#sk9

Seeing haters absolutely lose it:

Twitter pisses me off but this one thread really did so just let me vent for a hot second:

Langa and Adam didn't really have a rivalry and any sort of rivalry they did have was one-sided on Adam’s end of things. This thread was talking about edenshipping and about how the show "dropped" their romance after the first few episodes only to pick it back up on the last episode.

Now I swear to god Adam stans need to pick a side because seeing some people say "Adam only ever wanted a skating partner and only ever saw Langa as that" and then in the same breath say "Adam clearly viewed Langa as a love interest" is so frustrating because those two statements can't exist at the same time. Adam can't only see Langa as a skating partner and then also see him as a lover interest. He could see Langa as a skating partner and a love interest and that can totally be something someone gathers from the show (because I can definitely see it) or someone can headcanon them as love interests or whatever else. Just please stop trying to make both claims it hurts my brain reading it lmao.

This specific user wasn't too happy that Langa seemed to only be thinking about Reki after their fight (as if Reki isn't Langa’s primary friend and the person who introduced Langa into something that made him happy after having moved across the world after his father died). Anyway they not only didnt really seem to like the Reki/Langa narrative that the show went for (what a tragedy that the show is about the... two... main... characters), but in the comments a user was saying that they disliked how central Tadashi, Joe, and Cherry were to Adam’s backstory (while, ironically, censoring Reki and Langa’s names 🥴).

In the monster thread about Adam and therapy a mutual of mine said something along the lines about how it is important to recognize how tragic it is that Adam needs an Eve... so let me use this to segway into my next point.

Adam never knew jackshit about Langa. Adam refers to Langa as Snow constantly idek if Adam ever knew Langa’s name. Adam’s attraction towards Langa (from my viepoint at least) came only from his skating ability.

Also as a huge Cherry/Shadow shipper and Joe/Tadashi shipper this does means that I need literally nothing to ship characters and can pull headcanons from thin air, I'm just stating what I believe the show gave us.

Anyway they made the complaint that the show doesn't focus on any single relationship... but they are completely missing the point of the show because Langa building a community of friends and the exploration of different character relationships seems to be a very central part of the show: Adam-Langa, Adam-Tadashi, Adam-Cherry, Adam-Joe, Joe-Reki, Joe-Cherry, Reki-Langa, Reki-Oka, Miya-Shadow, Miya-Langa, Miya-Reki and so on and so forth. It is literally a sports anime about friendship and expecting it to focus on any single relationship shows a lack of understanding in what a sports anime is.

They finish their thread off by saying that they are an eden shipper and that antis can't use the post to attack them (because the thread was really about why edenshipping isn't as popular as other ships... I think it is like the forth most popular ship but alright).

“What a season right? Can’t wait till it airs. Glad to be taking a break from this schedule for a bit though. How about you?”

“Oh.. well I have another movie I’m looking at doing over the summer.” 

“Shit man do you ever take a break? You know you’re allowed to right? I mean why the fuck are we being paid 40k an episode if we can’t have a little fucking fun?”

“I like to keep busy.” 

“Well you can keep busy by coming out with me and Don tonight.” 

“I don’t drink Anderson.” 

Oh boy, the “heteronormativity” argument is a whole can of worms (and Clownon tried to bring up MB once, “everyone projects on 🌸 the wife” or whatever)

I understand where people are coming from with MB (I even was one of them at first), and there’s definitely SOME people out there who write them that way, they’re a huge ship

MB can definitely fall into the “I hate my wife”/“my husband is a useless muscle-brain who needs to be mothered” trope if you look at them in the right wrong light (and I’m not a big fan of that)

But the biggest argument I have is that these two are joking/written to be joking. Their arguments are fun for both of them, and they don’t actually hate each other (as opposed to “heteronormative” arguments that the couple should probably divorce over, or at least sit down and discuss properly)

🍵 may be an “idiot gorilla with muscle for brain” but 🌸 recognizes his intelligence in serious situations. 🌸 may be a “stingy nagging four-eyes” but 🍵 recognizes his strengths when the situation calls for it. They don’t actually hate each other, they just have fun bantering (though it’s kinda hard to tell sometimes depending on who’s writing them)