#i will sink with my ship

[beautifulblazeangel]

"Shit, Dawes," said Tripp, grinning as if Spenser and every other bad thing had been forgotten, "can you please just come stay in my loft and make me fat?"

Dawes rolled her eyes, but Alex could tell she was pleased.

The way Tripp just loves Dawes's cooking is just sending me because now I'm shipping them when I know its probably never going to happen.

"Come on," she said to Tripp. "We'll get you to Il Bastone and I'll see what I can find to feed you."

"Oh man, thank you. Thank you."

Now every interaction they have I'm just like 👀

"Dawes, get Tripp to Il Bastone -- and don't let him eat you."

#ninth house #hellbent #leigh bargudo #tripp helmuth #dawes #love language #is food #my ship is sailing #Tripp and dawes #tripp x dawes #i will sink with my ship #pamela dawes #hellbent leigh bardugo

[eileenwdj]

四大害 | Four Great Calamities

#art #tgcf #hua cheng #he xuan #bai wuxiang #qi rong #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #crimson rain sought flower #white no face #black water sinking ships #very proud of this actually #like icb i actually made this w my own two hands #idk how this happened #currently also working on a four famous tales piece #pray i dont fuck it up god bless

[degenerateshinji]

sea breeze

#sskk #shin soukoku #akuatsu #bsd #bungou stray dogs #atsushi nakajima #ryuunosuke akutagawa #bsd fanart #fanart #my art #akutagawa #atsushi #the day these two can get on a ship and it doesn't sink is the day i can die happy #haven't drawn these 2 in a while i feel like i'm rusty

[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

[lazycranberrydoodles]

oooooh you want to read my huaxuan hookup fic sooooo bad

bonus :P

#theyre both transfem and they hate each other but at least at the end of the dqy we have hua cheng’s stupid luxury weed #t4t sapphic situationship save me. save me t4t sapphic situationship #(after checking canon heights) #also they are HUGE?? #just being genre aware many characters are gonna be tall. #just was not expecting them to be taller than *me* #woe is me. mean tattooed lesbians that have a couple inches on me. can you see how im suffering. guys. guys #my art #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #huaxuan #hua cheng #he xuan #black water sinking ships #crimson rain sought flower #hob #heaven official’s blessing #heaven official’s blessing fanart #art #hualesbians #i guess #no matter what gender hua cheng is just know she is trans ok #fic #weed tw #smoking tw

[beillus]

"Let me worship you as you do for me." -*-*- These two are just festering in my brain. Nobody stop them; it makes me happy lol

#battling depression with my OTP #Zolu #I will sink with this ship #OP fanart #One Piece #Zoro #Luffy #beillus #Luzo #beillustrates #blanca estefania

[callmegaith]

Is that a gun in your pants, detective? Or are you just happy to see me? 🐰

#rusty lake #cube escape #yall tag my art of them as ship anyway #so this one is for u #sink ur teeth into it #david eilander #dale vandermeer #fandom: rusty lake #idk what the ship name would be so I cant tag ship #that'll do #fellas is it gay to fall in love with ur parents killer? #They should kiss and make up #and kiss #and heal #ship: jackalope

[glowsticcc]

keep that thing on a leash

#secret life smp #secret life lizzie #secret life pearl #secret life fanart #art #digital art #trafficblr #life series #mcyt #mcyt fanart #ldshadowlady #pearlescentmoon #i am SO normal about them guys #like don’t even worry #undying devotion and protection don’t seep into my mind like a sinking ship taking on water what do you meaaaaaaaan

[nibbelraz]

He Xuan and Hua Cheng? Hope you're doing well :,))

I had so much fun drawing them I went all out, I hope you like it!!!

I'm also doing great!!! Hope you are too ^^

#tgcf #he xuan #hua cheng #crimson rain sought flower #black water sinking ships #heavens official blessing #tian guan ci fu #ok so i had a BLASTTT doing this like honestly #ive never drawn He Xuan before but MANNN DO I LOVE HIM #so sorry it took me so long to answer this 😭 #my art #nibbelraz

[uncanny-tranny]

So much love and recognition to the people who don't know how they feel about recovering. To the people whose scars are fading away, and there's a sinking feeling, despite knowing that it's a good thing. To the people who miss when they were "worse," when they felt "broken." To the people who mourn losing their coping mechanisms, even the ones that were destructive, scary, or unpleasant. To those who feel guilty they're healing because their past self wasn't ready.

Whatever it is, there is nothing wrong with any of those feelings. It's a natural reaction, something you don't have ultimate control over. There is nothing shameful about yourself, and I admire the strength it takes to recognize how you feel, even the parts that do feel like the "wrong" reaction to a Good Thing.

#mental health #self harm tw #self harm mention tw #sh tw #mental health recovery #mental health support #i love you i love you i love you #i admire you and empathize with you and want to be your fellow man. i want to share this wold *with* you #and that includes sharing a world that you aren't sure you deserve or are ready for #the world can wait. humans have been here for hundreds of thousands of years. it can wait #when i think about all this what makes me feel better is remembering how many billions of people have lived #and it makes me feel better to know that there has never been a problem too big to have - to uniquely awful #i have my own conflicted feelings about this because objectively i am healing #but it feels like i have boarded on land after surviving the worst trip to sea ever... #...a trip that was plagued with my ship being flung through hurricanes and lightnight and i'm only manning a sailboat... #...and i have found land and that land is good... #...but my legs feel like they will give out underneath me because this is solid land that i have never stood on... #...and you get used to the constant seasickness and sealegs and wondering *how* you'll make it out - If you will... #...the peace feels like a ruse at times because all you've known was chaos. but it's a good ruse and a comfortable one #and so you learn i guess to sink into the comfort like a spft feather pillow

[komijava]

#little doodle of he xuan my poor boy #I always find it so funny how he’s in debt lol #tgcf #he xuan #black water #black water sinking ships #mxtx tgcf #mxtx #beefleaf

[therubyjailcell]

"average supreme rank ghost king is very poor" factoid actually just statistical error. average supreme rank ghost king is quite wealthy. Black Water, who lives in a cave & owes so much money to Crimson Rain Sought Flower that he will fight alongside him, is an outlier and should not have been counted

#tgcf spoilers #i guess??? #tgcf #he xuan #hua cheng #v talks too much #the author's note took me out and this was all i could think of as i read this specific part #bro is ruined??? buddy what the fuck did u do lmao #hx is my baby he did nothing wrong (he did sm wrong) #mxtx #black water sinking ships #crimson rain sought flower

[lukreziaaa]

“When you meet the right person, you know it.

You can’t stop thinking about them. They’re your best friend. And your soulmate.

You can’t wait to spend the rest of your life with them.

No one and nothing else can compare.”

#how i met your mother #himym #barney stinson #robin scherbatsky #barney x robin #robin x barney #swarkles #[not my gif] #i’m sinking with this ship

[vividbaddogs]

vengeful ghost

#officially in my tgcf fanart era. its over for me #this is messy but im kinda just figuring out how i wanna draw them 👍 #i really read one of the most insane love stories and then pointed at a side antagonist and said thats the one im going to rotate in my min #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #he xuan #black water sinking ships #slowmodraws

[renjunnipeikko]

HC and HX to YY: Aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you just want to go apeshit?

#that’s the dynamic I want from them #ESPECIALLY post canon when yy is… listen he’s a ghost now #ghost!yy my love #hc and hx post canon trying their damnest to get yy to do crazy shit #ghost city trio #ghost city ghouls #idk those fucks all need FRIENDS #and clearly hc and hx like yy enough bc they helped SAVE HIM #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #hua cheng #crimson rain sought flower #he xuan #black water sinking ships #yin yu #waning moon officer #tgcf hua cheng

[buck-up-buck]

7x09 is titled "Unfinished Business" ....

Tell me that is not a revenge plot against Bobby. TELL ME. You can't. If I was not convinced before, I AM NOW.

hErE mE oUt.

I'm not saying they are going to burn down Buck's loft, I AM NOT... BUT, imagine Bobby is dropping a patient off at the hospital with Hen and Chim (I know this hardly ever happens but roll with me guys), and our friend, the Burn Unit Nurse, sees him, and is like...

"Bobby?" BECAUSE, he recognises him, from all those years ago in Minnesota. He lived in Bobby's apartment complex, they were somewhat neighbours, and he saw Bobby go into that vacant apartment that night (the night we do not DARE talk about), on his way to work, and was working a night shift at the hospital when suddenly, they get an influx of patients with burns and smoke inhalation from an apartment fire downtown, and he hears in passing from a nurse the address, and his heart sinks because no his fiance was at home asleep at that address and he hears from someone a few weeks later that the fire started in a vacant room due to an electrical issue with a space heater and HE JUST KNOWS.

And Bobby turns around to face him and is like "Sorry, do I know you?" Because Bobby was going through it back then, he doesn't remember this guy, and the guy is like, "Sorry, no, I was mistaken." And he walks away leaving Bobby all like huh.

Then the episode ends with the truck pulling into the firehouse and the camera pans out and we see BURN UNIT NURSE GUY STOOD ACROSS THE ROAD STARING UP AT THE FIREHOUSE BECAUSE DUN DUN DUN- He has some Unfinished Business to attend to.

If this so happens to lead to the burning down of Buck's loft because this guy does his research and he does some stalking and he sees a connection that Bobby has with Buck that he doesn't seem to share with the other members of the team, then well, ya'll didn't see it here first but I fucking called it if so, because you're telling me that is not a CRAZY storyline right there.

BUT, even if not, even if we do not get our beloved loft burning down scene that we have been writing and praying for on Fanfiction for years, you cannot tell me that there is not going to be some kind of dark revenge plot going on in the last four episodes. This nurse is about to cause some HAVOC I CAN SENSE IT. MY SPIDEY SENSES ARE TINGLING GUYS.

Anyway, @whollyjoly and @thetangycheesemanwithaplan had the absolute joy of hearing this from a very sleep-deprived me last week and now that the episode titles have been released, Buck's loft burning down and Burn Unit Nurses revenge plot is going to be my new personality trait. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

#Thank you for coming to my ted talk #911 #911 spoilers #season seven #season seven spec #i am talking about burning bucks loft down again #unfinished business #are you kidding me #this SCREAMS revenge plot #evan buckley #bobby nash #bobbys past is about to come bite him in the ass guys I CAN SMELL IT #we love giving our favourite characters more TRAUMA #as if bobby hasn't been through enough guys GIVE THIS MAN A BREAK #first you sink his cruise ship then you burn his sons loft down #sksksks how RUDE #LETS GO PEOPLE #am I god? #am i right with this? #if the episodes would just AIR THEN WE WOULD KNOW WOULDNT WE #tim minear get on this shit #this is good soup right here #get me in the writers room #i have a creative writing degree and i am not afraid to use her #tim minear hire me please #i love you #tim #minear #tim minear #gonna tag him again cause we know he lurks on Tumblr we know he does