Idk, I guess you’re right from a strictly professional standpoint but I also had too much fun watching Daisy be anti reylow and shut down doomerey, and John openly shipping Finnrey 😂
Daisy’s an Anti and she shut down Doomrey? I’m not surprised, but that’s funny af lol
That’s in the Chinese interview @chibi-chellist mentioned, you can search “Mtime” on my blog for links and the anti-doomerey part is on video. (It could be read as anti finnrey as well, but the specific question was about doomerey.) In addition to the Mtime interview she also mentioned how she was very impressed by the conversations about controlling relationships young people were having with regard to reylow. There’s even a moodboard of these quotes with sources, so enjoy (link)!
Reading romance where none exists is a reylow specialty (and, for certain characters, none where one clearly exists). Heck, this happens all the time for white male and female characters, like Max and Furiosa anyone? I love their relationship to death but it’s so clearly not romantic and that’s part of its appeal.
Wait people see them as…romantic 😅
On AO3 they’re the most popular ship in Mad Max by a long shot. I don’t get it either.
Lmao I’m shook!
And Valkyrie?! I swear Tessa Thompson should win an award
The Valkyrie in Fury Road is not Tessa, but she’s cool as hell!
And the shipbait:
I find that a fuckton more romantic than anything that happened between Furiosa and Max.
Oh that was her name?! I only saw the movie in theaters at once. I love that character. I actually thought they were in a relationship. Maybe it was just me but I didn’t see Furiosa as heterosexual.
I thought someone had some crazy crossover idea lol
I mean look at Furiosa’s face she’s so restful, like she’s found home. Valkyrie is overcome with emotion at finding the friend she thought she’d lost forever. I love them so much. And then Valkyrie dies in the battle…😢
Anyway Furiosa is a lesbian and married to the Wives if only in a political sense don’t @ me
Ok but Marvel Valkyrie would get along with the Wives and Many Mothers like a house on fire?? I’ve seen a headcanon where she joins the Dora Milaje and I love that too. Basically let Valkyrie find a warrior sisterhood again you cowards 😭
Reading romance where none exists is a reylow specialty (and, for certain characters, none where one clearly exists). Heck, this happens all the time for white male and female characters, like Max and Furiosa anyone? I love their relationship to death but it’s so clearly not romantic and that’s part of its appeal.
Wait people see them as…romantic 😅
On AO3 they’re the most popular ship in Mad Max by a long shot. I don’t get it either.
Lmao I’m shook!
And Valkyrie?! I swear Tessa Thompson should win an award
The Valkyrie in Fury Road is not Tessa, but she’s cool as hell!
And the shipbait:
I find that a fuckton more romantic than anything that happened between Furiosa and Max.
Reading romance where none exists is a reylow specialty (and, for certain characters, none where one clearly exists). Heck, this happens all the time for white male and female characters, like Max and Furiosa anyone? I love their relationship to death but it’s so clearly not romantic and that’s part of its appeal.
Wait people see them as…romantic 😅
On AO3 they’re the most popular ship in Mad Max by a long shot. I don’t get it either.
if Rey and Kylo were both women or both men, the Force bond wouldn’t be considered sexual.
like, Harry and Voldemort also had an involuntary, unwanted psychic bond, but nobody sexualized it.
take off your hetero goggles.
THIS TEA IS TOO DAMN HOT!
People who are pointing out the harry voldemort shipping in the notes are making a false equivalence. No one was seriously saying Harry and Voldie were going to be/had to be/was canon, no one was harassing creators desperate for “proof” that it was canon. Pottermort or Tomdickharry or whatever that godforsaken ship is called always was and always will be treated as the disturbing crackship it is, as opposed to reylo which is just as disturbing and cracky (if not cracker) but gets treated as though it has actual currency. It does not, except in the context of a heavily misogynistic culture where the violent and abusive treatment of a woman is sanitized and romanticized.
inverted gender roles – rough bruiser girl, kind gentle boy
lots of love and respect
it’d just be adorable okay
pros of stormpilot becoming canon:
canon gay interracial couple! in star wars!
endless jacket-sharing jokes
the gays would probably not die, which is always nice
also extremely adorable
pros of reylo becoming canon:
there aren’t any
As a damerey shipper, I agree with this
I’m a Finnnrey shipper, but I’d rather see Damrey happen than Reylo.
Interracial couple
Positive and healthy relationship
Piloting jokes for days
The han/luke fans get their outlet
They might still get some Finn love
Damrey is like Rey Kenobi or Rey Solo. We different but we love y’all!
Damerey is partly like Rey Kenobi – there were basically no true hints for Rey Kenobi anywhere but people wanted it bc they love Obi Wan or didn’t want Rey to be related to the Skywalkers to avoid incest in R*ylo. Damerey is basically a crack ship for people who either like both characters, have the hots for Oscar and don’t want the gay, can’t imagine Finnrey due to antiblackness… and it would be LF‘s way to claim they aren’t racist bc they wrote an interracial relationship that wouldn’t even be considered one in Europe for instance … so Damerey is the easy and biased way out … mixed with some antiblackness, homophobia and hot Latino stereotypes for many shippers… while Rey Kenobi was the biased and less impactful version of Rey Skywalker/Rey Solo … oops..
Is Damerey a lot better than R*ylo? Of course but then do you know how low the bar is here???
Pretty much, yeah. Doomerey is one of those things that are cool in theory but make no canon sense and only look good in comparison to the abyss that is Reylow.
Also while there’s no harm in enjoying it as a fanon ship, it’s been spoiled for me because of jerks who keep being anti Finnrey and went so far as to send me and other Finnrey shippers weird passive-aggressive asks about how their ship is already canon and how Rey and Poe’s 10-second greeting trumps everything that happened between Finn and Rey. Not to mention the asshats who take over Finnrey and JediStormPilot posts and turn them into Doomerey, excluding Finn.
[I cannot understand J/C shippers. Captain/Admiral Janeway is so clearly gay and in love with Seven that it insults me that somebody does not see it.]
She’s engaged to a guy at the beginning of the series, and fuck us for being excited about a potential relationship with a Native man who went from a principled enemy to Janeway’s second-in-command and friend, right?
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