#also this is making me come across like such a mako hater

[aerithisms]

i like to think one of the things asami likes about korra that starts to attract her to her in book 3 is that korra is so painfully earnest in a way that must be such a relief to asami after all the bullshit she's been through from her lying homicidal father and her lying manipulative business partner and her lying cheating boyfriend. korra's got her flaws but there isn't a dishonest bone in her body and even back when she was kind of rude to asami in book 1 she was incapable of not wearing her heart on her sleeve about it. genuine emotional honesty is something i think asami would value very deeply and find a lot of solace in

[i-am-extremely-mad]

I'm reblogging this again because I've come across yet another anti-piltover's finest post where someone seems to really want to push a non-existent love triangle with Jayce, which is problematic for many reasons.

And I also came across some anti-lumity posts which only confirmed to me again that Korrasami haters are full of shit when they claimed that they would fully accept Korrasami as a canon if it was more "obvious".

Now we have more freely displayed wlw ships and haters in many cases still use almost identical arguments.

If korrasami had the freedom to develop openly like piltover's finest or lumity the haters would still use the same disgusting arguments in that case.

If Korra and Asami weren't already canonically in a love triangle with Mako, Korrasami haters would force the love triangle themselves.

They just used the circumstances Korrasami was in to make their bullshit arguments.

Of course, it couldn’t have been a few days since the end of the first season of Arcane, without appearing of arguments against Vi and Caitlyn ship, basically just recycling all the worst possible arguments that have been used and are still being used against korrasami. From the claims that “it was rushed”, that supposedly “nowhere in the lore was it mentioned that they were gay”, and I have to convey the comments from Drago5899 in full, below the video with the ironic title “You and Caitlyn are very good friends…” from aphelios gaming: 

“Honestly, I didn’t get any gay vibes from them. Wow, Vi called Caitlyn "hot” yeah not like women do that all the time. I’m also pretty tired of already established characters being made gay to force fan service. Seriously, why can ’t they just be two friends who grow up and solve crimes together? Not every character needs a love interest.“ 

"or i just, you know, have female friends who aren’t gay, yet are still playful. The relationship was written to be organic in the show, but was still a forced decision and unnecessary. There was no indication in the game that they are gay, Unless you solely judge Vi’s character design (which would be silly and superficial)." 

"as I said in the original comment. The issue is they were not gay in the video game, so someone had to make the decision to make them gay for forced inclusion rather than true representation. it’s pandering, not story telling. (it also doesn’t enhance the story in any way). It’s also offensive to use sexual preference to pander as if it is some character trait you can slap on to anyone. that is not how it works in real life. So, it just comes off as tasteless”

Arguments like this only prove to me that the Korrasami haters are full of shit when they claimed that they would fully accept Korrasami as a canon if it was more obvious and less ambiguous, we now have a ship that openly and without restraint develops a romantic relationship between two female characters and haters still use one and the same arguments. What I want to say is even if The Legend of Korra and the Korrasami had the same complete freedom in production and in developing their relationship as Arkane and Vi and Caitlyn they would still use the same shitty arguments.

[fromzerotoeuphoria]

This MH Shipper Tho...

So last week I made a post about how Haru gets sentimental when around Rin which I had originally posted to Reddit (before I got my Tumblr account). It wasn't too popular on Reddit as there are many more MH shippers there than RinHaru shippers, which is totally fine; I didn’t care about the post being popular (I figured it wouldn’t be), I really just wanted to share my thoughts and love about RinHaru with the world. 😁💜🌸

The rules of the subreddit clearly specify "No Hate Comments" and "No Ship Bashing." If you read my post, even on the Tumblr version I don't even mention any other ship and certainly don't hate on any other ship. It was merely an appreciation post of RinHaru that discussed how Haru gets especially sentimental when around Rin.

I literally wrote this disclaimer in my original post:

But of COURSE, that’s just too much for some people and they still get triggered.

Disclaimer: This isn't an anti-Mako//Haru post but it is an anti-Mako//Haru shippers who are immature, hateful and hilariously insecure about their ship. This isn’t towards all Mako//Haru shippers, esp those lovely and chill ones. To those I send my love (because I appreciate y’all and also love my big squish Makoto 💚).

So this afternoon I get a notification that I have a comment on my Reddit post:

I didn't want to just assume this person was a Mako//Haru shipper, because they could've been an anti-shipper in general, so I checked out their profile first because I like confirming things rather than jumping to conclusions and making assumptions.

But sure enough:

OMG ahahaha y’all this person was so triggered by my post—a post that had absolutely no hate towards Makoto nor Mako//Haru—that they made not only one, but TWO posts that broke community rules by ship hating because of it. AND those two posts were the only posts they ever made on Reddit, ever. 😂 

Literally, all my original post did was give some rare RinHaru appreciation in the subreddit. And the post was even tagged as “Shipping” and had RinHaru in the title. And still this person willingly clicked on it knowing it was a ship post about their notp smh. 

Even in my response to them, I didn't hate on any ship. Yet even then, they're still mad and then try to turn the blame onto me:

Imagine being so insecure and overly sensitive about your ship that the very appreciation of a different ship, one that never invalidates your otp nor Makoto, triggers you that hard. Lol YIKES.

Needless to say, both of their posts were removed for breaking the rules of the subreddit.

Here’s the thing: I’m new to the Free! fandom so I wasn’t here when the ship wars were at their worst. So when I come across all of the Rin and RinHaru hate when I dive into fandom posts, it hits me like if it was new, because no matter how long ago it was, it’s still hate. Hate that still crops up today, which I see frequently on other areas of the internet. 

I tend to write a lot of “posts” addressing this hate or defending RinHaru, but it was originally just for myself and my private blog/diary. Now that I have tumblr, I’ve debated many times whether or not to publish these defenses of RinHaru since the ship wars aren’t nearly as bad as they were before, and a I’m sure a lot of the haters have moved on to (hopefully) better things. Yet every time I feel like maybe its unnecessary to write these long meta posts about RinHaru or posts that address hate coming from mh shippers, I run into something like this, either on YouTube or apparently now Reddit (even though it's against the rules). 

So you know what, I’m not gonna feel bad about addressing RinHaru hate anymore, even if it's from the past because it still goes on today. Also, I know how hard it is to see the hate as a new fan, and seeing people defend Rin and RinHaru is always comforting. Hopefully it’s comforting to others, too.

Anyways, pseudo-venting sesh over.

BONUS: this person really hates Rin lol