Jun 29, 2025
Shippers get a lot of lashings for being annoying and “forcing romance” but not enough is being said about people who force the nuclear family structure on everything. Nothing against found families, but the amount of people who seem to cram every dynamic into a cookie cutter nuclear family mold is driving me insane. It’s another lowkey reductive way of engaging with characters that pretends to less reductive than the shippers they constantly complain about. Not every relationship can be categorized as “sibling coded” or “father-daughter” because most relationships are more complicated than that. Don’t even get me started on the way these people use “coding” *cough* their headcanons *cough* to shut down ships they dislike.
#Like…no that man is not her father and that particular dynamic doesn’t really track with we’ve seen so far in the story.#many such cases#and obviously it’s more complicated than that and people are really just having fun I still want to complain#thunderbolts#shipping discourse#fandom discourse#the bear#shipping#fandom salt#ghoulcy#fallout
