, feel free to consider yourself tagged!

teapotsahoy:

minim-calibre:

handypolymath:

mominmudville:

soyeahso:

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. 

Listen to your parents, kids.

This really should be one of a handful of Public Service Announcements randomly and chronically inserted into one’s dash.

Yep.

Plus:

The idea that because you think these people could have a compelling sexual interaction, you also in some way think they should be/could be romantically involved.

The idea that there has to be an “endgame” pairing.

The idea that because you ship someone with A you cannot ship them with B.

The idea that someone’s affection/love for A subtracts from their love or the legitimacy of their love for B.

finnglas:

anneapocalypse:

Shipping is such a multilayered thing too.

You can ship characters for happily ever afters, sure, you can ship them for tragically-then-happily, you can ship two or three or four or more, you can ship endless combinations of personality types and relationship dynamics

but you can also ship characters under very specific circumstances, or for a certain period of their life but not for all of it, or only in a certain universe. You might say “I ship these characters” and what you mean is you think they are fascinating together and could have a story together. That story could be any kind of story. 

Sometimes it means you want them together for the rest of their lives. Sometimes it means something different than that.

I don’t know about you, but for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.” 

for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.”

Thank you for articulating this. Yes. Exactly.

finnglas:

anneapocalypse:

Shipping is such a multilayered thing too.

You can ship characters for happily ever afters, sure, you can ship them for tragically-then-happily, you can ship two or three or four or more, you can ship endless combinations of personality types and relationship dynamics

but you can also ship characters under very specific circumstances, or for a certain period of their life but not for all of it, or only in a certain universe. You might say “I ship these characters” and what you mean is you think they are fascinating together and could have a story together. That story could be any kind of story. 

Sometimes it means you want them together for the rest of their lives. Sometimes it means something different than that.

I don’t know about you, but for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.” 

for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.”

Thank you for articulating this. Yes. Exactly.