I love possessiveness in bed and fiction only. “You’re mine”, “You take me so well, it’s like you’re made for me”, “I’m the only one who will ever see you this way” hell yeah bitch, I CRAVE this shit, give me more damn it
“Why do people ship this? :( :(“
Because some people like their fiction to be full of intriguing shit and it turns out some of that intriguing shit is often dark
Shipping doesn't necessarily mean "I want those characters to have a happy ending and marry in canon", sometimes it's just "I want them to kill eachother tragically in battle" and I think that's beautiful
we don't talk enough about how Raphael's room in Sharess' Caress is directly above the room where you can bang the drow twins. I hope you enjoyed listening to that my guy
Shipping isn't indicative of your political beliefs, it's not what you would like in a real relationship, it's not representation and it's not even proof of what you would like to see in canon. It's simple fandom expression and self-indulgence. Why can't people understand this?
They should have kept Raphael's EA line “I have 1000 lovers, Karlach” in the game for the added hilarity when you translate the writing on Haarlep's harness and it says “1000 lovers in one body”
What upsets me about the trend of extreme policing of fanworks and the constant demands for its sanitization in order for it to be accessible to the higher number of people is that it slowly erases the meaning of art as self-expression and replaces it as a product for consumption
I also wish there were better block/mute options in AO3 (which was announced to be in the works, by the way) but this doesn't take away from the fact that those features do exist.
Anyway, I think that to be at the ripe age of twenty-something and publicly admit that you can't navigate basic interface patterns a very strange thing to be proud of.