#only the greatest ships

[mysillyside]

The way I completely lose all interest in Lawlight as a ship if Light isn't Kira. And frankly, I feel like L would agree with me on this one. I don't think he'd gaf abt Light in the slightest if Light wasn't Mr. Serial Killer.

#Lawlight only works if Light is Kira bc otherwise light is just some rly smart pretentious teenager. #Like you're telling me L a 24 y/o self made multi-millionaire and the world's greatest detective (top 3 if you count the aliases)- #would care in the slightest abt mr “i got a perfect score on my college entrance exam”. Be fr!! #Idk the ship loses everything that makes it fun and appealing to me if you remove Kira from the mix #Ik ppl do “Light isn't Kira” AUs to make the ship more wholesome but i'd argue it just becomes problematic in a diff way. #L is not only way older but also extremely rich and successful. If Light is innocent but still a suspect- L also has immense power over him #Ig i don't see the point of trying to make Lawlight wholesome. It's still problematic but without the goofy homoerotic enemyship. #Light being Kira not only makes them equals but gives them spice! #However I DO get the appeal of “Light isn't Kira” AUs where Light is still a fake asshole who's performatively nice but hides his real feel #But removing his misogynistic swag/superiority complex/his bitchy internal monologues to make him normal? No... #Imo even if he isn't Kira he'd still be a weirdo. The only Yotsuba!Light is so normal/nice is bc he's trying to prove to everyone- #but most importantly himself- that he's a good person incapable of being Kira. He's trying to be the best version of himself. #Pre-Death Note Light for example is never as outstanding and good as Yotsuba!Light for this reason. Yotsuba!Light is the exception. #Like the Death Note doesn't make you pretentious or hate women that was all Light Yagami. #this is such a random rant sorry guys XD again more power to ppl who enjoy this AU or normalguy!Light but I don't get it personally 😔 #death note #light yagami #l lawliet #lawlight #💬 katposts #🤪 sillygoofy

[utilitycaster]

I don't begrudge anyone their campaign preferences, and I think there's plenty of valid reasons to like Campaign 3 the best and this is not directed at people who are genuinely having a great time with it, but it feels like virtually all the nostalgia and wishful thinking I see surrounding Campaign 3 is screaming "you guys want Campaign 2." You want more slow travel and downtime and interparty conversations and slow-burn romance? You wish their main focus was fighting governmental corruption? You want a party that only semi-settles down at the end and keeps adventuring and remains very close? You're frustrated by how everpresent and overarching the moon plot is? You miss when they were just fucking around in a city? I genuinely believe you want Campaign 2, or at best you love a specific ship or a character from Campaign 3 but aren't happy about basically anything else, and would vastly prefer the tone and events and plot of Campaign 2. And I don't really care if you watch Campaign 2, or if you think I'm being annoying here; I simply genuinely believe you'd be happier watching Campaign 2 than Campaign 3 and are so deep in a sunk cost fallacy well you can't see it.

#the number of people who SCREAM if you imply campaign 3 is not the greatest campaign but also openly resent the moon focus is. high. #i've had my complaints about the people from c1 who would shit on c2 but i'll give them this: they actually do love c1. #it feels a lot of people just want bells hells at a chuck e cheese birthday party and like. that's not campaign 3 babe. #i actually have grown to really like the moon plot once it finally took off #and c3 has had some satisfying lore resolutions and new places #but it feels like the people who showed up to ship kind of hate the core plot of the campaign which. is the core plot of the campaign. #cr tag #this is intended to be read in conversation with the post from earlier about things not being deep too #like it's ok if your blorbo or otp is in c3...but if that's the only thing you love do you love the campaign or do you just love them #also. i also don't begrudge anyone their reasons for watching a show #but I've seen like three people i follow try to watch wot solely bc Lanfear is hot and give up bc there's so much lore #and people get mad candela didn't give them a happy ending for their ship #it really is like did you show up for c3 or did you show up for a blorbo delivery system #not realizing this is prix fixe instead if made to order

[redheartzone]

ummmmm haha i am not immune. i think i was gonna make this a sexy thing but it's so cute as-is. i think i prefer the ambiguity. this was sort of comic panel/storyboard practice, they should be consistent if you click through them

#txt #my art #not the greatest camera angle but ehh. #ragatha's hair is a lot of twists and i think i've only seen one other person interpret her hair that way #my other pomni art was a warning i guess. lol #tadc #pomni #ragatha #tadc gangle #gangle #the amazing digital circus #what would this ship name be? #ragapom #? #love a pair of canon doll/clown perma tfs. also gangle is there. #didn't post this for a while cause i didn't want anyone getting mad but i deserve to live my life. i can do whatever i want forever

[ghost-bxrd]

For "your court of owls batfam" au , how would Bruce react if Cobb ever got seriously hurt to the point of maybe having to be replaced? Also how do Dick and Jason feel about Cobb? Do they get along or is it strictly professional?

MWAHAHA I GOT ONE PERSON INTERESTED IN THIS AU ALREADY! *cheers*

Okay so Talon lore is that very little can keep a Talon down permanently. They can even regrow limbs if given enough time! So that’s neat. But basically replacing Talons isn’t a practice often exercised.

I know the Court canonically tried getting rid of Cobb in the Court of Owls saga because he got defeated by Batman and they didn’t think he’d “recover from the shame of being so thoroughly deafeated”.

It therefore stands to reason that he’s aware that he’s easily replaceable (there is always more than one Talon at any given time, although stored away in cryo usually) if he doesn’t perform to the Court’s expectations. Cobb is the best, been the best, Talon for over a century (?) now, but that means nothing if he fails to fulfill his missions.

So let’s say Cobb gets heavily injured by something that shouldn’t have been much of a challenge for a Talon. Let’s say his inattention/hubris/whatever nearly gets Bruce killed—-

That would be scandalous.

For one, his injuries will take several weeks to heal. Weeks in which the Voice will be virtually defenseless without their Talon. This is unacceptable.

And Two, some regular two bit criminals should have never been able to best a Talon in such a way. It’s a disgrace to the Court.

No, no, a new Talon must take Cobb’s place now. He has become obsolete. His services have been appreciated, but, “oh, you understand dear Talon, don’t you? The weak must be culled from the flock”.

And Cobb understands. He does. He’d thought- he thought he’d have more time, though. Time to convince Bruce to let him train the boy after all, to make sure his Voice is protected even after Cobb is gone. That the Court’s machinations will not see Bruce dead before the year is done because the new Talon will not know that Bruce is the best thing to have happened to the Court in a century. They will end up killing Bruce, killing Dick— (he shouldn’t care- he doesn’t care. He doesn’t. He doesn’t. He doesn’t-)

But then Bruce storms into the labs like the onset of a hurricane, all righteous fury and indignation, Dick hot on his heels (wide eyed and still too little with not enough training to hold out against the new Talon long enough to at least escape) demanding what the fuck is going on and why his Talon isn’t back by his side yet.

And he doesn’t accept the scientists’ reasonings that Cobb has done his duty; has become “outdated”. Doesn’t accept the reassurances of the “new one” being just as good— no, better, than the previous one. Doesn’t accept that a new Talon is supposed to protect him now. (“Him or none,” Bruce says, tone colder than the permafrost of the arctic, and at his side Dick’s eyes flash with unvoiced threat. “Now get out of my way.”)

As to the relationship between Cobb and the kids, well. His and Dick’s relationship is tense at first. Cobb has no interest being anything of a family to him despite their blood relations. He only sees Dick as a potential new (and perfect) Talon that could keep Bruce safe if he himself is deemed “outdated”. He’s not happy about all the potential “going to waste” by Dick being made Bruce’s ward, being allowed to live a sort of normal life. But once Dick approaches him for some training in physical combat… well. Sorry, Cobb tried. He really did. But Dick Grayson invented charisma, and even Cobb isn’t immune. He grudgingly starts liking the kid but will deny that until he’s blue in the face. Dick ends up being the Gray Son of Gotham, the highest ranking court member after Bruce with the training of a Talon.

With Jason it’s more straight forward. At first Cobb is pissed at Bruce for taking in a “street rat” and intending to adopt him, but… well, Jason grows on him “like fungus” (a direct quote). At first Cobb doesn’t really know what to make of Jason. The kid is loud and aggressive, but shrinks away like a wilting flower at the first signs of someone raising their voice. (He’s soft, Cobb thinks. The Court will eat him alive.)

But Jason’s also got a spine of steel as he clearly demonstrates when he jumps Cobb with a knife after an unfortunate misunderstanding where he assumed Bruce was in danger of him, and that kind of loyalty at least he can work with. (The kid’s still soft inside as all get out, but he’s excellent at covering it up with violence and bravado, and his charm is that he’s honest in a way so utterly foreign to the Court that it endears him to all the trustworthy members within a few months).

Jason becomes The Heart of the Court, the morality that Bruce was starting to have trouble clinging to; keeping them all on the right path towards a better future. A better Gotham.

(Cobb absolutely loves the children as much as Bruce does. It just takes him a bit longer to get there. And Jason is his favorite sorry I don’t make the rules. COUGH.)

#wait what do we even call the ship? #now there’s a thought lmao #Cobb is a cynical little shit #or a tsundere #both I guess #he denies having affection for anybody #least of all Bruce #sorry but that’s only his Voice #a job #(he said while methodically gutting two people vaguely mentioning hurting Bruce) #and the children are little pests #(he said while bringing them hot cocoa) #Alfred ‘you are an idiot!’ pennyworth #Bruce ‘worlds greatest detective but oblivious to feelings’ Wayne #William Cobb #crackship #Bruce Wayne #jason todd #batfamily #dick grayson #batfam #court of owls #talon #court family

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

i havent followed the manga in several months and im not interested in catching up again but has bakugo un-died yet. has deku saved him yet with the power of gay love. or is he still getting open heart surgery. has this boy been getting open heart surgery for the past 8 months.

#shut up pandora #bnha #boku no hero academia #katsuki bakugo #izuku midoriya #bakudeku #i guess #the first time bakugo Fucking McDied was pretty romantic #and i guess the second time deku did get pretty mad about it so fuck it im down #its shounen so dekus will they wont they with uraraka is so misogynistic #that his relationship with bakugo has become the greatest love story of all time #i jest ofc #even if they became canon RIGHT NOW the rest of the story is too mid for them to be even a particularly good love story #but its also the only relationship in bnha that i still care about after the disrespect they showed my girl momo #and the direction they went with the todoroki family #and the general plot progression #imma stop talking about that bc this is not a complain about bnha post this is a 'is bakugo still dead' post #but yeah although this is the only bnha ship i still care about i dont think horikoshis brave enough to make them canon #but if all the tjlc-ing from the bakudeku fans come true and they really do pull a fakeout and bkdk gets together #i will stomach the poor plot progression and hatred towards women and start following the manga again #but yeah if hes still dead horikoshi get on it??? #it was dramatic the first few chapters but if you drag it out for several months ppl (me) are going to get tired of it and drop the series

[justsomeoneunordinary]

lmfaooo imagine sea sick tobirama

he is one of the strongest shinobi of his time!

he can use all nature transformations and most importantly, he's a suiton master!

he can create a vast quantity of water out of fucking thin air!

he can obliterate an opponent with his suiton jutsus alone!

he... gets hit by extreme nausea the very moment he steps on a fucking boat lmao

every travel to uzushio is filled with dread and to his embarrassment, neither hashirama nor mito stop teasing him about it ever

#senju tobirama #nidaime sama brought to knees by a fucking boat (or ship) #if only izuna had known about tobirama's true greatest weakness...

[kavehater]

I support girls but NAH THIS IS REACHING “if you look carefully LIKE REALLY CAREFULLY 🤓☝️”

#the same people who would shriek like the witch of the north melting her skin off if I tell you haikaveh / kavetham isn’t implied because #if you actually look into our culture they’re being normal and not everyone having rivalry and caring about each other means they’re 💅 #in fact Arabs are some of the worlds most hospitable people alhaitham letting kaveh live with him #is the most Arab thing I’ve ever seen #heck if kaveh was a stranger it wouldn’t be unusual for an Arab to let him in their house ☠️ #goddamn #“if you look in the internet you can see how they’re implied!🤓☝️” #maybe if you had any respect for my culture or any desire to be educated when I’m handing this to you for free you wouldn’t be your mistake #your mums greatest mistake 🤗🤗🤗* #dora daily #if only ppl dedicated this level of detail to actual culture compared to pulling out their microscope at level 100x magnification lens to #observe robins spots under her eyes the world would be a better place 🙀 #let me tell you btw this whole I hate you meh meh meh ( I’m so in love with you ) trope is the most whitest booktok millennial plant growing #basement dweller nonesense I have ever heard in my life don’t do that to my pookies ☹️ #( the pookies in fact were 11 and 9 years older than her respectively ) #guys my dad is the straightest man alive ( oh the trauma lowkey wish he wasn’t ) and he legit was putting his hand on his best friends lap #LMAOOO even I as a very logical person was like bro this is so zesty rn I am SO uncomfortable #anyways live laugh love boothill x Baizhu they’re the most canon things I’ve ever seen in my life #<- this is a joke btw it’s an ironic ship I saw on tiktok ☠️

[tokruta]

someone who is good at psychology help me understand why i adore jegulus with all my heart but don't like drarry outside of very specific aus

please my family is dying (my ability to read jegulus lives aus is heavily compromised)

#jegulus #drarry #harry potter #my greatest shame is that i can't completely drop hp fan content #i'll never touch official hp stuff (and haven't since like 2018) #but the fan content slaps so hard #especially the marauders stuff. been a james girlie since 2008 #my leading theory is that i just don't like draco and the few aus im talking about have to do with getting me to like him first #i think the only time i actually shipped drarry is in the dark prince trilogy bc they were bffs and super supportive to each other in a way #i found very compelling. the trilogy is hinny but if it was drarry i would have been 100% okay with it #so since each fic needs to win me over on draco instead of starting at me already liking him it's too much effort to read drarry so i don't #(i like regulus. everyone is allowed 1 death eater to like (obv you can like more i just mean ppl who despise them) and mine is him. #what can i say? the black brothers the stolen horcrux and the love for kreacher compel me. loved reggie long before i shipped jegulus) #does anyone have any jegulus lives aus with hinny? that'd be great! #hasan't

[dangerdoods]

durgetash(+minthara)s from my sketchbook <3

#bg3 #durgetash #bg3 dark urge #dark urge x gortash #bg3 minthara #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 gortash #their ship name is wisterienver <3 i am their no1 (only) fan but together we can change this #doods #someone please ask for their playlist its my lifes work my greatest achievement. im ummmm unwell

[allthebestcowboyshavedaddyissues]

"SMG is the only one acting well in this scene" Angel is completely disoriented after months of not being himself and she stabs him within a minute of 'gaining consciousness'

#david is not the GREATEST actor in the world I'm not saying that #SMG is the best actor on the entire show and she has experience #but buffy is going through a much more emotional scene than angel because SHE KNOWS AND HE DOESN'T #that's PART of her agony he literally doesn't know what he's done yet and she's killing him just when she got him back #there's a difference between being a totally terrible actor and just having a character that is not as impactful as others #angel doesn't really get that type of time or development on buffy #he's merely her love interest and simultaneously/later on her Big Bad #he's not really considered much of his own person #and sure you can argue that DB isn't great in early seasons btvs #but to ME i think it's more about angel's character as we're first introduced to him #he's not had much social contact with others (he's awkward even when he is social) #which is highlighted more in AtS but DB is improved AND is given time to be his own character outside of buffy's shadow #i know a lot of you like to only view characters in the shipping sense and not as individual characters though so i won't bother arguing #this is just me stating my piece. okay.

[teacupballerina]

fictional psychopathic middle aged men... 🫠😭😳🤯🤭🫣🙈🥰😍😜🥳🥺😩😖🤫😈😹💀🫶

#arts #doodles #tumblr pls #maybe i jus want them to be HAPPY! #or cause a lot of hilarious drama #either way the list of husbandos over 30 is extensive and the only such list i have #and yes they all have fancy little ships to piss you off #aku #ghetsis #maxie #not pictured are VECNA SHINNOK HANNIBAL NATHANWALLACE FREDDYKRUEGER ETC #even new pokemon gave us turo and larry and the GREATEST OF ALL TIME CLAVELL #the dilfs flow like river....... the river styx taking me home to hell where i belong.... #shitpost #bro even my vent art is a joke

[musical-chick-13]

Six-Sentence Sunday

(Not related to the thing I keep talking about, but I did remember I was working on this, so here you go. Pour one out for Mireille/Silvana, the most problematic™ sapphics I can think of, and the rarest rarepair in my armada of ships.)

If she were one of those excessively sullen Russian writers, she might say something pretentious like, The greatest intimacy you can give another is taking her life, but Mireille knows that’s not true. She’s killed a lot of people for a lot of jobs, and every time it’s been a methodical, clinical process; there’s no intimacy in any of it. But this feels…different.  Sure, finally eliminating the Intoccabile is cathartic and it’s a climactic end to a conflict that’s been building for years, but even more than a grand finale, it feels almost like…a confession. Of what exactly, she can’t say. But it’s much more personal than any other assassination she’s done. Driving the knife into Silvana’s abdomen feels like some sort of communion ritual, and that would probably break Mireille’s brain if she wasn’t so exhausted.

#yes there ARE a bunch of gratuitous religious references in this fic #noir #noir anime #noir 2001 #mireille x silvana #mireille bouquet #silvana greone #the intoccabile #would you believe this thing is 10000 words and still needs probably about 4-or-5-thousand more truly I cannot be concise to save my life #I hereby dub this ship name: #silmir #which I can do because I'm the only one who cares about it probably #this is 100% just an effort to get me more used to sharing things I create. and this piece is...probably the least daunting to share #out of everything I'm currently working on #mc13 writes #SHIP: revenge is the greatest act of forgiveness

[clementineskesh]

i have spent the last week or so rereading haikyuu fic I bookmarked or subscribed to or whatever back in my days of being deep in the trenches in 2020-21 and my god. What a show/manga

#Like I love kghn I love bkak I love the relationships but reading the fics only made me remember how GREAT #the source material is like I picked up the manga off my shelf because I was like oh right this is the best story ever #But also I do love ship fic. It's just that hq by itself is the greatest story ever with wonderful and compelling relationships #And I want to see those relationships turn explicitly romantic

[chibitorra]

WHAT

THIS MONTH’S NORAGAMI CHAPTER

NOOOOOOO

#torra rambles #noragami #noragami spoilers #in tags #please please PLEASE don't let this be real there's just no way #Hiyori can't be fucking dead I won't #all I wanted for my birthday was Yatori and I got the opposite #I got suffering #; - ; #this was one of my greatest fears... #actually both #bc yato got fucking reincarnated and now hiyori is dead #still holding out on the hope that none of this is real #that this is all one big dream father's cooked up to scare them into submission #that he's just playing on their fears to buy time #yato's fear was to be forgotten and he was forced to watch the only person he cred about die in front of him #yukine was scared of becoming a monster #and Hiyori was scared to die #please adachitoka yatori was one of the only ships I cared so deeply for and they didn't even get to kiss #I'm so sad

[ameliafuckinjones]

If I said half the things I wanted to say about Canada and Americas relationship as siblings and neighbors, how they're ACTUALLY viewed by the world when it comes to international matters that are actually important (NATO, AUKUS, global economy, AI and tech companies, hegemony etc) and how it would be more interesting to explore aspects of their relationship as well as their relationship with the world that correlates with reality rather than this made up version that dominates the fandom... commie tumbler would hunt me down and kill me

#“canada is the competent one that yurop and allies rely on for xyz” have you paid attention to geopolitics ever in your life? 😭 #america has its issues that no one denies but come on we ALL know who the world looks to when sh*t hits the fan #even in beneath the lens of criticism and hatred Amerca's greatest detractors look toward America for a solution #America must step in to fix xyz in a country on the other side of the world who has full autonomy bc 'America has the power to so it should #'America must step in to fund xyz because their sovereignty and livelihood relies on it!' #'Americas navy must take a harder stance on terrorist group 123 in x shipping lane to protect freedom of trade or else we'll all starve!' #sorry but no one is saying this about Canada and how very lucky they must be for that bc its exhausting #hetalia #and everyone knows that when it comes to former colonial outpost favorites it's Australia #this is overall a hot take on the internet but reality for those who arent terminally online & dont get their geopolitical news from tiktok #and whove opened up a book that wasnt porno and fiction within the last decade #the only thing worse than actual communist (le stalin) is tumblr communist who in real life are to afraid to order a milkshake at a drive i

[even-more-pro-fiction-jellicle]

There's a subset of Billy fans who will be like "fuck antis!" and then immediately turn into antis themselves whenever Karen comes up

#salty stranger things stuff #this is actually a good point about how the word ''anti'' isn't the greatest #they might only mean ''anti-billy'' while my instinct is to read it as ''fancop'' or ''anti-fiction'' #some people can love billy and ship harringrove while still being a fancop or anti-fiction on a broader scale #despite being a target of such ideologies themselves