#im not a hater guys (unless its a roach)

[davekat-sucks]

isnt jadenep/olive garden a popular ship in the fandom and even seen as canon by some via davepetasprite^2? ive also seen people even in the woked out sides of the fandom give them a bunch of love and all sorts of queer headcanons. im not saying you are lying or anything because toxic haters exist anywhere but where are you seeing all this nepeta and jade hate? it seems more common just to make them sapphics too and be a part of a bunch of other minority groups to than it is to brush them off as mere straight girls. i saw more people angry at jades character assassination than supporting it. of course a lot of the current hs team are former fans themselves so its clear jade haters are a thing in the fandom? but i just havent seen it be such a widespread thing. yes harleyberts/crocker english get less of the attention than strilondes but where is this huge amount of hate you are talking about? nepeta too cause… i just havent seen any of that. im just curious and if you have any good examples you can provide i would love to see it so i can get a good perspective and know what you are talking about.

JadeNep is a popular ship, yes. Part in thanks to an amazing blog that makes wonderful art, please go follow them. But what about the fans that don't headcanon the girls as queer? What about people who care about DaveJade or KatNep? Are they invalid because they are straight ships despite the fact it was canon in-story that the girls had feelings for the opposite sex? Even it is shown the guys would return their feelings. Moreso on Dave than Karkat, but even then, Karkats in Dream Bubbles were shown to be able to love Nepeta and return her feelings. So technically, it is possible. But as individuals separate from romance, they don't get the same kind of good treatment compared to Dave, Karkat, Vriska, Kanaya, or Rosemary. Not just in the fandom, but narrative as well. See Jade Harley on how she barely had more character development compared to the Strilondes. Mentions of Nepeta is only through "dead Nepeta" jokes. Most of which is uttered by KARKAT, her crush three fucking times (four if you count Epilogues where he even namedrops her potentially coming back from the dead during a FUNERAL). Doesn't help that when Nepeta became Fefepetasprite^2, she does not have speaking lines and is only for fanservice to look cute and funny before being killed off AGAIN. Even in HS2/Beyond Canon where she makes her appearance, she doesn't speak despite the supposed """"joke"""" that she is talkative. It's that depiction that gets shown publicly to the audiences/readers/fandom that makes people assume that Andrew Hussie, WhatPumpkin, James Roach, and HICU, do not give a shit about the two girls and the fandom should do the same. If they hear we liked them, they will berate us in some way in-universe narrative or through Patreon posts. There's barely little evidence that they do care about the fans that want better treatment for the two. The hate is more subconscious in that their presence is basically non-existent as individuals unless they are with someone or part of a joke. The only way for characters to be acknowledged is either A. They have to be with someone or B. They are a certain LGBT label Dave and Karkat are more remembered because of them being together. Less is actually about their character arc or struggles they had gone through with the webcomic. Same for Rose/Kanaya and Vrisrezi. Jade can only be remembered for a joke of having a dog dick or her affair with Rose because she conceived Yiffany. Nepeta can only be remembered through dead Nepeta jokes or needs Equius to push her up. Jade has a better chance to stand on her own because she is part of the main cast, but how her character went through in the main story and even in the shitty sequels like Epilogues and HS2/Beyond Canon, nobody wants to think that Jade is the same one as the base webcomic character..