As per usual, shipping antis are trying to use new misinformation to bully those in the SU fandom that ship Pearl with Mayor Dewey–this time, claiming that Deedee Magno-Hall said the pair “had no chance” at Supercon. This is, of course, horseshit, twisted into a pretzel knot to suit their needs.

So here are facts to counter any fresh abuse!

Here is the actual Q&A footage, beginning at the part in question.

Here is a transcript:

Fan: Does Mayor Dewey have a chance with Pearl?

(a lot of crowd reaction, “OOOOOOHHHHHHH”, applause)

DMH: I am not at liberty to answer that question. Next! No, I’m kidding! Honestly, I, uh, because I am simply the voice of Pearl, I have nothing to do with creation of the show, that’s up to Rebecca and the team. So honestly, I think that Pearl is completely oblivious to Mayor Dewey’s affection towards her. I mean, that’s what I think. I mean, what do you guys think?

(various crowd reactions)

DMH: Does she know? What do you think? Does she know? Is she toying with him? She doesn’t care, she’s like “uh, whatever”?

(various crowd reactions)

DMH: You know, I don’t think that she really–I think it flies over her head. Right? He’s a human!

(A muffled comment from the audience)

DMH: What’s that? Pearl’s a rock, and he’s a human. He’s a Mayor Human. Well, I hope I answered your question! In fact, actually, I can’t, I can’t answer your question. I’m sorry. It’s just–uh–not, uh, part of my–job description.

So, it’s not a condemnation, nor a confirmation–as ever, Rebecca’s stance of “please pair everyone with everyone else, don’t stop 0_0″ holds. (Although it’s really interesting how Deedee completely dunks the classic anti lines of “PEARL HATES MEN”  and “DEWEY HITTING ON HER MAKES HER UNCOMFORTABLE”, even though she could ultimately give no official answers. Antis’ll conveniently forget that, I’ll bet. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) But hey! Deedee echoed what a lot of shippers have theorized–Pearl just doesn’t understand humans!)

You’d think if the idea was as terrible as the antis say it is, there would be an actual condemnation, that she’d parrot at least some of the tired tripe they do. Civic duty, amirite? Funny how she didn’t. It’s almost like anti shit doesn’t stick outside their own cliques. (and seriously, at least one of them was running TWO concurrent hateblogs about this. I’m beginning to wonder just how many of them there really are.)

If that doesn’t dissuade the antis, a friendly reminder that the Crewniverse themselves have NO trouble pairing Pearl with men.

• Exhibit one, just flat-out Pearl and Mayor Dewey by Ben Levin, SU writer.
• Exhibit two, self-insert shipping by Luke Weber, season one storyboardist–reblogged by the official Crewniverse tumblr, which called it “awesomely cute” and tagged it #waifu.
  

Also a friendly reminder that this tweet–

–is fake. Antis try to use it as proof all the time. Don’t let them!

And if they want to talk coding, you know, all those between-the-lines things they see that totally justify their harassment?

ayy lmao (hey, they did it for Korrasami!)

But seriously. Everyone, just keep on shipping, Even the antis–the only ones trying to stop anyone is them.