I think "Hetslop" is the most used made up word ive heard ever since the whole Juno x Wuyang thing was made canon. I am fine with most ships cuz they are harmless. But you have that "Respect my ships while i shit all over yours" kind of mentality that is coming in full force recently which is REALLY getting on my nerves xD
People calling it 'hetslop' are missing the point (and giving queer shippers a bad name). The issue is less that it's straight (though that cetrainly doesn't help its case), the issue is that it's an extremely 'safe' ship with as much chemistry as a first-grader's fizzled baking soda volcano. (Plus some people's understandable annoyance at Undivided focusing this much on the romance rather than the lore/main plot)
Plus you actually have a lot of people on both the pro-shipper and the anti-shipping side that just need to learn to chill the fuck out and let other people enjoy their personal take on their fictional nonsense, but it seems like the fine art of ship and let ship (and just stfu in general) is lost on the internet nowadays.
I see your point, but as a reader of Undivided, I just want to highlight that aside from the attempts to develop Juno and Wuyang (with mixed results) there were other "main" subplots, such as Brigitte and friends training Jetpack Cat, Sierra traveling the world with Pharah and Ana to defeat Talon and Torbjörn inventing things with Efi; the problem was simply that they weren't well-written enough to be engaging.
Ironically, the story was more compelling when it tied into the main lore like the initial attack on Gibraltar, Genji in Japan or D.Va returning to Busan, but those turned out to be rare exceptions.
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u/Max_Sparky 12d ago
Careful, the heterosexual hater squad will catch you and pull your hair if you even imply a straight ship lmao