Desi
Dennis Stamp
Do Not Approve
Posts: 4,520
|
Post by Desi on Jul 23, 2010 10:41:23 GMT -5
Shipping is the reason why I've removed myself from the Naruto, Bleach, & A:TLA fandoms altogether. They take it to such a SERIOUS BUSINESS height that it overtakes nearly everything else in those series.
|
|
Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
Posts: 10,723
|
Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jul 23, 2010 10:49:28 GMT -5
Yeah, people try to pair Jason and Kimberly in Power Rangers. It's retarded. They even tried to pair Skull and Kim in Forever Red but that's because the ep was written by a hack fanfiction writer. This isn't limited to comics or sci-fi s***. They even do it for "Scrubs." Some people even tried to pair up JD and Cox in Youtube vids. I s*** you not. Creepy, creepy stuff. JasonxKimberly forever you douchebag. SCREW TOMMY GAH Errr... back to business people. [TrinixBilly forever too <_< ]
|
|
Matt Dunn
Hank Scorpio
It was inevitable.
Posts: 5,596
|
Post by Matt Dunn on Jul 23, 2010 10:51:30 GMT -5
Yeah, people try to pair Jason and Kimberly in Power Rangers. It's retarded. They even tried to pair Skull and Kim in Forever Red but that's because the ep was written by a hack fanfiction writer. This isn't limited to comics or sci-fi s***. They even do it for "Scrubs." Some people even tried to pair up JD and Cox in Youtube vids. I s*** you not. Creepy, creepy stuff. JasonxKimberly forever you douchebag. SCREW TOMMY GAH Errr... back to business people. [TrinixBilly forever too <_< ] LOL.
|
|
Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
Posts: 10,723
|
Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jul 23, 2010 10:54:45 GMT -5
Other than Power Rangers I get randomly passionate about Dijimon
When Matt and Sora ended up together at the end and the creators fired their cannons at me I was devastated. I believed in TaixSora and MattxMimi [though I've changed to JoexMimi now in retrospect] so hardcore as a little kid. Not sure why. Just seemed right to me.
Also, this guy at the Survivor board I go to. Me and him had what could be considered a shipping war. He had a Batman and Robin avatar [like... sexual Batman and Robin avatar] and so I for some stupid reason tried to endeavor to show him all the canon hetero relationships Robin and Batman had been in.
|
|
|
Post by Mike Strike on Jul 23, 2010 11:51:53 GMT -5
Other than Power Rangers I get randomly passionate about Dijimon When Matt and Sora ended up together at the end and the creators fired their cannons at me I was devastated. I believed in TaixSora and MattxMimi [though I've changed to JoexMimi now in retrospect] so hardcore as a little kid. Not sure why. Just seemed right to me. MattxSora is definitely a case where I think shippers might have a right to complain. Their relationship came completely out of nowhere despite clearly showing Tai having feelings for Sora much earlier. The whole thing is a big WTF moment that could've been written better. For me personally it was not so much the shipping as it was me feeling left out of the loop. In fact pretty much any time 1 of the older kids appear in season 2 I left wanting to know more about what's been going in their lives then I'm told. Was there ever a explanation given for why Mimi moved to America? The Tai/Sora/Matt triangle only served to frustrate viewers, going against expectations without justification. Oh, & YoleixKen, good message for the girls watching: you totally have a chance with your celeb tween crush!
|
|
|
Post by Hugh Mungus on Jul 23, 2010 12:08:46 GMT -5
IMO, the bottom of the barrel are the yaoi fangirls. They ruined Gundam Wing, Yu-Gi-Oh, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts.
Who else did the yaoi fangirls ruin?
And speaking of Wing, Heero x Relena (especially), Zechs x Noin, and Treize x Une is more or less official, and Duo x Hilde being hinted, despite the director, Masashi Ikeda, saying in a 1998 interview with Animerica magazine that he felt that Wing's political aspects are more important than the romantic aspects. And the shipping has been done by the writers of the show.
|
|
Malcolm
Grimlock
Wanted something done about the color of his ring.
Eternally Confused
Posts: 13,482
|
Post by Malcolm on Jul 23, 2010 12:11:59 GMT -5
It's not weird. MPreg is weird. It's very, very weird. In any case, shipping is okay; it's just fanfiction in the end and nothing more... though, people who take it too seriously do get a bit annoying. Annoying people are in pretty much every fanbase, too, so it doesn't bother me a lot. /\ /\ This pretty much. Shipping as a whole doesn't bother me. It's the ones who make it serious business that bug me.
|
|
Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
Posts: 10,723
|
Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jul 23, 2010 12:13:32 GMT -5
Other than Power Rangers I get randomly passionate about Dijimon When Matt and Sora ended up together at the end and the creators fired their cannons at me I was devastated. I believed in TaixSora and MattxMimi [though I've changed to JoexMimi now in retrospect] so hardcore as a little kid. Not sure why. Just seemed right to me. MattxSora is definitely a case where I think shippers might have a right to complain. Their relationship came completely out of nowhere despite clearly showing Tai having feelings for Sora much earlier. The whole thing is a big WTF moment that could've been written better. For me personally it was not so much the shipping as it was me feeling left out of the loop. In fact pretty much any time 1 of the older kids appear in season 2 I left wanting to know more about what's been going in their lives then I'm told. Was there ever a explanation given for why Mimi moved to America? The Tai/Sora/Matt triangle only served to frustrate viewers, going against expectations without justification. Oh, & YoleixKen, good message for the girls watching: you totally have a chance with your celeb tween crush! True. It really was out of left field. That whole epilogue was. And I get them concentrating on the second generation more, but I felt out of the loop on the older kid's lives too. I like YoleixKen I just don't really care that much. And I believed PK and Kairi belonged together way back when Kairi first debuted.
|
|
AriadosMan
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Your friendly neighborhood superhero
Posts: 15,620
|
Post by AriadosMan on Jul 23, 2010 12:13:58 GMT -5
In and of itself no. The weird and obsessive culture that grew up around it is highly disturbing, though.
|
|
Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
Posts: 10,723
|
Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jul 23, 2010 12:15:11 GMT -5
IMO, the bottom of the barrel are the yaoi fangirls. They ruined Gundam Wing, Yu-Gi-Oh, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts. Who else did the yaoi fangirls ruin? The stupid slash pairs from Harry Potter really gave me some major annoyances sometimes.
|
|
|
Post by RatedRKoffee on Jul 23, 2010 12:18:13 GMT -5
Star Trek fans do this quite a bit, but Voyager fans really get outta control with the shipping.
|
|
AriadosMan
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Your friendly neighborhood superhero
Posts: 15,620
|
Post by AriadosMan on Jul 23, 2010 12:18:13 GMT -5
IMO, the bottom of the barrel are the yaoi fangirls. They ruined Gundam Wing, Yu-Gi-Oh, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts. Who else did the yaoi fangirls ruin? The stupid slash pairs from Harry Potter really gave me some major annoyances sometimes. What, you mean HarryXDraco? That one was pretty stupid....
|
|
|
Post by Hugh Mungus on Jul 23, 2010 12:24:36 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jul 23, 2010 12:44:44 GMT -5
Speaking as someone who does ship quite a bit, including yaoi couples, I'll have to say "not that weird if you have a grip on reality". I tend to find couples like Sora/Riku or Naruto/Sasuke either funny in a sick sort of way, or kinda sweet. But if the writers don't intend for certain characters to get together, that's perfectly fine with me.
To me, the rabidly obsessive fangirls are more amusing than anything- I don't see how they're any more bothersome than fanboys of something that get freaked out over stuff like costume changes, and which actor's playing a character in a movie adaption.
And as for the Sonic fandom, I'm partial to Sonic/Sally more so than Sonic/Amy. But those are two separate canons, unless you count the mashed-up one that Archie Comics uses.
|
|
|
Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jul 23, 2010 12:55:11 GMT -5
I feel that much worse knowing that there is a verb for this.
|
|
Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
Posts: 10,723
|
Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jul 23, 2010 13:13:51 GMT -5
The stupid slash pairs from Harry Potter really gave me some major annoyances sometimes. What, you mean HarryXDraco? That one was pretty stupid.... They were tame compared to HarryxSnape
|
|
|
Post by HMARK Center on Jul 23, 2010 14:49:06 GMT -5
Yeah, people try to pair Jason and Kimberly in Power Rangers. It's retarded. They even tried to pair Skull and Kim in Forever Red but that's because the ep was written by a hack fanfiction writer. This isn't limited to comics or sci-fi s***. They even do it for "Scrubs." Some people even tried to pair up JD and Cox in Youtube vids. I s*** you not. Creepy, creepy stuff. JasonxKimberly forever you douchebag. SCREW TOMMY GAH Errr... back to business people. [TrinixBilly forever too <_< ] Ha, oddly enough I was mulling over some ideas in writing a "re-imagining"/updating of the original Power Rangers series, and I had decided that if I ever put pen to paper, Jason and Kimberly would be cousins. I admit, this trope made me laugh, largely thanks to the enormous re-writing of an established character that has to go into it if you're, I don't know, making fan fiction or something: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DracoInLeatherPants
|
|
Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
Posts: 10,723
|
Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jul 23, 2010 14:53:49 GMT -5
A reimagining of the original Power Rangers could be cool. But damn you -_-
|
|
Toates Madhackrviper
King Koopa
Is owed an Admin life-debt.
This avatar is so far out of date I might as well stick with it forever now.
Posts: 10,723
|
Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jul 23, 2010 14:56:44 GMT -5
I'm laughing my ass off at this Draco in leather pants bit. Fantastic.
|
|
Matt Dunn
Hank Scorpio
It was inevitable.
Posts: 5,596
|
Post by Matt Dunn on Jul 23, 2010 20:28:10 GMT -5
Yeah, people try to pair Jason and Kimberly in Power Rangers. It's retarded. They even tried to pair Skull and Kim in Forever Red but that's because the ep was written by a hack fanfiction writer. This isn't limited to comics or sci-fi s***. They even do it for "Scrubs." Some people even tried to pair up JD and Cox in Youtube vids. I s*** you not. Creepy, creepy stuff. JasonxKimberly forever you douchebag. SCREW TOMMY GAH Errr... back to business people. [TrinixBilly forever too <_< ] How about AishaxZack?
|
|