#Yuraven

[leafykayo]

🗡️Yuri Lowell Acrylic Pin🌙

I had to make a matching Yuri pin!! Available now on Etsy! 🔗⬇️

They’re 1.46” tall with a rubber clasp (rip raven is taller bc of his birds nest ponytail) International 📮 from UK.

Thank you for the support so far! It means the world to me and I want to keep making fun things so please share!

[ormspryde]

A friend requested a rewrite of a piece I did for Whumptober last year. I had a lot of fun rewriting this, and I can definitely see where I've improved since writing it.

[tales-of-sweets]

"We have Yuri and Raven at home!"

The Yuri and Raven at home:

[fontasticcrablettes]

I did some data collection myself, but rather than totals, I was curious about fandom engagement over time. So, I took the totals of how many fics were posted to ao3 for a specific ship each year from 2008 to 2022. The result was... very hard to read, even after I filtered out any pairing that only appeared once.

Other than the big green line that is Fluri, and the pink line that is Ristelle, the rest gets blurred together.

So I made another chart of just the top 7 ships.

(Couldn't figure out how to display a year rather than a single digit in the X axis with the graphing tool I was using; sorry if that's harder to parse).

The first big uptick in Fluri is the year 2013. I think that surge of activity represents fandom politics and a shift away from FFN rather than a sudden surge of interest in writing Fluri fics. Coincidentally, that's also the year I started writing Vesperia fics, although I didn't post to AO3 until 2014.

It's interesting that over time, Fluri gradually decreased in popularity while Yustelle gradually grew, until they met in 2018 with an exact equal number of fics, before drifting away again.

Fluri had a gradual decline in popularity until the DE released and the fandom had a resurrgance, followed by another gradual decline. Meanwhile, Ristelle was gradually growing in popularity, and DE gave it a big spike. The number of Ristelle fics posted per year is still higher in 2022 than it was at any point pre-DE.

Some other interesting details:

-Yustelle is currently one of the 3 biggest ships in the fandom. Its first fic wasn't published until 2009, then a second followed in 2011, and it didn't really pick up steam until 2014. It's a bit of a late bloomer on AO3.

-There were a couple of Duke/Elucifer fics posted every year until 2012, until it dried up entirely and hasn't been seen since.\

-Nobody posted Estelle/Judith at all until 2018, when it got one fic (that was me! lol). Then in 2019, it got 3 fics, and 7 in 2021. Even more of a late-bloomer ship!

-The biggest late bloomer ship is probably Yuraven, which lived in obscurity for most of the past 14 years. It didn't get a fic on AO3 until 2013, then never had more than a few fics a year until it suddenly got a big spike in 2022 with 26 fics.

I think of these numbers as being as much about general popularity of the ship as well as being about popularity of AO3 as a whole. The years where a rarepair suddenly gets a bunch of ships are, I think, not indicative of overall fandom appreciation for that ship, but a a case of one or two people getting a hyperfixation and carrying a ship to relevance on their backs. I love when fandom people do that.

[ilikekidsshows]

A, D, X

Fandom meme ask game

A - Your current OTP(s)/OT3(s)/OTX(s)

YuRaven (ToV) because I want them to raise Karol together and I already headcanon that's how the game ends.

KakaIru (Naruto) because Naruto deserves all the dads.

ShikaNaru (also Naruto) because how can I not pick the guy who not only believes in Naruto but is one of the few people to decide to help him reach his goal?

JackRabbit (RotG) because that's my go-to fic pairing for the movie and I will finish my big genre-busting fanfic just you wait.

Lumity (TOH) is really cute and I'm fully on board.

Kuwabara/Yusuke/Kurama/Hiei aka Kuwabara's Demon Defense Squad (YYH), because they end the series by very firmly affirming that you need the entire core four or they're going to be unhappy.

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t (again: be nice)

Adrinette as of The New Adventures of Ladybug. I know the writers think they're making them cute, but I am not a fan of the codependency.

X - top 5-10 characters who are yoUR PRECIOUS BABIES AND YOU WILL DIE DEFENDING THEM

Adrien Agreste

Leonardo (2003 only)

Grunkle Stan

Jou Kido

Iruka Umino

Toshinori Yagi

Kazuma Kuwabara

Katsuya Jounouchi

Papyrus

Booster Gold

[kotosnoozy]

yuri getting a little kissy is the highest form of self-care 😌✨

[judithan-xing]

Starlight✨

[blast-heart]

This is my wife’s joke I just drew it

[vesperia-ship-bitch]

Aaaaand here’s batch number three! Do y’all prefer these in batches, or one by one? I always do them in batches but I could also start queuing them up individually so they span out...idk, doesn’t matter to me!

TEMPLATE SUBMISSIONS: the single-text flynn one came from @fontasticcrablettes and the fludith text string came from @lexdelicata !! both were off-tumblr submissions or else i’d have done them thru the ask box haha please don’t hesitate to send me some if ya like!

[discosmackdown]

recalling the first time i ever used Raven’s mystic arte and i’ve regretted it ever since!  ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[dogshit-enchantment]

Forever thinking about how in vesperias opening when it says "can't you see you're my other half" it shows raven, and the song is pretty distinctly from Yuri's pov

....yuraven rights real

[leafykayo]

Ship week set menu: dessert 🍨

Them growing old together means everything to me 💖

[ormspryde]

In two weeks I have written or edited more words than I wrote in two months when I wrote that 16k Yuraven fic a couple years back.

Goddamn.

[tales-of-sweets]

Click for full res! ☀️

I drew this for Vesperia week on Twitter :D

The prompt was "Favorite Ship".

Despite the fact I never draw then, Yuraven is by far my favorite Vespy ship ^^

[eldrxtch]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays @tatertotarmy from your secret santa from @talessecretsanta2019!!

I was so excited to get a friend this year, and I poured everything into giving you a cute/soft yuraven picture!! I hope you like it!

[ilikekidsshows]

🫐

Fruit Emoji ask game

🫐 What’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (A ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)

The thing about the Naruto fandom is that it's so big, nothing is really that irregular, although my interests in that fandom tend to be less mainstream, like shipping ShikaNaru.

Now, in the Yu Yu Hakusho fandom, I can actually claim to have irregular interests, mainly Kuwabara focus and the Hieibara ship, since Kuwabara was the most disliked character during the show's heyday. There are some fics for the ship but, when a big chunk of the fandom is convinced the characters hate each other, it really feels like you're going against the grain.

The Tales of Vesperia fandom also has less interest in the YuRaven ship than I'd like. The fandom is really mainstream with the go-to rival ship of Fluri. There isn't much stuff about the parental bond Raven has with Karol either, mostly because, for the longest time, the fandom wasn't really that interested in Karol, seeing him more as an annoying kid.

Most other fandoms I'm in I tend to be more mainstream.