#censoring ship name to avoid dogpiling
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firedragon1321 · 1 year ago
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^ s0wwwiku
category of blorbo called "technically i like them but fanons obsession with them to the exclusion of other characters pavloved me into having a negative reaction whenever i see them"
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jenhedgehog · 7 years ago
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I saw your "Real Talk" post and I'm confused. First of all I'm not even in the su fandom (is that what it's called?) so could you maybe explain a bit more for a clueless anon? I'm just curious about what's all the fuss with the show and shipping
Hi,
No worries, I’ll try to explain it as best I can for you :)
(Putting this under a “Read More”)
(Also I’m censoring literally all the names with slashes because I don’t wanna get dogpiled lol - the truth is too much for some people in this fanbase, sadly)
Basically... there are two huge ships in the fandom - L//api//dot (Peri//dot X L//apis La//zuli) and A//med/ot (Perid//ot X Ameth//yst).
L//api//dot has always been wildly popular, even before the pair of them interacted on-screen, and became a ridiculously big crackship.
A//med/ot began because of a scene in one episode where Per//idot falls on top of Amet//hyst, which some people interpreted as being somehow “romantic”.  So, a few of them started trouble with the L//api//dots after that episode aired by spamming “your ship is now dead and ours is canon!” etc all over the place.  Thus, a shipping war was born.
Fast-forward a few months and Peri//dot finally meets Lap//is on-screen in an episode called Barn Mates that’s full to the brim of romantic undertones and symbolism.  Some fans took exception to this and accused the show’s writes of “pandering” to the L//a/pi/dot shippers (even though the episodes are written so far in advance that this would have been physically impossible). 
One of the writers of said episode was Lauren Zu//ke [who, for the sake of clarity and to avoid confusion, uses they/them pronouns].  Lauren has always been quite vocally in support of the Lapi//dot ship. So when Barn Mates aired, some people started getting a little pissy with them.
Another episode, called Beta, aired a couple of weeks later.  In this episode (which was again co-written by Zu//ke) we see Per//idot and Lap//is living together and behaving almost exactly like a married couple.  So then, some of the A//me/dots and anti-Lap//ido/ts actually started harassing Zu//ke on Twitter - accusing them of “queerbaiting” with A//me/dot (by instead making L//api/dot canon - which literally makes no sense because they’re both gay ships what the shit), calling them all sorts of horrible things like a “shit writer who’s ruined the show” and even having the audacity to tell them to “drawn A//me/dot instead” or “Am//e/dot is better” when they uploaded a L//api//dot pic)!
People will lead you to believe that, actually, none of this harassment at the hands of a few toxic A//med//ot/s and general haters ever happened.  But actually...
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...it totally did (this is literally a tiny little handful of the things that were said to Lauren at the time).
So, Lauren couldn’t deal with any more abuse - and they left Twitter.
A few months later, the antis still can’t deal with the prospect of canon L//ap/ido/t and won’t let their grudge against Lauren drop. So they latch onto a (now-proven fake) 4chan rumour which said that showrunner Rebe//cca Su//gar fired Zu//ke for forcing La//pid/ot into the show - which, for a start, would have been physically impossible for a storyboarder such as Lauren to do (not to mention, isn’t that strangely veeery in-line with what the antis were saying in the first place? Funny, that). They start spreading the rumour all over Tumblr and labelling it as a fact - and once again they harassed Z//uke over it - this time, here on Tumblr.
Lauren is, in fact, leaving the show - but of their own accord.  They still post about the show from time-to-time... including last night, where they jokingly said that they wish they’d had enough time on the show to “make Per//idot obsessed with fidget spinners”.  Some stupid little troll decided to sass Zu//ke directly by reblogging this post and saying something along the lines of “you’ve already ruined the character enough”.  Zu//ke actually sassed this little shit back - and all hell broke loose and led to yet more Zu//ke harassment.  Once again people are attacking them for being a “bad writer” and “forcing a ship into the show” and are even spouting the completely ludicrous claim that making Per//idot “obsessed” with fidget spinners is somehow ableist (because a few people in the fandom headcanon Per//idot as being autistic...)
In short, certain sections of this fanbase are literally a disgrace and value their precious OTP more than real human lives (yes, lives, because Zu//ke isn’t the only one who’s been harassed and bullied by these animals...  I’ve literally been sent death threats, amongst other things, by A//me/do/ts in the past lol).
tl;dr - this is what’s wrong with some of the people in our ridiculous fanbase:
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