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Fandom Problem #15,069:

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“being a shen jiu lover who hates qijiu is a special breed of torture

I dont hate yqy either. I actually rlly like them as a platonic pairing. If you tell me they're brothers, I'm all over that shit

But if you make them kiss, I am gagging

But qijiu is THE shen jiu ship and I am in agony

Sure, ships like scumcum and liujiu and others exist. But they're pretty rare and vaguely maligned by the fandom

When a ship is THE ship for a character, you're just fucked. You're reading a bingqiu or moshang or cumplane fic and just minding your own fucking business and BAM qijiu are in the background having some stupid romance and I am pulling out my hair because FOR FUCKS SAKE, I CANT EVEN READ OTHER SHIPS AND ESCAPE THIS SHIT

Even when I DO go to scumcum or liujiu spaces, there's a somewhat constant element of "yqy's one-sided love" or qijiu being exes or something else AND I JUST DONT WAN THEM TO HAVE EVER KISSED. NOT EVEN ONCE. NO ONESIDED LONGING, NO PINING, NO MESSY BREAKUPS, NO EXPERIMENTING WITH EACH OTHER, I JUST WANT THEM TO BE PLATONIC WITH EACH OTHER

Ffs the amount of joy and relief I would feel to find even ONE fic that has qijiu as being just good friends in the background. No will they won't they, just two humans who care about each other PLATONICALLY. There is NOTHING in the og text that states that they have romantic feelings for each other, no not even in subtext, so why the FUCK can I NEVER escape a world where they're in love?!?!

To be clear, I don't hate the shippers. You ship it, I don't, that's all. My issue is that I can't ESCAPE it. I can't go into a room and say "scumcum would be hot" without someone replying "Ohno yqy would be so sad" or "yqy harem dreams" or something else and like WHY WOULD HE BE UPSET IF THEYRE JUST FRIENDS, WHY CANT THEY BE JUST FRIENDS, WHY CANT YOU LET ME TALK ABOUT SCUMCUM FOR FIVE FUCKING SECONDS WITHOUT TRYING TO TURN THIS INTO QIJIU?!?!?

If I'm totally honest, I didn't hate qijiu this much in the beginning. I saw it and I was like "oh, not for me, I prefer them as friends" and TRIED to move on with my life

But unless I avoid basically all shen jiu content or any time he even features as a side character, i will continue to have qijiu shoved down my throat

So yeah. It's fucking hell being a shen jiu fan and hating qijiu.

Okay guys, I’ve given the gentle reminder as many times as I can without seeming passive aggressive, as a result this is your not-so gentle reminder. Stop tagging your x OC works as x reader for the love of all that is divine. This isn’t a threat, it’s not some long article about how you’re a deadbeat or whatever; The simple fact of the matter is the tagging system was created to help readers find EXACTLY what they are looking for with [relative]ease, and that can’t be if YOU are making them sift through content that has fuck all to do with what they are looking for.

Now there are a couple of assumptions I’ve made seeing some of you guys’ posts. Most of them fall under the writer being insecure and thinking their work will not be seen if they don’t use the x reader tag and I am here to tell you that is simply untrue. I know plenty of people who actively seek out x OC works, and while I am not among them as being called by the name of someone I am obviously not in fiction breaks the immersion for me, this should NOT discourage you from being transparent in your posting.

“It’s called block and move on.” No, it’s called be a good human being and stop evading responsibility for a messy system that doesn’t HAVE to be messy, and thus is so only because you’re making it that way. You are not a singular. There are other people JUST like you doing the same thing further perpetuating the convoluted channels.

Overlooking how self serving it is, it’s also very inconsiderate concerning people that simply struggle to find stories in some already dead or dying fandom. You have no reason to tag it as an x reader unless it is, an x reader.

It’s obnoxious, and frankly, rude.

far cry 5 fandom, we’ve got you! here is faith’s own february event — faithuary 🦋 you can use whatever you want, adapt, and interpret the prompts / dialogues as you wish! general rules can be found here. content can include fanart, fics, edits, etc.

— content specific notes: tagging us & using #faithuary for the event can help us interact faster with your creations! mentioning the prompt(s) used and the character(s) involved also help us (and everyone participating) finding like minded creators!