Jul 13
one of those nights
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Canada
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Poland
seen from China
seen from Russia
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from South Africa
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Poland
seen from Philippines
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Philippines
one of those nights
Love being theoretically polyamorous (incapable of obtaining even one amory)
I’m just gonna say this and go back to writing because I’m big mad and need to vagueblog about it like an adult:
If you go into a ship tag for a ship you don’t like and start reblogging things from it with your reasons why the original post and ship is Wrong or Bad or Not Canon or Whatever?
You’re automatically a dick.
The post wasn’t for you. The person who made that post doesn’t give a shit about your opinion. The post was tagged for a ship you don’t like and you should have blocked it if you didn’t want to see it. The minute you start shitting on things someone else likes when it’s literally none of your business, properly tagged, and made for the fans of it, you’re the problem. Not the shippers you dislike, you.
I’ve been involved in fandom for a really long time and in this particular one I’ve been involved from damn near the start, if not the very beginning. I’ve never seen a fandom so intent on invalidating good meta based on what someone ships. I’ve ALSO rarely seen anyone from one side of this fucking endless ship war go trolling the tag for the other side and start shitting on it. It’s ALWAYS the side that got everything they wanted from canon and can’t see to handle that people dislike it, so they go rooting in the tag for the other ship and smearing their hate all over the place like those posts were ever for them to begin with.
I have to say that I don’t go looking for this shit, and as far as I can tell from those I follow, none of us do. Properly tagging posts draws these petty fuckers out of the woodwork like fucking rats after dark. They steal shit that doesn’t belong to them and leave their droppings and disease on everything they touch. (Yes, I’ve got an exterminator coming for the rat problem that’s pissing me off IRL, wish there was some way to do the same for these fucking shitty blogs that come into OUR HOUSE and tell us all the ways we’re wrong, disgusting, horrible people over a a fucking ship, but I digress.)
Stay out of tags for ships you don’t like. Block the tags for your NoTP. Don’t hate on ships you dislike on posts for the fans of those ships. Don’t spam the tag of the ship you hate with anti/hate for the ship. Don’t fucking tag ANYTHING hateful about a ship you don’t like with that ship’s tag, ffs.
The world is a goddamn dumpster fire. Stop shitting on people’s fucking blorbo and their ship in their ship’s tag. Stop going into the ship tag and reblogging with your hate.
It’s not cool, it’s not edgy, you don’t sound like a person offering “criticism”, you sound like a dick.
Block, mute, move on.
That’s literally all you need to do when it comes to ships you don’t like.
That’s it.
You don’t need to tell the people making gifsets, fanart, fanfic, meta, or literally anything else in support of a fic all the reasons why you don’t like their ship. Like, I do not know how to say this any clearer?
Somehow, all these years later, an entire new generation of fans, and I’m still seeing the same terrible behavior from the people who can’t stand a non canon pairing. It’s the same terrible arguments. It’s the same insults to the shippers that like it. It’s always the same. It’s been the same. You’re not bringing up anything cool or new or interesting and we literally don’t care about your opinion. You’re either an immature ass or trying to pick a fight.
You aren’t special. There are thousands of ships just like yours and thousands of fans exactly like you who think that they need to let people that ship something else know their opinion. They don’t, and neither do you.
Your perfect shiny happy ship has its flaws. When we point them out we do it in posts properly tagged, and somehow we still can’t go into our own goddamn tag without coming across your hate because you can’t fucking move on. You know what I do whenever you force me to see your shitty takes? I block you and move on to posts that I actually want to see. I block you. I’ll never see your shitty takes on this or anything else ever again. But when I have to block fifteen goddamn posts about how I, personally, am a terrible person doomed to living my worst life because of a goddamn ship before I can find a post about my ship that isn’t hate? I get annoyed.
I’ll probably delete this later but I need to vent and you need to get a fucking grip and get out of my goddamn tag, get off our posts, and (and I can’t believe I’m even typing this) go touch grass.
Oh you wanna go out for lunch? Sorry, there'll be loud music playing in the restaurant the whole time you're there. Oh, you wanna go to a bar with friends? Sorry, the music will be so loud that you'll have to yell to even have a chance to talk with your friends (you know, the people you went to the bar with. To the place where talking and socializing is supposedly the point). Oh, you're tired of that and you want to go on a walk? Fine, but unless you drive to a park first, you'll inevitably pass by a lot of stores that are (you guessed it) blasting loud music. Oh, you wanna stay home instead? Sorry, your asshole neighbors are playing loud music all day on a Sunday too and there's fuck all you can do about it.
I don't fucking get it. I don't understand how an entire fucking culture is built on a fundamental lack of respect for other people's peace and quiet.
I could NOT get myself a Ph.D. because I would defend my dissertation with violence.
the author of the vaguely problematic age gap yaoi im reading just posted an update but im in the airport. fml.
My brain: hi! You'll spend the entire day being ridiculously emotional and I won't even give you a reason for it. Hope that helps!
realizing that one part of me will remain empty and incomplete until I achieve one specific goal/dream