#i like EVERY WLW SHIP

[heatmiiiiser]

Ggrrr I wish disenchantment was better. I binged it all because I'm sick somebody talk to me about this.

[clouvu]

Save me french yuri... Save me

[yangscowlick]

Because the “shrodinger’s queerbait” nonsense will never go away, indulge me an analogy (and a long post).

wlw ships are the “made from scratch” cake in a world where we only ever expect cake mix from the box.

Say you have a show where, in the first interaction between a male and female character, there is a red box. It could be a Betty Crocker box of cake mix. Because all it takes is just one smile — one wink — one raised eyebrow— and the fans don’t question it. We’re clearly making a cake here. The box is red.

Meanwhile, you have two female characters building their own relationship that have elements that could build to romance. There are eggs in the fridge. A few more episodes, there’s flour in the pantry. Sugar. Baking powder. Queer fans start whispering…we could be making a cake here. Other fans scoff “you will read into anything. They’re just eggs! Everyone has eggs in their fridge!” Maybe so, maybe not. They are written off as discrete ingredients, nothing to see here.

That red box is still sitting in the pantry. Obviously we’re going with that one, and it’s definitely cake mix. That guy and girl stood next to each other again.

The wlw relationship is now full-on batter. It was a cake recipe all along, but it’s not baked yet. The crowd that wrote off every ingredient is now saying the writers are just going to “squander” that box that could be ready-made cake mix or that they’re being “forced” to bake a cake with the very ingredients the writers deliberately bought and put in their pantry.

Now it’s in the oven, the cake is baking. That crowd will still insist it’s forced, or maybe its actually something else, or it’s rushed, or it’s pandering. Whether the writers painstakingly built a pantry to make the cake they truly wanted or they were cultivating good ingredients and realized they had the fixings for a more decadent cake and went there, it doesn’t matter. It’s still a recipe. One that fans who always have to piece together ingredients had hoped for or saw from the get-go, despite being scoffed at and disparaged. Just because that crowd didn’t see (or refused to see) those ingredients as part of a whole, doesn’t make it any less of a recipe.

And wlw fans shouldn’t have to keep writing essays to demonstrate that the wlw “cake” has all the ingredients every cake mix does, or keep pointing out that fans were ready to believe a cake was being baked when they saw a nondescript box, but that they’ll do anything to discredit or doubt the cake from scratch that’s now cooling off on the counter.

It is partly a function of heteronormativity from the audience in immediately seeing romance in any whisper of interaction between m/f characters and passing off all charged interactions between female characters are sisterly or platonic. And it also comes from writers, who are either being cautious so as not to spook corporate overlords or audiences, or who are preserving plausible deniability.

To take the analogy further, box cake mix is fine! It works! It is, practically speaking, what a lot of folks know by default. I thought I was a Duncan Hines girl once myself. Vanilla cake mix has the ingredients measured out, it’s a safe bet, it tastes like cake.

But it doesn’t mean every red box is cake mix. And it doesn’t make the cake that had to be pieced together from scratch due to censorship, caution, time, narrative build-up, what-have-you, any less of a cake.

[inkcovens]

constantly stuck between the idea of "we need more strong female friendships in media!" and "but what if they kissed"

[jackoino]

im worried i want you with the power of a thousand suns burning as one

[the-bobest-bob]

Okay who's gonna be my homoerotic best friend who's also j as sexy and hot as me and we go on adventures together and everyone ships us but it will never be canon cause we're both in a straight relationship with partners that we have little to no chemistry with that diminishes both partners character potential to just a sad hetero relationship to stop the gays

[alilaro]

those damned anime weebs were right, Neon Genesis Evangelion really does go fucking hard

[fraudulent-cheese]

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A DOODLE… it just spiraled. The power of yuri cats i guess

if you can't tell, yes this is a courtzzy thing. Designs made by @popstart and here's link to them both

[piperslovebot]

So let's say it's working out

You pretend to love his mother

Lying to your friends about

How he's such a goddamn good lover

Gwikki - Femininimenon (Chappell Roan)

[musicalmoritz]

I want to live in a universe where Aoinene has the exact same popularity and overload of content as SatoSugu

[eerna]

@ everyone who mistakes my Jacin for a lesbian: you make my life brighter

[randomzstuffzlolz]

Every wlw Ninjago ship

cuz I can

Acidrain - Nya x Tox

Ambergas - Skylor x Tox

Amberphoenix - Skylor x Nya

Amberprincess - Skylor x Harumi

Fluid - Nya x Chamille

Jadewolf - Harumi x Akita

Jadeamberphoenix/Amberwaterjade - Nya x Harumi x Skylor

Jetfaith - Jet Jack x Faith

Mirror - Skylor x Chamille

Nightshade(also known by 20 other names) - Chamille x Tox

Pixrumi - Pixal x Harumi

Playdate - Nya x Dogshank

Polyponytail - Nya x Skylor x Pixal

Riptide - Nya x Ultraviolet

Royalty - Vania x Harumi

Samurai - Nya x Pixal

Scroll - Misako x Aspheera

Stolendata - Skylor x Pixal

Sunrise/Sunset - Vania x Skylor

Violent - Harumi x Ultraviolet

Viper - Aspheera x Machia

Waterjade - Nya x Harumi

Watercloud/Vanya - Vania x Nya

Wetdog - Nya x Akita

Windtech - Sora x Euphrasia

If I forgot something or got a name wrong please let me know!

[emilyskinners]

I find it so funny that 14 year old little me who was a multishipper that was shipping so many ships with the og main four of hsmtmts, would not BELIEVE the shit if i told them about what happens later on

[llycaons]

imply women might like each other romantically to see celibacy defenders and 'stop being horny' warriors crawl out of the woodwork I guess

[lith-myathar]

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[fraudulent-cheese]

Eva should've been the character ppl ship with basically everyone ngl