Everyone’s familiar with “Rule 34 of the Internet: there is porn of any conceivable subject”.
Is there also a rule that states that fandom abhors a vacuum of sexually available slim white men to ship with each other, and any piece of media that doesn’t include at least two will invent them?
Should a piece of popular media include one (1) thin white boy, failure to include another thin white boy to ship him with will result in the most popular ships in a particular fandom…
1.) importing another thin white boy from an unrelated piece of media to pair him with, regardless of reciprocated canon relationships with female characters…
2.) interpreting a non-human character as a thin white boy, even a much, much older antagonist…
3.) shipping the thin white character with himself…
Related: if a fandom DOES include at least two thin white boys, but neither of them are lead characters, they will become the most popular ship in that fandom, preferred over non-white lead male characters who display affection towards one another….
Tumblr, the place where people think it is okay to shame strangers on the internet on how they perceive a relationship between two FICTIONAL characters.
I never meant to shame anyone. I made a factual observation in neutral language about a common trend. If it makes you feel ashamed, that’s on you.
Also… you would not have liked Livejournal, where there were entire communities devoted to “sporking” - aka, mercilessly and thoroughly mocking other people’s poorly-written fanfiction word-by-word and really raking the authors across the coals. Tumblr is hardly the first or only place where fan culture is critiqued.