#I heard it's good etiquette to tag the people who sent an ask so I'm doing that now

[thatpinkbetch]

I'm going to answer it this way, because I'm actually not a fan of some of those, and I've heard this is the way to do it if you don't want it ending up in the tag or the search I think? If i censor any of the ship names it's not out of malice! I simply don't want any of this to end up in front of eyes that just want to enjoy their ships 💖💖💖 if there is anyone who doesn't want to see opinions against t*d*d*ku, k*r*b*ku, or even iz**ch*ka, please don't read any further! Oh my goodness i hope this is all legible...

Anyways, hello!! Thank you so much for the ask!! I love talking about my opinion avkvmsocnaocjsoxks it also makes me really happy you like my blog 🥺🥺🥺 (I hope this answer doesn't ruin that avskvneognsocjs)

I'll start out by confirming that I'm not a multishipper. It makes me excited to see how the act of shipping itself can make others happy, but it's just not that way for me. I actually never read fanfic until I got into bnha (bkdk is just that powerful 😁😁) I'm actually...a little serious when i ship, or when i enjoy media, i analyze pretty heavily, so also, if that doesn't sound like anyone's cup of tea, i would once again recommend to stop reading and enjoy your day please!

I love analyzing characters and storylines and dynamics, but i will admit, I'm not a fan of most of the ships - not romantically. I think all the characters have interesting relationships to each other, all of the kids are great friends, and I love bonds and friendships so much 🥺🥺🥺

Those first two are perhaps the biggest, at least they definitely were the biggest when I first entered. Once i caught up, I didn't really understand the enthusiasm, but people have fun shipping, so that's nice! I think of those two as easy ships, if that makes sense? They're pretty simple, and easy to digest.

I personally am not a fan of romantic t*d*d*ku for a very specific reason; it feels weird to me for Todo to immediately fall in love with the first person who's ever shown him kindness (since his mother of course). Todo had never had any friends, nor any want for friends, obviously because of the abuse he faced as a child. Mido was his first exploration at a life outside of his father, a life he got to make for himself, it just doesn't feel right to me that he should immediately think "oh, is this romantic love? Is this the one and only for me?" Well, perhaps a teenager might think that way, but i don't think that's actually how he feels deep down, and I'm sure that's something a lot of us have to learn as we grow (I've definitely struggled with my own understanding of romance for the past 8 years). I think he still is trying to learn how to socialize and to make friends and to be a friend (and he's doing SUCH a good job!) But to immediately plunge into romance, which can be complicated, i don't think that would be right for him. I hope that makes sense! I know they're a very cute ship, which makes for fun! But again, I can be a little serious when i ship...

K*r*b*ku kind of falls into similar territory for me? Baku definitely had friends growing up, but he's seemed to always have trouble understanding his feelings and where he stands with others, causing trust issues. Kiri is really the first person he knew where he stood with, a person for him to be comfortable with and feel on equal ground, which i think is such a huge and positive role in his life, and i don't necessarily think that it needs to be romantic - for both of these, i think these relationships are incredibly important, to everyone involved, and making them romantic doesn't make them any more important!! In fact, i feel like them as friends actually can offer a more complex, interesting, and human dynamic between these characters, as sometimes people simply default to romance and then end up pushing for the same old tropes and ignore all the intricacies Horikoshi includes in his writing.

Again, I love Mido's friendship with Todo, and I love Baku's friendship with Kiri. I think these relationships are incredibly important, and friends are incredibly important. People who ship them are having fun, which is so lovely, and i hope they continue to have fun! I hope you personally find more fics about them that make you smile and brighten your day 💖💖💖

Iz**ch*ka is a little difficult, because they certainly are cute, separately and together. I thought they were cutest before Ura was told about her potential crush on Mido, when she was simply a source of bubbly energy and positivity that helped Mido open up and feel comfortable around other people. I feel though that, romantically, it's extraordinarily one-sided, and at this point, i have to wonder if they really are "end goal." End goal for shounen, of course, is hardly ever explicit ahzovndlfjsoxo but i feel like a better storyline for Horikoshi to take would be for Ura to realize that she's been confused, and these feelings haven't really been a positive experience for her. I've definitely gone through things like that as a teenager. Now, the ship can be very cute! They're basically the same person, and they're cute and bubbly! But again, it simply isn't for me.

I think Momjirou is very cute!! Of course, as a lesbian, i sense strong lesbian vibes from Momo, and strong bi vibes from Jirou, and I also saw the ship potential ever since the USJ attack - which i think, so did everyone else ahaovndofjsojfsk they're best friends without a doubt, though i have to say, i really like Kamijirou. She just makes him so soft, and he's so in awe of her, and she thinks he's so funny, I love how supportive he is of her, especially since she can be really insecure 🥺🥺🥺

I also think Ura and Tsu are very cute but another easy ship, and i kind of really like Ochamina 🥺 they're both pink and space themed, they're bubbly and energetic and kick ass, and i think they'd be super cute...

I saved todobaku for last, because, you know what they say, best for last! 😇😇😇

I've said it before, but if there was no Mido (impossible obviously, and i would never want that) then todobaku is where my heart would lie. Baku has never really been shown chasing after anyone except for Mido...and Todo, which really gets at my heart. There's a grudging respect there - very, very grudging ahakckdkfjskdk which i find very appealing! Todo is very important to Baku and he has also been able to show Baku some things about himself that he needed to question and reevaluate. Meanwhile, Todo puts up with exactly 0% of Baku's shit, which i find absolutely hilarious. It's funny to me how Baku wishes to intimidate Todo as he does everyone else, and Todo simply does not care. And Baku wants to be mad, and ends up mad that he can't be mad since Todo is a strong and worthy opponent. They just have such an interesting chemistry, there's so much friction, so much tension, and I enjoy it, particularly since they clearly should be friends, would be great friends, want to be friends, but Baku simply won't get over it 😂😂 I do prefer them as friends, but friends that are incredibly close, two people that understand each other on almost a telepathic level, two people that give each other shit while also refusing to take the other's shit.

I do agree that many people in this fandom seem to think their ship stands on some moral high ground? It could be a disconnect from the previous generations of fandom, or it could also be the growing mentality on this site that everything needs to be a battle of moral superiority, and also that what you like is part of your personality, and if someone doesn't like what you like, then they don't like you or that they think you're factually incorrect. I personally have stopped going into the bn/ha tag simply because I don't enjoy, well, many things i find there, and I'm happy with those that i follow. I've definitely seen hatred and invalidation for both LGBT ships and m|w ships, neither of which I'm comfortable with. I definitely don't go off tumblr for fandom stuff because there's practically no acceptance for any same gender ships, or any queer headcanoning, which, I'll be honest, makes me scared, as i am a very anxious person avdkvndkfje i do think it should be noted that we should be as accepting of cishet ships as we are of queer ships - no debate on this one - but again, you are right when you say that many cishet headcanons have been used to invalidate LGBT voices, and any and all allies must always be aware of this! It is much more often that queer voices are silenced, that queer ships are ridiculed, that queer shippers aren't allowed to enjoy or see themselves. And to anybody that doesn't want to be an ally... Whelp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what are you doing here ajxkvmdogjdicjsicjsodj I'm gay

I haven't really read much of anything recently, let alone other ships, platonic or otherwise, because energy has been low for me for a long time. I wish i could participate more and support all my friends and other fans, but it's been a bit of a struggle 😣😣😣 I'm so sorry! Something that I can do is make posts and analyses and metas, as those are quick and make me excited, so I'm always happy to respond to asks like these! (I say as i take two hours to write this response...)

I hope people have been taking care of themselves and remember that tumblr is really good at letting you cater to your own interests! I hope if you've made it to the end of this response that you enjoyed it, and you're not mad at me ahsovjekgjsocjwodkso if you are, that's fine, I'm sorry, I probably am really bad at social/internet etiquette and such that help you filter 😣😣

To any who are curious, you cannot change my mind ahdogmdocjdidk thank you to whoever sent this ask!!! A lot of this is a bunch of rambling I've always wanted to talk about but was frankly too scared to post! I hope I made sense and answered everything you were asking!! Please have a good day/night/life!!! 💖💖💖💖💖

[sometimesrosy]

I'm having a stupid dilemma. There's this girl on tumblr that makes super cool gifs of games and some tv shows. She has this kind of "technique" where she grabs a gif and cuts it in two, in the middle, and so the character of the game shows up on one of the sides and the rest of the scenery shows in the other. I don't recall if I saw anybody else do this, but yesterday I was editing some game footage and ended up doing that. It's really pretty and I'm proud of it, BUT I feel like I'm copying +

+ her. I was thinking of sending her an ask to know if it’s ok to use the same layout, and if yes if she wants me to credit her, etc. Problem is, we have the same tumblr theme! I’ll be honest, I saw the theme for the first time on her tumblr, but the themes are public (other people have it too) and I had mine in black so it was different. But now I came back to tumblr and put it in white… it’s equal to hers. I’ve been trying to change themes but I don’t like any, I love this one to death. +

+ What do I do? Do I send her the message anyways and ignore the fact that the tumblr theme is the same? (I feel like that way I’m copying her too much, and yesterday I sent her an ask on public about another thing so she probably saw the theme.) Do I not send a message and post the edited gif anyway? (She doesn’t follow me so she’ll only see if she searches for the tags, or if someone she is following reblogs it, or if someone sends it to her.) Or do I remake the edit with a different layout?

Tricky problem. Tricky.

It is not, however, unusual. Part of being a creator is being open to how art is being done around you. None of us are islands who create without being influenced by the others. And nothing new is created under the sun. We’re all doing different versions of the same stories and have been for millennia. Now you’ve got yourself a new medium, but that medium is built on the visual language that comes before it, so it’s still not “new.”

Being an artist means you are always being inspired by things and people and creators around you. And they are in turn inspired back. Sometimes, people in the same community, who are consuming the same kind of content, start having the same sort of ideas at that same time. They have the same tastes and preferences because it is, kind of a sign of the times. The zeitgeist has similar ideas popping up all over the place at the same time. You coincidentally having the same theme sounds like that. You share the same taste, you are using the same platform and preferred the same available theme. That’s not a problem.

Plagiarizing is taking what someone did and saying it’s yours. You don’t seem to be doing that. Good. Because that’s a no no. Don’t steal. 

Copying is taking what someone did, and repeating it, doing what they did on another project, using their style or their techniques. Your theme isn’t copying, but your gifs might be. Now, copying isn’t actually necessarily a bad thing. It’s kind of how we learn and grow and develop. Taking techniques or styles we appreciate and then trying to reproduce them with our own work. It’s how we learn facility with the medium we use and ALSO how we develop our own style. ONLY copying her might be questionable, but taking the technique of one gif and using it to develop your own style, is not a bad thing imo. 

This is moving into “inspiration.” Her work inspires you to create your own work, and ideally, expand beyond what she did into your own original creativity. This is part of the creative process and not a problem.

OR it might be part of that zeitgeist I was talking about. OR perhaps you’re both in the same school of thought about gifsets. You’re both working with the same material, right? Seeing the same things. Inspired by the same content.

However, there is something I can’t speak to and that’s the culture of your creative community. Every community has their own culture around etiquette and what is expected and the way you treat each other. And I just don’t know what that is with your gifmakers and such. I do know that tumblr creators can be very sensitive and possessive about their content. I remember a big fandom argument when one person said she’d started the discussion of a show’s allusion to a greek myth, and then some other blogger came out of nowhere offended that that HER idea of this greek myth allusion had been stolen. Everyone yapping about stolen ideas, and I was over here going, “none of y’all invented this greek myth and if the show is actually USING this allusion, then it’s the actual show creators who came up with it and noticing it is not any of our ideas, but just analysis of a text. but okay go off on how you ‘own’ an idea in someone else’s content because you pointed out their use of it.”  *

So, your use of her style might be fair use, but because of personality or culture, it might feel like an offense to her. There’s really no way to know, so I’d talk to her directly about it. Send a message and see what she thinks and if she’s sensitive about it, then I’d be more careful and I would try to come up with my OWN version of this thing you see as similar to hers. Take it farther. Make it your own. 

*actually i was on the outside of this argument and i don’t remember if it was greek or biblical, but i’ve heard other arguments, too, in the same vein as people start to get possessive of entire media or identities or characters. Like, once it was someone who analyzed music who got offended that someone else analyzed music and decided they’d stolen the analysis from them. IDK. How do you own music you didn’t write? How do you own an idea so no one else can think it or build on the thoughts? IDK. So you do have to navigate the social landscape of the social media and recognize that even if you are being ethical, other people may not understand the full scope of the ethics and STILL think you’re copying, evil, or ignorant. The internet is like the wild west and someone might always challenge you to a gunslinging duel at sundown. It seems to be the nature of the beast.