#idk man i'm highkey guilty of shipping this

[areallyyellowmango]

The best way to practice cracking open walkers’ heads is cracking open a cold one with the boys.

[boilingheart]

i know its not quite the same scenario as navy seal, but ive highkey avoided ever talking about or publicly enjoying poly pirates content for the same kind of reason, but instead bc it involves shipping jay and chip.

like. yes, i know many people (including the jerboys) interpret them as having a more sibling-esque bond. I fully acknowledge it and I can even agree w it!* but i hate how it has been made that any other interpretation is not only wrong but also bad.

idk man like. i just hate how it feels like enjoying any dynamic of poly-pirates outside of fnc is wrong-- bc at that point, what is the point?

*i personally tend to see the two as very close, but the specifics of whether that closeness is platonic/familial or romantic depends on interpretation (whether of the individual, author, etc). they're two people who've found connection and safety in each other and also enjoy ribbing the other for jokes- what specific type of connection that is can vary for me, yknow? the type isnt the Core of their dynamic to me

(sorry the asterisk part got so long i just want to properly explain myself and dump a bit fjkdsjf)

Oh yeah, I'm 1000% with you on this. I mentioned navyseal cause that's my personal guilty pleasure that I am highkey obsessed with but had to keep it on the downlow after twitter decided it was just as bad as inc*st apparently (as someone who is very very deeply uncomfortable and revolted by that type of stuff in genuine, that shit pissed me off!!!), but this absolutely applies to Chip and Jay and polypirates as a whole. Hell, when I first started the show and didn't really have much fandom influence in my first 30 something episodes I was actually way more of a poly enjoyer

Anyways, as a whole I do sincerely think Chip and Jay work better as a platonic bond, I like this interpretation of their relationship better than romantic, but that doesn't necessarily make the ship bad or wrong you know? Literally ditto to everything you said in your asterisk I couldn't word it better myself.

Like bruh it really felt like these characters are stuck being bitchless fr LOL that whole twitter debacle made it feel like the only CORRECT ships were fnc and pistolwhip (as if fnc doesn't Also have some of the same dynamics listed in navyseal and chip/jay!! (although im certainly keeping my mouth shut further on that since people have started gunning to convince people fnc is a Bad Boring Ship, Actually, and it's better platonic (unrelated to the wlw vs mlm take that just happened there, big disclaimer (I spend too much time on twitter can u tell... there's so many shipwars there for no reason...))) anyways yeah there was just too many people trying to police these ships and instead of just being NORMAL and saying "oh X isn't my cup of tea I enjoy a familial/platonic bond between them instead" they start bending over backwards to prove that ACTUALLY it's PROBLEMATIC, SEE? And sourcing the boys' opinions on it doesn't Wholly matter to ships (unless it's in regards to boundaries, in which it Absolutely Matters) cause Bizly regularly dunks on fnc and that hasn't changed anything

This got very long winded sorry LOL I've been holding onto this irritation for a while now, it's one of the reasons why I'm trying to move away from twitter and come back to tumblr tbh. It is simply fandom culture to ship, and while I love fnc to absolute death as my main ship here, it's nice to explore some variety yk? navyseal has CRAZY potential cause of their parallels and their journey of self discovery and how much they deeply care for each other, polypirates is just a lot of fun altogether cause of all their personalities and that shared strong bond, then you have swordfish, fish² and chips, caspian/chip, marshall john/gillion, like, multishipping is FUN dude. Unless it's GENUINELY problematic or Actual Proshipping like twitter Claimed, I don't see the big idea. There is such thing as "Don't like, don't read". There is such thing as muting/blocking words and curating your own experience. You don't have to put down others because their enjoyment of something clashes with your personal interpretation of it. It's fandom bro!!!

[levyfiles]

Asdfg sorry that I'm coming to u for this but I'd say you're the best at givin advice for fandom related stuff so- oof. Like,,I'm somebody who ships shyan but I really don't want it to get to the boys. I'm fully aware its just fiction. But bcs of all the drama stuff ATM (which BTW, I'm disgusted by) I feel highkey unwelcome?? Like,,a huge part of the fandom call fellow fans horrible things due to an interest that's in most cases is harmless and respectful. Idk man, I just feel really guilty.

There are three tags we use for shipping stuff exclusively. That’s #sh/yan, #sk/eptic believer, and #otp: gho/ulfriends. If anything you have is nsfw then bring it over the #b/uzzfeed unclean.

I haven’t as of yet met a shy/an shipper that thinks any of the stuff we talk about, write and draw is real but I don’t hold out on uninformed faith all the time but every shipper I have met so far isn’t the othering caricature that antis like to paint to make themselves feel like sending hate, posting negativity in the tag, and polarising the entire community is the righteous thing to do. As far as the shippers being the target of ire, it just strikes me and a few other people I’ve spoke to as Odd because the mis-tagged post wasn’t even shy/an. 

Like I said to a previous anon, the antis may be loud in the tags but that’s the beauty of the block button, start using it; use it as often as you like until you can look at the tags and notice all the cool stuff people have put in there. I am currently following a total of 350 blogs and it’s a LOT more than the few people in the tags who I’ve had blocked for months. Just because they’re loud and singing the same song over and over to hammer in the projection of shame and insecurity, doesn’t mean they’re a huge part of the fandom. They’re a sad, angry subset with nothing new to say.