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tarajenkins:

fairymascot:

tarajenkins:

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.

ok cool, but have you considered that you being queer yourself doesn’t magically absolve you of the ability to offend other queer people… like, that’s not a get out of jail free card. i don’t care if you, yourself, are personally straight, your behavior still aligns with that of bigoted straight people. it’s like saying women can’t suffer from internalized misogyny by nature of being women. unfortunately, that’s really not how it works.

look, i’m very vocal about my hate of pewey, not gonna make any excuses about that. but at no point in my life have i, or do i plan to, reblog some harmless pewey shipper’s art and yell at them ‘WHY ARE YOU SHIPPING THIS!!! DISGUSTING!!!’, or launch myself into your inbox screaming about your ship disagrees with me.

you know what’s going to get you this sort of aggressive reactions? making a post… specifically meant to mock other lgbt fans who DON’T like pewey, and – even if unintentionally – giving off an impression of belittling queer fans as a whole for daring to actually care about seeing themselves represented in shows they love.

like, there have been classier moves.

Oh, I know queer people can offend other queer people. There have been a gaggle of LGBT+ harassers in the Pearl x Mayor Dewey tags for days, telling the rest of us who are also LGBT+ that one of our ships magically renders us straight and homophobic and any other number of school-grade-bully insults. There are multiple hate blogs dedicated to trawling the ship tags in the name of defending Pearl against a headcanon, even though I’ve never seen Pearl x Mayor Dewey shippers stage a baby war like this. The shippers simply existing is the only reason the harassers need. They spam it with hate, full movie scripts, and memes.

They don’t care we are keeping to our little corner of the fandom. They don’t care if we tag it. They won’t just block our accounts. They want us to know we have no right to ship things they don’t like. They want to bully. They want to be sure anyone interested in checking out the tag has to get past them first. It’s nice you stay in your lane and don’t tag your ship hate, but a lot of people aren’t.

So, I find their aggression and their assumptions pretty offensive. like, there have been classier moves.

Yet the only thing you choose to call offensive is my reaction against the harassment. It’s not them, it’s my internalized bigotry!

That comic up there is a reaction to their bullying–it was only tagged pewey for that reason, even–yet you also chose to knee-jerk decide it was some bigot who demands Pearl be made heterosexual, and responded as such. The image isn’t “belittling as a whole”. The image very specifically shows someone directly harassing another person over a ship. Everything said by the harasser in the comic has been said by a harasser in the tags, usually more than once. If you aren’t being a dick to a shipper? The image is null and void and not aimed at you. If you are being a dick to a shipper? Then yeah, you’re going to have to tell me how you’re spamming that tag on the grounds of canon when you don’t adhere strictly to actual show canon only yourself. I used Vidalia and Amethyst as a recent example, but it goes for any ship if you choose to tag your hate. ANY ship. Ship haters are gonna have to be just a little more consistent if they want to wage a baby war.

You ship Pearl and Connie, you should understand shippers have extensive AUs to explain how their ships function. You interpret. You piece together a personal puzzle. I interpret Vidalia and Amethyst back in the day the same way as you do! But if someone else interprets the characters a different way, that’s their funky flow. I’m not going to raid their tags and make the fandom look worse than it already does, and unless they take a shit on my lawn, I count them as a fellow shipper friend.

You still haven’t provided an explanation of how Pearl x Mayor Dewey shipping is somehow negating anyone else’s shipping, or how any fandom shipping influences the show proper. I’m not surprised. No one ever has. But, spoiler alert: It doesn’t.

Yep. Just like I said before.