#The rivalry is REAL!

[thelaurenshippen]

a remake of "you've got mail" called "you've got kudos" about two fic writers who make flirty comments on each other's fics, only to realize that they already know each other because they used to be on opposite sides of a fandom war when they were teenagers under different usernames

#this is essentially the plot of tweet cute #and probably the exact plot of a real book somewhere #which is why I'm posting it instead of putting it in my little ideas folder #so that someone can direct me toward the version of it that almost certainly already exists #so that I can consume it #the original rivalry is on ff.net #and it gets UGLY #but like...not so ugly you don't root for them to get together #and then they grow and realize fighting over ships is a worthless past time #and become cheerleaders for each other's work #only to eventually put two and two togehter #but also #like....fUn fan wars #not cyberbullying fan wars #it would be a careful balance #anyway I saw the phrase you've got kudos on here and thought about youve got mail #so here I am cringeposting book ideas like its 2013 or some shit

[avephelis]

GAY PEOPLE. mainly jayjay

#starting to get a happy point with my designs but still workshopping a bit #jrwi #jrwi riptide #jay ferin #jrwi ensa #gillion tidestrider #jrwi chip #avepharts #jrwi birdbolt #birdbolt #<- IT'S REAL TO ME IDC. theyre soo. yuri rivalry. spreading my agenda. #jrwi spoilers #kinda? i just find it funny how jay got her leg melted to shit and shes like “ehhh. ill make do” YOUR LEG IS FALLING OFF TELL SOMEONE #albatrio

[matttheratkingart]

Ace: Well Ur Not Gonna Do It :)

Opla season 2 is gonna be like

#lusan #acesan #monkey d. luffy #portgas d ace #one piece #opla #this is all GOOFS no real sibling rivalry or whatever

[ef-1]

Historic F1 Rivalries | Part 2 : Alonso vs his Demons

#scheduled post BAYBEEEEEEEEEEE #sebastian vettel #fernando alonso #f1 #contributing to the vetlonso lore #this is also me doing exposure therapy. #the essence of this rivalry is just seb being HEHE and Fernando being 'fuck you. fuck your hehe. fuck your hood. fuck your big homies' - xa #PLS TAKE THIS IN THE SPIRIT IT WAS INTENDED #obvi left out the real vitriolic stuff. this is just a fun silly goofy video #also my dad is a ghost writer on this: he rec-ed his fav moment (fernando making fun of german athletes but the clip is impossible 2 find)

[nerdpoe]

Sibling Rivalry is Just the Consequence of Inspired Fashion Disasters

Personally just imagining that Tim, regardless of what he is wearing at any point in time, manages to make it look fashionable. Deliberate, even.

Damian, who actually has to try to be up to date on current fashion, is infuriated by this.

People assume that after the attempts on Tim's life stopped that those attempts and the remnants of Damian's brainwashing were the reason they stayed antagonistic towards each other.

No.

No, the real reason is that Damian is forced to follow inane fashionistas on Twitter and Instagram and Tiktok so that he continues to make a good impression for the Wayne name.

Meanwhile Tim wandered into the office of Wayne Enterprises that morning, wearing arcade carpet design hammer pants, cowboy boots, a jean jacket and one of Superboy's shirts and magazines are raving about how he's setting a high bar for CEOs to be fashionable.

And the worst part is that Damian cannot actually disagree; no matter what picture is taken of him, Tim looks like he walked out of a goddamn catalogue.

@simplestoryteller

#dcu #batman #tim drake #damian wayne #the REAL reason there's still rivalry #here we uncover the TRUTH #story prompt

[momentomori24]

Shadow, despite hating Nine with a passion, is the only person in this entire show that actually sees and understands him in any meaningful way. Sonic's attachment to Nine is based off his friendship with Tails and his inability to cope with the fact that his best friend is gone. In his eyes, Nine is just a gloomy, edgy version of Tails, not his own person with his own motives and desires. He's so used to him and Tails being on the same page, always having each other's back, that he didn't even bother to consider the fact that Nine and him would be any different, and his lapse in judgement is what lead to Ghost Hill being destroyed in the aftermath of Nine's betrayal.

Shadow repeats the sentiment ''they're not your real friends'' over and over in the show. Not only does he offer Sonic a mental out, a way to compartmentalize and stick to their priorities without any regrets weighing him down, it also rings very true to every character Sonic has met thus far. Rebel isn't Rouge, Renegade isn't Knuckles, Thorn isn't Amy and Nine isn't Tails. They're only pieces of their original's personality formed and twisted into their own people with their own lives and their own names. They're similar, but distinctly different, complete strangers in all but appearance. Sonic undoubtably cares about Nine and the others, but that care is built on an illusion, and Shadow recognized that immediately. And for me that's the most ironic and sensible part of it all. That it's Shadow of all people recognizing that so quickly. Shadow, the guy with a history of identity issues plagueing his legacy. Shadow, the guy who cares the least about these other people and made Sonic eat dirt for an entire episode just to sacrifice them one season ago.

And it makes sense. Because he knows first hand how difficult it is to seperate the past from the present, walking the line between being a protector and being a destroyer, his own person or just a weapon and existing as an entity for others to project on until he finally figured himself out on his own, he's able to sniff out Nine's confusion and resentment of Tails from his line ''This is the friend Sonic thought was like me? We're nothing alike'' when they encountered his ghost form before Sonic ever did. And because he doesn't care for him, he never associates him with Tails, giving him the ability to see Nine for who he really is. And Nine's troubled, selfish and volatile, and not to be trusted because his goals never aligned with theirs. He's everything Tails isn't, and that's why Sonic never acknowledged those traits. But Shadow sees Nine, and that's why he was so quick to distrust him.

It's also why he could easily deduce what the motive behind his actions were. Power. It's a motive he can certainly relate to. Something he can understand, but Sonic cannot (bless his heart). It was his driving force for the entirety of SA2. What he was after was the power of the Chaos Emeralds to inact Professor Gerald's revenge on the planet and was he believed to be Maria's dying wish, just like how Nine searches for power to create a paradise where he can live the life he always wanted surrounded by ''friends'' he never had. Both of them didn't think about the damage they caused or those they betrayed in that pursuit because they never factored into the equation in the first place. It's about power to achieve self-fulfilment, and what a broken, lonely, destructive and misguided guy seen by nobody and isolated by everybody will do to see it all through to the end.

Nine and Shadow can relate to each other. They can understand each other. They're can be on the same page when it comes to figuring out what the other person is plotting from eye contact alone (like Shadow immediately realising that Nine was going to use Sonic as his energy source). What Shadow wants from Sonic is to be heard, and what Nine wanted from Sonic was to be seen, and what they can't recieve from him they can give to each other. They're similar, they're compatible, they're both attached to Sonic despite acting otherwise and their mindsets are identical-- and that's exactly why they will never be friends.

#sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers #i find shadow and nine's rivalry really neat if that wasn't obvious already #i'm a sucker for characters so similar they're fated to clash and they fit the bill so well it's nuts #shadow acknowledges nine as his own person which is what nine always wanted out of sonic #but because he does unlike sonic he doesn't trust nine further than he can throw him. so nine is stuck regardless #idk i just wanted to rant about these guys real quick hope this post makes sense #nine sonic prime #shadow the hedgehog #sorry for any grammar mistakes!

[fangirltothefullest]

every person theorizing about fnaf/fnaf movie lore and trying to solve stuff and still struggling to understand william and henry's relationship as business partners: THIS IS SO COMPLEX AND THERE ARE SO MANY THEORIES!!! SOME ARE SO GOOD OTHERS ARE CONTROVERSIAL!

me: aheeheem i think balloon boy has garret's spirit in the movie cause it keeps following him around

every fnaff hardcore fan getting pitchforks and torches: >:U !!

me being stabbed: :)))) teeheehee balloon boy weird balloon boy funny

#fnaf #anyways anyone got any clues about the tallys? #i got nothin but i'm living off the high of my deep dive knowledge of showbiz pizza and chuck e cheese franchise rivalries #and how the one who created the pizzaria was great with costumes and shit with animatronics and the animatronics guy was like #hey wait what if i did something else cause you're kind of a jerk #and anyways the real controversial take is thinking this franchise took from real world happenings and that we should use that shit- #to help figure it out

[incorrectboctorwho]

Theta: Okay, but what if we went to dinner not as friends this time?

Koschei: AS ENEMIES?!

Theta:

#this is how their rivalry started by the way (real) #doctor who #incorrect quotes #doctor who incorrect quotes #incorrect doctor who quotes #thoschei #academy era #academy era doctor who #doctor who academy era

[rubberstains]

do this quiz that took me wayyy too long to do

#formula 1 #max verstappen #lewis hamilton #charles leclerc #mark webber #sebastian vettel #nico rosberg #my fave unhinged rivalries #sebmark #lestappen #brocedes #IF IT DOESNT SEEM ACCURATE IDC IDC IDC #a fourth unmentionable pairing idk #these r all the rivalries beyond the 2000s that I could think of #shoutout prost senna and lauda hunt tho they were real REAL

[jun-hyungs]

obi wobi and his cody collection

to get you through the week

#art by hyung #star wars the clone wars #codywan #obi wan kenobi #basically i redid my first obi wan drawing but with more cody merch i've drawn since then #cody has a bitter rivalry with that tsum tsum #sometimes he'll purposely lend it to the other clones so obi wan has no choice but to cuddle the real cody at night #don't even get him started on the amogus

[clownfire]

Emizel is actually unhinged. Literally threatened a dude's life then asked for a kiss from him 10 seconds later.

#moved on from one homoerotically charged rivalry to another real quick #Condi cannot escape being the voice of reason character #but love that he gets the chance to be absolutely feral this time #jrwi ts spoilers #jrwi the suckening #jrwi ts #jrwi emizel #emizel tucker #krow posts

[difeisheng]

qiao wanmian and di feisheng's first appearances in the present-day narrative are mirrors of each other, orbiting the presence of li xiangyi and li lianhua. episode 5 introduces them both in the same way, stepping back into li lianhua's life while he watches from out of sight. di feisheng emerges from seclusion, qiao wanmian meets xiao zijin in yucheng. and what other information this episode gives us about these characters is the inverse of what we would've expected. where we assumed qiao wanmian might be the ex-lover, still mourning after ten years of missing li xiangyi, the first thing we (and li lianhua) see is that she's happy with someone else. it comes to be more nuanced than that, but the first impression we get is that qiao wanmian has moved on. di feisheng's first moment he gets by himself, meanwhile, is him drinking his grief over li xiangyi's absence away. he has jinyuanmeng bowing to his feet and and a tremendous amount of power in the jianghu he could use against anyone, yet here is, seemingly, above many other things, lonely.

the next arc serves to reinforce this idea, that where qiao wanmian by normal genre conventions should be the one who couldn't get over li xiangyi, it's di feisheng who continues to cling onto his history with him instead. during the liansanjiao's trip to baichuanyuan and pudu temple, we see qiao wanmian trying to work through her lingering emotions about li xiangyi over and over, and eventually (thanks to li lianhua's intervention) achieves some kind of tenuous closure on that part of her past. all of we see of di feisheng, on the other hand, is him becoming increasingly obsessed with what he views as unresolved events, until he finally chokes li lianhua against a wall to interrogate him about it. mysterious lotus casebook swapped what might be more typical framing of these characters. qiao wanmian is not a sad figure waiting for her sweetheart to return, but someone who realizes she was more attached to what he represents than to him, and in finding him as a person manages to become friends in this new life of the present. di feisheng isn't someone who moves on from an existence measured against li xiangyi and finds a new way to define himself, but rather a person who wound up isolated and frozen in time for ten years after losing him, and still struggles to leave their relationship behind or allow it to evolve.

tl;dr the real jilted lover of li xiangyi by the choices of the story is di feisheng, not qiao wanmian

#hi i know i've said this before but I HAVE RECEIPTS NOW #this was gonna be a section of di feisheng gender meta but i've been keeping this to myself for months and needed to scream #some of y'all insist that the narrative rivalry over llh is qwm vs fdb but why would you pit two bad bitches against one another #when the real parallel/foil is qwm and dfs #mysterious lotus casebook #feihua #li xiangyi #qiao wanmian #di feisheng #mlc meta #ashton originals

[sleepyminty]

Dante and Vergilius ( Vergil) in original work

Vs Dante and Vergilius (Vergil) in other literations

#you know who im talking abt #we have twin rivalry and a guide who give no shit to his manager #read dante inferno guys the bromance is real #there is spoiler in the tag #vergilius would walk through fire with dante so that he wont be suffer alone whereas we have whatever the fuck dmc and pm give us #if you squint closely you can either see love-hate relationship or divorce couple between dante and vergilius #we dont talk abt dante and virgil that just normal sibling behaviors #aka the cain instincts #project moon #limbus company #limbus dante #limbus vergilius #leviathan #the red gaze #dmc #devil may cry #dmc dante #dmc vergil #dante inferno #vergilius #dante #dante purgatorio #dante paradiso #the divine comedy

[opashoo]

"Rogue" doesn't fit quite right. "Ruffian" is more her speed.

#my art #amelieverse #rumi #pf2e #dnd #pathfinder #rogue #ruffian #beastkin #werewolf #she's a pretty serious fairly pragmatic sort #a real geurilla commando type #loves spears quarterstaves and all manner of sickle club knife and so on #she and mimi's sister are part of a secondary adventuring party that has a friendly rivalry with Amelie's party #she's also in a pseudoromantic sort of relationship with her party's ranger/fighter #hello tag readers i appreciate you #jackal #furry #fantasy #jackal beastkin

[il-predestinato]

The numbers don't lie: 🤭

These two are truly the main characters of F1. 💙❤️

#max verstappen #charles leclerc #lestappen #ao3 #the real rivalry is p1 vs. p2 on ao3 🤭 #slayyyyyyyy #*

[earlgodwin]

the irony of cesare slutshaming juan for sleeping in brothels had me with tears in my eyes considering his very first scene in the show is him rawdogging a prostitute like his life depended on it...like babygirl we see you!!!

#like they're such whores i'm screaming!! but also so on brand when you think of it. since the real ones both were fucking sancia byeee #i believe the scene where cesare fucks that girl is just a glimpse of the show adapting the Real cesare's General Manwhorishness™ though! #if you're the borgia family enthusiast you already know that cesare has sired 7 illegitimate kids because of his romantic exploits lmao #cesare borgia i love your hypocritical ass fr like yessss #also love their rivalry so much because there's cesare who always wanna one-up juan in every aspect and be seen as the serious and driven #which is true about the hypercompetent and ambitious part!! but he fulfills his duty in the family in ways that are not conventional #meanwhile with juan...he fully embraces his hedonism and isn't ashamed of it. while he's aware that cesare outdo him in everything... #the only thing he has over cesare is his position as a gonfaloniere!! so he winds cesare up with flexing it!!! #the difference is cesare is as much as he hollers about doing everything for the family...he pretty much does it mostly for selfish reasons #his desperation for juan's position and rodrigo's attention made him sabotage the family more than persevering it etc #while juan is genuine but is reckless and incompetent but he Really tries yk? he really does! but he spiraled bc he feels weak and insecure #oh well both brothers are idiots in their own ways #i miss them fr #cesare borgia #juan borgia #the borgias #juan and cesare #text post