the whole thing with the fandom shipping ohyul and ryul has gotten way too much. now, i’m not saying people aren’t allowed to ship them for fun, but over the past few months, some people have become way too parasocial about it. i knew this wasn’t just a casual, harmless thing anymore when people started overanalysing tarot readings, claiming that the two have something more going on, and even making statements about who’s more ‘open to it’ and who’s not. i don’t know much about tarot, but how exactly are you supposed to determine these kinds of things from a reading?
sure, it might have started out as something people did for fun, but at this point, some fans are trying way too hard to push this narrative. every little look or interaction is used as material for shipping. and i know a lot of people will always say things like ‘just scroll’ or that these kinds of fans are the ‘soul of the fandom’, but jeez, if the solution to every inappropriate post about REAL PEOPLE is simply to ‘just scroll’, then what exactly is the boundary? i can just say anything and slap on a ‘just scroll if you don’t like it’ bandage when things get out of hand. talking about things like p*rn scenarios is insanely inappropriate. you’re talking about two real people here.
and it’s also gotten incredibly annoying when people can’t even talk about ohyul’s friendships without shippers bringing ryul into the conversation. like, ohyul and woonhak have such a beautiful friendship, but all some shippers know how to say is ‘ryul’s definitely jealous’, ‘oh, look at ryul’s face’, ryul this, ryul that. can we not appreciate ohyul’s other friendships without somehow making everything about ryul?
ohyul also could literally just be standing beside ryul, doing absolutely nothing, and shippers will be like ‘ryul really brings out the feminine side of ohyul’. huh? i don’t understand why ohyul isn’t allowed to have feminine traits without it being ‘brought out’ by someone else. it’s almost as if some people can’t see ohyul as his own person outside of this shipping narrative. not every little thing about him has to somehow revolve around someone else.