#ships slate

[ltwilliammowett]

Clean Slate

"Let's clean our slates and make a fresh start"

A term that I think fits today at new year quite well. But where does this term come from?

In days of sail the courses and distances made good during each watch were temporarily recorded on a slate.

Slate decorated with the Clipper "City of Mobile" owened by Captain William Spafford Brown (b.1830 ?-) , 19th century (x)

After transferring the information into the ship's log, the slate was wiped clean prior to the next watch. Colloquial use of this expression ashore means to forget past events and start from "scratch".

#naval history #naval term #clean slate #ships slate #logbook #age of sail

[sampegger]

certain deangirls just frustrate me so bad. like. the ones who insist with their entire chest that dean loves sam more than sam loves him. even just talking early seasons. to see sam leaving for stanford as a betrayal to dean and proof that he loves him less is so. him leaving for college wasn't about dean. it was about wanting something better for himself than what hunting had to offer. him being able to want something more for himself than what he had with dean and john is not a betrayal. to claim that sams ability to endure misery is directly correlated with how much he loves someone is cruel and a terrible perspective to have on any relationship.

and in season 4, to claim that he chose a demon over his own brother while in the midst of having an active addiction problem, and to take that and make it about his loyalty to DEAN is so. that is so biased and evil. you should not see sams violation of his own autonomy as a betrayal to dean. i know the show likes to think they do in the later seasons but the choices sam makes do not all have to center around dean, and that still doesn't mean he loves him any less! viewing it through that type of lens will certainly make it look like he does, but that is objectively the wrong way to interpret any of sams arcs.

when it comes to season 8 i'll say a lot of the same stuff i said about sam leaving for stanford in the first place. while yes i do think him not looking for dean was slightly out of character, it is still unbelievably cruel to think of sams ability to endure pain and claim it marks the level of which he loves someone. especially when he takes on the trials this season, and the entire narrative thrown on sam is his newfound notion that pain purges sin. to have that level of misery thrown in your face (these trials are purifying me) and still insist that if sam is actively fighting against something that is making him miserable (staying in hunting) it's proof he never loved dean that much anyways is awful!!! and that whole "non-agreement" line in which bobby says that he and dean promising not to look for each other was just something that was said and it should've been obvious he was meant to look for dean. don't even get me started.

season 9 is the last season that i think people use as evidence for this. sams claim that he "wouldn't do the same thing for dean." and really. i guess i don't expect dean letting gadreel possess sam to be seen in any other light at this point. sam said he wouldn't have done the same thing for dean because he literally wouldn't have!!! there is nothing that can properly convey the absolute level of violation that that was, especially when sams entire storyline is about his struggle for autonomy. it was a selfish decision on deans end, as is most of the way that he loves sam. it is just so frustrating to see this arcs that revolve specifically around sam turned into evidence of how much he does or doesn't love dean, because that is literally the opposite of what they're about.

i could move onto later seasons as well and talk about how dean is outwardly abusive in them, but that would just be dean slander and that's not what i'm trying to do. the entire point of this post is that tying all of sams decisions to how much he loves dean is wrong and you fundamentally miss the entire point of sam as a character if you view the story through that lens.

sam's ability to endure misery is not directly correlated with his ability to love.

#sam winchester #spn #supernatural #dean critical #i don't even hate dean #i love his inability to break the cycle but i don't think some dean girls even like that about him #i hate when he gets boiled down to a blank slate stand in for whatever ship purpose he has to fill #but whatever #wrote this at 11 am right before leaving for work #i love sam winchester so much #and supernatural is just. better. when you see sam as his own character #yeah

[skitskatdacat63]

Cannot stop thinking about how Fernando was the first one to hug Seb after Monza 2008:

#two men who are not afraid to hug with both arms sjfklfl #but seriously fernando especially is always going full in on hugs(rather than the typical one handed) and i respect it #BUT GODDDDDD THAT HE WAS THE FIRST!!!!!! LITERALLY MURDERED ME #ive literally watched this race before and i didnt even notice #i think i wanted to see if there were pics of them from before 2009 and came across this and was so OH????? #fun fact if you look at my gallery from during the past gp + #its literally a mix of sad reaction pics and vettonso pics. what singapore does to a man. :') #but god i feel so abnormal about this hug. its just veru sweet to me okay!!! #vettonso is fun bcs theres not as much content so every little bit is very precious and important to me <3 #likeeeeee how close they hug each other and the way theyre still close when they pull back to look at each other!!! #i wonder what theyd be like if they hadnt been rivals. but tbh on the other hand their animosity is why I like them ! #but ofc very sweet to see them when the slate was blank bcs then im like hmmm how long until 'fuck you my boy' happens #well! you guys know theyre my brainrot nowadays :D #watching 2010 will be fun bcs its literally primetime for all my ships #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #fernando alonso #vettonso #we do a little bit of f1 #2008 italian gp

[findafight]

Do you like Robin as a character or is she just a quirky lesbian to you.

#robin buckley #stranger things #hmm some of yall.... dont consider robins depth as a smart girl who has weird friendships and inserts herself into shenanigans bv shes bore #shes just a blank slate of a lesbian or something for y'all to use in shipping or whatever idk its annoying to see :( #instead of yknow the brilliant and loyal and rambling and tangent taking teenager with a weirdly close relationship with her bff #and the middleschooler/freshmen she may or may not have survived a traumatic incident with #finda's rambles #not to mention using her as some like. justification for queer male characters instead of her just existing for her own merit #fandom wank #because i suppose this is huh

[atomicwrongs]

Tried this meme but I think they got distracted

#rook art #psychonauts #outer wilds #hollis forsythe #solanum outer wilds #my beautiful wife and goat daughter <3 #literally started a great discussion with chie over putting hollis in different video games. she would've solved outerwilds in 3 loops tops #with one loop reserved for kicking slate's ass for complaining about having to put safety harnesses in the ships

[askmovieslate]

I have to say, I sure wasn't expecting the ocean to be so dang bright, even when in the depths of it.

Movie's really good, tho. There's no denying that, even when you have your grabby girlfriend snuggling you for attention in the middle of an emotional scene.

But, what else can I say, it's a classic for a reason. This movie is 20 years old now, can you believe that?

#ask movie slate #movie slate #pony #mlp oc #ask blog #ask pony blog #web comic #Princess Skystar #Seapony #Shipping #Hugging

[1tsjusty0u]

zelda is done. so dirty sometimes

#like. either A her things are attributed to link (ive seen a comic where rhoam scolding zelda for her failures was made to be a comic about #link and like. he wasnt even talking to him!!!!!!!!! theres other ways you can show that and other ways that include rhoam considering he w #as on the great plateau but They Didnt??? and also silent princesses and such but thats a ship thing i think? #or B they blame her for things that literally were not her fault and she couldnt do anything about #(seen someone in a theory video blame zelda for everyone dying because ‘link using the shekiah slate would open the shrines. is she stupid’ #paraphrasing but that was the gist. shrines dont even work that way theyre just Wrong #or sometimes shes made out to be stupid in general #like listen. im not a zelda character fan. i dont love her and i dont hate her. but Come On #you dont have to be obsessed with her or even focus on her in what you make just . Respect her i guess #it feels weird to say because shes a character. however i dont know how else to say it

[redluminous]

Happy Valentine's Day

#viddy games #Outer Wilds #Feldspar Outer Wilds #Slate Outer Wilds #Feldslate #Slatespar #Fanart #Ship art #My art

[lillywhitefield]

I do not think I can express how deeply I do not care about Debling or his interactions with Pen

#I'm about to write a fic where he's a serial killer #people keep shipping him with pen over colin and i just #we know basically nothing about him #i do not care if hes a nice guy #i do not care if he flirts with pen #i am here for pen and colin AND THAT'S IT #i do not want another love triangle and if i have to deal with one for 2 episodes so be it #but I cannot fucking deal with people who are like #oooooo colin fucked up so bad i'm gonna ship pen with this random blank slate of a blond man #absolutely not #and if people think pen needs male validation via flirting to gain more confidence/self esteem? #also fuck that

[thsc-confessions]

"Confession, I enjoy rare pairing that people ship! My favourite art requests are rare pairs where I don’t even know who the characters are so I get to learn about them! I also get to explore how the paring would work! It’s quite nice and designing the characters into my style is fun. I also enjoy the crack ships, the ones where you question “why and how” but also start questioning the universe on “why do they work so well??” I want more fun ships and have gotten a big bored of the popular ships."

"Note nothing wrong about them I love the popular ships and ship them myself lots. I just enjoy new and fresh ships that keep things interesting. I can only do so many Henry centric ship prompts before I decide to toss him around like a rag doll… actually didn’t I already do that? (:"

From your,

Friendly Neighbourhood Eldritch Horror <3

submitted by @howlerlight

#SEE YOU GET ITTT #I notice a lot of ppl (even in this fandom) tend to not give crackships and rarepairs a chance #bcz they have limited interactions and all that #but but hear me out #what if that's the fun of it? #think about it most of the characters in henry stickmin (other than the main ones obvs) don't have much to go off of other than their bios #making them essentially blank slates #which makes them fun to play around with including when it comes to shipping! #also all of those ships in the pictures are just ones I randomly thought of while thinking of rarepairs to put in this confession pfft #thsc #mod dave #thsc confession #thsc confessions #I wonder if I should tag the charas in the picture #mmmm sure most of them are pretty unpopular charas #henry stickmin #amelia “turtle” esteban #amelia esteban #gnewt stoneheel #karl pinkerton #thsc earrings #thsc the witch #thsc the leprechaun #antonidas sparta #@/howlerlight

[dingdongrumba]

re: KamuKoma vs KomaHina, I feel like that poll needs a third option because I agree with you that they are not the same but I disagree that they are different ships.

You mention that the dynamics are different but an important thing to note is that even within just KomaHina there are a lot of different dynamics? Ch 4 KomaHina is not the same as Ch 1 KomaHina is not the same as Ultimate Talent Development Plan AU KomaHina is not the same as Ch 3 KomaHina is not the same as post-canon KomaHina. KamuKoma imo is just another specific facet to this which is usually like... 'Despair KomaHina'.

Izuru is very open to interpretation and his relationship with Nagito is completely fanmade as they only interact twice in canon. Therefore it's possible to view them as different ships or not. My interpretation of Izuru is very based around how I see Hajime (which is also left somewhat open as Hajime is not as robustly developed as more intentionally complex characters like Nagito and Mikan), so that's how I feel. Idk.

Hmm, I don't disagree with your anon. It's true that komahina has different dynamics too, and many of them. But for me that just means it develops and grows as the characters do and different situations present themselves (which is how most relationships work anyway)

Kamukura for me is just a completely different character, I think even people that headcanon them as being one post-canon, they still make a differentiation between Hajime and Izuru. Hajime is a developed character and Izuru only has hints of a character, he's more of a plot device tbh. No offense to him, he's an interesting plot device, if a little underused in canon.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think people ship them for very different reasons. Kamukura, at least as far as I can tell, is usually depicted as lacking emotion, if he's with Komaeda, he might show more interest in him or something, but it's a big contrast with Hajime who literally never stops having emotions lmao. Well, that's how I usually see him. It's also that I think Komaeda sees Izuru and Hajime in very different lights, and they in turn see Komaeda very differently.

They have different personalities, beliefs, morals, emotions, motivations, etc. They pretty much only share a body (sometimes depending on who you ask). So yeah, they're just completely different characters for me

#there are some characterizations of kamukura that i feel are very reachy #but then again he's almost a blank slate character #so not like my opinion matters or anything #DEFINITELY different ships tho #kamuhina #kamukoma #ask

[decepti-thots]

can i ask what shipping in the minimus tag you don't like? (sorry if you'd rather not answer, ignore this if so)

sure, it's not a secret, haha! i really truly dislike minimus/megatron to the extent it's legitimately irritating to me to see it. pretty much the only reason anyone talks about minimus in fandom these days is to talk about him in relation to that ship/megatron so i gave up on regularly checking tags relating to him as a result, is all. shrug.

#it probably wouldn't be SO bad if i didn't feel like in turn most of that content treats him as a blank slate for shipping purposes #and not like. his own character. but that's a different discussion ig #anyway. nothing personal i just nOTP it haha

[gazelessmenagerie]

( -inhales- ... okay one thing I always enjoy thinking on is just how Broly could possibly have a pretty good set of survivalist + other certain skills just because growing up, that was pretty much his life when he wasn't a damn walking powerhouse. ( well i mean he WAS still a force to reckon with as a young broccoli sproutling but he wasn't in control of it... at least in my head. ) Its just things that you won't know he has/knows until the event of necessity forces him to use it. )

#|| Character Study: {Broly} #( not saying he'd know how to build a damn space ship but if one were still working and he understood the HUD language ) #( he could decently pilot it / at least get the navigation bit working. ) #( alien language dialects. understanding the basic science tech out in space. ) #( hell he can even craft some tools but they're gonna be anything he can get his hands on out of complete necessity ) #( and no he doesn't know how to track the energy of other living things hence why he has the more traditional skills for hunting ) #( just things I think way too much on bc his life before we see him is a complete blank slate ) #( i mean unless he has a scouter. he can def work that but on his own. he's just going to use what he knows and I just think its neat)

[aristobun]

how much did you love that shirt?

yes.

bestie bought me this jurassic park shirt YEARS ago and it is now very moth eaten ( although i’d consider this further along than moth eaten ) but that’s all part of the lurv i had for it.

i’m not able to throw it away, though. i can’t.

i will keep it forever.

i still wear it around the flat, lmao.

consistently flashing my partner. it’s fine.

@maggiemaystansfield

#save #theres like a whole ass side missing from it now cause it has so many holes #and some of the holes are massive #but we roll #ive never gotten rid of it and thats why i never will because bestie bought itand shipped it to me but also #because ive never found another one like it and that makes me so sad lmao #i love everything about this shirt #its like a damn blanket now at this point bc it used to be a slate grey colour but now its pale as hell #its stretched and torn and god knows what else over the years #because i wore it so much lmao

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

what some of the undertale fandom did with grillby fucking fascinates me like my god

#random thoughts #he has 2 (two) count em TWO lines #and a bunch of people were just like 'yeah lets just shove him and sans together thats fine' #which like? it's cute and he has a cool (ha!) character design but WHAT #but i do feel like it's a case of fans taking a male side character and a male main character and shoving them together #instead of engaging with a ship involving a woman #or however you phrase that idk #just like. toriel was RIGHT THERE. #what the fuck was that other ship. grillster? that was even funnier #gaster doesn't even have any canon dialogue IN GAME #they really took the two skinniest (?) men in the game and slammed em together like barbie dolls #there are so many well written women in undertale god. just any woman. #and so many canon relationships that are so engaging like jesus #alphys and undyne. bratty and catty. those two gay guards. #hell if you want two characters who don't engage with each other and are basically blank slates do burgerpants and nice cream guy #WHAT IS SO INTERESTING ABOUT THE FIRE MAN #is it the suit #ALSO WTF WAS UP WITH FUCKED UP SANSBY WEEK #i still have that tag blocked yall were being mean to sans for no reason #grillby is such a fucking nonentity he doesn't even have his own fandom wikipage #he is lumped in with the drunk bunny who. guess what. canonically flirts with sans and has more than two lines #match made in heaven i tells ya #listen im not gonna act like i dont also think grillby is hot #oh wait hold the fuck on someone's on the roof of the apartments across from me #what the fuck #i live on the second floor how tf did they get up therr

[kurixta]

Clean Slate doodles centering around volo. but its actually nice for once

#Clean Slate Au #pokemon au #Pokemon Art #pokemon black and white #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon volo #pokemon ingo #pokemon emmet #submas #art #cw scars #volo is so thin and pale like damn bitch!!!! eat something!!!! #btw this au is gonna be a little fruity but no actual ships