#I have a lot of rare-pairs

[jooqlz]

Quick and genuine question: how did you get into the bowuigi train anyway? Just curious is all :)

I will give you a genuine but maybe not so quick answer. Years ago I happened upon @cousineggplant's bowuigi art on twitter. I don't remember under what circumstances I found them but I remember thinking the pairing was cute and buying their doujin when it was available online (this was like 2019?2020?). At the time there was like no community for this ship, I think AO3 had like 8 works back then? I'm still following @cousineggplant, I actually found out that bowuigi had made a resurgence because they started posting about it again. In reality if it wasn't for them y'all probably would have never gotten all these comics out of me!

[shyhandart]

wives

[moeblob]

What if I straight up didn't explain myself? What if I just said trust me on this? Would you?

[silly-ehggy]

I've been watching mp100 again yes how could you tell

(Reblogs>>>>likes)

[aecholapis]

October 20th - Stuck in an Elevator

Pyra Magna / Strika

For the @tfrarepairing fest 2024

Hot buff women save me

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Save me hot buff women

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Doodles based on "Yet Another Nightmare" by Catroic on Ao3 (highly recommend reading, its very good)

[lululawrence]

x

[batataaurdoodh]

@hetalia-rarepairweek day 4: assassin

HRGHHHHHH I LOVE THESE TWO SMMMMM their outfits look more like spy outfits than Bollywood flash mob tbh

[sunflowerandstrawberryspice]

I promised Pixal and Pixal you shall get! I like to think since she's the child/invention of one of Ninjago's largest tech businesses AND Samurai-X people are definitely interested in talking to her. This is kind of a fun what if kinda thing!

I know the way I draw Pixal isn't really how I've seen most of the fandom draws her but like Pixal is just a character I love to have fun with ESPECIALLY with her glowing purple markings ugh I just love them! Also expect some samurai shipping posts sometime in the near future because I've recently become a fan of them!

However the next thing on the list is more Carmen Sandiego redesigns + the release of the prologue of the re-write since I'm also excited for that. I'm still doing Ninjago stuff but I'm also doing Carmen Sandiego stuff and maybe just MAYBE one day I'll combine them (I think that Carmen would make a great green ninja and Lloyd could make an interesting VILE agent wink wink).

But anyways that's all for now, feel free to ask questions about my art, or the re-wrote or whatever in my comments! I hope yall have a great day/night PEACE OUT!

[s-ephiroth]

not to start anything mean intended because i'm not that kind of person, but

i can't for the life of me understand people who claim to be sephiroth fans/have sephiroth based ships and go on and slap a capitalized "proship dni" somewhere in their bios/profiles

never understood this and never will, (for reasons i shall elaborate below) though i may get the potential reasons for it and just... it absolutely baffles me how misused the term proship is

that word literally means "in favor of shipping", that's what the "pro" part of the word is for. it doesn't mean you have to necessarily ship every ship that exists ever (that would be 1. insane and 2. not very feasible), just that you understand people will have different ships, you respect that others' preferences exist and mind your lane

it is basic fandom etiquette, it's literally old school "your kink is not my kink and that's ok". it's blocking folks with ships you dislike (notp) instead of trying to regulate what people do with narrative tools (characters) in a fictional space

sometimes other people are eating shrimp and you're allergic to shrimp. it doesn't mean the other people are immoral for eating shrimp

some people use proship to mean "problematic ship" (aka ships with dark thematics that wouldn't be ok irl) when 1. it doesn't mean that, and 2. you can dislike a thing without misusing a word

no, someone who's proshipper won't force you to ship their ship you may dislike, if you're wondering. that's not what the word implies at all

enter sephiroth

oh, you know him. sephiroth who took part in a genocide when young. sephiroth who took part in a war and very likely killed people. sephiroth who got betrayed by humanity so much that he chooses to torch down a small village and choose to become cosmic horror instead and haunt a twink

this is not a wholesome character!

like, i do believe that sephiroth has the potential to be cute/do good/work well as a slice of life protagonist if you frame him just right, but by canon definition, where he goes, someone dies

he's not fully good and not fully evil, he's a morally grey character reacting to the only life he knows and having multiple instances of terrible decisions. he's a victim as much as he's propagating evil

he's a very complex character and loving his character is understanding that not all that does or that happens to him is ideal. and that's ok, his very birth/conception alone is full of dark/taboo themes

and see, here's what i don't get: people who use "proship dni" in their bios, aside from the obvious performative flavor to that, (it's the internet! a sign won't stop people who are particularly mean!!) presumably don't want to interact with one or more of the following:

- people who ship anything in general (if going by the literal definition of the word)

- people who ship anything with dark/"problematic" thematics (by going by the misconception of the word meaning "problematic ship")

- people with a different ship that would be a notp or people who aren't into yumeshipping (oc/self insert x canon) (i'm not gonna get into my horror stories from twitter about this one but it exists, i was attacked once for trying to run a sc event)

if it's for the first reason, fair, but why only list one side of the discourse instead of just putting you're not into shipping? it feels like trying to bait people into a fight

the second is the one that baffles me the most. any ship you put sephiroth in has potential to have dark thematics, because sephiroth, as a shipping component, brings all these dark themes into it. unless you're redoing his whole life from scratch, he'll still have the history of having killed people, having fought a war, having been experimented on from pre-birth, etc. and if you have to redo this character's whole life to avoid dealing with his thematics entirely... do you even like him at all? are people who enjoy dark thematics forbidden from engaging with potentially wholesome thematics as well?

and the third is just hypocritical pettiness, really. you're not morally superior for shipping sephiroth with yourself or your oc or a different character that you prefer over some other character. sephiroth is still sephiroth, regardless of who he's with. he'll still do sephiroth things, whether positive or negative. you can dislike other ships without being morally performative about things. you can have notps!! you can dislike a ship for hitting you with the wrong vibes or because you like that other ship better

but in the end it all just boils down to it having the same vibes as antis using ao3: you're making use of the most proship thing out there is and saying proshippers shouldn't interact with you

i don't get it

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

didn't know laughingstock was a thing for the longest time but I have never been more quickly on board with a ship in my LIFE

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(get it? on board? ship? im so funny)

yeeHAW welcome aboard the SS.Laughingstock, it's in a constant state of nearly sinking but not quite! there are no lifeboats!

[bunisher]

rewatched nwh and currently having frankpeter brainrot

[boinin]

tfw you realise your own kunigiri fic is the longest one on ao3 in the english language

[thecherrygod]

i just saw a post for a ship and in the tags op was asking "what do we call this one" and they accidentally came up with a word that in here it colloquially means work/job. it is work. especially if it is you

[moeblob]

I remember one time on discord someone joined and I posted art in the art channel and she was like “oh you’re a fan of moeblob?” and I’m like. “I... I am moeblob” and then she was just so shocked she met the person behind the rare pairs and asked my opinions on a particular one. I remember a time on twitter someone made a tweet about “why does no one discuss Ferdinand/Felix” and someone replied like “there is a lone artist out there making content for them actually” and @ me.

Can I just retire and be known as the artist who draws everyone with freckles for Engage. It would draw far less attention probably (good! I’m shy!) and honestly is very pleasing to indulge in.

[ollyollyaxe]

so like, is hoffheight a rarepair now??