#what is with me and liking rarepairs. ffs

[eggedsaladnotlickbait]

no one understand them like i do <- teardrop and lollipop from bfb

#bfb #bfb teardrop #bfb lollipop #they will always be partners in my heart #also they/she teardrop is real to me #same with they/them teardrop #anyways THEY ARE REAL TO ME!!!! #what is with me and liking rarepairs. ffs #im not including gelatin because i personally dont like him #also teardrop is my favorite and he won against them. i cry every time /hj #lollidrop will always be real to me #im alone on his hill BUT I AINT BUDGING!!!!!!!

[boxofthings]

stumbled across some konig/roach fanart and now I cannot stop thinking about them

#i actually hate myself sm for getting interested in the most niche ships ffs #why are the rarepairs the only ones appealing to me :/ #i should counter this issue by amassing more rarepair ships so that their combined lack of fics will rival that of a main pairing lmao #konïg and roach would make a sweet couple im ngl #10yo me liked ghostroach & soaproach and 14 years later it was ghostsoap that got popular child me was a clown fr #ghost/roach & keegan/logan were what fueled me back then

[lost-secret-santa]

Lost Secret Santa

Hi! I thought it would be fun to do a Lost Secret Santa this year, since it seems like the community is big enough that an event like this would work!

This will be a pretty basic fandom Secret Santa gift exchange. You will be assigned a giftee that you can anonymously get to know through asks and make them a gift to be echanged around Christmastime.

Gifts can be really any kind of fandom content you like to make. Some ideas of what that could be include (but are not limited to): fanfic, fanart, edits/gifsets, fan video, a playlist, meta/analysis of a certain character/ship/episode/scene etc., a handmade item (only if the giftee is comfortable giving you an address you can send it to), poetry, icons/profile pics/banners, or themes!

So basically the plan for Lost Secret Santa is you have until November 20th to sign up, and I will be anonymously assigning you a giftee on the weekend of November 25th.

When you sign up there are spaces for you to list what characters or ships you want to receive a gift for, and what characters or ships you are okay making something for, as well as what kind of fandom content

You can list specific ships/characters or general things for either (for example: Kate Austen, Jack x Kate; or any m/m ship, any female character, any canon ship, any platonic friendship, etc.) please be specific and list any character or ship you really don't want to make something for so that I don't assign you a giftee that you won't enjoy making a gift for, however, try to give more than one answer, especially if it's a less major character or rarepair ship with a smaller fanbase.

I will share your preference for characters/ships and type of content you want to receive with only your gifter, and will not share which characters you will/won't create for with anyone.

Once you have been assigned your giftee you will have a month to send them messages on anon so that you can get to know them better and make a gift that they will like!

Gifts will ideally be posted on December 24th, 25th, or 26th, but can be posted any time up until December 31st.

Tag your gifts with #lostsecretsanta2023 so that I can reblog them

If you sign up but have to drop out at any time, I totally understand but please let me know as early as possible so that I can figure out something for your giftee so that everyone gets something.

I'm not sure how many people will be interested in doing this but I hope it will be fun

Here's the link to the form you can use to sign up

Send me an ask if you have any questions at all about how it will work

(please boost this if you plan on participating or have a lost-centric blog so that more people can see it)

tagging some lost mutuals and people who expressed interest under the cut (as always if you don't want me to tag you in things please let me know)

@obsessivedaydreamer @eponine119 @epiphytecanopy @bitchboylinus @unorthodox-oblivion @ff-12 @linusbenjamin @stripesysheaven @skatiet @ivebeendressingforrevenge @hamster-on-fire @finneganhart

#lostsecretsanta2023 #lost #lost tv #abc lost #kate austen #juliet burke #jack shephard #james ford #sayid jarrah #ben linus #john locke #claire littleton #charlie pace #sun kwon #jin kwon #shannon rutherford #boone carlyle #daniel faraday #desmone hume

[tacky-optic]

I've been cooking, folks. Grilling. Simmering. Boiling. Various other synonyms. About *JigZeni* of all things. My fixation ship just HAD to be a rarepair, didn't it?? I tried to condense pretty much all of my thoughts into one post and I might have gotten a *bit* carried away, oops. It's probably not THAT long, but still. I regret nothing.

- I imagine (in a general sense, headcanons aside, characters as base as can be) that if Lupin were to never make a move and continue with the coy "will we won't we" shit with Jigen and Zenigata, that they would get fed up to a point where they might attempt to seek solace with each other on a somewhat frequent basis.

It'd probably happen on accident at first; a chance meetup at a bar, the gang gets split up, Zeni has Jig cuffed in the back of a squad car just-another-day-of-the-week style, and one gets to talking while the other decides to humor for once. And I doubt either would be against chatting again after, and lord knows these two like their seedy bar trips, so why not let fate decide when?

- This can be to varying degrees of intimacy!! I love how all of the ships let you do that in some capacity, but JigZeni feels like one of the more flexible ones.

Whether it be as simple as complaining over drinks for a few hours or taking things a step further and heading back to some motel to "get it out of their systems" in "other" ways, ahem ahem.

Either way, they find that they enjoy the other's company and, to their abject horror, whatever weird friendship thing they've developed ends up turning into something genuine and (even worse) autonomous from Lupin.

Because what are they without him? What would they become?? They sure as hell don't know!! But hey, at least there's one other human being on this planet who GETS it.

- And I say that with relative confidence because I see Jigen and Zenigata being on the more (since a better word escapes me) *monogamous* side?? Like they put a lot of weight into a few singular relationships.

They have acquaintances, yes, but how many can they truly call a friend? How many can they trust, *beyond question*, to have their backs, to keep their secrets, to protect their lives, even?? Because trust is a big thing for these two!! Losing someone close hits them way harder than most, to a point where it's actively harmful and discourages them from pursuing anything concrete (also doesn't help that their luck with partners is absolute *shite* and things rarely ever end on a decent/ non-tragic note).

Jigen got SO lucky with Lupin. They ooze trust for each other, and the same goes for Goemon, too. And for a guy like Jigen, having not one but TWO whole-ass people he can depend on is absolutely WILD to him. They're all he needs, really. Zenigata still hasn't found something that concrete yet (on HIS side of the law, at least), and given the nature of the series and his role within it, there's an incredibly low likelihood he ever will.

But at least Jigen knows that pain. He's been there! He can relate! He can console! And Zenigata KNOWS it's legit because he's read, like, *so* many files about this guy. He's Lupin's not-that-much-better half ffs. Zenigata knows Jigen's Been Through It and the fact that Jigen even TRIES to relate despite his rough-ass persona really gets through to him in a way that no one else can.

- All of that baggage would bleed into why they're hesitant to blatantly pursue Lupin. Even though they know that Lupin CAN and WILL reciprocate (enthusiastically, even), Jigen and Zenigata, deep down, also know that he'd never be able to give "all of himself" to them like they are willing to for him.

Jigen is dissatisfied (probably even jealous) of Lupin and Fujiko's goings-on even though he knows it's a *consensual* sort of give-and-take, and you CANNOT tell me that Zenigata isn't the slightest bit jealous of Lupin's tight-knit camaraderie with his crew. "I could treat you so much better", "I wish I could have that attention all to myself" sorta vibes. Don't even get me STARTED on how the excluded party would feel about JigLup/ LuZeni, yeesh.

- Lupin loves them profoundly, no doubts there, but Lupin also loves *everyone*. Which basically turns into if they can't have all of *him*, then at least they can have all of *each other*, y'know??

Even if their friendship (or something more) lasting is impossible, at least they can pretend for a little while.

At least SOMEONE gets it, and that someone also happens to look pretty damn handsome in a fedora, too.

Plus Zenigata is Jigen's type. End of discussion.

now that you're down here in the trenches with me we can hold hands and enjoy overanalyzing hat trick together <3 <3

I DO wanna hear other people's thoughts, though! I can't help but think I'm missing SOMETHING despite writing them for so long (and there's only a handful of people out there who know I have been *writing them*, hooh boy). Hopefully I'll be able to get some of that stuff out there one of these days, but MAN am I a slow writer. Fingers crossed.

#ofc all of this would be instantly resolved if they agreed to the occasional fivesome like. once a month lmao. polygang is the easy answer #i rarely (if ever) do text/headcanon posts so lets see how this goes #anyway i am STARVED for these two interacting please give me food #lupin iii #koichi zenigata #daisuke jigen #jigzeni #*gazes longingly at tag* i'll feed you more content someday....

[fire-fira]

A list of random (hilarious as shit) bad shark movies that I might or might not have Eddie subject La'gaan to in my first DC Rarepair Week fic:

This first one is a little on the nose, but--

Devil Fish. A shark-octopus hybrid. South Florida coast. With a line up of characters that sounds like the set up for a joke following the words '-walk into a bar'. Freaking 2.7 stars. It sounds delightfully horrible.

2) Then we've got--

"Amphibious shark-like monster"-- because why not? (I freaking hope this thing has legs. If it's like one of those shark puppy drawings I'll be cry-laughing.) This one's got a 5 star rating, but considering it's from '98 I'm kind of hoping it's one of those cases of 'so bad it's actually good'.

3) This though... Dear gods... 😂

ATOMIC. SHARK. 2.7 stars. And a shark that looks like it has a freaking bomb strapped to it because why the hell not? What's more destructively nonsensical and what-the-actual-fuck than gods-damned bomb-toting sharks?

4) And because someone had to almost combine a shark with a fucking xenomorph--

Toxic Shark. 3.3 stars. Not only is the shark somehow poisonous and "infesting" the water (seriously, how tf does a single animal 'infest' anything? You kind of need a lot of them for 'infesting' to be the right term here), but it has projectile acid spit. That it can apparently fire out of the water at its prey. Because WHY NOT?

5) Of course the what-the-fuck-ery can't stop there--

--because mother-fucking Sand Sharks. 2.7 stars. If I watch this one, istg I want this to feel like it should be a side thing to the Tremors series. I want it to be so hilariously stupid and nonsensical that it feels like it should exist in the same world.

6) Considering I've mentioned this one before in some of my headcanon posts of what Eddie would expose La'gaan to, I'd be remiss if I didn't include--

Ghost Shark. 3.3 stars. Because if you want shark movie crack, this is SHARK MOVIE CRACK. (Last time I saw this one there were some moments I was laughing so hard I was damn near wheezing. The deaths are just... so hilariously stupid. I can't.)

7) Ah, but guess what--

Did you know there's a Ghost Shark 2? Because I sure as hell didn't. 2.6 stars. I'm honestly hoping-- if I do see it-- that it's just as much wtf CRACK as the first one.

8) This one... I shouldn't pick on the anatomy of this thing, but--

Dinoshark. 3.2 stars. They straight up slapped a t-rex-like head on that thing. Why does it have a t-rex head? I don't know! Doesn't matter! It's a ✨dinoshark✨! It doesn't have to make sense! (Though I do have to wonder if it has a neck, because at this angle I can't tell. lol)

9) I didn't think it was possible to get this low on this list, and yet--

Jurassic Shark, at a whopping 1.5 stars. On one hand I'm curious because of that old trope of 'It was frozen in ice, but it thawed out and is still aliiiive!!!!' and I want to see just how bad it is. On the other hand, with it being the only one on this list so far to hit 1.5 stars, I do have my concerns that it'll drop from 'so bad it's hilarious' to just straight up 'OOF, this is baaad.'

10) This one, ngl, is here just because this description is making me crack up to no end.

The Shark Hunter. 5.1 stars. "A crusty recluse-" gross, but hilarious "-on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks-" dude why? Get a fucking hobby ffs. "-gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure." Because shark movies, wanting to be the source of the shark-pocalypse (against sharks), and being crusty and reclusive just naturally goes with treasure-hunting. Yeah. (And wtf is up with that spear he's holding and that thin-ass headband? What is even the point of that thing?)

11) And then there's more 'Let's fuck with nature via fictional science because fuck if it makes sense if it looks cool enough!'

SharkMan. 3.1 stars. Ngl, I barely remember this one-- I think I may have seen it once-- but if it is what I'm remembering then it's some solid what-the-fuck-ery.

12) omg... I can't... wtf... I never knew this one existed. Send help. I am freaking cracking up even thinking about this. JFC.

SHARK EXORCIST. Because it's not enough to have a monster-movie shark with all the nonsensical what-the-fuck bullshit that's involved, but let's have fucking Satan possess a gods-damned shark. 😂😂😂😂 1.3 stars! It's apparently worse than Jurassic Shark! This one might be so bad it's worth it, I don't know. All I know is that I am mcfuckin' losing it over how hilarious this sounds.

13) Wtf.... Was the other SharkMan a sequel? Idek...

Anyway, Sharkman (without 'Man' having the initial letter capitalized), from 2001 (whereas the one higher up on this list is from 2005). 2.3 stars. I'm honestly not sure if this is the one I vaguely remember, or if it's the 2005 one, but either way 'We fucked around and found out with science that doesn't have to make sense because it looks cool!'

14) Pffft. And speaking of things that don't follow logic--

Roboshark! 3 stars! Because a shark biting an alien spacecraft will, 100% for certain, magically make said shark a cyborg-shark. Yup. That's totally how that works. Totally. (This one is absolutely up for consideration because I'm just dying over imagining poor La'gaan going, "That's not how that works! That's not how any of this works!!!")

15) a;lsdkjldsjd;lfa;ldj

Sharkenstein?! Mother-fucking Sharkenstein?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Holy shit. 2.1 stars. Because why not have the reanimated sewn-together multi-corpse of a shark put together in World War II rampaging around? OMFGGGGGGG

16) omg, now we're going freaking Nightmare On Elm Street with sharks--

Nightmare Shark. 3.6 stars. People. Being hunted. By a "supernatural shark". In their dreams. TELL ME that doesn't sound like Nightmare On Elm Street But Sharks. 'Oh don't sleep, or Sharky Krueger will get you!' I now want to see this shark and Freddy Krueger in a knife fight in an Applebee's parking lot. lol

17) Pffft. Talk about understanding the assignment.

Bad CGI Sharks. 4.6 stars. If you know it's going to be a bad shark movie, then why not deliberately make it as bad as possible by having shitty CGI sharks pop into reality from a script you were writing and just have everything go tits-up like something that'd make about as much sense as Alice's trip to Wonderland? (Ngl, it sounds like they had waaaaayyyy too much fun with this one.)

18) Oh my f- This is like they're dealing with a raccoon. A giant fucking raccoon with giant sharp and pointy teeth, and I just- omfggggg--

House Shark. 3.7 stars. An ex-cop finds out his house is occupied by a 'house shark' and needs the help of a freaking real estate agent and an exterminator. JFC. IT'S A FUCKING RACCOON. 😂

I am freaking dying. lol

Some of these won't make the cut for whichever one I decide to include mention of in my fic due to time placement, but I definitely have a better idea of some of the possibilities.

(I might throw in a poll in a reblog for the most likely possibilities to see if there are any that are really jumping out to people from this list.)

#Devilfish #La'gaan #Eddie Bloomberg #shark movies #DC Rarepair Week #my life #writing things #I am freaking dying y'all

[sneverussape]

Rarepair Tag Game

@snapesnailtape tagged me for this and imma give it a go. thank you, snail! :)

no pressure tags go out to @wellpresseddaisy, @greens-your-color, @momo-t-daye, @mmad-lover and @owlzerness, but anyone who wants to do this, pls feel free.

answers and fic recs under the cut!

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i don't have a lot of time or bandwidth to read to read fics outside of my main fandom at the moment (my evergreen trash man, sev) so i'll focus on that. if i think up any other rarepairs from other fandoms, i'll include them, but the fact of the matter is a lot of the other fandoms i'm in don't have quite as diverse a set of characters as this universe, so it's not as easy.

also general disclaimer that i read any and all pairings as long as the plot interests me, so i've probably seen this man shipped with everything at this point :)))

without further ado and in no particular order --

snilch. trust me, i wasn't sure about this pair either but, as with many others, the fic Father to the Man by Delphi absolutely floored me and convinced me of its potential. i think i read The Lad is Gone shortly after and it was just...i was sold. sold, i tell you. adjacent readings that i can recommend is one where filch is the main character but sev shows up a lot in it too: ozma's Squib series on ff net is fantastic. (also features filch accidentally almost killing sev with his newfound powers and rolling in guilt for it)

snetunia. this is just a delightful and guilty little pairing that i absolutely love. they're more alike than they are different, given their personalities and their view of the world. petunia is cynical, hateful and spiteful, and is an excellent mirror to snape and his own flaws. A Part of Yesterday is one of my fave fics for them and so is Abide in Me (Love is Not Enough). A Fish Without a Bicycle satisfied a sense of fluff and Always is a poignant little fic wherein they're all miraculously friends, which was a refreshing change.

snagrid. just rediscovered this quite recently actually because i remember there used to be a site dedicated to this pairing. Thief in the Night rekindled my love for it. there's just something about a gentle giant and an acerbic potions master with their massive size differences and the fact that hagrid really doesn't care for sev's frilled-lizard act that makes for fun reading. they also make for good friendship fics, like in It Was the Tea!

stonks. it was @chiwi-la-capybara's story, The Itch, that really hooked me into this pairing. i loooove the dynamic and potential they have, with tonks being a clumsy and fun-loving cop while sev is just...the way he is. :)) Escape is a good action-filled fic too and has them both playing the roles they're assigned to play.

toby/eileen!!! you know i had to put this in. i count them a rarepair because i'm of the what-if-toby-and-eileen-actually-did-get-along line of thinking. one of the most recent ones i've read is Over the Edge which i think captures their relationship(s) perfectly.

i've lost so many good fics over the years due to forums shutting down and links being thrown to the wind but if y'all have other recommendations for these pairings pls share! :)

#tag game #ask game #snape #hp #rarepairs

[daiourage]

(okay i accidentally deleted it yike;;; here’s take 2 of my deets!!!! And extra info about y’all’s truly—

Check back regularly! I,,, like to add stuff;)

(ｱﾞｱﾞｱﾞｱﾞｱﾞ消しちゃったぁぁぁー (இωஇ`｡) はいっ、ミーの情報を再び上げますぅ、、どうぞ〜

定期的に戻って来てね！)

18!

Hi! I go by too many things.

Dai, Ophie (Ophelia), Emil, Felix, Hyunie… (aaaand my real name)

…Take your pick! (Probably gonna add more bc I’m not quite satisfied with any of them…)

日本人だよーん (JPN ok! 中途半端だけど(泣))

They/them because I have no idea what I am right now.

Just found out I’m on the Ace spectrum!! (Demisexual)

Japan Standard Time! (Which is why I post at weird times…)

I used to be an imagines blog! Which is why you see both “dai” and “ophie” in tags (“dai” is for aggressive speech and “ophie” is for regular speech).

I refer to my brother as “Crow” and my sister as “Rosa”.

I LOVE rarepairs/crackships guys—

⤿ Here’s a list ※ (that will keep growing):

GarWOL (FF), LoveRivalShipping (PKMN), Birushin (DB), TachiKiryu (RGG), Justquill/Simollo (AA), Shez x Felix (FE), Ryoumarx (FE), Krerdly/Krispy Chicken (DR), Ushihina (HQ)

※ Here’s a list of ships that are not rarepairs/crackships in the JP fandom but are in the ENG fandom ↓ ↓

Tsukihina (HQ)

※ …And the reverse ↓ ↓

Dedashe/Ashue (FE)

(Also a multishipper so hit me up y’all—)

My AO3 is: music_compass

Composer!

Also very unrelated fact but I love sandwiches and trains—

#i talk in tags! not bc im afraid to speak on the real post but bc i tend to go on tangents;;;; #don’t feel obligated to interact with this post if you see it!! just here to be here

[silenthillmutual]

ok now I kinda wanna hear your hot takes about the patho fandom 👀

putting beneath a cut bc idk how long this is

my hot takes about patho fandom generally fall into one of two catergories: 1. stop taking literally all of your characterization and information from the hbomb video and 2. stop making artemy and daniil generic tall-short blonde-brunette seme-uke top-bottom cardboard cutouts in fic. and they kind of bleed into each other if i'm being honest.

i tend to see two kinds of characterizations of artemy and daniil that strip all nuance and three-dimensionality that made them interesting to me in the first place, and then i think fandom tends to respond to the fanonization/flanderization by doing the exact opposite. both in fic and in analysis. so i'll see a lot of posts and fic and whatnot that treat daniil like this incompetent idiot who cannot even administer flu shots properly and never has a nice thing to say or think to or about anyone, and this gets coupled with a huge amount of fic and posts where artemy is this sweet gentle herbivore (someone even said he would be a vegan which was just baffling) who is incapable of ever doing anything wrong to anyone in his life. less often i'll see woobified daniil with all his actions excused and explained away to make him into someone who is never intenionally a dick, paired with borderline abusive artemy who is a literal serial killer for fun. and also fuck anyone and everyone else in this game because no one seems to give a shit about any other character. (which isn't to say that no one's writing or interested in writing about it; it's rarer, but people in the fandom also just do not give a shit about interacting with anything else. rarepairs get little and gen fic gets nothing.)

i know everyone gets bent out of shape about 'gatekeeping' things like fandom but like i'll be honest, if you openly and proudly proclaim that you've never interacted with the narrative of pathologic on any level then i kinda don't give a shit what you have to say about it. in analysis or fic. and why should i? who would read a book review written by someone whose sole interaction with the material was a nostalgia critic review of the film adaptation? because that's kind of what it feels like.

also the way the fandom interacts with the stamatin twins is just really really odd to me. people will woobify and infantilize peter worse than i see them doing to anybody else (although murky is a runner up like ffs she is autistic not a toddler stop drawing and treating her like she's 4) and make andrey out to be a saturday morning cartoon villain. and as an andrey stamatin fan i'm kind of tired of the endless "anything and everything potentially negative about peter is andrey and andrey alone".

#squid pro quo #there's probably more these are just the two always on my mind #minotaurmutual

[chemicalbrew]

choose violence ask game 6 bc we both know where this is headed (cough all of them cough)

YEAH YEAH YEAH YIPPEE [immediately turns reblogs off]

6. which ship fans are the most annoying? [interpreting as romantic ship]

so. let's start with what we both know

Katana ZERO

As I said in DMs earlier, I think the only worthwhile KZ ship is Zero x the receptionist (preferably one-sided, but I think someone really smart could make it mutual. I certainly wouldn't be mad if it was confirmed mutual in canon, but I seriously doubt it - one-sided is way funnier, anyway.). I also kind of sort of in theory respect the hustle of people trying to write V and Snow (rarepairs... been there), but I think I could never see it that way; what we have in game of them is barely good enough for anything, which is what makes it hilarious. That said, the most annoying shit here is, as we know...

150 150 150 150 150 !!!!!!

Even their stupid ship name cracks me up. Like, I understand, you can't have a good portmanteau or anything when your ship has numbers, but half the ship is literally Zero (hehe another reason Zerocep[tionist] wins), however... the way you read it is not even conducive to a shipping read. One fifty? One hundred and fifty? Even the number doesn't want them together <3

There was a post somewhere in my KZ tag that actually puts my feelings better than I myself can, but I'll try anyway. Due to the way this game's plot\timeline is framed, all their past interaction is basically implied. They don't really get to exchange any words, no matter how awkward (compare this to the receptionist having the tiniest of character arcs, but still an arc, between the hotel and bunker stages) - Fifteen just shows up, confirms he's the real Dragon, kills the shit out of V, and leaves, and that right there is the closest we get to an interaction (surely you won't say Zero walking in on a conversation later counts?).

How the fuck can you wrangle a ship out of that?

'But muh implications' that's all they are, implications. Not a very fertile ground to build upon. And even then, what they imply is far more like camaraderie than anything, which, while a solid and even necessary (in real life, at least) foundation for a relationship, doesn't MEAN it has to be romantic!! Give me traumatized war buddies that aren't making out with each other, pleeeeeeease...

'But you're reblogging art with them together' YEAH BECAUSE THEY LOOK HANDSOME TOGETHER AND THEIR DESIGNS ARE PERFECTLY COMPLEMENTARY. THAT'S THE ONLY REASON. I'M LITERALLY OBSESSED WITH HOW WELL THEY MATCH IN THIS ASPECT. This is why they should just be fighting together and nothing else <3

Xenoblade (gonna try and be a bit more rapid-fire about the rest of this post, unless the wrathful mood strikes me again)

Shulk and Fiora do not make sense romantically at all to me. They're family, ffs. Same for Shulk and Reyn, if not doubly same. But the fans keep insisting otherwise and often. (Libra, if you're reading this, this doesn't apply to you or other friends of mine that like Shiora. You're the only ones I trust with these two, I just want no part of it myself)

Shulk and Alvis are amazing, but need to be viewed through a lens more complex than typical shipping to be fully appreciated (something I'm still somewhat guilty of and recovering from. Jesus, wider XB1 fandom can be the worst sometimes).

Shulk and Melia as a ship by itself does not offend me, but the fans that weep about how Melia never had any good shit happen to her, and say Shulk not returning her feelings makes it worse... can die in a fire :)

I don't understand how people can take Reyn and Sharla seriously together tbh... but I guess it's more acceptable than the stuff above?

Rex and Nia (on their own, without Aegis in picture) never needed to be anything more than friends. The way Nia gets over being ''''friendzoned''' (hate that word) canonically is better than anything fans have come up with regarding this matter.

Lora and Jin have barely been interpreted by anyone in the wider fandom correctly (that I know of - key word 'barely'). Just stop at this point <3

...I won't be talking about XB3 ships because I heavily dislike XB3 and haven't read anything shippy for it, not even for NoahMio.

PS. Morag and Zeke should get more attention (personally I'm still guilty of somewhat ignoring this as a ship, but if I ever replay\rewatch, I'll be sure to analyze their interactions more, especially bc they're fun no matter how you look)

misc.

I have seen people interpret Ares and Dela (Brandish series) as a romantic ship, and I'd like to see just how much their brain has rotted.

Olivier and Mueller (Trails in the Sky) are very fun as a ship! I'd just like to see people view their relationship through a more neutral lens sometimes. However, the fact that Estelle x Kevin fics exist is the real mind-bender here. HOW? It's called being playful and keeping up a front!! (Also, Estelle x Anelace is slept on the same way as Zerocep and Moragzeke <333)

Frog x Magus and Lucca x Magus (Chrono Trigger) make equally little sense, and yet seem to be popular. Ew. Not even mentioning my personal beef with Frog x Lucca. Don't.

Midna x Link and Malon x Link (Zelda series) were actually my first NOTPs, largely because of annoying fans. I see now I was in the wrong and am largely 'thog dont caaare' about it, but still, important.

Ace Attorney series... tbh its fandom is weird about ships as a whole, but I'm guilty of falling into the Blackmadhi trap, so I can't speak. Almost everything other than Blackmadhi, though, is a tough sell largely bc of fandom.

Any ship involving Stocke from Radiant Historia has to be included in here. I am by and large respectful of most popular stuff with him (especially Stocke x Rosch and the Stocke x Sonja x Rosch OT3), I just think it's more fun to have him not into any of it. Very similar situation to Zero KZ, honestly.

#zero.txt #yippeeee

[cheesybadgers]

I'm telling you now, once OHDH is finished, I'm out of here...or at least taking a nice long break 😂 I started a fucking RAREPAIR FIC for a defunct show in the height of lockdown and tbh didn't know what the hell I was doing. I'd never written a multi-chapter fic before, so I've just learnt as I've gone along.

I expected about two people to read it and I'm not even exaggerating. I certainly did not expect to get all of the wonderful comments, kudos, reblogs, followers etc. I still have a bit of a freakout whenever I think back on some of the stuff people have sent me. It's INSANE. But in a really good way ❤️

And I absolutely did not expect it to cause enough fuss for people I've never even spoken to to read it let alone be inspired by it...or to nick stuff from it?????? It's just me making up melodramatic bisexual nonsense for two characters who haven't even been on TV in years (one of which died way before it ended) for goodness sake 🤣 Go read something other than fan fic for a change ffs if you think that is the pinnacle of storytelling; you'll have your mind blown.

I can't tell you how bizarre and baffling it has been to see that I am capable of making a pretty big impact on people with my writing, but often not enough to be supported/included etc. I'm just good enough to take, take, take from. Or in their eyes, is it that I'm too good? Which is ridiculous btw if that's what it is, and says more about their extreme insecurity than anything else.

So, I really haven't known how to deal with the negative side of things. The side that has cost me 'friendships' on here (as in people just stopped talking to me/following me/sharing my work/tagging me in games when my writing improved quite a bit...oh yes I notice these things lol) or to be snubbed when all I did was be supportive of them and their creations.

I'm sorry if I've had slight meltdowns on here lol, but like...what the fuck are you supposed to do when people behave like this towards you over something so stupid? It's...beyond batshit and naïve little me wasn't expecting any of that side of things at all.

I watched a YouTube video earlier today, in fact, I'll link it here, from a YA author who used to write fan fiction. And she talks about the similarities between fandom and the publishing world...which didn't fill me with much confidence that it gets any better when it's professionals making money lol.

But in that video, the author talks about why there's so much high school behaviour amongst writers. And she says that often, creatives didn't have a good time at high school. They were bullied or made fun of for their geeky hobbies/interests (I'm in this picture and I don't like it). But in the creative sphere, your quirky interests or ideas are celebrated and people think you're cool for them. So, when they become super popular and end up in cliques online, it all just goes to their heads. And I did have a bit of an Oh moment, because that explains the obnoxious behaviour of 'Big Name Fans' so much.

I will probably delete this later, but I just had to get that out because I've stayed quiet so many times over the last few years, and all it did was give people a free pass to take the piss even more than they were already 🙃

#Nothing to see here lol #Personal #Long post

[wanderingnork]

Samson for character ask :>

favorite thing about them: by the time of his trial in DAI, he's one of very few characters who openly act against the Chantry and power structures of Thedas. lots of characters will shake their fists about it, then shrug and get back to business as usual. or they'll claim to be taking some kind of action, but ultimately it's small-scale and doesn't really go for things at the root. what Samson does isn't good, but he is definitely a disruption to a corrupt system that's extremely resistant to any form of change. it's unfortunate that, yet again, being openly anti-status-quo is a trait that is handed almost exclusively to villains, but he has that trait and I think that's pretty neat.

least favorite thing about them: the crimes against humanity! like, the guerilla warfare against civilians, feeding your troops magical drugs designed to make them walking crystal horrors, using innocent people to grow red lyrium? these are bad things! I can't overstate just how much these are bad things!!!

favorite line: I'll just put the exchange from "Paper & Steel" here.

“If you could tear this upstart Chantry out by the roots,” the stranger asked, “bring about a new Order, what price would you be willing to pay?”

“If it gave one templar a better end than mine,” Samson said, “I’d pour out my own blood for it."

brOTP: with Maddox ;.; they really do a lot for each other and it's evident that they care a Lot and always have. even if Samson acts like he's allergic to feelings.

OTP: total rarepair. Ser Barris/Samson is where it's at. here, Glitter & Crimson, there's 30,000 words of why I like them if you wanna read it.

nOTP: with Maddox. I just can't quite get with that one, the relationship doesn't feel at all romantic.

random headcanon: you will pry the belief that Samson wasn't in his right mind by the end of DAI from my cold dead hands. lyrium is known to fuck with people's heads (erasing memories, causing erratic behavior, even mimicking dementia in final stages) and red lyrium is even fucking worse. he was taking red lyrium to excess. and was also being groomed to be the vessel for what was in the Well of Sorrows, ffs. no mind control here, but...the fanatical way he acts at the Temple of Mythal versus how he comes across in letters you find earlier on (when he hasn't been taking red lyrium as long) and how he acts at his trial (when he's clearly been cut off from red lyrium entirely) is dramatically different. I truly don't think he was at full decision-making capacity. maybe he would have made the same choices if he was, but still. his agency was compromised.

unpopular opinion: the next time I see an "he's an irredeemable gross addict" take I might start a fight? the tl;dr here is that those takes Bother Me because they express some real cognitive dissonance and lack of compassion. as it's made clear throughout every game, all Templars are addicted to lyrium. full stop. all of them, even the "heroic" ones we're clearly supposed to like. Samson isn't an exception. other people with more knowledge have dug into how statements like that reveal some very distressing attitudes about mental illness and addiction, so I won't go into that here. regarding "gross," oh my god. he was houseless in a notoriously hellish and filthy city (love ya Kirkwall) and then he was a general for a guerilla army constantly on the move and no actual home base. do you really think this man has access to a shower.

as for "irredeemable?" fuck right off with that. atonement is possible. get your weird Calvinist pseudo-predestination bs away from me.

song i associate with them: "Drinking Song" by House Phone

'Cause you won't rewrite history To commemorate the likes of me And you would not believe me if I tried To tell you all the things I've seen And all the places that I've been So pour the hall another cup of wine

#nork rants #my other otp is technically with my inquisitor #but that's another story!

[huskymaine]

I'm the anon that asked u if itasasu is a rarepair. Actually, I don't think u got me but ig that's my fault cuz I thought rarepair meant "a ship that doesn't receive much attention from fans". But itasasu seems so popular, especially on tumblr. I'm a new fan, so I wanna know if the community is small or not, and if ppl who prefer the brotherly bond outnumber them(i hope so) I've seen ppl say the majority considers it questionable, is that true? Is it a controversial ship?

Hai thanks for the ask! Sorry for late reply, recently my internet connection are slow as nail -_- And I’ll answer two ask in one go, because it’s connected and even answered each other.

Is ItaSasu popular or not, I regret to admit that yes, ItaSasu is so popular. In AO3, ItaSasu has the most fanfics (last time check : 1049 works) among other Itachi ships, seconded by ShiIta a.k.a Shisui/Itachi (last time check : 1021 works). When it comes to doujin, my country blocked many doujin sites so I can’t check on them without using VPN and decreasing the already slow internet connection, but this site have 6 Itachi doujins and 3 of them are ItaSasu doujin.  Don’t get fooled by PG-12 label, it has a very explicit Itachi and Sasuke mouth-to-mouth kiss (in what logic a mouth-to-mouth kiss between blood brother is PG-12 dear site admin???????).So yeah, regarding popularity, I think ItaSasu is very undeservedly popular although I am positive that people who prefer Itachi/Sasuke on brotherly bond outnumbered those who prefer Itachi/Sasuke on romantic bond. When I search Itachi and Sasuke fanart on twitter and google, their brotherly fanarts are still the first one to appear.

However, for a long time I got the impression that the ship is popular because it’s taboo and the shipper fully knowingly bask in it. I mean, yes many people like it, but they are aware that it’s not a proper ship and I will never think that anyone will defend or justify this ship. But someone sent an ask about their relative being harassed for understandably disgusted by ItaSasu, so yeah, apparently for some people this ship is controversial and worth to be defended. Heaven knows why. Personally I believe that this ship is wrong point blank and there’s no amount of justification can change my mind. Itachi once had Sasuke on his cradle, ffs.

#naruto #anti itasasu #uchiha itachi #uchiha sasuke #when it comes to doujinshi #age gap is fetishized as hell #ah Japan #you and your preference for loli and shota #also siscon and brocon #even second most popular Kakashi doujin is KakaNaru T_T #and I unfortunately stumbled on KakaSasu doujin once #it was.... not pleasant #speaking about doujin #I am in dire crave for KakaObi doujin #anyone know where can I read them? #meta answer

[aeondeug]

Hi I saw your tags "#i do think something needs to be done with like#making it easier for rarepairs minor characters and f/f ships outside f/f dominant fandoms to find their fic" on the post about an ao3 algorithim. And I have some suggestions. have you tried the "otp:true" function? It will show only the ff tagged with only the couple you're looking for. Something else I do for rare pairings is using the function "summary:" + character's name. It will only show fics with the character name in the summary, also helps to exclude fics where the couple/character maybe tagged but they are not the main focus. Hope this helps

I've messed with that yeah and it works but like. I kind of wish I didn't have to do it to begin with and it's one area where I think ff.net's system genuinely works better. I don't need to futz about with different filter things because I can just like. Click the ship I want for ship 1 and then I just get that.

So basically I want there to be like some sort of "Main Ship" vs "Side Ship" category for tags. And I definitely want that for individual characters because gods help you if you like minor characters in a big fandom, especially one with a large cast like Heroaca. Is that realistic? Probably definitely not. But I do want more than what is currently there.

So like I guess it's less that I don't have tools to narrow things down to what I want, but more that I'm kind of irritated that I need to do more steps on a generally better website than I do on a generally less well regarded one. If that makes sense. Being primarily into f/f is already enough of a hassle with little annoyances on top of it...

Thank you for pointing it out though. As like even if I know about it maybe people following me don't know about it.

[harukapologist]

AWWW, but thats also so real of you bc god is the milgram (at least milgram twt) fandom such a dick abt the disabled charactersq, including amane/muu/mikoto/more im probably forgetting

The 0103 discourse is kinda silly to me as well, milgram twt hates it like their life DEPENDS on it (theyre also incredibly toxic to anyone who doesnt ship 0903 but thats another convo)

-awsesome 0103 anon

so sorry for the late reply awesome 0103 anon!!! I was very dead the past few days, pls forgive 🥹 ANDDD AHHHH YES, particularly haruka, kayanosys and amane (it just made my blood boil seeing people woobify John and say "oh, he's illiterate🥺" when he started breaking down during the interro in just the same way they treat Haruka for being disabled) as a fellow disabled person I'll forever do my best to fight ableists & spread actual disabled rep 🩵

also, I was literally thinking abt this just last week—that every milgram pair besides 0309 and by extension 0909 feels like a rarepair because of how immature milgramtwt people hate anyone who doesn't ship their two conventionally attractive boys together (literally 0103 isn't even that problematic even though they make it seem like the end of the world—a twt moot blocked me recently for shipping 0103 even though they like & interact with 0203 stuff regularly, and like... Haru is just a few months younger than Yuno ffs what makes 0203 okay and Good—not just with that moot but with a relatively good portion of milgramtwt—but 0103 is the end of the world???)

#ask tag #thank god i dont rlly interact with milgramtwt all that much

[shiro-neko96]

Hi.

So I just realized that I have been in various fandom for such a long time (i mean, not really, but it feels LONG). So with this post, I would like to deliver my gratitude towards all fanfic writers whose stories help sustain me throughout the years.

I am not an overly active person. In reading sites (ff net and ao3) you’ll rarely see me comment on stories (i know its not good, i try to leave at least a ❤️ when i can no longer give kudos, like, or bookmark,, don’t hate me pls). Writers often say (write?) to interact with them on various platforms, but i am an over-thinker with an overly suspicious personality; i want to interact but i will overthink all my interactions and will probably leave you on read for months and be overly guilty about it but still not gonna do anything about it.

Today i scroll through my ffnet acc, and was reminded of the thrill i felt when i first read interesting fics on that site (which later on introduced me to ao3) and I could think help but feel very nostalgic. Sadly some of the fanfic i mention is no longer available.

My first venture into the fanfiction zone is through the naruto fanfics. My highschool friend introduced me to fanfiction (and also bl in general), and i was hooked. And my first ever fanfic was ‘Hate’ by RenAfri (it’s in Indonesian, so if you can read it, go ahead). And then i was enchanted by ‘The guardian of the Moon’ by nateulm. (God i got so emotional just thinking of that story), next one is Shizuka na sonata by Paradoxical Pardigm ( i have to search google for this one because I cannot find it anymore and i did not remember the name, only the story) and shizuka na sonata was the story that introduced me to the pain of reading an incomplete story (i still love it very much and i thank you paradoxical paradigm for creating the beautiful story). After those, i browse the site for anything to devour,, and by chance stumbled upon many great stories by legends such as EmptySurface (i really love most(? I think I haven’t read all) their naruto and harry potter fics, thicker than blood is by far my favorite), and Cywsaphyre (the lives worth saving is *mmm chef’s kiss*; also wandererr). I found out i kinda like hp crossover with any fandom and fell into that rabbit hole for a while. Ridell Lee introduced me into Merlin by ‘Only A Boy’, Cosette-aimee’s a necessary gift is an absolute delight to read, brainthief’s 0800-rent-a-hero was a mind changing experience for me back then who worshipped the ground albus dumbledore walk on, seito’s basically all khr and yoi fics are like water after a long draught (a real life cinnamon roll series, we weren’t born to follow, to the beat of my own drum, if there’s a song in your heart-and consequently to the song as well), heir to the sky’s the rightful sky is what introduced me into khr, (i read the fic bfore i knew khr), fruitpastilles’ to live and breathe and live again and the summoning pact is something i didnt know i needed, metamorcy’s various fics of various fandom, ( contract, basically all khr fics because that’s what i was there for), SkyGem’s stories are wondrous (YOI retirement aus, every little thing, they call me freedom), blackkat’s rarepairs which are addicting (their stories are what made me so into madatobi, criminals do it better series, the last immortal is dead and gold series, as is the sea marvellous, backslide, basically all naruto fic actually) raendown’s soulmate story collection is especially sublime (not that their other fics are not!), what you knead by agentmarkele is a heartwarming entity that lives free in my brain, and MadMothMadame’s tobirama centric fics that brought me to tears. In the chinese danmei fandom I breathe in Sami’s and the same moon shines universe (including ridiculous future bullshit and other related verses; *adored* the juniors and jin chan’s dinamic there), trippednfell’s wangxian amazing, heartwarming, and relatable fics (i keep where’s your emergency open in my browser so i can bounce back and have my fill of goodness every once in a while), and many other lovely stories and authors i cannot possibly mention.

This post was meant to be some sort of thank you to all these writers, who have brought so much joy (and not so little tears) into my bleak life. I don’t think i would be the person i am today if i do not read your stories. And maybe this post will not reach you, and i am so sorry for that.

#fanfiction #khr #ficrec #thank you #if i ended up embarassing myself with this post then so be it

[lunarharp]

sketchy stuff for femslash february: harumichi, utenanthy, aerti, yaine

#femslashfeb2022 #since i don't know how much more i'll do for it. dont want to get burnt out again. #i think the inspiration to just draw a bit more f/f than usual this month is enough to get out of it/put into it. #the utena one i drew a little while ago actually. also i made up the ship name yaine #nobody ships that. i've never come across anyone who does. shout out to the rarepairs we make up #utena tag #ff tag #'sketchy'. like i make anything else....what does that even mean anyway. #me: Scribbles. Doodles. Scribbly doodlies. aka this isnt my full potential..please believe me i beg of thee.. (sniffling and crying)