#We ship like adults here

[stromuprisahat]

hi, i was wondering if you had any darklina fanfiction to recommend (i just love your analysis, and i think if someone had good fanfics recommendations it would be you)

I got more of these, so I'll always reply after some time with some of my newest bookmarks from AO3. I still haven't got over my "nasty fic" phase, so don't hold your breath if you want a fluffy recs.

Last five of my Darklina bookmarks, beware of the dead birds:

Spoils of War by goblins_riddles_frocks

Darkolina to be precise. Nikolai made a deal he didn't quite think through. The Darkling turns into a traditionalist, when some aspects of monarchy are concerned.

Game Night by Mimabe

Modern no-power horny incest thingy. Show!verse.

Nådeløsheten by Madismen

This one is a delicious resolution of immortality and accompanying loneliness.

CHROMA by emerald_tablet 

Don't get yourself a daddy among your father's friends... Modern no-power BDSM show!verse series. I can't believe I'm recommending DD/lg stuff, but I also didn't expect ~some~ writers will be able to make me read AND enjoy it, so nvm.

His Creatures by goblins_riddles_frocks

I think I haven't read the second one yet, but the first was book-compliant monsterfucking Darkolina delicacy, so that's an extra plus. (All you need to make a blond hot is a bit of black goo and some animalistic traits...)

[lucky-fy]

Please enjoy :)

Two more with spoilers below

[pepperpixel]

Initial drawings of that old man… I literally, I haven’t finished reading the book of bill yet!!! I had to stop and take a break for a week to feverishly draw fanart of myself petting fords floofy hair and giving him attention and shit…!!!! The urge was too great….!! I’ve literally. I had a crush on this guy the instant he was first REVEALED in the show, but I did not have the artistic prowess to draw good looking old men back then… but I do now… thank god… thank fucking god

[r0semultiverse]

shipping this shipping that blah blah blah

Hear me out!

💞 SURVIVORS POLYCULE 💞

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

Doodles I did on paper today since I left my bag with the iPad home.

I missed drawing on paper tbh. I tend to be more messy and unproportioned (since, y'know, no ctrl+z or tools) but I love the feeling of it all, from the pencil sliding on paper to brushing the eraser dust off (carefully not to smudge everything). Will do it more!

ANYWAY!

1st pic: Mr And Mrs Beetles being lovely dovely (and a bit naughty Charlie no... (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠) )

2nd pic: A turbulent crushing situation going on for 40 years...

[maryasmorevna]

can't believe a show based on a videogame (usually games adaptations are notoriously bad, which isn't the case here tho) gave me the beauty and the beast/twisted mirrors/enemies to traveling companions/ruthless antihero+optmistic but still badass heroine who takes none of his shit/age gap but make it sexy dynamic of my dreams. as much as i love maximus and i think he deserves the best writing ever because 1. he's a clever deconstruction of the aspiring Knight bro who's actually a bit of a loser and, as much as lucy, sees the world in black&white at first and then doesn't get what he thought he wanted but what he needs (or at least i hope he'll eventually get it), and 2. he's a cutie and i want an epic love story for him too, it's very funny how they tried to give us a puppy kind of romance and the tumblr girlies still fixated on the "toxic ~she bites his finger off and he cuts hers off and sews it on his hand in what we'll pretend it's a symbolic marriage rings exchange or whatever~ asshole who used to be a nice guy/good girl™ with a lot of spunk and hidden anger but unshakeable morals" kind of relationship.

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[ultopias]

What do you think of those who say sherliam is meaningless, proofless and purely platonic? Those that Says shippers are delusional lol

short answer, i don't

long answer,

i think people are free to interpret the characters' dynamics and relationships however they want. it's totally fine for them to not ship sherliam, but in that same way they should be fine with people shipping sherliam. i don't go around saying people who ship, for example, johnlock are delusional. how is that my business? do whatever you want! ship sherlock and william with whoever you want! i don't care! good for you! 😭

i don't rlly wanna get defensive bc i genuinely don't care about people who don't ship them, but sherliam is still the official pairing. even if their relationship is(...was) officially described as rivalry, they're still a pair and they get paired on stuffs like official illustrations, merchs etc whether you like it or not

well i'm a sherliam shipper myself so i am a bit biased lol. i feel like it's a bit hard to say they're "proofless" when they were intended to be pairs from the start and their relationship progress was integrated into the story itself

for example there are multiple instances--multiple? two instances where they're described as being "destined," which are this jump sq manga dojo post or the volume 17 synopsis (the jump sq post is an interview thing with the authors where miyoshi sensei also explained how she came up with sherliam's character designs etc, it's pretty interesting so i recommend you read it! it's in japanese, so download the pics and use machine translator to read it)

they probably weren't being straightforward about it, but assuming these implied they're soulmates: are they platonic or romantic soulmates? i don't know! how do YOU want to interpret it?

obviously they never said "hey these two are dating!" in the story so in theory sherliam aren't really 'canon,' but this is where us fans come in to make analysis/theories, fanarts, fanfics, etc! that's what makes it fun, the fact that people can come up with different interpretations! if something from the source material can only have one meaning it'd be so boring!!

fandom activities are supposed to be a hobby, something that you do for fun. if it stresses you out or makes you upset because of, say, a ship you think doesn't make sense, maybe take a step back and see where you went wrong. if you have time to call other people delusional because of a ship they like, what about using that time to talk about ships that YOU like instead?

sorry i think i'm getting all over the place 😂 but ultimately what i wanted to say is, you DON'T HAVE to talk to/about people you don't like about topics you don't care. you can ignore them and even pretend they don't exist, it's fine i promise. we're talking about fictional men, it's not that serious ≡_(ゝヽε:)ﾉ

curate your timeline, block/mute people, be pickier with who you interact with, and most of all, don't forget to have fun!

i'm so bad with writing in a structured way but i hope you're satisfied(??) with my answer o(〃’▽’〃)o

[lunarsolar1]

This isn’t what my blog is about and I usually try to avoid making post about things not related to the tv show fandom I’m in but someone needed to call this people out because going to this tag and seeing war everywhere is so tiring and exhausting so imma make this post and HOPEFULLY PEOPLE WILL READ AND LISTEN!!!!!!!!

Buddie shippers needs to seriously CALM DOWN:) and back off!!!! (This also applies to BUCKTOMMY shippers)

Going to the others tag just to HARASS and bully people over FICTIONAL characters is so ridiculous and stupid and people need to stop. It’s a TV SHOW!!!! YOU aren’t the ones writing this, the writes are and they’ll know how they want to finish THEIR story because that’s THEIR characters!!!! Not yours!!!!! People (both sides) need to stop harassing one another and just stay in your tag and enjoy the ship and the characters. There’s no need for hatred or war, especially since in the tv show all 3 are FRIENDS (so fighting about it is so???!!!) just stop. Y’all acting like babies, get some manners and learn how to respect each other preferences and continue enjoying yall ships in PEACE!

And please leave the actors alone as well, they’re just actors they cannot decide what they’ll do next seasons. There’s literally no reason to harass and bully people over people that doesn’t exist. Just enjoy the SHOW and enjoy the SHIP and LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE!!!!!!! And stop using the incorrect tag please, I know some yall are doing it on purpose but please stop that is so annoying. (And I know yall KNOW how that feels like so stop!)

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

[false-anomaly]

Wynter/Kransa crackship.. is this thing on do you people see my vision

[lucky-fy]

made it gayer

[angel---eater]

im fully completely aware of how mean this is but whenever i see this one popular artist i just wanna shove them in a locker bc they keep fucking. equating random fans shipping smth they dont personally like as those fans literally perpetuating and condoning abuse towards SA survivors. and their audience is just. huge. and full of reactionary as fuck young people. and like i get it. this shit is raw. its hard to live with the after effects. and navigating life and online hobbies with triggers is also hard. gestures to my own CPTSD. i didnt buy this dissociative disorder at target. but like cmon man. cmon. you have to take responsibility for yourself. log off, do smth else, and get off the art=morality train. its fucking facist no matter what youre trying to actually say or do with it. and as a survivor myself this is just insulting. like jesus fucking christ dude with this political climate now is not the fucking time to scream and make callout posts about how shipping shit ur personally uncomfortable with or using/exploring darker themes in your art means youre an abuser. so much of fandom sounds like my born-again christian aunt. do you rlly wanna sound like that?? block some fuckin tags and keywords and keep scrolling

like with the damage gaiman has done recently to both the horror and bdsm communities and how ppl just REFUSE to fucking analyze anything they read anymore and the wave of 'concerned' white women abt the (specifically gothic)horror genre existing alltogether and the proposed 'porn' bans (it wont stop at actual porn) and the push for the death sentence as a punishment for ppl accused of pedophilia alongside all the fucking anti-trans shit?? yeah no miss me with that pearl clutching bullshit in fandom right now. like yall know they dont care about actual child predators right. yk thats a dogwhistle for legally culling trans folks whenever they want right. yall know that calling that random -cest shipper a pedo en mass isnt doing anything but encouraging everything i just listed out right. you know the people in power rn love that theres a massive moral panic over art and literature and education right? theres a reason why so many of gen-z voted conservative.

i saw way too many little white assholes who swear theyre progressive cheering after the news broke out about those ~50 BL authors in china were arrested and sent to face years of prison time, just for writing queer erotica. and most of the shitheads cheering were also queer! and BL/m-slash enjoyers! get a fucking grip and log off for a week, a month. do some volunteer work. hang out with your friends. get new friends if they keep talking about how sebac1el shippers deserve to be [insert extremely graphic threat of violence of ur choice here bc its all been said before]. pull your shit together. all of my closest friends ship the kinda stuff and love the kinda fiction that would make most ppl on this site hurl and guess what, none of them would hurt a fly. theyre the chillest, kindest people ive ever met. its why we're friends. yall use your BRAIN

[emily-mooon]

Ok so it looks like ship charts have been going around and not too long ago, I made my own cause I noticed the other one didn’t have a lot of the characters and I wanted one that did. I finally finished adding my own lines tonight (I also added Comeau, Jason Kim, Sandra and Monique cause I forgot to add them when I originally made this) so here’s my easy to digest opinions on the different ships!

Don’t feel offended if your OTP isn’t a top pairing for me and it’s in something like ‘it’s ok’. I respect that you like it, its just not my thing. if it’s a ship you hate in one of the top spots, well be respectful please and thank you :]

Also if I forgot a ship, I’m sorry it didn’t cross my head while making this. Just tell me which one and I’ll respond with what line I would have put.

(Blanks and the different layers under the cut cause my god its a mess)

Also bonus logoless version if you want it :D

Ok bye! Have fun making your own with my blanks if you want to, just link to this post or credit me if you do please and thank you ;]

[rapunziedameron]

I also really love this bit because not only is it a great bit of foreshadowing for Tomasso's eventual death, it's also a great bit of foreshadowing to Zeva's — she never once questions that Zorii will follow in her footsteps, that she'll remain fully obedient to her mother's wishes, loyal to Zeva's cause, so she's ignorant to the conflict inside Zorii right up until the moment Zorii stands between Zeva and the boy who helped her realize she could be so much more than her mother made her.

[igayorhm]

"Changing a character's sexuality for your non-canon gay ship is disrespectful to the creator!"

Yeah well if the creator didn't want me writing about these characters fucking on an apartment couch then they shouldn't have let them be within five feet of each other. So tough. Thems the rules.