#and i actually don't super ship sam and frodo romantically but they're still this

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3, 6, and 28 :>

Already did 3! 6. Do you have a certain kind of ship you’re more attracted to? OH BOY APPARENTLY 🤣 (You may be sorry you asked.) I am a friends-to-lovers person, and the things that suck me in are characters who you can tell almost immediately just know each other so, so intimately. I love characters who have known each other since childhood or spent many years together, who can speak in glances without saying anything, who know each other almost better than they know themselves. I'll read whatever kind of getting together story people will give me, but I tend to write established relationships- I'm more interested in the challenges they face together than drawn-out pining or first time love confessions. I like the relationships that almost don't need them. I crave history, whether it's Liu Kang and Kung Lao protecting each other and training and dreaming together since they were children, or the hundreds of years of life you can literally see on the walls of skekGra and urGoh's home, or the entirety of human existence distilled into little gifts and gestures and food for Aziraphale and Crowley. To go back to that post about Tolkien characters expressing love through devotion and following, that is part of all of these. I love characters who would face anything as long as it is with Their Person. I love Python following Forsyth away from home and into war because he never wanted to be a soldier but being without him would be so much worse. I love Fingon walking into Thangorodrim alone because if no one else is going to rescue Maedhros he damn well will- and following him into both kinslaying and an ultimately doomed battle because, like another first-age elf, sometimes love leads him more than wisdom. I love Legolas building a boat, because if he can no longer resist the call of the sea, Gimli is going with him. I love characters who cannot bear to live without each other. These are often male/male relationships, not because I'm not into women (I am both nonbinary and super bi) or don't like female characters, but because it's male characters whose relationships tend to be written this way. I am glad to see that slowly changing, but it's. Slowly. Me personally finding the characters attractive is a nice bonus but not a requirement. XD (cough GraGoh XDD) There are all sorts of other ship dynamics I enjoy, including plenty of wlw and even some straight ones, but these are the ones that just like. Grab me by the soul, for whatever reason. One thing that legit makes me see red is being accused of somehow cheapening a platonic same-gender relationship by adding romance, because the platonic stuff is like 75% of the appeal to me? Like yeah flirting or smut about hot people is fun but that alone will never grab my attention for any length of time or get me to create something. I like the element of turning those relationships into romances, because they have so much more depth than a lot of hetero romances in media I'm told I'm supposed to care about, but they don't lose anything. 28. What is your best shipping advice? Honestly just like what you like without feeling like you have to apologize for it and do you. It can be good to critically engage with why you like or dislike things, but you ultimately are gonna like what you like. Just don't be a dick to other people XD

#gragoh #liulao #forsython #gigolas #russingon #do crowley and aziraphale have a ship tag #they have to #patrochilles is another one #and i actually don't super ship sam and frodo romantically but they're still this #sorry this was very long XDD #ship meme