The only time I like this is with Maryams and Serkets. I require my unhealthy trash relationships with my favorite girls. Otherwise I am just kind of perplexed. Not hateful but more ???
yeah i'm more open to it if there's canonical evidence that those characters are actually interested in each other or if the difference in character is factored into the ship instead of just 'these characters have this dynamic so it must apply to EVERYONE IN THE BLOODLINE TOO'
I mean I like it but only in the sense that I really enjoy the concept of.... not exactly eternal recurrence, but the same situations happening, except reversed or backwards, a scenario reflecting endlessly through the edges of paired mirrors into infinity, each time slightly different. So like, a pair who are <3s but whose ancestors were complete <3<, or who betrayed each other in one timeline but held fast in another, or whatever. That's fun for me.
I always fall for really obscure pairs nobody does anything for. I want my Eri<>Tav and Balticest >:(
Ive always been kinda interested in balticest but gave up on it when i couldnt find anything for it :( america was so much easier to ship with people
non-distinct grumbling about antis More distinctly the continued hatred of incest ships (which is like 90% of what I do and have done since I was a kid because I'm fucking weird) and the rising "what makes survivors think it's right to use bad coping mechanism" thing I've been seeing. Perhaps that's not recent but I've only just now come across this particular variant. On the one hand I'm happy that we're specifying that we also actually hate survivors but on the other hand fuck you people.
Mei/Zarya stuff that completely ignores the tension that could and prolly would arise from Zarya's militantly anti-omnic views. Like, maybe this is just me, but I really don't think Mei's the kind of person to just calmly accept that her girlfriend wants to genocide a buncha people who Mei seems to pretty firmly believe actually are people who deserve to be treated with dignity. Like, I don't even think she's the type to have reasoned discussions about it or to accept that Zarya has a lotta trauma related to omnics and has reasons she holds the views she does. It'd take some stuff to get them to mesh, I think, and I'm always kinda disappointed to see all that potential character growth flushed away for the sake of cute toothless ice lesbians.
Personally, I like my Meis outspoken, opinionated, and fucking vicious with people who she's decided aren't worth her compassion. I quite like Meis who don't give second chances, who are perhaps unreasonably quick to write people off as not worth caring about, to sorta contrast just generally being nice. I don't like a Mei who forgives easily.
Agreed, honestly - if parallel-shipping is happening, there needs to be a hell of a lot of set-up and explanation for why it makes sense and why it's happening. Like - as mentioned, Meulin and Horuss don't work in pale! They might work in obsidian or ashen, they would probably not work as a healthy matespritship either. Signless/Disciple doesn't even have an established quadrant - it covers 'all quadrants'; this means that there needs to be a lot of explanation for why Karkat and Nepeta are working as a ship, especially when Karkat didn't show any interest in Nepeta at all romantically. And we've seen what happens if someone's convinced they're fated to be in a specific quadrant with someone, because their ancestor was in that quadrant with that person's ancestor - it's Vriska pushing Tavros until she lands him in a wheelchair, and then pushing him more till she kills him, and it's Vriska being briefly interested in Eridan until she realizes that his ancestor died before hers. (Now I'm wondering if Vriska<>Eridan would've been a healthy moirallegiance. Probably not. I've seen some dang good Vriska<>Feferi, though.)
i like to ship fef with everyone, she's my toothy pisces babe with issues i'm a pisces babe with issues it brings peace to my soul (also goddamn give me ALL of her domming people oefkjnafgn -hugs a pillow and grins-)
this counts as a shipping gripe so i hate hate hate people saying the diamonds were '''''sisterly''''' or w/e like no, harold,
this also applies to amethyst and rose rose was not 'motherly' towards her gems dont have a concept of parenting it was either v close platonic bond or MORE LESBIAN SHENANIGANS
i swear 2 god if i ever see another 'dualscar is somehow cronus's psuedofather even though theyre trolls and literally the same person uwu' dualcro thing im going to S C R E A M whats a guy gotta do to get some quality SELFcest around here
Not sure if you're looking for a serious answer or not, but the issue I always ran into was how to convey that it's SELF-cest, not [other plausible explanations including pseudofather] without derailing the whole thing. I love me some self-cest, but outside of the easiest scenarios, it can be a tricky speedbump to get the reader over into the right mindset.
probaaaaably treating them as equals would be nice im trying to expand what i mean by 'equals' but words Arent Coming
i guess like ok in Psuedofather dualcro (*draws salt circle around self to ward off the evil*) dualscar is like, weirdly responsible FOR cronus in a way that doesnt make sense for trolls OR either of their characters whereas selfcest dualcro (depending on whether you wanted to go with 'horrible little doppelganger who definitely isnt me in any way' or 'horrible little doppelganger who admittedly is me but minus 500 years') dualscar would consider the idea of being Responsible for cronus to be batshit insane ('u fuck up im leaving you to die aint my problem')
