#it's an issue

[aroace-not-arokay]

I've started craving being pet so much it's a genuine problem

[nyxedjay]

Someone get to writing that 'Scott Springwell is a hypocrite' fic rn istg

Wait no what do you mean I could write it

But that's so much effort:(

Oh fine whatever maybe after my 'Scott Springwell is a hypocrite (suicidal edition)'

[babyy-dolly18]

Every single day i think about Steve slowly learning how to play dnd and i love it sm, like i can't go one day without thinking it then scittering off to ao3 to find a fic 🥲

[littlemissclairebiggs]

reading angst to feel something

[shoyosun]

i got this problem: i never know how to start and how to end a fic

[redactednamehere]

It has been a long while since I have actively (either on purpose or accidentally) took part in any sort of fandom discourse. It's mentally draining. I like a good-faithed debate as much as the next person over, but fandom discourse tends to devolve into arguing for the sake of arguing. You can push as much logic and equal-level counterarguments, but all you're going to get back is insults.

Anyway, this is not anything new to fandom in general, but I've noticed something within the time I've returned to the BNHA fandom. This is, any given fandoms urge to mark unrelated characters as "siblings" and then get mad when people ship these unrelated characters. Like- sir, those two have known each other less than a year, the people are allowed to ship them. (quite frankly, they can know each other their whole lives. they ain't siblings.)

Anyway, someone told me Todoroki and Midoriya were brothers and got pissy when I said they weren't??? I brought up the AUs where they are cousins, but we were discussing something from canon (Hosu, for those wondering.)

Likewise, I saw a Kiribaku shipper who had been harassed because people said Kirishima and Bakugou were brothers?? The two characters with the most romantic and/or platonic chemistry. Like- did we all conveniently forget that both Bakugou and Midoriya do have a (toxic af) sibling-adjacent dynamic? Each other? Since we're all so desperate to give them siblings.

I know this is an issue in multiple fandoms, but it's so strange to see it in BNHA, especially with these pairings in particular. Kiribaku and Tododeku are among the pillars of the fandom. I feel like something happened during seasons 5 til the end, around when I dipped out of the fandom that I just wasn't informed of.

I mean- I personally still ship those (but Kirideku and Bakusero are slowly taking over my brain as well) but it leaves a weird taste in my mouth to consider either of those pairings as siblings.

Am I a hypocrite? Maybe a little, I did bring up Bakugou and Deku. But! In my defense, if you look at those two as anything other than siblings (heck, even if you look at them as siblings,) Bakugou is an unbearable jackass. I don't care if he's 14, he told someone who is supposed to be his oldest friend to jump off a roof. He doesn't even start to get his act together until after the Kamino incident. Having rewatched the whole series, he does seem to make up for his awful behavior, but I do so crave AUs where Deku never forgives his ass. Or where he actively tries to get better sooner. Or where he was never a jackass in the first place.

Something that's grating on me is that it's only the two biggest ships for all four of these characters. That's like waking up one morning and deciding Sherlock and Watson are related (is that- is that an equal ship? maybe.) and nobody can ship them anymore. And also that it's both queer ships. I know a lot of the people who are calling these pairings "siblings" are Bakudeku shippers, but this is the same kind of "logic" I've heard from homophobes who just want a reason to hurt people. "They're brothers, that's disgusting, [insert queer insult of any kind, I've seen too many to count]" or "Oh, that community likes making brothers kiss." But they were never related! I've seen it before and it terrifies me that it's being used how it is. When any fandom starts sounding like the homophobes' excuses to be homophobic, that's generally a very, very bad thing.

As I've said, BNHA is far from the only fandom to do this. It is neither the first, nor will it be the last. But this "you can't ship these completely unrelated people because I headcanon they're siblings" is a dangerous hole to fall into and can be used as a weapon against fandoms and shipping.

[kiiwii-is-not-okay]

I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not jealous of my friends romantic partners I am not-