maybe it's just me, but i sometimes get worn out by the constant romantic shipping and like "oh this character tops this one" or "they fell in love at first sight" ababababa. don't get me wrong, i love to see romantic stuff but i just wanna see characters being friends. i wanna see them just hanging out and bonding

I feel the same way. Like it's not the shipping itself that tires my soul it's the way people will grab any two characters and go, "They're in love and you're wrong if you disagree." Or "They're canon, Hoyo told me." For literally every ship it's so exhausting. The characters will have like interacted twice and everyone's saying they're in love.

This fandom is so loud and aggressive about ships that I take a lot of pride in shitting on the most popular ones. Don't get me wrong I'd never go onto someone's page and loudly declare that their ship is stupid. Everyone deserves the right to like certain ships and one person's most hated ship might be someone else's comfort ship. But like ugh I wanna enjoy two character's friendship without having to see drawings of them making out. High key glad Hoyo threw Xiangling in with Xingqiu and Chongyun and Hu Tao. Such a good idea! I know they did because they're lazy writers but now I get the childhood besties squad instead of stupid Xingyun so a win is a win!

Like I said before I really like Xingqiu and Chongyun's friendship but the fandom made it something it isn't and their shippers are so fucking rude!! 😭

Like you could literally say outright on a post I only like them as friends and a whole bunch of shippers will flood the comments with hate it's so immature 😑