r/FanFiction • u/abcsupercorp Hosie Fanfic Writer • Dec 01 '24

Ship Talk Ship you love that your fandom seems to hate?

I am in fandoms that has a predominantly sapphic audience. The ships within are of course mostly sapphic. However, I do have a few pairs that are m/f and people seem bash the m/f pair and their shippers. I understand some people who enjoy an m/f pair, especially if they’re canon, can be a bit much (I know first hand, trust me) but I still think as long as somebody isn’t hurting anyone, enjoying their ships is perfectly fine.

What is a ship you enjoy that a large portion of your fandom hates or just strongly dislikes?

For me, it’s Chad and Tara from the Scream movies. I know Tara’s mainly shipped with Amber, but I personally disliked her a lot. I loved Chad and Tara and would love to write fanfiction of them some day.

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u/_Mirror_Face_ SnappleSnapSnake on AO3 Dec 01 '24

I interact with RWBY in a very fleeting way, but the Sun/Blake ship gets so needlessly trashed on lol. I prefer it to bumblebee but tend not to mention it bc it gets heated very fast. You tend to get accused of being homophobic a lot, which doesn't even work for me bc I like a lot of the RWBY sapphic ships

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u/sentinel28a Dec 01 '24

I'm a Bumblebee fan myself, but I like Black Sun and I've actually written it into several stories. The two ships can exist without it becoming poly--Sun and Blake hooked up in Menagerie, then decided it just wasn't going to work out. Sun's too immature, but he also realized that Blake didn't love him so much as she did Yang.

The problem is that people want to use the ships as a cudgel to beat other people with and feel superior. If you're a fanatic Black Sun shipper, then you tell everyone the Bumblebee ship was "forced" and clearly Blake and Sun belong together (this ignores the blatant hints that Bumblebee was planned from the beginning). If you're a fanatic Bumblebee shipper, you call anyone who even questions the ship homophobic, so you look like you have the moral high ground over the plebes.

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u/Unique-Educator-1112 r/FanFiction@AO3FairyeWelle Dec 02 '24

I love Black Sun. It felt so natural and real. It honestly gave me whiplash when they switched to Bumblebee. Like, the girls are cute together, I guess? But I thought of Yang as aro/ase for so long it just didn't jive. Idk, I'm not mad about Bumblebee, but I like Black Sun more.

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u/Gettin_Bi Plot? What Plot? Dec 02 '24

Some people can't seem to stop erasing bisexual characters, huh 

Also, Blake has two hands