#very random but I’m thinking about that animaniacs family fic again

[oobbbear]

do u think courtney would get along with the animaniacs?

Oh they’ll be besties with Wakko you can’t change my mind

Also fun fact both of them are canonically non-binary

I should watch the show again you reminds me I had this hyperfixation some years ago (this started out as an animaniacs fanart blog actually)

[bro-ken-spoon]

I just want to know why people are shipping Yakko and Max so much, and I thought I might as well ask a Yax writer. I personally don't see it, but then again, I'm not normal.

So, I don't know how serious of an answer you want here, but all I can give you is my personal opinion, so I'll just do that! I can't speak for everyone in the fandom, though.

Basically, when I first hyperfixated on animaniacs in November following the reboot, I didn't have any ships. There really isn't anything to go on there that isn't extremely gross and unacceptable, so I was just like meh, sure, I don't need to ship. I wrote some regular, platonic sibling fluff, mostly focused on Yakko. I (and it seems, many others in this fandom) love to explore Yakko's character. I love all three Warner siblings, but there's something interesting to me about Yakko (especially the fanon perception of Yakko) so that's something I focused on a lot in my early fandom work from November when the reboot came out to around January.

Around January, I saw some fanart of Yakko and Max Goof. I remembered Max from my own childhood, grew up watching his movies, and immediately recognized him positively. I laughed at the ship a little bit, at first. It seems like a bonafied crack ship at first glance, just two random toons.

But then I started to think about it a little harder. They're both around the same age (though I know there's controversy there I won't get into) they're both dog toons, they're from different companies so there's a lot of potential for star-crossed lovers and the like. Their dynamics fit really well, too, with Max feeling like he has to try to be cool all the time and Yakko not really caring so long as you're a good person. They're both family oriented, but in different ways. Despite Max being Goofy's son, he's often forgotten outside of one-off references every now and then, something that's true of the Warner Siblings as well.

Of course, they've never interacted with each other, and I don't think they ever will, but that is part of the appeal for me. I can put them in a thousand different worlds and do whatever I want with them. I can pull these two characters who have both been immensely important to my life, put them in any scenario I want, and watch them fall in love over and over again.

So, when I was bored at work in January and started to write on one of the notepads, I introduced Max to my world of animaniacs fics. And I'm glad I did. I have found a very supportive community of people who understand me and hype up my writing.

I know I might get some hate for this as I know there are people who don't agree with the ship, but I wanted to answer this ask earnestly. You might not see the appeal, and that's okay! It's more of a vibe, really, a potential to write for a whole new world that keeps me going. And that's really what inspires me!

Hope that answers your question!