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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.
(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.
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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.
But seriously. Everyone, just keep on shipping, Even the antis–the only ones trying to stop anyone is them.
While the bullying stuff is completely wrong, and 100% not okay, and should never happen. Pearl IS a lesbian. Like… obviously. Ship what you want, at the end of the day I really do not care, but it’s just the sarcastic few comments at the end that bug me. Lesbians have a hard enough time in the media as it is, so stop trying to erase them further like this. I will repeat, if you ship Pewey or whatever, I literally do not care, but the sarcastic comments at the end, just trying to bait someone into getting mad at you is just.. unnecessary. Pearl is very obviously a lesbian, and you can ship what you want, and I agree with this post that you should not bully people for what they like, especially not fictional ships for a cartoon. But this whole post is screaming “Ooo I’m saying she’s not a lesbian, what you gonna do about it?” and it’s not needed.
No one is saying “ooo, what are you going to do about it”. I have been abused over this ship, friends of mine have been abused over this ship, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve been called straight, how many times shippers have been called a million despicable things, how many times they’ve had their artwork defaced or mocked, and how many people have been suicide baited.For something anti-shippers hate so much, they trawl the tags looking for people to bully, instead of ignoring it like anyone who isn’t an asshat would. So this is offering proof that the creators do the same thing shippers are doing, giving the shippers solid support from the Word Of God themselves. If you don’t want an argument? Don’t start one.
It isn’t my fault the typical anti-shipper argument consists of saying the same shit over and over again like it was fact (sometimes just making shit up), even though the creators themselves counter it.
Sarcasm? Forgive me (not really) that I have zero respect for bullies and liars, and sometimes it shows. No one but these abusive assholes are telling anyone what they can and can’t ship.
This never even came up until the shipping tags were flooded with harassment,
until people started getting anon hate, until multiple hate blogs
devoted to abusing subscribers of the tags popped up. If they want to
pull that routine, then you better believe they best have a better argument
than “because I said so, straighty”.
Or were we just supposed to meekly weather the abuse? I certainly hope you make a habit of reblogging people who harass the shippers the way you deigned to tone-police this post. That interview was already being used to tell shippers bald-faced lies. Where’s the concern over misinformation?
Where were you when one of the lesbian shippers in the tag was called a fake lesbian?
Where were you all the times I was called straight?
Or maybe the creators want everyone to see themselves in the show, and the characters, and have fun with that. Even dirty bisexuals like me, who clearly just need an “excuse” to ship two characters I enjoy together.
You have your lesbian Pearl. I have my bisexual Pearl. I don’t shit on your lawn, you don’t shit on mine. How’s that for a deal? I was already keeping up my end of it, but that wasn’t good enough for these bullies.
In any case, when the harassers stop attacking, I will be more than happy to stop defending. Good luck with that one.
Hey Tara remember when the show only had a few episodes and I rped Dewey a short while and that’s what started the ship for us way before the ‘hot one’ scene happened? That was fun.
SU fandom turned poisonous so fast I just stayed away tbh. Now I just watch the show and talk about stuff outside tumblr.
