#sparxshipping

[cliffhangerqueen]

When I say I love the enemies to lovers' trope, it's more than that. It's the more masculine figure of the relationship pinning for the feminine counterpart, opposite calling to opposite (ying-yang), the touches committed against the characters will that leaves them both in anguish and wanting more, ARRANGED MARRIAGES THAT THEY HEAL EACH OTHER THROUGH, realizing they only actually love each other when they're faced with an experience where they'll be ripped of one another, and one character's love language is destroying absolutely anything that threatens their counterpart

That.

That is what I mean when I say I love enemies to lovers.

#oddly specific #but so true #because yum #zutara #sparxshipping #bloom and valtor #hades and persephone #darklina #feysand #kate x anthony #reylo #enemies to lovers #bonenzo #percabeth #delena #klayley #catherine x peter #nessian #mare x maven #warner x juliette #jude x cardan

[48glowsquids]

So what if I made it angsty

(if it looks half assed it's because it is and i refuse to work on it any longer)

#my art #illustration #sketchbook #sketch #watercolors #winx #winx club #winx bloom #winx valtor #winx club bloom #winx club valtor #sparxshipping

[rist-ix]

Tbhtbh anniversary!!! 🎉✨

It’s today! I swear! Don’t look it up!

Ignore the specks of light that are displaced at the end, I went through a very weird Callipeg-to-ClipStudio pipeline with this cause my app of choice doesn’t offer me multiply or light layers. Also, I wanted to add the shot with the wrist kiss, but just. COULD NOT pull it off. Do you know what’s worse than drawing hands???Animating them.

#rist animates #sparxshipping #winx valtor #winx bloom #bloom x valtor #fic: to be hunted to be haunted

[mzsvelenaya]

Winx Fanart time !

Initially, I wanted to do their final confrontation instead of their past. But it wasn't enough dramatic

Keep reading to see the art upside down

#svelenayart #winx #winx club #digital art #winx bloom #winx bloom fanart #winx valtor #bloom x valtor #valtor #valtor x bloom #sparxshipping #winx sparxshipping #fanart #avalon #ancestral witches #lord darkar #great dragon #dark bloom #two sided illustration

[rairolin]

The hardship of being a woman who'd sign all the contracts with the dark forces, watching your favourite characters NEVER choose the dark side.. Joking joking.. Unless. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

#hey demons it's me your girl #risobox #with a new name #eheheheheheheehehe #my art #rairolin art #winx #blootor #sparxshipping #my comfort zone HA

[lady-shadow-and-darkness]

"they HATE each other!" "they're not good for each other!" "They're toxic!"

Are you guys allergic to dubious consent and dead dove? Moral ambiguity perhaps? Nuance?

#if you are good for you now block it and move. #I'm not interested in arguing. #miscellaneous #I just. #Some of these ships aren't even toxic at all people just don't have media comprehension and make it my problem. #some ARE toxic but who cares? it's Fictional and interesting. I'm not advocating for it in real life? #soukoku #catradora #caitvi #carmillaura #sparxshipping #kavetham

[bloomvalyria]

to be hunted, to be haunted

“It’s over,” he tells her gently. Well aware that this hurts her.

But it is pain of his doing, and he relishes that almost as much as he will relish her pleasure.

Bloom stumbles back, her breath coming in frightened little gasps as she surveys the destruction he wrought in less than an hour. Neither of them had known he was capable of this, but he was. For her.

He tells her as much. And, as expected, it ignites her shock into searing, screaming fury.

Golden magic saturates her skin with flickering flames, bursts from every pore until she is haloed in it, in the Flame that connects them both. Blue eyes burning with vengeance, fixed to his. Blind to the entire world but him.

“Yes,” he laughs, exhilarated. The hunger for a fight, for her, thrumming in every nerve as he raises his hands, inviting, welcoming. “Come to me.”

… technically the excerpt is from to know, to want, but you know what, y’all know what it’s from.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @rist-ix!!!

I genuinely hope you enjoy. This has been a labor of love since December, and blood, sweat, and tears can’t begin to describe what all went into this. But, I hope it was all worth it!

Now, I shall finally rest … and maybe start working on my own fics. Maybe.

#sparxshipping #bloomxbaltor #bloomxvaltor #baltorxbloom #valtorxbloom #tbhtbh

[supremevaltor]

he opens up my door, and I get into his car and he says, you look beautiful tonight, and I feel perfectly fine………… //// BUT I MISS SCREAMING FIGHT AND KISSING IN THE RAIN IT’S 2 AM AND I’M CURSING YOUR NAME

#sparxshipping #taylor swift #bloom #bloom x valtor #winx club bloom

[heartofkandrakarz]

Concept of Queen Bloom and Prince consort Valtor— winx club:requiem

#mine #my art #winx #winx club: requiem #sparxshiping #sparxshipping #winx bloom #winx valtor #winx baltor #bloom x valtor #valtor x bloom #winx club

[sunandmoonfairy]

A little late to the trend lmao but better late than never!

✨ sparxshipping ✨

#bloom winx #winx club bloom #winx valtor #bloom x valtor #sparxshipping #winx bloom #winx club fanart #winx club #bloom fanart #enchantix #valtor #bloom #what if bloom helped valtor #and both got caught lmao

[winxwannabe]

i missed every S3 watchparty rist hosted because my work is a hellscape, so this is my apology. insp.

#idk if i should tag this sparxshipping because its really not but kind of is? #eh ill do it to be safe #sparxshipping #if it reaches beyond there I'll take it

[cliffhangerqueen]

When your innocent, wonderful, cinnamon roll grandmother takes a peek at your phone and comments on how academically inclined you are to be reading in the summer, except it's an E-rated, 230K word, enemies to lovers, slow burn fanfic with so much smut even the devil himself would gasp in disgrace at the mere look of your internet history—

#it could have been worse #all im gonna say #im going to hell #yayayay #feysand #zutara #catherine x peter #nessian #acotar #atla #gods of olympus #fanfic #sparxshipping #specially #bloom and valtor #andddd #zuko x katara #ao3 im looking at you #archive of our own

[48glowsquids]

What if I offered some out of context ängst in these trying times

#my art #illustration #sketchbook #sketch #winx #winx club #winx valtor #winx bloom #winx club valtor #winx club bloom #bloom winx #valtor winx #sparxshipping #blootor

[liza-mb-n2]

When I was smoll, I never noticed how toxic was Sky, actually. He never told Bloom that he had someone who he needed to marry. I mean, isn't that a good reason for me to ship Bloom with Valtor now? (I need no reason for that anyway ^°^)

#winx bloom #winx club #winx #bloom #winx club bloom #enchantix #winx enchantix #winx redesign #sparxshipping #art

[rist-ix]

The sparxshipping teasing from Iginio got me wondering.... if we ever did get canon sparxshipping explored, whether in a reboot or new adaptation, how would you like it for it to be done?

I'm gonna try to answer both of these in one post cause they overlap a little, but first of all thank you!

Buckle up fellas I'm bringing discourse.

This is gonna be a bit of an unpopular opinion I think, and it’s that I don’t want sparxshipping to be canon at all.

Feel free to get the pitchforks, but until then imma talk. I have villainships that I think not only add something to the overall plot, they kind of define it too. Reylo for examples, with its themes of redemption, masks and compassion, or Darklina and how important their relationship is to the war and Grisha oppression, or Lotor and Allura with its symbolism of breaking the cycle of abuse, making peace, reclaiming a heritage thought lost and so on.

To put it very briskly: an established Sparxshipping relationship adds nothing to the plot. It would have to be a plot of its own, and while there are tons of fascinating plot threads you could weave back into Domino, Bloom's family and the war before the Fall, it is simply, plainly, and rightfully so not the story Winx Club is telling.

Winx Club, at its core, is about the girls and their friendship. That is the show I love, and that is the show I am invested in. Fanfiction is a separate thing, I’ll get into that later. But canon, commercially produced and globally aired Winx Club is what we are talking about now. And the one defining truth of Winx Club is that it’s about the Winx. Their boyfriends are the side note, the Kens to their Barbies, to cement them as the cool popular teenagers younger kids are supposed to see them as. If Bloom and Valtor had a lasting serious relationship, Valtor would inevitably have to be shoved into that category as well, and that would ruin the entire appeal of him.

To boil it down even more: if sparxshipping were canon, either Winx Club would have to shift away from its intrinsic premise and formula, or Valtor would have to be diminished beyond recognition. So my longstanding opinion has always been: don’t make sparxshipping canon. Just don’t.

What I, personally, would do if I were ever to gain access to the mythical and likely overcrowded writing room at Rainbow SpA, is this:

Tease the fuck out of it.

Lean into their fucked up little hate-obsession. Every time they share the screen they have to be radiating unresolved sexual tension. Their chemistry has to be so off-the-charts it sparks a million fanfics before the season even ends. If there aren’t so many crappy amv's set to angsty Taylor swift songs it brings down the YouTube servers by midnight you have failed. Because canon is bound to certain limits, but fanfiction is NOT. The goal of any show should be to create something that will awaken an inescapable need to build on it, to continue where it left off, or to wonder but-what-if? To make people text incoherent keysmashes to their fandom buddies with shaky hands in the middle of the night and be unable to sleep until they’ve confirmed their buddy has seen it too.

I would want to see Bloom go fully I-have-lost-sight-of-everything-but-revenge until her friends manage to pull her back, I would want them to fight so vehemently the structures around them collapse and they don’t even notice. They should be in situations where they are UNDENIABLY going to die if they fight on and they still do it, they literally CANNOT stop, they don’t care to. To the point that everyone around them is seriously concerned and talking about their terrifying obsession with each other, more or less out in the open. And after a season full of epic fight scenes, high stake conflicts and frankly obscene tension between them, I would want Bloom to kill him.

Straight up.

Give her that moment of calm self assurance, at peace and perfectly in control, while Valtor tries to gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss his way out of this, contrasting the way her support network and genuine, unconditional friendships strengthen her while Valtor, who is always sabotaging everyone around him, is forced to confront his own powerlessness in the face of the power that created him. His manipulation attempts have nothing to latch on to. They have one last exchange where Valtor is visibly furious at her denial of him / his own failure — to really drive home that this is Bloom's triumph — but the last words they exchange are cordial. Maybe a comment at her growth, or a warning about his mothers, or another way to foreshadow future threats — if he couldn’t defeat her, no one should. He ends on a high note, but he does end, and it’s at Bloom's hands. She retakes the corrupted spark into the Flame she is guarding, and that is that.

And then, and this is important. He fucking haunts her for the entire next story arc. The next season, the next two seasons maybe, because she has learned a fuck ton of things from him and it is really, really difficult to move on knowing everything she does, knowing everything he implied or hinted at, or simply knowing so many really, really cruel ways to get her way now, which isn’t who she wants to be, but it would be easy, quick and effective for the greater good, right?

Boom, character conflict for the next season established, lots of potential for future flashbacks or visions, Valtor stays on his high horse of forever-the-juiciest-fucking-villain-of-the-franchise and the story can move on.

The End

Cue three decades of mind-blowing fanfiction. We all say Thank you Rainbow and cry ourselves to sleep thinking about what could have been.

#sparxshipping #asks #the ugly truth is that a perfect piece of media that gives everyone what they want is not a piece of media that inspires a lot of fan works #fandom to me is so much more fun there is that gap. that whole of teased-but-unexplored potential #with enough canon material to sustain it and go of #but even more questions and what ifs and theories and fuck it I’ll do it myself #you feel me?

[black-rose-writings]

Yeah, enemies to lovers is cool and all, but have yall tried "enemies with benefits"?

#sparxshipping #yes I'm talking about sparked which I should probably finish reading at some point #darklina #enemies with benefits #they tried to kill each other but then they kiss #you fool #they don't have to stop trying to kill each other first #is it healthy? #no #it is sexy though