sorry if none of this makes sense I'm so tirdd rn
tbh a lot of my shipping preferences come directly from how the fandom treats a specific character
I mean yeah even when queen introduced me to flame ships with bomie (shortening the name just in case), flame was always the bottom, but when I got into uu and saw how people were treating top flame/bottom wemmbu? yeahhhh no. hard top wemmbu and hard bottom flame
hell for a good while, I only really liked hard top parrot and spoke too because no one was letting them top 😭 at least on ao3 shrugs shrugs
parrot and spoke are more vers now imo, but I still make parrot top more often than not (he deserves it) and spoke is just a silly little guy fr 🔥
spoke hard tops mapicc tho I think he deserves it and then bottoms for jamato cuz he also deserves that. parrot can genuinely go any way for me, except with theo. ofc I'll listen to people yap about bottom parrot/top theo but I heavily prefer top parrot 🤤 and bottom theo 🤤
like parifies? could go either way. queen and I just wrote a fun little director parrot omegaverse thing with parrot bitching wifies and it's very yummy. billrott? yeah sure I'm down with Billy bottoming, let him have fun 🔥 I prefer Billy topping with theo, but I'll read anything shrugs
I also go into fandoms thinking one character will be more of a sub/bottom and then j see that the rest of the fandom doesn't think that?? yeahhhh no guess who's shipping the opposite now guys, that's right, it's me. idk I guess my best example was when I was really into eddworlds? people loved tomtord but didn't like my goat tordtom like :(((
idk I think I can go either way with shipping.,.,. if a fic is good enough, I'll happily start doing the opposite of my preference!!! I cannot do that with flame tho, or with wemmbu
genuinely the only, only character I can see wemmbu bottoming a lot for is egg, but even then I prefer wemmbu to top ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sure when queen and I write ships like manebu, we'll let him bottom once or twice, but it's not like, our preferred dynamic. like we both prefer top wemmbu and I realllyyyyyy prefer hard top wemmbu, but I'm more set in some of my preferences than others are
I'm rambling at this point but yeahhh idkidk. my preference is based entirely on how I interact with fandom and how my mind interprets the media. I think if someone walked up to me, handed me the most fire top flame fic known to man, I still wouldn't do top flame 😭
queen wrote me a top flame au once and it was cutesy cuz :( he was still the sub :( and it was flamedy (sorry the other ship names are not as peak as flamedy is) and and :( dom lomedy :((( is so :((( but thats the only way I could ever, ever see top flame, is if he's a pathetic little sub for the pretty farmer
and yk what. even then. I didn't write any top flame 😭😭 I exclusively write and consume (sub) bottom flame giggles
mf has to be a sub 🤞🤞 sorry flamey 🤞🤞either you're a sub or a sub, sorry not sorry
all this to say uhhh bottom flame supremacy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - pup