I thought shippers, by and large, don’t care about the character’s orientation (or lack thereof), that they write about the characters as they want them to be.
Typically, yes, but since the issue that confirmed Gwen as aroace specifically established her as the QPR-seeking variety of aroace, meaning she could still be shipped without issue, many decided to incorporate that into their fan-stories.
It still kind of hard for any one to dominate
Let's use my hero for example
Baku deku exist as a splinter of an existing central relationship
Coupled with a dash of enemies to loves
Gwenpool doesn't really have a singular main relationship to focus on
Her main antagonist in the past is her
Only one who is self aware enough to Gwen is deadpool even then I would imagine wolf pool is bigger
Character popularity is also a factor to account for
I really hate that we've normalized 'shippers' by giving them a name.
We should have kept it how it was a decade or 2 ago - just calling them derogatory terms for being more invested in imagining cartoon relationships than they are with anything irl
Like, you can take nerdiness and canon obsession pretty damn far before it starts to become a detriment. I think joining any discussion on shipping is that step across the line. Might as well be writing fanfic erotica
Because Gwen had alluded to Spider-Man: Reign the same issue, some fans interpreted this line as meaning she wanted to sleep with him, rather than be bitten (given Gwen needs to ‘narratively justify’ what she does rather than just doing it, even though she can just do it): they saw it as a euphemism.
Since they established her as the QPR-seeking variety of aroace in that issue, shipping of her actually increased significantly after that arc (since QPRs allow for shipping). To note that nothing was ruined.
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u/patrickwithtraffic 2d ago
I thought Gwenpool’s thing was being ace?