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luniviravosshipper · 5 days ago

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Actually feels like I'm losing my mind sometimes 'cause the TDP fandom is the only fandom where it feels like people are hardly at all fawning over the well curated selection of gay DILFs in the series.

Like this is one of the few children's media I know that has canonical mpreg (that's somehow done in a way that's also treated with just as much seriousness as it's treated comedically) and... no one cares? I mean, maybe that wasn't shocking to the fandom at the time and of course a ton of other shit has happened that's gone beyond that (like the cannibalism maybe), but seriously. Surely that should attract people to this show, right?

I mean, tragic old man yaoi became so popular in 2024, I saw everyone talking about it all throughout the year on Tumblr. And no one looked into exploring viravos more through that? Like, what? The way the ship so perfectly aligned with people's ideals for that trope and even hit points that I felt like some people said the most popular ships of that trope weren't able to fit... And if anything it seems like viravos has died down since mid 2024 (around when season 6 came out and when this trope seemed to be peaking in popularity because of the other media coming out at the time that used it) within the show's own fanbase. And it used to be the second most popular ship at that too.

And again, it's one thing for none of these characters or ships to be the main appeal for the fanbase itself... But somehow none of these things draw other people in? That's the crazy part to me. That's what's mind boggling.

#the dragon prince #tdp #viravos #viren #lord viren #aaravos #tdp viren #viren tdp #tdp aaravos #aaravos tdp #another day of wondering why is the series so damn underrated #this turned out to be more of a rant then I intended it to be #but okay so this is my own personal theory #I think a lot of this has to do with the advertising done for the show and creators' interactions with the fandom #cuz it seems like the creators are more heavily aiming at appealing to already existing fans #and I think the thing is most of the already existing fans aren't actually into those things (at least not much anymore)#so there's a lot more promortional material that's made for rayllum and draggang fans #cuz that's a lot more popular currently in the fandom #even tho outside of the fandom what's referenced in the post is what's currently more popular #so ppl outside the show aren't getting exposed to those aspects of the show that are more appealing in bigger fandom spaces #does that make sense?#like even the very few (but well known) ytbers who've done videos on tdp still seem to be more focused on rayllum above anything else #despite also not seeming to be that invested in the fandom #cuz that's all tdp presents itself as and allows itself to present as #(not that that's a bad thing)#also obviously this isn't me saying we should idolize problematic men in media and I'm glad the tdp fandom holds ppl accountable for that #and obviously like the main canon wlw and the most popular mlm ships (janaya and sorvus) are by miles healthier then viravos #but still #(also anyone who thinks that the subreddit is still made up of viren/virrow stans I assure you they lost interest post s6)

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