You know, I Was going to ask you about what’s up with the yugioh ship names since I’ve seen you post about them being awful but thought “oh before I put them through explaining all that why don’t I look it up?” And oh. Oh no i get it now. Like I’ve never cared for the combine a character name for a ship but at least it’s not whatever is happening here. What a bizarre and complicated way to organize.
I am both sorry and grateful you understand my suffering hahaha. There’s some real nightmares out there in yugioh ship name land and you have no choice but to use them if you want to find content or have yours seen.
The most frustrating thing to me is that I can’t tell what something is by looking at it because they’re all impenetrable injokes or assumptions about dynamics from A Before Time. I don’t want to have to consult a fucking encyclopedia every time somebody says to me, “I like [noun]shipping!” Some are at least a little bit sensible or elegant or well thought out and you can appreciate that it’s cute but others are just like “they both did the same thing once at different times”, others are just really, really uncomfortable because they were named in the early 2000s before we all collectively knew better about Several Topics.
I also am not a fan of name smush either but I would take it instead of this, fuck. I think the barrier there is that so many characters have name changes between dubbing. ( Which doesn’t really bother me to be honest - everytime I see something about the 4Kids dub version I consider those to be completely different characters because of how much was done…) At this point I would kill for a good healthy Person/Person.
