/ffs/ - Fujo Fandom Sperging

>What do you generally think of such shipping? Do you think it's dumb, annoying, interesting, fun?
I think it's cute/funny in fanart but otherwise I don't care much for it. It's not something I seek out. However it can become sort of annoying and lose it's cuteness/funny appeal when people start spamming it because of "le epic memes".

>Any thoughts on serious crossovers style ships of two characters different properties vs joke ships trying to be silly, what is your preference?
I avoid crossover ships because I just find it too silly but I have nothing against the concept. Also if people are going to ship it then they should at least commit and do it because they genuinely find the pairing interesting

>Do you have any crack pairings you like?
I have some rarepairs that some would consider crack because the characters barely interact. I just think they look good together and/or their personalities clash perfectly

>Do you think it has any effect on fandom as a whole, either positeve or negative?
Not really. It's easy to avoid if you don't want to see it.

>Did you ever start to ship something as a joke, to then become unironic about the pairing?
Yes. Mostly in Hetalia just because the characters are so shipable so I just think "lol they would be a fun couple" and then I realise that they would indeed make a fun couple. But Hetalia is the only fandom where I have done this.

I like lot of pairings featuring secondary characters and men who are not conventionally attractive so nothing upsets me more than seeing a bulk of fanfiction about specific characters get treated as jokes.

Besides that, I struggle to see the humor in a lot of fanworks from western artists, but quite enjoy "crack treated seriously" where an author takes an outlandish idea and then proceeds to integrate the concept as faithfully as possible into canon.

>Any thoughts on serious crossovers style ships of two characters different properties vs joke ships trying to be silly, what is your preference
I actually love crossover pairings! But again I prefer to see a realistic attempt to merge the two properties and their worlds. For instance if they are from different eras I'd prefer time-travel to be involved as opposed to a modern AU for the older character.

Not a big fan of "____ in the Hunger Games", or "_____ in Danganronpa" style works where an author just grabs 20 characters and throws them in a pool unless there is serious commitment to the level of world building that takes.

>What do you generally think of such shipping? Do you think it's dumb, annoying, interesting, fun?
I think that crack ships are a great fun and can lead to creative things

>Any thoughts on serious crossovers style ships of two characters different properties vs joke ships trying to be silly, what is your preference?
Both can be good but more serious stuff needs to have a good execution and dynamic for me to genuinely like it

>>Do you have any crack pairings you like?
A few, I like shipping protagonists and main villains from different show seasons/game iterations/etc.

>>Do you think it has any effect on fandom as a whole, either positive or negative?
Maybe they can make a fandom look a little bit more lolsorandumbXD but in the end they usually are harmless jokes or attempts to give a character a ship with a more satisfying to the author/artist chemistry than what more conventional and logical choices can give
Shipping is a silly thing in the first place, it can only get so much sillier with the crossover ships
On the other hand they can give interesting and memey results that even people outside of the fandoms can enjoy or help the shipper in their creative endeavors in producing their original content

>>Did you ever start to ship something as a joke, to then become unironic about the pairing?
Yes, namely KiraxDiavolo from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. It eventually just grew on me
Jojo in general is rich with crack ship potential, same with Naruto

My first m/m pairing was a literal crackship between dipper from gravity falls and wirt from over the garden wall. I have no idea why I liked the idea of them together so much, but it made me happy. I think crackships are a good thing for fandoms because they keep fandoms less serious and more fun. I also think they allow people to explore creative dynamics.

>>1619
>dipper from gravity falls and wirt from over the garden wall
I remember them, I liked them too! I also remember Dipper being shipped with Norman from paranorman kek.
I'm curious though, do you remember bad end friends? God, I loved them when I was younger. It was so much fun.

>>1620
That AU was so fun. How lucky we were to have these shows in our childhood.

I don't take them seriously, but they're funny to look at once in a while. I remember Preller (from Hannibal) was a fun crack ship because it contrasted well with the main ship Hannigram which usually had a dark and serious tone. But if canon is generally ~quirky~ then crack ships kinda lose their magic, imo.

Since we're talking about crack ships, how do other fujos feel about the RK900/Gavin ship from Detroit: Become Human? I think it's an interesting case of a complete crack ship becoming very popular in the fandom. Yeah, they're from the same game, but RK900 and Gavin never interacted with each other. We never even see RK900's personality.

>>1732
another pic cuz i feel like it

>>1733
>>1732
doesn't this count as selfcest though ?

>>1737
Not really. RK900 and Connor are two different models.

>>1732
I think it's fucking stupid and barely above shipping OCs, but I respect the amount of work that goes into shit like the fan movie.

>>1740
I also really dislike the ship too. Especially when the people who ship it hate on HankCon bc "omg they're just friends!!!" like stfu

I always ended up shipping a lot of crack because I only ever ship slash pairings. I also conversely like a lot shows aimed at men with large female casts so I often have to work with a limited amount of men available.

It's fun to explore the unique combinations that can arise, even if the characters barely interact canonically. The most interesting thing is seeing the excuse the author makes to put the guys in a situation that love can blossom. A few I've read literally just strand characters on deserted islands.

>>1732
That ship is example of the "migratory slash fandom" phenomenon. It's that specific dynamic (not always exactly the same) that shippers like and if they can't find it in a popular canon, they tend to invent it. I enjoy these ships (Kylux, Hawkey/Coulson etc) occasionally but they have kinda ultra-generic feel where you can switch the character names and everything stays the same. Tbh most fic is like that.

>>1930
Ooh, I've been looking for a name for this type of shipping. The type where shippers are more interested in the archetypes fulfilled than the actual characters themselves.

If I'm going to be honest it bothers me when they take minor characters I like and reduce them to a single trait, but of its something like Kylux where one part isn't even properly explored in canon I don't mind.

>>1930
>"migratory slash fandom" phenomenon
I'm glad somebody put it into words. I dislike it for very selfish reasons: historically it serves as a death sentence for the stuff I want to look at from an artist/writer who gets into it.

Out of curiosity I went to go check the Hux/Ben tag on Ao3 just now and the number made me really butthurt lmao (FIFTEEN FUCKIN THOUSAND???)

>>1972
What do you mean death sentence? Do you just find their output becomes same-y or something else?

>>1978
Just means they shift gears from ships I like to ships I don't have the right brainworms to enjoy. Usually I will at least develop a secondary interest in a person's new fandom work but I bounce off of "migratory slash fandom" stuff very hard. This happened with Oncecest back in the day now that I think about it.

Anyway a crackship I thought was super cute was Johnny Bravo/Samurai Jack.

>What do you generally think of such shipping? Do you think it's dumb, annoying, interesting, fun?
I'm generally fine with it. More often than not (when not obviously purely ironic) it'll make me smile, either by being a silly pair or seeing someone's devotion to it.

>Any thoughts on serious crossovers style ships of two characters different properties vs joke ships trying to be silly, what is your preference?
I prefer serious, generally, because the earnestness endears me to whatever is getting shipped a lot faster.

>Do you have any crack pairings you like?
Something I ship personally? Not off the top of my head.

>Did you ever start to ship something as a joke, to then become unironic about the pairing?
Nah.

Overall it can be nice to stumble across random pairs like this. Pic rel I found while on Poipiku, a Vegeta/Guts artist. There's also the White haired dude from other series x Endeavor (MHA) phenomena on AO3. It's not even really huge, or anything, it's around 4~ writers writing I think, but it's funny to see. Ganbare!

>Crack Treated Seriously
>Misspellings and purposely bad grammar

I hate it, I love when authors are creative and make weird shit work. If you write a 15k Elmo/Kermit angst fic it's impressive even though it's still just "Crack" and ridiculous.

Does anyone find the faux 2000s writing style of crackfics funny?

>>4758
>If you write a 15k Elmo/Kermit angst fic it's impressive even though it's still just "Crack" and ridiculous.
This reminded me of a 100k Sid/Andy (yes, from Toy Story) fic I read a billion years ago: https://archiveofourown.org/works/617850/chapters/1114701

I vaguely remember this ship being a meme in the early/mid 2010s, kind of a like a proto Max/Bradley (yes, from the Goofy movies).

>>4759
Oh man, I do remember this ship being a thing when garbage man Sid was an easter egg in the third movie however I can't imagine writing a novel length fanfic of it. Good for the author though might check it out.

Can't believe there are over 1000 Toy Story fics and 300+ are m/m. I'd almost say any work for that fandom should be crack but I guess Woody/Buzz has enough canon basis unlike Andy/Sid.

>>1542
>>Did you ever start to ship something as a joke, to then become unironic about the pairing?
Embarrassing to admit but the answer is squidbob

Sometimes you're perusing the bottom of the barrel of your fandom and see some wtf crossovers.

>>1542
To be honest I could never get into crackship since the dynamic is all that makes ships attractive to me and you basically have to make up the whole dynamic yourself for crack and my autism won't let me drift away too much from canon anyway.
I am usually indifferent though but I can dislike it if it blows up like in one of my fandoms where crack stuff has overtaken the canon ships and the heavily hinted ships and none of the crack makes any sort of sense. It's entirely OC and headcanon based with the skins of existing characters so I cannot even view the characters as the ones I like. Maybe I lack the imagination, no idea.

>>5934
Do you think if there was a perceived dynamic in a crossover ship you could get into it? Say criminal from one series, police officer from another, or is that still too far removed from source?