Ships, Shippers, FanFiction and the Colossal Power of Romance Shouldn’t Be Shamed

It’s 2021 and I’m tired of defending romance, ships, and shippers at this point. But don’t fret, so long as there are incompetent nincompoops that insist on raining on our parade, I’ll be here to shut those voices down. Today’s issue? We’re back to meaningless hot takes from men (and a writer at that) claiming that “shippers” don’t deserve respect. What? In a world where we have terrible racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, ableist, people living amongst us, it’s shippers who don’t deserve respect? Excuse me, I ask this again, but what? Imagine thinking that’s a hot take worthy of being

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Sharing Creative Content Matters

If you’ve been around long enough in any way in fandom or through any social rise on through the internet then you’ve seen words like “like and subscribe”—you’ve seen words like “like and RT,” “rate,” and perhaps that could probably be annoying. Well if you’re telling me to, asking me to, then no I don’t want to. Or perhaps in a world of influencers where platform has sometimes been used wrongly, you wonder/don’t want to be the reason someone gets paid. The internet is a vast, wildly massive place none of us can really comprehend. The conversation behind algorithms, legitimately

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