I made a post a few days ago about how I think it was always quite obvious Blake and Yang were endgame, and some people got mad.
Look, if you don't ship them, I don't actually gaf. If you prefer Blake with Sun, I get it. That's fine. Yes, my phrasing was overgeneralizing but I stand by what I said. Because I wouldn't have said it if I didn't have reason to.
I just recently got into RWBY, and I love it. Now, I usually don't spoil stuff for myself, but for years I've been aware that Blake and Yang were the main couple, and I knew roughly about the plot of the show. So when I decided to actually watch it, I looked into it first. I wanted to see what people were saying. I checked out the Blake/Yang tag on a03 (I'm watching it for them. I love the show in general but I started it for bumbleby).
I almost didn't watch the show because of what I saw. Sure, there were some convos that criticized the writing and stayed respectful, there were some conversations from people who don't like Blake and Yang together that didn't veer into homophobic territory, but I saw too much negativity. And yes, I am spoiled. Pretty much every fandom I've ever been in is wildly accepting and progressive (and sapphic ship focused), so I'd never seen such negativity regarding a sapphic ship before, but its still horrible even if its more prevalent than I'd thought. I didn't want to be apart of a fandom that seemed to have so much bigotry.
And don't get me started on the ao3. I saw that Blake and Yang had a lot of fics. You can imagine my horror when I realized how many of them featured "lesbian breaking" themes (the word lesbian isn't typically what was used. It was the D slur).
I was maybe too broad in the way I expressed my opinion, and I think its fine to ship other ships. Blake is bi anyways. There's genuinely nothing wrong with that. But I said what I said for a reason, and I'm not crazy for it. What I saw was so jarring that I almost didn't start the show.
Definitely some cursed shit in ao3 but there are a lot of really good authors, off the top of my head, check out Thornwood, Katsuki, Chaoticevilspacewitch, the fic "Fictional Relationships" is a classic. I can get more later when I get a chance to go through my bookmarks. General advice avoid fics with any sense of Jaune harem and you should be good
