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yourhoeshorses · 1 year ago

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Wait a second... can someone with more understanding of fandom cultures explain something to me?

Do people ship characters because they believe they are going to be a cannon thing????? I thought it was just for fun?? I'm like, oh these two characters seem fun together, what if they dated. I just be mixing and matching these bitches I legit dgaf if it actually happens or not.

Maybe it's just whatever weird end of tiktok I'm on, or maybe it's just something I never picked up on until now, but like,,, people will say, "oh these ships are invalid cuz they won't be cannon" OK????? AND??? It's just fun

Like I remember being a kid and watching shows and my friends being like oh did you see that (insert ship name) scene???? Like girl I don't care. Two characters could never have interacted and I'm gonna ship them.

And that's all I thought it ever was? Is it like,, different now or some shit?

#this is totally unrelated to sso btw #i want to make art for shows and games im into but man.... it just feels like im inviting fandom people in when i do #and dont get me wrong #its very emotionally rewarding to build an audience for my art #but after the weird ass shit i went through with the metal family fandom im like #mildly traumatized #just a LIIIIIIITTLE more apprehensive about who is going to be consuming my art #cuz like #last time i was a part of a very active fandom #id get comments on pictures of myself saying i look like a certain anime character #or id have my art taken an posted somewhere else online with some other persons water mark put over it #or worse yet have my art be posted onto a proship fan art account and then getting all those freaks on my art #IF i was even credited #im such a person of quiet or dead fandoms #i feel elderly when im interacting with a fan base thats more popular #also #this whole ramble in the tags is not entirely related to creating ship content either #yes i would make ship art of appropriate character's but also like... just my art in general #anyways #this is just a long winded way of saying i watched the amazing digital circus pilot and really enjoyed it and feel super inspired by it but #and not to be like an angry old man and say “raugh!!! the fandom is weird!!!”#but id rather.... not... interact with the fandom #at least the portion ive seen anyway #just the random discourse i see in comment sections #its got me scratching my head a little

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