Hope you’ve enjoyed stevenbomb 3!
Terry in Batman Beyond 2.0 #16
imagine if people were born with traits based on their zodiac signs so like aries had ram horns and hoofs like a satyr and shit how rad would that be
i would be a giant fucking crab
I WOULD BE TWO FUCKING FISH
Virgin.
So nothing would change?
So for capricorns would we get both the goat horns and the fish tail?
i would not even be a living thing. I’M A FUCKING LIBRA
The Farty Martys in this fandom are wild
If you’re going to gatekeep, at least don’t insult our intelligence. You’re already insulting yours.
eyes literally roll out of skull
who. who in this entire fandom is saying ‘vidalia is literally 100% canon gay, her relationships with marty and yellowtail are a lie, she has never been attracted to or in love with a man in her entire life’. who??? just because some people (GASP) have found implications of a SLIGHTLY ROMANTIC NATURE in vidalia and amethyst blushing at each other repeatedly, vidalia calling her her inspiration, and vidalia maintaining an amethyst shrine with art of her she's painstakingly painted in her garage for at least a decade – that does not mean anyone is now claiming she’s exclusively gay, or that she had a canonical romantic relationship with amethyst. just that it’s a valid and fun interpretation based on what we’ve been shown in the text.
unlike, you know… pearl’s reaction to dewey just literally getting up and leaving the moment he initiates interaction with her, and then patting him on the head like a three-legged dog who bumped into a tree five times before bringing back the ball she threw him. which pewey shippers are now claiming is total canon proof that she’s going to fall in love and marry him…. somehow.
also, you know what else?? lgbtq people wanting to see themselves in characters who are not explicitly written as such is REALLY NOT COMPARABLE to straight people TAKING AWAY the characters who ARE. insinuating that is incredibly damn offensive. you know why? because every piece of media in the goddamn world has heaps upon heaps of heterosexual romance. gay romance, you have to look for with a microscope. and the ONE TIME we are given a character who is EXPLICITLY WRITTEN AS A LESBIAN, y'all gonna go and makes us look like ~irrational bullies~ for being kinda pissy at the straight people pairing her off to the first dude who shows (completely onesided!!!!) interest in her.
great. luv it. thanks a lot
Don’t pretend you care about bi and pan people, we are not here to help you build strawmen op.
I want fucking more bi people. I want pan so bad! But “having” it at the cost of ignoring a woman’s lack of interest, of treating the smallest kindness as proof of romantic interest is something I see enough of irl. That is not actual representation, that’s gross.
Once again, I notice the default is always to first erase the sexuality of someone who ships the “wrong” thing.
I’m pansexual. I see myself in the characters. Many of the other shippers currently being harassed in the ship tags with those exact same arguments are also LGBT+. They see themselves in the characters. So we invent little stories and art from our perspective and experiences and share them. What now?
In case you missed it the first time, since I know you folks love to overlook these things, I’ll repeat in bold for you.
I’m pansexual. I see myself in the characters. Many of the other shippers currently being harassed in the ship tags with those exact same arguments are also LGBT+. They see themselves in the characters. So we invent little stories and art from our perspective and experiences and share them.
What, indeed, now?
I’ve heard all those same tired “reasonings” against the ship in my original post. It’s why I used them. And just like the convenient comprehension of that example, you both once again just ignore the fact that there ARE LGBT+ who enjoy this ship for their own reasons, instead choosing to bully them as “straights” because that’s apparently simpler and more polarizing than accepting the reality that people do things differently than you. You are reading my OP as a jab at Vidalia shipping. Oh wait, except I ship/draw that too.
The point of that post was illustrating the hypocrisy of not practicing what you preach about strict adherence to canon when harassing someone over a ship.
I have yet to see an explanation of how a fandom ship impacts the canon show in any way, shape, or form. It’s fandom. If every ship on Tumblr is automatically destined to become canon simply by existing, we’re in for a long third season full of a lot of confusion and heartbreak. Except fandom does not have a bearing on whatever happens canonly in any way, shape or form.
There are no angry picket lines outside CN demanding Pearl and Mayor Dewey become canon.
No Change.org petition.
It isn’t a topic in the primary elections.
No one shipping it is planning to take over the animation studio and make a bootleg episode.
No one shipping it is chanting to shadowy shipping gods to smite all other ships.
In fact, I have yet to see a shipper in the tag deny Pearl’s love of Rose, hell, I ship/draw that too. Multishipping, what a concept!
You have a pic of Lauren Zuke saying “no”. Okay. Go you. I have a screen of Rebecca Sugar saying ship all the things, long before they had to babysit this fandom. She’s drawn Greg x Garnet, Greg x Opal, all for fun, the way shipping is supposed to be. And we’re both fans of Mayor Dewey’s VA/inspiration, Joel Hodgson.
So, again, what now?
Maybe, just maybe, you blacklist the ship name and leave people who see themselves in it to it. The tags are “Pewey” and “Pearl x Mayor Dewey”, most everyone is very good at tagging it.
Because seriously. Fandom shipping doesn’t affect anyone until they choose to be a dick about it.
Here’s to the slutty bisexuals
The prudish aces
The lesbians with short hair
The flamboyant gay men
Just because you fit a sterotype, it doesn’t mean you are less important
