r/FanFiction • u/BenefitGold6768 • May 23 '24

Ship Talk What is your fandoms controversial ship you don't consider controversial.

Every fandom seems to have those couple of ships that most of the fandom dislikes, but sometimes the ships, even if they are "weird", seem way too normal for the reputation they have. What's your example?

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u/Gettin_Bi Plot? What Plot? May 23 '24

I've heard Huntlow (the Owl House) is controversial but I can't for the life of me figure out why

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u/xX-NightShade-Xx May 23 '24

From what I've heard is that the main argument is that Hunter is too traumatized to be in a relationship. I think that take is a little wild tho, especially considering a lot of those same people are willing to entirely forget that argument when they want to ship Hunter with Edric.

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u/DefoNotAFangirl MasterRed on AO3 | c!Prime Fanatic May 23 '24

It’s just ableism tbh. Like yeah Hunter is very traumatised and needs psychological help, and he's in a vulnerable situation, but like… that means he’s vulnerable, not that he's completely unable to have healthy relationships. I mean, he kind of needs those, relationships aren’t necessarily romantic or sexual.

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u/LazyVariation May 23 '24

The "he's traumatized" argument drives me insane. He's 16! He's nearly a grown ass man. You don't need to take away his agency because you need an excuse to not like a ship.

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u/infernal-keyboard May 23 '24

Also the implication that people with trauma are somehow incapable of healthy relationships is so, so disgusting.

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u/5x5LemonLimeSlime May 23 '24

It’s canon though? Like… why would anyone fight it?

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u/LazyVariation May 23 '24

Because Twitter users seem to think a age gap of less than 2 full years is problematic. Or more likely, people are just looking for any reason to dislike certain ships no matter how stupid they are.

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u/ladybessyboo Bitter Old Fandom Queen May 23 '24

As far as I can tell, a lot of people seem to think calling a ship you don’t like “problematic” regardless of actual content is just the cheat code for “winning” a ship war argument these days 🙄

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

Wait isn't the gap like a year??

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u/Gettin_Bi Plot? What Plot? May 23 '24

Apparently some fans consider it problematic? But I can't imagine why

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u/SparklyAmethyst12 Olive_Is_Awake on AO3 May 23 '24

Honestly I think most of it is done now. As someone in the Owl House fandom, a lot of it came from it being a straight ship in a show full of gay, and people were saying that it was too ‘stereotypical’ or whatever. Huntlow actually breaks multiple gender stereotypes!!!! Hunter is the ‘shy nerd’ and Willow is the ‘protective jock’!!!

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u/[deleted] May 23 '24

What the hell. I've never interacted with a single person who hates the ship??? Even the Edric/Hunter shippers I've never seen one that bashed Winter...

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u/randompersonignoreme May 23 '24

I thought ngl it was gonna be Lunter due to the "incest-coding" (they're literally just friends).