>>40585142He hasn’t lost considering that a lot of the shipping-related replies you see in shipping threads boil down to sexually-charged posts (
>>40574994), LGBTQ+ idiocy (
>>40575063), and differing views character relationships (
>>40575948 is it shipping idiot while
>>40584350 is on the right track). The emoticon abuse and cutesy phrases in the early part of the thread certainly doesn’t help at all.
>>40585263>You don't have to join any given discussion about anything.While that IS true shipping has a real nasty tendency of getting dragged into regular discussion when around certain people, usually those that DON’T treat it like a little game and make it something other than that.
Self-inserting is also an issue in shipping that makes people hostile to it but a majority of people only get pissy if you use an established character as said self-insert, if it’s an OC then nobody should give a rat’s ass. >Your schizophrenia is showing bud.
I see more PTSD than I do schitzo, the fact that he mentioned ATLA’s Shipping Wars and SU makes me lean on that.
