Madi Em

So i’m a bit out of the loop when it comes to ships and shit, since it’s always seemed silly to me to literally fight for a ship, but I’m honestly curious & got some questions rn.

So, 

about McReyes

A few months back, an anon req I doodle McReyes for this art meme. It’s a strange ship to me. I’m a simple lad & I like my McHanzo, Pharmercy, & R76. So shipping Reaper & McCree together was pretty weird, but it’s whatever. I drew the pose– Reyes giving McCree a kiss on the forehead–which I think is some pretty platonic stuff anyway. I tagged it as ‘ McRyes cause It has both characters in it, and it’s still a ship, however platonic I depict them. (Also, for efficient tagging, but I’ve since un-tagged it since I’d rather not further draft into this apparent ‘war’)

 Now, I guess my question is, what do you tag platonic ships? I enjoy a lot of platonic ships & I just thought to use the common ship names I see around, but? I’ve been seeing more often that people highly hate that in terms of McReyes. Like, I understand the father son relationship dynamic is highly favoured and etc etc(same tbh) so what is that tagged as? y’know? Are the different ship names for different types of the same ship? Is there a shipping guide lmao

Anyways, I’m just bringing this up because I found out i got blocked by some rando for it, and i’ve been seeing more and more McReyes hate so I’m just curious what other people think really

(p.s where is this hate coming from i’m not even sure? what happened?)

  1. pcturtl said: I feel it’s up to your discretion. If you feel it’s something the shippers would enjoy and you don’t mind people associating the art with a romance even if you interpret it as platonic go ahead and tag the ship (you’ll probably get more notes if you do). If you’d really prefer not to have your art associated with the ship, don’t tag it (McCree + Reaper would work to denote a platonic relationship).
  2. moou22 said: *hug* u deserve better :/ I hate that everything is contentious now. It’s like, I get that life sucks, that’s why we ship shit in the first place plz compartmentalize geez.
  3. stelera said: I would advise against tagging platonic art with ship names since those tend to indicate strictly romantic shipping (same reason you wouldn’t tag Hanzo and Genji being brotherly as Shi//ma//da//ce//st). If you want to indicate something as platonic, I recomend tagging it with #McCree, #Reaper, #Platonic like that.
  4. holyawesomestitches said: As far as I know, this whole hate thing also started to appear more around the Halloween event. Of course when this was out, McCree got a line for when he killed Reaper in Junkinstein’s Revenge where he said “Sorry Pumpkin”
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    Ah I see my time has comeFirstly, there is no name for the platonic ship thus far. This is what frustrates a lot of...
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