Litol Chikins · 12mo
I don't understand this idea that you have ships for being "old" or even that three years is "old" WHAT. These people wouldn't understand ships that function for years. Drarry is still a huge popular HP ship and in canon they don't interact that much or even get a homoerotic rivalry but fans still like the potential and have fun despite the books being almost twenty years old. I think once it stops being popular to hate zcz (bc of the new popular mlm ship bc people have to treat it as a contest), just wait, you'll start seeing posts being nostalgic for zcz again as people remember their first genshin yaoi.
Really though... it's been 3 years! And here I thought these ppl's attention already shifted to new ships and we can just continue ship in peace, but apparently it's still a cool thing for these ppl to intrude our space, shit on tartali and be rude towards their shippers just because it still managed to stay popular. (Well no surprise here, because it's a damn good ship!? However no one is forcing you to like it and afterall everyone has different taste) I'm really wondering if it's because gshn in general has a quite young playerbase and many ppl being new to shipping. Many ppl seem to not even understand that you can even enjoy more than one ship. Personally there are many ships I enjoy (and I'm lowkey sad, when shippers from that ship are shitting on my fav ship), but childe x zhongli is that one pairing that makes me never run out of ideas to create more art/fics and I enjoy interacting with the community a lot. And that is what shipping is about isn't it? Having fun with your play dolls!
And yeah 3 years is not "old" at all... is it because GI gets a new region every year with new characters?! You really don't have to jump a ship completely with every new big region update, turning your back towards the ships you used to love, just because of new characters get introduced and the whole thing about ppl seeing it as competition, hoping to see the new ship "to beat ttli" in popularity (I saw this with inazuma for first time when I just started GI and was new to ttli, realized with sumeru this just keeps repeating itself every big patch and new (especially mlm) ships being introduced). Also the thing with ppl comparing which ship is more "canon" than ttli due to having more ingame interactions is quite strange to me... 😔 Look, ttli didn't have interactions since 1.1 and is still is so very loved by many, because to be honest, we got a great basis for an awesome ship in just one single patch which kept us going for all these years and that is most important. THERE IS JUST SO MUCH POTENTIAL HERE! Really though, just ship what makes you happy and no! Comparing and bringing ttli down, doesn't make your ship look any better.
And after all... every shipper is delulu, wanting to see our fictional ppl kiss and hold hands, but this is exactly what keeps us going and keeping a fandom alive many years after a story/series is already finished, creating more wonderful stories for them. 🤗 I am absolutely sure I will still continue shipping tartali even if GI story is done, that's just how perfect they are to me and how much I love them.
