Overwatch has developed quite a fan art following....
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It's spoilered. Unsure if it was appropriate otherwise.
And yes! It did occur to me that it's a nice companion piece to the bunny girl butts.
SinCityAssassin
Member
*Sees the pharmercy meltdown*
Alright, I can have this one.
(Mercy is probably the only human connection he has to the world right now during his training so it'd make sense to thank his doctor, like sending a christmas card to yours on the mailing list.)
Alright, I can have this one.
(Mercy is probably the only human connection he has to the world right now during his training so it'd make sense to thank his doctor, like sending a christmas card to yours on the mailing list.)
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
http://riadoodles.tumblr.com/post/154732485817/i-got-to-read-the-new-overwatch-comic-and-i-love
Give cute hipster boy skin pls blizzard kthnx.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Great stuff.
theSlacker
Member
I really like it this way, that the characters have their own independent lives and aren't just hooking up with each other. Hope that all of them are involved with people that aren't just other characters in the game if they are in relationships at all.
Odd couple syndrome. One's white, the others purple. Both have some tragic pasts and quite differing personalities.
SinCityAssassin
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As far as I'm concerned it happened because of two things: Hotness and combat efficiency.
AlexFlame116
Member
I'm still baffled into how Pharmercy is a thing story wise (besides the lines and combo) but I do understand it is a fan thing that many enjoy. That's okay. It's good that fans are passionate about things.
EDIT: Oh yeah hotness too I guess.
Emergenji forever!
EDIT: Oh yeah hotness too I guess.
Cannon Goose
Member
Yup, I want an undercut + casual jacket Hanzo skin now.
Since Blizzard is hearing the fans, should we tweet about it? Have people started?
I think Hanzo is cool but his current skins are meh
I never understand these questions when people ask them.
Why do people ship two characters together? Because they find that pairing attractive. It's literally as simple as that.
I tweeted the official account about it. Waiting for a reply.
Well people are talking about the Pharah/Mercy and Tracer/anyone ships being "over", so I questioned why Tracer with Widow was ever a thing.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Because people are dumb. It makes no sense other than having some fetish for hate-sex and tight body-suits
This is a stupidly reductive way of explaining shipping. Come on.
People ship characters because they find a pairing attractive. No shit. Why do they find it attractive? Because the characters seem like they have complementary personalities? Because the characters have chemistry? Because the characters have some shared history/backstory? "Shipping" fictional characters has most of the same components of real life "shipping," like when friends try to get their friends together.
Yeah, I guess some people just ship characters because they're horndogs who want to draw some smut of two physically attractive characters, but that's not the end all be all for every piece of shipping.
AlexFlame116
Member
I knew I liked you for a reason!
orthodoxy1095
Banned
lol
The light and happy character that worshipped a nonviolent leader completely devastated that someone would kill him and show zero remorse?
Nah she's just hot for the killer.
Good shit Internet.
That's almost tastefull compared to popular pairings in other fandoms.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's official: Tracer is a lesbian according to Overwatch canon! The young brit was seen kissing an unknown hot redhead, with no sign of Widowmaker in sight!
Meanwhile, across town, reports of other Overwatch team member sightings have been cropping up. Witnesses say they spotted Pharah having dinner with an unknown man WHO HAD BETTER BE A RELATIVE OR SOME SHIT LIKE THAT AND NOT ANY KIND OF DATE.
As well, elder members Ana and Soldier:76 were seen looking gloomy togethercould that hint at potential romance between the two?
All across the internet, Overwatch shippers are said to be breaking down in panic and distress. We'll have more news on this breaking situation as it develops.
Further info: http://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/tracer-reflections
hilarious, the Blizzard forums are something else
orthodoxy1095
Banned
That's not what's being asked most of the time though, let's be fair. And that's not the way that Azzanadra's question came off. Often it's "why would people even pair these two there's no in-game canon or explanation for why they'd be a pair so it's an illogical coupling" and at a certain point that question just gets exhausting. They don't have to make logical sense, which is what Azzanadra seemed to be hinting at by bringing up Widow's dead husband—they just have to make "attraction" sense. And no, that doesn't just have a sexual meaning, Mr. also being reductive.
If you ask "what it is about [enter ship] that people like," then I think they're getting to the place you're talking about. I'll happily say that about Pharmercy, and I'm sure you would about the pairings you like, and Widowtracer folks would say the same thing. They're two very different questions though.
Well, that's what I was answering: they're a thing literally because people wanted them to be a thing. Widowtracer was always one of the really out there pairing because going off of canonical information or in-game information, it makes zero sense for them to be a couple. But, it's fun! Tracer is the short, cute, happy-go-lucky girl and Widow is the taller, colder, more mean-spirited one. It's the whole opposites attract thing, and them being a pair provides plenty of adorable, sweet, funny, touching, or sexy situations.
But if you ask why they're a pair for logic reasons, there will never, ever be an answer. That's what I was trying to say. And even though that's true, showing Tracer as having a girlfriends helps kill that 0.00001% chance that existed that Widowtracer could be a thing. Like, Pharmercy fans don't actually believe the game would ever acknowledge them as a pair, but as long as it doesn't show proof against them being a pair, that's always that sliiiiiiight chance, you know?
Oh, Aevee's just being facetious. She was just poking fun at the short.
AlexFlame116
Member
The state of some of the shipping fans today.
But they won't give up. They'll never give up. Katara and Zuko are still going. Sonic and Elise are still going. Even Luke and Leia are still going.
Today's (or yesterday's) reveal is really getting to you isn't it?
That's not what's being asked most of the time though, let's be fair. And that's not the way that Azzanadra's question came off. Often it's "why would people even pair these two there's no in-game canon or explanation for why they'd be a pair so it's an illogical coupling" and at a certain point that question just gets exhausting. They don't have to make logical sense, which is what Azzanadra seemed to be hinting at by bringing up Widow's dead husband—they just have to make "attraction" sense. And no, that doesn't just have a sexual meaning, Mr. also being reductive.
If you ask "what it is about [enter ship] that people like," then I think they're getting to the place you're talking about. I'll happily say that about Pharmercy, and I'm sure you would about the pairings you like, and Widowtracer folks would say the same thing. They're two very different questions though.
Even 'attraction' sense is putting too fine a point on it. All it really has to do is interest any particular shipper. How much 'sense' it makes can be provided by the fan in question providing their own context.
There are HP fanfics out there that ship Hogwarts (yes, the castle. I think it was personified as being 'alive', since, you know, magical place and all) with the tentacle monster that resides in Hogwart's lake. It can literally be anything.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
It's not actually being reductive, because the horndog issue completely relates to the Widow x Tracer ship. Hell, as stupid as I find the ship, there is at least some in-game mechanical utility to Pharah x Mercy.That's not what's being asked most of the time though, let's be fair. And that's not the way that Azzanadra's question came off. Often it's "why would people even pair these two there's no in-game canon or explanation for why they'd be a pair so it's an illogical coupling" and at a certain point that question just gets exhausting. They don't have to make logical sense, which is what Azzanadra seemed to be hinting at by bringing up Widow's dead husband—they just have to make "attraction" sense. And no, that doesn't just have a sexual meaning, Mr. also being reductive.
If you ask "what it is about [enter ship] that people like," then I think they're getting to the place you're talking about. I'll happily say that about Pharmercy, and I'm sure you would about the pairings you like, and Widowtracer folks would say the same thing. They're two very different questions though.
There is nothing worthwhile to me about a Widow/Tracer pairing. Widow is a current member of a terrorist organization, killed her husband, tried to kill Ana and killed Tracer's hero Tekhartha. There is no reason to pair them other than the shipper having some fetishization for hate-sex and lesbians in spandex. It's perfectly rational and completely undeserving of your scorn for someone to ask "Why did people ever ship these characters together?" If the aforementioned fetishes are your rationale, fine, draw your smut and rub one out in your bunk. Just don't hold people to some standard of care for that ship though when it goes down in a gigantic flaming pile of shit.
Frankly, this is just feeding into the "shippers are idiotic bags of flesh and bones that don't deserve the time of day" narrative.
orthodoxy1095
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AlexFlame116
Member
Haha! At the end of the day, Genji is still a secret fanboy at heart and loves things like games and Ramen.
Well, it's an ignorant narrative. Shipping is, fundamentally, no different from any other kind of imagining from a fandom. It's no different from comics making a humor or touching moment between characters, or trying to imagine how life before overwatch must have been, or...well, anything. It's just imagining. And in the land of imagination, there literally are no limits to what you can do. And surprise surprise, people imagine both brilliant and stupid ass shit.
If you're against shipping, you may as well be against all kinds of fan contributions. No one should make fan designs of new overwatch characters because there is a significant fraction of people who make dumb designs. No one should make music remixes, because there are plenty of music remixes that sound awful.
It's a stupid way of thinking about a perfectly normal function of any fandom. And this is before adding that, conceptually, anything can be made to work, even if it seems unintuitive. Someone out there has made a fanfiction Widowxtracer fanfic that addresses and justifies every single one of your complaints, depicting how a relationship with that kind of baggage would work.
It's just incredibly stupid to try to paint shippers as if they are somehow distinct from any other part of any fandom.
orthodoxy1095
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I didn't say I really agreed with the narrative, I said creating stories about the relationship between a building and a monster is feeding into it.
And frankly, that's being reductively stupid again. I can enjoy a good dose of room for shipping in my stories without being forced to like, enjoy or approve of inanely stupid garbage. My Immortal exists, and is widely derided for a reason.
AlexFlame116
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We should probably get back to posting awesome fanart of this game. Like the thread was intended for.
Source
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Uhhh....
orthodoxy1095
Banned
https://twitter.com/tae402/status/807103839023173633
https://twitter.com/Hichiworks/status/756168935385378817
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=57949136
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=56907505
https://twitter.com/overethe/status/811405970349953026
No one is saying you should. But My Immortal is bad because it's poorly written for a great number of reasons that go beyond it's concept.
I'm sure someone out there decided "I'm gonna do My Immortal the way it should have been done!" So, just as a quick example, Draco-Harry fanfiction. Would never happen in canon, even if they in fact were gay, because Draco is a twat of epic proportions. But in the magnitudes of Draco-Harry stuff out there, do you really think you wouldn't find atleast one fic that addressed the problems that such a relationship would realistically pose and tackle them? Just...statistically, that's highly improbable. It's too popular. Someone out there did just that.
I wasn't making a personal statement about you in that post. It was about that exact narrative, and I meant what I said. It only works under the assumptions that some things are just impossible to do in fiction, and that's just ignorant. The problems that a HogwartsxTentacle monster fanfic would have to address to be considered good are pretty monumental. But it could work, if done right. And honestly, if I had reason to believe it was, that's a fanfic I'd be interested in reading. Not because I'm into castle porn, but because I'd just need to see how they pulled it off. Think about it, would you ever be as impressed with a piece of fiction if it somehow got you invested in a relationship between a castle and a monster?
And to be clear, this doesn't mean you have to like enjoy, or be interested in anything your not interested in. I'm not interested in HP stories, in general. My only point is that there is no real reason to distain shipping for bad ideas since 1. bad ideas don't really exist and it's all in how you pull it off and 2. even if they did, their not exclusive to shipping.
AlexFlame116
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Man how do you guys find such good pictures and get the correct source for them so quickly? My only site is KYM and then I have to dig around for the source.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
https://twitter.com/hage_2013/status/805813191460564992
https://twitter.com/hage_2013/status/792007161157079040
https://twitter.com/hage_2013/status/790171556043382784
https://twitter.com/hage_2013/status/786562802353790976
Just a pro!
In all seriousness, the three easiest places to get art are probably Tumblr, DeviantArt and Twitter since that's where a lot of the actual "source" material is. I find one of the quickest ways to find new stuff is to find a good artist, and then browse their favorites. Good artists tend to have good taste, so it kind of snowballs and lets you find more and more good stuff.
Well, it's because most people are going directly to the source to look for art. No need for a middle man like KYM (who uses KYM as an art gallery?).
twitter/tumblr/DA/pixiv
Find someone with an account there and similar tastes to you. Follow every artists they follow. Follow the artists those artists are following, etc. Boom, stream of fanart.
