#anti miraxus

[gralunaisland]

Tell me what are your thoughts on Jerza?

Graluna's Pro Jerza Masterlist

Hi, my friend! To make this easy, I'll use your ask to compile a few of my Jerza posts so it's easy for you to find them.

A post on why Jerza is very healthy:

2. A post on what I ship in FT, which includes Jerza:

3. A post that is most in depth analysis of Jerza that I have:

4. On the opposite side, here's a post for those Anti Jerza people who want to know if it's alright to be a Jerza Anti:

I go more in depth in these posts linked above so I don't think I need to rewrite it, but my very much abridged answer is I like Jerza a lot and is one of the few ships I have for FT! It's honestly one of the best things Mashima has written, especially romance-wise, and I think the way Erza and Jellal act within this ship is extremely laudable since they're both wise and mature.

Thank you for your ask and your continued support! All hail Jerza!

(I'll tag all the anti gr///via and juvia tags because if someone were to click through any of these posts, they'd be bombarded with anti stuff, and I don't want to ambush people).

[fuckyeahfraxus]

Assuming we do label Fraxus as "one-sided" because, as for evidence of clear romantic interest, Freed has definitely shown it and Laxus didn't really. (Although of course the fact remains, on panel Laxus too has shown most interest/bonding of a meaningful kind with the Raijinshuu and, tada, Freed in particular.)

But let's just go with the one-sided argument here...

Do people not realize that this would still be more canon basis than Laxus has with any of his ships with women? Because in Fraxus, the romantic feelings of one half of the ship are basically confirmed and with the other half it's either not obvious, not (yet) there or not confirmed? And this is not the case with any of the women. There has never been much interaction with any of them and in the very few interactions neither one of the women nor Laxus himself have shown that clear romantic interest that's seen in Freed and the other more canon ships like Elfever or obviously the big 4.

And then, look, this "one-sidedness" did not keep Gruvia ships from immediately jumping on the ship from the very beginning despite Gray even brutally turning Juvia's clear romantic advances down for a long time and not being interested, even feeling bothered, by her.

Not to compare the two ships but if we wanna use this argument then at least gotta do it right.

[lances-wormhole]

I’ve seen toxic m*raxus shippers try to talk down Freed by calling him obsessive. Which I have to say was only shown that way in the anime, deviating from the manga.

PLUS, Freed is more than capable of switching his adoration off when it calls for it. He cares for Laxus, trusts in Laxus, and fights for Laxus given the fact he is technically his body guard (and has a semi-shameless crush on him lol). But just watch/read the series (especially the Battle of Fairy Tail arc) and you’ll see that Freed is someone who has a big heart, and is capable of showing love for more than just one person blindly. He cares for evergreen and Bickslow. He cares for Wendy. He cares for Lucy. He cares for the master. He cares for Mira and the Strauss siblings! MIRA, you hear me? MIRA!!!

The hate that he and fraxus gets just ends up looking very… and I hate to say it so bluntly… homophobic/biphobic??? For lack of better terms. Also these toxic shippers in general act very heteronormative. And I can tell because they turn down every other mlm or wlw ship that the show has to offer, canon or not, without any sort of coincidence. Coming from someone who is a Gr*via (censoring so it doesn’t go in tags) fan, I can admit that THAT is a ship that shows some obsessive traits. But because it’s a straight ship, these shippers often ignore those aspects. But somehow they immediately target Freed? It’s sketchy.

Crack/Rare shipping is completely fine, and I feel like the ship would be alright if it didn’t feel like the fandom was trying to be forceful on Mashima and the rest of the fans, as if trying to convince everyone (including the creator) that it’s a canon ship when it isn’t.

It’s disappointing when mob mentality kicks in within fandoms and their shipping wars. Because one person can say one incorrect characterization about a character and then the hive mind will take it with no questions and just spread it like a plague.

Full disclosure, you’re allowed to ship whatever you wanna (with obvious exceptions). But don’t be elitist when none of the Laxus ships have been given explicit confirmations. M*raxus, Fraxus, L*xana, etc…. Some interact more than others. Just… be decent??? It’s not difficult. Grow up.

**Disclaimer: I’ll be deleting hate comments because y’all don’t read. I’ll probably also block you because I don’t need that negativity and neither do you 😊 Block the anti tag or me idc**

No hate to the M*raxus shippers who aren’t like this. I know some of you, and y’all are cool 💕💕

[izukillme-moved]

[lonelyveres]

If even Lucy doesn't like Miraxus, who am I to say anything?

[pamayapaya]

It will never cease to amaze me how some shippers will go so far out of their way to explore (read: pull out of their ass) a relationship with no real basis or significance in canon between a male and female character

Yet when presented with a gay ship that does have development and importance to the storyline, suddenly they’re all like

“Well I don’t see why it has to mean anything, why can’t they just be friends :((((“

And it gets worse when they take the canon elements of the wlw and mlm ships they slide over and pretend like they belong to their stale het ships

I mean come on, at that point you can just admit you’re at least a little homophobic

(it’s pretty obvious that this was written mostly with k*/c/ch*/k* vs kiribaku in mind, but it also applies to a bunch of other ships)

[fairytail-multishipper]

I just saw someone call Miraxus underrated and wow, honey, if anything it's one of the most overrated ships in the fandom

While Fraxus is more popular, the Miraxus shippers (and least that I’ve seen) are very toxic towards Fraxus shippers and just Freed in general which isn’t fair at all.

[gaymirajane]

I’m not sure why I’m so personally offended by Mira//xus and yet here we are lmao

[realbaebe]

Let me answer your question here, is that ok? Since it will be a real waste if your explanation get waste because tumblr ask limitations…

I’m sorry, first because I only read your question once and in hurry (always read stuff with speed and I tend to talk a lot when it about things I love), I’m sorry because I thought you were protesting for me saying Laxus respect Mirajane the most and forgot about Raijinshuu..

And I actually almost forgot that one time Mira did mention the enemy lighting attacks are nothing compared to Laxus! Thank you for reminding me.

And yes, People tend to forgot Unlike Natsu/Lucy/Erza and heck even GRAY all are the main Character, the main team. The main focus on FT. Laxus and Mirajane was only a backup character(?) The character you can’t really put to much hope for Mashima to give them a back story which in my opinion he gave them enough story, a very subtle things, very little moment (Laxus and mirajane probably only get like 1 panel, 2 max if Laxus lucky on 1 chapter)

So people trying so hard to slam Miraxus just because their recent popularity, they Actually COMPARED them to ship like NALU/JERZA ? Of course Miraxus won’t have that, because like we both know they aren’t that important as character.

So yeah.. you definitely right, for MASHIMA did put those LINES showing the MUTUAL respect between LAXUS & MIRAJANE even though they didn’t directly saying it to each other face is HUGE DEAL!

Let’s not forgot Laxus is Anti social big Potato while Mirajane is amazing Actress who could fooled people with her sweet smile while hiding her inner Demon (Which one thing she failed to keep on the very first arc of FT when she talk to “used to be jerk” Laxus)

[midgetmeredith]

your nicely and reasonably done pro fraxus anti miraxus posts made my day as I found them. even now after the final chapter of fairy tail I see miraxus shouting about their ship's canonness and this has always been a part of this ship fandom that annoyed me the most. ship your ship, be happy with your ship but it's low key aggravating and even rude to 'oversee'/put down the moments fraxus clearly has while miraxus has barely even interactions and, on top of that, got canonly cancelled now

[continuation of ask] they should be happy mashima acknowledges their really pushy fandom at all, like with the twitter drawing he made. but even then he refused to actually draw them together in person and it’s clear that, after the ending, it’s only pandering. throughout the entire manga there hasn’t been a single hint of mashima planning to build up miraxus while he at least kept highlighting the importance of freed and laxus’ relationship

Yes! 🙌🏼 You’ve perfectly summed it up, anon! I tend not to think about Mir/axus all too much until I come across their more rabid shippers on Twitter (and sometimes on here, despite my attempts to avoid such 🙄). The level of harassment Mashima receives (predominantly from Mir/axus, Na/Li and surprisingly/disappointingly Jer/za “fans”) is shocking, pathetic and frankly bratty; it’s ridiculously disrespectful and childish. To think that romantic pairings – and a crack one, at that – are all some people care for in shonen series’ is baffling. I mean, to this degree as well? Yikes. Mashima owes us nothing and provides us with the luxury of his fan-art out of sheer kindness and as his form of gratitude to his supporters. He shouldn’t be hounded and pressured into supplying content to people whose morals are so fucked up that they violently badger him to validate their ship and themselves.

I’m so happy that you enjoy my posts too, anon! I freakin’ adore when people do, especially when they’re in any way “controversial”. It’s a topic that hits close to home for me as well (in regards to Fraxus) and particularly because I study and devote a lot of my time at university to researching & advocating this very issue of heteronormativity in media and the representation of [homo]sexuality. I don’t think people realise how, like you said, “aggravating and even rude” it is to display (typically) inadvertent [through no necessary or deliberate fault of their own] homophobia in overseeing/dismissing present & substantial gay relationships and arrogantly insisting that a male and female, who severely lack in mere interaction alone, are the epitome of romantic affection… 😬 But when a pairing – particularly one involving secondary characters – gains popularity in a fandom, despite having desperately limited and insufficient evidence in the source material, unfortunately the mass following of blind and unquestioned belief will ensue.

Like, for example, Neji/Ten in Naruto. [Disclaimer: I actually quite like the pair and have nothing at all against them personally, they just kind of prove my point. 😅] They’re supporting characters who are each other’s main (and pretty much only/most commonly accepted) romantic partner in the unnecessary universal fandom act of desperately pairing up every single character [with a partner of the opposite sex]. Yet they actually have very little proof in the manga and no substantial perceptible interest from the male party. Their arguably biggest moment was semiotically altered and is technically anime-only. 😥

[ammy246]

Summary of FT’s cannon ship fandoms

Gajevy: Doesn’t really have any rival ships to hate on, so is pretty peaceful

Gruvia: Suck my cannon ship!

Nalu: Didn’t get a cannon in the manga, but Mashima’s gave us a chain scene and a Nalu daughter

Jerza: Look at these hot moments sensei made for us!

Zervis: Our babies will never die and if they do, they will be reincarnated again

Miraxus: Laxus x Harem was confirmed, so, so are we

[fairytailconfess]

I feel like Mira//xus is one of those ships that you have to squint to see it. So while I do ship it, I can definitely see why some people don't.     -- submitted by anonymous

[fuckyeahfraxus]

Okay so there's a post in the Fairy Tail and Laxus Dreyar tag that I have feelings about so I want to write them down quickly but

Disclaimer: This ain't a post to start an argument or rile anybody up, this is just a personal opinion and for this exact reason I'm making a separate post and do not comment on the post itself

Just, people do tend to ignore the following panel a lot. If this panel had 'never!'ed pr 'nope, nope!'ed Fraxus like this, then people probably wouldn't ignore it and also say 'see Fraxus ain't canon!!!'

I've even seen multiple people purposefully edit out the speech/thought bubbles that 'decline' Miraxus clearly, also in the anime scene, and I get that it's because they enjoy their ship but it is frustrating that it's still genuinely hyped up and mentioned in the same breath as the main couples when 1.) this panel of the final chapter exists and 2.) this panel also makes sense because Laxus and Mira barely had any interactions in the main manga and spin offs at all, something that Mashima could have easily changed if he had wanted to do so because

Elfman and Evergreen can be considered heavier side characters than Mira and Laxus and Mashima still made it 100% clear that Elfever was definitely going to be a thing. So that's definitely no excuse. Sherry and Ren are another example.

I'm just... What am I supposed to say? Fraxus had a rougher start for the mere fact that it's a same s.ex couple. I'm super happy that by now Fraxus gets seen by more people and that it's so popular. They have many interactions, in manga canon and anime. They have an important, established bond. Laxus' most emphasized bonds are the bonds with the Raijinshuu and Makarov but Mashima DID also make a definite effort to emphasize Freed and Laxus' bond specifically with little details, panels or very obvious, important moments. Moments that if they had happened to the Big Four people would definitely put it on a higher pedestal.

And that's insulting. That's frustrating. When your ship has so much of the factors and the important, clear bond that the main ships have but it's been put down by people in the fandom in favor of an m/f gender couple that gets very hyped up despite the characters barely ever having interacted in canon at all. That's frustrating. Why do you ship Nalu, Jerza, Gajevy, etc.? Because of the canon bond, and that's my exact answer to Fraxus. I ship it because I see their important bond, because it's respectful and beautiful and makes me happy.

[gaynejis]

mir///axus found dead in miami

[twicesix]

I did a thing

[pamayapaya]

@ straight people in fandoms, stop being so easily impressed lmfao