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I long for that day that shipping labels die because what is this nonsense?! People take shipping so seriously that we literally have numerous factions now, which is insane as hell to me. Shipping discourse is inbreeding itself, becoming more convoluted as new labels are created to fight over. A ship is a ship, and that’s it; shipping isn’t complicated and shouldn’t be made into such.

Please let these shipping labels die so people’s minds can heal from this online mess and fandoms can become more peaceful and less stressful.

last-knight-who-was

#meme #ship drama

bogglle

preaching to the choir stanley

#fanart #gravity falls #memes

greenbergsays

I'm going to say something that will make sense to the Fandom Olds and will probably be slightly controversial to the younger crowds, but I'm going to say it anyways

TPTB becoming increasingly aware of fandom and fanfiction over the past two-ish decades and thus, the spawning of the expectation of your ship going canon has ruined fandom a little bit

I mean, fandom does a great job of ruining itself a lot of the time, but this idea that a ship isn't "real" or "valid" if it isn't canon

or the idea that one ship is superior to the other because one is canon and the other isn't?

it's absolutely bananas

I grew up in an era of fandom where characters didn't even have to be from the same media source to ship them. I mean, do you know how many BtVS/HP crossover fics I read back in the early 2000s???

That shit was never gonna be canon, but we had fun with it, anyways

Like. Yeah, a lot of fanon speculation is bullshit, but it always has been and always will be. You have hundreds and/or thousands of people riffing off each other, the observations and the meta will always be deeper than what TPTB intended, and that's okay! That's what makes it fun!

I just think more people would be a lot happier in their fandom experiences if they realized that fandom is supposed to be an escape instead of a crusade

#fandom