#theyre not a NOTP

[claratyler]

No i mean its actually so so so funny that they never tried for a second to push for or even lightly imply a merlin/morgana romance (which would be the formulaic thing to do, given that the other two leads were already paired up). They just couldnt do it. They had to be like ok we have to be real here.. not only is he gay and not only is she a lesbian, but they absolutely despise each other. Obsessed with their dynamic

#like even if theywere both in anyway shown to maybe possibly have a man/woman relationship it STILL WOULDNT WORK LMAO #merlin #morgana pendragon #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #imean yea i know theywere friends in season 1-2 dont get me wrong #BUT EVEN THEN #EVEN WHEN THEY WERE FRIENDS. they had to be like yea..thers no way this is going to work #theyre not a NOTP #theyre like the anti-otp #cause like in the first season theres some implied potential for merlin and gwen #and also morgana and arthur (before they were ahem siblings) #so its like. maybe the writers were exploring these dynamics and their potential? but never morgana and merlin #the farthest we got was when arthur thought for a second that merlin had a crush on her i think bc of something he saw taken out if context #anyway merlin is such a funny show #Magical Microagressions for Merlin #thats what its aaaalll about

[starphenie]

once again posting about yvette's 5th dreamweaver

i reaaaally think yvette shouldve gotten busted for sneaking that letter. for the plot. for the drama.

#theyre so HGHhghghh foams at the mouth and dies #maybe a lil ooc but u can only fit so much interaction in 3 panels #anyway #love nikki #love nikki fanart #ozeca #yvette #my art #ozecavette #i rlly wanted to do something expressive because my last few drawings have just been kind of.. serene #which can be a lil boring. anyway i think i did ok!? i’ve been looking at these panels for way too long but i assume they’re ok to post 💀 #lala my otp. my notp. because they are not endgame #comix

[welcometoteyvat]

can i ask why you don't like xingyun? /gen not a shipper myself but i'm just curious since a lot of chongyun lovers love that ship, i've never seen anyone NOT like it

rant warning by the way, I accidentally got more and more annoyed writing this 😬

im gonna be honest the number one reason is because i see it everywhere

the first effect of this is that content depicting xingqiu and chongyun in a nonromantic manner get tagged as xing/yun, which is annoying to me. you can draw 2 characters together in a nonromantic manner and you don't have to tag the ship guys. it's real it's called being friends. the second effect is that there's never any content with chongyun and Other Characters. people are so hung up on him and xingqiu that chongyun almost never exists without xingqiu. like you might notice i have a tag for chongyun and hu tao (mostly platonic) stuff except that there are only 7-8 posts tagged with that, because although the "exorcist and girl who can see ghosts" dynamic would be so cool, nobody seems to think abt that bc almost everything with chongyun includes xingqiu. this also goes for chongyun and xiangling (who canonically makes him his cooling popsicles) and like random other characters whom he Could interact with and be friends with (ayaka and him is a crack friendship i talked about once, and ofc chongyun and xiao). i hate it. xingqiu got his mr worldwide arc with venti and albedo please depict chongyun alone with other friends (it literally doesn't even have to be romantic). of course, this might just be a separate problem that I'm conflating with the ship, but it annoys me. i'm not focusing on xingqiu's side because although fan content for like idk him and yun jin? him and hu tao? albedo? is also super rare, at least that stuff exists in canon.

the second reason is because xingqiu's prankster attitude towards chongyun annoys me

yeah i love my little shit son but idk, it's just annoying when people make him feed chongyun spicy food, play pranks on him that cost chongyun Something (losing face, wasted time, frustration) idk. i guess i don't like that his condition isn't taken seriously. i don't think it's bad to have friends who pull your leg but at least not in a malicious way? like iirc he's implied to have triggered chongyun's yang energy overflows at least a couple times, and it's like . why. why is it played for jokes the kid literally passes out. "(He) needs more practice. Especially… with eating spicy food, haha." bro please do not !! don't trigger his condition just for kicks! xingqiu's other pranks also annoy me, given that i hate being tricked, so some of this might be projection or smth idk, but like idk you can give him good suggestions for where to demon hunt instead of making up shit and then going after him to make up for any costs. it's just annoying i think chongyun gets annoyed but then later forgives him, as friends are, but i cannot imagine them getting together like this. unless it's toxic idk . if they're friends i can give a pass to the pranks and stuff but in a romantic relationship i don't think i could see this kind of dynamic being a good one

#please try not to reblog LOLLLLLLLLL everything's my personal opinion #tldr i have arbitrary preferences and also cy's my son (xq is my other son but theyre not together. gm is my 3rd son) #i got into genshin got attached to cy went on tumblr saw so much xing.yun art i assumed i was gonna like the ship. guess what #also congratulations anon you've met one of the few people who actively tries to avoid xy i feel like this is a rare pokemon achievement #(<- never played pokemon) #anon ask #asks #teyvat thoughts #again i will tell you that i wasn't as annoyed w xy before but now it's up there because there's no content without them making out and #i've grown more and more annoyed by it so now it's an notp idk

[zelinkslullaby]

One of my side blogs got blocked by an account and saw their pinned said "dni if you read/write/draw self ship/ oc x canon"

First of all, I'm not checking the account of every post I see to make sure I'm "allowed" to interact with you. Second of all... "do not interacts" are already obnoxious but that goes along with the third point- why the FUCK do you care 😂 unless I'm using your content for my own (which I'm not) why... why are people who self ship not allowed to even look at your blog? Thats so fucking weird. I'm not allowed even if all I did was READ selfship????? Like what in the goddamn????

#thats like me saying you cant even look at my blog if youve read z*lda/g*non (a hard notp of mine) #like.... who am i to say #yes its my blog but theyre you're eyes???? #thats just.... thats too much #youre doin too much

[always-a-joyful-note]

Sometimes I'll see a ship and be like "yeah, I don't ship it at all but I love the way you ship it."

#for context this is about yoo sangah and kim dokja #like i dont notp a lot of ships that arent incest etc #but for me theyre too brotp to be an otp #HOWEVER...for this one fanfic i saw of them ill make an exception #stuff i say #it has come to my attention that the stuff i say tag is used too much so im making yet a new my rambles tag #so.... #note's notes #fandom spamdom

[mulderscully]

Not including River in your list of people the doctor was in love with is such a power move lmfao. I hated how most of the doctor and rivers “romance” happened off screen. Plus River acted like she knew all the doctors secrets but he probably didn’t tell her that much because I doubt he trusted her. I could see her as a one night stand or a fling but I can’t see her and the doctor being compatible long term, let alone being married.

i just genuinely forget about doctor/river. i wouldn't say i hate them because they just did not leave an impression on me at all. i don't believe he loved her because their story happens off screen which made no sense to me and was hard to follow so i couldn't get invested in it. like literally pov it's 2013 and he's "married" to river but i'm sitting here watching eleven actively flirt and fall in love with clara??? you could argue that the doctor is poly but i don't feel like that was the intention, it was like moffat wanted to make river the most important woman in the doctor's life to downplay everyone else, but it just rang hollow to me. and it's unfortunate because i like river, alex kingston is a phenomenal actress, but i simply don't buy it and i wish river had a life outside of the doctor ON SCREEN. and that's fine, if people enjoyed them i'm happy for them, just not my cup of tea and not how i like my romances written.

#reply #dw #anti doctorriver #?? #sorry i know i got a few beloved mutuals who love them #and so does my real life best friend! #theyre not like a notp for me i just don't like it

[lazaruspiss]

Hello! What are your thoughts of dickdami? I wanted to send a joke reference thing, but only if it's something you're interested in

im an equal opportunity shipper for the most part! so go for it lol

#asks #anon #i very rarely post about them mostly bc its very hard for me to imagine dick being able to get over the age gap issue #but i do think theyre cute #if it wasnt for dicks pesky moral compass theyd be all over each other lol #i used to only have one notp (dick//babs) and ive pretty much gotten over that once i found a specific dynamic i liked for them #anyways. gonna go see if i have any dick//dami posts i can reblog bc now u got them on my brain

[miks-fantrolls]

wbw Skinnr >:]

WOE..... MUSE-TIME BE UPON SKINNR...

B A S I C S

full name: Skinnr Obelin

gender: Male

sexuality: pansexual

pronouns: He/Him

O T H E R S

family: His lusus is dead and he has no one now.

birthplace: Iospos

job: currently works as a kind of butler-maid for the Wygott-Anceaz household. In his own words,

"It isn’t something you PARTICULARLY ENJOY, but your FRIENDS who give you a PLACE TO RESIDE don’t ever clean up after themselves, and you don’t have much to do during the night. Aside from that, your FRIENDS are also SCARY HIGHBLOODS and considering their OCCUPATIONS, you want to keep them as COMPLACENT AS POSSIBLE, lest you end up next on the metaphorical and literal CHOPPING BLOCK."

phobias: um. everything? yeah. everything.

guilty pleasures: yes. all of them.

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: Lawful Good

sins - envy/wrath

virtues - charity/humility/kindness/patience

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert: circumstantial introvert

organized/disorganized: organized but only cus he has to be

close minded/open-minded: open-minded

calm/anxious: ANXIOUS

disagreeable/agreeable: he kind of has to be agreeable

cautious/reckless: super cautious

patient/impatient: being impatient is a good way to get killed

outspoken/reserved: being outspoken is a good way to get killed

leader/follower: follower

empathetic/unemphatic: empathetic

optimistic/pessimistic: very......pessimistic

traditional/modern: whatever keeps him alive

hard-working/lazy: whatever keeps him alive

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp: fucking.... Skinnr <3 Aniese because I love them so dearly. There is none better.

ot3: Skinnr-Antemh-Aniese or Skinnr-Darvin-Aniese

brotp: i still think Pendic/Skinnr is a fun brotp. also Xemnes/Skinnr if they could get past their emotional baggage

notp: fucking Kinpaa/Skinnr. but Michael, you say, youre literally in control of this situation. you could just make them not get together. ok but no like i have no control over these bitches, skinnr just has bad taste in women!! aniese is RIGHT there but instead skinnr sees kinpaa and is like "well, this one emotionally abuses me, so the choice here is obvious" *facepalming facepalming facepalming*

#theyre a notp in more of a joking way than an 'absolutely not' way #fucking skinnr.... #skinnr obelin #ask meme

[eruverse]

Power imbalance in ships is unsexy

#character talk #explain my notp #even i think in yuan it wasnt this bad #cant take kazrus seriously too like ehhh #shipping monkey bc theyre far away and with mostly different areas of influence #they cant do shit to each other #also amerus was only super equal in CW era? explain those numerous CW amerus fics #in the nineties amerus was……… ☠️ #today they arent much equal #gosh that fucker alfred

[novaae]

Do you have Linumi hc?

#anon i hate to break it to you but theyre notp like day ruined when i look at them #and now i will shut up because i am not going to be a hater i am a better person than i was a few years ago #i have drawn them once tho... for a friend... then friendship broke and i erased l/in and drew myself with bu/mi lol #rei answers #anon

[duelistkingdom]

btw if you do the ask game for spotify wrapped fics, please send me a ship alongside said number.

#im fine writing platonic for most of my notps bc its more like theyre such a brotp tjat i dont ship em romo style #so any ship is fine

[assaultvvyvern]

new variation of "he would not fucking say that" for fanworks just dropped: "he would not fucking be queerphobic"

#gael txts #no bc peace and love to the writer if theyre on tumblr and they this but #*see this #ive come across a pr1deshipping fic where amelda calls them a slur #like im sorry. amelda did not wear his binder sluttily under his jacket for an entire season for you to make him homophobic #in general ive seen this a lot in old fanworks #where a character that was the ship foil/is part of the creators notp with one of their ships characters makes them queerphobic #for NO fucking reason #that shit is dumb to do. especially in this political climate #like you do you but i will fucking side-eye you #especially if that character is queercoded in some way

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

lots of thoughts tonight

#theres this one ship thats such a notp for me for just taste reasons but like turned up to 11 #the most extreme of mundane notps #i know exactly why theyre shipped in theory and theres literally nothing wrong with it but like also what the fuck #its weird idk #its not like a ''popular'' ship but most people ive seen ships it at least in a very back of the mind kind of way if that makes sense #everyone else thinks its reasonable except me #i sound SO unreasonable rn and yeah. i am being unreasonable sorry i just. #im irrationally passionate about these guys' friendship. i dont know #the two queer men (one canon one heavily read as so) in the main cast should be allowed to be platonic confidants. shouldnt they? #i dont know i dont know i dont know #if you know what this is about ignore this. please #i needed to get that out. sorry.

[deripmaver]

one overarching trend ive noticed in this fandom (though i'm sure it happens in others) that i find very frustrating is that when folks present evidence against gutsca as their notp, it almost exclusively winds up devaluing casca's place in the narrative well beyond the issues inherent to berserk.

recently the posts i've seen about the latest chapters by mori and studio gaga present the idea that guts doesn't at all care that casca has been kidnapped by griffith, and that his current breakdown is ONLY because he wasn't able to beat griffith. the thing with this that you'll notice is that it isn't evidence that guts doesn't feel romantic feelings towards casca, it's that casca simply doesn't matter.

i wound up finding this set of screenshots from chapter 371(?) and chapter 372 because to me it seems so obvious theyre supposed to be parallels of each other, and that they're supposed to communicate to the reader the pain both guts and casca are feeling at their unwitting separation, again.

if we were JUST shown this panel, i think it'd be possible to argue this is reaching out to griffith, but in chapter 372 we get its twin:

i really think this is almost so in your face that ignoring it is missing the forest for the trees - either that or they simply don't pay attention to any chapter with casca as the main focus lol.

i wanna be clear, the argument i'm making here isn't that gutsca canon kings (though i do ship it LOL)!!!! them reaching out to each other doesn't even necessarily imply romantic intent, which is part of the issue i have. it's simply that the clues that casca does actually matter to guts (and the story) are pretty obvious, so obvious that it feels willful to argue that she really is totally unimportant.

that being said, i wound up getting a lot more interested in the second part of the page from chapter 372 when i found it earlier and decided to make this post. in casca's mind, she sees guts walking away from her. this to me seems to be obviously calling back to when guts left on his revenge quest post-eclipse, abandoning her rather than face their shared trauma, something for which the narrative has THOROUGHLY raked guts across the coals.

the reason for the separation this time is because when casca screams at seeing griffith again, guts immediately regresses and becomes filled with rage and violence. he attacks griffith, leaving casca behind with farnese and schierke, and then when griffith overpowers him casca is essentially undefended for griffith to spirit back to falconia.

so i'm wondering if what casca is thinking of as she's taken away is that it's just like before, when guts left her all alone, and she's feeling that abandonment again. she doesn't see guts reaching out to her or trying to save her in these panels, she just sees guts walking away.

there's also a section later in the chapter when casca thinks to herself "if i don't get back then guts will-" and it cuts off there. guts will what? i think it definitely would make sense if she's thinking that guts will hurt himself to come rescue her, because he's done that in the past, but i'm also wondering if she's thinking that if she doesn't get back to guts then he'll move on from her just like he did before. ugh!!!!! tragedy

i've said this before but i think their separation really is a very promising setup for guts and casca to really think about what THEY want, and how best to move forward with all the baggage of the time where casca was regressed. now if only we could get another casca chapter.........

#gutsca #casca #casca berserk #berserk meta #debated over some of these tags bc this post does get a little spicy #but whatevs

[antiv3nom]

asuka ask game? pick your favorite one

ok so i do enjoy asuka guiltygear but i have been thinking REALLY hard about asuka tekken as of late so we're talking about her today

also this took me WAY too long to post i apologize but it Is out here so yaaaay

favorite thing about them:

ok so legally i have to mention asuka's tekken 8 design because motherfucker WHAT were they thinking with that one. what the fuck was the inspiration. but i love it so much i cannot lie

other than that, i really enjoy her rivalry with lili and how moderately insane that bit has gotten, and i like how they've kept her a character who is a) defensively focused in her gameplay even among the generally aggressive play of t8, and b) has a generally down-to-earth feel to her despite. Everything. happening in tekken

least favorite thing about them:

so i was actually talking to a friend about this recently and she explained my feelings really well, its like. asuka feels like the protagonist of another story that isnt being told.

it feels like she has so much stuff that COULD be a really interesting plot focus for her but it just. hasnt been? like everything between her and feng COULD be so neat but its just been sort of...by the wayside for the past few games in favor of keeping up with the mishimas (new sitcom there btw)

favorite line:

asuka's quotes are fun but most arent super noteworthy unfortunately? its mostly pretty standard fare for fighting game open and win quotes unforch :( i will say though, i do really enjoy this win line in t8 from her:

It's not good to fight all the time. Well, see ya!

bc like. girl. what do you think youre out here doing rn. girl please

(note: i dont speak japanese so i couldnt say anything towards this, but i wonder if asuka speaks with a kansai accent/dialect in game? her being from osaka and all, itd be a cool little addition)

brOTP:

omg actually ive seen stuff between leo and asuka that's been fun before i really enjoy that, iirc theyre not super close in the main canon but i wanna say in the non-canon webcomic theyre friends? i think thats right? either way its a fun concept

OTP:

asulili...uwoagh........

fellas is it gay to buy your rival's dojo and fill it entirely with roses to get their attention? certainly not. certainly.

i do wish we saw some amount more narrative tension between them since most of it has sort of dissolved by t8 but i do think theyre really cute and as mentioned before i really do enjoy their whole bit its awesome

SHOUTOUT ASULILI WEEK BTW I DONT HAVE THE TIME TO PARTICIPATE BUT I AM HYPED ABOUT ITS EXISTENCE

nOTP:

i do not think i have been around long enough to see another pairing for asuka, let alone one i dislike, so i cannot answer this question LMAO

random headcanon:

spun my mental wheel of headcanon topics and it wouldnt stop spinning for like half an hour unfortunately so im just telling you that i think asuka would play baiken or may in strive

unpopular opinion:

i still havent been here long enough to know whats unpopular regarding her :,) although i think in terms of gameplay i think she's cooler than most people believe, though i do agree that her current iteraiton in t8 isnt very strong within the meta unforch :(

song i associate with them:

i can nigh on guarantee that it's because ive been listening to this song while thinking about her really hard recently but absolute zero by natori (banger btw go watch the music video it goes unbelievably hard), i think the lyrics arent entirely unfitting though!!!

favorite picture of them:

i really like this profile art option for her, the posing is fun and the textures on the clothing are really impressive

and then also i have to mention her preset 3 outfit which i LOVE SO SO MUCH

(apologies as i cant find a better example pic and do not feel like opening t8 at 2 in the morning on this day)

#ask #ask game #electricgnu #tekken #asuka kazama #your honor i think shes neat... #ive been scrolling through her wiki page as of late

[slabime]

Well we have Maxwell now give us some Wilson pretty please

Sexuality Headcanon: really whatever he doesn't care but I usually put him somewhere on the aroace spectrum as well. not ""entirely"" really he just experiences it very differently(im aroace dont b weird to me about this aheemheem)

Gender Headcanon: man but hes not exactly preforming any gender. transmasc often in my eyes.

A ship I have with said character: like I said im yhe maxwil guy but im ALSO proudly the warlson guy theyre so my favorite geebies.

A BROTP I have with said character: him ans willow for sure they're worsties she bullies him he scolds her. he brushes her hair she paints his nails etc. I also rlly like him and winona tho. it's like if two butches or two gay otters were a man and a woman respectively.

A NOTP I have with said character: also dont really have any for him tbhhhh its really honestly just the one. I love to play touys multiship forever.

A random headcanon: he is from Romania but was sent to England as a pretty young kid for boarding school.grins.

General Opinion over said character: literally my favorite guy ever and im not even joking he matters soooo much to me.

#dont starve #ask game