#I'm not trying to start ship wars

[wildflowercryptid]

Your Kieran is at perfect snuggle height for your Florian it drives me insane thinking about it 🥹

damn, my real reason behind making florian that tall has been found out. ( /j )

same, though. i imagine florian to be pretty physically affectionate with people he loves so i could totally see him resting his head on top of kieran's and leaning on them whenever he can.

#the rest of the bb league are lucky florian's only at the academy for a semester bc these two would be SO ANNOYING #mfs that are almost late to class bc they're acting like one of them is going off to war when they're just in separate classes for an hour #i can't blame florian tho he had to shove down his feelings for kieran and try to ignore them for a whole year #so it's understandable that he'd want to be affectionate towards her now that he has the chance #lub these two so much... #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pkmn scarvio #rival kieran #pokemon kieran #trainer florian #tealmaskshipping #candyappleshipping #kieflo #( i'm gonna start tagging their other ship names too ) #hc : (pkmn) mjverse #chara : florian russel cavallari #chara : kieran hinoki #🎨 : mj draws #asks

[arleniansdoodles]

The new Kenobi show really helped to spark my old enjoyment of Star Wars (as casual a fan as I am loll), especially when it came to Obi-wan and Anakin/Vader’s dynamic! The hurt and angst is chef’s kiss imo XDDD

So, continuing on from my medieval redesigns for Luke and Leia, here are the start of my designs for Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan! Anakin’s in his Dark Side mode; Padmé is ... Well, I’ll try to come up with some beautiful queen dresses to at least reach the prequels’ level loll; and I gave Obi-Wan a braid so that I could use that trope(?) of a close companion braiding it in order to show affection -- yep, that’d be Anakin XDDD And I just think Obi-Wan looks great with long, braided hair! :DDD

#note that I'm not trying to draw the movie actors #it's hard for me to capture someone's likeness so i usually just redesign them completely #plus it's more interesting and investing for me as opposed to drawing the same movie design over and over ^^;;; #art #my art #star wars #star wars fanart #star wars prequels #revenge of the sith #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #obi wan kenobi #portraits #character design #character concept #sorry farseer i'm jumping ship to star wars now lmaoo #for my farseer followers: i legit got stuck at the start of liveship #admittedly i shot myself in the foot cuz knowing that fitz and burrich aren't in there sucked the interest out of me #if it keeps up i might as well just move on to tawny man and save liveship for another day

[a-really-cool-blog-name]

#I'm interested to see what the answer will be #Is this too weird of a poll? I don't know I don't really care #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #Wait do I tag the ships cuz I don't want to clog up the ship tags but I think this counts? #I can remove them later if necessary #rasey #castello #casey x donnie #Casey x Raph #a rare original post #My polls #ships #I'm not trying to start a war just to disclaimer I just want to see which is more popular with the people that'll see this poll #Me personally I go back and forth on these like a game of ping pong #“why didn't you put April/Casey as an option” because that wasn't the question #I like Casey and April together in most of the universes but not in 2012

[theaceofarrows]

I'm also disappointed about the huntlow, but, hey! Hunter isn't cannonicly not ace yet! we can still have that! (I'm grasping at straws here but whatever)

It's always great to be reminded that there's so many people that support acespec Hunter. The fact that allo Hunter still isn't confirmed canon is what's keeping me going on my hope for ace Hunter

#my asks #the owl house #the owl house season 3 #toh hunter #aroace hunter #ace rants #psa i'm not trying to start a ship war

[blunderbussmatterhorn]

OK I'm just going to say it, I die a little more inside every time I see a Benvi coopt the scene where Nalini tells Devi that one day she'll find someone who loves her exactly as she is and make it about Ben. Did her mom saying that to her help open Devi's eyes to what Ben was really saying when he said "I like your personality"? Absolutely. Was that the point of that scene? Abso-fucking-lutely not. The point is that Devi's friends, her family, all of the important people in her life have always loved her exactly as she is and that she never needed to change to be loved. She was always loveable, but she is the one who couldn't see it or didn't believe it.

#anti benvi #i'm not trying to start shit i actually have no problem with the ship #but the shippers and the ship wars i do have a problem with #especially when it cheapens my girl's character arc #can i get an amen #devi vishwakumar #nalini vishwakumar #nhie season 3 #nhie spoilers #nhie #never have i ever #nhie netflix #i've got the receipts #daxton

[panicfable]

I don't know if this is reasonably going to get any votes but

#mystrade #mormor #morimora #bbc sherlock #sebastian moran #jim moriarty #james moriarty #greg lestrade #mycroft holmes #there have to be people out here still shipping and checking these tags right? #I'm not trying to start a flame war I'm just gathering data #Also insande to type basher's full name like this

[valyrfia]

@ the anon who just spammed me with 5 anti lestappen takes, you are on the wrong blog.

#that's all i'm going to say in the post but in the tags: dude wtf were you trying to achieve #great you prefer maxiel and piarles i love that for you i'm happy! sure it's not my choice but i'm genuinely glad ur having fun! #but i ship lestappen my blog content is based around it and if you don't like it feel free to block me it's that simple! #are you trying to start a ship war? is that it? because that's a bit weird none of these men are actually dating each other #even if in an alternate universe they were it's NONE OF OUR BUSINESS #ship wars achieve nothing but toxicity and realistically we all watch the same sport there's ZERO reason for the level of hate you sent me #also while we're here i do care about the drivers individually of course i do that's why i celebrated charles's pole #the only reason why i didn't celebrate max's pole today is because i wanted oscar to get it because oscar is also a fave #anyway i'm done talking about this just take your vitriol somewhere else please

[caitas-cooing]

I want to preface this by saying I don't hate soriku and I do think it's a cute ship although I don't really have too many hardcore ships when it comes to kh, but like, I hate when people downplay Sora's relationships with Kairi and other people and pretend like the only person he cares about is Riku. Like the whole "his reaction to Kairi in kh2 is basically neato" kind of people. Sora is such a caring person and pretending like he doesn't care about his other friends like he does Riku is such a disservice to his character. Pretending like Kairi play as big a role in Sora's life as she does is big disservice to her. I feel like it also kind of enforces the whole romantic love is more important than friendship thing, which I hate as an aromantic person but also feel like it runs opposite to the point of the series as a whole.

I don't know how much this made sense because I'm super tired. Just want to end this by saying I'm not trying to attack anyone in particular or soriku in general, because I do think it's a cute ship. I'm just venting things I see sometimes that frustrate me personally, That's all.

#this is probably littered with typos but I don't care #please don't start a shipping war on this post that wasn't the point of what I was trying to say #honestly I see this with other ships in this fandom and outside of it #but I think I see it with this ship the most which I why I'm talking about it #I don't have a problem with soriku or most people who ship it #I do have a problem with misscharacterizing characters and story beats #and I especially have a problem with people who use tropes that push romance ahead of friendships #especially in series like this where the power of friendship is the whole point #I hope this doesn't sound too aggressive

[unicornlovers10]

I found another TOH ship that I don't like, and it's arguably worse than the previous one I briefly mentioned earlier.

#like seriously though #i hc them as adoptive siblings #and as of the new episode they're technically siblings (adoptive) #this ship makes me extremely uncomfortable #and it's not because i ship lumity and huntric (two of my otps) #but it's because it's actually a proship #don't worry guys #i blocked tags related to the ship #but it's still gross though #luz noceda #hunter wittebane #tia talks #tia talks about toh #i'm not trying to start a ship war #or a flame war #at least i'm curating what i see on here

[vulpinedyke]

update on the rewatch: my sister's a jancy

#i know she can see this i'm intentionally trying to start a flame war #the only person who's allowed to start a ship war with me :) #(in case anyone was wondering i don't mind jancy actually i just enjoy antagonizing my sister <3)

[a-yarn-of-purple-prose]

AO3 Year in Review (that's the ship stats one) is out and you guys got Alhaitham/Kaveh to position 5 on the ship's debut year! That is incredibly impressive, congratulations to everyone involved!

I mean you literally out-wrote the biggest fandoms out there, those that have only one or two big ships. It is impressive, is what I'm saying.

Knowing that centreoftheselights focus her stats on ship growth I was stunned to find out Tartaglia/Zhongli lost 20 positions and both of my beloved ships that were ranking last year are just gone.

So of course I spent the whole afternoon collecting data to see what happened. Who do you think I am? A person without a completely unrelated essay to write?

Proceed beyond the cut if you want to see some Genshin Impact ship data.

So I had a question: what happened with our ships' growth this year? Time to do some data collecting!

Method

So here's what I did. Knowing that several writers have opted to archive-lock their fics in order to stave off the bots, I chose to collect the data manually, with my logged-on profile, and using the search operator created_at:["2023-01-01" TO "2023-12-31"] to restrict the search to works created in that time period.

This means backdated works don't make it in, but it may also mean that works which were fully written in the drafts before being posted at a later date count as being created in 2023 even if you posted it in January 10th 2024.

I'm not citing names here but I see you there and all I can say is please don't write directly in your drafts. There's no guarantee your fic will survive there. Have backups. Please. If you can't download an app/software, then at least use Amplenote. It's free, online and supports formatting of all kinds.

Method (really now)

Using the archive's filters set to all languages and the period up to December 31st 2023, I pulled the list of the top ten tagged relationships. Then, setting the period from January 1st to December 31st 2023, I did the same. With that data I graphed the growth pattern.

The data

As of my cut-off date, December 31st 2023, there were 163,902 works under the 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) tag in AO3. The top ten relationships tagged were:

Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli: 14571 works

Alhaitham/Kaveh: 9645 works

Diluc/Kaeya: 7295 works

Diluc & Kaeya: 6077 works

Venti/Xiao | Alatus: 4870 works

Albedo/Kaeya: 4442 works

Aether/Xiao: 4127 works

Tartaglia | Childe/Lumine: 4046 works

Chongyun/Xingqiu: 3524 works

Kaedehara Kazuha/Scaramouche: 3432 works

59,092 of those works were posted between January 1st and December 31st 2023. During the year, the top relationships were:

Alhaitham/Kaveh: 8591 works

Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli: 3513 works

Alhaitham & Kaveh: 2446 works

Cyno/Tighnari: 2342 works

Neuvillette/Wriothesley: 1950 works

Kaedehara Kazuha/Scaramouche: 1810 works

Diluc & Kaeya: 1721 works

Diluc/Kaeya: 1551 works

Venti/Xiao: 1106 works

Aether/Xiao: 1101 works

Now, that's impressive growth, isn't it? Here's how that tracks over the historical number:

Just look at that bar. That was a single year! And Tartaglia/Zhongli had a nice amount of growth, more than any other ship besides Alhaitham/Kaveh.

So there it is, what happened. You guys are just absolutely amazing :)

Side notes:

1. Hm, what about Neuvillette/Wriothesley?

A fairly new ship that showed up on AO3 Stats ranked 68, with 1938 works. On my counts (with the locked works) the number goes up to 1950. So, not a small ship at all but also not close enough to enter our top ten.

At least not this year.

2. Is it all about smut? I bet it's all about smut!

It is not. When you exclude the Explicit tag there are still 46,001 works created in 2023. And, honestly, the Explicit tag can be used for gore and violence as well, so even that isn't a solid way to exclude smut from the count.

But if you're wondering how the ranking goes without the Explicit fics, here is the data for the works up to December 31st 2023:

Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli: 10406 works

Alhaitham/Kaveh: 7330 works

Diluc & Kaeya: 5761 works

Diluc/Kaeya: 4651 works

Venti/Xiao: 4253 works

Albedo/Kaeya: 3759 works

Aether/Xiao: 3441 works

Tartaglia | Childe/Lumine: 3216 works

Chongyun/Xingqiu: 3165 works

Kaedehara Kazuha/Scaramouche: 2785 works

And this is the data for just 2023:

Alhaitham/Kaveh: 6545 works

Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli: 2534 works

Alhaitham & Kaveh: 2115 works

Cyno/Tighnari: 1885 works

Diluc & Kaeya: 1645 works

Neuvillette/Wriothesley: 1467 works

Kaedehara Kazuha/Scaramouche: 1397 works

Diluc/Kaeya: 1057 works

Venti/Xiao | Alatus: 937 works

Aether/Xiao: 911 works

If this tells you anything, make it that people will tag a ship and either fade to black or just not put any sex at all in the story.

3. So, no love for gen fics?

No, no, no, lots of love for gen fics! Immense love for gen fics!

I'll talk about that in another post, though, because I have more graphs to make before I can post it.

#genshin impact #meta #fandom stats #not tagging the ships-- it would feel too much like trying to start a war #this data collection was done mostly out of curiosity #if you use it to harass other people no fluffy animal shall ever let you pet it ever again #(yes yes I'm cursing the data)

[grimm-lynn]

started a new journey+ on fallen order to get ready for the sequel, and the game bugged so badly that i’m pretty sure I have to start over :)))

#i'm in the last room of the tomb of miktrull and the purge trooper & ship are just. not here. #i've spent like two days trying to fix it but i'm pretty certain i'm fucked #and yes i simp hard enough for this game to start over. i'm starting over #that's what i get for loading up the steam version #fitgirl my beloved #fallen order #star wars #grimm posting

[theaceofarrows]

I just wanna point out for the other anon that we 1. Haven’t seen Willow reciprocate any romantic gestures what-so-ever and her helping cut his hair could be just as a friend or as help for her team member and 2. We’ve already seen Hunter blush and fidget similarly at Camila in the sneak peeks, so he very well could just be embarrassed at getting caught having a meltdown and having someone help me. We’re all out here grasping for straws but you know 😔 And in addition, because we haven’t seen Willow reciprocate it COULD be setting up for a possible REJECTION scene because god knows we need some actual valid and good rejection scenes in popular media

I really like your take on this and I agree with you. I especially like what you said about Camila, I hadn't thought of that

Thanks for sending this!!

#my asks #the owl house season 3 #toh hunter #aroace hunter #psa i'm not trying to start a ship war #seriously you can ship whoever you want #just not my thing

[artbyblastweave]

Playing through Fallout:New Vegas for the first time in years. And I'm developing a newfound appreciation for the damage done to the intended pacing of the narrative with the addition of the Courier's Stash. I wake up in Goodsprings, and as part of the extended tutorial you have Ghosttown Gunfight, the fairly self-contained faction war between Goodsprings and the Powder Gangers. And the design intent, I think, is that this is probably supposed to be a pain in the ass, with only one or two avenues of support available to you given the low level at which you'll pick this one up. Six Powder Gangers, some in body-armor, would be a serious threat, and committing to fighting against that with your dinky 9mm and a varmint rifle seems like a rough time! An actual uphill battle, doing the right thing instead of the easy thing. Fortunately, Benny inexplicably left my handy 40mm grenade launcher in the grave with me, so I cleaned up.

I'm working my way south, and, you know, in a version of the game where Benny didn't inexplicably leave my handy 40mm grenade launcher in the grave with me, this would have been the knock-on effect of my "good" Karmic choice in defending Goodsprings; the road south is littered with powder gangers who'd have been neutral had I not kicked the hornet's nest. As it stands? Free experience. I hit Primm, and fighting through the cramped hallways of the Bison Steve I encounter an enemy armed with what was clearly supposed to be the first heavy weapon I'd encounter in the world. Tight Corridors. Inexplicable Grenade Launcher. I clean up. South I go to the Mojave outpost, Nipton, that whole thing. And clearly, clearly you aren't meant to take a swing at Vulpes here, right? You're supposed to take it in, get a sense for the legion. In the version of the game that shipped you're supposed to get bodied if you try to kick the beef gate here. There are allowances in the game for if you pull it off, sure, but I did try with just the service rifle, without the glorious first-strike capabilities afforded to me by the 40mm grenade launcher that Benny inexplicably left in the grave with me. It didn't go very well!

So now I'm dogged by Legion hit squads on my way to Novac, which I get the distinct impression was not the point in the game at which this was supposed to start happening to me, because I am gathering up some pretty expensive equipment, all sold for space. I punch through to Vegas, and at this stage, the clear developer intent is that you need to spend some time milling around Freeside or Camp McCarran in order to gain access to the Strip- do odd jobs to scrape up the money, buy the forgery from Mick and Ralphs, gain monorail access, get your science skill high enough to hack the robot. Get the lay of the land, get a feel for the people, send some time stewing in the human cost of House's walled garden before you head in and hear the pitch from the big man himself.

Except I've got 5000 caps from selling off all the legion killteam equipment. In I go!

And the fun thing is, right, the Courier's stash can't be diegetic, but it is having a very direct impact on the world here. A top legion guy just went down to my inexplicable 40mm grenade launcher. Whatever else I'm roleplaying as, I am roleplaying as a guy who woke up in the possession of an inexplicable 40mm grenade launcher, and neither I nor my character can plausibly ignore that fact given its terrible bloodstained utility. I play a man, a man who would be a good man, a man nonetheless bewitched by the terrible resolutory power of the grenade launcher. My best friend, the inexplicable 40mm grenade launcher! My worst enemy, the inexplicable 40mm grenade launcher!

#fallout #fallout new vegas #thoughts #meta

[crimson-rain-smoked-flower]

I’m not trying to attack you, but do you know that proshipper means someone who supports and romanticizes pedophilia, incest, and abuse? Your reblog on that post seems to read that you think antis just hate on people for having ships they don’t like. But it’s completely different than that. Just looking on the proshipper side of Tumblr and the internet and you can see people happily shipping children and adults and making nsfw content of such things.

i appreciate that you're not being outright hostile, but i have to say, that on its own put you above basically every anti i've interacted with.

i understand where antis are coming from, i really do. there are a lot of things on the internet that make me deeply uncomfortable, including the minor/adult ships that you mention. i don't want to anything to do with those kinds of ships and i would be happiest if i never saw them again. which is why i'm proship.

nine times out of ten, if i see that kind of ship brought up on my dash, it's because i was following an anti without realizing it, and they brought it up unprompted and untagged, to talk about how bad it is that they exist. they are the ones putting that kind of content in front of my face and making it harder to avoid.

the thing about people who ship those ships is that they're generally very aware that not everyone wants to see that kind of content, and so they tag it. they make sideblogs to talk about it. they don't go out of their way to shove it in people's faces. that means i, and everyone else who doesn't like it, can avoid it.

what antis want is for it to not exist at all. they want the tags to be purged and blocked, and for anyone who uses those tags to have their accounts deleted. and sure, that might get rid of some of it, but do you know what would happen to the rest? it would stop being tagged. people who don't want to see it wouldn't have the tools to avoid it. this isn't just a hypothetical, that's what's happened any time a fan space has tried to do that.

that's not even getting into the rabbit hole of what should be banned and what shouldn't. obviously any content that depicts real children or real life abuse shouldn't exist and shouldn't be allowed to be posted, but basically any platform that people use already enforces those policies, and there's not much of a slippery slope to go down there. if it involves real living breathing people being abused, it's bad. end of discussion.

but the same can't be said for fiction. ask ten antis for a specific list of all the content that should be banned, and you'll get ten different answers. what about kink? what about roleplay? what about horror and murder and anything that involves fictional characters being graphically tortured? what about people using art to process terrible things that have happened to them? what about art that uses dark themes as a horror element? if you just want to ban anything questionable to anyone, that's the line of thinking that gets any mention of lgbt existence banned. and again, this isn't just a hypothetical, this has happened before, and that's generally where it leads.

i know, from personal experience, that antis do, in fact, send harassment to people just for shipping things they don't like. i've gotten accused of absolutely vile shit for shipping two fictional characters who were both consenting adults. i've seen ship wars turn into moral battlegrounds, over ships that an average person wouldn't bat an eye at.

the thing about "romanticization" is a whole other can of worms. the anti logic goes like this: if someone sees something (even if it's very obviously fictional) in a positive light enough times, they will start thinking it's okay in real life, and go on to hurt real people. the problem with that is that it's just. blatantly untrue.

if it were true every horror movie fan would be a serial killer, every person that studies dark media would be an unhinged psychopath, and everyone who is into ddlg would be a pedophile. but they're not. they just aren't. people have directed movies just as fucked up as the darkest shit on ao3, and are still capable of being normal human beings who know right from wrong in real life.

even if someone is that impressionable, scrubbing away the existence of every piece of questionable content isn't going to solve their problem, because they're still going to be vulnerable to con men, scams, and cultists. the only thing that would actually materially help someone like that is developing their own morals and critical thinking.

children are also more impressionable, and there's a lot of content that's not suitable for them, but that doesn't mean that content shouldn't exist. it just means that they should stick to spaces designed for them (which most social media sites, tumblr included, are not) or, if they're old enough to be responsible for their experience online, they, or a trusted adult in their lives, should block and filter out things that they aren't comfortable with.

which is what everyone on the internet should be doing. it's what i do, and it's made the internet a much more pleasant place to be. and it's why i sometimes worry for antis mental health, especially teenagers, because they're being told it's right and moral to seek out content that makes them uncomfortable and to engage with the people making it. and that's just. really bad. it's not good for the creators that they're harassing obviously, but it's also really bad for them! it's not healthy to seek out things that make you feel bad, and it's a terrible internet safety lesson to teach minors that it's okay for them to seek out and engage with people making adult content.

individual harassment and crusading is never going to succeed at removing dark content from the internet. it just isn't. at best you might get a small percentage of people who create that content to stop sharing it, at worst you're just going to make people stop tagging it, and either way, you're exposing yourself to things that make you feel bad, when you don't have to.

if you want to materially change the type of content you see, you can. the block button is your friend, use it liberally. same with content filtering and tag blocking.

#oops this got really long #cd.ask #proship #disk horse #tw pedophila mention #uhhh what to tag #tw shipping discourse #this doesn't even get into the antis that i've seen proudly professing that they care more about fictional characters than real people #because i don't know how to explain to someone that real humans matter more than cartoon characters #or how to avoid content on platforms other than tumblr bc frankly thats a lot of the reason i don't use them #i don't trust an algorithm #also im turning anon off after posting this so if you want to send me hate you cant be a coward about it #also be prepared to get blocked and ignored #the only reason i answered this person is bc they weren't being hostile

[thatwitchrevan]

How did I not realize in the (checks google) over a year since Screen Violence released that Asking for a Friend is a DEEPLY Meetra song (probably deeply Exile in general)?

I could copy paste all the lyrics right here but like "I sunk some ships with selfish lips/and it all came back to me", "I cheated and I lied/but I meant it when I cried" "and the mess we made on Fridays gave me Sunday on my knees/but you still matter"

Even just the conceit of 'asking for a friend' when the song is clearly in first person and there's no question of covering up that all of this is a confession, but still there's that desire to deflect.

That's my (emotionally damaged and flawed) girl right there.

#dammit spotify #meetra surik #i swear that most chvrches songs are not somehow about kotor to me #that's definitely how it started but chvrches have definitely become their own thing in my mind #most of the songs I associated with revan / revalek are from the very first album #and with subsequent albums the evoke a lot more personal emotions and thoughts #it's to the point that i try not to put chvrches songs on character playlists unless they really really fit #but I'm watching a concert video rn and I'm just sitting here like damn. that's a meetra song #even the outro is just this chorus of 'home/can we go home?' #which is just relatable #i mean the whole song is #this is one of those things that i think happens with songs (and sometimes poetry and other writing) #where a very broad sentiment is covered by a figurative scenario #that just happens to be exactly what some characters have literally done #like sinking ships is a metaphor here that's not the part you're supposed to relate to #unless you're a star wars who uh. well. blew up a bunch of your own ships once #it's a bit hilarious