Ship order preference

2025-02-03T22:15:36Z

Originally posted on Tumblr [2023.06.22]

I think I finally realized/accepted something about my taste in ships.

I’m not that fussy about top/bottom order (the kind of erotica I like the most doesn’t involve penetration, or even any vanilla sex), but I do tend to have preferences. I’m not a 50/50 verse/リバ shipper, but if the art/writing suits my tastes, I will eat it regardless of who tops.

However, it turns out I have very strong Dom/sub preferences if it’s a ship I’m very invested in. I’m not sure why.

It does create a bit of a conundrum because people tend to treat these as interchangeable, but they usually only tag top/bottom. And even if I prefer A/B, I still want to see B/A fanworks! But only if A is still Dom and B is still sub. However most B/A fanworks will be Dom!B and sub!A, so not to my tastes.

Now here is the surprising part. I have pretty much no ship order preference for sadist/masochist. For me it’s completely equal opportunity. I love when A hurts B, I love when B hurts A (as long as it’s still Dom!A and sub!B).

You would think that I’d run into the same issue as with Dom/sub, where people will treat them as interchangeable. But S&M works are not that common in fandom, so I don’t even see it enough to become an issue.

And when I say S&M here, I’m not counting things like light spanking or biting that are popular in vanilla sex (not that there’s anything wrong with them, I just like harder stuff).

I tried to be like the cool kids for many years and say that I’m open to any dynamics in a ship, but I wasn’t being true to myself. The truth is, in many ways, I am that dreaded fudanshi.

Disclaimer: I know that a lot of fandom likes to treat top/bottom preference as a moral issue, but rest assured that just because I don’t like something doesn’t mean I’m judging it or think it’s bad. I just have my own personal tastes.

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On Wolfwood's ethnicity and the Latino Wolfwood headcanon

2025-02-03T21:43:59Z

Originally posted on Tumblr [2023.07.28]

Since I've seen a few people talking about this subject (including @cerealandchoccymilk who made very good points), I thought I'd share my own two cents on how the (western side of the) Trigun fandom treats Wolfwood's race/ethnicity.

This is mostly copied from a 2am rant on my friends' discord server and cleaned up a bit, so apologies if it's a bit disjointed. Full post under the readmore.

The way the English-speaking Trigun fandom treats Wolfwood is... a bit weird.

He doesn’t have a canon ethnicity, and unlike Rem, Nightow hasn't given his extra-textual personal opinion on the subject. His appearance was modeled off a Japanese man — Tortoise Matsumoto, the lead singer of the band Ulfuls (ウルフルズ), which is also where the name Wolfwood (ウルフウッド) comes from. Fun fact!

He really is a handsome fellow, isn't he?

Because of Wolfwood's tan skin and the childhood nickname Nico*, many fans in the West take it for granted that he is of some sort of unspecified Latino, mestizo origin. I would say it's almost reached the level of fanon at this point.

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Ship order preference

On Wolfwood's ethnicity and the Latino Wolfwood headcanon