u/MarzannaMorena

This fandom really needs to stop using the word crackship. Because why are people calling the most basic ass non-canon (and even canon!) ships crackships?

I saw people using it to describe Azris, Neris, Rhysta, Tamcien, Feylin! and so much more. Most of them between people who interacted with eachother in canon and it's entirely within the realm of posibility for them to get together if the author is brave enough. None of which are crackships by definition.

For a lot of people Acotar is their first fandom, I know that. But if you're new to a space you should search first how certain new phrases are used before you start using them yourself. Especially when you try to weaponise them to talk down to people who like different ships than you.

What am I talking about? Well, lets define some things. Crackship has that name because it describes ships so utterly weird, bizzare and out of the realm of possibility that you must be on crack to ship them. A couple isn't a crackship just because both of them are men, neither are couples that you personally dislike or think that they're unlikely to happen. Fandom is built on them. Non-canon and rarepair ships are the bare backbones of every fandom, they're NOT the crack.

Unless a person is talking about shipping couples like, for example, Nesta with the House of Wind, Azriel with the vampire Lestat and Bone Carver with Tamlin their ships ain't crack. And calling their, "would be completly ordinary in any other fandom" ship a crackship just because you think it's weird is another nasty can of worms.

I love crackships, I really do. Yet, despite what people say, our fandom spaces are quite devoid of them. They're very safe and not experimental, for the most part. It's hard to find genuine crackship which makes it even more frustrating when every other ship is called that, for no reason.

Rant over lol. Man, I didn't know it bothered me that much. I still have a lot to say but I don't want for it to turn rude. Please, be a little more weird and creative, people. We need more actual crackships to act as an example for others XD

There are some things that really bother me about fanart part of this fandom. (Outside of disgusting amount of AI "art").

It may be just my autism talking but I really dislike when a fanart doesn't match how certain character was described in the series. For example, most people tend to depict Tamlin as pale despite him being explicitly descibed as tan and golden skinned several times.

The opposite goes for Lucien.

His description is pretty much the same as Tamlin but nearly all of his fanart makes him so dark it's impossible to believe no one figured out he wasn't Beron's son sooner. (Plus, a lot of people forget about his missing eye)

Outside of skin colour we also have fanarts of Nesta very often putting her in revealing dresses even though she's explicitly described as modest in her clothing.

But for some reason people are more pressed about "innacurate" fanarts of Rhysand when his book descriptions are actually some of the most inconsist out of any other character. Leaving the room for interepretation.

Again, it's probably just my autism talking but I think that physical descriptions of character tell us a lot about them and the way Sarah write them make them more interesting than more stereotypical versions I usually see. Tamlin is the Lord of Spring, it makes sense for him to be slithly darker, Lucien needs to be white passing for his story to makes sense and Nesta's modesty is a big part of her character. All of those characters loose something important about when they changed to something more expected by the readers.

I don't know. Does anyone share my frustration? It's not a big deal I'm aware but it still take some fun out of it for me. You can be very creative with your fanart while still being book accurate.

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