Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
Comments
What's not to like about Bats/WW? Athletic figure, lush black hair, deep blue eyes.... and Wonder Woman's not bad either.
Hey, when it comes to terrible puns you know I'll deliver.
no that is awful stop it
Thanks for expressing that, or I wouldn't have known it was a priority.
Trying to get me to cut it out?
Because that won't just happen overnight.
why does the computer have blood
Threads like this always have their UPS and downs.
Someone call the Feds(ex)
The bad puns have enveloped the threDAMMIT NOW I'M DOING IT TOO!
Shipping bugs me when people feel the need to force romantic subtext into everything. It's like these people just can't accept that two people can be friends who care deeply for each other without wanting to bone one another.
Having said that, I've been reading X-Men: Legacy recently and to me one of the most interesting plot threads has been Rogue and her feelings for both Gambit AND Magneto.
Very often, the romantic subtext is intentional. That is, the writers are trying to cater to shippers without actually putting romance into the series.
I think that can be subject to medium and/or genre, though. Shipping bait in anime, for instance, is pretty much par for the course.
Honestly, I can't say I've seen a genre that evades shipping bait.
Don't know about "genre", but the vidya medium is delivering more and more sophisticated narratives (slowly) and most of the better ones include romance subplots fuck
I don't see how being a sophisticated narrative means that there isn't shitty romance. I mean, just look at Blade Runner and Batman Begins
You're coming from the opposite direction -- a more sophisticated narrative is probably going to be more broad, ergo more likely to include romance. And I was thinking that not a lot of games have that, but then again, almost every game that attempts to push vidya storytelling further these days has romance subplots.
Video games have always had shitty romance subtext. See: every single JRPG.
I think that's a case of convergent narrative evolution with anime and manga moreso than a general vidya thing. Western games didn't pick up that thread on a wider scale until the 90s were well and truly over.
And welp, of course JRPGs would have that -- the genre was a convergence of eroge visual novels and newfound RPG influence.
Still part of the vidya medium, son.
Absolutely, but also linked to its own particular narrative style. Basically, it's not representative of general trends for its time period -- this is an era of 2D sidescrollers and new, emerging genres that were finding their feet.
I just got back into Homestuck
and the shipping it burns
Even though the yuri fandom is a bit creepy at times, at least it's subtle. As in, I have to try in order to get overexposed to it.
The same can't be said of yaoi fandoms. Go into any convention. Dicks everywhere. (by "dicks" I mean fangirls.)
This coming from someone who is quite familiar with the local convention and cosplay scene.
Fujoshis are that kind of pest, aren't they?
Whenever I hear the word "fujoshi", I reach for my shotgun.
and the shipping it burns"
Rosemary FTW!
Lil Seb/ Lil Cal is my OTP.
-shoots Haven-
-aims at Alk-
My crack OTP is Spider-man/Shadowcat.