#but also so is everyone else on the ship

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

It's amazing sometimes how a character can haunt the narrative while still being completely alive

*cough* Blackbeard *cough*

#edizzy #edward teach #izzy hands #ofmd #aletterinthenameofsanity #fanfic #my fics #writing #yes this is about edward teach #and how blackbeard means so much to izzy that it is actively destroying his chance at healing #but also isn't that just canon? #izzy amnesia fic #anyway izzy is GOING THROUGH IT #but also so is everyone else on the ship #bc Izzy is carrying the ghost of a god with him #and he ain't setting it down

[chiarakato]

Says stuff just to be funny but commits to the bit type of girl

Maybe ill properly draw these sketches later :)

#Stephanie is the kind of person that would ship Bloom x Sky but also Bloom x Stella and then something so niche like Brandon x Riven #should i draw everyone else as specialists including cass or should cass also be a winx #stephanie brown #damian wayne #batman #batfam #batfamily #my art #drawing #fanart #art #winx club

[secondbeatsongs]

when you're into the Big Ship™ in a Big Fandom™, you have the luxury of having an OTP - a real One True Pairing, where you can read about just them for ages, and you will never run out of fics, and everything is perfect and beautiful and nothing hurts

but when you go to a smaller fandom, you'd better pray to whatever god you worship that someone else in this room ships the same thing that you do, and that if they do, they're writing more than late-night crackfic, because you're on thin fucking ice!

and how small is your small fandom? is it less than 100 fics? maybe even...less than 20 fics?

welp, then it's time to make peace with that god and either open up a text document or learn how to ship everything, because it's swim or drown babey! and your ship is sinking fast

anyway all of this is to say that after hanging out in small fandoms and shipping less-common pairings for a while, going back into a Big Huge Fandom™ is wild because suddenly it's like...wait, why didn't I ship these people again? I don't remember. why was I only sticking to one ship in this fandom?? boring of me, honestly. these guys should make out.

#sbs rambles #fandom #fandom stuff #ao3 #basically. I hung out in superwholock for so long back in the day #but then I got weird and cool and moved on to smaller and older and stranger fandoms #and decided to throw a party and have fun and enjoy all of the small and weird in those fandoms #and now rewatching media for a big fandom I'm like. huh. sucks to be everyone else I guess. they're missing out on some wild dynamics here #because I'm havin a blast #and like. when I mean small fandoms I mean SMALL #my one fic I wrote for one tv show makes up 25% of that entire fandom on ao3 #(double checks) #oh!!!! new fic in the fandom!!!! #my one fic only makes up 20% of that entire fandom on ao3!!! #time to throw a fuckin party! 🎉🎈🎊🥳 #anyway it's really funny because based on this some folks are going to assume what ship I'm into in a Big Fandom now #but buds. you can laugh at me #I'm thinkin about sam and cas #what's up with those guys? #fucked up actually. they should hold hands about how much they love dean #:') #but also supernatural is way more fun if you watch it out of order #that's what I've realized #now if only the RNG would give me something in season 1 or 2 T_T #also if you're at the point of reading fic on livejournal or wattpad in the year 202X you've reached ''small fandom'' status #that's the rules

[moonhuit]

captain janeway & seven of nine ft. trust & being protective of the other // the voyager conspiracy + relativity + collective + one + the killing game

#janeway x seven #kathryn janeway #seven of nine #star trek voyager #janeway/seven #j7 #love tkg seven just there like: what r u staring at she told u to leave me alone i am BABY >:( #st : edits #;;graphics #also “one” seven is so!!!! earnest !!!! like it destroys me #that part where she double checks janeway's stasis chamber out of everyone else in the ship..... #;graphics

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

#eve text #elmike #stranger things #byler #only tagging byler because i feel like yall will like this take lol #tagging tagging tagging WHAT ARE EVERYONE ELSE'S THOUGHTS #god i can't believe i'm making a post about stranger things. this feels like poking a bear #i'm not particularly anti m*leven but like... they'd have to do something pretty special at this point for me to feel like it's viable #i'm seeing the bts of s5 and it's got me Having Thoughts #elmike friendship is something i am so passionate about #even before i ever liked byler (didn't ship at all until s4 even though i knew it was a thing before) i've felt this way about elmike #i always believed they were close friends at heart and needed to break up #the romance part of them felt very distinctly young and very much “he was a boy she was a girl” to me #and it hasn't deepened into anything more mature and i don't see how it could based on the current state of the writing... #the fact that lumax exists — a young relationship that is actively maturing and is healthy — makes that clear to me #and the “love confession” in s4 and how disingenuous and miserable it felt was just the nail in the coffin #also the fact that will (who is IN LOVE with mike) was instrumental in making it happen? ... uh... okay... interesting choice… #fucked up and reductive if they make it another queer unrequited love sacrifice for the sake of pushing the heterosexual agenda YUCK #so i really hope the speculation about a m*leven breakup is real!! i think it just makes sense for their characters but who knows #i don't believe in the notion of love at first sight or one true love and i think the writers don't too??? #love to me is an accumulation of experiences and we inevitably choose it at some point rather than fall into it... but idk #tv is so fixated on keeping couples together... sometimes it's just not reality guys especially with young people... LET IT GO... #like i said though i'm not 100% sold that they're going to give up their “golden couple” LMAO #stranger things hasn't historically subverted too many tropes if i'm being honest #anyway i seriously need this season to come out quickly... i'm so bored and getting my master's is crushing my soul #i need frivolity #ALSO btw i won't respond to hateful messages about this so please don't bother. it's not that serious. this is a netflix show

[qtubbo]

Redoing this poll since Poly Morning Crew content increased unrelated to but still directly after the last one

For fun poll just want to check in and see how everyone is feeling about it, feel free to share reasonings or give a more detailed response in tags. A note if you ship Fitpac and Pacbo but not Fitbo, but still like the idea of Pac dating both you can still vote for shipping since that’s still poly.

#poly morning crew #qsmp morning crew #Qsmp polls #will add qsmp tag when it’d be a bit more burried so we hit the morning crew community more then everyone else #Qsmp shipping #Qprs also count you can ship with a qpr have fun #Morning crew #Qsmp

[queerlyloud]

Currently reading Sansûkh because I am not able to move around much right now, and I was just thinking how like, all the interspecies ships HAVE to be collaborative works between Mahal and the other Valar, so basically they got together and made OC's specifically to fall in love and get married, and if that isn't fandom-coded behavior, idk what is.

Tldr: the Valar are a bunch of artist friends who get together and make dolls together so they can kiss and fall in love and get married 💕

#That still only counts as one! #mine #jo is talking #silly #funny (to me) #sansûkh #lord of the rings #bagginshield #gimleaf #gigolas #kili and tauriel #the elf and dwarf who made the doors #dont act like you didnt know those two were in love and living happily tinkering and crafting together #valar #lotr #edit to add arwen and aragorn #bless my sweet cardboard cutout man and his hot older wife #truly the most forgettable ship in the series but we all still love them so much #it's just because everyone else's is also funny #bless

[leopardmuffinxo]

i thought i had escaped the post that tried to take a statement on discord out of context, about durge and astarion being a 'canon ship' or w/e, but alas it showed up on my dash. i don't have the energy to go through this kind of bs w/ bg3.

THERE. ARE. NO. CANON. SHIPS. IN. BG3.

i don't care how much more dialogue a character has w/ another character. i don't care what you think is implied though a vague statement made by a writer or VA. shit like that is what caused a lot of people in the DA fandom to get harassed by so many braindead people in the fandom because their ships were "not canon". the fact that it was also added in because of crunch is a huge disappointment. it's allowed to be your canon but it doesn't make it canon for the game in general.

#this is also in no way me shitting on that pairing #and i know plenty of moots that have that ship #i think some of the interactions are actually quite sweet #but proclaiming that something such a ship is canon in a game with so many choices is just opening a can of worms for harassment #most people are smart enough not to read that far into it #but some of y'all will run with it and act like you're better than everyone else because you read too far into something #i'm not dealing with this in another fandom #random text post #ignore my rambles

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ask and you shall receive (a sneak peak of what's to come)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mdzs au #homestuck #I genuinely do have troll designs for the major characters of mdzs adn thoughts pertaining to their hemospectrum #I honestly thought ppl would start throwing holy salt at me at the mention of homestuck but the enthusiasm is super motivating! #With that said; Thank you all so much for the support with the hollow knight crossover #Even people who have never heard of hollow knight have been so kind (go buy and play hollow knight; the aesthetic and story are amazing) #More bug doodles and comic are ahead! I'll try and space them out between comic updates. #More thoughts will come later but for now...allow me to leave you with this: #Non-homestucks may see the blue and red and go 'aw blue-red ship how cute' while those who know might realize exactly what im putting down #namely that this version of wwx is *very* interested and persistent about getting lwj to spend time with him. #Lwj lives in a very insular indigo colony and isn't fully aware of the differences in life span between hemocasts (yet). #But wwx is. So he's driven to live life to the fullest! This would also drive him to be way more self-sacrificing. #Since his life is so small compared to everyone else he loves anyways. That purple isn't just aesthetic either.

[ships-n-bats]

I still absolutely love how Wolfwalkers ended.

Love that it still ultimately focused on Robyn and Mebh and how they leave their old world behind to find a new one, just for them, their parents, and the wolf family to live in peace, far away from the townspeople. How after all that drama and near-death experiences, they just get to rest in the caravan, protected by their respective parent and live together in the forest.

No more societal expectations. No more gender roles. No need to appease a bunch of people who really only want them dead for what they are. No focus on these two literal children to change a town’s whole mindset like so many other films do. No, the message was just these two girls finding their happy ending with their loved ones somewhere else and just cutting out that toxic environment all together.

Why waste energy trying to help a bunch of people they don’t even have any real attachment to, after all? Especially with people who actively forced roles they didn’t want onto them and mistreated them for being different? It’s just such a breath of fresh air to see a film that ends with the characters finding happiness and peace in their own little slice of heaven, rather than wasting time, energy, and emotions on trying to change others.

#Wolfwalkers #Robyn Goodfellowe #Mebh Óg Mactíre #Mebyn #Ship Discussion #usually in films like this the main characters will have some grand philosophical speech about how they're all “not so different” #and can “live in peace together if we all just get along” and while I do agree with that sentiment /sometimes/ #in this instance I agree it was just better for the girls and their parents to find somewhere that was better to plant their roots #this type of lesson and world change is a better fit for something like HtTYD but not for Wolfwalkers #this also plays into one of my fave yet underrated shipping tropes where a couple leaves society behind just to live together freely #just let the girls be wolf lesbians in the forest while everyone else fucks off

[misssakurapetal28]

C@tra Stans: OMG why people are criticizing C@tra so much!? She’s a literal teenager! Poor baby! 🥺

Also C@tra Stans: OMG C@tra and C//A is SO sexy and spicy! I love it! 😍😍😍

#BTW criticism doesn’t equal HATE #It means people criticize C@tra that doesn’t mean they dislike her #And even if they did it still doesn’t equal hate #it’s not the same thing #at least not ALL the time #I like S1-S4 Catra as a character #I just don’t like how her redemption was handled #So mainly in S5 #So yes I want better for C@tra #but not out of expensive of everyone else #Also it’s funny how shippers and stans will use the they’re a kid excuse #as a means for her to not take any accountability for her actions #but then will call the CA ship sexy and spicy #even IF they’re children #Which one is it!? #spop she ra #spop #she ra spop #spop critical #anti catra #anti catradora #catra critical #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra #she ra 2018 #fandom critical #spop fandom critical #Don’t like scroll pass or block #misssakurapetal28

[crispycreambacon]

Must you betray me with a kiss?

I love how I have a list of things I wanna draw (including one that I actually need to draw for a school assignment) and I completely dropped all of them to work on this, I’m so cool y’all 🤠👍🏽

Before you ask, yes, this was inspired by Judas’ betrayal of Jesus because Ryan and the Professor genuinely remind me of them for some reason and The Kiss by Gustav Klimt because. I don’t have an excuse I just wanted to base my drawing off it–

Lowkey proud of myself for the rendering! It was a pain to get through, and for a moment, I genuinely couldn’t tell if Ryan looked like Ryan or not, but you know what they say, trust the process!!

I hope y’all will have an awesome New Year’s and an awesome 2024 by the way :D

Click below for a filterless version, a WIP and two reactions from my friends ‘cause they’re the funniest people on the planet (shoutout to @couchpotato1206 for making the last image btw)

#DO NOT TAG THIS AS SHIP #I WILL NOT HESITATE TO BECOME A CHIHUAHUA IF I FIND OUT Y’ALL SHIP THESE TWO ISTG #<- needing to say this because I Have Seen Things #to be fair those things are primarily on AO3 but I’m not risking it so BACK OFF 👹👹👹 #to everyone else: hello :3 I hope y’all are doing good 👉🏽👈🏽 #part 57 of me adoring Ryan and the Professor’s relationship #where else can I find my strangers to acquaintances to enemies to murder victims to besties #also it’s genuinely just beautiful to see how their friendship grows throughout y’know #I can make a YouTube video about them but I don’t have The Will #anyways #puppet history #the professor #the professor puppet history #ryan bergara #ryan beef boy bergara #watcher #watcher entertainment #watcher fanart #art #digital art #illustration #digital painting #artists on tumblr #fanart #chris p fried art #tw bright colors #cw bright colors #bright colors #chromatic abberation #beefbuds

[bumblingbabooshka]

There's a lot of Voy Crew & DS9 Crew crossovers for good reason but what about Voy Crew meets the TNG Crew so they can confuse and alarm them at every turn? Most Normal Crew Ever vs Most Fucked Up Weirdos Ever - let's go!

#& the best part is that the voy crew DID used to be normal too and it'd be fun (angsty) to see them be like 'ah yes finally a normal ship #with people just like us!' only to find they're nothing like each other anymore #I'm picturing this still happening in the delta quadrant somehow. It ends with a portal to the alpha quadrant opening up somehow #and VOY crew lets the TNG crew go through (knowing they'll lose their memories of them) bc they know they wouldn't be able to survive #the delta quadrant & also VOY crew wouldn't want to doom anyone else into trying #VOY: Yes!!! Starfleet people!! / TNG: Why are these Maquis criminals roaming around? We've apprehended a rogue borg. Why is everyone being #so casual? This is a starship isn't it? What's with all these slapdash additions? Why-/ VOY: Oh no!!!! Oh we forgot we're freaks!! #TNG crew would most elicit this reaction in my mind bc TOS crew is also doing wild shit and breaking rules & DS9 crew understands that #sometimes you've got a moral quandry you can't really 'solve' and you've gotta do what you've gotta do #*out of the ...what do you call it? oldtrek? crews. #ENT idk. They'd probably be like 'a Klingon on a starship?? looks like we ain't in kansas anymore!' #I'm scared of Archer & British Guy they seem like they're seconds away from saying the quiet part out loud

[cocolacola]

man idk, i only watched five episodes. sorry

#do they interact more im on the edge of my seat #is this even like?? a pairing?? that exists?? did i make this shit up???? #ALSO please correct me if this isnt an ok thing to ship as i said i only saw the beginning of the series and have no idea what happens later #as far as i can tell it's not horrible but i am open to being corrected with my newbie knowledge #they were just my two favorites so of course they hang out #i didnt really find anyone else that interesting #cheers to this show ruining my life in the future #i didnt watch it when i was younger so i didnt get the same experience as everyone else #grelle sutcliff #mey rin #kuroshitsuji #black butler #my art

[tvckerwash]

wash tormenting the reds in the most petty ways possible because he's still pissed off about them hitting him with a car and then blowing him up in s8 is so important to me you don't even understand

#I'm pretty sure I've said it on my old blog before but wash is the blues older brother but to the reds? he's the neighborhood bully lmao #that scene in s13 where wash gets all the chorus soldiers to turn on grif for refusing to attend the training sessions? 100% an act of #calculated cruelty on wash's part lmao #oh oh or in s11 when wash hooked up blue base to the ships power but not the reds? also calculated lol #wash stealing all of their stuff in s10 will also always be a fav petty wash moment of mine #he is out to make them suffer and they're not even aware of it lol #rvb #agent washington #mine #not t/oaru #if i ever write my ct lives au fic I'm going so hard on petty grudge holding wash #he is an absolute menace but he's so lowkey about it that in universe trying to convince ppl that wash is as petty as he is #is nearly impossible #the only ppl aware of wash's true nature are the counselor the director ct alpha and probably maine (and maybe florida) #everyone else sees him in a similar light as his fanon characterization #that's part of the reason why i think lina was so shock in s10 when he turned his gun on her bc to her wash was always so subordinate that #she just genuinely never saw it coming #anyway wash/ct/maine friendship is so important to me. i like to include south in there too sometimes but honestly south comes off as a #loner type. like she doesn't mind ppl but no one except north is really willing to tolerate her uh....personality for long periods of time #shes very....reactive and emotionally charged #but tbh id be that way too if i was stuck with north #north unironically reminds me of my dad but not in the good way lol #god my tags are all over the place #audhd brain goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[saltycryptid]

Saw you wanted drawing requests so I have a few ideas for you!

Wyll taking over the cooking from Gale for once then immediately regretting it when he sees that what they have to work with is 23 heads of garlic, 5 bottles of cheap wine, a single lemon, 15 stale baguettes, and a fish head. Now he sees why Gale complains about cooking duty yet always insists on doing it so no one else has to.

(Inspired by a fanfic) Shadowheart using a detect thoughts potion and deciding to see what her party members are thinking and Gale and Karlach and Wyll are all thinking about food, Astarion is thinking about what Wyll tastes like, tav/Durge is thinking of stabbing people interspersed with 'wait no that's bad don't do that', and Lae'Zel is having extremely gay thoughts about Shadowheart but is trying to resist acting on them.

Gale figuring out how to enchant some gloves and a coat to be heat resistant for Karlach to wear so she can hug everyone even with the burning engine. Karlach pulling him and Shart into a crushing hug ready to cry.

Shadowheart holding up imp bing bong saying 'look at him, how can you resist such a cute face?' And the imp in question is hideous and snarling at Lae'Zel.

Take your pic!

Are you surprised I chose the last one on the list? I hope not XD The High Rollers D&D streams forever altered my life path, I will admit it 😳🙏 JUSTICE FOR BING BONG !!

#Baldur's Gate #BG3 #Shadowheart #Lae'zel #Bing Bong #Fanart #it is SO HEALING to draw Shadowheart with her blunt bangs again ngl #shoutout tho to the githyanki armor #fought that fit tooth and NAIL my god #bonus special kiss to everyone else who popped into my askbox!!! dw i'm still cooking away 🫶💖 #also.... is there a cute ship name for these two? 🤨🤔 #Roach's Choice