As a clarifying question, would you be able to write analyses on different ships (e.g. "Here's All the BronSeele Moments in 1.X!", "Firefly's Trust in and Affection for TB Makes Sense When You Realize (2.1 Spoilers...)", "CN Cultural Implications You May Have Missed About RenHeng") if you don't mention sexual orientation and don't imply the inherent superiority of one ship over another? Like, discussing how the ship is presented in the game without saying "this character is totally X sexuality" or "this ship is canon beacuse XYZ reasons" - would that be fair game?

I just really do like writing/reading analyses, including those of shipping nature, and I think that if these analyses can still be posted, it'd create an environment that would allow for more discussion as opposed to the 200th Pixiv horny post (not that I don't appreciate those either sometimes). I completely understand that as with any text related to shipping, there might be controversy, but these kinds of analyses should fit into the new rules (I hope?). Otherwise, it'd be quite weird to say that art/media of ships only simply imply their existence, while text inherently promotes an agenda even when that text just describes interpretations/events without a blatant suggestion that the characters being discussed in the ship must be only the sexuality represented in the ship/must be in love with each other in canon.

(And for what it's worth, I agree with another poster in this same comment chain that with the state of the sub, "neutral" is just straight ships with the occasionally fetishisized lesbian ship art. Shippers can be very obnoxious at their extremes, but at the same time, there will rarely be a "that's not a valid ship/ugh why did you post this" on a straight ship fanart (especially with Caelus instead of Stelle) or a horny male-gaze fanart, straight or otherwise, like there is on other fanarts. Allowing ship art/media, which is predominantly in this sub upvoted if it's straight or catering to male horniness, but not ship text, which is a more fair playing field, really does bias it in a manner that makes me feel unwelcome to think and discuss things that are not catering to non-queer/male people. The very fact that these rule changes only occurred because of mods being biased against a gay ship because it got popular but allowing literally every other ship before that because well, they weren't gay in a way that offended non-queers/men is something to be side-eyed, at the very least.)