#anti-rbron

[aarondinglestears]

what's wrong with rbron content? what bothers you about it exactly?

Do you hate rbron because of the fandom or because of the ship?

I don’t hate them but I don’t endorse them as a “ship” rn bc Aaron has shown that them being together is detrimental to his mental health. I feel lately that sometimes (/often) rbron content ignores or forgets that there are the downsides and flaws and it’s not all romantic. So seeing pro-rbron stuff makes me more resistant to enjoying them bc that stuff tends to read them as soft or soulmates or whatever and that’s... a totally different interpretation of them as a couple than I tend to think or would like to see. So it makes me ping back toward the other direction.

The ship itself is what it is. It has huge problems but that’s kinda the point for me. That’s why they’re fascinating to watch. That’s why I’ll never ever rule out the possibility that I go back to early-2016 mode of considering them my OTP, when the circumstances fit relatively ok. They just .. Don’t right now, and it actively annoys me when I see stuff making them out to be something I personally don’t think they are. ofc I don’t begrudge ppl who see things differently or who have their own narrative, I’m just trying to avoid that for my own sanity right now.

[rememberingthesugden-dingles]

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[jacfletch]

yall can be gay, straight, bi, trans, male, female, 16, 20, 35, neurotypical, mentally ill, etc. and still be in the wrong for shipping rbron! 

[rooftopprendezvous]

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[aelric]

me, realising that rbron are gonna be apart for a good while cus there's no way they're coming back from this any time soon giving Robert some time to be alone with himself and exist as a person (hopefully getting his shit together after fucking with Lawrence)

[isabellaofparma]

anyway ladies. best part of the benway fandom is that i’m blocked by 85% of it both by rbron shippers AND antis

[iantojack]

Why do the rbrns hate vanity so much? Like there is a rival straight ship in coira but they never go at them like this. The emmerdale tag is always full of them hating on LGBT rep.

a) theyre jealous they aint the new big thing getting all the attention from social media and press or whatever. their fandom died w the one night stand and its been going downhill from there. theres less of them than ever and rbron get less and less attention in the show. theyre bitter! :)

b) they dont care about wlw, i know theyre majority wlw blah blah whatever they say but for WHATEVER reason they have very little interest in wlw rep and wlw ships. if they list their fave characters its all men and mlm ships so i dont know WHY but they just dont care. i mean in one breath they say the reason they ship rbron is because the bisexual rep means so much to them while shitting all over charity, a bisexual woman for being “boring” aka in a loving healthy relationship. if their idea of ideal bisexual rep is an abusive, murdering, serial cheat then.. id k what to say

 c) they also have this idea in their heads that the whole vanity fandom are anti rbrons that were around pre-vanity. and like yea i am but apart from like a handful of people the majority didnt really give a shit abt rbron and their fandom UNTIL they started ripping into vanity on the daily and tagging it and all that. probably started w them calling vanessa abusive and then the majority of vanity fandom were like wtf is wrong w u ppl and they get worse every day so the vanity fandom hate them more and more but at the end of the day, they started it lol

[babygirlgalitzine]

me after seeing antis getting all het up over robert/rbron 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[whitneydeans]

"Its so sad" thats exactly what is. I like them (rbron) but i also have the balls to point out their flaws and negatives (and also laugh with the good jokes by antis and agree w some of your valid points). I dont wanna compare Emmerdales lgbt couples bc they dont have many and im a fan of both, but vanity as a couple is a positive represention and makes so many gay ppl happy and clearly the actresses care. Have a lovely day 👌😊

this is a cool ask i hope you have a lovely day too anon!

[jonny-versace]

I want to thank you for taking the time to clear things up for me. Going back to the OG post, it was made by antis indeed and despite the fact that I agree with the point they were trying to make I can see it differently now I am more aware of their intentions. It was a rough period of time and a lot of queer people were hating on Emmerdale because of Rbron and the writing (even the acting).

Not entirely sure what post you’re referring to (although it doesn’t take much imagination to hazard a guess) but you’re welcome. Although, define “a lot” haha. Like Camille said, 9 times out of 10 whatever perhaps decent point those people were making got completely drowned out by other very transparent agendas so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[bartsugsy]

Hi. Do you know why people love to use rbron (aaron stan) or robrn (robert stan) instead of their full ship name robron? I feel like everyone is an anti robron now 😥

no idea - i’m very behind the curve on that one

i don’t think everyone is anti robron at all - although i do think we’ve all been chilling out here bored for six months waiting for them to reunite though 😂

we’ve all forgotten what it’s like to have an episode coming up where we know we might get cute domestic fluffiness or some shit bc usually when they’re on screen together, since the break up, the best we’ve been able to hope for is “not yelling at one another” (which is why the little moments of loveliness send us all absolutely loopy every time we they pop up in an episode hahaha)

ah the stuff that we took for granted in our younger years

luckily, we’re so close 👏🏼😌

[aarondinglestears]

but rbron content that shows them being in love and/or happy for example doesn't mean that fans don't address the fact that they also have flaws and are unhealthy? i mean just because a gifset only focuses on a positive aspect of their rl doesn't the person behind it has a wrong/false interpretation of them? bc imo rbron being 'soulmates', in love, etc isn't incompatible with them having huge flaws that need working on? (and it's canonically true) 1/2

2/2 some people have this idea that if you love rbron and their twisted ott love then it automatically means you're ignoring all the bad shit that exists within their rl/past but it really doesn't? and just bc you're not pointing out these massive flaws every 5 seconds after you've expressed your love for them doesn't mean you're pretending they don't exist? idk but what i love about the majority of this fandom (from my dash not the ppl in the tags lol) is that they're really good at doing both

Yeah, I don’t mean to generalize about all fan content. The friends I have who ship it are shipping it /because/ they enjoy those aspects and are 1000% keeping that in consideration when they talk/post about it. And lbr during the times I’ve posted pro-rbron stuff it’s not like I was throwing in a tag like ‘but just as a reminder they’re also toxic!’when reblogging a shippy gifset lmao.

I’ve just recently reached my breaking point where seeing them put in a context where they’re compatible or loving or stable makes me annoyed bc they’re very much Not at that place right now and I personally don’t enjoy thinking of them that way until a lot of things get fixed. It’s not that I think it’s wrong to enjoy that, and ppl should! I just can’t right now. The reason the 2016 reunion worked so well for me was I spent over a year leading up to it feeling they were toxic and incompatible, so hopefully if this reunion is done the right way I’ll be able to experience that same incredible high of my feelings going from 0-100 again.

Also as for the soulmates thing, I think I’ve been going on about this for at least a year but I don’t tend to believe in soulmates overall and I especially don’t see rbron as ~destined~ for each other. I think they’re very much an example of pursuing each other due to their circumstances and feelings despite not being the ideal emotional match for each other. So I personally get negative benefit from seeing them portrayed as, like, divinely matched.

[rememberingthesugden-dingles]

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[jacfletch]

im a bitter anti so i opened a bitter anti confession blog called emmerhellconfessions and y’all can submit stuff if you want :) 

[rooftopprendezvous]

I saw some anti Rbron peeps shipping Ringsy and i fairly assumed Ringo wont be as bad as Robert. But having watched their SL by now i have to say Ringo is just as bad if not worse in some ways. Not worse but often a bad person who hurts others yk. Easy is a sunshine unlike Aaron the messy ass bitch. Aaron and Robert arent that different if you ask me bc they are really messed up both of them. But Easy is the light in Ringos darkness and vice versa

oh god the rngsy vs rbron debate. yeah i really can’t say much there. like to each their own you know? ship and let ship. i’m not going to judge, but personally i agree completely that ringo was at times really awful. he was selfish and manipulative and really didn’t think about the consequences of his actions or who would get hurt, namely easy. but also he had had to harden himself and wasn’t use to letting people in and relying on them. he was cold because that’s how you don’t get hurt yourself the way he did when his parents died and his sister left. he isolated himself for a long time and this life was easier for him. which for me is actually quite a bit like robert as well. so in a lot of ways i think they are quite similar. one is not better than the other but in my opinion. 

aaron and robert do work well together because they truly are both such messy bitches. they both fuck up a lot and they really only have time for those they care about or love deeply. and everyone else is just kind of there but doesn’t get the same respect. aaron is pretty much a grumpy old man while robert just dresses like one but is incredibly impulsive like a teenage boy. it’s quite the juxtaposition. 

god are you trying to kill me with that lost line though. ringo and easy really are the brightest spot in each others lives and my heart is so full with their love for one another. 

[bobbynash]

funny how the obvious fact that fiction doesnt exist in a vaccum matters 2 u only if u can make a point out of it but robert being abusive doesnt matter bc its just a soap. 

u literally said that if it wasnt a soap u would find their relationship abusive but also cry when there’s biphobia / homophobia / misogyny and so on. u talk abt how antis r hypocritical or whatever that fucking means but then u make a post saying that “well if u care abt biphobia then u should care that people r wishing a baby dead.” and like. i agree obviously but this is coming from someone who literally said that if it wasnt a soap rbron would be abusive. 

so dont ever come and say how fucking hypocritical we r when ur literally a dumbass without any sort of ability to critically think.