I’d say at the very least it’s probably an assholeish thing to do? By all means think it, say it elsewhere on your blog but the artist likely sees those tags. I’d leave it at ‘nice art’ personally, it’d annoy me if someone did it to me.
Yeah, the more I think about it - the more I’m realizing “nah, that’s an asshole thing - don’t say that.”
I do think it’s a different thing to say ‘do I ship this now? I think I do’ or ‘ok now this i can get behind’ or ‘i really like what you’ve done with x’ or something to that effect. That’d be pretty cool, and would make the artist fell pretty chuffed I’d say, since there are many different interpretations of a ship and some are better than others. Most people in fandom are aware of this I think.
However tags like ‘pretty art… but i hate this ship its so toxic’ (which I have seen people tag art before) is just… Why would someone do that? Their followers probably know/infer that if they don’t reblog the ship much. Take a chill pill and either don’t reblog the art or bite your tongue, peeps.
