14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
this happens in literally every fandom iâve been in but elitism in ship opinions is just so....annoying. people will be like âif you ship this m/m pair but not this m/f pair with the same dynamic youâre fetishizing m/mâ like. youâre assuming that another person considers those two ships to have the same dynamics....when itâs likely they are probably seeing something else in it than you are. (yes iâm subtweeting a very specific post for this particular salt)
like gee! itâs almost as though everyone comes at things with a different percolation of background, identity, and life experience that causes them to read different things in between the lines of fiction! and no one interpretation is more ârightâ than another! Not to mention this weird pushback on people who ship m/m or f/f couples âinsteadâ of m/f. like. itâs not that deep. itâs cartoons kissing. and sometimes especially those of us who are queer just. relate more to m/m or f/f than to m/f, or we read it differently.Â
just!!! acknowledge that people can and do have different perfectly valid interpretations of media, especially relationships!! Itâs ok and itâs not hard!! one personâs sandbox doesnât deny you yours!
18. Does not shipping something âpopularâ mean youâre in denial and/or biased?
see: above salt, which. kind of already answers this question lol.
again! itâs all about interpretation! itâs all about bringing your own viewpoint to the table! the transformative power of fiction is the fact that no two people will EVER have the same experience, EVER have the same ideas about the same fictional moment! Where I might read incredibly strong platonic friendship, someone else might read sexual tension -- and both are perfectly valid! Itâs not about denial or bias -- itâs about what YOU, YOURSELF, have brought to and mixed in with your experience of the media.
19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
lol i feel like i talked about it already in both of these questions. itâs just. the idea that thereâs only one valid interpretation. the idea that if you donât read a dynamic the same way as everyone else youâre just âstupid.â
like fucking listen i am at least 20k in debt to get this stupid piece of paper called a Bachelorâs Degree but it DOES give me the right to tell you that thereâs no such thing as a single âone true interpretationâ of a medium and if you insist that anyone who doesnât ship your ship is just âdumbâ LET ME TELL YOU....i have a degree that gives me permission to tell you that YOU are the dumb one
thank you for the ask and hope the salt was decent lol
