When the solitary fic for your pairing includes two things you posted in the fanfic gripes thread. (Specifically, casual misogyny and males going into heat. Oh, Goldie Foxx and Dyna Mink, y I no have my gay furry adorability? Misogyny is particularly jarring in fic for something with an awesome lead female, and probably also because I thought the characters I'm shipping were girls at first because they're named Goldie and Dyna but whatevs.)
Anyone else hate a ship of cartoon characters not because of personalities (though in the case I'm thinking of neither of them have personalities so yeah) but because their colour schemes clash horribly? Not in a racist way, I mean general hair/outfit/etc stuff. I know there are many other reasons to hate ships in Sonichu, yes, but sky-blue-and-white next to black-and-cherry-red looks hideous. It looks like the lighting is fucked up or they were cut out from two separate pictures and stuck together. Which, considering the writing, they sort of were.
aha this is the perfect thread for this! homestuck ships with dave where dave's trusted partner or friend unexpectedly punch dave, and the narrative does not address how completely fucked up that is and just moves on like la-di-da hitting for dramatic effect would be uncomfortable even if the punchee wasn't a physical abuse survivor but when they are
Especially when it's a lady doing the punching. I hate it when there's a straight ship where the girl is casually violent towards her partner and it's never treated as a bad thing. It's obnoxious on multiple levels.
I keep running across certain ships in multiple fandoms written as fluffy together-forever happy-ever-afters, and I'm like …but those characters don't like each other. Sure, they care about each other, and they could probably have some really hot sex, but they would not be happy together long-term without serious personality revamps. Not that you can't ship them, but where's the fun in it if you don't acknowledge the conflict?
have i bitched abt fluffy (vris)rezi yet CAN SOMEONE PLEASE JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL X THE EMOTIONALLY VULNERABLE 13 YEAR CODEPENDENT GIRL SAID 16 YEAR OLD SPENT THE LAST THREE YEARS OBSESSING OVER AND EVENTUALLY RESET THE ENTIRE TIMELINE TO REVIVE
I like charisk in ot3 stuff, but I always avoid it by itself (esp ask blog stuff) because i cant stand the way asriel gets shafted / third wheeled. if he's present as flowey, every story ignores the bond between him and chara and acts like he's a non-person almost (it's hard to describe - despite him and chara sharing a lot of traits, he gets delegated to screechy houseplant w no relationships or soft untroubled neurotypical bg goat kid). I have favoritism there, but he is the least popular character between the three of them, esp when it comes to story focus. also forever bitter that frisk/sans is one of the most popular ships and flowey/frisk like. has 3 fic, about. I know it's probably for self insert reasons but I Hold That They Have a Much More Interesting Dynamic esp as Bad Kids (depending) who kept turning back time. want someone to bond with about all your resets? (gestures)
and why do all the frisk/sans shippers make frisk a binary cis girl? (self-insert reasons, probably.) like, it's much more common in the fic i've seen on ao3 with that ship than it is with any other i've seen. and it is why i, despite being willing to look at/read pretty much any ship, have entirely avoided reading that one. ship sans with the nonbinaries! (or at least don't make the nonbinaries binary when shipped with him!)
reminds me, sometimes with charisk people will make one 'female' and one 'male', despite the potential for two nonbinary kids with no gender puppet strings holding them down. that's... ...so amazingly boring. why?
OH. MY. G-D. Does anyone else know Profit here? Probably not. Nobody ever seems to recognise @Jim Gracen in Weirdmageddon Tango. Jim Profit (formerly known as Jimmy Stokowski; clearly aspires to be a Jim Gracen) was horribly physically and emotionally abused by his father and stepmother and Spoiler: tw: canonical female-on-male sexual abuse we do not actually ever learn how old he was when his stepmother started to "have sex" with him, but he got out of the house when he was like 15. In the show his stepmother has found him again and is blackmailing him and is requiring his "services" as part of the blackmail. The man hates domestic abusers, rapists and sexual harassers. Whenever they cross his path they invariably end up dead or possibly worse. There are two things the fandom does all the time that irritate the shit out of me. 1) They ship him with the stepmother and treat the relationship as consensual and collaborative, even though Adrian Pasdar brilliantly portrays him dissociating whenever she touches him; or 2) They ship him with his assistant and/or his female nemesis (who admittedly is kinda pitch for him, BUT) and portray him as sexually abusive within the context of those relationships.
c o w a r d (Okay, I'm mostly just kidding, but it is pretty interesting how every shipping stuff I see involving Shuu now is the sweet AU version, while it was the regular messed-up version just a few months back.)
just voicing my gripes that have overtaken my mind when browsing ao3...there's just not enough blackrom content in the dragon age fandom, at all...no one using the potential...and here i sit with my blackrom cullen/m!lavellan and wonder why i've dug this hole for myself. when i do find a ship i like, it's fic either toothrottingly fluffy (...fenders...) or is just bland with zero conflict. or a coffee shop au (i know, the latter has nothing to do with shipping, but there are SO MANY AUs)
GOD, SAME HAT I could do the dynamic if people kept them, y'know, at each other's throats, but we've got to scrub away all the interesting bits of both Anders and Fenris to mash the pretty glowboys together.
And Frisk is almost invariably the girl when they do, though I'd rather have them the other way round if they must be binary. Maybe that's just violent little girls/femmes being a favourite trope of mine.
It's very [tears out hair] when you have a ship that seems like the most beautiful setup for dom/sub fun and adventures and oh my goodness you can see it so clearly, there are so many possibilities-- and almost everything you can find flips who's totally the dom and who's totally the sub. I don't mind it so much if there was just something for the flavor I'm after. But all I've got just a couple of pictures and no fics at all :T I mean, the obvious answer is to take care of this problem on my own. Which I'm going to. But it's not going to be the same as getting to read it myself.
I wish there was a snappy word for "I want this character to officially adopt this one as their child/sibling/whatever".
THE DOM/SUB THING ALSO BOTHERS ME SO MUCH... worse is when people take a look at potential dom/sub roles and go 'ah, yes, seme/uke, that's what you wanted' and it's like no, really, that's not. At all. What I wanted. Short people can be doms too.
