#but yeah the shipping culture itself can be a lot
Swinging the bat at the hornets nest by criticising fandom again but the fact that it is a given that any fanworks will be romance and shipping focused (and it IS, exhibit A being goddamn ao3 has the / tag type to list romantic relationships and another, &, for every other type of relationship ever, exhibit B being all the “fanfic tropes” are romance tropes common in romantic fanfic, i could go on) is so alienating as an aromantic person, especially as a romance repulsed person. I can understand romance being a fandom focus for fandoms of romantic media, but irrespective of what the fuck is going on in canon fandom is ALWAYS shipping-centred and its so isolating.
