Fandom Blues - Tumblr Posts

Shipping rarepairs means reading the same 3 fics someone wrote for your ship 8 years ago. Knowing the plot up and down, but still reading them anyway.

Shipping rarepairs means not being taken seriously by the fandom when you try to explain your ships. It means sometimes lying about them because you don't want to have to explain again.

Shipping rarepairs means having the ideas, but not having the motivation to write them because you feel like you have no one to share it with.

Shipping rarepairs means that you live in a world where some ships never seem to run out of content, but yours did before it even started.

It means clinging to the driftwood that shouldn't be gloating at all while a bunch of people speed by on a yacht.

Shipping rarepairs means that you have all of the fanfiction sites still. Even the ones that have graded or are 'cringy' because you hope to find the ship somewhere in the depths.

Shipping rarepairs means that the only content you have is either A/B/O or a cringy joke fic. It means that there are unfinished works that haven't been updated for years. It means not even having a page on AO3. It means scrolling through the same tags on Tumblr again and again.

It means looking at the WIP you have for the fanfic you wrote, but not finishing it because you know no one will read it.