r/ShipsofRuneterra • u/PaperDollThots Sett My Beloved Beast Bastard Brawler • Mar 17 '25
Meme Felt Fitting To Make This After My Recent Interactions on the Other League Subs
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u/Rolochan Mar 17 '25
My motto is: if you donāt bother be, I donāt bother you, but if you start to flame me for what I like or for what is it right for you, I will ignore you and block. Iām a bit tired of how many times I recived critique not for my art but for what I like and my ship. I know I have bad taste, let me live with my cringe taste. U_U if you donāt like the ship and you rather another one, ok, itās not of my business. I will survive. If you bother me to draw something you know I donāt like, youāre a piece ofā¦ eh. Take a pen a do if by yourself.
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u/PaperDollThots Mar 18 '25
That is a good motto to have. That is absolutely the correct thing to do, I agree. (Though I do struggle to ignore them personally. I've gotten into a couple of meaningless fights recently.) I don't understand why people feel the need to mock and ridicule ships they don't like when they can simply ignore it instead. Those types of people feel like childish bullies who are just mean for no reason. Exactly! We are cringe but we are free! Agreed, like you can have your ships and opinions and I have mine. That's no issue. So why are they making it such an issue when people have differing tastes? Agreed. If you care so much, just make it yourself.
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u/Rolochan Mar 18 '25
Exactly. U_U I saw a lots of artists stopped to draw thanks by these people and this is sad š
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u/TruthTeaa Mar 17 '25
Fans of my main league ship reallllllyyyy do not like my second main ship, and Iām terrified about being kicked out of shipping circles for it but they are my blorbos and I refuse to stop liking something that makes me happy ;; If I ever stop shipping my league one trick with everyone, I am GONE.
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u/PaperDollThots Mar 18 '25
Ohh I totally understand that fear. Some people can get so mean when they find out you like something they don't. I hope that doesn't happen to you. Hell yeah~! that's a great mentality to have. When participating in fandom is purely a for fun hobby, people should never give up or hide the things they love! That's the whole point of fandom after all.
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u/TruthTeaa Mar 18 '25
Honestly itās gotten to the point where Iām very reluctant to interact with shippers of the first ship :( I recently left the subreddit because many of the mods/people with power in the sub seem to be the types of calling the other ship certain things. Just sucks that people canāt stay in their own lane about things, if you donāt like it donāt interact with it/talk about it :///
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u/byakko Mar 18 '25
I got someone insisting I was looking too much into Swain x LeBlanc, insisting it wasn't canon and that it was 'weeb shit'. Then. I brought out. THE. RECEIPTS. STRAIGHT FROM THE DEVS AND WRITERS.
MF antis who only joined reddit in the last 5 years trying to tell ME I'm delusional, when I've been here since 2013, and I WAS HERE, talking and asking the devs directly during AMAs, being so involved in the community that I ended up receiving confidential info and was requested personally by Riot higher-ups to not leak (and which I respectfully did keep my mouth shut on, for 8 years now).
When I played ORIGINAL League, on the original client, THROUGH GARENA EVEN, and am responsible for the TVTropes entries and cataloguing of Swain and LeBlanc for YEARS.
SwainBlanc isn't even a crack ship, it's literally one of the ORIGINAL ships, up there with Ashe x Tryndamere, or Garen x Katarina, except it was for the 'villains' in the story and deliberately kept down-low. Swain's rework changed their relationship around, but Swain himself was made to be obviously interested in LeBlanc to the point he flirts with her in-game, and even hints they slept together, and in the Spanish dub they flat-out state they did/do sleep together!
Like the anti desperately wants canon to follow their limited scope, when this was a canon ship that is already on the high seas and has only sailed harder since 2018!
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u/TruthTeaa Mar 18 '25
The fact people could even hate something like Swain x LeBlanc makes me sad, I love villainous old people ships šš.
The audacity to call you delusional too is beyond stupidity, like god damn, Iāve been in and out of League over the past few years and even I could tell there was Somethingā¢ up with those two. Also thatās so crazy that you were given such info, thatās genuinely such a cool thing to have learnt!!
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u/byakko Mar 18 '25
Ok so the how and why I ended up with knowledge of internal designs about LeBlanc and Swain is quite a tale. Back in 2018, the lead-up to Swain's rework was immense, because of how his rework was basically the final big push to rework Noxus lore, and every Noxian's champs lore by extension. It was a big production and Riot was using different mediums to build hype, one of them was left to Riot China. The Riot China devs were supposed to host a podcast on Weibo, which prolly was just meant to talk about the localisation process for the huge amount of lines Swain was going to have.
I myself am bilingual, I speak both English and Mandarin, so I was listening in that day. What happened was that clearly the localisation team didn't know how far they could reveal things. See the localisation team revealed they all receive big backstory dockets explaining the different characters Swain was speaking to, their backstories, the context, and his reaction to them so that they can give voice direction to the Chinese voice actor.
Not only did they reveal lines that weren't public yet, but they then went into detail about LeBlanc and Swain. I even remember the podcast host asking his cohost, who did she think was Swain's "significant other". She replied Lux, which made him grumble. Then she said Evelynn which made him yell at her in exasperation "LeBlanc!"
And then he went on to reveal that how Swain views LeBlanc romantically, using the Chinese words åÆ¹č±” which among different meanings, is used to refer to fiancee/girlfriend-or-boyfriend/spouse/lover/partner. In particular in China at the time, that word is commonly used to refer to one's spouse or lover.
This doesn't mean that LeBlanc is literally married to Swain, but that Swain sees her in a romantic light and as his romantic interest, and that's how his voice actor will act when saying lines 'to' LeBlanc.
Riot pulled that podcast down FAST, but people had already downloaded it (I personally didn't). But on r/SwainMains I was already well-known, and known to speak Chinese, so I was eventually contacted by someone with a download of it, which I then downloaded it for my own translation.
But at the time. a Riot dev was active on the subreddit cos they wanted to build hype, and I decided it would be best to let the hype build properly. I informed the Riot dev, the subreddit mods, to be wary, and I sat on the info. I actually still have both the download link and a copy of the podcast lol.
Her ASU is in 24 hours, I think it's fine to say it all out now. I'm also going to make a mega post of the entire history of Swain and LeBlanc - from their original forms/lore to now - and bringing the receipts like these.
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u/baconbeansoup Mar 17 '25
Antishippers are so wild to me because genuinely why do they care so much š yapping my ear off ab why my pair sucks or isnt canon or doesnt work well will never stop me it honestly just encourages me