#also i'm not saying you can't write meta essays abt ships obviously. but of you're writing about canon and incorporating your hcs

[ebenelephant]

All this insistence that ships should be canon does is lead people to be weird about the source material. People are still shipping Buddie and other non-canon ships, but a not-small number of them are also insisting that it will be canon or it is canon if you pay close attention to this this and this. And that's not a new thing by any means – fans have always wanted their ships to prove true, or to be justified in some way – but it creates this really weird dissonance between what is presented and what is discussed in fandom spaces. Following the Buddie example, if you're writing an unrelated meta essay and part of your analysis casually mentions the fact that Buck is romantically in love with Eddie, and you're presenting that as the same level of truth as his fraught relationship with his parents, maybe you need to take a step back and remind yourself of what makes fandom fandom in the first place.

this mentality is SO WEIRD some of you clearly were not around for superwholock and it shows.

this obsession with needing to only ship something canon or to prove your ship is better because you think it will be canon... SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! it shouldn't matter if people are shipping something that is or is not canon. let us play in our respective spaces and enjoy the content we want. it hurts literally nobody if fanart or fics are made for a couple that isn't canon. if it's upsetting to see then blacklist the tag and grow up.