@Rabita022 I never said it was considered shallow and skittish, you're projecting your own opinion on it.
I said it was considered "inappropriate" because it doesn't fit into the values of communist china. It's not even an issue of fiction or shipping, it's an issue of homophobia.
I also am a non-shipper. I don't ship ANYONE, at all. But just let ppl ship, man. Apart from a few people who hunt down others for not agreeing with their ships, people shipping fictional characters is just harmless. It's not like them shipping characters together prevents you from
not shipping them together. Let ppl enjoy stuff they want in the space they want.
Either way, the fictions talked about in this plagiarism case are
original stories, not fanfcitions. These characters were meant to be
canonically gay by the author.