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⌈ Secret Post #6990 ⌋

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Ships you stopped loving?

[philstar22]

Are there any ships you fell out of love with? What made you change?


Are there any that you disliked at first but came to enjoy?

Once Upon a Time

[(Anonymous)]

I fell out of love with Rumpelstiltskin and Belle in Once Upon a Time.

I liked the two characters and their version of the beauty-and-the-beast dynamic. But then Rumple kept going on this redemption-corruption carousel and Belle got sidelined. (Eventually there was some awful mystical pregnancy coma?) Seeing them become shades of their former selves soured me on the whole thing.

Re: Once Upon a Time

[philstar22]

Oh god yes. The carousel of Rumple. That show. At least with some of the redemption arcs, they stuck. With him, he kept going back to evil and then just instantly forgiven the moment he decided to try to be good again. And it was ultimately always about himself and maybe sometimes about her and his son. He never actually wanted to be good for the right reasons. He was always selfish right to the end.

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[philstar22]

My first time watching House I massively shipped him with Cuddy. The show totally ruined my enjoyment of the ship, though. Same things happened with Booth/Bones on Bones, though I never shipped that quite as strongly.

My first Doctor Who run I shipped Doctor/Donna. I ended up falling out of love with the ship and realized I didn't really want to ship the Doctor with normal humans at all.

I shipped Clint/Natasha in the MCU for a while until I just grew bored with the ship. Don't hate it, just don't really ship it anymore.

On the other side, I didn't hate Doctor/Master, but I didn't fall in love with the ship until Missy and then watching some Old Who. I still ship other versions of it much more strongly than I do 10/Master.

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[greghousesgf]

the House/Cuddy relationship was one of many things that they screwed up bigtime in the later seasons.

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, Doctor/Master didn’t really click for me until Missy. She had a more playful antagonism with the Doctor that was different from Simm!Master’s more straightforward hatred and resentment.

I ought to go watch some older Master stories. I’ve only ever dipped into the older series sort of at random and I don’t think I’ve seen any stories with previous incarnations of the Master.

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[kaijinscendre]

Hmm. Most ships I kind of cool down on then will have like a month where I decide to read them for a while. Or if I see a particularly good fic summary, I'll read it.

The only one I can think of really growing to not enjoy is Cecil/Carlos from Welcome to Nigthvale and that is because I great to dislike the show.

I think one I was meh on but a really good fic change my mind was Sanji/Luffy. Same with Jon/Sansa.

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[(Anonymous)]

I loved shipping Nancy Wheeler and Steven Harrington from Stranger Things.

After Season 5, though, it's glaringly obvious to me now that Stancy's biggest flaw is that Steve's not the one who can get pregnant. Since he wants six nuggets, he should be the one to carry and birth them (and he would, too, if he could.)

Problems only fanfiction can fix, am I right?

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Remus/Tonks when I was in the Harry Potter fandom way back when. Then they became canon and it got weird.

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[(Anonymous)]

I was obsessed with Mulder/Scully back in the day, but did a hard swerve to NoRoMo when they actually started to become canon. And I suddenly realized Mulder is a broken manbaby who just wants Scuwwy to be his mommy.

Up through the first half of A Storm of Swords, I was so excited for Sansa/Tyrion. Big pile of tropes I cannot resist:
*Arranged political marriage between two families that hate each other? Check!
*Bride is conventionally pretty and groom is considered ugly? Check and check!
*Groom doesn't consummate marriage because he knows bride is too young and doesn't want him? Check!

I was thrilled when Sansa got spirited away by Littlefinger, because that fed into another trope I love: Arranged marriage couple gets separated by fate for a few years, then reunited again after the bride is comfortably an adult. And they're still legally married! They develop a new appreciation for each other and decide to give it a go.

So that all went down the toilet when Tyrion straight up murdered Shae. I know I could find fix-it fic if I tried, but I lost all my enthusiasm for ASOIAF. But they could have been the Westerosi power couple, damn it.

Re: Ships you stopped loving?

[(Anonymous)]

Around twenty years ago I was into sonadow. I still have fic for it up on my ffnet profile (purely because I forgot the password and no longer have access to the email). Being an old hat now and new fans (esp fans that came in from the movies) thinking Shadow is his only rival when Knuckles and Jet are *right there* is exhausting.

What new food have you tried recently?

[(Anonymous)]

Got All Dressed Lay's. I think I both like and hate them....

Re: What new food have you tried recently?

[philstar22]

Tried a salad at the cafe next to my office. I really liked it. Had cabbage, onions, mandarin oranges, chicken, and a bunch of other stuff. I liked the dressing too, sesame based.

Re: What new food have you tried recently?

[kaijinscendre]

Tried a Red Curry ramen from Trader Joe's and it was really good! Wish I could get them in bulk.

Re: What new food have you tried recently?

[(Anonymous)]

My sister went to a nearby Patel Brothers to get some chickpeas and also grabbed some snacks with no knowledge of Indian cuisine. She didn't like the Gujarati chakli and offered them to me. I think she maybe just doesn't like cumin, because they're really good! I don't usually seek out fried snacks so I wouldn't have tried them otherwise.

Re: What new food have you tried recently?

[(Anonymous)]

Pickle lemonade changed my life.

I hate that "let me Google that for you" shit

[(Anonymous)]

I was searching for scans of some obscure manga/comic i remember reading for free. I googled it and just ran into these sites that show you the pages but if you stay too long the page blanks out and gives some "please pay a months subscription to continue". And the damn site showed up at the top of every search. And then the only other lead i found was a reddit thread where someone else asked where to read it.

And of course all the responses were 'google it' and one was that bitchy ass 'let me Google that for you' link. That again just showed the for pay websites at the top.

Thankfully i remembered the artist/author and that helped me find it.

(I just wanted it for art/style ref)

But still just ughhhh

Re: I hate that "let me Google that for you" shit

[(Anonymous)]

I found a Firefox extension that lets you blacklist sites from Google searches because there's a crossword clues site that has not worked for quite possibly years now, only saying "An error has occurred, please contact the site owners". Bullshit, man.

The extension is called uBlacklist, for what that's worth.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Like sometimes i think people don't realize someone may be asking because they've already TRIED and didn't come up with anything because maybe the thing has a title that will ping up a dozen other fucking things or they otherwise can't find it.

There's no need to just jump to the assumption they don't know how to use google. Its not even funny anymore.

Re: I hate that "let me Google that for you" shit

[(Anonymous)]

Google doesn't even work anymore. It's all enshittified.

Re: I hate that "let me Google that for you" shit

[(Anonymous)]

I’m saying this as gently as I can: this is a skill issue on your part. You should be able to refine your searches or at the very least scroll past the top results. If you don’t know how to use browser extensions do anything from refine search results to block sites to getting around a firewall, that’s a you problem. If you don’t know how to switch results to images, I honestly don’t know why you are even online. This is especially relevant to Reddit where sharing photos in comments is a pain in the ass. You lack digital literacy and are just angry that others are pointing that out.

Re: I hate that "let me Google that for you" shit

[(Anonymous)]

I hate that so much too. Often Google doesn't find what you need. Or it pulls threads from Reddit, but the relevant comments have been deleted or transformed into gibberish when the user stopped using their Reddit account. Or, like you said, Reddit posts where the answer given is "Google it" AAAHHHHHHHH

Re: I hate that "let me Google that for you" shit

[(Anonymous)]

LMGTFY was one of those things that might've been funny in limited situations, but yeah, largely just abused.

But that's only one of the reasons I hate "JUST GOOGLE IT!" to any fucking message where someone is just trying to generate discussion. Shit, you never know, you might find out together that Google has increasingly sucked over the years and maybe you shouldn't rely on one source of information.

Re: I hate that "let me Google that for you" shit

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if this will help, anon, but I use Startpage as a Google alternative.