#<- just cuz the og is shipping them

[purpldawne]

self inserts are great. some people have one they use for every media and i love seeing this one specific little guy people choose to represent themselves go on fun adventures and make friends with their favorite characters and fall in love with others. some people have a different insert for every media they ship from or even for every ship they have and that's??? honestly really impressive and cool how so many different things can represent a single person. sometimes they're fantastical and magical and sometimes they're just A Guy™ in Situations™ even if it doesn't really "fit" the media they're an insert for. and some of these designs?? SNAPPED my spine stole my bones yall are so talented

[jet-apologistmybadhomies]

wdym they're not dating

they literally are

the ears are purly for @waiitwotworkshop so idk be happy i gave them their animal parts

he looks way more terrified in mine

(also juno and haru again from the earlier post because i kinda want them to be seen together)

i hope i didnt go TOO far away from the og characters 😭 ik i am taking alot of freedom

[fellow-nerd]

The anne of green gables brain rot is fully setting in.

[cantagirldrawinpeace]

Oda when I catch you Oda 🙂🔪

[ruinxl0ve]

Am i the only mf who never shipped Ao Bing w Nezha (the adult one ofc)

[enduracarrotchips]

as a heikazuscara shipper uh who do you ship heizou with

also if you’re still taking requests Yaoyao or Heizou (or both if ur up to the challenge)

I love ur art the brush you use is so pretty the clothes you draw is so pretty have I expressed this enough yet jebdbjsnajendj

hii! i don't strongly ship him with anyone but my favourite heizou ship is shinobu/heizou :) i just really like how their colour palettes go tgt - i don't ship heikazuscara but ur totally valid for that 🤲

another anon asked for heizou so i will post that later ;))) also TYSMM ur so kind i love youuu AAA

[angellwingss]

Wasn’t going to go on a big rant but you know what since that other post is gaining traction yeah I think I will. So big long rant under the cut. Lolll

I feel like. A lot of people might tell me ‘it’s not that deep’ but to me it is that deep.

I don’t have a problem with JayVik or it’s shippers like. At all. I just think some of them are à really good demonstration of like. Every bad thing when it comes to fandom ever LMAO.

Once again I am (supposed to be) writing a whole big long essay about this already so I will try and keep this kind of short and sweet and it might be a bit lacking but wtvr.

I think a lot of JayVik fans tend to be white queer people. Someone left a tag on my OG post that said basically ‘my take is I’m a faggot and I don’t have to care about a character if I don’t want to’ and no hate to that person cuz you’re right, but this is exactly the kind of stuff that made me make that first post.

I feel like a lot of white queer people have an issue with seeing outside their own identity? If that makes sense? This is seen time and time again with the way some of them behave when big movements happen online, some have a tendency to centre themselves and whatnot so i think it’s kind of the same thing.

It makes total sense that a queer person would prefer queer ships and would prefer JayVik over MelJay, that is not a crime. But I do think part of that is because they can’t relate/identify with Mel or see themselves in her like they can with Jayce or Viktor.

I hate to also make it about feminism but i think a lot of you guys are super like. Male centred, like just in your attraction which once again, not the issue not a crime. But i think it’s also why CaitVi, which is a canon queer ship, although popular is still not quite as popular as JayVik despite being canon. Women fetishizing gay men in fandom is not something new, which I think might play a small part in it- I’ve seen a lot of people especially back in s1 infantilizing Viktor and acting like he had no agency or independence and that he NEEDS Jayce to take care of him (that’s another thing. Ableism(looks at you with my eyes)) and they also do the same thing with Jayce where they act like he had 0 agency with any decisions he makes and that he’s like a big dumb baby who doesn’t know anything politics. Hey, guys. That’s a grown man.

My main issue isn’t that people prefer JayVik over MelJay it’s just that some shippers demonize Mel to an insane degree, blame her for getting in the way of their ship (this is also happening right now with Maddie- there’s a leak going around saying that she gets with Caitlyn and people are so upset that this character is getting some INSANE hate and I feel like that’s the same thing going on.)

they blame her for ‘stealing’ Jayce etc etc like. Idk. You don’t have to ship MelJay but I wish more people would appreciate Mel just as a character- imo she is super interesting and has a great story but she’s only ever seen and ‘the other woman’. I’ve seen people say she isn’t like, well characterized and that her story entirely revolves around Jayce which. Yeah she’s definitely heavily involved with him in s1 but she’s clearly got a lot more going on than just that and you would know that if you GAF 🗣️🗣️

for just being. Who she is. I think Mel deserves more attention just in the fandom and it’s just frustrating. People making memes about Jayce going insane over Viktor leaving but like. Mel also just got fucking kidnapped guys. His lover has just vanished without a trace why is nobody also talking about that !!!! Why can’t he care about both these people at the same time !!!!!!!

Anyway I’m not nearly well equipped enough to talk more in-depth about like. Any of this but I do think the demonization of Mel and refusal to see her relationship with Jayce as it is can often times be boiled down to racism like straight up. And also things like the fetishization of gay men in fandom and just things like that are sometimes what can lead to female characters- even the well written ones to be shelved and pushed aside in favour of their male counterparts.

Obligatory ‘not all JayVik fans’ obviously a lot of you are awesome, shouldn’t have to say this. If I’m not aiming for you, you shouldn’t be getting shot.

[necroromantics]

Friendly reminder to do what makes you happy. Create cringe OCs, indulge in fanon, make AUs and fun joyous stories, crackships and whatever the fuck else you want to.

Do what makes YOU happy and never let anyone take that away from you. Never let someone box you in, never let someone tell you what you can and cant create cuz of their own judgements and internalized shame.

This fandom is full of a lot of young people just trying to enjoy themselves, and even adults who just find interest in something. Read Jeff The Killers (Woods) OG story. Read Ninas, Janes, Tobys, etc, and then come to me and tell me that wasnt just some dumb kids trying to have fun.

Go watch Marble Hornets, go read up on Slendermans creation. ALL of it was just some random ass people online wanting to CREATE something because they thought it was fun. It made them happy.

Do it bad. Do it cringe. Do it ugly. Who the fuck cares. If it makes you happy, do it. The only thing that ever matters in life is creating things that bring you joy. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise, please. There are no rules, there are no right or wrong ways to create, there is no punishment for making "cringe" or "bad" art, but there is punishment to the soul for neglecting your natural desire to create

And if you shame people for being happy and indulging in OCs, AUs, stories, ships, whatever, that they enjoy, if you shame people for creating art, block me. My account holds no space for that kind of negativity. Thank you

[ivys-garden]

Here's a clearer version of the Hermit Falls Zodiac (+ the og Journal Page)

Here's everyone's roles in the au:

Sunbeam & Cresent Moon: Grian & Pearl (Dipper & Mabel) - twins of divorced parents who were sent to a Nowhere town for autumn break to reconnect after being separated. Currently living with their great uncle Scar. When Grian finds a strange journal in the woods he and Pearl become obsessed with uncovering the secrets of this town. Ps, Tilly is Waddles :3

Top Hat: Scar (Stan) - the twins Grunkle and the proprietor of Trader Scars: The House Of Wonders!, a local tourist trap. He seems to spend a lot of time in the basement.

Lowercase i: Impulse (Soos) - local handyman at Trader Scars, father figure for the twins.

Cool S: Skizz (Wendy) - cashier at Trader Scars, generally laid back but will deck you if you hurt his friends

Rocket Ship: Cub (Ford) - genius scientist who lived in Hermit Falls decades ago, Scar says he jumped towns and left the Trader Scars building to him, but no one's heard from him since

Fancy Mustache: Mumbo (McGucket) - local mad inventor living in the junkyard. Insists his name is "Big Ron" Cub always looked guilty when he saw him…

Gemstone: Gem (Pacifica) - daughter of a rich family staying in Hermit Falls on a business trip. gets bored and decides to have a rivalry with Pearl. Just cuz

Old Skull: Cleo (Robbie) - local artist and mortician. Sorta tried to kill Pearl on her first week in Hermit Falls. Tensions were high between them and Grian after that

@ Symbol: Joe Hills (Gidion) - owner of a rival tourist trap: Joe Hills’ Tent O’ Magic, where he puts on dazzling acts of poetry, music, Puppet shows and magic tricks. Everyone seems to like him, but Scar doesn't trust him

Joel (Bill) - interdimensional Demon watching over Gravity Falls. Burt his home dimension to the ground. Still hears her his friends in the back of his mind. Why did he do it?

Will I continue this? Maybe? I'm busy atm but I like the concept. I've sketched some designs but nothing I'm super happy with so far.

Ps If any of yall can come up with a surname that fits Pearl, Grian & Scar (maybe Cub two not devided if him and Scar are brothers yet) that would be cool ;)

Also, well done to @harley-the-pancake & @octopus-defence-squad at correctly decoding almost everything! I'd give you cookies if I could

[demaparbat-hp]

I’m sorry, but don’t you feel bad for your fav ship cuz’ like, a lotta Zutara fans are obnoxious and hate Aang and Mai for no reason. It just, kinda ruins your ship and makes it one of most hated ships in the fandom cuz’ of them. You’re the one of the few sane Zutara fans and I’m proud of you. Stay this way through your entire journey.

Oh! Thanks! I, uh, I'm glad you believe me sane 🤭

Honestly, there are terrible people in every fandom, but those are just a loud, small minority. Most of us are just here to share our love for these characters and their world.

The ZK fandom is, sadly, very well versed in ship wars and fandom hate and...well, we all know about it.

That being said—I don't let fandom wars or toxic behaviour from fans on any "side" dictate how I enjoy the og series or ZK.

People have vastly different takes on ATLA. Some may not like Aang as a character, or Mai, or Katara, or Zuko, or Sokka—and that's okay! We all have our own ideas and our own ways to interact with canon and the Fandom.

But things get out of hand when someone sends you death threats using anonymous asks, or calls you horrible slurs, simply because you enjoy something (I am talking through personal experience here).

I support discourse. I support metas and takes and headcanons. I support those who say "Well, I understand why you like this couple/character, and I respect that, but I don't like them because..."

And that's the thing that's sometimes missing—respect.

I know what my stance is regarding ZK, and Kataang, and Maiko, and this senseless hostility. And I will always defend it, but that doesn't mean baseless insults need to be part of my vocabulary.

I can't tell anyone how to engage with fandom—and I'm not trying to! These are my own personal views on this matter, and I hope everyone understands the intention and meaning behind them.

[wormedrabidnerd]

I promised I wouldn't drink anymore, but I'm missing OG F&C Gumlee toxic yaoi like a mf.

Ok, but being serious...I miss them and their dynamic so much.

I miss them being jerks to each other (mostly Marshall) and having this unresolved tension cuz they weren't close enough to be friends but they 100% liked each other despite being complete strangers to each other.

These motherfuckers hated each other while thinking about each other all the time and that's the seasoning that made me like their ship. I WAS IN THE TRENCHES SHIPPING THESE TWO AT THE RIPE AGE OF 10!

Look at this shit, man...

They were interesting because they weren't like Marceline and Bubblegum who already had a previous relationship at the time, these two weren't even in friendly terms, they couldn't even see each other!

I was rooting for them to communicate and build the shit outta that relationship, but now we have a "perfect" relationship that was just rushed, honestly.

After all this time my feelings past the autistic hyperfixiation had settled down a little and I'm now able to pinpoint some things I didn't really like about the series.

And please don't get me wrong, I love the current Gumlee and how they make my king visibly black like they should, but it just isn't the same. It was rushed by a damn platform that only cares about producing rushed content and nothing else. I miss how the magical aspect of their world played a part in how they interacted with each other, all of them!

Speaking of, that's something I miss too and wished was different in the series: the lack of magic and the "get real" lesson they give us. What if I don't want to get real? What if I want more magical adventures??? I have enough with life already, I want some escapism! I'm sure there's a way of doing that without it being Finn, Jake, Marceline and Bonnibel all over again.

I wanted more of this:

Y'all have no idea how much the background-characterification of Ice Queen hit me, man. They really took away her own backstory, her swag and ambitions just to simplify it, use her as background character and make her a Simon clone/variant and I honestly hate it. She was supposed to be unique in her own way, just like the rest of the gang and now they're confused as their counterparts even more than before.

I just hope season 2 gives us magic again somehow, but it sounds so unlikely :(

[diathadevil]

The way Taiga and Ryuuji realize the culmination of their relationship and the feelings they have to one another, the growth they show during a very dramatic fight with their family, just... Taiga finally believing in herself and in Ryuuji's love for her.

Sorry y'all I am a weak bitch to these friendship to lovers tropes.

I am not immune to the last three episodes of Toradora and I WILL rewatch them every few years or so.

[wingzoffeather]

I've been reading thru some of the Sorvus fics on ao3, starting from oldest fics in the tag, to newest. It's fascinating to see a clear delineation between the themes of arc 1-focus sorvus shippers writing the ship, and arc two sorvus shippers writing them. Like, most of Soren & Corvus' on-screen interaction together in arc 1 involved:

Soren mocking Corvus/being a jerk in general

Corvus being tied up

Corvus being Soren & Claudia's captive And arc 1 Sorvus fics mostly reflect & expand upon this dynamic...creatively, to put it mildly, lol. (I did notice a bit of tonal shift starting in Sorvus fics written in the arc-interim tho, after Soren's redemption.) It makes sense, cuz that's all we see of them & there's not as much of a sense of Corvus as a character, to work off of, anyway. And then Sorvus on-screen in arc 2 (and in the short stories) are:

softer

friends (who give heartfelt compliments to each other!)

emotional support for each other Arc-2 era fic writers focus more on this softer & emotionally vulnerable side of them (which again, makes sense as fandom has more reference material about Corvus & new info on his dynamic with Soren, to work with). But I also rarely see the spicier, arc 1 sorvus dynamic really explored anymore, too. And it's just really fascinating, to me, in this case, for some reason??? Like you could literally edit page-breaks into the archive list in the Soren/Corvus tag, where the majority of the fic themes shift. I rarely see something like that. How do the og/arc 1 sorvus shippers feel about it? Still ship them?

[peaterookie]

Lupin Week Day 2: Roleswap

Today, I'm role swapping Lupin and Goemon, my two favorite characters !

This drawing is a redraw of a manga panel in the Goemon Series, where they are fighting cuz Lupin wants to steal from Goemon's master. This time it's the opposite happening however.

More info about them under the cut!

I kiiinda got super invested in them so I made a character sheet that shows their designs and fleshes out their character.

Obviously, Goemon takes Lupin's role. His family plays a bigger role in his life and unlike OG Goemon, has very little sense of morals- he steals whatever he wants and kills whoever gets in his way.

I still preserved his Japanese clothes because it's an essential part of Goemon, I used Lupin's kabuki outfit as a model. Despite this, he leans more towards western ideologies and tech more than OG Goe, using guns and various other tools for his heists. I personally think his family wouldn't approve of him straying away from their Japanese roots. (Oh yeah, he's Japanese/French, just like OG Lup

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With Lupin, I didn't want to go with the obvious option of giving him Japanese clothing, since it'll be too similar to Goe. I first thought of making him more French and have him be a fencer but that just doesn't fit with Goemon's whole thing of being a ninja.

So I went with the ninja thing and tried to find something similar to it- and I made Lupin a pirate :) Hopefully it didn't look so obvious.

To match this, I changed his ethnicity to be half French and the other half be some sort of ASEAN/Pacific Islander. I made it vague like how OG Goe is with being half white. He also uses a harpoon and like, throws it to kill people yeah

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So how did Goemon and Lupin meet in this story?

Lupin sails the sea with other people and they do whatever pirates do, and they find this really awesome treasure that Goemon takes notice of. When the crew docks in Japan, Goemon attempts to gain Lupin's trust because that way, he can infiltrate the ship and get that cool treasure.

Lupin is insistent on protecting the treasure however (because he'd probably get killed by his crew if he fails) and him and Goe fight fight fight!!! Much like Goemon in the original story where he leaves his master to join Lupin, Lupin just decides to leave his crew and join Goemon's gang after losing to him a bunch of times and having to endure the crew's abuse.

And that's it, I hope you like my take on this roleswap prompt!

[crushedsweets]

ANSWERING A TON OF ASKS AGAIN

(30 asks..)

the reason i added it to my AU was a nod towards Ann being popularly (?) shipped with Tim way back in the day! her reasoning is prob just some 'i like my men with muscles and beards' or something LMFAOOOOOOO

yes!

I APPRECIATE YOU!! youre so sweet and im glad it helps !

only english!

in my au, i could possibly see her in a long denim skirt... and there was that one alpite drawing of her in the miniskirt... looked really cute LOL

please release me from my prison.

WHAT ARE U REFERENCING

let the man dance. . . must he stand perfectly still. . . ?

i think her smile is sooo perfect. shes perfect.

LOL AS USUAL, toby clocky nina EJ and kate. my fave is between toby and nina

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LEAVING SUCH A SWEET MESSAGE!!! it makes me so happy when you guys enjoy the stuff im putting out, especially since im enjoying creating it! i have a lot more free time now since two of my accelerated classes ended, so im just always thinking about.. them... LOL ty again also ur english is perfect!

i didnt care for it just cuz i loved the OG so much, but i totally understand why the creator did it - being berated and bullied and harassed for years at such a young age over a fun little character you made . . . i would want to "fix it" as well. but i think ninas original concept was scary in its own right! i think copy cat killers and true crime fanatics are haunting and OG nina reflected that!!!

HE'S GOT LAZARI thats his ..half daughter half sister figure. LOL. maybe dina too ive been thinking abt that a lot... omfg and lulu...

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?? CHAT.

leave her ALOOOONNNEEEE SHES PERFECT THE WAY SHE ISSSS!!!!!!!!!!

i have! i read a bit about it and whatnot in 2023, but i didnt get fully into it! im too stuck in my own world ... RIP

ive drawn him once before! i really didnt like it . LOLLLLLLL i deleted it like a couple days after posting ... ill think about doing it again!

ive been meaning to draw her with them all up her right arm+both hands+back and peaking up her neck, but i keep forgetting!!!! i only seem to remember with jane , but thats cuz its like ... very fundamental to her design LOL

yea but it wasnt my thing... very cool concept, but the humor and pacing wasnt my taste!

i have actually!! way back in like 2020, one of my friends made me HAHA but i kept falling asleep during it . . .

yes.

CRISPY IS CRAZY LOL but yeah. i love her too. LOL

release him...

true.

HAHA YEAH I CHANGED IT A WHILE BACK..and now im debating changing it again... omg

thank you anon!! youre a sweetheart

ghglugghh...

[burgycreeper405-blog]

a Screenshot redraw for the ship roleswap au (i’ll do the gkgg au ver soon jdfjd)

black and white

& colored cuz why not

got a bit lazy wit them backgrounds kshfdk

this au belongs to @maxphilippa

og pic

(these pics is just a dandelion ver of floory that i drew bcuz i forgot that oh yeah, he’s a “minecraft block” xD)