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RYAN STARTED THE FIRE (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tokaikko) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_rant,@ 2011-02-03 16:21:00 |
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Pop idol group RPS is SRS BSNS.
Tons of us in the fandom for this non-fictional idol group ship certain members together. There’s almost no English language fanfiction for this fandom, so it mostly consists of us squeeing over pictures of the members we ship together and professing our love for the pairings. This has worked for us for years already. We were happy.
Then fans of a new pairing came along, one that involves one member of one of the most popular pairings among both domestic and foreign fans and another member of the group. Okay, cool, people are allowed to ship whatever they want; ship and let ship, right?
Well apparently, that doesn’t make sense to you guys, the shippers of the original popular pairing. Not that the other side is guiltless. There are shippers of the new pairing who will bash one of the members of the original pairing in her fans’ territory, unprovoked, and that’s not cool. But you guys are making yourselves look crazier by the day. It makes you seriously mad that one half of your ship is spending more time with another member of the group, now, and that other members of the group are jokingly calling them a couple in blog entries. It makes you so mad that you’re doing two things. You’re putting together posts and screencaps to serve as “evidence” that the half of your ship involved in both pairs loves your girl more than the other girl. And you’re bashing the other girl.
Okay. This fandom involves real people. Lots of us ship pairs, but I don’t think any of the rest of us take our pairings as seriously as you guys. Most of us don’t actually care if they’re dating in real life. I mean, RPS is the kind of thing you really can’t take too seriously without crossing some kind of batshit line. We’re just content to collect pictures of them looking cute together. But you guys are so jealous that one half of your ship is spending more time with someone else that you’re calling for the other girl to leave the group. You’re claiming that you dislike her for reasons that have more to do with her personality, but the rest of us can’t seem to see any of these traits in her that you’re pointing out. Moreover, if anyone says anything bad about the half of your ship that most of you are the most crazy about, you’ll attack them, but you can bash other girls - like the other woman in this “love triangle” - all you want. Have you ever thought that she might be important to other fans, just like your girls are to you?
I just find it insane how far you’re taking your rage over an RPS ship. They’re REAL PEOPLE. They’re pop idols who have to keep their private lives private. Even if they are somehow actually dating, you’ll probably never know that. And regardless, who they date is none of your business. What if the new ship is actually dating IRL, because they’re actually in love with each other? Would you hate the “other woman” then?
tl;dr: I miss the days when my non-fictional pop idol fandom didn’t have ship wars.
Tons of us in the fandom for this non-fictional idol group ship certain members together. There’s almost no English language fanfiction for this fandom, so it mostly consists of us squeeing over pictures of the members we ship together and professing our love for the pairings. This has worked for us for years already. We were happy.
Then fans of a new pairing came along, one that involves one member of one of the most popular pairings among both domestic and foreign fans and another member of the group. Okay, cool, people are allowed to ship whatever they want; ship and let ship, right?
Well apparently, that doesn’t make sense to you guys, the shippers of the original popular pairing. Not that the other side is guiltless. There are shippers of the new pairing who will bash one of the members of the original pairing in her fans’ territory, unprovoked, and that’s not cool. But you guys are making yourselves look crazier by the day. It makes you seriously mad that one half of your ship is spending more time with another member of the group, now, and that other members of the group are jokingly calling them a couple in blog entries. It makes you so mad that you’re doing two things. You’re putting together posts and screencaps to serve as “evidence” that the half of your ship involved in both pairs loves your girl more than the other girl. And you’re bashing the other girl.
Okay. This fandom involves real people. Lots of us ship pairs, but I don’t think any of the rest of us take our pairings as seriously as you guys. Most of us don’t actually care if they’re dating in real life. I mean, RPS is the kind of thing you really can’t take too seriously without crossing some kind of batshit line. We’re just content to collect pictures of them looking cute together. But you guys are so jealous that one half of your ship is spending more time with someone else that you’re calling for the other girl to leave the group. You’re claiming that you dislike her for reasons that have more to do with her personality, but the rest of us can’t seem to see any of these traits in her that you’re pointing out. Moreover, if anyone says anything bad about the half of your ship that most of you are the most crazy about, you’ll attack them, but you can bash other girls - like the other woman in this “love triangle” - all you want. Have you ever thought that she might be important to other fans, just like your girls are to you?
I just find it insane how far you’re taking your rage over an RPS ship. They’re REAL PEOPLE. They’re pop idols who have to keep their private lives private. Even if they are somehow actually dating, you’ll probably never know that. And regardless, who they date is none of your business. What if the new ship is actually dating IRL, because they’re actually in love with each other? Would you hate the “other woman” then?
tl;dr: I miss the days when my non-fictional pop idol fandom didn’t have ship wars.
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