hmm, I'll have to check it out! i mean, where would society be without our pretty boy figurines lmaoo.
I've actually never bumped into the Klee & Diluc dynamic in the wild, but now I want to dig my fingers into it! pyro characters are always so fun to explore.
Gosh, I've been seeing that as well, there's such a rush to be βinβ these days, people dropping fandoms because they're not popular enough never used to happen, or if it did, I haven't seen it.
Yeah! These tropes do have the potential to be written well, if they weren't, they wouldn't be so popular in the first place. I just don't know why someone would want to make fanfiction in the first place if it wasn't⦠y'know, fanfiction.
While I've done my fair share of getting into canon through fanon for a good portion of my fandomsβ I always try to fact check.
Wanting to write accurately is actually how I started reading the Batman comics in the first place. I had heard about the stark contrast but I'm not exaggerating when I say it's a hugeee tone shift!
Then I see people just winging it, and I have no idea how they do it without going insane? then i feel guilty because theyβre free to do whatever they want and they're just having fun but also are they even?? sure doesn't look like it.
Do they even like the characters in the first place? the ship? the story?? ugghh it drives me crazy.
oh, also, as a coffee enthusiast myself, I too can agree, there is no place more sexless than a coffee shop. a single step between those pearly gates of stale pastries and weeping, sleep-deprived single parents is enough to reinvigorate even Genghis Khan's maidenhood.
ohh diluven⦠I've got a wip for them that is just sitting in my docs, they make me so insane. but yeah i feel the same! That's a big reason why I made this post in the first place. I don't feel as much as a shipper so much as someone who wants to put two characters in a room and see what happens.
I'm lucky enough to have gotten into GI post-ayatoβs release, but that sounds absolutely miserable! i relate to you with kavethamβ it's such a shame that fandom can turn you off of what otherwise could be a very fun character. took me a while to start liking him and kaveh (as individuals) for the same reason.
oh YES, honestly a lot of ships that people claim to be toxic are⦠regular relationship shit. not even inherently romantic relationship shit just straight up regular friendship between two characters that have, well, flaws.
fandom has a habit of demonising anything that doesn't fit the same brand of, as mentioned, oh-so-repetitive-college-coffee-shop-fluff aus. and i mean demonising. any conflict makes a relationship abusive and it's⦠actually pretty concerning on the authors part when you think about it.
what you said about there being more platonic dynamics than familial stuck me to my fucking core because that is so realβ¦
Again, part of why I don't feel like I'm much of a shipper, is that mostly, i just like intreasting dynamics! which isn't always romantic. which isn't always familial either. There's more than two ways to mean something to someone.
while at the end of the day i have no problem figuring out chemistry between two characters who have basically never metβ as a rarepair lover it would make me an absolute hypocriteβ
It's really more about how stubborn people are on fanon-declared βcanonicalityβ that rubs me the wrong way. especially when it's used as an excuse to shit on other ships.
I definitely agree with you on wriolette! i like them as much as the next guy, but god knows if one was a woman people would be clutching their pearls and βdonβt ship them! It's familial!β-ing them. and that's if they weren't calling the shippers out saying βtheyβve barely even talked!β
Hey, I think it was a great rant! but yeahhhh, It's getting quite late for me as well, this was a nice chat! Have a good night.
(ohh ok ok! very relatable tbh.)