To my beloved Pharmercy/Rocket Angel fam:
I’ve been seeing a few of you worrying about the ship because one of the Overwatch writers in a Ge//ncy fan. Not gonna lie, it bummed me out too!
But you know what, even if Blizzard isn’t brave enough to make an LGBTQIA+ ship canon (whether it’s Pharmercy/Rocket Angel or not), the way others were, it doesn’t change what’s been done in the fandom or the power that this relationship has.
One of the things that I love the most about Pharmercy is that it’s a relationship between two established, accomplished, mature, older women that’s full of mutual respect and mutual attraction. It’s a relationship that gives me hope for my future relationships – and hope for others like me. There’s so much tragedy when it comes to F/F ships. We don’t often get to see F/F relationships stay happy and healthy for very long (usually because someone ends up buried). Hell, we don’t get to see F/F relationships much, period. This ship gave us something to break that pattern – something relatively free of drama, something domestic, something that clicked for a lot of people in a lot of ways.
It makes me happy. Yeah, yeah, they’re fictional and all that. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned dealing with depression for most of my life, it’s that you take happiness wherever you can get it.
And so, regardless of what happens with the Overwatch canon, this community of writers, artists, and fans have pooled their resources and created a place where many of us seek solace, joy, and often an escape from our respective burdens. We’ve crafted intricate stories; drawn hilarious, beautiful, striking, tear-jerking things; made text posts and memes that have almost certainly brought smiles to those struggling. We’ve made friends, and shared headcanons, and pocketed Pharahs (sometimes to the detriment of the rest of our critical-health teammates).
That’s worth celebrating, I think.
And goddamnit, I’m going to keep producing content for this ship because I love them and the really rad folks and friends I’ve met because of them.
Stick with me fam. And if you’re bummed out, come to my inbox and I’ll shower you in Pharmercy/Rocket Angel fluff.
As some adorable, buff, dorky punlord likes to say: we are in this together.
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