umbraja replied to your post “umbraja replied to your post “fic: lance admits he doesn’t know...”
Don't get me wrong. I've seen some really great Klance stuff and I'm not against the ship but this. Exactly this. I have a theory that's largely because Klance is the most popular ship so it's the pairing a lot of people write for just so their stuff will get attention, not because they actually like or even know the canon characters but because they just want to tag their stuff with Klance. I kind of see it happening with Sheith now too.
rip. i feel like a lot of people kind of pidgeon-holed themselves into shipping klance honestly. like, so many people do it and it’s so hard to escape and there’s so much drama with the whole anti movement/discourse that some people just... do it because it’s safe and warm normal. it’s the pure ship, the queer rep ship, the valid healthy ship. the safe ship. fanon characterizations of them are super easy to pick up because they’re EVERYWHERE, and because of this anything klance, even iffy kinda klance stuff, Gets The Notes.
and i mean... i’m not ragging on the pairing or the shippers as a whole. i’d be such a liar if i said i didn’t enjoy it. it’s just very clear that sometimes people aren’t into it because they actually enjoy, like, the characters? lmfao i sound like such an asshole purist when i say it like that but i love the characters so much and THAT’S the reason i read the fics, so when they don’t live up to the hype i’m just like ‘what’s the point’ it honestly doesn’t make sense to me
