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I genuinely think it is a rite of passage for a Pokemon fan to champion a Pokemon that is unpopular, uncool, or 'weak'.
For some, it comes quickly. A child sees Gulpin and thinks it's the funniest thing ever. For some, it's trying something new. The competitive battler who just starts messing around, picks up a Pachirisu, and leads it to victory against impossible stakes. For some, it's an accident. The Nuzlocker who got way too attached to an early game friend who refused to die, and grieved for their friend and comrade when their time came. For some, it's defiance. The person who kinda likes Raichu and will defend it from the slings and arrows of all others. For some, it's just comfortably growing up and realising you don't have to justify liking something, just that it makes you happy.
It's easy to be drawn to the crowd favourites. And why not? They can be powerful fighters, cute merch, fanart-bait, they have a je ne sais quoi that draws the eye. And that's still fine! I'm not going to tell anyone they're a bad person for liking Charizard, or Mewtwo, or Gengar, or Pikachu. They're popular for a reason. But there is a kind of zen, a state of enlightenment of sorts, in finding a funky little guy who isn't very good and isn't very popular but makes you smile, and you go out of your way to find them and raise them and maybe even never evolve them, despite them being a damp squib in actual battles.
One of my favourite Pokemon ever is Swinub. Swinub is not a strong Pokemon. In fact, statistically, it's one of the weakest. Swinub has 5 weaknesses, including all 3 starter types. It doesn't learn many coverage moves, and it's abilities are not very exciting either. But I love this little piglet. It's round and soft! It digs up hot springs with its nose! You never see its eyes! I just think it's neat.
It's an important thing, I think, to find a Pokemon you like just for you. Not because it makes you better than 'the normies', but because it makes you appreciate the Pokemon you do meet, not for their battling prowess, but for how much you just want to be around them. When I see @good-pokemon-center-reviews frankly doing the lord's work in sharing people who are just so happy to have their little guys, I see starry-eyed children relishing in the wonder the Pokemon world is meant to bring. Genuine, earnest joy at a plushy Croagunk will always be more real to me that any Smogon tier chart. That guy gets it. The guy being a dick on Pokemon showdown with a team of 5 Zacians and a Mega Rayquaza for spice does not.
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drainbangle · 10 months
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also here's your free pass to talk about god's least favorite cleric, temenos (even though i probably won't be able to see your response bc i have spoiler tags hidden </3)
send me a character
first impression: was pretty apathetic to him, would you believe it.
impression now: how did we fucking get here. i started writing longform stories again because of him. he drives me crazy bonkers, will never be the same, 8/8 would travel that octopath again.
spoilers under the cut, feel free to just read this after you finish oomf
favorite moment: "the wool dilemma". hands down one of my favorite banters in the game, i love how he uses stories to communicate his feelings because doing so bluntly is... not what he does. it's a fantastic moment for he and throné's dynamic as well, especially if you believe in the theory that they're siblings. her saying that he's the first person she's felt any familial warmth for and them just having to sit with that? fucking annihiliates me
idea for a story: i'd love to write a fic about the claudelets during the darkest night. any situation where you don't have sunlight for long periods of time (i mean... see: 2020 lockdown) affects you both physically and mentally, and while everyone else in the party is negatively affected by it, temenos and throné instead have no issue. in fact they're getting stronger. no longer needing to sleep, eat, etc, and it scares them after they know what they were created for.
unpopular opinion: writing wise, we'd be here all day if i got into it unfortunately. ig for the bit i'll say that i run warrior temenos in endgame since i prefer him as a support breaker, also he does crazy damage with rai mei's spear stacked with conjurer runes.
favorite relationship: ochette, throné, crick, and— would you believe me if i said kaldena? while i talk mostly about temenos being claude's son, that also ties in with my headcanon that he's one of the kal due to the massacre taking place exactly 30 years ago.
i have this whole au outlined where dena got him out since they were the youngest, on top of them being cousins through temenos' mother— and how she keeps in contact with him as a framework to tweak temenos' story as a whole.
one of these days i might write it, but i enjoy what i got cooking for them in the outline already.
favorite headcanon: kal/claudelet temenos my ultra fave. also because of how i run him using a dancer and/or warrior subclass using either blessing in disguise builds + specific weapons/builds, he volunteered to fight in the montwise arena after hikari and ochette realized the champion uses magic attacks— which they don't handle too well. crick's like "don't do that. what are you doing. temenos what if you get hurt—" and temenos is just fine. he won in fact
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actuallyitsstar · 3 months
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aaaaaaa so tumblr is not a functional website and it ate my next two drafted asks so prepare to get tagged in textposts but @brambleberrycottage sent Lord of The Rings (which will be v interesting bc im quite new to this franchise so pls dont crucify me i know nothing im baby lol) for the fandom ask game:
✨ send me a fandom and i'll answer with the following!
blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)
↣ VERY IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE but i think i have no choice but to go with aragorn. idk i dont know enough yet about all the lore of the universe to unpack this but. idk. something about that specific Flavor of generational trauma and the concept of corrupted legacy/rejecting his bloodline and coming back to it and learning to accept it and himself and what that means for middle earth in the grand scheme of things and h ow he has to 'forgive' himself/his kind to help everyone else. idk idk. It Compels Me. ive only seen the movies 3 times and i have not yet read the books so im sorry if im saying anything stupid aldjfkfhf 😭
scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)
↣ SAM!!! SAMWISE GAMGEE !!! SAMWISE THE BRAVE! he is so so friend shaped i just love him so much so many of his scenes make me ugly cry. he was my big toss up for blorbo in this ranking. but i want to squish him. you know ???????
scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)
↣ NO idea who is underrated in this fandom but i have a Soft Spot for boromir. hes that type. the type we've discovered i always love. the traumatized man with emotional problems who is overconfident. akdjfkfjfkgfj and i KNOW he obviously has his faults but he redeems himself and he reminds us of his true character and he does right by those halflings in the end by god 😭😭 still sad abt it
glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)
↣ again not that obscure probably idk enough of the more background ppl yet and idk who is popular but i have a soft spot for king theoden. his speech on the hill about burying his son always rly gets to me and he seems very noble and level-headed and fair, if not a little bit prideful at times. so interested in the concept of legacy and the way he talks about it and then how aragorn talks about it too and i always wonder if there is meant to be contrast/reference between them.
poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)
↣ LISTEN..... DO NOT COME FOR ME BUT ITS KIND OF SORT OF SMEAGOL......hear me out. if faramir hadnt caused frodo and same to betray him i think he might still have been good and might still have been free of the ring at last. and idk if that lines up w the lore at all i may be talking out of my ass. im just saying i feel so so terrible about that twist happening to him bc he seemed so happy and free before the ring and then its just IMMEDIATE awfulness and crimes forever. he must be suffering. he died suffering. for the stupid ring. id like to think in another universe he gets something better.
horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)
↣ im sorry this is literally frodo i think 😭 canonically and also fandom-wise. frodo ily i am sorry this burden ruined your life it PHYSICALLY pains me, literally, yet i cannot stop reading about it and thinking abt your struggles.
eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)
↣ OBVIOUSLY SAURON OR SARUMAN.....NEXT QUESTION
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rangedreign · 1 year
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ohhh my favourite part of ask games, (harmless) petty fandom drama. i know these are a lot so ofc feel free to pick and choose but im nosy and love gossip so if you feel like it *eyes emoji*:
1 2 (just for the drama lol) 6 (feel free to ignore i understand u completely but i live for drama lol) 7 (MORE) 8 12 (<3) 16 (*eyes emoji*) 21 22 (for some final positivity)
1 - the character everyone gets wrong cedric the sorcerer. he deserves respect as a person, and the royal family was wrong to deny him that, but he does little to earn respect as royal sorcerer. 'oh he has such a good and relatable arc' whup tee doo his grand finale was... *checks notes* doing his job correctly. the one he's been training for his whole life. color me unimpressed by a character that should have either left that job YEARS ago or put a little effort into anticipating what he'd be asked to do and practicing instead of trying to prove his worth through stunts and domination.
2 - a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom can't do it lol, everyone's a verse in my mind
6 - which ship fans are the most annoying? shoutout to the time i went through the snape/lily tag and couldn't scroll 3 posts without a james/lily shipper trying to pull moral rank. however i think 75% of the hp fandom has ship rabies.
7 - what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them? eh, none, i don't let fandom influence my interpretations of characters that way. cedric is closest but the fandom misinterpretation is just an additional annoyance, rather than a driving force
8 - common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about 'cedric and sofia have a good relationship'. shipping or not, they're completely one-sided. what does cedric provide sofia with? he doesn't even listen to her particularly well.
12 - the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them to no one's surprise, my first pick here is wormwood from sofia the first. he was created as a joke, ha ha the pet is smarter than the human master, but then the show makes you judge him by human moral standards as the foil to cedric's 'deserving of second chances'. the show itself asks you to view a character that cannot leave servitude as human, and wants you to believe that his station is right. it's so deeply unfair. i care him. i respect him. i want to see him take the power of humanity for himself, abuse it, naturally, because that's all humans have ever done to him, then grow into a complete person when he realizes he cares despite it all. knowing that, i feel like mentioning areelu should come as no surprise. doing great evil in response to evil that was done to you? that's so up my alley. up my pussy even. making her bond with daeran of all people is such a great idea, someone who cannot forgive her, but must move on and work with her regardless. it seems like most people write her off as too evil to live, but she's still a super genius. there's a lot to be gained by befriending her. the gold dragon ""redemption"" happens so absurdly fast though. 'oh shit guess this is pretty fucked up, so glad you're a piss-colored lizard bc that's the only way i'd ever listen to you' wrath's writing in general has a bit of a quantity over quality issue. a lacking-logic issue. no way my azata would sacrifice herself just cuz without knowing what areelu will do once she's gone.
16 - you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc) - hero-type main characters in general. idk exactly what it is but i find most of them very dull, and often irritating. a lack of desires beyond duty? can't often be described as freaks? they just never have any footholds for interesting ideas to me. - gold aasimar cum. if you want something golden to come out of daeran's dick, you can just make him piss XD also does that imply his hair is naturally white? - daeran x chill/lawful/'boring' kcs - i can tell that on some level he wants the stability from people like that, but i can't see him actually bonding with them. esp not towards the start of the game. - truly, utterly pathetic meow meows. like, listen, i love shoving a character into a Situation and watching them flounder around, but they've gotta be proficient at something!
21 - part of canon you think is overhyped for just about everything: the worldbuilding. i think people get impressed by the mere existence of worldbuilding, rather than the quality of it. pf surprised me when i looked deeper into stuff and found it gave me the same 'this is a hot mess and i have to make shit up for it to make sense' feeling as stf. i expected better from a massive ttrpg but ok. for wrath, also the characters and the music. the characters rely on one-note personalities with maybe a ~hint~ of spice, with one extremely notable exception of daeran. the degree to which he beats out every other character in complexity is stunning, really. the music is... just fine? it's not amazing, it does exactly what you'd expect a track for that purpose to do. I think most of the tracks have muddy orchestration, too much focus on harmony/vibes and not enough on rhythm and melody. the one track i really love is 'a drink before the battle', it has a great flow and dynamics and i wish it played more often.
22 - your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores the villains/antagonists, best part of literally any media ever
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volfoss · 2 years
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ummm okay. gay kevin. idk shit abt persona so ur fave and least fave (maybe a side from creep weirdo adults actually I know Enough abt persona. least favorite Normalish character) feel free to elaborate on any of these and umm ummm cheryl also mwah mwah <33
HI. I'm putting this under a cut bc um. <- guy who will ramble rly rly long. Or smth
Every single day I shake my head thinking about the potential Kevin could have if yk. RAC didn't go cop mode and his god. His shit w Percival and also every other relationship it's rly :////. I don't know how unpopular my opinions r bc outside of my like 5 Riverdale mutuals I do NOT touch the main tags. I do NOT need the horrible barchie and varchie takes so. But it is very frustrating to me how he's treated and I rly think if I rewatched I could get more insane about him and use my epic ok let's give him more character abilities BUT I am holsing back from a rewatch so.
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^ the dislike is well. For the current season shit and the stuff he did 2 Toni and fangs.... Bc like :/
Getting the Riverdale ones done before um I hit u w the persona essay. But Cheryl my literal best friend forever???
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^ she needs to be on screen like. All the time forever and ever. If Cheryl is not on screen I think we all should die. She's literally the best part ever and my beloved friend Nico is so right about her and will hit me w the hi. Did u see Cheryl this episode and I will clap and cheer. She's literally the best and so funny and epic and has literally been since s1ep1. Any crimes that are adjacent to murder or well. Anything else. It's forgiven bc she's epic and funny and swag so. Like I'm not umm?? Super picky on any Cheryl ship BUT I think Cheryl and Veronica could be so fucking funny. Like the dynamic could go so hard etc. I love her a lot like in my top 5 rvd characters
Umm persona time and also like I'm gonna spoil a BIG twist about 4 for you so like. Heads up for that. It's not worth playing tho (I say so affectionately but it's also a hard twist to avoid bc everyone knows it and it's like a 10+ year old game)
My least fave (affectionate. Kind of. I also want him dead) character is adachi from 4. I want him dead like for REALSIES but also he's done nothing wrong but he's ALSO literally killed 3 people.
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^ every fan sucks about him and I want literally every adachi fan minus my friend to die bc they suck but like he's ultimately just a silly little guy (again. Excusing the murders and also the well. General cringefail of him). Unfortunately I understand him and I think that like he has issues (in a good and bad way.) But he's also like rly???? Idk man he's kinda got issues and problems but he's also rly sillay and goofy and I think he's allowed to kill because he's sillay. He also sucks so bad and I need to kill him. Like a lot of the fans suck so so so bad and I think that he's a very interesting character if you actually understand him. I think he's a little loser ultimately and ummm I don't rly have coherent thoughts but I am microwaving him
Ok as for faves ummm I have a lot HOWEVER I'm gonna go a bit crazy insane about a little dude from persona 2. So like his name is Michel (or like that's his nickname ig?) And so like here's rapidfire facts about him before I hit u w the bingo. So like his weapon when fighting is a guitar case turned into a machine gun. I'm not joking it's very epic. He's also like?? His introduction in the game is LITERALLY basically a hey quit your job join my emo band. He says carpe diem like "crap a dime". He's a singer and like he comes up w insanely stupid song lyrics. He's also like full of issues and problems on many levels. And he literally has blue hair and pronouns
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^ him btw. I just need u to understand the character a bit before I go insane in the bingo board
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^ he doesn't get enough screen time bc he's not on my screen constantly but like I do not interact w any p2 fans minus my friend Chris and my lovely mutual toni who are both epic and understand it. However I do think some people probably suck about him and he's my bestie so I understand him on a fundamental level. He's rly epic and niceys and minus well a couple issues he does nothing wrong ever and ever. He's my best friend bc like. In persona 2 when u meet demons u can communicate w them and one of his options is to like talk to them and be like HEY you suck your life sucks etc. It's very epic and funny and he will also sing to them sometimes. Also just this gif.
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kachulein · 3 years
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11 questions: tbz ver!!💞
thank you so much for tagging me @seraphimguks this was so fun to do!!🥺💖 I'm also super sorry for being insanely late with this tag, I've had it in my drafts and completely forgot about it </333
name/nickname:  Laura Jane / Kachu/Lala
country/state: Switzerland
which tbz boy is closest in age to you?  Haknyeon, he's 5 weeks younger than me^^ babie :P
who did you first notice in tbz and why? Hmm, this is hard to say. Before I was a deobi, I saw moots talking about Sunwoo and Changmin because they biased them, and I also heard of Eric (and his friendship with Felix) from said friends, and also learned that there's two more English speakers called Jacob and Kevin. I then got shipped with Younghoon once so I looked up their profile to look at him (and the others). Then I decided that Chanhee is the one who catches my eye most and called him /a bias/. After that, I noticed Hyunjun because of his airport fashion that I adored. And eventually it was Kevin and his cute self as Simply Kpop MC who caught my eye so much that I decided to stan (he's still my bias while Chanhee is my most dangerous bias wrecker haha). But honestly, I'm not sure which member I noticed first as I heard of some members through friends and not because I noticed them on my own - soooooo, you guys decide, idk.😂👉🏻👈🏻
favourite laugh in tbz?  This was so hard to decide... tbh, I really like Moonbae's laugh because - and I might be biased here - my own laugh is a mixture of Jacob's giggles and Kevin's mute suffering/dying 🤚🏻😭 But I also really like Chanhee's and Sunwoo's laugh, they're just so straightforward and loud, it's endearing :'))
if you can only meet 3 tbz members, who would it be? either Kevin, Jacob and Eric (no language barrier haha) or Kevin, Chanhee, and Changmin. I'm 100% sure about Kevin though, I need to see my ult <3 😭
first tbz song you ever heard?  uhmmmm, I think that was actually Boy because I watched their music video when they debuted (I thought a group called "The Boyz" that debuts with a song called "Boy" was super hilarious, so I wanted to check it out ajxjjsks) but I didn't start stanning them back then :( As you can see, sometimes I make bad decisions haha
1 unpopular tbz opinion? hmm, I don't think this is an unpopular opinion?? But idk what would be one since I don't really keep up with fandoms' opinions as I focus more on the artists (fandoms - in general - can be toxic, so I prefer not to engage too much and keep fangirling among my friends/mutuals - in a space where I feel comfortable and safe to express myself), so I'll just talk about /an opinion/ - not knowing whether it's unpopular or not akdkskd. So, tbz are still a bit of an "underrated" group, they've gained a lot of new fans through RTK (edit: I wrote this - all questions - before kingdom) but still, I feel like they deserve more recognition, especially for their performances. I feel like they're one of the best 4th gen performers (I will never forget RTK Reveal stage and Reveal/Checkmate MAMA stage - Hyunjae and Sunwoo going up on that thing - that I don't know what it's called in English - is SO AMAZING, LIKE WHUAT??? Honestly, these will always belong to my favourite performances because it was seriously mind-blowing.
I MEAN LOOK AT IT;;;;;;;
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WOW-
So yes, I just feel like they'd deserve a lot more appreciation and recognition for these amazing stages that they deliver!! They must be working SO hard and they're so in sync and just aaaah, it's so satisfying to watch them dance and perform, you know. The world is missing out,,,,🤧🤧
another edit: add their kingdom performances to the list too, because wow, I loved them all so much, they're SO talented!!!😭😭😭
which tbz member is most similar to you? I actually rewrote this answer because I always thought it was Kevin... I still believe we have lots in common but I recently found out that - astrology wise (according to the pattern app) - I'm /very similar/ to Jacob!! The pattern app tells you how similar you are to other people based on your birth charts and there's similarity levels from: very different < somewhat similar, but mostly different < similar < very similar and I kid you not, I've probably looked at my similarity level with at least 100 people (idols, family members, friends) and while I've gotten "similar" with lots of people - Kevin for example - I've only gotten "very similar" with 3 people so far. And one of those 3 people just so happens to be Jacob, so wow! I had no idea that we're that similar based on our charts - but I guess our air sun and shared Leo rising and also shared Virgo & Pisces placements make it make sense ෆ╹ᴗ╹ෆ sorry for the ramble, I'm still so overjoyed with being so similar to him🤚🏻😭
most underrated tbz song? In my not so humble opinion, I'd like to name two of my faves - Shake You Down and Summer Time <3333
give us a good pic of your bias.  
excuse me but how am I supposed to choose JUST ONE when Kevin looks like a full course meal in every pic???✊🏻😔 Just look at him-
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also, please don't hate me but I really miss his longer hair, I'm currently in mourning😭😭😭
tagging: @interstellix @http-peachie @jellihye @oddlittlefandomist @key201303 @stealerz and any other deobi - Idk who else of my moots stans them, so pls feel free to do this and tag me so I can see your answers!!^-^💞💞💞
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andsjuliet · 2 years
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book tag game - tagged by @onceupon-a-decembr, thank you, lindsay!
favorite book from this year: 
our violent ends by chloe gong, dial a for aunties by jesse q. sutanto, fat chance, charlie vega by crystal maldonado, malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid, as good as dead by holly jackson, ace of spades by faridah àbíkê-íyímídé  - there are for sure more, those are just the first that came to mind!
ebooks, audiobooks, or print: 
i love all 3 for different reasons. nothing will ever beat print and the feeling of a book in your hands + the smell of paper and ink. ebooks are so wonderful for travel purposes as well as a way to take advantage of online libraries and freeing up shelf space. audiobooks have kind of changed my life because of how much i work, so i love them because i can read while doing anything!
top 5 of all time: 
if we were villans by m.l. rio
little women by louisa may alcott
les miserables by victor hugo
these violent delights by chloe gong
romeo and juiet by william shakespeare
(really i picked based on books i read/think about the most)
faves for: 
sci-fi: the hunger games series by suzanne collins  
contemporary/romance: anything by morgan matson, anything by emma lord, not here to be liked by michelle quach, fat chance, charlie vega by crystal maldonado - i could go on, there are a lot of contemporary books i love
historical: les miserables by victor hugo, little women by louis may alcott
fantasy: these violent delights duology by chloe gong 
queer: the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid and red, white and royal blue by casey mcquiston
top 3 book couples:
marius x cosette
juliette x roma
james x oliver
top 3 book characters:
nancy drew
amy / jo march
juliette cai
meredeith dardenne (yes i added a 4th for my love meredith)
book(s) with potential that didn’t quite pull it off:
unpopular book opinion, we were liars was horrible. it had so much potential and yet...
book(s) that got you through something:
les mis literally made me reevaluate my entire life + existence at 17, so i think that counts
book(s) you’d recommend:
any listed above
a genre you want a book recommended from:
mystery/thriller - it’s my favorite genre so i’m always looking for more recs! (preferably books by authors of color)
tagging: anyone who wants to! (i’m just too lazy to tag people right now tbh
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welcometoteyvat · 3 years
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— teyvat thoughts, ramblings!: talking tags
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I tag characters with their name and the most common ship name if applicable! Triggers and such will also be tagged accordingly with tw ____.
ships
I have a lot of rarepairs and rb some quite unpopular ships. WARNING: zhongxiao and kaeluc show up from time to time in reblogged posts. filter responsibly, all ships and characters are tagged. if it bothers you, this blog is very ship saturated. I eat any and all food, including unhealthy ships—feel free to block/unfollow if the romance is too excessive!
I do not ship xiaoven, tartali/chili, zhongchi, ganqing, yantao, or xingyun
relationship (r/ship) tags
— wangsheng duo: hu tao and zhongli
— loiterers at wanmin: xingqiu, xiangling, and chongyun
— the liyue kids: loiterers at wanmin trio + hu tao
— exorcist and the ghost girl: chongyun and hu tao
— the pyro polearms: xiangling and hu tao
— plum blossom bookmark: xingqiu and hu tao
— karmic balance: chongyun and xiao
— well acquainted with death: xiao and hu tao
— archon gang: venti, zhongli, and baal
— the bard and the funeral consultant: venti and zhongli
— zhongli and assorted nonhumans: zhongli, qiqi, xiao, and ganyu (sometimes without qiqi but it’s just zhongli and his weird little adepti)
— aether and lumine: self explanatory
— emo besties: dainsleif and xiao (this tag will be used only once but they deserve their own tag)
— klee’s survival rules: klee and kaeya
— winery kids: kaeya and diluc (r/ship is up to interpretation)
— the five kasen: self explanatory
— exorcists: shenhe and chongyun
— the five yaksha: also self explanatory
— the east wind is home: venti and dvalin
— frankenstein’s creatures: scaramouche and albedo
— like mother like son: scaramouche and raiden shogun/ei
— caged birds (free): scaramouche and nahida
— three musketeers: lyney, lynette, and freminet
— the purest branch of irminsul: nahida and rukkhadevata
— playing gods: furina and scaramouche
characters
frequently posts chongyun, yanfei, gaming, zhongli, venti, the liyue youths (they’re a set), and some others. Have a look through my most frequent tags and you’ll see who I like lol (rarely posts about mond)
me
hello, if you want to be genshin friends just dm me! AR 60 (yippee!), on the NA server, yanfei/hu tao/yoimiya main <3
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naturallytom · 3 years
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hi all!! i have had a rough few days (almost a week) and there’s been a change in plans from what i was previously doing so i figured i might as well do a sleepover!! i’ll be doing this from friday september 24 to sunday september 26!
feel free to... 
🍂ask me anything!!
🍂tell me your favorite things!
🍂rant/vent
🍂tell me about your day!!
🍂fmk
🍂would you rather/have you ever
🍂advice!!
🍂popular/unpopular opinions!!
🍂send me your fave blogs and i’ll @ them
🍂tell me something good that happened to you today/this week!
🍂something good you’re looking forward to!!
🍂tell me about your crush (or ask me about mineee hehehe)
🍂talk to me about anime!! 
🍂talk to me about true crime!!
🍂or just talk to me about anything ur heart desires!! 
tagging some mutuals so hopefully this doesn’t flop: @sunshinehollandd​ @spiderboytotherescue​ @moonlit-void-to-the-far-unknown @teen--marvel
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mourningbirds1 · 3 years
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Writer tag game
I was tagged by @just-here-for-the-moment and @heatherbel and @keeper0fthestars and @songsformonkeys thank you my loves. I was fascinated to read your answers - I love it when brilliant writers talk about their work and process ❤️
1. Link your Masterlist 
2. Fave genres / Least fave genres to write (angst, fluff, smut, etc):  The things that feel most natural to me are yearning, unresolved sexual tension and angst. (art imitates life...) I also like writing dialogue and internal monologue. 
The things I find hardest are smut, fluff and established relationship. I think fluff is a problem for me because I struggle to write about a situation which doesn’t contain any tension - I just draw a blank. I wish this weren’t the case and I would like to get better at it. One of my other goals is to learn how to write romantic, drama-free sex, especially within an established relationship.
3. Fave character to write: Javier Peña ❤️ 
4. Which of your works is your favourite:  My Javi multi-chap. I am also very fond of my Steve x Javi pre-slash one-shot The Crossroads I’m Standing At.
5. Which of your work was more popular than you thought it would be Maybe Crossroads. It’s not my most popular fic but it was the first thing I posted back when I hardly knew anyone. I wasn’t expecting anyone to read it at all. But the absolute angel @yespolkadotkitty (who was my first friend and supporter) reblogged it and helped me to find a little audience and then make some more friends. 
6. Which of your work is less popular than you thought it would be:  Oh I can’t really answer that - none of them tbh! Though I would say that when first began writing my Javi x OFC fic I had no idea how unpopular OCs were compared to reader fics and it took a long time for me to find a readership for that fic. I’ve always been very touched when people have taken a chance on me and read it. 
7. Which was the hardest to write?  A Walk In The Woods - a 6K Javi x Reader one shot. It nearly broke me and I swore off smut writing for a long time. But! I am going to have to find my big-girl pants and go back into the fray soon because I have a sex scene rapidly approaching in a certain multi-chap and it’s not going to write itself. Pray for me pls. 
8. What are some of your favourite fics by others: I prefer not to write lists because of the danger of accidentally leaving something out. I feel bad about this because I am loving reading everyone else’s answers to this question in this tag and I am so flattered and grateful to those of you who have mentioned me. But I’m just too anxious about writing a list myself 😔 So please consider my fic rec tag to be a definitive list of my recs. 
Please forgive me if you’ve already done this... I tag with no pressure - @pajamasecrets @pedropascaldice @yespolkadotkitty and @thirstworldproblemss
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sourlemonsodass · 3 years
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ok so finally... time to write down some of my thoughts on HxH characters! I'm in the middle of chimera ants arc so I haven't seen every character yet (and don't want to see Ging fuck him)
feel free to make your own!!! you can tag me i'll love to read your thoughts :] HxH is one of my favorite animes ever!
✧・゚: *✧・゚:* Hunter x Hunter *:・゚✧*:・゚✧
✧ favorite characters: Illumi, Kurapika, Killua and Kaito!
✧ least fave character: that rude guy from the Hunter exam... don't even remember his name
✧ 5 fave ships: Hisoillu, Killugon, Leopika, Uvoshal and... think that's about it?
✧ character i find most attractive: Kaito and Illumi....... also Chrollo when his hair is not soaked in gel?? i look at his face and just feel like telling him to go fuck himself
✧ character i would marry: marry is a strong word but i'd go in a date with Kurapika.... transmascs unite we'd get along well
✧ character i'd be bff with: Kaito sounds like a really interesting person to talk to (I love biology ok) and also Kurapika!
✧ random thought: the chimera ants are so interesting I don't know why the fandom just care about the royal guard??? Leol, Cheetu, Meleoron, Colt, Ikalgo.... all very cool guys I'm loving this arc
✧ unpopular opinion: Hisoka should be held accountable for his weird behaviour towards children....
✧ canon otp: Does Hisoillu counts? asajshjahs also I think Killua really have feelings for Gon so Killugon too
✧ uncanon otp: Leopika.....
✧ most badass: Kaito be real cool w his scythe
✧ pairing i don't like: Machi and Hisoka?? Machi is a mean lesbian let her be
✧ character i feel the writers screwed up: I wouldn't say screwed up but I wish Kaito would.. be alive for longer idk?? I really like him as a character and he had a lot of potential. I feel like they buildt him only to show Pitou's strenght and that's not fair >:( he was so cool
✧ favorite friendship: Gon and Killua! they're the cutest imo, they are so fond on each other and grew so much together! they're a perfect duo and I simply love how close they get and how truthful is their friendship
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velkynkarma · 3 years
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@scribeofred tagged me for this and I figured, why not?
1. What fandoms have you written for?
A fair few. Let’s see...Fire Emblem (various games), Bleach, Samurai Champloo, One Piece, Digimon, Avatar the Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Young Justice, Supernatural, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Castlevania
2. How many works do you have on AO3 &/or FFNet?
There are 35 stories on FF.net and 54 works on AO3. Seven of those are posted on both accounts.
3. What are your top 3 fics by kudos on A03 &/or Favs on FFNet?
AO3 has the most (the highest fave count on FF.net is only 904). All 3 are Voltron fics:
Routine Maintenance, by a landslide 1678
Pillar in the Dark, at 1037
Parasite Knight, at 962
4. Which 3 fics have the least kudos & Favs?
Some of my very old Fire Emblem fics are the ones that have the least, but those are all on FF.net. For AO3, the lowest 3 are all Voltron fics, tied at 71:
Genesis, understandable since it’s a niche fusion AU
Coin Toss, again understandable since it’s the most recent fic in a very long AU/Canon Divergent series
Team Tactics, sadly understandable since it’s a niche fic about Allura and Zarkon
5. Which Fic has the most comments and which has the least?
On AO3, the clear winner is Premium Pandemonium (Voltron), with a whopping 550 comments (and I love everyone of you that left one!) The fic with the least comments is A Test of Faith (Supernatural) with a whole 5.
On FF.net we actually have one that beats out even AO3 for max comments: Asteria Nightmare (One Piece), with 613. 
6. Which complete fic do you wish had gotten more attention?
Either A Thousand Burning Eyes or Glass Half Full. Both are Voltron fics I put a lot of work into (especially Thousand Burning Eyes) but only had a handful of dedicated readers. It’s understandable though, since they were both about relatively unpopular or niche characters. 
I’ll admit I was also a bit disappointed with the response to Forced Respite (Castlevania) especially since several people requested I post it and expressed interest in it, and then didn’t actually leave any kind of feedback. But the fandom in general also seemed very unresponsive, so I’m not really surprised. 
7. Have you written any crossovers?
It’s practically one of my calling cards at this point. Especially Fusion AU’s. I’ve also done a couple fic crossovers between two different canon divergent AU series with @bosstoaster
8. What is the craziest fic you’ve written?
Crazy in what sense? If most ambitious/time consuming, undoubtedly Premium Pandemonium. 
9. What’s the fic you’ve written with the saddest ending?
Hmm...I generally do bittersweet angles more than pure sad. But the ones that seemed to hit people the hardest emotionally would be either Paying Respects (Voltron) or One Day Late (One Piece).
10. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?
“Happiest endings” isn’t really my forte, but I guess if I had to pick one, Personal Growth (Voltron). It’s just generally a nice, relaxed vibe about a character enjoying his new hobby.
11. What is your smuttiest fic?
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Yeah I don’t write smut. Not my thing.
12. Have you ever received hate on a fic?
I did years ago on one of my One Piece fics. At the time it upset me, but now I look back on it and laugh at how petty the commenter was.
13. What is the nicest comment you’ve received?
I can’t pick just one! I’ve had so many lovely comments!
14. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
I’ve had fics pulled onto those other fansites, yeah. It happens.
15. How many fics do you have marked as incomplete?
Only one! From years and years ago in my early Fire Emblem days. I also specifically stated the fic might not ever be finished, too. 
As a general rule, I don’t post fanfics at all until they’re fully completed. Then people can safely invest their time in my stories and I don’t leave them hanging. 
16. Which of the WIPS will most likely be finished first?
Well the one fic above never will be. I have a WIP currently in progress for a new/old fandom, but it’s going quite well and should be completed soon. It’s also not actually public yet (and likely will not be for a while).
17. Which WIP are you looking forward to finishing?
The aforementioned new/old fandom one in #16.
18. Is there a WIP that you’re considering abandoning?
I’ve got quite a few fic skeletons that probably will never be completed in all kinds of fandoms. None of them have ever been posted, though, so nothing public has ever been left unfinished.
19. Which complete fic would you consider rewriting?
I don’t know if I would completely re-write any, but there are a number from my One Piece and Young Justice fandoms that I wouldn’t mind giving a little polish to. I plan to do that one day when I eventually get off my lazy butt and transfer them to AO3 from FF.net. 
20. Which complete fic is your favourite?
This is always changing, honestly. I’m really proud of a lot of my work. Currently Premium Pandemonium is the one I’m most proud of, because it was such an investment of time an energy and planning. I’m still extremely fond of Prince of Memory though, because it practically wrote itself and it still feels powerful even years later.
21. What’s your total published word count?
On AO3: 1,442,436
On FF.net:  1,118,411
Bear in mind, there is some crossover between about 7 fics for those counts. I also have a couple assorted fics posted to tumblr only for prompt challenges that I think I still haven’t cross-posted to AO3. I should do that at some point...
Thanks for the tag @scribeofred and anyone else can feel free to play :)
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afinepricklypear · 3 years
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**Update: The works mentioned in this post have since been taken down. The “message” was removed by AO3 because it was a violation of their TOS and it seems the author chose to remove their “opinions” piece.**
Despite the ongoing world crisis, I hope everyone is doing great as the year comes to a close and prepping for a safe holiday season.
I don’t really post here a lot, but I just wanted to talk about a problem that exists in every fandom and has recently come up for me in the BSD fandom. This problem is typically referred to as: toxic behavior, however, I sort of hate that term because it’s an umbrella term that encapsulates a wide array of behaviors that is purposefully vague so as to imply everything can be toxic, which means the definition changes depending upon the person, and ends up getting thrown around to describe any behavior that a person dislikes. That said, most people can agree that the term ‘toxic behavior’ includes “shipper wars” and harassing people because of their “ship”.
Yesterday, a user on AO3 going by the penname E_C_arts posted a message titled “deer Soukoku fans” and giving it the not-innocuous summary “please we’re begging you, please stop”. Clicking through leads to a rather prime example of this particular flavor of toxic fandom behavior, guised as an attempt to defend those who were allegedly victims of this self-same behavior, also a lovely example of emotional manipulation.
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Although what’s currently posted (and what I managed to screen shot below) may not seem terrible on first glance, if not a little cringey, and can be easy to agree with (don’t bully people that write for a ship you dislike), this was not their original message and has been edited since being posted and, and only after receiving the number of comments it did and which they’re now noting as “proving their point” – a point which they erased, thus manipulating perceptions. I wish I had gotten a screenshot of the original, but if you scroll through the comments, you can find some people that quoted it.
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This person most definitely did open their “message” to Soukoku fans by literally telling them to “stop writing” for it. They claimed there was some unspecified AU (or maybe multiple unspecified AUs) that had been overwritten for, that it was overused, and not original. They went on to talk about how the abundance of soukoku content was turning off new fans to the series (don’t even know how that logics…) and bullying people from creating content for other ships, basing these irrational sentiments off some false claim that removing everything with the soukoku ship from the fandom would only leave behind a sad, inacccurate (and oddly specific) 305 posts.
Evidence of their now deleted perspective can be further seen in another post they made to AO3 a couple days before this ugly rant. Titled simply “My unpopular BSD opinions”, they didn’t manage to garner much attention and went mostly ignored because, well, it’s your opinions about the show and that’s whatever. Of course, when you click into it, the very first “opinion” shared, is that they hate Dazai x Chuuya. Okay, that’s an opinion everyone is entitled to, and that’s fine. You don’t like the popular ship, that’s…not exactly an unpopular opinion, there’s quite a number of people that don’t ship soukoku. No problem. Until, they go on to elaborate.
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Despite the title of this piece being ‘their opinions’, they state as ‘fact’ that its confirmed that this is “not a thing”, so ‘please stop shipping them it doesn’t work, it’s way too overused for it to be “funny” anymore’ (I’m a little confused about this wording, because Shipping is Serious Business™, so…not sure there are too many soukoku shippers doing it because they think it’s hilarious or whatnot, in fact, most soukoku fics are tagged ‘angst’, which we all know, angst is very ‘haha, lol’…but whatevs). They then include the same sentiment they expanded on in their Dear John to soukoku fans and subsequently deleted: “Please stop, there are too many au’s with almost the exact same plot Chuuya and Dazai being together, its really difficult to find any non-Dazai x Chuuya au’s”.
On the surface, once again, there are some “truths” to this sentiment. DaiChuu is a popular ship and there is a disproportionate amount of soukoku ship fics on the fandom comparative to other ships (soukoku comes in at a whopping 10,000+ currently, with the next popular ship Aku/Atsushi sitting at a decidedly less 2500+). It’s really not that difficult to find non-DazaixChuuya fics, if you know how to use filters on AO3, but there are going to be less to read from when you filter it down, and depending on your ship, you may find yourself in a fic desert, and I can certainly understand why someone young and lacking in rational thought processes might want to blame the popular ship for this predicament.
The problem with this logic, and it permeates every fandom, not just BSD, is that the shippers sharing and loving their ship are not to blame for your lack of ship content. You just don’t have a popular ship. If all the people who love soukoku stopped creating content for it, as this person is ‘begging’ them to do, that’s not going to increase the amount of content for your ships, because the reason that content isn’t being created is because there aren’t enough shippers for it. So, the only way this person’s logic works, is if what this person is actually saying, isn’t that they want these people to stop creating content for the BSD fandom, they just want them to jump ship, stop creating content for soukoku and start creating content for their ships.
Any creator/fan is going to have a visceral reaction to that: who the fuck are you to tell me what to create? And for free, no less!
This moves us more towards a clearer definition of what is toxic fandom behavior. In short, its telling anyone how they should interact with or interpret their favorite content. I mean, even Word of God does not have this power. That’s because every single fan in a fandom is an individual human being. They are possessed of their own autonomy, and as a creator I know, that once you put something out into the world and give it over to others, you have little control over how people consume and feel about your work. You can tell them your intention, but that’s not going to sway them to interpret it that way, and that’s…just the way it works.
Now, the elephant in the room needs to be addressed. It’s easy for me to be ‘offended’ by this person’s post and not see their complaints because I am a soukoku fan. I’m also the target of this person’s rant, and one of those people this person is attempting to emotionally manipulate into writing for other ships in the fandom for which I have no preference. But I am capable of seeing the other side of this argument.
First, because I do have other fandoms in which I am part, and for which I have a rare-pair ship. For example, I am a Gundam Wing fan and a 2x5 (Duo/WuFei) shipper. I’ve posted two 2x5 fics on fanfiction.net. While 2x5 is not the rarest of rarepairs in the Gundam Wing fandom, it is significantly eclipsed (as are almost *all* ships in the fandom) by the 1x2 (Heero/Duo) ship. Do I hate 1x2 shippers for my lack of 2x5 content? No. I just appreciate what I’ve got all the more, and I’ll create content for it when I feel compelled, and I sure the fuck won’t implore 1x2 shippers to stop writing for their fave and write more for mine because I want more 2x5 – that’s sheer entitlement, right there, pure and simple. I also ship 3xD (Trowa/Dorothy) in Gundam Wing, which *is* the rarest of rarepairs – I think there’s only, like, two stories in existence that features this pair on the entirety of the internet. I’m also a RavenxMurphy (Murven) shipper in The 100 fandom and I do not hate Bellarke fans because…those people are scary and have canceled the show’s creator for not delivering on Bellarke, and in BSD, I ship Atsushi/Lucy (yes, I said it, they’re cute af and I hope Asagiri delivers on that ship). I also low-key ship Yosano/Ranpo (sorry, Ranpo/Poe shippers, I understand the appeal, I just think him and Yosano is sooo cute, please don’t kill me…), and I also ship Yosano with Kunikida – all of which are some of the rarest in the BSD fandom.
Second, because I have seen and called out shipping harassment in the BSD fandom, so I am well aware that this kind of thing exists – as it exists literally everywhere and in every flavor. Against soukoku shippers from antis and by soukoku shippers against shippers putting Dazai or Chuuya with any other characters and by soukoku shippers against other soukoku shippers that are, uh, “doing it wrong”. None of these is appropriate. You’re not fighting fire with fire if you’re an anti-attacking the popular ship, you’re just creating a bigger fire and burning the entire fandom down. You’re not defending your ship if you are a soukoku fan attacking non-soukoku fans, you’re just punching down by attacking a less popular ship. And top/bottom arguments aren’t just toxic, they’re also deeply entrenched in fetishization of same sex pairings through a forced heteronormative lens and is, kind of, sort of, actually homophobic in its basis (yes, I said it. It’s ignorant and homophobic and trying to argue with ‘personality/physical traits’ as evidence of who serves what position in the bedroom can be emotionally and mentally damaging to members of the LGBTQ community. Claiming that Chuuya should be bottom because he’s shorter/smaller, or that Dazai has ‘bottom energy’ because he’s more flamboyant and ‘feminine’ is straight up discrimination – a shorter guy can definitely be top, and a manly man can be bottom, it’s not a behavior based on perceived gendered traits, it is just a fucking preferred sexual position, and no, you are not ‘fixing it’ by purposely using positions for these characters that eschews the stereotypes either. Trying to justify positioning by personality/physical traits at all, in any way, shape, or form is just not okay – if it’s your preference, it’s your preference, no justification needed, just recognize that it is *your* preference and arguing what’s ‘right/wrong’ positioning is just plain wrong).
But this brings us to a different issue: bad actors and blaming a whole community for a ‘few rotten apples’. I could easily lump this one person in with everyone that does not ship soukoku and deem them all toxic, aggressive, entitled, bullies attempting to harass soukoku shippers off the platform. Or I could see them for what they are, individuals with individual motivations and drives and morals that also happen to share the same shipping preferences. Is it true to say that there are no soukoku fans that engage in the behaviors described by E_C_arts? No, there are definitely those that do, as there are antis that engage in that same behavior against soukoku fans. But this person also asserts that soukoku fans turning ‘every BSD post about soukoku’ is also a toxic behavior. To which I refer you back to one. This is how they engage with and interpret the work. Don’t yuck on someone else’s yum. People want to gush about how cute they thought soukoku were in an official art, or that they felt there was some hidden (or not so hidden) interaction between them that validates their ship, or their inspired to create soukoku content based on it, so what (for the record, it irks me too when people go ‘see it’s canon and Bones totally ships it’, because it’s unlikely, given BSDs genre, that any romantic relationship will be confirmed, soukoku notwithstanding). It is not, in fact, toxic to gush over it. Let them have their fun with it, let them enjoy their ship. Now, if you go and make a comment about liking the art for other reasons and they reply to you about “…but also soukoku”, then still, that’s not toxic, that’s just them enjoying the content the way that they enjoy it, so let them enjoy it, and you opened yourself to engagement without any qualifiers for the type of engagement you were soliciting, you can’t then backtrack and go ‘but I’m not a soukoku shipper, they should’ve been able to read my mind and known that, it’s totally toxic of them to share their personal reasons for loving the show in response to my sharing my love for the show’. But if you comment about another ship, and they reply to you “…ew, gross! It’s 100% soukoku” then yes, that’s toxic. A lot of people fail to make this distinction, that they are, maybe, merely being triggered and not actually harassed, by feeling like their ship isn’t being validated because they see another ship all over the place and everyone they engage with ships it.
It’s also toxic, to take an experience with one person and hold every soukoku shipper in existence responsible for that one person’s inappropriate behavior. The truth is, that bad actors amongst soukoku fans are not unique, not to the ship and not to the fandom and not even to fandom culture in general. Every group in existence everywhere has bad actors in it that, while the group disavows their behavior, they continue to be held accountable for those individuals and judged by them. For current events, look at how the BLM movement has been blamed for bad actors (many of whom were not actually BLM activists) that took advantage of the protests and started riots and chaos. A small percentage of people were involved in these behaviors, but the entire movement, despite speaking out against rioting, continues to take the blame for it. For me, that’s the root of toxicity. We need to start holding individuals accountable and stop blaming people who have no control over those individuals, because they share a few similar beliefs or interests. That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But the shippers as a whole are not to blame for the actions of a few, and the reason that it feels that there are so many more soukoku fans that do this is because of volume, there are so many more soukoku fans. It’s basic math. If two percent of fans are these toxic kinds of shippers, then there’s going to be so many more of them in a larger population than a smaller one.
I try to call out toxic behavior, no matter if it’s my ship being lambasted or one of my fellow shippers doing the lambasting, whenever I see it, but the trouble is, I don’t typically go into fan content that isn’t for my ship and, thus, I don’t see it. The same goes for the vast majority of soukoku fans out there. We’re here for soukoku content, we’re seeking out soukoku content, and avoiding what isn’t soukoku content. But here is my offer to all of those who are outside of my ship. I like to argue. If someone is harassing you for having a non-soukoku ship, call me, let me know, I will argue with them for you. I will explain to them in no uncertain terms, and in many unpleasant ways, that they do not represent the soukoku shipping community and they are an embarrassment to us. Content for any and all ships is welcomed and encouraged within the fandom. Write, draw, contribute, be a part of the fandom and express yourself, please. If you are a soukoku shipper (or even if you’re not), and someone is harassing you about your top/bottom preference, call me, let me know, I will argue with them for you. I will explain to them why their justifications for which character should be top or bottom in a same sex pairing is grossly misrepresentative and exploitative of the LGBTQ community and rather disgusting. Do not assume that because we seem to remain silent on these types of harassment that it’s because we are in agreement with them, it is only because we haven’t seen them – why would we, we’re not going in those spaces that weren’t created for us. Ask the community for help, don’t attack the rest of us for the poor actions of a few that we were not even aware of. Let us help you in policing them, rather than assuming we don’t care. We are just too busy staying in our lanes, but if you need us, we are here. Majority of us want a clean, friendly, welcoming community for creators of all types as much as you do.
All of this aside, there are spaces and places for these debates and AO3 is not it. Posting this kind of message is actually a violation of AO3 TOS, constituting as harassment, which is defined on the AO3 TOS as “…any behavior that produces a generally hostile environment for its target…”( https://archiveofourown.org/tos#IV.G.). This general behavior also falls into the realm of another kind of toxic fandom behavior: hijacking a platform/tag for your own purposes that is a direct contradiction to its express usage (otherwise, known as trolling). AO3 is for posting fan-made content that contributes to a deeper understanding and expansion upon the original work. Using AO3 to attack people who are using AO3 for exactly what it is designed to be used for is an abuse of the platform. It’s not okay and invites similar content that will ultimately interfere with the original purpose of the platform. AO3 is for fan content, not for your own personal rants about other people in the community, please keep it that way
I do also want to note, that this person choosing to edit their post after receiving the justified ire from fans (notably soukoku and non-soukoku fans alike upset by the audacity of this person, who, as far as can be told, has never themselves contributed fanfiction to the community, to tell people what they can and cannot write) for their original comments, is a form of manipulative abuse called ‘gaslighting’. They are now claiming to be a victim that “never said to stop writing”, despite that having been the literal words they used in the opening of their original post. They are now pointing at these comments as “proof” of their point that soukoku fans are aggressive bullies that attack without cause when there was definitely cause from the original comments. This person clearly has bigger issues than just lacking shipper content for their personal preferences on the BSD fandom.
To all of those who are afraid to share content for your ship because you think you’ll be harassed, as evidenced by this person’s claims, that is simply not true. While there might be one or two people that say something, we all get them no matter if you have a popular ship or a rarepair ship, haters are gonna hate – I’ve gotten my share of hateful comments towards my ships too, but there are many more people that share your ship and are interested in your content, in fact, some of them are starved for it. While having a rarepair might mean you’ll garner less interactions with your content, you have a better opportunity to form a deeper bond with the people that do interact, and they may be more appreciative, because what you’re delivering to them is so much harder to come by. The existence of one ship does not affect your ship’s popularity, and if it simply went away, that doesn’t mean that your ship would receive more attention – in fact, it might mean the show itself would receive less attention.
Create and let others create and use platforms for their appropriate purposes, and most importantly, when it comes to addressing toxic behavior in a fandom, look to yourself first. Are you placing the blame where it belongs? Are you addressing the root cause of the problem or swinging blindly and attacking innocent bystanders in the process? Will what you say actually help the problem? Or will it contribute to the issue, and maybe even create an issue that didn’t exist before?
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For the give me a character and I will answer: any of the Winchesters - you got me into rewatching spn and I just got past the episode where they meet the young version of their parents and I'm still mentally stuck on the scene where young John just hates on his future self.
I'll do all three of them lmao (AFAIC Mary is a Campbell and Adam a Milligan. Let them be free of that cursed name lmfao)
SAM WINCHESTER
Why I like them: I think he’s a very dynamic characters, with a lot of tragically untapped potential. And I love how often he empathises with non-humans.
Why I don’t: well, he can be an asshole sometimes xD. And an enabler. And liking him can get exhausting, in this show.
Favorite episode (scene if movie): kind of hard to pick with a lead character xDD. The first one that came to my mind was actually the last of Soulless Sam’s episodes, when he’s trying to stop Dean from forcing his soul on him. It was... something lol.
Favorite season/movie: this one is difficult because it’s all a mixed bag lmao. I have s9 nostalgia for him standing up for himself, though.
Favorite line: because I’m now thinking of Soulless Sam... this exchange was EVERYTHING
Sam: "Yeah. Okay, look. That brings up a question. So, say you got a soul and you're on a case, and your brother gets abducted by aliens—"
Dean: "You do everything to get him back."
Sam: "Right, you do, but, what about when there are no more leads for the night? I mean, are you supposed to just sit there in the dark and suffer, even when there's nothing that can be done?"
Dean: "Yes!"
Sam: "What?"
Dean: "Yes. You sit in the dark and you feel the loss."
Sam: "Absolutely. But couldn't I just do all that and have sex with the hippie chick?"
Dean: "No!"
Sam: "It would be in the dark."
Favorite outfit: I’m gonna be honest, I don’t pay much attention because the wardrobe department for male characters in this show can get so... boring lol. With few exceptions. I’m picking this soft look (while he’s talking to Rowena) because it’s the first I saw that I liked in gif search lol. It’s bettter than all that plaid.
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OTP: Samruby, forever and ever.
Brotp: my favourite platonic relationship for him is Jack. They pull at my heartsrings.
Head Canon: he still has psychic powers, he’s just almost subconciously sublimated them for his own sake.
Unpopular opinion: I think Dean is terrible for him. Like on abstract, I get what those post about how it’s important that the show certers a platonic relationship are getting at, but... Dean is still Sam’s abuser and I hate when it goes unacknowledged.
A wish: well, I would’ve loved explicit canon Samwena.
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: I find what I’ve heard about his ending depressing enough thanks xD
5 words to best describe them: empathetic, stubborn, hurting, hypercompetent, intuitive.
My nickname for them: n/a, but The Boy King had a nice ring to it lol.
DEAN WINCHESTER
Why I like them: well, he has absolutely amazing moments and unusual traits I value in a lead character.
Why I don’t: he’s a terrible person, a raging misogynist, and a very annoying case of protagonist-centric morality lmao.
Favorite episode (scene if movie): 5x04 “The End” is a great episode for him.
Favorite season/movie: s10 for how terrible he is in it (the demon arc!! He was such a loser and such an ass lmfao), and s5 for a less terrible option lol. I enjoyed his arc in both in opposing ways.
Favorite line: his rant in 3x10 about how he didn’t deserve what John put him through nor going to Hell? Lives in my mind rent-free.
Favorite outfit: well, in terms of guys he gets better looks than the rest lbr xD. I personally miss the s1 times when they put him in bracelets/Rings/necklace etc. (this is the best I could find in the stupid search function).
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OTP: Dean/extensive therapy, forever and ever. Yes, I have complicated feelings on Deanbela and (pre-Dabb era) Destiel, but I’d never call them otps cause... just, no. Also there’s Dean/endverse!Dean. Selfcest is where it’s at xD
Brotp: frankly, it’s still extensive therapy. He’s a terrible friend lmao.
Head Canon: having such a... definite ending to look forward to makes this question kind of a bummer xD. I’ll go with my usual “I’m convinced Alastair brought Bela’s soul for him to torture in Hell, probably multiple times -because I think he’d refused at first”.
Unpopular opinion: I think this entire post is an unpopular opinion about Dean lol. I think the worst is that I’m a bit in ~no man’s land with him, because I might disagree with his stans’ reading of him... but there’s no love losts between me and his most vicious antis, trust me xD
A wish: n/a.
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: n/a.
5 words to best describe them: charming, small-minded, controlling, prideful, clever.
My nickname for them: I have a tag solely for him calling him “my Schrödinger fave”, sooo.
JOHN WINCHESTER
Why I like them: he’s... competent. And a very important part of the narrative and the family themes in the show.
Why I don’t: *points at entire personality and behavior*
Favorite episode (scene if movie): 2x01. He had intense moments in there.
Favorite season/movie: well, he’s a key part of my enjoyment in s1.
Favorite line: that one you mention where young!John unknowingly insults his own parenting style lmao.
Favorite outfit: young!John was Dick Grayson-style pretty lbr.
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OTP: n/a.
Brotp: n/a.
Head Canon: n/a.
Unpopular opinion: Dean is a lot more similar to him than fandom would like (see: Jack).
A wish: that he and Mary weren’t implied endgame in Heaven ffs. I hate that ship. THEY WERE CUPID-ROOFIED FFS.
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: well, that ship sailed *points above*
5 words to best describe them: bullheaded, rigid, determined, principled (not necessary a good thing xD), abrasive.
My nickname for them: n/a.
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bwaldorf · 3 years
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11 questions about tbz! 🧊
tagged by: @newgf​ thank you, cat! 🤍
tagging: (yes this is an excuse to tag all the deobis i follow that i remember & there’s no pressure to do this if you’re tagged here!) @milfjisoo​ @ihatetbz​ @hwallsgrl​ @cafehwas​ @tittiez​ @christmassy​ @leftandright​ @gowone​ @babieyangs​ @jjonghyunsolostan​ @mooshum​ @playsobad​ @twerp​ @simonsayes​ @baebe​ @haol​ @kaheisgf​ @curryaboo​ 
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name/nickname
ramasha (rum-sha) & i don’t have a widespread nickname bc my name is literally incompatible with it unfortunately
country/state
california, usa
which member is closest in age to you?
jacob! he’s literally just one day younger than me :D (and no i won’t ever shut up about being that close in age with him)
who did you first notice and why?
sangyeon in the gen z teaser ... SHEESH 🥴 do i even need to say why? he was dummy fine in it & i still don’t have the mental capacity to process what happened there
favourite laughter?
all of them! but if i had to choose i’d say eric & hyunjae’s bc theirs is irritating in the best way <3 also shoutout to chanhee’s bc of how consistent and recognizable it is
if you can only meet 3 members, who would it be?
none of them ❤️ (i literally have zero confidence, zero charisma, zero everything ...) but i guess eric, jacob and kevin! ik everyone’s gonna say them but i think it’d be easiest with them and eric especially bc of how outgoing he is
first the boyz song you ever heard?
giddy up! heard it in a youtube compilation i believe and was really into it. giddy up and no air were the first two tbz songs i was SUPER obsessed with back in like 2018 but i didn’t know a single thing about the group
(1) unpopular the boyz opinion?
idk if it’s unpopular but their early discography isnt bad. people hate on it a lot but there’s a lot of hits there! 
which member is the most similar to you?
honestly idrk ... but personally i think a mix of jacob/chanhee/hyunjae. im a gemini so that’s a lot of personalities to account for
most underrated the boyz song?
there’s a lot ... but to name more than a few: lucid dream, 4ever (one of my faves ever by them), get it, got it, going high, tattoo (not underrated really but i wanted to include it bc it’s c*ck music), stupid sorry, shine shine, shake you down, wings, & spring snow
give us a good picture of your bias
i have like 4 main biases in tbz but im using this as an opportunity to post THESE pics for the millionth time bc i’ll never be free & they make me feel unhinged
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