i hate when people (usually dudes on forums or whatever) are always like oh you’re a shipper? that invalidates your opinions bc you really only care about this ship and not the founding premise of the show

it always happens

and it always shows up (usually in sci fi)

and it’s like….. no? that’s not how it works? i look at this show through the lens of a relationship but that lens also is a character lens and sorry that my relationship with the founding premise with this show is through people rather than like discussions of the future technology or science of it (which i’m not downplaying either)

but whenever people talk about shipping they always talk about it in this derogatory oh-it’s-just-a-girl-thing kind of way

and that just frustrates me because i can flail over a ship and love that ship with everything in me and still know how to read media thank you very much

those two items are not mutually exclusive and honestly i think if you retain a stubborn selective myopia and disregard relationships which are critical to the plot or to character arcs because you don’t want to deal with the shippers then

idk what to do with you