It’s been many many years but I think it’s about time I leave this blog.
It started in early 2017 as a way to try to calm ‘shipping wars’ that existed back in the day, and personally served as a big lesson to younger me. Sure I was always a big shipper of one of these two ships, but that didn’t matter. I was in multiple fandoms, and I could have a friend in one fandom who shipped the same thing as me, and they’re also in another fandom as I’m in who ships a different thing than me and we are still friends.
I learnt that shipping wars aren’t a big deal. On the internet it’s easy to surround yourself in your own bubble, your own world of content where you can choose to only see specific things and not be aware of what the rest of the internet thinks. I found out that this ‘shipping war’ from 2017 wasn’t really a war at all and in fact much of the fandom wasn’t involved at all, and even more people didn’t know or care. I could just walk away from it and never see anything about this war again, even if I thought it was just so big before.
I figured out that what you ship doesn’t mean anything at all, and that multishipping is a thing. I was scrolling through a fanart website for one of my favorite games, and saw a piece of cute art that was really nice. So I saved it. Then about five minutes later I realized that that wasn’t something I shipped and that I didn’t care. That I’d actually moved past all of the war stuff and it literally never came to mind that ‘huh, that’s cute but I don’t ship it’.
Shipping wars will live for eternity because a lot of people find it more entertaining to be hurtful to others, but it’s important to realize how EASY it is to walk away, block people involved, and remove yourself from the drama.
This blog is no longer needed, but it is a momento to me for learning these things.
-Mod @quonit
