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If you ever say “there is no heterosexual explanation for this” please try to look qt it without shipping goggles cause I s2g 99% of the time there’s is a heterosexual explanation and its called friendship

The concept of friendship, much like the concept of family, seems to be fading from the minds of a certain section of the population.

The bonds that can happen between people can be varied, multifaceted, horrible, and wonderful. And they don’t have to have anything to do with wanting to have sex with anyone.

The international fanbase went insane after chapter 125 of Tokyo Ghoul leaked online. Scanners quickly translated the chapter and fans were eager to read it, but a large segment of the fanbase went apeshit upon learning that Kaneki and Touka have sex!

If you’ve read Tokyo Ghoul from the start or watched the anime, you’ll know that it is obvious that Kaneki and Touka have feelings for each other. But, a dedicated segment of fans were adamant that Kaneki and his male best friend Hide would end up as a couple…only to have their ship destroyed by Sui Ishida.

Most fanbases have ravenous shipping wars, and it’s not uncommon for popular ships to sink because they don’t fit into the story. Even Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima had to plead with his fans to stop attacking each other based on shipping.

Sadly, Tokyo Ghoul fans didn’t get the message as they promptly attacked Ishida on social media with claims that he is homophobic and sharing pictures burning Tokyo Ghoul manga copies. Some fans even demanded that Ishida commits suicide while sharing their joy in pirating the series instead of legally supporting their once favorite manga.

However, there are Tokyo Ghoul fans who are teaming up to show Ishida their appreciation for his work and to counter-balance the vile comments towards him. The Tokyo Ghoul subreddit is planning on a campaign to send Ishida positive messages and fanart using the hashtag #IshidaAppreciation around May 27th or June 1st.

Tokyo Ghoul is an insanely popular series and attracts all kinds of fans that get invested into the series. But it’s like Mashima said, “Authors cannot fulfill every wish their fans have. We have our own conviction when creating our stories.”

@rainbowloliofjustice @tenaflyviper @plebcomics   they’re at it again……

Maybe the art store needs to carry guns ammo and body armor?

The most wild thing I ever did for a ship war was stopped talking to a friend. And we both had 12 when that happened. But this? Wtf.

Did you hear about the Gunman Arrested at Phoenix Comicon Claimed He’s The Punisher and Wanted to Kill Jason David Frank.?

or 

The  Taiwan fanartist who was offered hand made cookies at a comic convention. Only to find out they have needles inside and pierced her tongue. The Taiwan fanartist Avimedes posted this on her plurk yesterday (https://www.plurk.com/p/m80zjc )

Just when you thought the Zamii issue was it,they just keep getting worse.

@girls-to-avoid imagine being a writer and making a complex, fleshed-out character with an intricate personality and a backstory that you spent a huge amount of time on only for some crazed tumblrina to wish you commit suicide or try KILLYOU FOR NOT MAKING YOUR CHARACTERS LINE UP WITH THEIR FANFICTION…!

That needle is going to haunt me forever. What person think “this is totally a sane way to deal with this”?

Jeeez and i thought the fandom of Samurai Jack was worst when they saw Jack and Ashi kissing, they went crazy because it didn’t follow their fan fiction……..bunch of wackadoos

It’s really sad this is over two FICTIONAL characters not being everyone’s ship seriously wanting to harm someone over something that’s not real and so small these fans need some serious help

You notice that they always lose their minds when every it’ll a “hat couple”?

I have a theory that Legend of Korra went to their heads, because ever since the creators gave then what they wanted that ONE TIME they have been expecting every other content creator to roll over and make their shipping dream come true.

Now they sincerely believe artists and writers owe them something.

Just look at the outrage over Captain America Civil War when so-called fans were upset that Steve and Bucky WERE NOT an item.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/captain-america-civil-war-steve-rogers-sharon-carter-bucky-barnes/amp

I think it’s mostly just the entitlement that comes from the internet making fans/stans interact with creators more.

your package has been delivered

We’d never drive into your fucking house. Unlike @fed-ex-official.

When you need fast delivery we come through

@ups-official

I have already discussed this.  Fed ex stole our truck to slander our good name. 

just destroy any competition. yeah i see you..

That’s how we roll

Now this is a shipping war I could get behind.

probably because that post was too good for this world

basically it explained how, back in 2012 when Universal Studios made an animated film rendition of The Lorax, tumblr found this gangly green noodle attractive:

and developed a unilateral obsession with him overnight, spilling into deviantart and youtube in a tidal wave of art, fanfiction, cosplay, etc.

However, Universal made the mistake of providing n o t h i n g for these fans to ship him with. There was nobody attractive enough, relevant enough, in-his-timeline enough, or not-related-to-him enough to have a stable ship. This was the spark of the spiral for the fans looking for romantic or adult content. As I told Ni: “– eventually they reared their heads back, in uniform, like a massive eldritch ouroboros, and began shipping him. With himself.”

Classic Oncelers, Greedy green-suited Oncelers (Greedlers), robot Oncelers, pimp Oncelers, old Oncelers, young Oncelers, the 1972 book version Onceler, AU Oncelers of every conceivable origin – everyone was shipped with everything. “Oncest” was coined. Look. At. This. Shit.

There was also some other golden stuff, including but not restricted to Glovecest, Empted:

“The cereal has an ask blog.”

and my personal favorite by the mere fact of its existence: “Money on Wheels” – a pairing that is “a personification of money and the onceler’s racecar bed”

This was a fandom scraping the bottom of the barrel and it is one of the most fascinating internet phenomenon I have ever fucking witnessed. I am obsessed with the fact that it even fucking happened at all because I’ve never seen anything else like it.

And the most interesting thing about it? It’s like it NEVER HAPPENED. The fandom just DROPPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH suddenly and you can’t help but feel like the whole thing was some surreal jarring nightmare.

“This has become a community crisis, America is in crisis. There is an Once-ler Fetish that has gone out of control.” - Ed Helms, voice of the Onceler during a Q&A twitter session during the height of the fever. I’m not joking.

This is a good example of what pisses me off the most about these whiny teenagers crying about “men sexualizing fandoms” and allegedly making them “unsafe for children”.  Women and teenage girls sexualized a fucking DR. SEUSS CHARACTER.  The next time anyone whines about “gross men” making NSFW fan art for cartoons or animated movies, just reply with one word: “Oncest”.

I think there's an argument to be made that shippers are actually messed up in the head somehow.

Everytime I see a forced heterosexual love interest I lose a year off my life

I’m like screaming at Ice Age being in this

so apparently men cant be friends eh

god you people gross me out

Neither can women apparently. No one can be friends.

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One of the reasons I’ve always loved King of the Hill.

In spite of his flaws, Hank never struck his child, never let him know a day without food or shelter and whenever his son was stuck in a rut, would do his gosh-darndest to help him out of it.

I’m gonna miss that show, I tell ya’ what…

And a special Rest in Peace to LuAnne’s voice acress, Brittany Murphy, whose presence was so deeply felt the show could not go on.

I’m sorry, I’m just distracted by the fact that the only feasible setup OP could think of was Bart and Chris being in a relationship.

Is this because of Tumblr’s shipping/slashfic filter or something? Couldn’t you just have them in, I dunno, group therapy? That way you get to include other cameos from screwed up sitcom kids. Like from Roseanne. Or Married with Children. Or the Bluths. Or Malcolm in the Middle. Or-

It’s really a shame that people tend to blow-off all fanfic as either being smut, crackfic, or just in general bad.

I say that because I’ve read some AMAZING fan-fiction that resonates with me more that a lot of OC works could like Silent Ponyville (which you should go read know if you if like bittersweet darkfic with a happy ending) or Creeping Darkness.

Heck, I’m reading sort of a Silent Hill inspired AU Sonic fic right now called “The Children of Liliwell” that sort of like a horror-tragedy and I keep having to stop and come back because some plot elements are so emotionally draining.

I think it’s ultimately because fanfic is a labor of love and one of those mediums where people are writing purely out of enjoyment, and thus really poor heart and soul into the work,  

The only downside to Silent Ponyville is that it goes into shipfic territory. Possibly starting with it’s sequel.

I love almost everything else about it, but anything involving shipping just looks like an idiot mashing two dolls together saying “Now, kiss!”, inventing a story about how they love each other, and seriously expecting to get praise, a pat on the head, and a cookie for it.

It’s made reading the later entries a challenge.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Dobson celebrated Linkle’s announcement with more lesbians. He’s not even trying to hide the fact this is his fetish anymore. 

Zelda’s head looks way too big. The reason for that her head is twisted at such  an unnatural angle to the point where her face is almost completely facing her back. Her torso isn’t turned either so the only explanation here is that Zelda’s part owl. 

Also excellent job giving Linkle such a prominent bust. Literally any other artist and Dobson would be crying misogyny so Brianna Wu can give him good boy points but I guess like everything else it’s alright when he does it. 

I might be wrong with this but I think Linkle’s left arm is a bit off. Her hand certainly is. Literally no one would hold onto someone like that.

Some people on EDF say that the castle in the background is traced. I guess I can’t really say anything about it since I’ve done that same shit too however I can say it’s absurd that he couldn’t be assed to not just copy and paste the trees in the background. They’re outlines of trees, Dobson. C’mon man. 

I like how Linkle’s pointing an unarmed crossbow at seemingly nothing. Zelda doesn’t look like she’s in any actual distress (as in there’s no enemies near by) and even Linkle doesn’t look like anything’s going on. She’s just holding up a crossbow for no reason. 

Last question is where is the light source coming from? Can’t be the moon since that’s behind them. 

So yeah, that’s how Dobson celebrates things. I actually tried drawing this exact pose with a straight couple just because I know Dobson would be upset if he ever saw it but Photoshop quit on me and I wasn’t able to save it but you could probably imagine how well it went. 

How about NO. 

I read it a little before that whole mess started. I never finished it, but I had enough time to archive binge to my heart’s content for a few days before it was shut down. The worst I could honestly say about it was that it was fairly shallow humour.

I wasn’t very interested in the Gamer Luna aspect of it, and the shipping it started to get into, especially the Luna / Derpy shipping (which was the most consistent and focused on) drove me away.

There was a possible interesting subplot going on where Luna and Celestia’s parent would visit them, and Celestia demonstrated some actual nervousness. Actual character development and depth was showing up! But that subplot was only rarely touched on and seemed pretty unused overall.

It had a lighthearted niche that it fulfilled pretty well, but it didn’t have enough sustained draw to counteract the shipping cancer that so much fan content seems to be infected with.

sorry tails if this looks gay to the viewers

There is no such thing as friendship to shippers.

My little pony, Shipping is canon

Why can’t we have both?! Polymory is a thing!

That kind of thing is best left for moronic, self-satisfying, self-insert fanfics that will never see the light of day.

Shipping is a plague on fandoms. You can barely show two characters standing next to each other without people starting to insist they're in a sexual/romantic relationship.

Hell, I've even come across some Luna/Applejack shipping, so not even that counts as a defense anymore.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBswVHW7-3w)

98% of all shipping ever, right there.

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