John Joseco is a fantastic artist. I've been following him for years before FiM even existed. His art is always great, and I can absolutely enjoy it. When it's art. When it's an argument against logic and reason, I can't abide. It's not that I "hate shipping," it's that I hate BAD shipping. Stuff that has no basis or structure to work with. Something where those involved could not possibly have a healthy relationship. You can take literally any character and literally any other character and say "relationship", but that does NOT mean there will be a GOOD relationship. You cannot force people together just because you think they're cute (pretty sure there was an episode about this). Personalities MATTER. In life AND in fiction. If personalities DIDN'T matter, then all characters ever would be cardboard cutouts, with nothing to distinguish between them. Nobody likes bad characters, so WHY do people like bad relationships?



"Besides, opposites attract." You're right, the opposite poles of magnets DO attract, and that is the ONLY time that rule matters. Opposite personalities do not always attract, and many times they can repel each other. The funny thing about personalities is that they're complicated. No two personality types will guarantee a match.



"And you need to go through a few bad relationships before you find 'the one'. Trial and error." You don't NEED to if you know what to look for. The problem is, many people don't. They romanticize the "bad boy", only to find out that he's bad in the BAD way. People try to change the other person to fit the relationship they want, but that never ends up well.



"You can't know what true love is until you've felt pain." Where did you hear THAT lie? Some people get into one relationship and spend their lives together. Other people bounce around from relationship to relationship because they have no idea what they're doing.