#i used sonadow and blazamy as examples

[mahoutoons]

i've had this thought for a while now but i didn't know how to properly put it in words. but the short version is: sonic fandom, i do not like the way some of y'all treat wlw ships :/

in the recent years i've noticed blazamy is becoming an increasingly popular ship. which i appreciate because its a good ship which has a lot of potential. what i don't appreciate is the way its treated compared to mlm ships like sonadow.

because lets look at how people treat sonadow compared to blazamy. sonadow gets so much fanart, fanfic, aus etc where the content is deeper than "they're cute bfs". they're allowed to be angsty, messy, they're allowed to fight and argue. people can write essays upon essays about their dynamic and how they'd work as a romantic relationship. but when it comes to blazamy? all people can say about them is just "they're cute gfs who go shopping and paint each others nails :)" nothing about the potential angst of them being in seperate dimensions. nothing about how their opposite personalities would bring out the best in each other. unlike sonadow they're only ever depicted as "cute gfs" in fanworks and nothing else. even in fanfics they're just the background sapphic ship while sonadow is the main ship but they're rarely ever the main focus. and when they are the main focus, they're never fleshed out half as much as sonadow.

and unfortunately, the reason i think this happens is because people just ship blazamy so amy can be out of the way of sonadow. its also the way some of them only hc amy as a lesbian so the whole "crush on sonic" thing is explained away and she can be out of their mlm ship's way. they know that hating a female character for getting in the way of an mlm ship isn't acceptable anymore so they do the next best thing - hc her as a lesbian or pair her off with another female character just so she can be out of the way of their ship. this way they won't get accused of being sexist.

but.... this is just sexism with extra steps imo. this is just people using a wlw ship as an excuse to not have a female character in the way of an mlm ship. they don't even bother to flesh out the wlw ship beyond "cute gfs". they only ever talk about said ship when its in relation to their mlm ship. they only ever use female characters to uplift the male characters.

and before people start typing already, i am not saying every sonadow shipper who ships blazamy is like this and i am not saying you're not allowed to hc amy as a lesbian. if you want to hc her as a lesbian with comphet, go ahead, its all fun! what i have a problem with is people only doing it as a means to get a female character out of the way of an mlm ship, and as such treating her and the wlw ship she's in as props to uplift their mlm ship.

and no, this is NOT a sonadow hate post. this is just me talking about something i've noticed.

[lymooniee]

I was scrolling through tumblr posts because as one does lmao, I searched lesbian sonadow (I'm not sure why, I just adore the genderbent stuff so anyways), but I saw some talk about how there's never anything messy or angsty with blazamy or lesbian ships. Like it's always "cutesy hehe haha" and doesn't feel as real as when people characterize sonadow as a ship.

Honestly yeah I agree:(( I think the difficulty with wlw ships specifically in sonic for example, is that there's not always a lot of things to go off of canon wise (not an excuse btw I wish there was more realness displayed with Sapphic ships myself, unless you disclude whispangle), whereas shadow and sonic have a lot of conflict and tension to sort of base off of.

But then this had me thinking "I am an artist" therefore, I want to now make this kind of content HAHAH-- i think there can be plenty of things you could do to make blazamy way more interesting than two cute girls dating and being all cutie patootie.

I feel there can be a lot of interesting takes one could do when it comes to blazamy in regards to amy and her interest for Sonic and how that may make Blaze feel. I also feel these two balance well from one another similar to sonic and shadow, because of them being opposites but with similar morals and goals. It's so difficult to also characterize amy nowadays because we have SO MANY FLIPPING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF HER IT ACTUSLLY DRIVES ME INSANE IM NGL. Anyway, i feel using her hot headed personality would be the most realistic and as for blaze she's stubborn herself so you can also work a lot with that too. They're both also self sacrificial (similar to sonic and shadow cough) and both are typically underestimated even tho they're more than capable of handling themselves.

This is a lot of rambling, but I really do feel that there could be a lot more interesting content or storylines for these two and that it's sort of underrated as a ship because of this issue altogether. I adore sonadow myself, but I do love other ships as well ofc and idk. I know lesbianism is often portrayed in media with a tragedy (which also sucks because then they die in the end so yippeeee!!) But like that doesn't mean there can't be conflict because that's not how it works either. ok that's enough of me rambling sorry if i make zero sense i had no sleep