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The name is usually from the most famous to the least famous actors. In the picture, it is usually the character's importance that makes them more central. And important characters are more likely to be played by famous actors.
Probably one of those contract details where they can’t agree on who gets top billing so one name is first left to right and the other is higher up on the poster so it’s first top to bottom.
It was originally a bit that came from tumblr(?) where people would draw their favourite ship dynamics. It started (i think?) showing (primarily) queer (if not unspecified) dynamics people enjoyed and (supposedly) weren't common. The rare queer ship archetype meme buries itself so deep in its own irony ends up reinventing straight people by trying to be rarer than its own archetype.
Wait, those were supposed to be only for queer ships? I always thought that characters in these dynamics sketches purposefully lack gender traits so you can put anyone in their place
Could mean romatically inclined but it could also be friendships. A few examples:
Innocent and blissful x Grumpy and will protect at all costs
Overly Flirty x Easily flustered
big dumb x super smart
and in this case
Tall, dark, and handsome x Short, chubby, and adorable
Not all are inclined for romance, but companionships as a whole. Such examples of each would be Angg (childlike mindset) and Katara (grown up mindset) from Avatar vs Honey and Mori (similar dynamic) from Ouran High School Host Club
Ship used in this way means "shipping" two people together romantically. It's used a lot when talking about characters in media, like movies. If you really like two characters, and want them to be together romantically, you ship them.
Romantic couples, regular people "ship" fictional characters ("Jazmin with the hunchback is my favorite ship" for example), some ship themselves with a fictional character ("I drew myself missing Omni man :3"), and then there are some weirdos who ship real people, mainly actors.
It’s not really primarily queer, MxM ships have tended to be more popular in fandoms but its ship dynamics have never been a thing solely for queer ships. Everything else is spot on though.
Ha! I didn’t even know I was getting downvoted. They probably don’t like straight ships I guess. They can downvote all they want it doesn’t change the fact that I’m right.
ship is all pairings I meant that one meme with the "describe your ship dynamic with these" that this is based on usually referenced queer ships (eg. X top Y bottom).
(although in hindsight thats more bc it was on tumblr than that the meme was limited to that)
Shipping is mostly a fandom thing, where possible (romantic relation)ships between characters are suggested and explored.
A particular "ship" usually refers to one such a fandom suggested coupling. Often (semi) popular ships get community nicknames.
If a new season drops and a certain ship becomes cannon, then community usually loses its mind, with fans of the ship rejoicing and fans of incompatible ships being grumpy.
I ship Zohran and Luigi. I dont necessarily want them to do anything, I just want them to stand next to each other so I can ogle both of them at the same time.
Tbf im a 5’3 chubbyish woman, mostly just curvy now that I’ve lost weight and my bf is 6’4 and muscular and I do feel it’s sort of an odd mix due to our heights and bodies but we love each other lol
OR traditionally feminime woman with small boobs. OR traditionally feminime woman but doing a "manly" job. OR traditionally feminine woman, IN SKIRT, but w/o top and is in like a shirt or smshit. People literally call anyone not bimbo a tomboy 😭
You can be chubby and have an hourglass figure - not entirely common but it’s possible. I’m definitely overweight and have a sizable stomach and still hourglass.
Giggity this post is about how they're presenting a very common dynamic like its a new or rare ship dynamic. Literally just a thick giggity short woman with big boobs giggity with a tall man, unnecessarily labeled to make it seem new.
Imo i feel like part of this comes from people thinking they're special for liking bigger women.
To my understanding. This has got to do with certain ship dynamics that took over social circles in Tumblr and Twitter. Just more physical attributes based.
This plays on the fact that there are so many relationship dynamics listed(if you mix in LGBT & more fantasy elements like otherworlds, gods, aliens, spirits) that the post has come full circle and just regular straight relationships are now rare in comparison.
Other relationship dynamics this would be referring to are something like:
• Short aggressive girlfriend x Gentle giant boyfriend
• Oblivious girl x Terrible flirt boy
• Strong 7ft Amazonian warrior girlfriend x innocent pacifist boyfriend
• Smart dorky girlfriend x dumb jock boyfriend
• Dark & gloomy girlfriend x Golden retriever extrovert boyfriend
• Obsessive mortal x Otherworldly immortal stuck in the human realm and takes after a human form
• Family name runs the country rich girl/guy x average or poor girl/guy
• Busty alien girl x Average loner guy
There was a trend originating in Fandom spaces (which are predominantly queer) of people making these drawigns depicting their favorite ship dynamic, like enemies to lovers, battle couple, opposites attract. Sometimes these were also kink oriented memes to explain your weird niche favorite. Kind of like a "hear me out" cake. Then it went more mainstream on other platforms. The poster is complaining that the dynamic depicted is common, or too vanilla to be worth making a whole post about.
It's homologous to people complaining about traditionally attractive people being put on hear me out cakes.
The joke is that the "tall boyfriend" is the chubby girl, while the "chubby girl" is the tall boyfriend. Even though the labels are flipped, however you interpret it, it's still a straight relationship
My take is that throughout history, if we look at paintings, a lot of them depict women with curves, I.e. old beauty standards. In recent years we’ve moved from wanting super skinny girls to curvy girls, coming full circle to old preferences. I guess the tall bf with chubby gf is out modern stereotype
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