Fellow Sonaze enjoyers, what's going on?
Its seemed Like Sonaze was gradually becoming more and more popular in the Sonic community (especially on reddit), being a rare ship its been great to see more art and support for it (as It is the only sonic ship I feel somewhat strongly about) I haven’t been very actively engaged in Sonic for a few months now, but I’m begging to see that with the rise of “toxic Sonaze fans” or something at least on reddit.
Now I haven't seen much of this actual toxicity, most just Blaze fans who are sick of her being attached to Silver all the time (a notion I agree with) But people have been turning that debate into a Sonaze vs Silvaze kinda thing, which is a completely different discussion and honestly pointless. Saw a comment along the lines: “are Sonaze fans the new Sonally fans?” and I don’t get anything against any shipping community in this fandom, but I can tell that has a negative connotation to it.
Being a minority shipper ain’t easy, personally shipping discourse is inherently useless, especially as romance isn’t and hopefully never will be a main theme in Sonic stories. I can write a whole essay about how awesome Blaze and Sonic’s relationship is thematically and character wise, and how their friendship should be more explored in Sonic stories (But give Blaze some solo stories + Marine and Cream first!) but I don’t want to get into pointless arguments with fans who believe the ship is “forced” (especially if your a Silvaze fan, that duo is the definition of forced, coming from someone who adores Silver)
Anyway with Sonaze week on Tumblr coming up I have a lot of art planned, and I may go back to making Sonaze (and Sonic in general) content going forward :D!
