Okay, y'all. Let's talk about shipping, and I'll even expose myself, fuck it, let's go:
I don't ship or like Reylo or Dramione, and yet I am a slut for Anidala and Buffy/Angel, who are easily just as Problematique when you unpack all of canon
I don't ship or like SessRin, and yet one of my favorite "love stories" of all time is low-key the most Grooming one of all: The Phantom of the Opera
I don't ship or like InuCest, Kaname/Yuki, Elsanna, let alone incest pairings as a whole, and yet one of my favorite manga of all time is Angel Sanctuary. AND I also ship Cesare/Lucrezia!! (both in the TV show The Borgias, and the manga, Cantarella)
I generally don't do cross-species/monsterfucking ships, and yet. Ancient Magus Bride exists. Beauty and the Beast exists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I generally dislike Adult x Minor pairings, and yet CLAMP's Chobits has one of the cutest side pairings that is incredibly fucked up in the real-world setting (Ueda x Yumi; ikyk). But then again, CLAMP created another Large-Age-Gap pairing in Cardcaptor Sakura that I absolutely DESPISE (Rika x Terada ugh), and yet, in the SAME SERIES ALSO wrote one of the most Wholesome Ships Imaginable (Sakura x Syaoran) AND one of the earliest examples of an Iconic Gay Pairing (Touya x Yukito)
Hell, despite my issues with Large-Age-Gaps, I have a soft spot for Amu/Ikuto from Shugo Chara!, and Nephrite/Naru from Sailor Moon. And yet, I'm squicked the FUCK out of Snape/Harry, Snape/Hermione, etc. Nope. Not my thing
I'm also generally not a fan of the "Male Love Interest consciously/openly threatening to harm/kidnap/assault Female MC" trope and yet!! My biggest guilty pleasure is Alice in the Country of Hearts!! Not to mention several other manga/anime titles I could name!! It's a common trope that I like in some stories, and hate in others!!!!!! Shocking!!!
My point is, you can dislike certain "problematic" ships/media all you like, but don't cast stones in glass houses. We all have our Problematic Faves, peeps, whether you want to admit it or not. Just because You Like It doesn't make it morally exempt from the ones You Don't Like. Ship and let ship, don't like don't read, learn to curate your fandom experience.
And honestly? As a former Puritanical Anti, embracing my trash without needing to justify it (however tame it is by comparison to some, or weird it is to others) has been the most liberating thing in my fandom experience. Give it a try; I highly recommend.
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It’s quite annoying to me how they treated Wallace in the Master’s Eight too. He is a champion, or at least champion level and is literally only used to flaunt how strong Ash is now. Most of the battle happens off screen!
Right??? Like I know a lot of peeps in this fandom just forgets that Wallace was ever a Champion and Steven will always be the default Hoenn Champion but like💀 it's stated again and again Wallace is a Champion, he's a strong trainer, even Steven in the manga thinks he couldn't live up to Wallace's legacy as Hoenn's Champion, if anything he's more deserving to be in the M8 than Alain
And god the fucking off screen battles I fucking hated how they handled Diantha's battle with Leon like the episode was just abt a kid who lost her pkmn and when Cyn and Ash got back Dia's on her last Mon like that's so shit man if they wanna make Leon strong let people see why he's strong, let people see him strategize too, let people see him struggle against another fucking Champion that got to the semi finals against him, cause honest to god the way they handled that fight looks like they gave Leon gameshark cheats💀
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i just think cupid and blondie should get wasted in their dorm room.
cupid ends up an emotional mess and cries while blondie sits trying to comfort her even though she is currently struggling to stay up and keeps spacing out every 10 seconds
five minutes later blondie is desperately trying to stop cupid from calling her ex for a booty call.
after an awkward call where abbey reminds cupid she has a boyfriend which leads to the cherub drunkenly yelling and eventually crying into blondies shoulder, the two girls somehow end up making out on the floor.
blondie wakes up on the front lawn of a school called monster high with the worse hangover ever and heart shaped lipstick marks everywhere and decides maybe the idea of never drinking again (or at least not with cupid) sounds just right.
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have some more villain au stuff hahaha
In that lil ending where Diantha won and made Iris her successor and such, imagine if that's how Iris actually finds out abt the predictions tho
Like maybe she's also doing a lil survey and such w the Gym Leaders, and not like Diantha would actually replace them, they've been so loyal to her, but ofc it's just smth she lets Iris do so she wouldn't be bored or anything
And just, she got to Anistar, watching over Olympia and her battle, and it's all going well yknow, the challenger lost, and Olympia is there watching em leave, and yknow it's all cool w Iris, she was abt to leave too, then Olympia stops her, saying "the queen's successor, your visit reminded me.. how she would watch me."
"what..?"
"she was just so young.. then I saw her own future, so dreary and bleak."
"you.. you knew this was going to happen?"
"yes, I sadly do. Yet I've done nothing to help. We had so much faith."
"..."
"Princess of Kalos, on behalf of everyone, forgive us our sins."
"...you knew.. you knew this was gonna happen. You all knew, didn't you?"
"I apologize. The faith we placed onto her.. became her downfall."
"you could've stopped her."
"she could've killed us—"
"she was just a child!" Iris yelled, her own heartbeat quickened, all of this, all of the death and destruction, it all could've been prevented from the start. "She was a child when you saw her future and you didn't help her change it?!"
"..my dearest princess.. destiny is powerful.. her fate has been set."
"no.. it wasn't. Her fate wasn't set in stone, you all knew, you psychics knew, and instead of helping her you left her and shunned her and pushed her into becoming monster she is now." And God yknow it was all too much for Iris, to hear all of that from Olympia, to hear how a lot of people already knew, already saw so many warning signs, and yet they had so much faith in a child that they believe would be the hope of their region. But that was it ig, Diantha was just a child during all that, a child, and they knew what's gonna happen to her but they had so much goddamn faith in a child to overcome that darkness by herself. Only for that child to be consumed by it, and now it's too late to salvage any light that's left within her.
God imagine how pissed Iris would be tho, that she had to witness the deaths of so many of her closest friends and family, and it all could've been prevented if the people of Kalos just didn't see their Champion as someone who was shackled to a future that they could've changed.
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