The complicated world of the anime fandom

Before I start, the reason why I've been posting stuff more often is because I want to be able to look back at this blog and relive all of the memories I've had this year to convince myself that this year was a year well spent. Plus I'm pretty sure I'll be missing this year when next year comes, ahaha.

So remember how I said I wanted to re-connect with my other friends? Well there's this friend of mine who shares the same interests with me. We both like Sherlock, we both like books such as The Fault in Our Stars, we both like Kuroko no Basuke.

Speaking of Kurobas, this is one of the reasons why I wanted to create this blog post in the first place. So whilst spending time with my other friend, let's call her A, I tried to bring up some stuff we share in common to kind of get to know each other a little more. You see, lately I've been watching "Death Note" (yeah, I'm pretty late) and believe it or not-I'm hooked. It's like my new drug if that makes any sense. Deciding to just go for it, I asked her if she watched it too since she's an anime fan so I pretty much assumed that she did. I mean, what anime fan hasn't watched Death Note, am I right?

I was wrong because she replied with a "no". The convo didn't end there though, oh no. She said she's heard of Death Note before and knows all there is to know about Death Note. It was then she proceeded to tell me about the "ships".

Oh boy.

She told me there were Light x L ships and L x Light ships ( which she said was unacceptable for reasons I couldn't comprehend even now ) and when I mentioned Kurobas- the ships didn't end there. Oh no, she went on and on about the different ships they had and I basically ended up in a confused- and sort of disgusted- state. 

Ew, just.. ew. To me, I ship the characters as brothers ya know, like a hyung and dongsaeng relationship, not friends with benefits or bf x bf.. 

After the talk I had with her, I've realised that I should be careful when mentioning ships because my definition of ships is different than others and I definitely know that I do not want to go through another torturous conversation like that ever again, nope thank you very much.

|| Side note:

• I don't ship anyone with anyone in Death Note.
• I ship ( again, hyung & dongsaeng ) Akashi and Kuroko, Aomine and Kuroko in Kurobas.

To say that I didn't go out of that conversation with a clean and uncorrupted mind would be false. Nevertheless, I was able to learn a thing or two about the complicated world of the anime fandom which means that that whole conversation wasn't exactly pointless and was quite knowledgeable if I do say so myself.

EDIT 10 | 01 | 2018: OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD

JUST DROPPED BY TO SAY THAT YA'LL CAN SHIP WHOEVER YOU WANT TO SHIP. I wrote this wayyyyy back then and obviously present me has a different view from past me.

I mean, I still don't ship the characters that way, but anyone else is free to do so and tell me. When I wrote this post, I couldn't even accept sex scenes in Young Adult novels yet majority of the books I read now contain ( albeit non explicit ) sex scenes and I'm fine with that.

Lol @ the "uncorrupted mind" part tho. 

Again, not going to delete this because I want to be able to see how much I've changed in the future.