#This dude is to shippable

[cookimint28]

Why is bro soo shippable in a polyamorous way ???

Bro got the rizz 😭😭😭

The references :

[abovecalamity]

badly summarized wips :P thanks @alpinelogy

*well AND technically a kinkmeme thing I'm working on O.O*

All in various states of being :)

tagging @mars-mystic @pitconfirm @lil-shiro only if u want to :DD and @merenwenformulauno if ur able to pick in between them all and want to :P

[deus-ex-mona]

omg megurio ivdai yui4everalone r e a l

[nikomedes]

the last time i engaged hard with fandoms, like. i was baffled and appalled by how getting that many people fixated on one thing spawns dogshit takes, fanon, and trends at a rate that boiled u like a frog if u checked tags every day but was objectively insane from the outside. its so fast. the less of a media to obsess over, the worse it gets. two shippable white dudes? fucking calamity. and yeah, absolutely any challenging material is either sanded off, elided, or examined in the worst faith you could imagine. both experiences started euphoric as i got social engagement that lit up my dopamine-seeking brain like christmas, and then law of large numbers eventually made it so there was no amount of cool mutuals or number go up to outweigh the braindead posting.

all this to say there are maybe 3 people on earth i want to see bg posting from and everyone else i am holding at gunpoint. no trigger discipline. they say anything lacking basic critical thinking about a dnd character and whatever happens, happens

[croszukis]

scary how obvious it is that nonwhite hockey players are just clearly outside of the imagination of hrpfers and making them the centers of romantic stories

[out-of-heaven-and-hell]

Tbh I've been considering just changing her sexuality to be a lesbian, ill definitely still keep her on the ace spectrum somewhere but idk I find it harder and harder to ship her with any man recently

[barb-l]

Actual Cool Girl is a friend yeyyyy

[lumienn]

Is it just me or are fandoms lately becoming more ship-negative? Esp if the canon portrays two characters as platonic - a few years ago it would have made a pretty popular ship and be all over tumblr and YouTube but now it's just? Not? And the fans/viewers are COMPLYING with canon??

?????

[flowers-inverted]

I just started Free! today...

"Can't two guys be just friends?" If they stop looking at each other like that then sure

[queerbogbitch]

it's case #2 of the great ace attorney chronicles and you know what that means... ryunosuke ship #2!! his husband's only been dead for a few hours and he's already doing a campy lil dance making ✨️deductions✨️ with his new boyfriend

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Anyway I just watched a movie and I'm having very cringe feelings about it.

[bengiyo]

We Are Sucks, and BL Will Be Worse When This Succeeds

We Are the series, the latest empty drivel from New Siwaj, has crossed a line for me that I cannot abide. This show is nothing more than loosely connected setups for BL moments that are easy to gif or clip for maximum virality, designed to fulfill a financial obligation to iQIYI and otherwise keep the B- and C-tier BL pairs occupied with work. This show is saying nothing about the human condition with any verve, and there is no queer subtext or text to pull from any of these characters that the viewer isn’t already bringing to the table. 

I had stopped writing Stray Thoughts for this show because it doesn’t really have much of a plot or story to tell, but I am not going to be able to continue this show past episode 5. This show is the BL equivalent of a cumshot compilation. It is designed exclusively as fap material to coo over known BL pairs smiling at each other. I was chatting with @twig-tea yesterday about how after five episodes we still don’t really have anything resembling an arc for these characters and how it’s just a bunch of BL dudes hanging out. Twig described it as “disingenuous to [even] call it a show” and “...a bunch of compatibility workshops strung together.”

I hate this so much. There is no story being told here. This is like watching actor reels on IG or TikTok. There is nothing here to hold onto other than your baseline fondness for the cast. There was a moment in episode 5 that felt completely unscripted between Aou and Boom that felt like Boom reacting to being teased by Aou and not a moment between their characters. They didn’t even let Aou’s character confess the specificity of his feelings because they don’t matter to this show! It doesn’t matter why he likes Boom’s character! Just that he does! Why does Boom’s character respond so positively to these feelings? Why didn’t he take initiative on his own before? What changed at all? What’s the goddamn story here? There’s nothing! We just make it up and enjoy the smiles.

I usually don’t want to bitch about shows I don’t like extensively on here, and I especially don’t like spamming tags with negative commentary or musing on shows. However, there are 11 more episodes of this empty nothing, and 30 more episodes of New Siwaj trash on the horizon. He has become the GMMTV BL Babysitter, and I am horrified by what this means for the genre. I try to stay patient with New because usually he captures some form of gay melancholy or angst in his shows, but there is none of that here in We Are. All of these characters know each other and are basically just hanging out for about an hour of TV. 

I worry about stuff like this being good enough to monetize. There’s nothing interesting for me in this experience with a queer lens. There is no real story being told, and caring about any details as if they matter leads to questioning the integrity of the characters (are we really doing a slave narrative in a college BL again?). It feels like the end product of giving up on chasing ratings and only chasing virality to monetize the talent for ad spots, concerts, fan meets, and merch. No longer do we even need to make stories about compelling romances between men. We just need to get passably attractive boys on screen together and just ask them to smile. 

What does it mean for the genre if GMMTV goes another step forward with this and no longer brings any robust writing to the BL table. Are we satisfied with BL as glorified slideshows of shippable actors? What happens when GMMTV is able to easily milk this over other robust productions? Is this just the filler fluff to keep people engaged with the network between their solid projects to prove their bonafides? BL has always struggled with depictions of queerness, but are we at the point where we don't even try to tell stories that even feel queer? Is just simply putting boys next to each other enough? I don’t like this at all, and it unsettled me as I watched five episodes of We Are only to feel nothing. 

I am always half-joking about being over New Siwaj, but I really am at this point. 

[bottom55cs]

Another underrated ship

Daniil Kvyat & Carlos Sainz jr. - F1 Brazilian GP 2016

[let-me-be-an-egg-toast]

dude i know now why larry is so shippable

larry is just...a dude

some guy

like ofc not some guy is a gym leader and elite 4 but you know what i mean

he literally perfectly contrasts EVERYBODY

HE'S A FUCKING ANOMALY THAT MAN

IN A WORLD FULL OF ANOMALIES, WHIMSY, AND ENERGETIC AND PASSIONATE CHARACTERS, NORMAL BECOMES THE ANOMALY

HE LITERALLY STANDS THE FUCK OUT AND FROM EVERYBODY

HE DONT WANNA DO MORE THAN WHATS REQUIRED, HE JUST WANNA STAY IN HIS LANE FR BUT EVERYBODY IS LIKE "HYAA AAA BATTLE WOOHOOO POKEMON" LIKE

CMON

he's so fucking SHIPPABLE ITS KILLING ME

HE'S SO NORMAL, HE'S SO DONE WITH EVERYTHING

larry x kabu? larry x rika? larry x hassel? larry x brassius? larry x saguaro? larry x katy? LITERALLY EXTROVERT/ENERGETIC/PASSIONATE X INTROVERT/DONE WITH THIS SHIT

larry x geeta? enemies to lovers guy who doesnt wanna do it anymore x boss who's trying to trigger his character development arc to his annoyance

larry x grusha? fuckin guy who doesnt have passion anymore x guy who got his passions stripped from him by an accident

larry x volo? guy just says "ok just pls make sure to come home by 9" when his s/o is like "im going to reach god and remake the entire world as a whole"

my god people

LOOK AT THIS MAN

LOOK AT HOW SHIPPABLE HE IS

USE IT

[tolkienpinupcalendar]

Sluttiest Tolkien Character Round 1

Sauron (The Hobbit) vs Elrond (Rings of Power)

Propaganda under the cut ↓

Sauron:

I mean lets be real. Who's mine has Sauron.gif not penetrated. Gollem, Bilbo, Azog, Thrain, Bolg, Gandalf, AND EVEN Galadriel. He wants to get you on a metaphisical plain. Not just the physical ream.

Elrond:

Okay, hear me out. He's a young (relatively) man (elf) at war. What's sluttier than that? You're penetrating other men. And what do you think happens in those encampments? SLUT ACTIVITIES. Also he's literally grubby as hell in season 2 and that's so slutty because guess what happens after that? You gotta get naked in a community bath!

ROP/Robert Aramayo Elrond (Robrond) IS the sluttiest guy in Middle-Earth. He flirts with everyone and is eminently shippable with 99.9% of the cast. His puppy dog eyes are ENORMOUS. Have you seen the way his hair curls? He's adorable and even his archenemy comments that he has the beauty of Melian (shortly before gripping him by the throat and lifting him up on the battlefield. Same, dude, same.)

the hair swoopies?????? when he gets absolutely covered in grime????????? trying to barter his own life to save the library of Eregion????????? he has such tender hands but also he WILL snap your neck if you burn books

[icarusredwings]

Can we talk about how shippable the X men are?

Its obvious that it can be EVERYONE x Logan but it can be

Kurt and morph

Ororo and Jean

Hank and Ororo

Jean with Rouge

Kitty and Jubilee

Scott and gambit if you're into that northern white boy meets southern white boy thing.

You could practically put anyone with anybody and it would work. Hell if you really want you could put Ororo with Scott and Jean with Kurt.

It would still work. Would it be fucked up given their lore? Yes. But you could(!!)

Ororo would top the fuck out of that twink and Jean's sweet enough to handle kurts insecurity and imposter syndrome and still get fuzzy fucked.

But the Avengers? No.

Very limited ships in there.

Sure you can shove Banner with black widow and if you really wanted to you can shove steve with tony but come on that's baseline, besides, everyone knows that steve has a nice little house with Buck and their adopted cat. They've been married since the 50s. Duh.

What about Hawkeye, thor, and spidey? Their partners are off team and yeah, you can put hawk with Natasha if you please, and maybe even Thor with her too but that's a bit shallow isn't it? To ship all the dudes with just the singular girl?

That's why we like the xmen. So many wonderful ladies (even though, let's be honest, everyone only wants Logan)