#i love this ship more than anything

[moving-to-dreamwinged]

one time on another platform when i was super new to self shipping i was like. how can you believe your f/o loves you back? and someone replied “don’t they bring you comfort? that is their love for you”

#i think about that. so so so so so so often #has given me more comfort than literally anything else ever when it comes to self shipping #it computes to me yk? that’s how they love you back.. by being a proxy for your happiness.. augh. #like. augh. aaaah #f/o #normally i’m rlly cynical about everything but this works so so so well for me idk idk #self ship #self shipper #self ship community #f/o comfort #f/o positivity #.f/o positivity #f/o community #oc x canon #f/o x s/i

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

#so confused about people saying the season finale feels like the end because to me it didn't at all #there's like 5-10 issues immediately set up for another season #they're in a happy place at this point because they've both realized their love is bigger than anything else #and makes it worth working on their problems together #the problems are still very much there #both of them have deep self esteem/self loathing issues that haven't been resolved in the week since ed woke up #ed doesn't know about stede's trauma #they haven't talked through anything #and they'll be shit at starting/running an inn lmao it's not gonna go well #and those are just some of the internal issues #then there's prince ricky and all the authorities that would very much like to get their hands on both blackbeard and stede bonnet #because stede just full-on kept using his government name after faking his death. nice one #the crew are not “gone” they're more like off to college for a bit but will probably run into trouble immediately #again because while they escaped to the ship they didn't eliminate the threat (the british empire) #it's not a forever goodbye #ok this got super long already anyway i have a whole fic marinading in my brain until i've finished these 4 wips i'm in the middle of ✌️ #hope we get a renewal soon because i want to see the rest of their story!! #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd #our flag means death

[lookingupatthesamemoon]

do you guys ever have days where you feel so full of love for your f/o(s) that you’re, like, on the verge of tears about it

#literally been on the verge of tears about joe dirt for like half the day #i just love him more than anything in the world #self ship #rye rambles #self shipping

[breeistired]

Autistic Luna, and autistic Reggie.

ADHD, Harry, and ADHD James.

Together, they all cancel each other out.

DO YOU SEE WHERE IM GOING WITH THIS?

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*Luna putting on noise canceling headphones on both her and Harry. Luna puts her head on Harry’s shoulder. This is the first time Harry’s thoughts have been quiet.*

*Meanwhile, across from them, James and Regulus are holding hands while James rants about whatever. Finally James calms down as Regulus starts to rub his hand.*

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Head cannon that Regulus as the godfather of Luna, babysits her every weekend so Harry and Luna grew up together.

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#lgbtqia #the marauders #I AM NOT SHIPPING LUNA AND HARRY #james potter #romance #anything for our moony #jegulus #moony wormtail padfoot and prongs #sirius black #james loves regulus #james x regulus #starchaser #reggie black #trans reggie #Reggie #i’m a regulus black kinnie #i love the black brothers more than i love myself #luna #luna lovegood #the godfather #autism #adhd

[cerealmonster15]

five stages of adeuce ft the trials and tribulations of ace trappola

#twisted wonderland #twst #adeuce #ace trappola #deuce spade #cereal tries to draw #ummmm. teehee. #jumpscare i spent more than an hour on something #i still. absolutely rushed thru but i mean i did some of it yesterday and some today #for SEVERAL hours #but i am so very busy and have a lot i need to do so i had to just #GET IT OUTTA MY SYSTEM one less thing to think about #but listen listen to me i love adeuce i love them so much theyre one of my og twst ships #and i love their ride or die bestie bond with yuu and grim it's SOOOO CUTE #i also love first year squad and i love basketball brothers and i love heartslabyul family #deuce is eating an egg in that first panel btw. sorry i dont know how to draw. well anything but especially silverware #and also hands. oh god. bu it's OKAY i dont HAVE TO make things PRETTY im . trying new things here. #IM TRYING I AM LEARNING IM EXPRESSING MYSELF VIA. IDK BLORBO SILLIES #ok that's enough going thru it in the tags i love my silly sons i hope u love them too #bc i need more adeuce FOREVER !!!!!!!!!! #directly inject heartslabyul content into my brain please theyre my favorites forever and ever and ever #[smash bros voice] NO CONTEST #ace and deuce have such a funny relationship. like why are you like that LOL kjdfldsjfkls #ace writing a Get Out Of My School letter to juice. real 2 me. i made that joke for jamil/azul once #but it's true for anyone at nrc i think actually. ok that's ENOUGH i need to go to BED GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #also i was gonna use text tool to also type the dialogue but it looked weird n out of place w/my sloppy drawing so i had to freehand AGAIN #SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lucy-ghoul]

can't believe a show based on a videogame (usually games adaptations are notoriously bad, which isn't the case here tho) gave me the beauty and the beast/twisted mirrors/enemies to traveling companions/ruthless antihero+optmistic but still badass heroine who takes none of his shit/age gap but make it sexy dynamic of my dreams. as much as i love maximus and i think he deserves the best writing ever because 1. he's a clever deconstruction of the aspiring Knight bro who's actually a bit of a loser and, as much as lucy, sees the world in black&white at first and then doesn't get what he thought he wanted but what he needs (or at least i hope he'll eventually get it), and 2. he's a cutie and i want an epic love story for him too, it's very funny how they tried to give us a puppy kind of romance and the tumblr girlies still fixated on the "toxic ~she bites his finger off and he cuts hers off and sews it on his hand in what we'll pretend it's a symbolic marriage rings exchange or whatever~ asshole who used to be a nice guy/good girl™ with a lot of spunk and hidden anger but unshakeable morals" kind of relationship.

#mind you idt the writers will ever have the guts to go for this pair or anything and i'm perfectly okay with the maximus/lucy romance #but still. they tried to give us the wholesome love story between two cuties with a killer side #and the fandom went ~mmmh we kinda want for that girl and the noseless radioactive ghoul to fuck nasty actually #shhdhdhf i'm sorry but this was so predictable to me. conosco i miei polli #also. i don't fully understand those who see it as a father/daughter thing? just because it worked on tlos #doesn't mean we need the same kind of dynamic here #1. despite him being an actual father (or at least. he was 200+ years ago) i've never seen a less paternal character than the ghoul lmao #2. lucy is an adult woman. young but in her mid twenties i guess? cooper had (and maybe still has) a daughter but the kid was like. 6 or 7? #lucy doesn't need a daddy she's a grown up. stop infantilizing women all the freaking time #let them be fully equals!! let them be bickering road trip companions/a killer squad/tentative allies who eventually form a real bond #i SWEAR if the writers go full parent/child bs with them in s2 because they're more popular #(at least on ao3. i don't expect the same level of insanity from the general audience) #than the canon ship i'll riot. idt they will but still #..... maybe they should go for a hot max/lucy/coop polycule instead. that would be interesting lmao #vaultghoul #fallout #val rambles in the tags #val speaks #txt

[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

[diesoonandsuffer]

sorry kirk and spock’s love for each other is written into the narrative. as if it’s my fault.

#since the companion video is making the rounds again #like yeah. sorry that by kirk's own definition of love he's in love with spock. sorry. #feeling like he's a part of you? check #more important than anything? well he loses his career and his ship just to bury the man. so. check #sorry that the enterprise and kirk are implied as being inherently linked. as if kirk's one true love is the ship. #and not only does he destroy that ship #but spock is 'at home nowhere except starfleet' and 'sees the enterprise as his whole world' #sorry if the vulcan who can't lie and follows rules to a t will lie and break rules for kirk. sorry. #as if any of this is my fault. #'he's trying to contact the vulcan. this species is capable of much affection. i wonder if they'll show it to us.' #sorry. as if i can do anything about that. #'you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine warm decent feeling.' 'really doctor?' 'i know. i'm worried about jim too.' #'i have been and always shall be yours.' #as if i wrote those myself. sorry. #feeling normal tonight. #kirk #spock #spirk #tos #sam's thots

[imviotrash]

General consensus I have seen in this fandom.

#not me tho #I WILL YAP ABOUT BOTH OF THEM #and Joanne needs to be defended tbh because some of yall are weird about him #not so gentle reminder that anyone who ships “Sebanne” (or anything in that direction) should get the fuck off my blog #i love how i say “general consensus” as if the statement applies to more people than just me and like 3 of my mutuals #kuroshitsuji season 4 #black butler #kuroshitsuji #vio speaks #kuroshitpost #joanne harcourt #vios garbage can #maurice cole

[fisheito]

Well THat doesn't seem right....

#pre-sleep STRIKES AGAIN #evry time i make stuff like this i wonder if i should put it under the ship tag or the individ tags #bc i am showing a pattern and it involves mashing kuya and yakumo into a paste (via traditional mortar and pestle) #*turns on the blender* we're having yokai stew today. and tomorrow. and the day after that. and the day after tha #i'm tellin u. if they introduced kuya lookin like kuya but with yaku's personality #i would have impregnated him ON SIGHT #and if they started the game with a kuya-personality yaku-looker i probably would have hated him more than anything in the universe #it gives me.....first love interest in every otoge where he looks like an edgelord in red-black and has control issues over protag #anyway i'm glad you two are the way you are... even if my instinct-to-impreg leads me astray #bc kuya in his purple pink flower motif (boss bitch) and yaku in his edgelord goth n bones aesthetic (too soft to live) is just. fun #yakuya

[mikoran]

i went into stranger things already knowing about byler, and i expected it to be like most of the other ships i had seen in my time in fandoms. i expected everyone to be grasping onto moments where they were just next to each other for two seconds, or for there to be maybe three or four “moments” the fandom talks about with some sprinkles in between. and i was shocked at just the sheer amount of stuff we got with them. i didnt even have to look, it was just there and handed to us so out in the open, and grasping at straws for anything to be considered a “moment” wasnt necessary because they just kept giving us things

#byler #i expected it to be like finding a needle in a haystack when it turned out half the haystack was needles #theyre different from all the other ships i thought would be canon because of how clearly obvious it is that this is intentional #hell one of them is canonically in love with the other and thats more than anything else ive shipped that hasnt been canon can say #i was expecting to have to latch onto subtext and occasional glances between them #but instead the duffers were like “here!!! have mike give a speech about why the best thing he ever did was becoming friends with will!” #and thats honestly enough for me to believe itll be endgame

[alilsakurablossom]

im just going to leave this here.

#THEY MENTIONED LES MIS IN HEARTSTOPPER EP 4 WAS MADE FOR ME ACTUALLY!!!! #enjoltaire #enjolras #grantaire #i love the heartstopper teachers more than anything actually #do those sillies have a ship name apart from the heartstopper teachers?! #mr farouk #mr ayaji #mr youssef farouk #mr nathan ajayi #heartstopper #heartstopper teachers #heartstopper webcomic #les mis #les miserables

[guinevereslancelot]

babe would you still love me if we were superheroes and you were in danger and i went absolutely bonkers and crossed every moral boundary imaginable to protect you at literally any cost?

#would you still love me if i was covered in blood for you? #anywayyyy more superheros going of the fucking deep end for love thanks <3333 #this isn't based in anything in particular unfortunately i would simply like to see it #anyway.....people compromising their morals for love!!! doing the wrong thing for selfish reasons!!! #too many people commenting on my betrayal post think its about ur lover changing your mind/making you realize u were wrong #no!!! its about choosing the wrong side in purpose!!! going against ur beliefs bc u love someone more than ur conscience #KNOWING its wrong but doing it anyway in absolute AGONY because what other choicebdo you have!!! #anyway <3 #sacrifice ur soul for ur lover or don't waste their time #this has been a shitpost #please tag your blorbos <3 #ig this is lowkey and anidala post but i want the superhero version please and also without the totally implosion of the ship and hero #i want the good guy lover to live with the weight of his sins knowing he can never atone but he would make all the same choices again 🤌 #devotion to your lover above everything!! past the point of redemption or the ability to forgive yourself!!! #(this is good when the lover is horrified but better when they forgive their lover for the atrocities committed for their own sake) #otp dynamic fr #worm discourse

[tame-a-messenger]

My thoughts,

I feel like the biggest disconnect with all the discourse going around is that, (mainly twitter) users automatically assume that combining two peoples names is 'shipping' when that's really not why.

!EXPLANATION!

If you were looking for content surrounding 2 certain people but only tagged their names separately you would be getting EVERY single post. Posts that could have other people in it, and not be the two you were looking for (if I were to look for posts about Ian and Anthony, I would trust the Ianthony tag more than just looking through their regular tags, because people tag them in a lot of other Smosh related content)(same thing for Damien and Shayne, if I was looking for them as a duo I would look through the Shaymien tag)(it simply sorts posts better)

They don't seem to grasp the fact that tagging 'Damangela' is because that's how the tagging culture works over here, and not because we're 'shipping' them.

I thought it was common practice, everyone understands in the fandom world that when you combine people's names it's at it's CORE, a 'Duo Name' before ANYTHING ELSE.

I'm just going to automatically assume that most people getting their feathers all ruffled, just haven't been in fandoms spaces as much, AND THAT'S OKAY!!!

But please, if you take anything away from this, most people doing a lot of shipping is young people, so keep that in mind.

#smoshblr #smosh #Damangela #damangela discourse #I try to keep a calm head about things like this #to be totally frank #I've seen more people complaining about damangela “shippers” than actual shippers #the people that I HAVE seen shipping them werent even being that weird about it #maybe a little delusional #but not super weird #(mostly) #I really really dont see anything wrong with people making edits of them and other content #its really kind of sad that because I've seen so many people freaking out about Damangela #that Damien and Angela might have caught wind of all the people on twitter going on a witch hunt about shippers of them #and the ANTI SHIPPERS are actually doing more harm #I have also been seeing a lot of people over here talking about Angela and Damien's separate tags are getting flooded by people posting #about damangela #I would URGE yall to 'filter' out all the tags you dont want! I dont want to be flooding out different communities!!! THAT IS NOT MY INTENT #if I could be tagging things better LMK! #Peace & Love <3

[cherryblossomtimemachine]

Me switching between scrolling through the Kanej tag, the Wesper tag, and the Tamadia tag

#i don't talk about kanej much but i love them more than anything i'm always lurking in the tag #i love all three of these ships more than i love my family #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #kaz x inej #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper #jesper x wylan #tamar kir bataar #nadia zhabin #tamadia #tamar x nadia #six of crows netflix #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone netflix

[sleepytimegal777]

Ser Criston Cole and Queen Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon

We’ll Never Have Sex - Leith Ross / The Art of Courtly Love - Andreas Capellanus tr. by John Jay Parry / Perfect Day - Lou Reed / The Dedication - Edmund Blair Leighton / John I Love You - Sinéad O’Connor / Prose Lancelot - Unknown tr. by Carleton W. Carroll / Idylls of the King - Alfred Tennyson

#to be clear i don’t like… ship them or whatever i just think their relationship is fascinating #i do think he ‘loves’ her but in a very strange obsessive way that can never be acted upon and is mostly just about making himself worthy of #the woman who gave him a second chance at life #i think she’s just glad to have someone who is devoted to her and who will stand up for her because most of the people in her life have #failed her spectacularly #it’s more about the idea of the other person than anything else #that being said i’m literally just making this all up based on the version of the characters that live in my head so… 🤷🏻‍♀️ #parallels #web weaving #web weave #house of the dragon #hotd #alicent hightower #criston cole #alicent x criston #alicole #i guess