#i don’t like catradora bc they’re uwu representation they’re like. more compelling than half the couples on that poll | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dashiellqvverty · 1 year ago

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are people like. aware that all the ships from kids cartoons currently winning in the femslash polls are like. canon as well as very central to their shows?? you don’t have to like cartoons to each their own but SOMETIMES the way people talk about them im like oh so you know nothing about these shows. i am saying this as someone who dislikes both lum.ity and c.honi (for very different reasons) like i have no stake in who wins that poll.

i am just like you know luz is Thee main character right?? you know catradora was the whole plot of the show right??? no they’re not good because they’re representation that alone is not enough to make something a good ship (see: lumi/ty but also ch/oni) they’re good because they’re like. interesting and fleshed out characters. catradora and lu/mity and korrasami and bubbline aren’t showing up in the top 100 because they’re frequent side pairings in m/m fics like none of those fandoms have m/m ships that even compare in popularity. like not that this isn’t a larger problem of femslash ships (and like the preference for sanitized couples Is A Thing as well 100%) but like that is not what’s happening Here

#amphibia too. every possible combination of the three girls was in the top 100 #there aren’t even guys to ship together really #again i’m only speaking for kids cartoons bc idk any of the animes in the current polls #and idk shit about genshin impact or whatever #anyway i saw a post earlier and it just felt like it was conflating a lot of things. that are all separately larger issues #but very few of them are relevant to this situation #and i am very interested in the larger subject of why wlw are more prevalent in kids cartoons specifically. like compared to mlm in cartoons #lu/mity is boring as hell though and absolutely fit into the ‘mash them into an archetype’ thing #but again it’s not like there are other more popular owl house ships #but like ‘this ship is better bc they have sex’ they are different shows for different audiences. one of those is not inherently better.#i don’t like catradora bc they’re uwu representation they’re like. more compelling than half the couples on that poll #i did my time in orphan black and the 100 fandom in high school #i HATE clexa they WISH they were catradora #r.txt #i don’t want to seem like i’m saying this stuff doesn’t matter i’m just like this is what’s prompting these conversations??#all this for C/HONI??????

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