Social media has introduced ''yaoislop'' into fandom spaces of queer ships and it makes me so unfathomably mad. Hetslop was already pretty terrible but it has a ROOT in the fact that MOST MEDIA is painfully, tragically heteronormative. SO, fandom takes that media and adds some diversity to it, because queer people WANT representation, they want media to enjoy that tells their stories too, because there's sure as fuck not a lot of it.
So applying ''slop'' to any queer dynamic is bad. Extremely bad. It implies that the mere fact a ship is gay is bad and that's just straight up homophobic, like we've circled right back around to media needing to remain heteronormative because now even fandom is taking queer dynamics, queer ships and calling them bad. Like how can that be anything but a terrible fucking idea?!
It's one thing to defend canon no matter how terrible it is for representation, but applying those strict rules to fandom is the death of it. You'll kill the art fans pour their heart and soul into for fucking what exactly? Straight people's approval? Maintaining the hetero status quo? Who the fuck wants that?
I'm especially mad to see queer people jump into this conversation to tear down ships they supposedly like, like who the fuck are you trying to impress by downplaying your own queer fucking media????? ESPECIALLY CREATED BY FANS WHO DO IT FOR FREE???????
