#common ship

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

#bearz rambling tag #no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change #because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites #I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here #like why would I even know that #‘ship’ makes zero sense to me #it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here #it’s hard #give people time #shipping culture is very different too #Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name #it is very very important to them #people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end #imagine how confused I was when I first got here #where there’s no top bottom differences #it’s not really a smut thing #it’s more a dynamic thing #AxB and BxA is very different #oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures #if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask #it’s very interesting to me #I wanna talk about it

[intermundia]

i just read about the "narcissism of small differences," aka the idea that the more a community has in common, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other, and i knew there was a reason my time in academia and fandom felt oddly similar lmao

#you guys!!! this was freud's term from 1917. not mine #i understand people concerned about the colloquial usage but again. this is freud's term for the phenomenon in psychoanalysis #where the term 'narcissism' has a specific meaning #again. not my term. just a specific concept i found when i was reading about psychoanalysis and found relatable #ANYWAY. original tags -> #fandom stuff #like with people shipping the same ship #they have so much in common #love of and knowledge about the same characters #but then things like #top vs bottom characterization of one character #such a slight difference between people obsessed w the same character #makes sense it's so vicious lmao

[13ag21k]

Consider me successfully wooed by you holding a knife against my throat.

#sterek #dinluke #ghostsoap #geraskier #murder husbands #steddie #villaneve #thorki #wangxian #batjokes #trikey #jegulus #kylux #kalluzeb #ship tropes #textpost #lmao it is 5am #but i just had to #me and my otps have some things in common

[beescake]

Is Solkat the last two braincells in your brain or something/pos

yeas

stupid crush

#ask #eliza-kinnie #homestuck #karkat vantas #sollux captor #solkat #2024 #vioart #outside of wips for this blog i do draw other stuff.. other ships other fandoms n the occasional paid work etcetc #one thing ill always love more than slkt is. Drawing #but here's the latest feed on my slkt braincells 🎤: #RGGHRGHNFHGRHHG. #GHNFHGRHHGNGHRGH. #GRRRRGHRHGH. #NGHRGHHGHHHHG. #PAIN. #childhood close friends #who no longer have any reason to talk to each other............. #unless plot gives them a new purpose #to reunite and work towards a common cause.............................

[aeroplaneblues]

Hoodie Buddies 🍧🦁

I know lion boy looks like a beyblade mc but idc i like him, i hope he is friends with chongyun🥹💙

#genshin impact #gaming genshin #chongyun #idraw #not exactly a ship i will for his personality first #from what some cn players have said #he has a pretty common name and its cantonese #idk if its wrong to write Ga-ming so pls lmk #its the same with sundayhsr #such an unfortunate name choice #1k

[wiingdings]

cat people

#based on a thought i had where i was like if a villain had a cat on their lap i would ask to pet it #some kind of ship dynamic maybe #i like when supervillains and heroes talk and banter abt common interests #superhero #superheroes #villain #supervillain #heroes and villains #villain x hero #hero x villain #cat #cats #cat people #art #shitpost #sketch #doodle

[mallalada]

doodle ;P

#genshin #genshin impact #neuvillette #wriothesley #wriolette #neuvithesley #malarts #what is their ship name anyway. i think wriolette is the more common one but idk #anyway. kissy kissy ^3^

[wikoymi]

again trying to translate how they look in my mind into art ft. komahina shower brainworms

#komahina #hikoma #nonsexual nudity #im allowed to post this right #anyways #hajime hinata #nagito komaeda #sdr2 #danganronpa #danganronpa fanart #fanart #art #wikoart #finished #ship art #nagito sees nothing weird about being in the shower with hajime. i mean its not that weird its only weird to hajime because nagito is nagit #i say that bc if im not mistaken public bathhouses are common in japan either that or ive been lied to #hajime hinata is so awesome i wish transgender people were real #towel nagito so polite looking i might cry

[endlesslytired]

#i think i ran out of material then suddenly my archives are no longer redundant and the cycle never dies. #ive had a lot of these in waiting for a day they're useful and mannn. depends on how you see these posts. #honkai star rail #hsr aventurine #hsr dr ratio #hsr aventio #hsr ratiorine #hsr firefly #hsr trailblazer #hsr stelle #hsr sampo #hsr black swan #hsr sparkle #i don't know if i actually ship this or not but SPARKLE WAS MAD FUCKING FLIRTING and the dynamic is hilarious #hsr black sparkle #hsr swan sparkle #personally i think dark spark sounds good but thats too out of balance for common ship names rip #hsr march 7th #MARCH WTF DOES THAT MEAN AND WHAT HAPPENED TO MAKE YOU SAY THAT #hsr misha #hsr himeko #hsr dan heng #hsr silver wolf #hsr natasha #hsr serval #hsr servasha #this is like my 3rd top fav ship in this game and my fav rare pair because i don't understand why its rare #hi3 kiana kaslana #ggz raiden mei (I think) #gi lumine

[pinkcadavart]

I'm still learning the characters rn so this might not be accurate but please tell me its at least funny

#i saw that post that was like 'if you were my husband I'd poison your coffee' and 'if you were my wife id drink it' and got inspired #vil schoenheit #rook hunt #twisted wonderland #twst #rookvil #vilrook #idk what is more common a ship name for them and this isn't technically ship art but......... still #no one ask me to draw vil again I did not do him justice at all ghhhh #u can tell im tired and just needed to get this idea out as soon as physically possible before it haunted me lol #I FIXED the height difference bc I was embarrassed #i really thought Rook was taller until 2 seconds after posting and im ashamed #fanart

[m-does-things]

A Crown of Candy ep 6 / The Ravening War ep 6

Zac Oyama PCs + telling people to shut up while helping them before their potential deaths

#I literally had to pause watching the rw finale to sob over this parallel #I was so sure deli was gonna die here #truly chewing on the walls #even more so if you consider that both of those are the common ships for his character #zac oyama you make me unwell sir #there’s absolutely more parallels that can be made here but rn I just have feelings #the ravening war #trw #trw spoilers #the ravening war spoilers #d20 spoilers #dimension 20 #a crown of candy #acoc #acoc spoilers #lapin cadbury #theobald gumbar #colin provolone #thane delissandro katzon

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

#for the record if you ever find something kind of rancid in my fics #do please let me know #EX: I've rewritten scenes to be better Actual Blind Rep for Toph based on blind reader feedback #and I'm debating how hard it would be to ignore/re-write the canon issues of Water Tribe sexism (for the Southern Tribe at the least) #because that is a common complaint I see from the people who's RL cultures the Water Tribes was based on #probably I can do more interesting things with that going forward #in other words justice for Hama and Hahn #at least the show itself made Hama excellently complex #anyways back to doing actual writing #please no follow up questions #though I will say anyone who wants to update their own fics to use Wanyi (or any other name): go for it! #all you need to do is plop your chapters in a word editor and find/replace the ship name! it took about 40 minutes to do literally #all of my fics and I had some other editing to do besides! it'll be even quicker for you! #let's sink the Wani #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko

[jicamasticks]

John kills me whenever he's describing the KiY and winds up using words like "powerful" and "magnificent" like my guy is trying so hard to straddle the line between "ugh he's such a monster" and "isn't my corporeal form hot?? pls believe me i swear if you had your eyes back Arthur you would be soooooooo into me 🥺 👉👈

#malevolent #jarthur #i still can't believe THATS the most common ship name but what can ya do

[villainartist]

theres no way im finishing this. anyways theyre everything to me.

#danganronpa #kokichi ouma #kaito momota #tenko chabashira #danganronpa v3 #v3 #ndrv3 #oh if only platonic ship tags were more common. oh well #oumota #pregame kaito #pregame kokichi #pregame tenko #pregame v3 #villainous art

[sleepyfishb8]

prepared a 2nd batch but i added a lil 2 much sollux this time

<- 1st batch 3rd batch ->

#homestuck #eridan ampora #john egbert #vriska serket #sollux captor #karkat vantas #gamzee makara #roxy lalonde #jane crocker #aradia megido #rose lalonde #terezi pyrope #arasol #janeroxy #roxyjane #<- idk wut the more common ship name 4 them is

[onesidedradiostatic]

holy shit i don't think I've ever seen a ship be described as this as the first sentence under the fanon section. this is fucking incredible

#osrs.txt #this is why I love radiorose #radiorose #qpr radiorose #queerplatonic radiorose #despite the many complaints I do think alastor being aroace has had like a really positive impact on fanon #as in certain interpretations of ships are more common because of people wanting to respect his aroaceness #so stuff like qpr radiorose and one-sided radiostatic being the more common interpretations of their respective ships? #I think it's amazing #I'm surprised radiostatic's popular one-sided interpretation isn't in its wiki page yet though #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #alastor #hazbin rosie #hazbin hotel rosie #aroace alastor