Shipping Discourse - Blog Posts

People: arguing if the izch handhold was romantic or platonic in 431

Me: fools

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When i start getting tempted to make posts about fandom and shipping discourse it’s probably time to log of, make some tea and read an actual book with paper pages and all :)

why do proshippers take the best emoji combos..like wdym 🍰🍓means lolicon and 🌸🌙means comship? 😭

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

This just popped up on my feed and it's surprisingly interesting! Thank you OP!

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

Why are ship names like that?

Okay one thing that bothers me more than the weird as fuck ships in MHA is that some of them have shipnames that are just wrong, in they way their set out.

Like who is putting first name to last name, like I know this is because a lot of the girls go by their first names but like, you either do First name-First name or you do Last name-Last name, or if you want to Nickname-Nickname.

Like that just seems logical to me why are we not putting hypothetical partnerships on the same level, why is it BakuDeku? instead of like Katuku, or Kachku? like hell Izuski? Like but them on the same level.

Two other examples that I can think of from the top of my head are TodoMomo and KiriMina, there good names I'll give them that but again, leveling you go ShoMomo or Todorozu. And for KiriMina that can become Eijmina, or Kirido, like these work guys.

Genuinely the ones that got this right are all the Kaminari based ships, like KamiJirou, perfect no notes, because Denyouka sounds like a Yogurt brand.

Also would just put in my two cents on ship titles like the name things or whatever you call them like Izocha's Green Tea.

Todorozu is clearly Candy Cane, the colours and having to eat sugars, yeah easy.

Ejimina, Obobleck, like is a liquid when you hold it but if you compress it becomes solid, like genuinely that's just what a combo would do.

Throwing KamiJirou in the back with Amp, short simple and sweet.

a lot of y'all are really showin y'all hand with this "oppressed people shouldn't date their oppressors!" shit because now it's making me think; y'all must get sick to y'all fucking stomach when y'all see a white person date a black person irl. or a cis4trans couple. or a financially stable person with a poor person. or just a man and a fucking woman, like, if you this bent over FICTION where you writing essays about how two consenting adults from different walks of life shouldn't be together then baby you're fucked when you go outside. "people should stick to their own kind" but make it... ✨liberal✨ y'all not even tryna hide it atp.

“this ship is not canon” babe, they’re fictional characters. they’re not real. they’re literally dolls we play with. we don’t care about whether or not these fictional characters’ love story is canon in this piece of media that is also entirely based on fiction. I mean, sure, canon would be lovely, but it’s a bonus. it’s not necessary. what we care about is the fun of talking about these 2 idiots being in love.

we don’t give a fuck if they didn’t kiss in “canon”. they had raw sex in thousands of fics about them though. and I’d say that’s more than enough to make people who ship them happily ship them even harder. happy shipping!

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The absolute best thing about the fab 5 is literally any ship pairing is acceptable except for exactly one (1) and we all know which one it is

Like

Dick/Roy 100% in love with feed it to me, inject me with this (lowkey my favorite ship please put recs in the comments im dying for some good angst/comfort)

Dick/Wally adorkable my babies I love them (no need for fic recs I have plenty)

Dick/ Garth omglookitsocuteandperfect (recs recs recs recs)

Roy/Donna GAG ME WITH THIS SHIP OH MY GOD YES (RECS RECS RECS RECS RECs)

Roy/Wally oooohhhh there are so many interesting things you can do with this dynamic (please we argue and then go fuck in the closet vibes - not hate sex but we are competing for the same person and getting nowhere might as well)

Roy/Garth UGHHH ESPECIALLY AFTER ALL THE SHIT STIRRING IN THE EARLY 2000s??? AND THE WAY THAT ROY WAS A LIL SHIT TO BABY GARTH OMG IT COULD SO WORK

Wally/Donna omg adorable, cute, sweet, Donna would beat the sexism out of teen Wally sokka/suki style tell me I’m wrong.

Wally/Garth cutesy, demure, they could geek out together, my lil ones together, they’d do gardening for fun trust me.

Garth/Donna omg iconic, cute, they fit so well together, the responsibilities? The fish out of water bonding. PEAK FICTION

Donna/Dick: ….ew no

I feel like I made myself clear on the fact I do not like dickbabs as a ship

I love Barbara Gordon

My hatred of this ship is because Dick and Babs are stoppers for each others development

Babs is so much better with the birds of prey and her interactions with characters like Dinah lance are gold.

Her and Dick suck together. (IN MY OPINION)

And babs being with Bruce, Dick, Jason and Tim in a collection of canon and non canon works sucks not just cuz of the weird vibe but bc she is

And I am stressing this

Too good of a character for this

Shit

It’s why I don’t like when people still put Steph together with Tim

Steph is awesome

Tim is a professional gremlin

Let them stay friends

Anyway my hatred of DickBabs doesn’t mean I don’t love when these two interact I just firmly prefer it in the flirty banter of friends direction

Also and I cannot stress this enough

Don’t use my posts where I shit on their relationships to diss babs I love babs sm and she’s a great character just not for the dude they keep backtracking development on to keep together.

(I will say Tom Taylor has converted me on my distaste for what it does to babs somewhat not entirely tho I hate his Grayson characterization in general. Maybe the Dan watters run will bring me back around to this ship cuz last chapter the dickbabs was a highlight and not a detriment (cuz it used to be my favorite)

why i dislike shipping in mouthwashing

i guess meme shipping with jimmys chill cause its funny BUT thats not what im yapping about rn

I think that any ships with anya (cause thats basically the only ships ive seen) i think its crazy.

CURLY X ANYA

this is one i see more so its the start

this is fine in some ways but the major things or issue that i have with it is that when Anya told him about jimmy he didn't do anything. if you liked someone in any shape or form youd do something (also this is just terrible for his job?) either way their relationship is mainly platonic and even so extremely iffy. insanely iffy.

JIMMY X CURLY

this doesn't bother me as much as ships with anya but basically Jimmy hates Curly in almost every sense Curly seemingly doesn't dislike Jimmy otherwise he would've said something about what he did to Anya so he might like Jimmy more than her but not enough to actually be romantically thats my whole thing.

ANYA X JIMMY

i don't think i have to say shit about this. its painfully obvious why this is vile

ANYA X DAISUKE

idk just dont like it thats just my opinion it feels funky. I also feel like its a but weird speaking that neither of them have interacted with each other or its really not implied they talk but its not as bad as other potential ships in the fandom.

I haven't seen any other ships so i wont talk about anything else but still stands i do NOT like ships in this fandoms they'd all be in someway very toxic (mostly)

i think oc x cannon would be the only ship thatd be not toxic in mouthwashing yknow

Okay so I'll just say it because I've been thinking it for a while, but the weird dislike or sometimes even hatred for Eddie Diaz (and Ryan Guzman) that is present in this fandom feels (at times) incredibly forced at best and downright racist at worst. And he's already a pretty white-washed character as it is. This is not in any way meant as a call-out to any one person in particular, and certainly not me saying he's a perfect character above critique, but my god, I need people to inject a little bit of nuance into their views of these characters. I love Buck as much as the next 9-1-1 fan, but he is not this perfect angel who can do no wrong like some people act like he is. Likewise, Eddie has made a lot of mistakes and done a lot of shitty things (some of which Buck himself has done, too). But at the end of the day, I think he is a very complex character who is doing the best he can with what he has and means well. I don't know why some of you are in this fandom if you dislike these characters as much as it appears you do.

And the SHIPPING WARS MY GOD STOP IT. I usually stay out of shipping discourse because I think it's ridiculous and unnecessary most of the time. Ship and let ship is always an option, and I think most people would benefit from choosing it. And listen, I will admit my bias and say I am primarily a Buddie shipper. But I have no issue with Bucktommy shippers as a whole nor the ship itself being popular. Do I ship it? No. I don't even particularly like Tommy as a character, but I don't care if other people like him and the ship. What I do have an issue with, however, is the way some of y'all act with such vitriol towards Buddie shippers, Buddie as a ship, and, specifically, Eddie Diaz as a potential love interest for Buck. This is where I think some people's underlying racial bias really becomes apparent, and no, I'm not talking about all BuckTommy shippers, only those that are explicitly anti-Buddie because they don't like Eddie. Because why, WHY are you so insistent on seeing these two white men together, who have had so little time together on screen and, in my opinion, have been shown to have very little in common with each other other than the fact that they care about and are interested in each other romantically, but so against Buck potentially being in a relationship with a different man who he has been best friends with for the better part of a decade, who wrote him into his will, cares deeply about him and who he cares about just as much, spends a lot of his free time with, and who also happens to not be white? Look, I'm not gonna sit here and say every single one of you is a raging racist or anything. I don't know you. But I think a lot of y'all would benefit from a little bit of introspection as to why you feel the way that you do about some of these characters and ships. Also, yes, Buddie shippers can be toxic and racist, too. I am not saying Buddie shippers are above those behaviors as well, only making an observation specific to some people's anti-Buddie and anti-Eddie sentiment.

Also, this is an aside, but the way fandom and shipping culture in general has gravitated towards strict adherence to canon content is.... weird. Like, why are some of y'all so allergic to engaging with or creating content outside of the confines of what the canon material has offered you? Have fun, be creative, go wild, and also be respectful to the folks around you who see things differently. We all share this space, and we should all care about making it as positive and welcoming of an experience as possible.

The shadowvanilla hate i see on TikTok is fucking insane, i swear... they call it abuser x victim and bro.... it's just complex toxic hero x villain. And these ppl will also be shipping billford. Which is definitely abuser x victim, but it is also complex, which is why ppl like it sm. Like I just read through an argument about how shadowvanilla is hero x villain and someone else is trying to argue that smc tortured pv (which is what villians do), and that they have a huge age gap (even tho they are both immortal grown ass cookies). And the person defending with the other was just basically arguing with a brick wall and it was just so stupid.

Why are ppl so stupid???

Jesus christ. Lemme enjoy my ship in peace, bruh.

Can't enjoy a ship on tiktok anymore, god....

"When are people going to stop shipping this totally normal ship because I don't see these characters that way?"

"You shouldn't ship those characters who barely interacted because I don't see it working."

"I think we need to move on and stop shipping characters from different fandoms because I think it doesn't make any sense."

Oh my gosh, shut the fuck up! My cookie has nothing to do with your diet. Consume what YOU want and I'll consume what I want and we'll both live happily ever after, the-fucking-end. 😒

This fandom has SO many ships it’s hilarious /lh

Might as well tell some of mine (romantic ships):

Burgertron x Frostferatu - this was mainly caused from the influence of other shippers in this fandom, i love it though

Burgertron x Dimlit - Dimlit has TWO hands everyone. Also throughout the entire series they were always with each other, literally they were always side by side doing something with each other

Jacqueline x Dimlit - Self explanatory, its both canon and generally ADORABLE

Bonzeye x Lady Macaron - Also self explanatory, they had a whole episode based on them alone, not to mention BOT PROM. theres also just me kinning LM and falling hard for bonzeye so

Kikmee x Batsby - This is a ship I have JUST from bot prom. Sports gfs who flirt by competing?? Hell yeah

Clogstopper x Fottle Barts x Spud Muffin - DONT TAKE THIS SHIP SERIOUSLY!! The only reason why this is on the list is because this is only a crack ship, i dont actually ship it. Then there’s also the fact how Clogstopper called Spud Muffin a “hunk” while also developing feelings for Fottle Barts at the same time. The plunger really does go both ways

yeah that’s practically it, I’ve watched botbots repeatedly for about 5 times now and im willing to rewatch it over and over again until season 2 comes out. this show is a PASSION to me

huntlow and goldric is basically just sonamy and sonadow bruh they’re both superior

smosh twt find peace challenge (level: impossible ‼️)