No One Has To Fight About This - Tumblr Posts

I don’t think tumblr is - I think *some users* are.

For that matter, you’re giving it different pronouns than it explicitly asks for. (You use “they” in the context of its sentience and that’s a little big for a typo.) I’m not a shipper myself, but I gather it’s a tool - like gender or species or environmental conditions - to process how the relationships between characters interact with their personalities. People have reflexive paradigms that are go-tos for processing characters and shipping is a popular one. It doesn’t seem (as far as I can tell from a lot of study) have that much to do with the characters themselves. It’s about the writers and their interests/preoccupations/curiosities.

I think that’s different from interpreting the shipping of aromatic, asexual, agender, etc characters as an attempt to overwrite the characters’ original forms. Fanfic is a self-centric exercise of expression. Being mad about it is a bit like being angry that someone’s using your favorite color in an art style you hate, or to paint something that doesn’t *come* in that color. (Like if someone did a labeled carton of orange juice and made it blue. Same level of mismatch, but hopefully in a context less crucial to you.) OJ will continue to be orange, and their depictions don’t do anything to refute that. What’s the problem?

ETA: -signed, an aroace gender indifferent person who used to ALSO be deeply offended by people shipping (goddamnit) the only cool aspec character I’d ever seen.

i will never understand the murderbot shipping community. like the entire point is that murderbot has no interest in anything beyond friendship. that includes queer platonic partnerships its just not interested. and that's ok and doesn't mean they aren't fully sentient. that's a major theme of the character.

so why is Tumblr insistent that its pining away for gurathin