#BUT NOT BECAUSE WE'RE GAYYYY

[youraveragemiscellanyenjoyer]

Yall ever just work out to theater music. It feels so awesome and liberating.

[ultfreakme]

idk of it's just me but i don't understand, the atla fandom, from all ships existing would just slander zukka out of nowhere. like mf i just want to see my boys being silly and in love in fanwork, why they need to be so mean lmao

I think it's because for close to 20 years, Kataang and Zutara were reining supreme in ship wars and fandom space. Jetko was the main mlm ship before but it didn't have nearly the same popularity. No other ship could even touch those two and those two continued arguing about what's best for canon.

Now though? Zukka's the second most popular ship on ao3- all of those fics and content showed up in 3 years. And suddenly the Netflix actors are pushing for Zukka practically every interview while actively dissuading Zutara(and hinting strongly at Kataang- thanks Gordon & Kiawentiio going "he/she's my.....family, yeah let's say family *wink* *wink*"). They're getting extremely popular and now fucking Netflix, Entertainment Weekly and Deadline are tagging #zukka in the year of our lord 2024(thank you for your service Dallas Liu, braver than the marines). Popular ships unfortunately get hate, especially queer ships, like just as a baseline regardless of if it's a canonically supported or unsupported ship, if it's "morally correct or incorrect".

This 'crackship' that no one took seriously suddenly feels...like a threat to these people??? Like we can joke about hahaha zukka gayyyy but we all know that's just silly gobbledygook right? (Not saying Zukka should or could be canon, but just the fact that people are seriously considering it as a ship option in fandom makes people act weird)

A lot of the the points made for "why Zukka is bad actually" are so funny though, that my initial irritation is fading and I'm just laughing at it. Some highlights that made me actually lose it:

Zukka is misogynist to Katara because, and I shit you not, they think that we think Katara is homophobic sdjfhbbgvh. I was shook when I discovered this was a thing.

Zukka bad because Klance bad (war flashbacks to Voltron)

"Everyone just wants a gay ship smh the chronically ONLINE FANDOM BRAIN HAS ROTTED THE SANCTITY OF HETEROSEXUAL-[EXPLODES]"

Zuko is a colonizer who's oppressing Sokka by dating him (i have no stats but this sounds like a white person trying very hard to sound like they're super inclusive and understand the plights of the colonized and oppressed. and the best way to do it is shit on a fake ship about lines on a page)

Zukka bad because it makes no canon sense

I think people who are Big Mad don't get that we're genuinely just chilling and making silly stuff without thinking too much about what SHOULD happen in canon. Everyone in ATLA fandom takes the show and the fandom far too seriously, like losing a fan discussion is somehow a slight upon their personal morals.

We coasted along without much hate for a good while but the increasing popularity means Zukka as a ship is going to get bashed ;_; I think the best we can do is block and ignore instead of engaging(very hypocritcal of me rn tbh, I'll try to stop).

I don't think you expected this....giant wall of text but thanks for sending me the ask and I totally get your frustration" Just let us enjoy our silly hcs and content!!!

[cherikdogfood]

Do you have any otps besides Cherik?? 👀

Hi!!! thank you for the ask and I'm so, so sorry it took me so long to reply. It's been a rough couple of days and I really liked this ask, so i didn't want to rush my answer or answer it when i'm in a bad mood hehe.

thank you for the ask anon!! (please know i really like this ask hehe). I'm sorry, I think I got carried away with my reply, hehe. It's, very, very long.

If you're asking about otps within the X-Men or Marvel as a whole, then no, I don't have any other otps besides cherik. Cherik is my love, my life, the One True Pairing~~

ofc this doesn't mean i'm not open to other ships... i enjoy reading or seeing the multitude of ships within the X-Men fandom, but none have screamed "OTP!!!" at me, so yeah...

BUT if you're asking outside the xmen/marvel fandom... THEN YES I DO HAVE OTHER OTPS!!!! and i'm screaming about them rn!!!

unfortunately the otps i love (other than cherik) is not popular, like, at all. it's not from famous western media and the fanfics about them in ao3 is so... few. like, 30 tops. it makes me soo sad, but I'm kinda hesitant to scream about them on this blog because this is, primarily, a cherik blog and people don't know them, y'know?

I won't mention the name of the ship(s) (i want to keep you guessing muahaha) but I have two other otps

a) This one, let's call it the S/W ship. (It's m/m, in case you're confused). it has TONS of parallels to cherik. for instance, both guys love each other so, so much, but because they have different ideologies, they're standing on opposite sides of the war. (it's so much like cherik damn it).

there was this scene, where W sneaks into a place to steal confidential information and stuff. He runs into S, and basically S holds him (W) at gunpoint. the two are bickering, fighting and persuading each other to abandon their ideologies...

And all this time S is holding W at gunpoint, as I mentioned, but W is super chill about it. He's fine. He doesn't even flinch lol.

But when W's fellow spies arrive and they point all their guns at S... That's when W really panics and loses it.

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! DON'T SHOOT!"

W yelled like three times, and, I kid you not, he looked so, so panicked and afraid that they would shoot S. ...like, if this doesn't scream love what does? When someone points a gun at you you're fine, but when people point gun at your husband you panic? GAYYYY

Okay, here's another parallel with cherik: I'm sure cherik fans know the infamous scene where Pyro basically says, we should've killed Prof X, and Magneto goes, bitch you did *not* just say that!

Well, this ship has a similar scene like that!! Basically there's a confrontation between W and S's secretary, who says W is nothing but trash without S.

Now at this point in time W and S are basically divorced/they've went their separate ways because of their different ideologies etc, AND THEN ofc S defends W, vehemently.

And then a bad guy pops up and he's accusing S of a crime. [Actually the one who did this "crime" is W, but he's managed to hide his tracks well].

When W realizes that the Bad Guy wants to put S in jail (even tho there's no proof that S did it), he willingly admits that he did the "crime". Now, mind you, this is the guy who went to great lengths to protect himself and erase all evidence about the crime, and he's been in hiding for a while, but because he doesn't want S to go to jail, he willingly admits he did it.

AND THEN, just when I thought things couldn't get any better, S takes the blame for the crime.

(are you confused? Here's a shortened version of events):

Bad Guy: S, you're suspected of a crime. I'm taking you to jail.

W: No!!! The truth is, I did it!!

S: No, I did it. W is just working for me, he is my person!!

W: No!!! I'm not working for you anymore!! (we're divorced remember?)

S: Shut up, I'm the one who did it!

W: No!!! Bad Guy, you have to believe me, I did it!!!

Bad Guy: ...stop flirting in front of me, okay? If you both want to go to jail just go together and flirt there.

Yeah, that's.. basically what happened.

I may have spiralled a bit, this is so long lol. That's my first OTP :)

(do let me know if you want to know who they are or from what show!!! I need someone who'll listen to me scream about them fr)

b) My second OTP is less... wow, I guess? Like the previous one, this OTP is not famous, at all. It's not from popular western media either and I have only found ONE post on Tumblr about this. (I kid you not)

I'm not done reading this particular one yet, so I don't have that much stuff to rave about this OTP...

But imagine this, you're a killer. Your instinct is to kill (it literally gives you an adrenaline rush + makes you stronger). It's a curse imbedded in you.

Oh, but you stopped killing someone?

Why, because you were thinking of your "brother"????? (Cherik gay montage, cough cough)

Yeah, that's basically them lol. I really ship these two characters but I don't have enough material about them and their gayness.... But yeah, they scream OTP to me...

Damn that was long. Very sorry about that, anon. Again, sorry for the late reply and thank you so much for this ask, I'm so happy hehe :)

Have a nice day.

[whysojiminimnida]

Maknae Line Sipping Things, Pt. 1

Maybe it's tea but more likely it's gonna hit and make us dizzy, knowing these guys. Because it's always something with them, isn't it?

WAIT BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER PLEASE TO READ THE DISCLAIMER

ARMY is many things to "our boys" - who, by the way, have not been "boys" for nearly a decade, now. Can we just normalize letting grown ass men be, IDK, GROWN ASS MEN?

They DO LOVE US. More than we realize. We are their validation. We are their audience, their personal search engine, their friends in a weird kind of two-sided parasocial relationship (which I guess makes it nearly a social relationship). But we are also their paychecks.

BTS is at a point where none of them need to work. Ever. They could fuck off to Bora Borahae (don't get me started) and spend lavishly for the rest of their days and still leave an enormous inheritance to their pets. They're fine, financially, in a way that most of us will never be. It's a heady experience, I'm told, having fuck-you money, and they have that. And yet they continue to work.

They continue to move their lives within a very tight, very enclosed but entirely too visible bubble. They always will, because their level of fame is that, now. Their lives don't really belong to them - they belong to us. Which is a heavy and often uncomfortable reality for them. So that's my angle going into the whole What The Fuck Is Up With The Maknae Line thing. They are in an unhealthy relationship - with ARMY - and it's changed who they are to each other, over time.

To be fair it's not ARMY's fault, either. If we must lay blame somewhere throw it on the idol system, maybe. They were assigned their roles in the beginning and SO WAS ARMY. It goes both ways.

The hyungs handle it better, overall. They were a few very crucial years older. They were given more responsibility and less, I think, insecurity. Don't get me started on neurodivergency. Or gayness. I'LL PONTIFICATE, IT WILL TURN INTO A DAMN FILIBUSTER, LET'S JUST NOT OKAY.

"But we LOVE THEM," I hear you cry. How can our love be unhealthy? Oh let me count the ways.

I LOVE a good fansite photographer. And Black & White is the best of the best - supportive, great shots, excellent with boundaries. See that? Jungkook recognized and was not upset to see them - because he sees them. A LOT. Here's Jimin taking notice:

He ain't mad. But cameras are as normal to BTS as breathing. Kinda like stylists. They get so used to having them there they don't quite seem real without them. To us, certainly, but maybe also to themselves. And as we've been let in to (almost) every facet of their lives we've become a little entitled. We think we know them - and in many ways we do. We see them cry, laugh, snort, fart, snore, sneeze and cough. We've even managed to be privy to inconvenient wood and bathtub photos - usually dressed, but Namjoon is not here today. "They're so relatable", we sigh. "How are they even real," we swoon. And yet we know they are, because we see them like this:

Little derpcakes, all of 'em. And we go "must protect!"

We protecc, we attacc, we give a boy a snacc, we make up memes about it and feel a little superior to all those fans who don't protect their idols - as well we should, we're the bomb. THE BANGTAN BOMB BITCHES.

And in so doing we have "protected" the maknae line right into eternal teenhood.

I've done it myself. Ask me how old Park Jimin is and I am as likely as not to tell you he's 24. (He's about to turn 27 international. At the end of the year he turns 29, Korean age.)

Again, much of this is marketing and is done deliberately because teen girls spend money. They also write fanfiction, draw and paint fan art, and attend concerts. And some of the fics are amazing, most are porn-adjacent or straight (gayyyy) erotica. Ditto a chunk of the art. But keep in mind that minors produce and consume all manner of media. A Minors DNI warning might as well be a neon sign. And fiction and depiction are SAFE ways for ARMY to explore their own and other sexualities. Put a pretty boy naked in a high school locker room with a tattooed, musclebound alpha quarterback and the metaphorical or literal jizz flings itself into the stratosphere. BUT LORD HELP A GROWN ASS ADULT MAN THAT ACTUALLY GETS A GIRLFRIEND.

Or boyfriend.

Stay tuned for the rest of this mess, probably.

[fataldrum]

You dork. I'm calling the police for excessive gayness.

Emergency!

It’s been several minutes since I said I love my girlfriend. @fataldrum I adore you. Carry on with your business!

[jinxthequeergirl]

Out There (pt.4)

Crowley x Nephilim! Reader

Summary: you explain a lot of things about yourself to Crowley

Warning : none

Also I'm sorry these last two parts have been shitty

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After several bad things had already happened you found yourselves now in a cave with No escape as water threatened your lives

   "No!" you both started to attempt to pull rock's from the back wall as the water began rising higher and higher.

  Crowley sucked in a breath and dove down hoping to look for an exit. You continued push against the Rocks hoping to push them free.

  "It's too dark I can't see anything!" you looked at him worried.you dove down yourself but he quickly grabbed you."hey! There is no point!" He pushed a wet strand of hair from your face as he spoke. "It's pitch black."

   "There...there has...has to..to be something! I Can't die! I Can't get you killed! This...this is all..all My fault!" tears welled up in your eyes.

  Crowley looked at you with a sad look and frowned.

"Crowley…" He said softly staring into the rising water.

You sniffled. "What?"

  "My name isn't Anthony I just used it because I wasn't sure i...wasn't sure I could trust you.I just figured if we are gonna die you might as well know."

 You chuckled. "I'm actually part angel and part human that's why you Can't tell…"

 He looked up.  "You're...you're...part angle doesn't that mean-"

 You came to the same conclusion as him. "I...I..can-" You shut your eyes concentrating the same way you do to heal Gabriel,You both took large breaths as the water rose above both of you.

  Suddenly You opened your eyes and palm of your hands and they both emeinated a bright yellow glow.

 You moved around a bit providing lights in different areas until Crowley saw an opening. He dove down and pulled the Rocks away until multiple tumbled outwards the water pushed you both out of the new exit into a shallow river.

"We're alive!"

  Crowley looked at you without his glasses(now lost somewhere in the river.)

Crowley stared at you in awe rolling over in the grass as you stood up.

"Crowley?"

"Why...wh…"

"Crowley!"

He looked at you. "My hands don't just light up! Like glow sticks." he have you a worried look up in that statement.

  He wrapped you up in his jacket that he dried off just to do so. You hadn't noticed but it was very obvious that the rest of him was still wet.

  He took a seat across from You. "Ok don't freak out but this is the only thing I've learned to do."

  You took his hands And shut your eyes. You took a shallow breath and your hands began to glow. It trailed up his arm and helped all the little cuts and bruises He had obtained.

  He gasped a little and stared at you again after you let go. "Don't freak out!"

  "I'm not freaking out! Your freaking out!" He chuckled.

  You gave him a crooked smile. "So what does that mean? half human half Angel?"

 You looked away embarrassed. "Well that means I'm a Nephilim. My parents gave me to my father after I was born because they were ashamed of me...all of heaven was! Humans wanted to use me for my abilities...heaven made a dagger, something powerful enough to kill me…"  

  You stopped for a moment. "He's kept me there to keep me safe!" before Crowley knew what was happening you dropped crowley's jacket and  your wings appeared behind you.

  "And Apparently ...before he build the wall's he hid me in heaven...an angel found out and tried to cut my wings of to make me simply human."

  Crowley looked sadly at the long gash in your left wing. "Y/n…"

You smiled pulling the jacket back over your shoulders. "It's nothing to worry yourself about..really I'm fine now."  

 He gave you the warmest smile he could and helped you up. "C'mon we aren't too far from a place to stay." You looked into his yellow eyes as You stood up and couldn't help but smile back.

  The Sun was getting low as you two continued out of the forest. "What is this place?"

 "This is tadfield...a few friends of mine live here." Crowley continued to take you up the path of a particular cottage just on the outskirts of the forest.

 He knocked on the door and waited patiently.

A girl with long black hair and round glasses opened the door. "Anathema!"

"Crowley?" He beamed at her hopefully. "Long time no see. Listen I was hoping You had some extra room for me and my friend here?"

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[wlw-lovestruck-fiction]

So since it's pride month I decided to be a bit 'risky' this year and have the rainbow and lesbian flag as my lockscreen. I don't really know what else to do tbh..

My coming out wasn't really a coming out. I just fell out on my face😂 I had my first relationship and it was with my best friend. It was super awkward, cute and idk. We're both shy (and add mental health issues on top.) So at least I didn't really dare to ask for what I want, that I wanted to see her, so it was mostly us texting. In school we were too scared of our classmates so we always just shared some little moments together. We didn't tell anyone. When she broke up with me, we hadn't even shared our first kiss or well did the dirty stuff😂 It still broke my heart. Badly. Even if my mom said it wasn't something serious, even if no one else thought it was something serious, it was something really special for me. My mom had to pull out of my nose why I was crying my eyes out and so I ended up falling on my face as a coming out and told her that I like girls and that my heart got broken.

Well three years later and I'm still heartbroken and haven't had another relationship. 18 years old (soon 19), still unkissed, a virgin and a big mess because of mental health issues. It kind of feels like some kind of pressure. Especially because my friend has lots of relationships and is younger than me. She can just fall in and out of love so quickly and I'm over here like "How do I even love again?" which makes me feel stupid. Even the girl I was with had some internet relationships after us, probably more than I know of... And I'm still, you know.. I guess I've had the longest crush on her ever, even if I didn't realize it sooner. I just still wish I would've told her sooner how I felt. I guess it's a regret I will carry with me for life. At least that's what it feels like.

What a wonderful coming out story 😂 I always imagined coming out with some sort of "BANG I'M GAYYYY" 😂 Well ended up falling on my face... Something I always seem to do in my life

Oh, darling ♥️ You're not stupid, first of all. Everyone's journey in this type of thing will be different, and valid. Sometimes it's hard to move on from someone that we care so deeply for, and that's okay. There is no age where you should have done things by, or had a specific type of relationship by. There's no need to feel pressure for that. Trust me, you will love again. But you can't rush when that time will come. Just keep yourself open to it 🤗 And we appreciate you sharing your coming out story with us, Anon. It takes a lot to be so open and vulnerble with people. You should be proud of that 😊 And be kind to yourself, dear. You're amazing and valid and absolutely worthy of all of the amazing things in life. Feel hugged 💖 - Mod Runa

[lovebenplatt-blog]

dear evan hansen: but not because we're gay

fansens: OOOOO THEY'RE SO GAYYYY