This is a
cross-post from the
Voltron thread.
I got this thought last night right as I was falling asleep, but it's a legitimate question that needs to be asked: How many of these fans who're whining about their ship are actual
fans? I'm serious, if they're actual fans of the series their OTP's from, they wouldn't let their ship sinking get them this upset about everything, especially when fan fiction is just a form of harmless entertainment.
Voltron, for example, has become extremely infamous for its shipping discourse, which take up the
majority of the discourse in the fandom. A lot of these Klance (and others, but mostly Klance) shippers claim they liked it up to a certain point, and while there
are good criticisms about the final season(s), most of it just boils down to "BUT MUH GAYS". Some of them seem to realize there's so much more to the show than just representation, such as the lore, soundtrack, animation, character arcs/development, designs, etc. that make the show what it is, and they do appreciate those at the very least.
But the shippers? The ones who're whining and throwing tantrums over their OTP not becoming canon? The ones who're making their own AU(s) to pass it off as canon? Are we
sure they're actual fans and weren't just parasites latching on to it because the show had pretty boys? The same goes for every other series, especially those with rabid yaoi fangirls even if the series isn't that super gay.
Just makes me think of this one piece of writing advice from many years back that rings true:
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Without having seen
Voltron, I can at least tell the show didn't fail in this regard. Yet the shippers,
ironically, don't see it that way because they're just
that adverse to conflict. Apparently in their eyes, problems and character flaws literally go away the moment the balls touch.
