#40 ships

[shouldertallabyss]

40 ships 🚢🛳️⛴️⚓️🏴‍☠️:

I did end up typing up my ships last night—the pairings I remembered searching since I was a teenager on FF or Ao3—and landed on 40 ships. This was to get a larger timeline and see what it says about my reading evolution using the following limited categories—

59% Gay/Bi 📕🧬

10% Lesbian/Bi 📗🔭

26% Straight 📘🌠

54% have a Light-side v Dark-side dynamic 📙🎇

49% have an Age Difference 📚🌄

[seenthisepisode]

no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity

[dcxdpdabbles]

Jazz: Bow before me and worship my greatness!

Danny: I mean, when do we not do that, but what's the reason today?

Jazz: I just got a call back from Wayne Enterprise. You're looking at the new head of Mental Health for Youth!

Dani: That's amazing Jazz! When do you start?

Jazz: As soon as I move into Gotham.

Dan: Gotham? Isn't that the little emo place guarded by some vengeful spirit?

Jazz: It's not emo. It's just historical, and Batman is not a vengeful spirit. I'm pretty sure he's just some guy in a bat suit.

Danny: Nah, Batman is definitely a ghost

Danni/Dan: *nodding*

Jazz: He is not.

Dani: Oh, you want to make a bet out of it? I bet you can't prove Batman is just some guy in a bat suit by, say, Truce Day.

Jazz: When I do, what do I get?

Dani: I'll convince Clockwork to let me go back and stop the "hotdog" incident. One less embarrassing moment erased from your past. If you lose, you have to wax Dad's back hair!

Jazz/Danny/Dan: *Shudders* Jack Fenton back hair is pure evil.

Dan: I want some of this action.

Danny: Count me in, too!

Dani: Alright, but since Jazz has to prove Batman is human, you guys have to prove that Batman is a ghost by Truce Day.

Jazz: Easy. Enjoy Dad's back hair boys.

Dan: Oh, does someone have a plan? Or is that too much confidence for your own good Jazz?

Jazz: You bet I have a plan. I'm going to put myself in dangerous situations and when he rescues me BAM I'll have my proof

Danny: That's a good plan. I'm just going to sleep with him

Dan/Dani/Jazz: *stun faces*

Danny: What? Ghost or human, he's hot. Don't you judge me!

[reve-ro]

wanted to design a renegade suit with nightwing-esc aspects

[3amsoda]

gallica

[tvlipsandbread]

I have a teeny tiny obsession with lockets

And I own zero

[0039pf]

dear followers, today i offer you the good boah. tomorrow? who knows... (wip)

[automatonknight]

[aconfusedkitten]

okay, as someone on both the ace and aro spectrums, there is nothing wrong with shipping aroace characters.

it is a Spectrum, and just like there are sex favorable aces, sex neutral ones, and sex averse ones (or people like myself who are somewhere in between!), there is more than one way to identify as aro. for fucks sake, please stop harassing people in fandom for shipping things because it doesn't fit your definition of what being aroace means.

[frownyalfred]

Certain sections of tumblr will truly have you believe that proshipping, shipping “problematic” pairings, or shipping anyone with an age gap of more than thirty seconds is worse than like, the actual Holocaust or something and I’m here to remind you that it absolutely, absolutely isn’t.

You are not a bad person because you read [trope/pairing]. Conversely, you are not a better person if you avoid [trope/pairing]. It’s all down to personal preference, and the more we buy into that peculiar flavor of Puritanism, the worse off we will be. Even if it feels morally “right” to some of y’all.

[boimann]

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

[schlebatan-goolace]

been scattering him around my mspaint canvas

polite shopkeeper

[finalpam8000]

This man is so normal about his college roommate he’s spoken to like… 5 times in the last 2 decades. And I’m so normal about him.

[spooksier]

nonbinary ppl be like hYAH

[cartoonybus]

i feel like part of the reason dwampy didn't want to make dakavendish a thing is because they're two characters they put a bit of themselves into (tho not the extent doof has a lot of aspects of dan's personality) and thus felt weird about making them a romantic couple. which i get!

but maybe they shouldn't have written them so gayly then