I'm an introject of Ryland Grace and god, can I complain really quick about how annoying it is that 90% of the fandom just ships me with someone? While normally I wouldn't find that irritating, it somehow just feels offensive to me as someone who is aroace and finds both the movie and book portrayals of myself to be coded as very aroace.
Romance and shipping culture is so heavily ingrained into all forms of media that the entire system I belong to has basically sworn it all off. Yes, we're all a flavor of aroace, so of course we have little interest. But it just feels as though lately, shipping is the only means with which people engage with media.
There's also the fact that the current highest trending ship for myself is with someone who is from an entirely separate movie. Just... Why?
No hate to anyone who enjoys Bloodymary, but my goodness. I'm sick of trying to find nice content of me that isn't painted romantically or doesn't have some relation to Bloodymary only to have to scroll through dozens of blocked tags.
There is so much more potential to my source than just shipping material.
Anyhow. I'm very sorry to leave such a long ask here. This is something that has been getting on my nerves for quite a long while.
No no I get you despite being opposite on a lot of stuff here aroace but doesn't think movie grace reads as aroace and thinking bloodymary is neat I agree that fandom being 99% ships is annoying
Looking for art of a character by themself can be incredibly difficult especially from fandom to fandom where their partnership with another character is deemed more important than the character themselves
I have Blitzwing/Bumblebee ships blocked because I just want to see Blitzwing being a cutie or just being himself but so much of his art exists just to ship him with Bumblebee and while shipping is great and can be so much fun when most of the content about one of your favorite characters is just ship art it's a unique type of frustrating but there isn't really much to be done about it if most peoples just is watching characters kiss