I'm glad I could be present to make the bad feelings go away! This place is a favorite of mine.

Oh, I didn't mean to suggest you disagreed. I knew you did, because you said so. I actually didn't know there was a fandom divide between shippers and not-shippers that people talked about; usually when I do see something that dismisses shipping, it's either dismissing a specific faction or equating shipping with the entirety of online fandom. I didn't think you were doing that.

And yes, that's pretty much the thing. All the factions I've been in or even just visited have the same ways of being terrible. There's one in another fandom of mine with the distinction of calling its shipping more feminist and progressive because they ship an f/f pairing between two main female characters, but I've been in it since the beginning and it's actually not any better than the others in practice. Woe is the multi-shipper! Woe is anyone who doesn't put a ship first! (Unless they put a male character first. Then it's okay sometimes.)

I derived the name from this one, which is in reference to the tigerlily. It's featured in a story I've forgotten everything about, except there was a girl receiving her grandfather's reassurance that being different didn't make her less beautiful and interesting. I've also loved snowdrops ever since they featured in a chapter of Saint Tail, a childhood manga favorite about a sort of Robin Hood schoolgirl. So I wanted to keep with the childhood flower thing but not use the same name as before.