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WCDT Strips 3516 to 3520 (3rd to 7th July 2017)
Neko_Ali:
One of the biggest female FoeYay fanships I've seen lately has been WidowTracer, from Overwatch. They're on enemy teams, pre-game banter shows they don't much like each other. Tracer is shown to be in a relationship, while Widowmaker is an emotionless husk who killed her own husband. Yet it's one of the most popular ships in Overwatch. To be fair, I have seen a number of explanations that could explain why they could be a couple, but none of that is supported in canon. Hasn't stopped anyone though, never does.
Case:
Awwwh, c'mon! It's obvious!
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MrNumbers:
So what I'm getting from this, then, is it's not that you guys have a problem with shipping, conceptually -- at least, not when it's written as a romantic piece instead of as an erotica piece -- you guys just have a problem in that most of the time it's done superficially or badly.
And, yeah, okay that's fair enough.
--- Quote ---If the fanfic writer actually takes time to write full character arcs that work with their established character, I don't mind so much.
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This would go a lot smoother for me if this were assumed to be the actual point, or at least the direction I approached this from. In the circles I choose to move in, it definitely is the whole point. "Then they fucked" isn't even a thing most of the time.
--- Quote ---The moderators would see a ton of difference between "Can two people with PTSD make a relationship work?" and "When are they going to fuck already?".
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Fantastic. The first one is so much more interesting. That's what I'm talking about here.
Like when I say I am one of the original Claire-Marten shippers, I mean I spent time thinking about how Marten would handle being in a relationship with a person who was way more passive than Dora, where he'd be the one taking the lead for once, and I spent approximately between nothing and bupkis thinking about her genitals. Bah.
Case:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 11 Jul 2017, 10:25 ---This would go a lot smoother for me if this were assumed to be the actual point, or at least the direction I approached this from. In the circles I choose to move in, it definitely is the whole point. "Then they fucked" isn't even a thing most of the time.
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Marigold hates you ...
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 11 Jul 2017, 10:25 ---
--- Quote ---The moderators would see a ton of difference between "Can two people with PTSD make a relationship work?" and "When are they going to fuck already?".
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Fantastic. The first one is so much more interesting. That's what I'm talking about here.
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You can see that and that's great.
To paraphrase Tommy Lee Jones slightly: You're a person. A person is smart. Fandoms are dumb, toxic animals who can leap to the wrong conclusion and become vicious when challenged and you know that. Fandoms can latch onto unhealthy ideas of what relationships entail and let them colour their view of the rest of the world. Which in turn can have a negative effect on others around them. Now, I'm not saying shipping is wrong, but I think we can all agree that we have seen the worst of it on the net.
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