#rickticia

Miami Morty and Morticia - wearing an outfit from @/highwithdinos‘s AWESOME Rickticia fanfic, plz read it you’ll love it

Morticia: “Gross, lol”

[Later]

Morticia: *Tiny burp* “Oh! ‘S-scuse me!” 

STORYTIME!!

It was honestly a gradual thing, but I was always pro-ship when I think about it! I've always loved ships, even as a little kid I loved to ship the characters in the cartoons I watched. I remember telling my mom that I wanted Austin and Uniqua from the Backyardigans to date 🤣 But then something happened to me, something I'd rather not share the details of, but it's one of the reasons I ship what I ship, to cope and process the feelings of what happened, but I also ship just for fun! Then one day I discovered Pinecest 😈

It started simple, my younger sibling was watching Gravity Falls and at the time I didn't know much about it, so I looked it up and was scrolling through google images when I came across a beautiful drawing of Dipper and Mabel kissing - spoiler alert, it was DoublePines' art (duh lol) - At first I was shocked and grossed out, I even walked away from the computer, but I couldn't stop thinking about it.... So I scrolled through Gravity Falls images again and sure enough I found the same drawing, but this time I looked a bit longer. It confused me, but I couldn't deny it was a gorgeous drawing, I couldn't help but admire it, and then I started to get curious... I looked through many more images and started to wonder if it was canon, and if not why people shipped it. So I watched Gravity Falls! I was surprised to find myself a little disappointed that it wasn't canon, but I couldn't deny that I saw the connection between Mabel and Dipper and didn't blame people for shipping them. I found DP's blog and scrolled though it many times till I couldn't lie to myself anymore; I shipped it, and I LOVED DP's art. This was around the same time my older sibling was trying to convince me to make a tumblr account, but it wasn't until I decided I wanted to follow DP that I was finally convinced. I made my account, followed DP, spammed her with likes..... and then she was gone about 3 weeks later 😭 I was so heartbroken I didn't use tumblr for months afterwards. That was until I realized there was art of OTHER ships I liked on here too, as well as many other pinecest blogs/artists! (at the time....) Through finding those creators I noticed there were TONS of other shipcests, and many of them intrigued me! This was how I found the term "pro ship" and thusly found the pro ship community!

Aside from enjoying shipcest and many many other types of ships, the things pro shippers were saying made perfect sense to me - that it's okay to enjoy "problematic" things in a fictional sense, and that it doesn't hurt anybody. Because even before I got into shipcest I still shipped things that people were saying I wasn't "allowed" to ship, which is like??? Wtf?? You can't tell me what I am and am not allowed to ship! So in a way pro-shipping is kind of like a form of rebellion and anarchy 😆Moreover, I've always loved "weird" things, all my life I've always been an open-minded person and surprisingly chill with the strange and unusual, and liked things that happened to freak people out, and that used to make me sad and alone, but as I've gotten into more online communities of other, beautiful weirdos I've realized I'm not alone at all! I love all ships; from the most vanilla, white, cis/het, milktoast, confirmed-in-canon pairing, all the way to the massive age-gap, gay, inc*st, barely HINTED in canon ship between a guy and his grandfather 🤣 And I LOVE the pro-ship community!! I always feel comfortable and confident around other pro-shippers cuz every single one I've interacted with has been an ABSOLUTE sweetheart, and we all know how terrible antis are so from what I've seen most of us just wanna be better and not stoop to their level, so even if there's something we're not into we just mind our business and don't let our personal feelings be anybody else's problem, and that sounds so simple but in this day and age of bullying and cancel culture it's honestly beautiful!!

Whoo, sorry, that was a long story, but in conclusion - ships are good and fun, shippers are beautiful and valid, and the pro-ship community is a gorgeous and lovely place and I wouldn't have it any other way 😊

I have SO many favorite ships, but right now Rickorty is my favorite too! 🤩

My top 5 (at the moment, it could change anytime!) Are:

1. Rickorty/Rickticia - I like Rickticia especially since I relate to Morticia a lot more than Morty, so it's almost like a double ship/self insert combo for me 🤣

2. Rickcest/Mortycest - Selfcest has always been fascinating ship combo to me, and R&M makes it SO GOOD cuz it can actually happen in canon! (And it has, in the comics at least 😜)

3. Legoshi x Haru from Beastars - While I love the show I think the manga is MUCH better, especially when it comes to this pair and Haru's character in general

4. Portalkenisis (Kid x Jo) from Kid Cosmic - I made up the ship name since nobody had made one yet as far as I could tell. This one is pretty different for me since I don't normally ship age gaps (at least not ones where there's no !ncest and the female is older lol) But Jo and Kid have SUCH a cute dynamic and chemistry, I just couldn't help it, honestly the age difference isn't even a point of interest there it's purely because of their connection in canon, but I will admit the age difference adds an extra element of drama 😈

5. Pinecest, Gravity Falls - ALWAYS, I don't care how old this ship is or how dead the fandom has gotten, Pinecest will always be a fave and will always have a special place in my heart even if I'm more focused on other ships, they are SOULMATES and nothing will ever change that