>>8705>I usually dislike ships on how they affect the characters in themI totally get you here, some ships are truly harmful to the integrity of the characters, specially when they end up being used for trolling and memeing.
My biggest issue in general is people not accepting the nature of their own ships. For example, some ships are born out of NSFW content, and even thrive mostly there, something I don't think is inherently wrong, it's just their reality.
But, if you happen to mention that to the shippers? They foam at the mouth and launch at your throat.
There are the shippers who live in the denial that their ships are somehow canon, grasping at straws trying to come up with scenes that demostrate it (Ho, boy... back in 2006 there was already hour long video essays dedicated to explain how a ship is canon). More often than not, they are misreading scenes or fail to understand the real purpose of them. And then, if someone happens to have an unlikely ship involving one party of theirs, they immediately go to shit on it. Which, brings me back to the other point: accept and understand the nature of your ship.
I'm a huge Shadikal guy, and back in the day, boy did people joke on us hard... but, we understood the nature of our ship and stood by it. Nowadays, we are mostly seen as a harmless curiosity that nobody has any real issues with (in big part due to, and I need to say it, Cylent-Nite's extraordinary work with those characters).
Another long rant, sorry... I needed it.