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comics, fandom: avengers, fandom: pacific rim, ships, tags, tumblr

im in ur tag shipping my d00dz - or, War of the Science Bros
Avengers fandom uses the tag "science bros" on tumblr to mean Bruce and Tony. Then Pacific Rim fans started using the tag to mean Newt and Hermann. Clearly, there can be only one.

[Note: This wank was posted once before but had to be deleted when it turned out one person cited was underage. Ze has been removed and now there's new fresh wank added.]

ask-science-boyfriends collects a giant number of complaints about the shared tag and says, "So yes, this is all meant in respect. It’s just getting a little crazy, and I want us all to be friends and I want you to have one ship name to rule them all! Thanks guys. Anything we can do here to help the quest for one true ship name, just let us know. <3))"

Maybe a firm open letter will settle their hash! iamsomanythings gives it a try:

Dear Pacific Rim fandom,

We have already claimed “Science Bros” for the epic brotp that is Bruce Banner and Tony Stark (which is to be distinguished from Science Husbands, which is the epic otp that is Bruce Banner and Tony Stark). Please cease and desist from using it for your own purposes.

Sincerely,

The Avengers Fandom

Yes, apparently The Avengers Fandom elected iamsomanythings to speak for them.

daftpunkdelorean decides that the Bruce/Tony fans should do the Newt/Hermann fans a favor and give them a new ship name. "Okay, I’m thinking we should all collectively help the Newt/Hermann shippers come up with a clever name for the ship."

Unfortunately, they don't seem to want to use it. Maybe if she says it enough times, they will?

KAIJU BROS
Kaiju Bros

Kaiju Bros

Kaiju Bros

Kaiju Bros

KAIJU BROS


1.Kaiju Bros
2.KAIJU BROS
•KAIJU BROS
•KAIJU BROS
I’m afraid Science Bros/Science Boyfriends is already in use as a ship name.

dont-play-well-with-others lives up to hir name and chimes in with a post titled Respect, where the hell have you gone? saying "We even gave you a shipping name KAIJU BROS" and asking Pacific Rim fans "What more do you want?". Then dont-play-well threatens "If I have to block too many people I will start to tag my Avengers shit with Pacific Rim just to annoy you, just because I can…"

Fighting words!

chernosaralpha, telling Avengers fandom that they can't own a tag, decides to get personal about Tony and Bruce aren't really bros. "Nuclear physics and mechanical engineering are incredibly different from each other, and Tony’s friendship with Bruce is so highly conditional that Tony is fine with shooting Bruce into outer space. Hardly what I’d call bros." (Much to the bemusement of those who have only seen the movies and haven't read the comic where that happened.)

Meanwhile, dimensionexplosion has the temerity to squee about a Newt/Hermann (or Newt & Hermann) relevant passage... on a post tagged science bros.

Since all's fair in love and tag wars, Bruce Banner fan lady-yuna decides to rain on that parade in a post tagged "fuck it I'm tagging this, Science Bros, Pacific Rim, now shoo already the lot of you":

Soooo I take it that even though the “Pacific Rim Science Bros” fandom likes to use an excerpt or two from the novel as relationship canon fodder, none of them want to admit that Hermann Gottlieb is married and is expecting a child?

Anyone?

More harsh words are then exchanged between several partisans, one of whom is underage, and is thus redacted from this wank report.

It's all going too far! ediyank asks everyone to cool off, wondering "Tony and Bruce aren’t even scientists? Come on, really? Is this what we’ve come to?"

chernosaralpha proclaims the behavior of Avengers fans in this case to be "internet imperialism".

madeline118 breaks Snacky's Law: ":c This is tumblr, not High School where the two separate groups of popular girls hate each other."

skribblr says "There seems to be some controversy revolving around the usage of “Science Bros.”, so I’m just gonna throw this out there. Shatterdome Sistahs" and accompanies it with a cartoon of Newt and Hermann looking sassy.

fidefortitude, among others, wonders why everyone can't just get along, since they all like bros and science.

Meanwhile, the "science bros" tag is picspammed with other pairs of bros who do science, including

Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld

Bill Nye and Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Kepler and Galileo

Zelenka and McKay from SGA

Harper and Hohne from Andromeda

Larry and Charlie from Numb3rs

and a round up of real life science bros throughout the ages entitled bromance in science and whiskers on kittens.