Caelus Helldiver

Also sorry for the late response im rarely on bluesky these days.

Yeah but the silver lining is Zhongtao's plight at least made everyone else hyper-aware of these anti tactics. A few other ships too of course but Zhongtao was the main one back then.

I hope one day you guys can love your ship in peace. Keep your chin up alright? Yall arent as alone as you think.

True. Antis are like "skeptics" under ghost videos. The vast majority of us know its fake and tbh I dont want ghosts to be real anyway.

But going under the comments and saying "This is so fake" doesnt make you seem smart it makes you look like an A hole ruining everyone else's fun and imagination.

Public service announcement from General Jiyan of the Midnight Rangers.

Jiyan for President 2028.

Yeah. I was just young and stupid really. A silly young adult who thought they knew everything lol.

Sometimes I will be laying in bed beside my wife and recall things I said back then and the cringe will keep me awake. Thats gonna be Modern Antis one day. Promise you.

Hello blusky im looking for mutuals who like Wuthering Waves and Zenless Zone Zero.

But reminder I believe in the concept of ship and let ship. Even ships that make me uncomfy or that I dont personally like. It isnt my problem what other people do and ship and I dont aim to make it my problem.

Proshippers on the other hand have always been consistent. Which is in the idea they believe in the concept of allowing people to ship whatever they want and thats all. Even that which they may not personally like.

Reason I bring this up is I can vouch for your statement. Antis are ever changing. They have to be for the outrage culture I spoke of earlier. They HAVE to continue making up new problems or they lose relevancy, or worse, turn on themselves causing infighting.

Like I said in another comment I was an anti myself somewhere around 2016 give or take. Grew out of it and became more of a ship and let ship kinda guy. (Going somewhere with this dw)

The Anti movement has always leaned on outrage and anger, however. Always finding the next "villain" and never knowing peace. Even to the extent of eating themselves. Now that we have lesser problems then ever, they have to up the ante to remain relevant I suppose.

I think thats a consequence of the apathy towards human life that has become so normalized in modern day. Before when if an Anti even dared to make a death threat even their fellow antis would turn on them. Now its encouraged.

Nobody sane, that is.

I think its a problem that people threw real world activism into it. Cause shipping and activism simply do not mix and it hurts the movement more to try and make them

Nobody wants to be reminded of societal ills when they just wanna mind their own business and think about two characters making out.

Yup. I was there when that happened too. Been with that fandom from its beginning up until Fontaine and now that ive left and taken a step back to breathe and have time to think on it, ive realized toxicity in fandoms are a given. But this is something different.

I was an Anti around the same time too. And yeah even at our worst we never threw around death threats and the like. Even in our most bitter moments we still had some level of understanding of how far was too far.

The antis of today are a recent phenomena.

I dont play that game anymore nor care for its ships, but moral of the story is you are free to do whatever you want. Lie about whatever you want. But dont be surprised if one day that lie comes back to haunt you.

This is a lesson we learn as children.

So yes. You are 100% correct. Antis at some point definitely knew they were lying. But after so long of lying to themselves and others some began to believe its really true. Nor did they care until it started affecting ships THEY liked. Karma sure is a b*tch aint it? (7/7)

It doesnt work as much anymore because people figured out their tactics but the damage is already done to older ships in that fandom. And many people to this day dont know so the harassment of that ship and those like it continues. (6/7)

This is what popularized the method of using headcanons and treating them as canon to take down another ship that we see used on other ships within this and other fandoms. This is where it more or less started (At least in this particular fandom). (5/7)

This lead to harassment galore and effectively destroyed ZhongTao in the West (Its still quite popular in the East). Western Shippers never actually went anywhere they just became quiet about shipping it but the effect was the same. (4/7)

It got so bad at one point that the gaslighting lead to even your average joe believing it was canon because GI players arent known to actually read their own stories so they wouldnt know its false. (3/7)

Have you ever heard of a ship called ZhongTao from Genshin? Back in GI's early days There was a headcanon going around that they were "like father and daughter" and antis took advantage of it and pretended it was canon to justify harassing the shippers (2/7)

This is gonna get kinda long but it practically proves your point and I think the more people that know this piece of fandom history the less the method of ship wars I describe will have an effect.

(Read below) (1/7)

Jiyan and Jianxin's reaction to people shipping them under my one video of them.

#wutheringwaves
#wuwa
#jiyan
#jianxin

Fellow Lingsha owners, Is this normal or is my Lingsha broken?

Picture I took of her this morning.

#HonkaiStarRail
#Lingsha

Nothing wrong with that. I was just wondering because he looks so pretty I couldnt tell.

Also my wife is from that part of the world so it might be something to bond over with her. Thank you my friend.

I love that dynamic personally. Bonus points if the goth has a resting angry face and looks scary and the pastel one is a silly little gremlin. And the goth one gets soft and gentle with the pastel showing them a sweet side no one else gets to see.

Cleanse the world of their sins, dear Shorekeeper main. May you always win your 50/50 and your crit numbers break 10000.

Oh yeah. Chinese media always tends to have metal af names. I might check it out.

Also I hope this isnt an offensive thing to say but the person on the left are they a man or a woman? Its cute either way I just cant figure out which.

Im not from whatever this fandom is. But this popped on my timeline and I wanted to say this art looks beautiful and the couple looks so cute and happy.

Keep up the good work artist.