#<- ive given up and will be changing my ship tag to the more popular one... soonish... eventually...

[valve3nthusiast]

Been a while since I've done a fic rec so please enjoy this double feature of Rodimus getting fucked in his sleep 😘

[marielaure]

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Random Grishaverse Ship Stats on AO3 because my brain and eyes got tired from reading Chaucer:

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I. Publication/Release Dates

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Shadow and Bone: 5 June 2012

Siege and Storm: 4 June 2013

Ruin and Rising: 17 June 2014

Six of Crows: 29 September 2015

Crooked Kingdom: 20 September 2016

The Other duology series: 2019 & 2021

Shadow and Bone Season 1: 23 April 2021

Shadow and Bone Season 2: 16 March 2023

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II. Canon Ships

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Kaz/Inej: 5011

1st: 29 December 2015

Latest: 21 August 2024

Alina/Darkling: 4665

1st: 9 August 2013

Latest: 21 August 2024

Jesper/Wylan: 4570

1st: 24 November 2015

Latest: 21 August 2024

Nina/Matthias: 2078

1st: 29 December 2015

Latest: 21 August 2024

Nikolai/Zoya: 1043

1st: 14 February 2016

Latest: 21 August 2024

Alina/Mal: 852

1st: 29 November 2013

Latest: 20 August 2024

Fedyor/Ivan: 553

1st: 24 April 2021

Latest: 19 August 2024

Genya/David: 518

1st: 22 October 2014

Latest: 21 August 2024

Tamar/Nadia: 187

1st: 25 September 2014

Latest: 18 August 2024

Nina/Hanne: 98

Adrik/Leoni: 46

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III. Popular Not-Canon Ships

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Kaz/Jesper: 402

1st: 19 August 2016

Latest: 17 August 2024

Alina/Nikolai: 383

1st: 21 July 2014

Latest: 19 August 2024

Nina/Inej: 189

1st: 24 February 2016

Latest: 29 July 2024

Alina/Zoya: 165

1st: 25 September 2014

Latest: 16 August 2024

Alina/Genya: 149

1st: 20 September 2017

Latest: 14 August 2024

Mal/Nikolai: 79

1st: 8 April 2020

Latest: 14 August 2024

Darkling/Kaz: 43 (why did I think there were more?)

1st: 19 April 2021

Latest: 17 August 2024

Inej/Alina: 31

1st: 16 July 2021

Latest: It’s mine! Did NOT realize that - unintentional.

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IV. Miscellaneous/Other/Rare Pairs

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Kaz/Wylan: 114

1st: 25 April 2021

Latest: 17 August 2024

Jesper/Inej: 69

1st: 16 June 2018

Kuwei/Jesper: 62

1st: 30 Jan. 2017

Latest: 12 August 2024

Kaz/Matthias: 62

1st: 19 April 2017

Latest: 14 August 2024

Kaz/Nina: 46

1st: 28 April 2017

Latest: 30 July 2024

Wylan/Matthias: 30

1st: 4 July 2021

Latest: 25 July 2024

Matthias/Alina: 27

1st: 1 July 2021

Latest: 30 June 2024

Matthias/Inej: 19

1st: 28 August 2019

Latest: 25 July 2024

Tolya/Inej: 11

1st: 19 March 2023

Latest: 29 April 2024

Kaz/Alina: 9 (again, thought there were more of these for some reason)

1st: 26 April 2021

Latest: 27 January 2024

Tolya/Alina: 9

1st: 13 January 2022

Latest: 21 August 2024

Nina/Alina: 7

1st: 9 May of 2021

Latest: 26 March 2023

Zoya/Inej: 5

1st: 18 May 2021

Latest: 4 June 2024

Zoya/Kaz: 5

1st: 18 October 2021

Harshaw & Oncat: 4 (We’re all so lucky, I originally searched with a slash…luckily nothing popped up. But they’re so close buddies that they made this list. Harshaw is an Inferni from the original trilogy and Oncat is his cat)

Jesper/Alina: 2

Alina/Tamar: 2

Jesper/Jordie: 1

Wylan/Alina: 0

Tamar/Inej: 0

Wylan/David: 0

BUT I ended up finding an interesting fic in the process. I read the first chapter, it’s titled “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Republican National Convention” I don’t know it’s one hell of a title given 2024.

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V. Notes

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*I didn’t realize until later Darkling/Alina may not be considered a “canon” ship, but they perform so well I’m not changing it 😊

*I haven’t read the latest duology so that’s why I didn’t do much for Adrik/Leoni and Nina/Hanne. The only reason I know about Zoya/Nikolai is YouTube and its popularity for only having two books setup.

*There’s only 8 fics with “Harij Ghafa” or “Inej Ghafa’s Brother” —I want to know more about this dude! I have so many headcanons and stories bouncing around my head…another time, another time.

*I broke the pattern a bit at the end

*Also, anyone who has read The Wraithling and Her Saints — my sporadic updates tag is living up to its name 😊. This fic I’m messing with the magic system, world building, history, family lineage, and personalities (?) of what feels like everything. It’s so fun, but I’ve just got to be in a very certain mindset and vibe to write it. I’m trying to make it a longer Inej/Alina fic as those are normally shorter.

*Suggestions: Comment below any ships or just platonic pairings you’d love to see more of! I actually have a Jesper & Alina story in mind, will it ever be written? Who knows. But I’d love to hear y’all’s thoughts!

*Stats as of 20 August 2024 and 21 August 2024

[kaleidosouls]

hi. (pulls out uke)

IM JOKING but i havent posted here in forever huh, are ppl still around? i guess ill comment on like, whats been going in in the time i havent posted

so a long time ago now i wanted to like, cut off from twitter, so i deleted the kaleidosouls twitter, and wanted to keep my art stuff just on insta mostly, trying to move since twitter is a sinking ship right. then my instagram got deleted for no reason (and so did my pinterest that was ful of refs and honestly that was more upseting than insta getting deletedand losing all my art following)

ive been mildly caught up in IRL/college stuff in the meantime,having da depression, and the exec dysfunction same as awlays like. not much has actually been happening but ive been going acutally all over the place trying to figure out what im gonna do with my internet social media stuff. im looking into internships (other field) and im like, i havent given up being an artist professionally exactly but i think im like fuck it. fuck this like, building my Internet career or whatever. like, im gona wokr on my art portfolio and try to find art job stuf thats not really about how popular my art is on twitter or smth. none of that shit rly matters anymoer. same w here, i probably wouldve delted this tumblr if it wasnt the main like, blog so all my other blogs dpened on this one right.

im not like, done posting art online but ive been changing how im going about it and i still havent found my like, place yet. i did remake instagram, a main one and one for creature/pokemon stuff. idk im figuring out my life but i guess the main point is that its all a mess, and its not a disaster like things are going bad or anythin just that ive been in this inertia of disorder for a long time. im getting old. really tired lately, barely draw that much

i still rly love and am holding onto my personal ideas/projects that i want to execute oveer time altho they cant be a priority rn becuase of stuff in life. i got a really bad attention span so ill probably like, work on smth a lot for a few ays and then pick it up again in a year or more. the SU stuff is one of those. i actually ammaking this post bc i got really fucking dickhead comments and i was thinking of going off but my social media paranoia PR brain is like weighting on how i cant do that bc itll make my brand look bad and immature, and its like exhausting to live like that yk. altho it Is wise to restrain myself from being mean dsgkj but i also think itd be funny to cuss ppl off so :( life is very hard as an adult!

anyway point is. thigns are a mess rn and they will continue to be for the time being. my accoutns got obliterated so if you wanna keep up with me maybe follow my instagram if you want, i keep forgetting tumblr exists so tahst why i post so little on here. i do like postingt here though, nad i like making little blogs. i like ppls tags on ym art and replies. even the pricky ones like, i get to engage my brain a litlte bit adn its like ppl are out there yk? seieng my stuff, rather than just like, a bunch of numbers of how many likes or reblogs smth has.

most of the stuff left on this blog is for SU reclaimed and i still rly like the idea and its good coping for me and i want to pick it up sometimes but idk what to do with it wrt how i wanna present the content. ive considerd many times making a separate tumblr for it and i am considering that Again but maybe i should just quit it and post it here and forget about that. and find a different way to present the totality of the contents of the AU and use this tumblr as a way to just post it like, a 'devblog' (i am not developing SHIT this is just conceptual design writing stuff)

if theres anyone still following thats like engaged/interested in SU reclaimed feel free to comment with your thoughts or suggestions,i guess i could make an instagram for it? but ehh... idt thats how i wanna like, execute it. welp. i guess if i do make smth ill post about it here,i guess the point is that maybe i can try to post on here moreoften, idk, like i want my instagrams to be more tidy and like, impersonal. i deleted twitter bc i dont want to engage that personalyl at ALL anymore as an artist w viewers. not to mention it sinking. but i guess tumblr Is the perfect place to keep that unprofessional, slightly casual blogging artist experience. maybe if i get to cuss ppl out :D but then i dont wanna get harassed later over it. hm.. sucks to exist online tbh

thank u if youve read this far. if youre a mutual (somehow) or a long time follower and wanna know how to better keep up w me since i know im disappearing a lot feel free to dm

[a-slut-for-smut]

what are your top 10 relationships in aot?

Hmm very interesting question anon- thanks for asking! Idk if i can really rank them since i only have the one OTP, but i can certainly give my 2 cents on the most popular pairings, according to the interwebs.

2 things to keep in mind:

i dont hate/dislike any pairing. I dont care enough to waste energy doing so. I like what i like, other people like what they like- simple as that, i cant understand why its so hard for ppl to grasp this concept

You may be wondering about my recent tag usage because ive been tagging a lot of diff ships- mainly for my anti-SNK139 shitposts. Just had a wild idea that maybe- JUST MAYBE, we could all put aside our differences and just have a laugh at our shared misery. Because idk how any of us are supposed to be happy with this ending. I mean, upon reflection I see what Isayama was going for, but idk its just tough to swallow unlike Levi's fun juice. Which, in my opinion, should be taken as a compliment- the man set the bar so high with the previous arcs that our expectations were thru the roof despite a rushed final arc, and he just...missed the dunk? Anyway hot take, i know.

Ok i digress- to the ask, in no particular order:

Levihan

Cute ship, very fluffy. Who doesn't like best friends to lovers trope? And theres no denying they have mutual respect for each other, which is a huge kink of mine. Honestly, its hard for me to ship a pairing if it isn't evident. That said, does this pairing get my ovaries going? Eh, not particularly but i still likies

Erehisu

I was behind this ship mainly because i was sold on Eren's "Walter White" villain arc. What better catalyst for a dramatic change in character than if their child was involved? The idea that Eren went full Hitler because he got Historia preggers and wanted the child to grow up in a "free" world? What parent wouldnt sell their soul for that goal, given the world they live in? And Historia- grappling with the knowledge/morality of Eren's plan but for the sake of the child? Prime for character development. Not to mention all the blatant crumbs. But Isayama went NOPE.

Eremika

Oh boy. So, firstly, i would have readily accepted this ship if Isayama laid off the one-sidedness a bit. But he didnt. And while im sure there are instances that can be interpreted as mutual affection, i dont see how that excuses all the times Eren snapped at her/just generally annoyed with her attentions. Like, we dont know his POV at all until the very end which retroactively you can say, oh he didnt want to cause her future pain? But by then its too late for US. And in the end (im not clear on this tho/too lazy to check) was it ever made clear to Mikasa that he reciprocated her feelings? Im prob biased/self-projecting here, but I would NOT have stuck around on the off-chance that the dude is faking his disinterest?? Even if he did save my life and is my childhood friend! You dont owe someone love because of that, but because of how you mutually treat one another. Anyway i woulda taken the fucking hint and moved onto Levi's dick, i would never put up with that nonsense

Eruri

These 2 are bonded, to say the least. They hold each other in high regard and i love that about any ship. Good stuff.

Ereri

Doesn't do much in the ovary-dept for me relationship-wise, but man, this ship is popular for a reason. The fanart for this ship is TOP TIER 

Yumihisu

Again, they regarded each other highly and theres no denying they deeply cared for one another. Sometimes love doesnt give a shit what genitals you happen to have, why cant ppl understand this? We all got hearts and souls, that counts for something??

Aruani

The energy for this ship is a little tepid for me. Maybe because her ass was stuck in a crystal 70% of the story, but i liked pre-crystal annie alot. If anything, i preferred her dynamic with Eren more, mainly because Eren respected her so much and she contributed a lot to his character growth in the first arc. Just my preferred dynamic for a ship. Also she kicked his ass so much i was beginning to think he was into it

Jeankasa

Dont mind it at all. I think it lacks a certain degree of intensity that i prefer in my ships, but theres def mutual respect there and im all for it.

Jeanpiku

Thought this was a cute ship that came to bloom in the later chapters. its intriguing dynamic- falling in love with the (former) enemy kind of way.

Rivamika

Uh. Where to start. Actually i wont because this post is long enough as is. Just peruse my blog if you're actually curious ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[sxpiosexualx]

why do you ship jonsa? my best friend is a hard core jonerys shipper but lately ive been really critical of daenerys, so i cant really hop on that train. i dont really have a preference for jon either way so i wanted to know why you ship them

Oh hello! What a lovely question to ask, though I must warn you this could most likely get draggy and long because I’m so passionate about these two and this ship, they’re my OTP. Actually I only started reading the books last year, before then I was a casual watcher until up to Feb 2016 before season 7 aired. Jon and Sansa had just reunited on the show and I came across this Jonsa instagram on my explore page and I thought, what the fuck is this? It was such an absurd ship to consider - and this is coming from someone who was crack shipping Tommen and Sansa! But I kept scrolling through, the captions in the post came from posts on Tumblr(with credit) explaining the parallels and the ways in which Jonsa could go down and it was sort of like… this strange theory that I subscribed to and was soon convinced of. I tried bringing it up to my friend but she was a casual watcher and didn’t really pay much attention to it so I was craved of my need to discuss this. So come season 7, I rejoined Tumblr and the Jonsa tag was SO rich in content and meta, detailing all the parallels, how it could happen, why it makes sense and how it would wrap up up the narrative in the most satisfying manner. I’ve never shipped something so hard and wanted it to be canon more than with Jonsa(though canon or not I’m not fussy lol).

I’m gonna outline to you some of the main reasons why I think Jonsa has a strong chance of happening in canon, because they’re really why I ship them so hard, they complement each other perfectly though it’s very easy to miss this. I’m keeping this under a ‘Keep Reading’ tab because I know this will get lengthy. Also, any of my followers/people seeing this, do add on in the comments why you ship jonsa or perhaps leave some links to some of your fav meta’s in the comments for OP to screen through if they feel like it!

This will be lengthy but remember I am trying my best to be brief, hopefully the other Jonsa’s will link some metas/parallel series to give you a better idea - I’m only outlining the backbone of the ship!

The Ashford Tourney Pattern

So it actually began when I came across this theory: The Tourney at Ashford was held in-universe, and I wont go much into detail except to mention that all of the 5 champions in that tourney coincide with the houses of the men Sansa is betrothed/married to (i.e. Sansa’s suitors). It goes

Lyonel Baratheon

Leo Tyrell

Tybolt Lannister

Humfrey Hardyng, and,

Valarr Targaryen.

Now, granted the show’s made some changes but ultimately they’re coming to the same conclusion, and as for book!Sansa(i.e. canon) she’s first betrothed to Joffrey Baratheon, then is promised to Willas Tyrell(changed to Loras on the show), marries Tyrion Lannister, is currently in the works of being betrothed to Harry Hardyng(in the Vale - the Ramsay plot is not hers), and so the logical conclusion would be to complete the pattern by marrying her final suitor, the endgame - a Targaryen. That makes Jon the only candidate viable to her, and yes that sounds ‘out there’ but if you take a look at the narrative, it could make complete sense, so let’s go into how this could logically happen.

Logic

Given the story began with the Starks being the heart of the series, you can only anticipate that the final installation, initially named A Time For Wolves would promise a continuation of the Stark line, and that could come about through Jon and Sansa. They are the only Starks left who’s storyline touches on ideas of fatherhood and motherhood - the only Starks left to ever consider having future children(and weirdly enough where Sansa wants to name her children Bran and Rickon and thinks of a girl who looks like Arya in her dreams of children, Jon wants to name his son Robb - even their dreams complement each other, they’d be rebuilding the Stark family with themselves), the only Starks left to think of restoring Winterfell(and they already go on to do this on the show) etc. When you think of Sansa and how she’s had to fight hard to retain her Stark identity and reclaim it, I cannot imagine GRRM marrying her off to some random lord at the end of the series, when she’s just made it back home. For Jon too, he’s wanted Winterfell, and dreamed of that domestic life as Lord of Winterfell, as a Stark, and Sansa, the Key to the North, could give him that - the same way her marrying Jon who’s actually a prince would be fulfilling her childhood dream as well. They both get what they want in the way they least expect it, something very GRRM-esque. There’s the narrative convenience of R+L=J that would allow for some catharsis once Jon realises he’s not her half-brother, and the convenience of them being the only Starks to not have an established relationship beforehand. But despite that, whenever they do think of the other in the books, it’s never with any resentment, contrary to popular belief, they don’t hate each other(they think of each other fondly, even). It’s something that could work politically in show!verse just as well, say word gets out that Jon’s a Targaryen, the Northern lords would never accept him unless Sansa brokers a political marriage to tame them.

History would also be repeating itself in a poetic way, but done right this time. Jon and Sansa marrying would parallel Ned x Cat, they each parallel them so much and S7 has hammered those visual parallels more than ever. A Stark would be wedding a Tully. And if you embraced Jon as a Targaryen, then they would parallel Rhaegar and Lyanna in a sense too by having a Targaryen prince wed a Stark lady. It also nicely twists what happened to Cersei, where she was supposed to marry a Targaryen prince(Rhaegar) but ends up marrying a Baratheon(Robert) - Sansa was betrothed to Joffrey Baratheon, but would be marrying a Targaryen prince in Jon, which only adds another layer to her being the YMBQ from Cersei’s prophecy if you subscribe to that!

Complementary Storylines

If you take a closer look at Jon and Sansa’s arcs, they tend to echo off of each other, always linking the two through themes, yet the author does a great deal to ensure they’re the last two Starks we ever associate with each other which honestly, would be something he’d do if he meant to pull them marrying as a huge plot twist no one would expect. But thematically, both Jon and Sansa:

 start their arcs as naive,

are the Starks most interested in leaving WF - Jon goes to the Wall where he assumes the men are ideal knights, and Sansa journeys South with romanticised ideas of court, and both characters are quickly disappointed. 

Jon gets dubbed “crow” for most of his arc, the same way Sansa gets dubbed “little bird/dove”. 

Both characters at the same time, have to pretend to be something they’re not around their enemies - Jon going undercover as a Wildling, while Sansa had to blend in with the Lannisters. 

They both get dubbed traitor around the same time too, Jon’s seen as a traitor for leaving the Wildlilngs while Sansa gets dubbed traitor/murderer once they thought she poisoned Joffrey as she leaves KL. 

Jon who starts off as a bastard, rises to the title of Lord Commander at the Nights Watch the same time Sansa, who starts off as a Lady, gets forced to pose as Littlefinger’s bastard daughter. 

It’s the same case on the show, and there’s reason enough to believe Jon and Sansa will be the first Starks to reunite in the books and reclaim Winterfell as well(though the circumstances may be different, it’s heavily foreshadowed in Sansa’s final ASOS chapter).

Complementary Dreams

GRRM has a weird way of connecting these two through their shared dreams. Where Sansa’s final chapter in ASOS heavily foreshadows that she’ll come to rebuild Winterfell with Jon(and she already goes onto do this on the show with Jon), Jon is also the only other Stark to think of reclaiming and rebuilding it, and this occurs in the same book. They’re both weirdly also the only Stark kids to be referred to as the Blood of Winterfell. ASOS(the 3rd book in the series) is also where both these characters start to undergo a sexual awakening(Ygritte’s attempts with Jon, and Sansa coming into her own body and developing). 

It’s the same book where Jon considers having a son of his own, thinking he could name him after Robb, and Sansa thinks of giving her betrothed children, noting that in her dreams her children looked like the brothers she had lost and that she wants to name them Eddard and Brandon and Rickon(after the brothers she’s lost). So yes, while that sounds very odd, these two coming together would actually be giving each other what they long for in a family, children who look like named after their pack. Once you remember that book wise, Jon looks like a carbon copy of Ned and Sansa looks like a more beautiful version of Catelyn then you could only assume their children would look very much like the siblings they grew up with too.

It’s actually strange how alike they are and how their arcs tend to echo off of each other but it even comes down to the same romanticised idea of courtship. Sansa remembers the rose Loras gave to her during the Hand’s Tourney, and when met with the prospect of marrying Willas, starts fantasising of sitting with her lord husband in a garden. Lo and behold, a couple chapters later Jon thinks of showing Ygritte Winterfell, and plucking a flower for her from Winterfell’s glass garden. In other words… they would be perfect together.

Their first loves are stand-ins for each other

Ygritte could actually be seen as a foreshadowing for Sansa, namely because so many of her traits are things we’ve come to associate with the latter but GRRM makes a point to keep this out of Jon’s subconscious in his POV chapters. First in the choice of words in her description, her red hair, her blue-grey eyes(sansa’s eyes are blue), but people tend to stop right there and use it as an excuse to mock the idea of Jon x Sansa immediately which honestly, is lazy. It goes deeper than that. Ygritte weeps when she sings and hears the song of the last of giants, and she’s known to favour songs and tales - things we again associate with Sansa. There’s also the instance of her telling Jon Snow that she’s “half a fish” which seems to nod at the fact that Sansa’s basically half a fish too(Half Tully). Strangely, right after Ygritte words out her famous line “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” in Sansa’s chapter, Sansa sees Margaery’s cousins and comments that “they know nothing,” on their naivety. When Jon gets stabbed, the line is again associated with Sansa in his final thoughts:

“Of Sansa, brushing out Lady’s coat and singing to herself. You know nothing, Jon Snow. ”

In Sansa’s case, her first love(crush, really) was a man of the Night’s watch named Waymar Royce(“She had fallen wildly in love with Ser Waymar,”) - who is described as grey-eyed, graceful and slender the same way Jon is first described in AGOT as having grey eyes, being graceful and being slender. The connection between Waymar Royce and Jon Snow is further strengthened in the fact that Waymar(who appears in the very first prologue of the first book) death foreshadows Jon’s death.

Other parallels and easter eggs

There are other ways GRRM’s linked the two in his novels through easter eggs too, for e.g. Sansa calls out for the heroes she knows, calling for Prince Aemon the Dragonknight(from the songs), and then we get a flashback of Jon remembering how he’d play with Robb in the field and pretend to be Prince Aemon the Dragonknight. Sansa also wishes someone would behead Janos Slynt, and Jon goes onto do this in ADWD, unknowingly being the literal hero she asked for. 

They both have a strong connection to the pomegranate symbolism, tying them both to the greek mythology of Persephone. And in terms of actual history, Jon and Sansa share heavy parallels with Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York(who ended up joining their houses through marriage after the War of the Roses of which one of the main conflicts of GoT was based on). 

There are plenty of other parallels throughout their chapters, one off instances of both characters put in the same environment or situation, more than I could count really. But what I personally find most odd is how some of their chapters completely mirror each other’s in terms of environment, theme and situation. Look to Jon and Sansa’s first and second ASOS chapters(that come right after the other’s) and you’ll find it’s almost like reading the same chapter twice. GRRM’s a man with words, it’s strange how similarly he words and crafts the environment he puts them in, unless he meant for their chapters to echo each other.

It’s not beyond GRRM

We know from his original outline that he intended for Jon and Arya to be the first Starks to reunite at the wall and struggle for non-platonic and very inappropriate feelings for each other which would torment them until Jon’s parentage is revealed in the final book - sounds not that far from what’s happened with Sansa tbh. Again, you have to remember that yes things have changed from the outline, Sansa was meant to choose Joffrey over her family, bore him children, then die, and none of that happened. Arya was also supposed to do a heck lot more in her storyline but what seems to happened is that GRRM knew he could never have Arya accomplish that much plot in so little time and so he might’ve split initial Arya into a fully fleshed version of Sansa, thus why Sansa and Arya are two sides of the same coin. It would also explain why while Arya looks like Lyanna, both sisters possess her traits and parallel her in their respective ways.

With Jonerys… listen… it’s just a doomed pairing. I was open to the idea but there are one too many kinks in it to have it be endgame not to mention Jonerys on the throne would completely go against the anti-war message ASOIAF has established. Not that doomed pairings have ever stopped me from shipping but they’re just so fundamentally different at this point that the idea of them just doesn’t work anymore(season 7′s rushed tryst was problematic and didn’t sell it to me either).

Additional Thoughts

I could drag on but these I think are some of the main points for me. There are a plethora of other reasons backing this up but yeah I think they have a solid chance. Points aside, I guess I also ship them because there is literally no man who’s a viable suitor for Sansa and her status, that could treat her how she deserves - show!Jon has proved himself worthy, and Sansa has fed him with the well deserved validation he’s needed and craved, acknowledgement of him being a Stark. They work so well together. 

Jon is the only man in her arc who canonly has acknowledged that “Winterfell belongs to […] Sansa.” i.e. the only man who wouldn’t marry her for her claim. For a girl who came to the realisation that “No one will ever marry me for love.”(which was followed by Jon’s chapter right after btw), that’s a huge deal. A JonSa endgame would be done so out of political reasons but love would no doubt follow. He is the only man to respect her boundaries and treat her as a human being, to see her for more than just her beauty. You can comment a suitor in her arc she was involved with and I will be able to point out how it’s problematic and wouldn’t work for endgame, how Sansa deserves better. JonSa is my OTP because they genuinely and effortlessly are perfect for each other :)

Trust me I could point out more and more, but hopefully people who see this post link some of their metas/own reasons in the comments in case you want to learn more! Thanks for the ask, this was lovely x

[kay-emm-gee]

top 5 and bottom 5 kudos fic

rules: tag the person who tagged you, always post the rules, answer the questions, and add the date! i was tagged by the ever-wonderful @prosciuttoe :)

What are your five most popular works? (in descending order)

1. Small Favors (bellamy/clarke, 24k words, 790 kudos, Dec 2014)

Small favors born out of sheer necessity (part I, part II) forge a unique intimacy (part III, part IV, part V, part VI) that brings forth intense chemistry (part VII, part VIII).

Or, how Bellamy & Clarke take their time falling in love, with some cameos by other favorites in the The 100.

Oh boy, what a flashback. This was my first long fic for Bellarke, which is kinda funny because it mostly started by how annoyed I was that Clarke’s hair was all over the place and thus a short little fic was born (which became Chapter 1). The mural idea / description is probably one of my personal triumphs too.

2. All This Time (bellamy/clarke, 5.4k words, 491 kudos, July 2015)

Four times Bellamy innocently kisses Clarke, + one time he doesn't.

While I wrote this because of a prompt (TSwift songs provide so much writing inspiration, which is #timely given today’s news) but it was inspired by some real-life crush experience that I was going through at the time oooh boi that is a thing that i forgot happened. 

3. Full Circle (bellamy/clarke, 4.7k words, 439 kudos, March 2015)

Clarke goes missing for a few days, and when she returns, she finds that Bellamy has gone to look for her. Fear creeps in, because history seems to be repeating itself, but this time, she doesn't know if she can survive the fallout.

My first prompted fic ever! I was so nervous given the ‘epic kiss’ request, so I’m actually super happy that this is one of my top fic??

4. Sight Unseen (bellamy/clarke, 2.5k words, 415 kudos, May 2015)

Dr. Clarke Griffin is a professional, and professionals do not have crushes on their patients, and they certainly don't act on them. Sergeant Bellamy Blake, however, is proving to be a challenge for her, especially when she overhears some information that lets her know she isn't alone in her feelings.

Kinda surprised this one is so far up? Honestly I had more fun writing the Raven & Bellamy cranky-roommates-who-refuse-to-admit-they’re-friends dynamic than Bellarke here, but I suppose because Raven is The Queen Of My Soul lol.

5. The More Things Change (bellamy/clarke, 8.3k words, 415 kudos, Aug 2015)

First, Clarke comes home, and Bellamy smiles, because home isn't just a place.

Then, Clarke promises she won't leave again, but none of her friends believe her, not even Bellamy, which results in some laughs and something a little bittersweet.

So, Clarke is mystified as to how cheek kisses with Bellamy became a thing, but apparently it is, and, also apparently, it makes her more flustered than she should be about it.

Finally, Clarke is avoiding Bellamy, and he has no idea why. Although he might just be avoiding her too, though he knows the reason for that perfectly well, and, unluckily in his case, so it seems does everybody else.

Or, in which the author received four 'Clarke-comes-home' prompts and decided to make a mini-multichapter fic out of them.

OH man I remember being like ‘I cannot write four of the same fic’ but also felt bad doing a 1-for-4 deal, so molded them into a multichapter! Sometimes I’m an efficient writer (but not most of the time heh). 

What are your five least popular works by kudos? (in ascending order)

1. a drop in the ocean (scott/kira, 807 words, 6 kudos)

It had been a pretty good idea, the way Scott had planned on asking Kira to prom.

This Scira ‘angst w/ happy ending prompt’ was really fun, but I’m not surprised its so low. Basically my non-Bellarke fics don’t tend to have great signal-to-noise ratio.

2. each happy ending is a brand new beginning (scott/allison, 1.7k words, 8 kudos, Aug 2016)

Scott had everything planned out. All of his classes meticulously fit into his four year plan, the plan that would get him into veterinary school. Part of that plan was taking organic chemistry his sophomore year, and the other part was acing it so he could get into a top program.

What his plan did not include, however, was a pretty, brown-haired international transfer student as his lab partner who apparently broke everything she touched.

{ Prompt: Would you consider doing a prince and me AU with Scott as the prince and Allison as paige? }

So I ended up making Allison the royal one here. Cute prompt and easy to write.

3. Six Feet, Three Minds, One Heart (abby & kane & callie, 400 words, 11 kudos, Aug 2016)

Prompt: Abby's friend and Kane's *friend* Cece is found alive in the rubble of the Alpha Station two weeks after the Mt Weather liberation.

Summary: After this rescue, friends do all walk through the gate together.

Ah yes, this prompt came during the time period where there was some type of Bellarke drama going on and I was avoiding the ship so I asked for non-Bellarke The 100 prompts. I don’t often write from the adults POV so this was really refreshing to tackle!!

4. Death Becomes Them (teen wolf pack friendship fic, 3.5k words, 12 kudos, April 2016)

Six friends, six senses, and death.

{A character study of the pack}

Honestly this is the fic is the one I am most disappointed about being on this part of the list. I am super proud of what I wrote here (esp stylistically), but character studies don’t tend to be popular, which I’m aware of, so I can’t really be too put out. 

5. choices & chances (feyre/rhys, 440 words, 13 kudos, Jan 2017)

Prompt: Rhys/Feyre, "I won't make that mistake. I know you should never try to control someone like you." {i.e. superhero au}

This was a flash fic prompt, so it was basically writing practice. Though I did get an ask for a follow-up to this recently, which was a surprise??

Tagging: @ahmren @goldenheadfreckledheart @hawthornewhisperer @notmylady @queenofchildren @rebelprincebell @tryalittlejoytomorrow

[yorkscoffee]

yeah ok ill do this

i got tagged by the great and powerful @theravioliyoyo​

RULES: Share 11 facts about yourself, answer 11 questions provided by the tagger, tag 11 awesome people and leave 11 questions for them to answer! 

the facts

ive been workin on self improvement lately, particularly w/ physical health; ive stalled a lil but im more conscious of my decisions now & im gettin better bit by bit

i dont talk a whole lot so my voice gets worn out real easy

my giant peridot plush is still in my room. shes standing in a corner wearing a hat and an ace flag scarf and i love her and she creeps my mom out

i chew on my hands a lot

i have so many plushes i have piles of them all over my room and like two bins of them in storage. i love all of them and refuse to get rid of any of them

i have a couple of story concepts in me brain and i really wish i could get as hooked on them as i am on persona

i put (unsalted!!!) butter in my tea its really good trust me

i love shippy stuff... cant relate to it but it brings me joy anyway

manic the hedgehog is still my one true love and it just occurred to me that i have the power to commission a plush of him... just gotta get over The Anxiety...

ive almost died at least 3 times. maybe more. i dont know if im really lucky or really unlucky LOL

ok so listen ive got this huge crossover au for all the persona games in my brain and it all starts with p3 makoto coming back in p5 for who knows what reason (i know what reason) and naoto also shows up later on. p3 makoto and p5 makoto become Same Name Bffs. naoya and kei start off in a side story but end up very involved with the main plot. maya is there. its great. i really want to draw a comic for it but i should Probably start with shorter stories first......... raise my comic makin stats a little before i start on a Big Project...................... but the Idea is There,

the questions

What series are you really into right now (books, comics, movies, manga, anime, shows, etc.)? i managed to rocket myself from the depths of the steven universe fandom all the way back to the persona fandom, which i hadnt even touched in years

Do you have a preferred genre of music, and if so, what is it? uhhhh i listen to just about everything but if i had to pick one... electronica

What’s one of the nicest compliments anyone has ever given you? shoot son any compliment will literally get me rolling on the floor. someone said they printed out some of my art and put it on their wall and ive been thinking about it ever since

What kind of games do you like (video games, board games, party games, etc.)? video games............ im fond of anything with a story i can love, tho i think im most fond of open world rpgs (love gettin lost in side quests) and platformers (i grew up with em... gotta love em)--fun fact i prefer real time stuff over turn based so its actually kind of funny that i love persona so much

Do you have a favorite recipe? bowl of raw fish and soy sauce

What’s something you changed your opinion on? man i change my opinions a lot... i got persona on the brain so im gonna say p1 as a whole; i had trouble getting into it when the psp version had just come out because of the battle system, and i wasnt too fond of the characters... now im chill w the battle system and i love the cast to Death

In a world where everyone has superpowers, what superpower would you NOT like to have? mind control... id get worried im doing it subconsciously and that would just be a huge mess and no i dont want it

Do you have any piercings? no but i did get my ears pierced once when i was younger. they got infected and i decided i didnt want to deal with it so i let em close up

Is there something popular that you don’t really get why it’s so popular? why do people look at two characters who are always at each others throats and go “yes this is my ship” are u ok please if u need to talk im here for u

Do you prefer cold beverages or hot ones? hot chocolate and tea are my favorite drinks, esp now that im on medicine that makes soda taste like the sins of all of mankind condensed, carbonated, and canned for your convenience

Are you working on any personal project right now? if my ask blog counts yeah.....

and now for my questions

if you tried to dominate the world how would you do it

if you were the main character of a video game what would the first level be like

which do you prefer physical or digital (games, music, books, movies, etc)

what is your favorite object

if kirby vored you what power would he get

did that question upset you

what rock is your gemsona

if you were in an anime, what kind of hair would you have

do you enjoy knives

what object do you lose most often

how do you feel when i say “hewwo”

i tag anyone who read this far and wants to do this i guess

[thegameslave]

Ubisoft 2018 E3 Briefing Impression

Ubisoft always brings a large set of games to E3. Usually an Assassin's Creed title, something Tom Clancy, a dancing title, and usually something a bit different. So what was on this years docket?

Just Dance 2019

Ubisoft loves it's dance series. And despite more there being fewer systems that monitor us in our living rooms, the Just Dance series continues to run rampant. Can't say I have ever purchased one, but it seems to be popular.

Beyond Good and Evil 2

The trailer showed the crew and their ship getting tossed around in  bad way while sitting in same ice rings around a planet. The ship gets near destroyed and then captured by what I can only assume are our villains. Then Jade, the original protagonist from the first game shows up. The game is still pre-alpha, which is dev speak for no-where near ready and subject to change.

They are trying to make fans part of the game via the Space Monkey program. They are asking fans to supply art, music, and ideas to the world of BGE2. To do so they partnered with a group named Hit Record. Details can be found here. I am torn on this. It is either a brilliant way to interact with fans. Or a cheap way to get free assets for their game.

Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six Seige

35 million players play this game. I am not one of them, but that is an impressive number. That is more people then are in Saudi Arabia (source). They are doing more contests, three planned through the year. In order to honor these professional players that keep this game going and keep it populated Ubisoft created a documentary following a 8 of community members over 9 months. To these people, this is more then a game, this is live. Another Mindset will be available August 13-19 at their Paris event.

Trials Rising

Trails, the game about falling with style and getting back up. The trailer showed some cool tricks on dirt bikes and some epic crashes. Things that no one would survive in real life. So thanks video game rules! The game was built largely my the community with players from the previous Trails game. It is out in February on everything not mobile. The game looks interesting, but not sure it is my cup of tea. All the ways you have to crash at least makes failure look fun

Tom Clancy's - The Division 2

It has been 7 months since the disease released on dollar bills on Black Friday. The disease is pretty burned out, but the country is in shambles. The trailer shows a happy community behind fenced walls with food and water. Then on the other side is those that abuse the weak. And variable nightmare. The people to save them, the agents of The Division.

In game you can play through the story based campaign. Then once you are done you pick a spec that allows you to customize your play style. They are also adding raids to the game. So 8 players, only 5 of which will show up on time, can play a mission at once. The game will also be supported by 3 free DLC "Episodes" over time. This could give the game much more lasting power then the previous game. Fingers crossed. It is set to release March 15, 2019.

Mario Rabbids

So apparently there are now Donkey Kong levels in Mario Rabbids. Or at least if you have the season pass you will have it on June 26th. This seems to break with all the free DLC from other games this year, but maybe there is enough to warrant it on this game.

Skull & Bones

Amazing how the worst thing that happened to some of the people of the past has become amazing games in the present. In Skull & Bones you are plundering the Indian Ocean. The game looks to have dynamic environments, and is, another shared environment. You will encounter other players and you can work together or fight. Or one then the other if you want to help a fellow and then steal their gold. You are pirates after all. Looks like you can outfit your ship before heading out. Looks like different ships have different abilities. The game, at least from the trailer reminds me highly of the ship battles in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, which makes sense given it is the same studio. Fingers crossed this game is as fun as the trailer made it out to be.

Transference

The trailer for this game made about as much sense as a perfume add, but lets try anyway. We have a dad that apparently sucks at being a father and husband. He seems to be putting you, his son, in some sort of machine. This machine is maybe supposed to move your conscience into a virtual world? And he didn't test for bugs, so the world has corruptions. They didn't say, but lets assume the corruptions want you dead. This is why you always put stuff through Q&A. Deadly bugs will cause this to fail on the open market. And then the tag line "Escape a corrupted mind". We should know more about this mystery this fall.

StarLink: Battle for Atlas

Space based game with real life toys that help outfit your ships. You can go from planet to space to another planet and dog fight. The area is called Atlas, and you have to protect it. And you can go to target and buy accessories for you toys to mod your ship for the situation. And they are teaming with Nintendo on this again as Starfox is there with this ship. Does this mean I can buy a Arwing?!? They had one on stage, so fingers crossed it will be in stores, and that it won't sale out in 30 seconds. I will probably get this game just because I love space shooters. I just hope I don't get nickle and dimed by the need for toys.

For Honor

Good to know Ubisoft didn't forget about this game. The guy on stage said thanks to the community. For the week you can get the starter edition of For Honor for free on uPlay. That is pretty cool. After that they announced new factions coming to the game. For Honor: Marching Fire was announced. The new faction and 4 new fighters are from China bringing new fighting styles. There will also be a new mode called Breach. There was lots of fighting in a castle courtyard. I am not not sure what really was going on. But it looked cool. The whole thing about making the starter free this week means I will at least try it.

The Crew 2

Another Crew title. There is an open beta for PS4 that can be pre-loaded and will be available soon. Looks like there are more then land based vehicles now. In the trailer they showed planes, and boats as well. Each category of vehicle has tons of options in it as well. Looks like something you might like if you liked the first Crew.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Welcome to Greece Assassin. You are apparently stuck in the middle of the Peloponnesian War and must save the country. The game is still an RPG and when you start the game you choose to play as Alexios (the guy) or Kassandra (the girl). Nice to see they added some choice here. You start the game learning to use the weapon of your grand father, a special broken but glowy spear, fancy. Of course being in a war means that you will end up in battles. Prepare to interact with the history of Greece on October 5th. Which also apparently means fighting a Minotaur. I may have to jump back into this series.

[lostinyourears]

Masked Matches of May X : Los Brazos vs Rocky Star, Lizmark & Eddie Guerrero, 1988, UWA(?)

Video link to the match over at Lucha Central : https://youtu.be/uD8r4FGiD6A

No Cagematch page for this match/event.

Who’s Who?

Los Brazos(Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata & El Brazo)

All of these men had singles careers, but since they are competing as a team here we will lump them together. A few days ago we talked about Satanico, MS-1 and Pirate Morgan forming Los Infernales in EMLL as a response to trios becoming popular in large part due to UWA group, Los Misioneros de la Muerte being such a hit in the early 1980′s. Well Los Infernales wasn’t the only group that formed to capitalize on the boom. 

In fact there were 3 different brother factions that formed trios : 

Villano brothers who all went by Villano I-V who would be big names in UWA(sons of co-founder and old school talent Ray Mendoza) as well as working with CMLL, because remember UWA/CMLL didn’t have an antagonistic relationship. Some of the Villano brothers would go down as GOAT Lucha Libre talents, particularly 3, while some of them didn’t really do much outside of playing a role in the brothers trios fare. They started as a group in UWA in the latter half of the 1970′s getting into wrestling like their father before them.

Los Hermanos Dinamita, who are a later addition to the brothers trio craze. Starting in the mid 1980′s with just Cien Caras and Mascara Ano 2000 before the addition of younger brother Universo 2000 in the late 80′s. They would start as a EMLL group before jumping ship to AAA in the 90′s when that promotion kicked off and started to get hot. 

Los Brazos, who amongst these brothers teams was the most well traveled. Touring Japan with both NJPW and AJPW in the 1980′s. Being in high demand they were amongst the biggest draws in Mexico for a time and came up basically at the same time as Villano’s team. Also, like Villano’s they were actually more than a trios of brothers. Outside of the 3 in this match you also had :  Super Brazo,  Brazo de Platino and  Brazo Cibernetico. However, unlike the Villano’s who were interchangeable to a degree. Like a trios match might be I, IV and V or II, III and V. Los Brazos as a trios was always the three brothers in this match. All 6 Brazo brothers, are sons of old school lucha talent Shadito Cruz. 

Picture of Shadito Cruz flanked by sons and grandsons in the early 2000′s or late 1990′s.

I bring up the other trios of brothers who aren’t in this match because famously there was a confrontation in 1990 or 1988? Villano Brothers vs Los Brazos in an epic mask vs mask trios match. One that really changed the history of Lucha Libre. You can check it out here, I’m not doing it for the series, cause it’s not very good video quality. Brazos ended up losing their masks in one fell swoop vs Villanos’ who they feuded with over the course of the 1980′s in UWA. 

This is a look at the Brazos at their peak when they were a wrecking ball in the Lucha Libre scene of Mexico. During their 2nd reign as UWA Trios Champions(which they wear coming into the ring for this match) and having held the Mexican National Trios Titles twice before this as well. They were a group not to reckon with unless you wanted to be wrecked on top of being one of the most well known luchador groups outside of Mexico as mentioned touring both AJPW and NJPW before this match in 1988.  

Oh also to tell them apart(I haven’t done this for most matches cause it’s more obvious), let’s look at their 3 names in Spanish.

Brazo means arm.

So.... Brazo de Oro(Arm of gold in all gold/yellow), Brazo de Plata(Arm of silver in all silver/grey) and last El Brazo(The Arm, a mix of both). I’m like 75% certain of this, If I’m off base please feel free to correct me. 

Rocky Star 

Rocky Star is basically a poster child for the lost past of lucha libre. A guy who had at least a 20+ year career. Yet, here is his cagematch.net page career page. I wish I could say more about him, but I just don’t have the information to give him proper credit. I did find that he lost his mask in 1987 so a little bit before this to Cinta de Oro who was unmasking people left and right in the late 80′s before he himself lost his mask to Fishman who we have covered earlier this month. UWA which ran from 1975 to 1995 has lots of lost history and Rocky Star is proof of that. At least some of his career still exists on video like this.   

Lizmark

Lizmark made his debut in 1976, would capture his first title the  Mexican National Welterweight Champion in 1979 and would carry many title before this becoming one of the biggest luchadors in the 80′s. Often teaming with Atlantis, though they wouldn’t get gold together until the mid 1990′s.

In the 80′s Lizmark was capturing many singles titles at this time he was either in his 1st or 2nd NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship reign. He would mostly work with CMLL, but for a short stint he jumped to AAA like many talents did from 1992 to 1995 before making his way back to CMLL and becoming tag champs with Atlantis who had never left CMLL. In 1999 Lizmark would suffer a heart attack and his career slowed considerably though his legacy lived on through his son Lizmark Jr. who he had worked with in the 90′s and would team with in the 2000′s despite showing down after his heart attack. Lizmark passed way in 2015, I highlighted him in last years Masked Men of May series. 

Eddie Guerrero

I could probably assume that you know who Eddie Guerrero is, but lets act like you don’t. Eddie Guerrero got his start in EMLL, which is the same promotion his father Gory Guerrero had been a major star for in the middle of the century. Debuting in 1986 he would have been basically a rookie at this point in 1988. WWA World Trios Champion would be his first belt in 1989, which he captured with his brothers Chavo & Mando. In 1992 Eddie would do a tour of BOSJ III at the time called Top of the Super Juniors. This went so well he was invited back and worked heavily before working there full time in the mid and early mid 1990′s leaving CMLL behind while also being a hot ticket in AAA. Before working with ECW/WCW and then eventually WWE. Where he worked until he passed away in 2005 at the age of 38. 

One of the most well known talents of Mexican descent. Eclipsing his brothers and standing shoulder to shoulder with his father Gory Guerrero who also was a household name in his time. Not to say his brother Mando/Hector/Chavo didn’t have good careers. As Chavo had a pretty great run too and feuded with Roddy Piper in California’s NWA Hollywood promotion before Eddie had even debut in 1986. They all had careers to be proud of even if Eddie had the most widely known and beloved career of the 4 brothers.  

How is the match?

Very good, it’s not a mind blowing trios match. It has it’s spots though and was included more as a spotlight of Los Brazos who were very important in this era and are still very important in Lucha Libre having 3 mainstream lucha libre stars with their sons Maximo Sexy/La Mascara/Psycho Clown with the latter two main eventing Anniversary(Mascara) and Triplemania(Psycho Clown), with Psycho Clown winning the AAA’s biggest yearly main event twice over peer Pegasso and older legend Dr. Wagner Jr. 

Anyways, enough about stuff that happened nearly 30 years after this match. Captains in this match are Rocky Star & El Brazo. It’s a little strange that Rocky Star seems like the tecnico they wanted to highlight here, but the most impressive guy is probably Lizmark. Eddie was a rookie here and works with Lizmark to get a fall in the contest, but is mostly there as a body. I think my favorite part of this match is probably the entrance with the Brazo’s just looking like 600 pounds of badass wearing the belts or the short stint of Lizmark going wild when he is given time to get his shit out. 

Seeing Brazo de Plata(later known as Super Porky) hitting a superkick/thrust kick was pretty wild in the early on. Also, seeing El Brazo bleed like a pig is very much something that just screams classic lucha libre before CMLL banned blood and became more sanitized(this wasn’t in EMLL/CMLL, but at the time you would expect blood in that company as well). I wouldn’t take a bite out of someone’s bloody scalp, but Rocky Star does here. It’s a fun Brazo brawl, but this isn’t an all time classic like the last few days of matches. This will be the last match from the 1980′s and tomorrow we will be moving on to the 1990′s. 

Highlights :

Los Brazos(Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata & El Brazo) vs Rocky Star, Lizmark & Eddie Guerrero, 1988, UWA(?)