Now, Xena springs to mind after a moment of reflection. But the producers knew EXACTLY what they were doing. They just couldn't do it openly at the time. Fans filled the gap, turned it iconic.
People send death threats before the movie is even made haha. Shipping isn't the issue, it's the entitlement, the audacity, the toxicity. I've seen people send death threats to a fast food review channel for rating Taco Bell's latest burrito a 4/10.
As long as humans have told stories, we have made up our own with other people's characters. And adding a bit of romance is one of the all time classic tales.
I was playing Monopoly with some friends and I attacked Boardwalk and annexed it. They claimed I wasn't playing by the rules!
Lololololol! Made up rules in a made up game?? Seriously! These people.
But seriously, these people who obsess over canon do so because they view fandom and shipping as a competition, and fanon ships freak them out because it means there are people who DON'T view it as a competition to be won, and how do you win against those people
TRUE! I mean, the whole point of fanart and shipping is to consider what would this character look like with that character and let's have some fun with it 🤭🤭🤭 It's not that deep!
it's funny in the saddest way possible tbh 😂 like i laugh bc otherwise i'd cry, i think. imagine having so little imagination that you can't see something canon hasn't explicitly laid out and set up for you.
[madame faruzan voice] back in my day we had cross-canon ships in massive nexus RPs!
They're afraid my massive longread about two adorable yet lonely sinners finding redemption and love in a coffee shop during the apocalypse is so compelling that the network makes their love canon.
It's so disappointing that people are still doing this. I've seen it the entire time I've been in fandom, except back in the day it was canon het couple shippers telling people who liked gay ships "you can't ship them because they're straight in canon, stop making everyone gay" etc.
whenever I see people saying that I check their profile and they seem 12 and then it makes more sense I guess. though when I was 12 I was shipping the guys from MCR with each other.
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But that's the exception, IMO.
I want to stop insane fans from sending death threats to creators for not acknowledging their ship.
3 Canon ships out of literally dozens
OUR FUCKING SHIP WAS CANON.
https://shipping.fandom.com/wiki/Janto
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ianto%27s_Shrine
I was playing Monopoly with some friends and I attacked Boardwalk and annexed it. They claimed I wasn't playing by the rules!
Lololololol! Made up rules in a made up game?? Seriously! These people.
do these people know what shipping even is
[madame faruzan voice] back in my day we had cross-canon ships in massive nexus RPs!
I mean it has happened, just not to me. Yet.