I think teenagers (and old people who never had contact with fandom before) need to understand that “shipping” has nothing to do with something being canon or not. if you write fic, make art or metas of gifs about a ~canon~ pairing, you’re also shipping. not everyone loves a couple because it’s canon, you either ship it or not. you’re also not superior for only creating things about canon ships, it’s all fake in the end 😭
Oh children children children...I once wrote a heartbreaking historical au where I shipped Mon Mothma with Saw Gerrera. Still proud of that one actually but in canon? Oh God! Actually the thought of Mon dragging Saw's ass to rehab is kind of wonderful....may need to get to work.












