reading that last post, it sounds like I’m mad, but I just think this is ridiculous
the point of a shipping list is to make it easy to find certain ships, and this is just making the list confusing and weird
if I search Gemshipping (Thief King Bakura x Ryou Bakura) I am looking for a completely different ship from Tendershipping (Yami no Bakura x Ryou Bakura). I get that a lot of people have different headcanons and fan theories about them, since Takahashi wasn’t super clear in a lot of aspects, but… they’re not the same character. At all. I’m looking for a completely different pairing in each of those shippings.
EDIT: Merging them “officially” into the same shipping name is only going to make my life, and I’m sure a lot of other peoples’ lives, more difficult when trying to find fanfiction. Seeing Tendershipping as a tag, I’m going to go into this fic with a wildly different idea of who’s being shipped and what the setting is more likely to be if I then click on it, and nope, it’s not Tendershipping, it’s actually Gemshipping under a different name for a different pairing.
Yeah. These newer people are also just changing old ship names and I refuse to join in because nah.. .I am not relearning all that when there are literally over 100 characters with names in canon. True most are not main character but I did once have a list because I was writing a fic I planned to have EVERYONE in.
That aside- I hate it and they are trying to change the name of my fav ship to trashshipping. As in they view my OTP of all OTPs as worthless garbage. Fuck them.
They also tried just renaming certain ships because other spin off series want the name and they were all “No one ships this anyway so yeah- take it.”
WRONG AGAIN! I shipped it and still do so no, Dangershipping will not be for Zexal’s Kotori x Ryoga since it was already taken by Seto x Marik.
And ‘condensing’ character ships when NONE of the characters are the same person as you pointed out is just going to make it worse.
I am Terra 