dba_afish said:
... I think pretty much any ship where you have to make rationalizations too numerous or too large that the characters and/or their world are no longer coherent to the source material is a some level of crack ship.

I think that pretty much describes all crossover ships. I can grant you that MordeTwi, the pairing, can be considered a "meme" in a Dawkinsian sense. But like ohsecsex said, "meme ship" usually describes something like Shrek x Shadow, which is not what MordeTwi was. Context matters, and I think that determines whether a ship is "crack" or not.

even then, externally, I think you still ought to recognize the ridiculosity.

MordeTwi is not ridiculous, let's be real. IMO, people just don't realize or make sense of how MordeTwi could work theoretically, and are too quick to dismiss it as Crack.

I just now figured out how to edit a tag wiki. brb

Actually, can I display images from outside this website, or do I have to upload them here?

MSTO said:
MordeTwi is not ridiculous, let's be real. IMO, people just don't realize or make sense of how MordeTwi could work theoretically, and are too quick to dismiss it as Crack.

again, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing. but like, in concept, these ideas are inherently ridiculous, they may work in practice but, in theory you gotta understand where people on the outside are coming from. and not take stuff so seriously or so personally.

like, if I told you about a mid-2000s era Dragon Ball Z-inspired NewGrounds sprite animation series that was a crossover between Mario and Sonic where the Sonic characters have a gritty dark backstory, like-- that's kind of a far-fetched concept, and I'd understand assuming that it's going to be totally unwatchable garbage rather than it being better than all of its main inspirations in several aspects.