You ship Myrtlemort? B...but why? So many interesting women in HP like Hermione, Minerva, Ginny, Luna, even Bellatrix, but you choose a whiny, average, kinda lame girl for Tom?
Ofc I feel bad for Myrtle make no mistake... she's after all a heavily bullied 14-year-old who was murdered and she didn't really get justice, as both her tormentor (Olive Hornby) and killer (Tom) went scott free. Ofc she has my empathy.
But I am not gonna lie, that there exists passionate Tyrtle shippers surprise me given they don't never interact in canon. But hey a whole ass popular ship exists where characters have never interacted in canon: Jegulus, so then I shouldn't be surprised.
It's just Tyrtle along with Tom/ Hagrid are crack ships I can't believe have passionate advocates.
Some Tyrtle shippers have the gall to make fun of Tomione (Tom X Hermione) shippers saying that our ship is self insert, failing to see the irony. What makes Tyrtle/Myrtlemort not self insert?
If I ever wrote... Tyrtle (adorable) I would go full-on cringetoxic villain couple. Myrtle would think Tom's anagrams were so cool, and then they'd sic the basilisk on Olive Hornby. I'd find some way to explain the plothole around Myrtle getting killed instead of petrified, even though she wears glasses. It would be great.
Shipping is not a zero-sum game for me. When I say I ship something, what I basically mean is that if someone whose taste I trusted gave me a fic rec where that was the central pairing, I'd give it a go. On this very blog I have written (with various degrees of detail and sillyness) about Tom/Nagini, Tom/Dumbledore (I like Tom/Dumbledore), Tom/Harry, Tom/Bellatrix, Tom/Barty, Tom/Hepzibah, Tom/Hagrid... and I've got a Tom/Peter ask that I haven't answered, but that one could be compelling too. He's just kind of a fun character to ship with people, idk what to tell you.
I'm never going to make fun of anyone's ship. Sorry people are giving you a hard time about Tomione. Unfortunately, Hermione was *the* self-insert character for a while there. It was very similar to Willow Syndrome (the buffy people know what I mean.) I think that's LESS the case then it was... but pretty much every Hermione ship carries the ghost of that to some degree. I'm writing Dramione these days, and it's something I'm definitely keeping in mind.