I like bakudeku as a dark ship, and with the history that yeah, Bakugou treated deku like shit in highschool. But the fans never provide what I like and are making me hate it So many bakudeku fans argue bakugou and deku's relationship in highschool canon wasn't abusive because, uhhh he doesn't treat kirishima like shit? Abusers aren't nuanced complicated people who treat people differently based on power structures and individual relationships? It's so dumb. I'm being sent to an early grave
When Order of the Stick fans write every crackship but your own. Look, the comic outright SAID the gladiator arc tropes involved a stronger prisoner defending a weaker one leading to "strong homosexual overtones that will not be fully explored" and yet I can't find any Enor/Gannji anywhere.
This is clearly a joke, but it is also very wrong, and I cannot overstate how much I would not wish to inflict a romantic relationship with Hermione Granger, Rin Tohsaka, or Spensa Nightshade on either of my stoic prettyboy assassins with PTSD. :::PPP
god i keep seeing that and i look at my set of ships and i'm like ...crush??? on any of these fuckers???? ID yeah sure yep but crush????
Some other things suggested by FFA and/or a friend: "[character I have a crush on] x [other character I have a crush on]" "[character I have a crush on] x [terrible things happening to them so they cry]" "[character I would never in a million years date] x [character who I like to see suffer]" "[character whose personality and angst I like] x [his canon boyfriend]" "[character I'd think was boring if it wasn't for his dynamic with] x [other character]" "Whatever the hell Beobato is"
[character I hate] x [character I love because I don't have enough reasons to hate the first one (yet)]
It's pretty accurate to how I ship, honestly. At least with the ships I really, really, REALLY care about. For me to have like Extreme Engagement I need to have one half that I id with in some capacity and one that I find sexy or have a crush on. There's other kinds of ships I like but the ones I really love all tend to be ones that I can project myself upon. Especially if I can project my own romantic experiences on the ship as a whole. Now that shit is magical. Just recreating my relationships in fictional fucks making out.
[character I don't ID with] x [other character I don't ID with, but who makes for a hilarious pun of a ship name when paired with the first character]
Personally I don't find any characters like, 'sexually attractive' persay or even really crush on characters so all shipping has a disconnect with that aspect. I do think that thread is probably true for a lot of people, but there's just (as evidenced here) soooo many different reasons or whys. I get it's a joke tho, and I'd probably reblog a similar joke if it fell into my own personal brand of shipping.
What if you identify with both characters and have crushes on both characters? Asking for a friend and definitely not because that’s kind of my SU OTP sitch.
God damn that beats out me with Sakuremi. Since I only have a crush on one of them, though I identify with bits of both characters. Remilia more than Sakuya, admittedly, but there is relation to bits of Sakuya.
There’s a slight imbalance for me—my OTP is Pearlmethyst, and I relate somewhat more to Ame and am somewhat more attracted to Pearl—but like. They’re both relatable and they’re both hot.
I'm laughing because it's 3 am and all these otp things are reminding me of a (fake) Chuck Tingle book title: Spoiler: NSFW of course Pounded in the Butt by my Own OTP