#Why is the shipping so high

[lonelymoonrambles]

HELLO

I would like to bring something to your attention:

That is all, thank you.

#star trek #cardassians #Oh you have questions? #WELL SO DO I #Cosplay? #I don't even know #Why is the shipping so high #ds9 #gul dukat #elim garak #star trek deep space nine

[veinsfullofstars]

You can't tell me their first meeting didn't go something like this.

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Dark Meta Knight and Daroach in a recreation of the Princess Mononoke "You're beautiful" meme. Original screenshot below the cut for comparison. Top panel - DMK hovers against a starry sky facing forward, his wings breaching the edges of the panel and spread to make himself look more intimidating. He glares down, one angry glowing eye visible in the visor of his mask, gripping the handle of his sword in both hands as if to stab downward, subtitled "I'll cut your throat! That'll shut you up!" Bottom panel - Daroach lies on his back at a slight angle on a nighttime grassy plain, his body and cape breaching the panel in places, his paws palm-up at his sides, his wand dropped beside him. He looks upward, unperturbed by the several sharp points of DMK's sword hanging over him, eyes half-lidded and brows lifted in interest, mouth drawn open in a smile and blushed at the ends, subtitled "You're beautiful..." Of course, every metal and/or shiny surface is lightly touched with rim light and sparkles. END ID.)

Started 03/26/24, finished 03/29/24.

Original: Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, 1997)

#veins art #veins ships #veins fanart #fanart #kirby series #kirby #dark meta knight #daroach #dark meta knight x daroach #darkroach #rarepair #meme redraw #does this count as a high-effort shitpost? it feels like it do #stars why did I try to recreate human-proportion poses with oRB ANd rAt?? #I had to repose them so many times >_< #and don't get me started on that starsdamned rat #seriously even going through my refs didn't help much 'cause the crew at HAL Labs doesn't design him consistently either #(which admittedly does make me feel a li'l better about not always drawing him on-model) #*sigh* the things I do for my rarepair boys #also “enemies to friends-with-benefits” anyone? #I mean who said that #blood tw #<- (but only in the ref screenshot not the piece itself) #veinsfullofstars

[bixels]

I feel like I've seen most of what interests me in FiMFiction for the time being, so I read through some good ol' reliable Stardew Valley fanfics last night, only to realize.

Haley x Female Farmer is basically Rarijack. Rarijack adjacent.

#personal #delete later #not art #unfortunate that i'm really not into the BIG popular ships in stardew #like. i downloaded talkohlooey's character sprites for my sdv because the men just look so much better #with talkohlooey sebastian actually looks like a cute guy i'd wanna date. default seb looks like a very very specific white boy. #like. the mod of an anime community discord server. #he looks like every white anime fan i knew in high school who very intentionally tried to look and dress more asian #so unfortunately i'm not really into any of the male bachelors. They are All White. #I went after Alex at first but he's a white bread jock. #So I'm really not interested in ships with Shane or Elliot or Sebastian which make up 2/3 of the romance fics #I do think Harvey is cute he has a lot of personality and he's a sweetheart #stardew expanded has victor AND olivia which is such a fucking win. Asians fuck yeah #I usually pursue Penny. Fluttershy vibes lmao #hopefully chocolatier has some dateable men who Aren't White. #Really can't recommend Talkohlooey's sprites more. Fantastic art style AND character design direction to boot. They made Emily Not #Terrifying Looking which is incredible. #still wish you could date the milfs though who said that #i said it. i'm fessing up. why did concernedape put all these women in unfulfilling marriages with mediocre/crappy men #what are you getting at.

[ectoplasmer]

you guys ever grab your f/o’s face and just *forehead kiss* *forehead kiss* *forehead kiss* *forehea

#this was originally phrased for platonic f/os but i then proceeded to think about doing this with my boyfriends and. yeah #anyway #HEY i finally picked back up gx because i got bored lol #and because. lowkey. judai randomly popping up in my dreams spooked me enough to remember to continue watching it >_< #i am reminded of why he got instantly put on the platonic list despite me barely knowing him lol #literally just. golden retriever #which is so so funny when you look at my two other platonic f/os #like on one hand we have the serious and more mature beyond my years #and then we have the high energy positivity fiends #if i still listed my hs f/os on my list you would see more obviously what i mean lol #sometimes you just want to smother your friend in a dumb display of affection u_u #anyway. #hello #tbh… kissing melv (and technically yb) right where the eye of wedjat would go… <333 #self ship #selfship #selfshipping #self shipping #f/o imagines #imagine your f/o #romantic f/o #platonic f/o #self ship community #selfshipping community #platonic: judai #quartzshipping #rainy.file

[bbianca-jpg]

quick elven oracle for a warmup !

#i’ll take another one of those girls looking 3/4 to the right #wasn’t even gonna post this but i am very fond of her so #drawing #illustration #also tumblr stop ruining the quality of my art i’ll fucking kill you #fantasy high #d20 #dimension20 #adaine abernant #oh my god why is adaine x fabian a tag … #who is shipping them?? that’s an asexual lesbian and a gay man who are you #adaine fantasy high #adaine fanart #fhjy #art #dimension 20 fhjy #siobhan thompson

[beanghostprincess]

thank you to "calculative and stoic guy who loses control and his strict ideals go away because he cares too much about a silly guy x the silly guy who's actually pretty needy and traumatized and loves to see emotions in his boyfriend's serious behavior" ships because they've changed my life

#kunizai is like my second favorite bsd ship and i never talk about them for some reason #i just rewatched ohshc btw that's why i'm posting so much about it #anyway these ships make me go insane #one piece #dazai osamu #kunikida doppo #kunizai #bsd #bungou stray dogs #ohshc #ouran high school host club #tamaki suoh #kyoya ootori #kyotama

[teddyhoneybear]

Sometimes it's surprising to me that after the Azriel bonus chapter, people still think Elain and Azriel are endgame (it's ok to ship them though, I ship Azriel with Eris sometimes💀), but why force it on others? Why attack artist just because they choose to draw a ship you don't agree with (when they've already done yours several times)? Why hurt/insult others in the process? Go on AO3 and fantasize all you want (that's the point of the site after all, to quench your thirst - I mean... that's what I do🤕).

*I* was an Elriel (maybe not a strong one, I'm very open minded) before, but after reading that chapter I just gave up lmao (I sulked a bit while starring at gorgeous fanarts with them, wiped my tears and moved on). And I do understand how it feels to get very attached to a ship, I still think of Harry and Hermione for God's sake. Or Draco... 😶‍🌫️

Not only that his inner monologue gave me the ick, then his arrogance and entitlement when speaking with Rhys, but his gift compared to Lucien's was just... lame (and I really like Azriel, even if the way he behaved there dissapointed me).

And if it wasn't enough, after that dramatic *in a raspy male voice* "Oh babycakes, it was a mistake!" and Elain giving him back the necklace like a lost battle, out of absolutely nowhere Gwyn's character shows up! In the same chapter! It has to mean something, right? Not only that, but it's obvious she makes him curios, her character challanges his (I won't even mention his shadows making heart-eyes at her).

#i don't like ship wars #i love open discussions #friendly! #why do people have to be so toxic when these poor characters are not even real #i think it's so fun to analyse on text and read all these theories #it reminds me of high-school #but why force your ship onto others when there's proof on text that it's not going to happen #it's not so horrible to give up and accept the truth #is it so obvious that I'm a pacifist? #i hope I'm not getting hate for this I'm way too sensitive #acotar #lucien vanserra #elain archeron #elucien #pro elucien #azriel shadowsinger #gwyneth berdara #gwynriel #pro gwynriel #and what's with all the hate for Gwyn when she's a total sweetheart #my girl did nothing wrong

[xxcherrycherixx]

picnic date o((>ω< ))o

#ever after high #c.a cupid #blondie lockes #heartlockes #cupid x blondie #blondie x cupid #are they holding hands back there? you'll never know because of blondie's big ass skirt #i was going to add a cute lolita style pattern to blondie's dress and was so exhausted from drawing that i just forgot it rip #this is based on a kinktober smut oneshot im working on #yes my kinky smut has a cute picnic date #why? because fuck you that's why #that was mean im sorry ￣へ￣ #on a semi unrelated note this ship has ruined me to the point that i made my blondie and cupid dolls kiss today like wtf am i 7?? #my art

[spookberry]

I think Robecca being drawn to Elissabat because of the Vampire's Heart is sooooo interesting

#like why arent people shipping them #this is SUCH a good prompt for a gay love story #robecca's HEART is literally designed to seak out Elissabat!!! #honestly incredible #monster high #my art #i didnt wanna put all the work and effort into drawing and coloring out the background or Robecca's metal skin so i just..... didnt #robecca steam #elissabat #steambat

[thresholdbb]

I've come back to Time and Again... it's a threshold day miracle!

#IT'S NOT DONE YET #yes I've been droning on about it forever and no one cares anymore very boy who cried wolf #apparently I mostly needed a deadline and new lightbulbs #but i remember why I abandoned ship #cosplay updates #time and again cosplay #I've been talking about it for long enough though like damn #not actually threshold for once #but it is our high holiday and usually I would point to a Christmas miracle no matter the time of year #ignore the wrinkles the iron lives on the other side of the house and the ironing board is disintegrating #the colors look so saturated :/ #I have a week and part of the roadblock is all the other projects I wanna do #my very cool 40 year old yardstick gave me a splinter #yeah I'm doing another so that I can go meet Kate Mulgrew it's a whole thing

[festering-bacteria]

GUYSS HEAR ME OUT they have so much potential,.,,I love them.,

#art #Clone high #clone high season 2 #clone high jfk #topher bus #clone high topher #jfk x topher bus #jfkopher??? jfbus??? #idk why my brain went to JOPHER and I giggled so fucking hard #I CANNOT think of a decent ship name I’ll just let someone else figure it out #BUT GOODDDD ANYWAYS THEIR DYNAMIC!! THEIR POTENTIAL!! #Me out here making all my rarepair content it is the same as cooking my own dinner #I love them so much my god I cannot stop thinking abt them they have such a hold on my twisted mind

[cometblaster2070]

listen Epic Winter is great and all, and of course i love darabella and bribelle BUT LIKE

THEY JUST LEFT US HANGING AFTER DRAGON GAMES WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION???

WOW LOOK AT THAT DARLING'S APPLE TRUE LOVE SHE WOKE HER UP; MAGICAL GLOW AND EVERYTHING.

TIME TO PACK IT UP AND PRETEND LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED GOODBYE IT'S NEVER GETTING ADDRESSED EVER AGAIN HOPE YOU HAD FUN.

and then the fucking show never came back like.

#eah #ever after high #eah shitpost #explain yourself everyone #what is this behavior #clown ass #apple white #darling charming #dappling #idk what their ship name is #so we will just guess #dragon games #epic winter #genuinely listne #i liked epic winter #it was a fun special #BUT IT WAS SO OUT OF LEFT FIELD #LIKE I WAS WAITING FOR SOME KIND OF EXPLANATION OR CONFRONTATION BETWEEN DARLING AND APPLE #but in this house we said BYE #im kidding ik WHY obviously we couldn't get nice things #but one can dream yk

[bumblingbabooshka]

TOS-Era Michael Burnham

#Michael Burnham's in-denial 'burned out high achiever' swag... #Michael Burnham #Michael Burnham art #whenever I picture Michael in my head she is troubled by something so tha t's how I tend to draw her...that + Vulcan upbringing #the Michael Burnham in my head is so powerful...flat affect and limited facial expression queen <3 #she feels the entire spectrum of human emotions but doesn't fully understand them in herself or others <3 #<- my headcanon...everything I ever say abouther is headcanon #the ONLY clip I've seen of her was when she showed up on the ship in her red robe (KILLER look) #and when that lady Georgie(?) said (paraphrased) 'we're a good ship - more or less' #Michael looked her DEAD in the eye and said 'less.' HEHEHE #I wish Discovery seemed to have more of Michael acting Vulcan-ish but it seems like she acts more human pretty much right away which isn't #what I personally want to see v_v not that it makes the show bad or anything - I just want to see very specific things HEHEH #also I literally cant with people who're like 'Why's her name Michael when she's a girl?' there are ALIENS. there's a guy named NOG. HEHEHE #bea art tag #st discovery #st discovery art

[faybellesbeauty]

my eah ships slshdkgshs

i saw someone do this on tumblr but i forgot who it was after i finished this so CREDS TO WHOEVER INSPIRED THIS!!! also to who made the tierlist!!

i can open some of them up more if yall wanna know 😭 for the ”cute but not my personal preference” tier some of them are just characters i simply dont like in general

#ever after high #eah #eah ships #i am NOT tagging all of them #but my otps #bribelle #cheshire wolf #kitrise #ceritty #cerishire #(why do they have so many ship names omfg) #blondie x cupid #dappling #dexven #ramona x justine #they probably also have an official name im just #lost

[oceanwithouthermoon]

least favorite saiki ship and why ?

IT SCARES ME THAT THIS IS ON ANON. WHAT IF I SAY THAT I HATE A SHIP AND THEN IT TURNS OUT THE PERSON THAT ASKED THIS IS LIKE THE CEO OF THAT SHIP OR SOMETHING.

... its torisai LMAO.

i dont like saying it on here much cuz its one of the most popular ships in the fandom (the number one most popular ship is kubokai, and im not a fan of that either ☠️ i just think theyre the ship you get from looking at the show/manga purely at surface level and just picking two characters that are close friends and saying 'they should date' even though they wouldnt actually fit together.. i just dont see it personally lol.. OKAY ANYWAY SORRY-) but i really dont like torisai 🧍🏻‍♀️

(im about to talk about sa under this, fair warning)

i literally just posted today about people shipping things in ways that mildly trigger me, and torisai shippers do it pretty bad !! for some reason, mikorei shippers and yumetori shippers etc dont really do the thing that torisai shippers do where they romanticize sexual assault in the way they write them.. im not sure why that is, maybe they think that men cant be sa'd in the way women can ? they think cuz its a gay ship that its okay to write tori sexually harassing and assaulting him (+acting like its cute, not tagging it accordingly with warnings, etc) ? crazy. especially since saiki is implied to be a victim of sa (or at least is canonically a victim of sexual harassment and attempted sa) by his brother..

that whole thing is something i genuinely think is awful and nobody should romanticize sa, but toritsuka isn't inherently awful and still had potential and good character development, so that alone doesnt really make the ship that bad since the shippers are the problem.. i actually used to be okay with it until the shippers ruined it for me, but thinking critically about it (and thinking about WHY the shippers believe that their dynamic is so sexually abusive) did make me realize how much the ship sucks anyway.. (imo !!)

its partly because i project onto saiki, but i already mentioned how saiki is canonically a victim of (at least attempted) sa, and i reallly believe that he would not be interested in dating someone who is so obsessed with sex to the point where he canonically sexually harasses people and tries to peep without their consent !! he is literally an sa victim, obviously that would make him so uncomfortable!!

their friendship at the end of the series is nice and one of the most developed in the series, so i get where people got the ship from, cat tank incident invites a lot of content about them... but toritsuka still has a lot of work to do on himself before he can date ANYONE, and ESPECIALLY a literal sa victim..

when he saw saiki as a girl, one of the first things he did was DIRECTLY ask him about his boobs.. WHY WOULD HE DATE HIM AFTER THAT SKSNKAKAMSK..

actually lol, when i made that post today about ship content that triggers me, part of that was specifically inspired by torisai shippers lol.. (not all ofc and no hate, it just isnt my thing !! torisai mutuals i love u please don't unfollow me..) ive seen multiple people post about how they love torisai BECAUSE they would be absolutely awful for each other and bring out the worst in one another.. like hmm.. great for you if you enjoy that, but that is entirely why i DONT ship it !! i hate ships like that, i love my fluffy healthy romantic ships !!

okay anyway anyway, i love their platonic friendship, they care about each other lots, theyre one of the most developed in the series, their friendship has lots of potential, etc.. i just dont see it romantically !!! maybe in the far far future, but definitely not at the point they are at the end of the series..

#do not open this if youre gonna get upset if someone criticizes your ship #its one of the most popular ones so if ur seeing this then the chances that u ship it r very high #im not trying to hate please this is just my opinion i love you guys #im also open to criticism btw i dont really mind if you comment on here about why you like this ship #u dont have to though i doubt anyone will care about my opinion at all LOL #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #meows post #meownalysis

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

#i've felt this for a while but like. fundamentally? C3 is just...uniquely not set up for terribly satisfying shipping #even the ships I do like and that get small moments are relatively background #like 80% of quote unquote ship content is like. fanon goggles overlaying either parallel play or standard battle mechanics #which is fine! I think it's a different vibe and approach than the past 2 campaigns #i think especially in character creation; self-insert or easy for new players (c1) #followed by Morally Gray Campaign; Prove We Can Replicate This Success; Serious Characters (C2); followed by Let's Get Silly With It (C3) #which is less conducive to that profound connection of c1 or c2. which is not a bad thing! #but god. if you complain about the D&D show having too much d&d plot and not enough romance...yeah pal it's d&d not a dating sim #like I enjoy when there is romance in my fantasy but it's not a requirement. there is a genre full of romance. it is called romance. #i'm also thinking about this bc I need to watch wot s2 but i've been told that the fandom has gotten weird #like wow so moiraine/siuan is not the A plot? in a high fantasy Good vs. Evil series? WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT. #getting back to this...i'm also thinking about my own life and like. i moved to where i live not long pre-lockdown #and so i'm finding myself a resident of this area for 4+ years but with weaker connections than i'd have otherwise. and that's fine! #but psychologically i feel so weird about just starting to find my place bc it's been so long even though there's a good reason #and i wonder if the cast/Hells feels the same way ie why are we only just bonding now 70 eps in and so they're hesitant #that I Waited Too Long And Now It's Awkward feeling; that I Should Be Past This By Now fallacy #which. again. i think things early on could have been done differently but that time is past you need to live in the present now. #cr tag