Innocent puppy that will tear you apart in a second.
Asshole that is secretly an innocent puppy.
Ships I always fall for: innocent puppy and asshole
Tag: shipping
Me: I ship *queer ship.*
Someone Else: Why don’t you ship *het ship*? It’s way more likely to become canon.
Me: I want gay!!
There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.
1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not. Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”
2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.”
Sometimes shipping something does mean that. Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.” Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B. Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.” And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes.
otp: both have a severe case of abandonment issues that they don’t discuss and use anger or jokes to avoid talking about them.
me: yes…
otp: hate and annoy each other at every turn and have an overtly antagonistic relationship yet have more in common than they think.
me: niceeeeeee
otp: form a begrudging friendship that they deny to other people while still obviously caring about each other.
me: incredible
otp: fall in mutually beneficial love where they subconsciously help each other become better people just by being together.
me: I WILL FLIP THIS TABLE RIGHT NOW!
There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.
1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not. Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”
2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.”
Sometimes shipping something does mean that. Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.” Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B. Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.” And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes.
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