Why the fuck do people "ship" straight male characters? Why do people do this? Especially tumblrretards

Why the fuck do people "ship" straight male characters? Why do people do this? Especially tumblrretards.

Why do you care about what other people fantasize about fictional characters?

I'm asking a question. I want to comprehend why people do this.

It's all women, they can't comprehend male friendships because male friendships can actually be genuine. Women's relationships are 100% competition with each other and sexual power dynamics with men. So when they see two guys actually getting along and relating to one another, they see what must be the ideal romantic/sexual relationship. This is where the term "bromance" comes from too

because its their fetish

Femanon here. I can't speak for all girls but I only ship when the characters have some type of chemistry. I hate it when those dumb bitches ship male characters only because its hot or they were in the same room.

It would be pretty romantic of Sherlock and Watson got together though.

Sherlock's always had a poor love life, maybe that's because the perfect partner was in front of him the whole time. :)

Or, you know, when they ship brothers. Fuck that shit.

That's fucked up dude.

probably for the same reason i would murder you straight up for ten minutes alone with kristen stewarts feet op

>guys get off on fucking twins or a mother/daughter combo
>hate it when the tables are turned
Can dish it but you can't take it huh?

Ew no I don't get off to that stuff. Its fucking disgusting dude.

Makes kinda sense

one of the many reasons i despised Sherlock when it was airing - apart from gimmicky direction and idiotic writing/characterisation - was how consistently and egregiously it would bait people into discussing the gay relationship between watson and holmes. it would have been better if they had just made them outright homosexuals than making flat unfunny jokes that were the essentially just: "look two men together they must be fags"

because its cute.

don't you like cute things op

I'm not really into incest either. Most of my ships are straight.

I cannot stand the fanbase. Also, at this point I'm fucking fed up with sherlock. The different reimagination. has made the whole sherlock subject matter very over saturated.

same reason why people always make rule 34 of everything

people are horny
it's just that women care about the build up while guys tend to just care about the sex/nudity

They're fictional characters and it's all in good fun.

Just have a laugh and move on with your life.

Because it's 2016.

If only they actually did that. Just ship fictional characters without going after the hetero ships or degrading female characters because they get in the way of their favorites. Slash shippers are one of the most vile shippers out there. Just look at the Sherlock, The 100 and Star Wars(kylux) fandom.

There's a big pack of faggots that do this shit on Sup Forums too. Those pieces of shit killed the Hamill threads.

I think that's true, one time I was talking to a girl about my best friend and she asked me if I was gay for no fucking reason.

I hate 2016

I never got into watching that show but it's pretty aggressive. I remember when Elementary(American Sherlock version) came out that fandom was attacking it for turning Watson into a woman and making the chances of the pairing much higher than theirs.

It turns them on

why the fuck else

Why the fuck would they make Watson a woman?

progress

No that's what you call deviation from the source material faggit

because it's just a reskinned american detective procedural. they all follow the formula of charismatic male genius with a dark past and a problem with authority teamed up with a partner who's a responsible, levelheaded, and hyper-competent female professional. the female is the stand-in for the audience of baby boomer women who watch these shows, and the male is their ideal "emotionally distant bad boy with talent and good genes who can be reformed" sexual fantasy

It's pure mental illness. You cannot comprehend the mind of fujoshit

It's characters having chemistry and two hot guys fucking. And once upon a time, the fact that we knew it would never be canon was half the fun of it. Not too long ago, nobody ever thought two male characters would really become a couple. It's only recently that people started screaming for their ship to be canon.

In my mind, it's not really shipping if it has a chance of being real. I don't get the mindset of shippers these days. Though honestly I think it's less about really wanting those characters together, and more wanting to be right or feel superior to other fans.

It's called pushing an agenda. It's a purposeful social manipulation.

See Edward Bernays

/y/

Holy shit this sums it up so well. Why do boomers love NCIS so much?

idk How about you fucking go over to /y/ and ask them

those non-blue boards scare me.

This ... women don't understand male friendship. It's incomprehensible to them, almost threatening, so they have to make it about sex.

The other thing is that m/m pairings put everything at a safe distance away from them, unlike m/f pairings, which could (gasp) apply to them. A lot of women just aren't capable of dealing with their own sexualities and so this is an outlet for them.

>The other thing is that m/m pairings put everything at a safe distance away from them, unlike m/f pairings, which could (gasp) apply to them. A lot of women just aren't capable of dealing with their own sexualities and so this is an outlet for them.
That's really sad.

It's not people. It's landwhales who can't get enough gay porn to wet their tent-sized undies with. It has nothing to do with actual character interpretation, it's just straight up erotica and nothing else.

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