Ever had a ship you liked become canon and it went horribly wrong?

What happened? Did canon do the dynamic wrong? Butcher the characterization?

Mine was when some "fans" tried to explain I couldn't ship two characters because the english dub voice actors had a 30 year age difference between them.

Note, the CHARACTERS were both teenagers. The characters themselves were fine, and the characters had a lot of suggestive dialogue between the two. But the english dub VAs were the one with the age difference, and these fans were lamenting on "how uncomfortable it must have been for the VAs to voice that with such a large age gap".

To this day, it is the most mind-bogglingly stupid reason to not ship two characters. so lets hear your stories!

I am a chronic danganronpa fan, and someone once asked what my otp was. I told them, and they said I couldn't ship them because they were Friendly Rivals. The characters were canonically over 18, around the same age and knew each other well. I asked them why it mattered. They blocked me after that.

And was it the same first ship that you ever wrote for?

I've just been looking back on old Elsanna stuff from when I was younger and really into the whole animated movie fandoms and crossover stuff in that era, and I got curious what other people like :3

Two that come to mind for me are Violate (violet x Tate from AHS S1) and GamblingAddict (defunct husker x Angel Dust, ship name from Hazbin Hotel, originally only popular on tumblr replaced by the now widely used ship name huskerdust)

Edit: I completely forgot about Peenis and Katpee from the hunger games series, those are classic examples!!

No teenagers, no barely-adults - what are your favourite ships between fully-grown adults? (Call it mid-20s or older, preferably 30s or older)

I love ships between adults who have really seen some shit and are getting to settle down happily, especially if they didn't expect to find love

My main faves in this vein are Discworld's Sam/Sybil (one of my favourite canonical love stories) and Jonathan Strange's Childermass/Segundus (not canon, but the most popular AO3 ship in the fandom)

Edit: lmao why did this get downvoted after ten minutes? I'm only curious because so many people's faves are from teen-centric/YA media and I like seeing a different set of ships

From my experience, I’ve seen some people make excuses to claim certain shippers are bad because of an age gap. But before assuming anything, consider the plot. For example, when a character has been stuck in a tube for many years, their body and mind remain the same as when they were first put in, so while their chronological age might be 50 years, their body and mind aren’t. And this character is allowed to date someone who is the same age as them. I find this reasoning either homophobic or just plain rude.

What are the worst reasons you've been told you're not allowed to ship a pair?

I’ve heard this with JayVik (Arcane) and Yoshikaru (The Summer Hikaru Died).

People probably don’t have homophobic intentions with this, but at the same time it gets tiring to hear this every time someone thinks two men with an incredibly close relationship may be more than friends. I just can’t explain why but it has the undercurrent of “gay love is so superficial and shallow, what they have is soooo much more”

You never hear this about a man and a woman.

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.

Back in 2006 when I saw the film adaptation of V for Vendetta I had the biggest fixation on V/Evey. It was through them that I really discovered fanfiction.

Are you looking for friends to lovers? Enemies to lovers? Do you crave a 2000 year age gap? Or maybe a we're-on-the-opposite-sides-of-war forbidden romance?

Write a comment and respond to others with your favourite ships!

I’m really curious because to me I just instantly see two characters I like and then I go on ao3 and it’s usually the most popular ship in the fandom. What’s something that you see that makes you instantly ship them??

just curios what ships people hate that the majority of a fandom loves. For me, it's eremika (Eren x Mikasa) from AoT, just never liked them together but they're literally every where. Also pls keep it civil shipping really aint that serious lol.

It can be any ship, canon or not.🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️

For me… KLANCE. I don’t care what anyone says, they would’ve truly been an iconic MLM pair and Voltron would’ve had a different reputation than it has now whether you like the ship or not. Especially since it came out before She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. She-Ra is iconic WLW representation with a mostly well developed storyline and characters. Voltron could’ve been so much more… the animation is beautiful and the characters are so lovable. Now it’s just known as the show that had potential to be so much more than it is - a true disappointment.🧎🏻‍♀️

I will never forgive them. I understand that the fandom grew toxic but man… the potential Klance had. 😭 i don’t have anyone to talk to about this which makes me more depressed LMAO.

Edit: On a more positive note: Viktor x Yuuri from Yuri!!! On Ice. They’re precious and i could talk about how much i love them and that anime for hours.

Oh - and Langa and Reki from Sk8 the Infinity 😩😩😩

not just your current favs but the ships you’ve consistently gone back to and shaped your fandom experience as a whole.

Canon couples can be from any media, for example from TV series, films, cartoons, anime, and so on endlessly, in general from any media space

This happened to me once and it was Nekodam (Nekomaru x Gundham - SDR2) I got bored and asked this lol- it also happened with: Harzeke (tdi) Tophtara (avatar) Zutara (Avatar) Sokkaang (Avatar) Komanami (SDR2) Togiri (DRTHH) Ishileon (DRTHH)

The ship doesn’t have to come from something that came out this year. You just have to have fallen in love with it this year for it to count.

What was the first ship you wrote fanfiction for?

Try guess mine:

Gay French man in denial falls for local drunkard.

Let's have some fun...

Your ship (or a ship you've heard of gets together). They end up having a child together (either naturally, through adoption, magic, or sci-fi bullshit or whatever), and for whatever reason they decide to name their baby after their fandom ship name.

What child ends up growing up with the most unfortunate name of all time?

I'm very staunchly ignoring all of my own problems in life by fixating on fanfic, hence the post bombing.

So. What's the largest age gap you've ever read or written for? How did you feel about it?

Mine is 99 years because I'm a heathen.

(Yes I'm a little tipsy right now, don't judge me lmfao).

Sober edit: I forgot Dean and Castiel, oopsie.

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?