A moment of respite

i don’t have an actual design for c00lkidd atm 😞

Ppl talking about how their ship "won" or another got "sunk" is such a profoundly modern invention of fandom, it holds up canon as something like *biblical* canon or whatever instead of being a label with no inherent value.

Your goal in shipping and in fannish creation should be for you, not to serve the source material. Outside of fringe examples like Supernatural, creative fandom is a niche hobbyist community. Compare the footprint of a piece of art on AO3 with, like, Reddit (which is broadly speaking Curative Fandom not Creative/Transformative Fandom). You're not the core demographic. This is a feature and a good thing, not a bug.

The idea that any canon plot/character beat is meant to "sink a ship" shows a tremendous misunderstanding of how commercial art is made.

All this to say: if one of the most important metrics of your hobby is how interested the production and creative professionals making a TV show are in this specific aspect you're invested in, you need to recalibrate.