Jules

But in general when did shipping culture become such a serious thing omg.

If you ship this you're racist, if you ship that you're fetishizing the characters, if you ship that other ship you're misogynistic, if you don't ship that you're a racist ableist homophobic scum.

And sometimes? I get it. But only sometimes and that depends on the reasons for the ships.

Let me make an example.

A trio, two male characters and one female.

If you ship off the female with another character out of the trio just to "get her out of the way" then yeah that is a tad bit weird. But if you ship her with that other character out of the trio just because you really like them or even randomly then what is wrong with that???

Or when two male characters that canonically aren't close, are "toxic" and stuff like that. You ship them? You're fetishizing them.

You don't like a ship involving white and black characters? You're racist.

You ship the trio/love triangle situation all together? You're just going for the easy solution without caring of how canonically they wouldn't blah blah.

Can't someone just like two characters together even if they barely have something in common and interactions?

Yes I want that trio to all kiss each other. It's not fetishizing, it's not because it's an easy solution, I just like them (in my case they have chemistry all three together, but even if they had zero who cares? I would have liked them even for no reason maybe and that's 100% fine!)

Also have people these days never heard of crack ships? Cause me and my friends used to and still do waste hours pairing characters from literally different media and with nothing in common together just for the funnies. And sometimes we end up actually liking the ship, because it's fun and we're having fun.

Since when do we need a reason to ship two characters? And since when it's wrong and you're this and that for shipping them?

"You shouldn't/can't ship x and y or you're racist/misogyny/ableist/fetishizing them/xenophobic/homophobic-" I'll ship the character with a chair if I feel like it let's be honest😭

If the ship isn't legally (for example minor x adult) or morally (for example barely adult (ex: 18 y.o.) x 30+ years old) wrong, what is exactly the issue?

Also why would my shipping preferences, if legal and morally right (and again depending on the reasons), reflect who I am?

No user1234567 I'm not this and that for liking that ship, are you a murder for liking characters that kills?

Like my favorite character ever is Dick Grayson and he once killed Joker, but in real life I'd never like someone who did such thing? We're talking about fictional stuff, y'know... Why are we applying real life to it?

"I hate XxY shippers because it's so toxic and I don't get why people like it they're so weird for that" it's fiction come on... I've met people who likes the most toxic relationships from the most toxic dark romance books ever and they were such sweethearts and normal people? They weren't weirdos and they would not like something like that in real life, but liked the fiction thing, because it's fiction. But just because they liked it there it didn't mean they believed all the stuff those characters did was right.

This is funny because all this rant started with a ship I myself don't like, and it can be quite toxic which isn't my type of bread too! But attacking and criticizing its shippers over something they like in fiction is crazy and doesn't make sense.

People are making such a fuss and a big issue of something that shouldn't be... Like it's just people having their fun. I love shipping characters very randomly, again me and my friends spent hours on crack ships for fun. Is it illegal and immoral to have fun now because it automatically makes you a bad person?

The end.

Thanks for reading my repetitive and who knows, maybe nonsense, rant.

Mind y'all this is just on the shipping discourse, y'all should have heard/read my rant on the NON shipping discourse. Had a conversation on that with a friend for 30 minutes and it was barely a two sided conversation and mostly me yapping lol. The message version is even double this post I think.

Honestly though I feel like it would work so good with 90s DickBabs too though, since we often see Babs doing liftings(?... Or what they're called... Sorry no expert lol).