Executive Hamster wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:39 pm
I'm not hating, you do you. It's just cringe, and much like the artstyle of the ghidorah thing, it gives me serious brony cringelord vibes. I just can't think of any situation where shipping isn't cringe. You are allowed to want two characters to get together, assuming that makes sense for whatever media it is. But the second you make that your whole personality? Cringe.
Speaking as both a brony and a non-kaiju shipper (you haven't offended me, don't worry
), you blatantly have no idea what you're talking about and need to either educate yourself or (absolutely no offense intended, just stating facts) be content in the knowledge that you come across as laughably narrow-minded and ignorant. There are a massive number of shippers out there, and the overwhelming majority don't 'make it their whole personality'. Most (myself included) just indulge in it casually, for fun. Read or write some fanfiction, look at or create some art (which is very frequently
not sexualized), maybe discuss it with fellow shippers, all as one would any other aspect of fandom. You collect action figures, for example. To a lot of non-geeks, that's a pathetic, man-childish hobby and you must be some sort of creepy social reject that never showers and invests all your time and money into obsessing over plastic in your mom's basement. Is that accurate? Sometimes, sure, but not every toy collector conforms to that extreme stereotype any more than any other type of fan conforms to any other stereotype.
And
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, when you look past the unexpectedness of it all, is just a good cartoon with a loyal fandom that likes its memes and (again, like any other) has a few people that go overboard or don't know when to shut up, and give the rest a bad image.
Kaiju shipping is perhaps inherently unusual due to the nature of the characters involved,
but they still are fictional characters that can be interpreted or reinvented any way their fans see fit. If someone sees fit to disregard their habitual violence and destruction in favor of exploring alternative ideas, it's really no different than, say, writing a "What If...?" fanfic where Steve Rogers decided
not to join the Army. Goes against what the character traditionally does, yes, but that's the point. A lot of fanworks are vehicles for putting the characters into new, perhaps unlikely, circumstances and exploring how they handle it. If those circumstances are romantic in nature, it's still the same basic principle.
I also should probably also make crystal clear, on the off-chance that anyone isn't aware, that there's more to shipping than graphic sex scenes. I've read any number of fanfics, some of them novel-length, where physicality never goes beyond a single kids-movie-grade kiss, if that. A lot of shippers focus on the emotional aspects of the relationship more than anything else.
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