Curio November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Wait, are you saying there's a difference in meaning between Name/Name, NamexName, and Name&Name? I mean, I totally believe it, I just never knew about it. Link to comment
Shanna Marie November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 It's a good thing I don't discuss 'ships on Twitter because I refuse to use cutesy pairing names, even for relationships I like. I'd get crucified for doing it wrong and being disrespectful, or whatever. Link to comment
Souris November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 In all my shipping years, I've never known / to mean anything different than &. Link to comment
HoodlumSheep November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 I never thought there was a difference either. I could see the / leaning towards platonic (so that's probably what upset them). All in all, it's dumb, and they shouldn't get upset. I wonder if the writer would have gotten more flack if he had used SaviorQueen instead. Link to comment
stealinghome November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Wait, are you saying there's a difference in meaning between Name/Name, NamexName, and Name&Name? I mean, I totally believe it, I just never knew about it. I tend to think that Name&Name indicates a platonic relationship. So Emma&Snow is about the Emma and Snow friendship/platonic relationship. Emma&Hook is Emma and Hook as friends but not romantic partners. Etc. Name/Name and Name x Name both indicate romantic relationships. 1 Link to comment
Rumsy4 November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 All in all, it's dumb, and they shouldn't get upset. I wonder if the writer would have gotten more flack if he had used SaviorQueen instead. JMo got a lot of flack for saying "Savior Queen team" in a tweet. She didn't even use it as a ship name. She just used them as character titles. The BA SQs immediately jumped on her as anti-SQ and homophobic because according to them, homophobic CS fans (read people who don't ship SQ) use Savior Queen as a tag for the Regina/Emma friendship. Link to comment
Mathius November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 And now that Adam has posted a script tease hinting at Mulan/Ruby, the SQ fans are all ganging up and bashing him for it because it's not the LGBT story that they wanted, not the one with "5 years of build up". I can't with these ass-clowns. 7 Link to comment
Souris November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 I've seen several "Fuck you" tweets to Adam from SQers tonight. Link to comment
mjgchick November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 So I've been saying Hook/Emma, Killian/Emma all wrong this whole time? I hate using the ship name so I tend to say their names or use the first letter of their names. These people are so fucking weird. I can't wait to see what Mulan and Ruby can give us since they are the only reason why I'm even remotely interested in the Merida stuff...also for petty reasons. lol Link to comment
Souris November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 As far as I know, there's no widespread fandom "rule" about / vs. & vs. + so I wouldn't worry about it. Link to comment
Serena November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 In all my shipping years, I've never known / to mean anything different than &. I believe the tags on Archive Of Our Own (which is a relatively recent website) differentiate them. / is for romantic, & is for platonic. 1 Link to comment
Faemonic November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 (edited) Accidental double post, sorry. Edited November 12, 2015 by Faemonic Link to comment
Faemonic November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 (edited) Wait, are you saying there's a difference in meaning between Name/Name, NamexName, and Name&Name? I mean, I totally believe it, I just never knew about it. As far as I know, there's no widespread fandom "rule" about / vs. & vs. + so I wouldn't worry about it. I believe the tags on Archive Of Our Own (which is a relatively recent website) differentiate them. / is for romantic, & is for platonic. The only difference really is the punctuation. But same-sex romantic pairings (back in my day, I say over my knitting needles) were called "slash fiction" even though the / (punctuation called slash or backslash in American) was also used to indicate straight romantic pairings. It, haha, just bugs me to see an X where I'm used to seeing / but the convention never made sense in the first place ( / usually meant "or") so I've just got to get with the times... Then again, in this fandom, where everyone has an alter ego in the source material, I also instinctively used Killian Jones / Captain Hook to mean "also they're the same person." But I trust that anybody who's reading it would be able to figure out that I didn't mean to advertise a fanfic where Killian Jones dates himself...and then not deliver. So I've been saying Hook/Emma, Killian/Emma all wrong this whole time? I hate using the ship name so I tend to say their names or use the first letter of their names. These people are so fucking weird. Apparently Captain Swan people just have low standards: we'd find fellowship with you shady slashers! Or you have low standards for sharing positivity with cutesy pairing name bubbleheads like us. What ever shall we do?! Don't tell me that we'll actually enjoy the characters, as if we have similar interests! Clutch the pearls, you have attacked my precious ship name and all the reflections of my identity by daring to voice your personal preferences, and I will have vengeance!!!!! all the vengeances... Edited November 12, 2015 by Faemonic 5 Link to comment
Serena November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 (edited) I just can't believe they managed to start two *different* wanks about ship names. First "Savior Queen" and then this. When both people clearly meant no harm by it (one of them is a gay journalist who regularly writes about gay issues and characters in television, for god's sake). But when they start talking about "SwanTown" with the intent of bashing an actress, that's just normal and people shouldn't be offended by it, of course. BTW, can we start a wank against people calling Red/Mulan "Red Warrior"? I feel like they're oppressing me by being so uncreative and not recognizing "Mulan Rouge" is so much better. Edited November 12, 2015 by Serena 9 Link to comment
OnceUponAJen November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 I saw someone reference Mulan Rouge on Twitter. Maybe it'll catch on. 3 Link to comment
Mari November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 I know we've hashed it around before, but I'm still trying to figure out how someone can type "Captain Swan is rape culture! Give us Swan Queen because Emma shouldn't be with the one-handed rape culture avatar!" with sincerity? How? 3 Link to comment
mjgchick November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Humm I want my favorite with either a man who used inappropriate jokes to get a rise out of me or a woman who enjoys taking peoples free will especially during Sex. Humm. I choose the drunk one handed pirate whose been nothing but loyal to me since rescuing my son. 7 Link to comment
Mari November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Exactly. I don't agree that Hook is rapey, but I'd at least understand that opinion and logic from fans who wanted Emma to be single, and focused on Henry and/or the Charmings, or wanted Emma to be paired with the Hatter, Augustoccio, or Nealfire. There's one or two in there I might side-eye a little, but there's some logic and consistency in that. But, when the character you're presenting as a better, more reasonable, and less sexually creepy spent thirtyish years forcing someone to have sex with her? How do you expect to be taken seriously? Because "actual rape treated like a joke" should trump "occasionally makes offensive comments" on the rape culture scale, even if only one of them has a penis. 4 Link to comment
sharky November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 I saw someone reference Mulan Rouge on Twitter. Maybe it'll catch on. Oh my gosh, we have to make this happen. How did I not think of that? It's genius! 1 Link to comment
HoodlumSheep November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 (edited) Is it bad that I'm looking forward to how all the haters react to the new sneak peek? I can't wait to cackle over them claiming that Emma's character has been assassinated because of it and how she's not a strong icon and how anti-feminist A&E are. Won't go into specifics, because it deals with a sneak peek...so spoilery? Edited November 12, 2015 by HoodlumSheep 4 Link to comment
Curio November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 BTW, can we start a wank against people calling Red/Mulan "Red Warrior"? I feel like they're oppressing me by being so uncreative and not recognizing "Mulan Rouge" is so much better. Thank you! I keep seeing "Red Warrior" as the most popular name for those two on Tumblr right now, and I just don't get it. Why use such a boring name when "Mulan Rouge" is approximately a billion times better? It's like, you guys were gifted the coolest shipper name on a silver platter, and you refuse to use it because...why? It's bizarre to me that the Once fandom has all these rules about what names are associated with each character ship. Apparently, Mulan always has to be "Warrior." Emma has to be "Swan." Regina has to be "Queen." Hook has to be "Captain." Ruby has to be "Red." Belle has to be "Beauty" unless she's with Rumple, in which case it's "Rumbelle." Can't the fandom think outside the box a bit more? (And, you know, I may or may not just want to drop the mic here and take partial credit for coming up with the "Mulan Rouge" name based on this Previously article...) 3 Link to comment
sharky November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Although there is Captain Book, but that's the only exception I can think of right now. Link to comment
Curio November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 (edited) Are we even sure these fandoms exist unironically? (And I'm talking romantically, not friendship ships.) Edited November 12, 2015 by Curio Link to comment
legaleagle53 November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 What about Golden Hook? Yeah, as though that would ever happen. Charming Hook would happen before that one ever did! Link to comment
pezgirl7 November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 And Tinker Hook, one of my fav pairings, whether it's as friends, or a crackship. :) 1 Link to comment
mjgchick November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Wasn't their also Frozen Hook? And I think Emma and Merida is called Brave Savior. lol This fandom is nuts. People are currently losing their damn minds because their delusional bubble is being burst each episode that's been aired. lol 1 Link to comment
YaddaYadda November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Isn't there a Grumpy/Rumple ship too? Link to comment
legaleagle53 November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 People are currently losing their damn minds because their delusional bubble is being burst each episode that's been aired. lol Yeah, and I love it. It's as though Excalibur were being driven right through their hearts! :-P 1 Link to comment
Souris November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 I swear, it's like ABC has collectively decide to try to make CS- and Hook-haters' heads explode today. The sneak peek. OnceABC tweeted a CS post. ABC even RT'ed the Colin/Kermit picture. 3 Link to comment
KingOfHearts November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Yeah, as though that would ever happen. Charming Hook would happen before that one ever did! It's about as likely as Swan Queen. Oooh! Link to comment
BoPeeps November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Rabid SQers and in the recent past, the Worshippers of St Vapid Neal have always been more immaturely concerned with thuggishly GETTING THEIR WAY than making any sense. It will forever be so, and as with all childish killjoys, it will forever not mean a fucking thing. 1 Link to comment
FierceAfroChick November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 LOL...ABC...troll on, troll on. 4 Link to comment
Rumsy4 November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Isn't there a Grumpy/Rumple ship too? Oh yeah. Their crackship name is Grumpkestiltskin. It's funny, but I blacklisted it when manips began to appear on my dash. :-p Sleeping Hook was a romantic ship at one point. Hooked Queen had some traction in S2 as well. Some people shipped Hook and Belle after their scene at the Diner (and in S4A). There's even a Belle/Grumpy crackship (Bumpy). It's really exasperating that people can't even be in a scene together without being shipped!!! 1 Link to comment
Serena November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 Oh! I remember when S2 was airing, people took Sleeping Hook SERIOUSLY. Anyway... Jim Halterman is poking the hornet's nest. You can take "Regina/Emma" away from his cold, dead hands! 1 Link to comment
legaleagle53 November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 It's about as likely as Swan Queen. Oooh! SNAP! 2 Link to comment
HoodlumSheep November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 (edited) LOL...ABC...troll on, troll on.There's Hookriel too!! That's one of the only ships in Once that involves name splicing, along with Philora.I feel like our ship listing is getting a bit off-topic though. I love ABC; I feel 70% sure that they are actually subtly trolling the Bad Apples. And it's sweeps so yeah, they are going to promote what sells best. They have actually been posting quite a bit of CS this past season. It's funny, because I feel like ABC kind of trolled the Bad Apples before, involving CS. Remember when the BA's were trending that Once Upon a Hook nonsense, and ABC turned that right around and several "Reasons why we love Hook" articles popped up on some sites. I feel like that wasn't a coincidence. ABC literally is a CS shipper. Edited November 12, 2015 by HoodlumSheep Link to comment
mjgchick November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 (edited) Dang the website ate my post and I don't even remember what I wrote. :( Edited November 12, 2015 by mjgchick Link to comment
OnceUponAJen November 12, 2015 Share November 12, 2015 It's funny, because I feel like ABC kind of trolled the Bad Apples before, involving CS. Remember when the BA's were trending that Once Upon a Hook nonsense, and ABC turned that right around and several "Reasons why we love Hook" articles popped up on some sites. I feel like that wasn't a coincidence. ABC literally is a CS shipper. Between that and being the home of The Muppets, ABC owns me right now. Link to comment
Faemonic November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 (edited) It's really exasperating that people can't even be in a scene together without being shipped!!! Eh, I think that's natural. If it happened in-show that the bad thing was always a curse for which the solution was always romantic True Love's Kiss, then I'd get bored and stop watching. But when it comes to the fandom, every individual viewer is going to have their own take on the thing, and someone is going to board a crack ship. That might make it look like people are some monolithic organization of oversexed matchmakers, but there are probably as many starboarders and gen-fans that we just don't notice as much because we don't do a double-take or ayebrow-raising at those. Otherwise, shipping seems to me to just be a statistic inevitability. Regina George, anyone? (Regina and King George. Also for fans of the Mean Girls movie.) Edited November 13, 2015 by Faemonic 1 Link to comment
Curio November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 So this exchange is pretty great: DailyJmo @JmoSwen@leanneaguilera we know you're in love with cs but they're are other fans of the show. Just maybe a bit of professionalism would be nice Leanne Aguilera@JmoSwen You know what? I even asked about #SwanQueen so how about you calm down and stop pre-judging before I even release my article? 1 Link to comment
Serena November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 (edited) I love that person in the replies going "She just assumed you were a Swan Queen shipper!" when that person's Twitter name was JMoSwen. Yeah, Leanne took a huuuuuuge leap there. And why are they always threatening to block people? Last time with Jim, now Leanne? None of those people will ever tweet them unless they're tweeted first, so what does that accomplish? But some OQers are being ridiculous (some spoilers there) too, claiming to be stabbed in the back because they had apparently asked the writers to give OQ a baby girl named Hope (which, way to steal your fanfiction from the Originals) and the show decided not to take story ideas from fanfiction? Edited November 13, 2015 by Serena 4 Link to comment
mjgchick November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 I can't take anyone seriously who calls a shipper group as priveleged. If I as a woman of color is only priveleged because of shipping a fictional couple and does nothing for me as a person of color than no thanks. 6 Link to comment
FierceAfroChick November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 I do this for fun...I hope I never get to the point where I'm actually that worried about a fictional couple. I prefer obsessing over my own relationships. 2 Link to comment
Serena November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 Check your canon shipping privilege! 1 Link to comment
mjgchick November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 I need to check myself before I wreck myself. 1 Link to comment
Mari November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 (edited) What's with the logic that a baby by itself isn't really a betrayal of the fans, but because Zelena's baby is apparently a girl , it's an extra betrayal? If the baby hadn't been, it would've been better? How? What? It's pretty common. Lots of babies are. I think it's possible our fandom might have more need of therapy than other fandoms. Edited November 13, 2015 by Mari 2 Link to comment
YaddaYadda November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 Regina can't have babies. I know it's this show, and they will probably find a way to reverse that, like have drink water from the well, or something, but right now, Regina is barren. They should take that into consideration. Link to comment
mjgchick November 13, 2015 Share November 13, 2015 Has Regina ever expressed wanting a girl? WTF is wrong with this fandom? Link to comment
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