as the person who replied, I want you to know that it wasn't meant in like. a mean-spirited way. just with the tags, the fact that you called it a doomed ship, toxic, "traumatic," etc previously, it just. was a big conglomeration of "wow so that's how this person sees this ship." part of it was definitely seeing a popular tuckington shipper seemingly talk shit on a rare pair - it happens a LOT. I understand you like it as a toxic ship, but maybe don't put it in the tags?
[continued] and like, seriously, no hate. I understand that certain people like ships for certain reasons. but when you talk about how toxic a relationship is - even if it’s just an au - you have to understand how that can come off as ship hate. I know you can imagine how shitty the response would be if I said “tucker/wash is incompatible and toxic and is a Cause for Trauma.” anyway I am so sorry for engaging in Discourse!!! I’m sorry if I caused you any like. undue stress. that was not my intent at all bud
….your idea of an apology was to come tell me to stay in my lane because i’m a tuckington shipper? i honestly thought you were going to suggest i just make sure people know my posts aren’t ship hate, and that i’m a shipper myself. but this is an honest to god request for me to hide my shit from other shippers who don’t follow me, because you didn’t understand the intention of the post.
let’s all take a moment to imagine how this would go over if i did this to another tuckington shipper with a characterization i didn’t like.
i literally said “AUs where”, and described one possible relationship dynamic. the idea that i “only see it as a hateship” is an assumption. i have asks on. i have anonymous on. people don’t even have to show their faces to ask me anything from how i interpret a ship, to whether i’m into witchcraft, an actual thing that happened recently.
if something i say doesn’t fly with you, maybe let’s talk it out before you publicly go into ranking how much more meaningful your headcanons are compared to mine? because when you take into account that i ship this, declaring your way to ship something to be inherently better than mine is fucked up. especially since this is not our first miscommunication.
i understand the original post got under your skin. that wasn’t my intention, either. i really enjoy wash/church in a lot of different contexts. what i didn’t get into for the sake of brevity is that there’s an AU of the original post where they work things out. i ship this. i ship it in more ways than just toxic. angst =/= ship hate. i get that i stressed you out—god knows i am protective of wash/carolina—but maybe don’t put spiteful messages in reblogs of my posts, then claim you weren’t being mean-spirited?
now, if anybody sees me make a post that seems ill-tagged, they are 100% free to message me, and i’ll revise it. my followers have seen that i am not afraid to retag posts, revise opinions, or concede points. but as i said yesterday, i’ll be adjusting the way i tag things so as not to inconvenience anyone in the future.