Aw Yeah, Unifrown!

Hi everyone! I hope you’ve all been well! The last you guys saw of this blog, we had that thing where Careen Ingle, one of the Unikitty showrunners, posted a tweet confirming that she’d been writing with the intent of Master Frown being an adult and Unikitty being a child. This led to a lot of drama and pedophillia accusations being thrown about, and I wrote up a post discussing staff inconsistencies, show inconsistencies, and the concept of death of the author. And then I took a break from the blog to give everything time to simmer down and think about how I personally felt about those things.  How much importance people put into things showrunners say outside of a show but don’t actually include in a show varies wildly from person to person. While I’m likely to see something a showrunner says as “bonus” information that I can accept or ignore as I see fit, it’s clear a lot of the Unikitty fandom sees Ingle’s comments as law and is no longer comfortable with Unifrown as a romantic ship because of it. There has been noticeably less romantic Unifrown content since Ingle’s tweet, and that’s fine. I am not here to police how anybody else feels about death of the author just as I don’t want them to try and police me about it, and thankfully it looks like the fandom is taking a similar “live and let live” approach to this. That, or people are being really good at deleting anon hate instead of feeding it. Either way, nice.  If this was a normal shipping blog, that’d be the end of the discussion. But this blog has always been a little but different due to one thing: I never made AwYeahUnifrown to just be about romantic shipping in the first place. I didn’t start this blog just to ship Unikitty and Master Frown romantically. In fact, Unifrown as a romantic ship is actually pretty low on my list of ships (I’m sorry if that seems like a massive betrayal to some of y’all.) I started this blog because I like Unikitty and Master Frown’s dynamic in any way, shape, or form. I like them as friends, frenemies, or enemies just as much, if not more, than I actually “ship” them. Every piece of “Unifrown” content I’ve made myself for this blog - fall those image sets I’ve made for each episode where they interact - can be seen as platonic. It just seemed like, since I didn’t DISLIKE them as a romantic ship, also reblogging romantic content and calling it a “Unifrown blog” made sense. But now, with this situation, I get the feeling there’s a lot of people who only want to see Unikitty and Master Frown platonically, and I want to respect those people. I want to make it so people can enjoy the content I make featuring Unikitty and Master Frown being platonic dorks without also needing to see a romantic ship they may no longer be comfortable with. While I’m sure many people will blacklist #Unifrown altogether, I’d like to keep tagging platonic content as #Unifrown because people who ship Unifrown will still enjoy seeing that content. So here’s what I’m going to do:

Any posts or reblogs on AwYeahUnifrown that feature Unikitty and Master Frown interacting in a way that can only be seen as romantic will now be given the tag #Unifromance so they can easily be blacklisted. 

Ugh.

TBH I’ve had an incredibly bad day for reasons unrelated to this and this was just kind of the cherry on top for me, so I’m not in the right headspace to make an official “statement” or a decisive stance on how this blog is going to move forward, but here’s a pile of my immediate thoughts. 

Before I get started…. It pains me to ask this, and I’ve never asked anything like this before, but I would appreciate if Unicrew Staff Please Do Not Interact With This Post? Maybe even don’t read? I suppose I can’t stop staff from reading and replying to this if they really want but I don’t think it’s gonna to benefit anybody and it’ll probably just be uncomfortable for everyone involved. I’m going to write the rest of this post FOR FANS, not with the idea of staff reading it in mind.

Anyways….

Soooo I was hoping to put together a list for Unifrown week again this year, and then I landed myself in the hospital! :'D It's nothing life threatening but I'm stuck here for the time being. I'll drop a belated prompt list when I'm better but you guys should start the fun without me!!