#[ but anyway yeah i love ships i love romance come at me ]
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i realized i don't talk about ships/shipping much and that's mostly because like... yeah sure, i've got things i'm soft on. i have preferences, there's certain characters or archetypes i think would work best with my characters. but i also really enjoy being surprised by what can develop in rp? and i do mean rp, i'm always happy to talk ooc about our blorbos and how they might interact, but i genuinely don't know how things workout or mesh until i'm sitting down and writing the thing.
like, i did not set out shipping bucky and tony. just thought they'd be good pals, they had a few good canon interactions and i wanted to build a better friendship off of it. but then amanda and i started writing and i realized bucky was putting out feelers, trying to make some moves, crushing hard, and was like oh. this could be something. and amanda and i chatted and wrote and chatted more and wrote more and now we've got two married dumbasses, which is not what i had in mind but it works! and it's probably one of my all time faves.
there's other's that i've tripped over in all my years of writing--feyn and dorian actually started in rp, zevran and inara was a surprise to me, zevran and emmrich was a joke but is fast becoming real, lucanis and josie have an on again off again situationship rn--which all of this is a lot of words to say that i'm open and i'm interested in ships! romantic ones especially, but all kinds of course, but i have to do some writing with it. i'm absolutely down if you message me "hey i'd like to try flinging our blorbos together, romantic-style" and we can put them in situations to see what comes of it. i just can't promise anything until we've also flung words back and forth some, bc my muse's thoughts and feelings aren't always clear when i'm just chatting ooc.
#[ general ] ooc.#[ i can't count the number of times i've said 'oh they'll do x' ]#[ and then like clockwork my muse does y ]#[ i've given up trying to manipulate the results i am but a mere scribe jotting things down ]#[ sometimes much to my own embarrassment ]#[ but anyway yeah i love ships i love romance come at me ]#[ i don't rb those things everyone else does bc do i rb them here or on each blog idk ]#[ and if i do each blog that's... some of y'all are getting spammed lmao ]
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while im already on the train of teen wolf thoughts, i might as well say that i do not get sterek. romantically anyway. that ship is so intensely POPULAR and ive been seeing stuff about it for literal years, way before i ever even considered watching teen wolf or really knew what it was. pretty much every teen wolf fic i see on ao3 has some manner of sterek in it unless i SPECIFICALLY search for something else, like its just a given part of fanon, but now that im actually watching it im kinda like. where? like yeah they had that one vaguely homoerotic wall-pinning moment in season 1, they snark at each other a lot, but like. i don't even see them together that often. and that's not even MENTIONING the fact that in season 1 stiles is 15/16 and derek is fucking,, 22 (or 20, I'm not sure on his age but ik its at least a four-year difference),,, which is just. yeah no thanks
if anything they strike me more as, like, goofy, vaguely sibling-coded friends. stiles came along as a package deal with scott and started annoying the shit out of derek and derek had no say in the matter whatsoever, and i think that's beautiful.
all this being said, stiles is absolutely bisexual
#out of all the ships ive seen for teen wolf the one i can get behind the most is scott and isaac#like. that's some MAJOR devotion bro. isaac brings scott up like every other sentence (not literally but ykwim) its cute#the whole allison love triangle is mucking that up a bit and honestly just. what even is the point of that#but WITHOUT THAT. <3#and they dont even have a disturbing age gap!!!#(yeah it has not escaped my notice that teen wolf has some. issues. with minor/adult relationships and inappropriate age gaps)#(theres the whole thing with lydia and that deputy whose apparently like 24 or some shit that i havent even gotten to yet. not looking#-forward to that)#other random tw ship opinions:#scott and allison are actually cute! i was pleasantly surprised in season one when i actually LIKED the main het ship lmao#stiles and lydia (or what exists of them so far anyway) are also cute#i still think it would have been cute/nice/whatever if jackson had repressed feelings for danny (which i know is not an impossibility since#-he DOES apparently come back with a bf later on)#but like i dont know how much i actually see that or if i just like it in theory . really i appreciate their friendship as a friendship in#-its own right#on that note. danny and ethan: SWEET. get it danny. love the trope of 'i originally had an alterior motive for getting with you but i#-caught feelings and really care about you now oops'#speaking generally though the romance (whether canonical or otherwise) is definitely NOT what attracts me to and keeps me hooked on teen#-wolf. not by far#but i like having opinions about it anyway uwu#magpie thoughts
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also lemme just say that i appreciate everyone indulging me with ships and fluff and whatnot bc i've always been so nervous about asking for that stuff despite!! really loving it!! i just love all the character development that's involved, i love all the emotional connection and the significance of lil actions and words can have on someone, i love writing and thinking about all of it!! and i just!! really appreciate that lately, i feel comfortable openly offering romantic connections uvu
#i go back and forth a ton about this#sometimes i feel confident offering romance and other times i feel anxious and avoid it -- i won't like shipping calls myself unless#i feel very confident in the ship's chemistry and very comfortable with the mutual involved#i can't tell you how much i appreciate my mutuals who have flat out asked if i wanted to ship bc y'all i could never oh my gosh#will i quietly contemplate it?? yeah but i won't say a word for a hot minute bc i worry about making someone uncomfortable#or coming off as if i'm ship-chasing but nah!! sometimes the chemistry is just there and my muse is shaking me like pls... pls lemme kiss..#ANYWAY!! thank you all once again for helping me feel comfy in my own space <3 y'all are the best and i'm sending you so much love <3<3<3#get ready to ramble | ooc
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Kinda funny that people claim Kishimoto can't write romance... And then, when he has the occasion to write/draw about Minato, he does a whole love story. Both Minato and Kushina are the protagonists of that story. And honestly, it's quite good.
I've seen SS and NH fans desperatly trying to compare their ship to Minakushi, trying to find parallels between Kushina & Sakura and Kushina & Hinata, between Minato and Sasuke, and Minato & Hinata... and so on ! I understand the need to do it. What those ships lack, Minakushi has. But the truth is... I don't think Kishimoto bothered to develop those ships. Gaiden doesn't show SS in good light. The Last isn't his original idea/work and it's not good anyway.
So now Minakushi, I'm going to state the obvious. But it shows they both have mutual feelings for one another. It's not one sided. Kushina expressed the want to be alone with Minato, and Minato created a very powerful jutsu to protect Kushina.
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So what we learn there :
- They train together for some times now. They have an appointment and Kushina teaches Minato's sealings techniques. From the Naruto's manga, we know it's one of his specialities. They like to see one another and Kushina is very exciting to see him.
- Minato wants to perfect his new jutsu so badly that he even cancelled their appointment. He takes the time to come and tells her about it. So he also likes to spend time with her. It's important to him. But what it's even more important to him is to protect her. He's creating his signature move and most powerful technique especially for her.
And look at that :
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Yeah ! A love confession. And it doesn't get ignored. Kushina is touched by his words and starts crying. I can't add more than ten pictures. But just right after, Kushina remembers Mito, starts fighting back and remembers (again) Mito's words. The whole thing is a bit long, but I added the panel that matters the most in my opinion.
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It's plain and simple. Kushina loves Minato. When he's fighting Kurama to protect her, she specifically remembers Mito's words about finding love. Plus, Minato is able to enter Kushina's mind. It's actually not a easy thing. And it was very special to Naruto & Sasuke's bond, the most important bond from the Naruto's manga. Minakushi is paralleling Sasunaru if anything...
They're connected on a deep level. Their feelings are mutual. And they are each other's strength.
There are more actually, because that's a real love story. So here we go :
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Minato being moved by Kushina hugging him.
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Kushina naming Minato's new technique and Minato agreeing with it (his original idea was terrible, Jiraiya already told him, but it's Kushina who he listens to).
And that's cute "parallel" (if we can call it like that).
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So let's me list everything we get from the spin off :
- Minato and Kushina spend time together and like to see one another.
- Kushina teaches Minato's sealings techniques
- They both express their feelings for one another in different ways
- Minato created his signature move to protect Kushina
- The love confession doesn't get ignored and goes directly to Kushina's heart
- Minato can enter Kushina's mind
- Minato's fighting for her brings her strength and inspires her to fight against Kurama
- Minato is actually allowed by the narrative to witness and understand Kushina's struggles as a jinchuriki
- There are some symbols that make the ship work : the butterfly at the beginning and the end, the spiral, Minato's face next to the other's kages faces (it was already stated, in the Naruto's manga, that Kushina was his strength and his support in his path to become Hokage).
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- Kushina goes to see Minato despite orders from the hokage, starts watching him, but doesn't stay hidden and talks to him with no problem at all when he notices her (yeah Hinata I'm looking at you)
- It stated why Minato likes Kushina.
- Kurama is very much aware of Kushina's feelings for Minato. When Minato starts telling her why he's creating his jutsu and touches Kushina's heart, Kurama tries to manipulate her.
- Minato is successful in saving Kushina (that's important, believe me).
Please just read the Minato's spin off. The whole thing is very cute.
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Hello, I saw your post that you uploaded about Paul's writings😭😭😭, so I wanted to ask if you could make one of Paul x actress reader, I don't know, maybe he's going to see it behind the scenes or I don't know
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REQUESTED: so i kind of got carried away with this, and i actually kind of love it. i'm deciding on whether or not i should make it a series, never done one before though😭 anyways...let me know what you guys think.
pairing: paul mescal x reader (fluff)
warnings: none
description: close, but not close enough follows two popular actors, you and paul, navigating a close friendship complicated by rumors and paparazzi. after a wild night, you both deal with the fallout of being misinterpreted as a couple, despite only wanting to stay friends. you both navigate your friendship with humor, understanding, and subtle flirtations, ultimately realizing how much you mean to each other.
word count: 2.2k
title: close, but not close enough.
song: lowkey by rochelle jordan
you wake up with a throbbing headache, which reminds you of the things that occurred last night but before you have time to reminisce… you all of a sudden have the urge to vomit. you quickly run to your bathroom and puke your organs out, it feels like never-ending vomit.
you’re about three minutes into just pure retching when you feel a pair of hands on ur shoulders, you’re too out of it to care who’s touching you, you just take the support and continue with your business. eventually the person’s hands pull back your hair, and as they graze over your neck that’s when you realize whose hands those belongs to
“PAUL? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE?” you yell.
“jesus fucking christ, i slept over. do you mind?” he responds back
“do i mind? this is my house.” you respond lowering your voice. “do i mind?” repeating the sentence again wondering where he found the audacity.
“listen, i’m sure you remember we were all drunk. the others were able to get dd’s but i forgot to beforehand and when i tried to call an uber they hung up on me. i slept on the couch, don’t worry.” paul said clearly, trying not to piss you off any more.
“gosh paul, you know you can’t do shit like this. what if the paparazzi catches you leaving my house? i really don’t need another rumor going around.” you say, completely calm now.
“yeah, you’re right i’m sorry but at least we’re saving gas today.” he responds back, clearly not that sorry.
“pfhaha you think we’re driving to set together? you’re out of your mind, you sir are going back to your house and getting your own car.” you say matter-of-factly.
“really? you hate me that much?”
“yes..” you say watching his expression get mad. “now go get your stuff and i’ll see you in a bit.”
“fine whatever, hope you get even sicker.” he says as he walks out of your bedroom.
“FUCK YOU!” you yell back. you hear his laughter from across the house.
“love you too!” he says as the front door opens and closes.
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you and paul are both very popular actors, you guys have worked on a project once before and both of you guys are back to do another. he was one of your best friends and you genuinely enjoyed his presence but unfortunately because of the first film you guys filmed which was a romance, so many people have ‘shipped’ you guys together including fans, directors, writers and even your mutuals. it can be so frustrating when so many people want you together. you and paul of course don’t like each other, only friend feelings there, however you obviously take on more responsibility between the two of you, making sure that what you do doesn’t give people the wrong impression. unfortunately for you, paul doesn’t care at all.
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“i’m saying that we can’t be publicly hanging out, people will get the wrong impression” you say over the phone, currently on facetime with him.”
“who gives a shit? i mean we know exactly what we are and what we aren’t, people are going to come up with their own impressions anyways so we should just be ourselves.” paul responds not understanding your worry.
“yeah, i know but i don’t want to have to always worry about our outings being the headline of the next ‘people’ magazine” you say trying to get him to understand.
“we’re already in the ‘people’ magazine.” pauls retorts.
“okay, well this is my decision whether or not you agree with it. only private hangouts from now on.”
“fine,” pauls says clearly not happy with your decision “maybe we should just fake date and like give them what they want and then we’ll break up and no one will care about us again”
“you’re actually insane for that, tell me that wasn’t an actual thought of yours.” you chuckle.
“i’m just trying to think of ways where i can enjoy the company of one of my best friends.”
“i just told you, private hangouts. there’s no way around it, that’s that.” you say sternly.
“you’re hot when you’re serious.” paul says, expecting a reaction from you.
“okay and that’s where we end this call, talk to you never.”
“mhm, love you too sweetie.”
that conversation happened about three months ago and you must say, paul had done an excellent job making sure you guys were never seen together. that’s one of the things you loved most about him, he may not be happy with your decisions but he’ll always respect and follow them. you know paul loves you and just wants to hang out with his best friend, but you can’t afford the damage of one misinterpreted photo affecting you for months out of your life. paul may not know it now, but this decision is benefiting him a lot.
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you took a shower right after paul left, you definitely needed it especially with all the vomit on you. you took your hangover medications that you’ve had for years.
after your shower, you got into some comfy clothes and tied your hair up. you didn’t feel like putting in any effort to your appearance today, especially since paul already saw you this rough. you grab your keys, wallet and phone and head out the door. you walk to a coffee shop and order a matcha latte and have an uber pick you up and take you to set.
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the uber has dropped you off, and you make your way to set. as you walk past everyone, you’re getting so many awkward looks. the tension is extremely high, you walk past your favorite producer and he just puts his head down. finally, you make it to your chair only to be interrupted.
“hey, umm the director wants to see you…” emily says awkwardly, she’s the director’s assistant.
“okay, where is he?” you ask.
“he’s over by the food.”
“mkay, thanks.” you respond as you start making your way to the food area.
on your way there you bump into paul…he sure knows how to clean up.
“hey, you heading to steve?” he asks.
“what? yeah, are you?” you ask clearly confused.
“yeah, emily told me he wanted to see me. you think we’re in trouble?” he asks.
“i mean we haven’t done anything wrong so he probably just wants to talk about a scene or something.”
“maybe, did you see how people were staring when you walked in?”
“yeah it was super weird, they did it to you too?” you ask him.
“yeah, they did.”
you arrive at the food area and you see your director, steve. he’s grabbing some grapes and putting them on his plate. you and paul both give each other a stare and start walking towards him. you notice that some people around you were staring as you went up to steve.
“sir, you wanted to see us?” you say as you lightly tap his shoulder.
“ahh, hello guys. yes, i did want to see you both. i just wanted to remind you guys that dating while filming is not my preference, and although we’re almost finished shooting i will not hesitate to replace you guys.”
“i’m sorry…what?” paul asks, clearly upset.
“yeah, where is all of this coming from?” you ask irritated.
“next time you guys sleep together, try to be a little more sneaky.” he says as he throws a phone on the table and walks away.
you and paul both go to look what’s on the phone and to your disdain it’s ‘people’ magazine with the big and bold title of “actor, paul mescal, was seen leaving co-stars apartment, proving all of the rumors true.” and right below that, is a picture of paul looking straight into the camera, only a block away from your apartment.
“fuuuuuuuuck” paul almost whispers.
“you’ve got to be shitting me. this is fucking ridiculous.” you say.
“listen, i’m so sorry. i really tried to be sneaky.”
“no, it’s not your fault. i knew this would happen eventually, i was just hoping it would be after we wrapped.” you say disappointedly.
“well, i guess we just have to explain ourselves to steve and hope for the best.”
“yeah, i guess so.” you sigh.
you honestly weren’t mad at paul at all, after all it’s not like he was the one who made these pictures surface. but you were however, mad at everyone else for believing that shit. you had assumed that over the year and a half you’ve worked with these people, they would be able to figure out what was false and what wasn’t. of course, you were wrong in that thinking…
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you had just finished wrapping up filming for the day, you were so exhausted and honestly all you wanted to do was go home and get drunk again.
“hey, you did a great job today.” paul says, interrupting your thoughts.
“thank you paul, as did you,” you think for a moment “you wanna come over and have a drink?”
paul laughs. “you’re joking right?”
“what? why would i be joking?”
“well i mean you’re the one that’s always saying we can’t be seen together.” paul says, chuckling.
“well, we’ve already been ‘seen’ together so let’s just enjoy ourselves.” you say, really wanting some company.
“god, if only someone had said that before.” paul says sarcastically.
“are you coming or not?”
“sureee, since you want me sooo bad.” paul says teasingly.
“yeah yeah, fuck you.”
you grab your stuff and walk off set with paul. “did you bring your car?” you ask paul.
“no i got an uber this morning.” he responded.
“mmm okay, well i’ll give you a ride then.” you say.
you open your car door and paul walks over to left side, getting into the passenger seat. you both are in the car and you turn the heater on because of how cold it was. you have paul put on some music and you head back to your apartment. the music honestly became useless considering you guys were chatting the whole time, mostly talking about the rumors going around.
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you eventually arrive at your apartment, both you and paul get out of the car. you unlock the gate and head inside, taking off your slides once you reach your front door. you unlock your door and let paul shut and lock it.
“i’m going to get in some more comfortable clothes, liquor’s in that cabinet.” you say pointing your finger to a cabinet right above the fridge.”
“alright.” pauls responds.
you quickly go in your room and grab some loose shorts and a hoodie, changing your socks as well. you make your way to the kitchen and find two glasses of wine. you loved wine.
“good choice paul good choice.”
“what can i say? i know you better than you give me credit for.”
“it sure appears that way,” you say in response. “come on let’s go sit on the couch, i’ll put on a movie.”
you and paul head to the couch sitting next to each other, you grab the remote and turn on the tv scrolling through peacock.
“mmm, we should watch ‘speak no evil’ it just came out” you say.
“yep, that’s fine by me.” paul says.
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“why the fuck wouldn’t they just go through the front door?!” you say, upset over the character’s choice.
you’re about an hour into the movie and seven glasses of wine into the night. over the night you and paul had managed to scoot closer to each other, you lay your head on his shoulder as you continue to watch the movie. you’re a lightweight when it comes to alcohol which is why you only ever drink around paul, you find yourself staring at paul as he’s watching the movie. his blue eyes appear darker than they actually are and his skin lighting up with every flash of the movie. paul eventually turns to face you, both of you just staring at each other. you look down at his lips as he looks down at yours, you bite the inside of your cheek. you continue to hold his gaze before finally returning back to the movie.
the movie comes to the end, and you guys both shuffle around. paul stretching and you doing the opposite, you were so tired. all you wanted to do right now was fall asleep. “paul, take me to my room please.” you ask, not even thinking about it.
“yes ma’am” paul responds as he picks you up and carries you to your room, laying you down on your comfortable and unmade bed. as soon as your body hits that mattress, a sense of relaxation clouds your body. you mumble a ‘thank you’ to him as you slowly drift off.
“i’ll see you tomorrow then,” paul says as he walks to your door, he pauses for a moment before saying
“i enjoy you so much, you don’t even understand.”
“me too paul,” you tiredly mumble. “i love you, see you tomorrow.”
“goodnight lovely girl.”
hope you guys liked this, let me know if i should make it a series💕
requests and dms are opened, feel free to get in touch. also just turned on anonymous requests, i wanted to keep your thoughts private. love you guys !!
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svsss | one-shot | T | 2.4k | ao3
This is. unreasonably long for what it is. I wrote this whole thing in a day bc I couldn’t stop thinking abt it and it’s so stupid but I hope it’s also as funny as I think it is??? So here, have some post-canon bingqiu nonsense from an outsider pov
What’s His Fucking Deal
#cucumber-spotting
dick jokes
[screenshot of a text from Peerless Cucumber that reads “Do you still take commissions?”]
passionate ranting
no fucking way
he’s still alive???
binghe obsession
of course this is how we find out
homoerotic undertones
maybe he really was dead and he just rose from the grave to commission art of lbh one last time
in a totally hetero way ofc
binghe obsession
ofc
passionate ranting
after a year?
homoerotic undertones
anything’s possible
binghe obsession
@ dick jokes what did he want anyway
?
homoerotic undertones
@ dick jokes
dick jokes
gimme a minute he’s still explaining
homoerotic undertones
still???
passionate ranting
ooo point for me
homoerotic undertones
no it’s not, that’s just how he talks
it needs to be pidw comment level ranting or it doesn’t count
binghe obsession
probably still a point for me though
homoerotic undertones
shut the fuck up
basically everything he says counts as a point for you
some of us actually need to put effort into our point collecting
binghe obsession
skill issue
your fault for picking one of the harder ones
dick jokes
how do you think I feel
binghe obsession
yeah you really fucked that one up
he’s only ever made like one dick joke
passionate ranting
famously
binghe obsession
famously
dick jokes
what the actual fuck
THERES NO WAY
he’s serious?????????
homoerotic undertones
context??
binghe obsession
what did he do now
dick jokes
he wants me to
how the fuck do I phrase this so it makes sense
he wants me to go to his stupidly expensive apartment to paint a portrait of him and his husband(???????) in sqq x lbh cosplay
📌 [passionate ranting pinned a message to this channel. See all pinned messages.]
homoerotic undertones
how gullible do you think we are
dick jokes
IM NOT FUCKING JOKING
[screenshot of a text from Peerless Cucumber that reads “Would it be possible for you to paint at least part of it in person? My husband would prefer the authenticity of a live portrait, though it can still be digital.”]
[screenshot of a text from Peerless Cucumber that reads “My apartment would be best, our cosplay will likely attract too much attention anywhere else.”]
passionate ranting
WHAT
HUSBAND??????????????????
homoerotic undertones
oh my fucking god
binghe obsession
did he marry a lbh cosplayer
please say yes
passionate ranting
SHEN QINGQIU??????????
what the fuck HAPPENED to him while he was gone????
homoerotic undertones
maybe he got fucking
binghe obsession
lmfao he wishes
homoerotic undertones
transmigrated
let me finish??
passionate ranting
I mean……
he did get married, so
it’s likely
binghe obsession
can we go back to the part where under suggested he got fucking transmigrated
homoerotic undertones
think about it
binghe obsession
oh don’t worry I’m definitely thinking about it
passionate ranting
wait no I kinda get it
PC is kind of perfect for a transmigration romance tbh
homoerotic undertones
he’d be so good at it
passionate ranting
like imagine he ended up in pidw, he probably knows that world better than the author at this point
classic op otome isekai protag
homoerotic undertones
exactlyyyy
binghe obsession
what if we had a normal conversation for once
passionate ranting
in the peerless cucumber discord server?
binghe obsession
yeah okay point taken
then can either of you two geniuses explain the lbh x sqq shipping
homoerotic undertones
see that’s where the transmigration theory comes in
otome isekai never has the protag end up with their character’s canon love interest, but in pidw that cuts out like every woman
binghe obsession
wait hold on
homoerotic undertones
which is fine bc we’re 99% sure he isn’t into women anyway, but I digress
binghe obsession
you think he got transmigrated into fucking LUO BINGHE????
passionate ranting
wait they’re onto something here
let them cook
homoerotic undertones
what’s more of an otome isekai plotline than the protag falling in love with a character they used to hate after actually getting to know them?
PC would be basically immune to all the bullshit sqq pulls in the early chapters, and with his encyclopedic knowledge of pidw he’d notice pretty quick if there was anything different about sqq
like the brothel theory and how he treats nyy
plus with the way he writes comments he’d be able to keep up with sqq’s snark pretty easily
passionate ranting
wait why is this kinda…… 😳
binghe obsession
we are NOT shipping peerless cucumber x shen qingqiu
dick jokes
what the fuck happened while I was gone
passionate ranting
don’t worry about it
what did he say?
dick jokes
well the good news is he’s paying enough to cover my rent for the next six months
homoerotic undertones
you’re fucking joking
dick jokes
the bad news is they want me to start tomorrow
binghe obsession
LMFAOOO GOOD FUCKING LUCK
What’s His Fucking Deal
#general
homoerotic undertones
@ dick jokes you have to tell us everything, we need to know if the transmigration theory is real
passionate ranting
it’s real to me
and honestly kind of compelling ngl
[passionate ranting created a poll.]
would you read the peerless cucumber transmigration romance?
☐ yes I need to know how his brain works [25%]
☐ fuck no he’d be insufferable [75%]
4 votes • 23h left
dick jokes
what happened to hello? how are you? good morning?
homoerotic undertones
good morning, how’s the commission going
dick jokes
bad
homoerotic undertones
didn’t you only get there like 10 minutes ago
dick jokes
yeah
┌ passionate ranting would you read the peerless cu…
passionate ranting
why are you all voting no
wait what’s happening with dj?
dick jokes
well first of all you’re both wrong, he didn’t transmigrate into lbh
passionate ranting
damn
dick jokes
second of all if I stop replying call the police immediately because the lbh cosplayer murdered me for looking at PC too long
it’s not like I’m a fucking artist who needs references or anything
passionate ranting
HES SQQ????
homoerotic undertones
villainess isekai……
passionate ranting
I can’t believe they sank scumcum in less than 24h
wait hold on
binghe obsession
where the fuck are you coming up with these names
also good morning
[passionate ranting created a poll.]
best PC ship
☐ peerless cucumber x shen qingqiu [100%]
☐ peerless cucumber x luo binghe [0%]
1 vote • 23h left
binghe obsession
there’s something wrong with you clinically
dick jokes
guys idk if I’m gonna survive this
homoerotic undertones
is the lbh cosplayer actually threatening you? bc I’m 100% willing to call the police right now
or book a didi to pick you up
actually what’s his address I’m coming to get you
dick jokes
fucking chill
(but ty I appreciate it <3)
I was talking abt the mountains of dog food they’re shovelling down my throat rn
binghe obsession
lmfaooo
dick jokes
I don’t think the lbh cosplayer has stopped touching PC since I got here
they’re like
nauseating
homoerotic undertones
honestly still a pretty good reason to just leave
I have the didi app open just say the word
dick jokes
six months of rent
homoerotic undertones
right
binghe obsession
I can’t decide if this is ooc behaviour for lbh or not
passionate ranting
the exhibitionism is accurate at least
dick jokes
ugh don’t say that
homoerotic undertones
bingge isn’t clingy though
passionate ranting
hm good point
binghe obsession
I’m just thinking, if the transmigration theory was true and PC became sqq, it would affect lbh’s behaviour
passionate ranting
omg we converted you
homoerotic undertones
oh that’s true, PC’s obsessed with lbh and he hates sqq… if he turned into sqq he wouldn’t be able to keep the plot on track to save his life
binghe obsession
actually nvm I don’t want to think about this anymore
homoerotic undertones
noooo come on, think of it as a character study!!
passionate ranting
yeah!! even bingge was obsessed with sqq for years, there’s no way a lbh with PC for a shizun could be normal about him
binghe obsession
ugh fine
passionate ranting
!!!
binghe obsession
well to start, it would depend entirely on what part of the novel PC transmigrated into, how much freedom he has to fuck around, and how hard he’s trying to act like original!sqq
canon lbh is an obsessive, horny perfectionist incapable of self reflection in any meaningful way bc he can’t accept that his life sucks and he’s miserable. He has mommy issues, daddy issues, abandonment issues, probably an inferiority complex and a superiority complex at the same time, and who knows what else. Basically anything airplane thought would be depressing enough to introduce in the first arc but then never resolved later on
homoerotic undertones
OK Peerless Cucumber
binghe obsession
YOU ASKED????
passionate ranting
under shut up I wanna hear the rest of the analysis 😭
binghe obsession
what I was GOING to say is that if the shizun lbh was always trying to get the approval of just turned around one day and started doting on him the way we KNOW pc would, he’d direct all his issues toward pc and then it’d probably dissolve into some endless feedback loop of obsessive behaviour
so yeah, the clinginess makes sense
passionate ranting
ohh you’re so right
hopefully a bingge with pc!sqq would have a happier ending…
this sucks, now I wish the transmigration theory was real :(
homoerotic undertones
probably better that it isn’t, since, yk, PC would have to die first
passionate ranting
only a little bit
dick jokes
thank fucking god I thought I’d be trapped in there with them forever
homoerotic undertones
are you already done??
dick jokes
lmfao god no
lunch break, I’m hiding on the balcony
there’s SO MUCH shit I need to tell you guys, you don’t even know
binghe obsession
they actually gave you a lunch break?
dick jokes
tbh actually I think the only reason I get a break is bc lbh wanted the time alone to feed pc
these two are literally insane
I’m eating off a takeout plate bc they don’t have enough dishes. they didn’t even offer me anything to drink bc there’s only one cup in the entire apartment and they share it
homoerotic undertones
what the fuck
dick jokes
RIGHT?
binghe obsession
thought you’d be full from all that dog food lmfao
dick jokes
ugh don’t remind me you’re gonna make me lose my appetite
which is saying something bc this is literally unironically the best food I’ve ever tasted in my life
lbh made it and I thought he was genuinely gonna kill me when pc told him to give me some
like I’m sorry bro you’re the one who hired me?? take it up with your wife
passionate ranting
what’s his problem 😭
you don’t need to method act for cosplay
dick jokes
I don’t think he’s acting though?? like this is 100% home grown issues
he calls pc ‘shizun’ unironically and refers to himself as his disciple
homoerotic undertones
wtf
dick jokes
AND they’ve been wearing the most beautiful, intricate, clearly handmade xianxia style hanfu I’ve ever seen the entire time, didn’t even take it off to eat which is CRAZY to me
like what if you dropped soy sauce on it and it stained??? I’d kms
passionate ranting
oh they weren’t kidding abt the cosplay attracting attention then huh
dick jokes
THEY WERE NOT KIDDING, NO
homoerotic undertones
we’ve got to get you outta there
dick jokes
six months of rent
homoerotic undertones
right
well. good luck I guess
at least the food’s good
dick jokes
at least the food’s good
What’s His Fucking Deal
#general
dick jokes
hey guys?
this is gonna sound insane but
I think this might be the real luo binghe
homoerotic undertones
what
dick jokes
I think we were right about the transmigration thing
I think peerless cucumber really did die and transmigrate last year, and he brought the real lbh back with him
it’s just… something about the way they’re talking? PC keeps having to explain things to lbh but it’s only the sort of stuff you wouldn’t know about if you, say, lived in a fictional xianxia world without modern technology
also I saw his huadian glowing, like LED bright glowing
you can’t do that with practical effects
passionate ranting
are you doing okay, dj?
binghe obsession
blink twice if you need help
dick jokes
I’m serious!!! there’s something really weird about them!!!
passionate ranting
that doesn’t mean they’re transmigrators??? they’re probably just hardcore larping or something
dick jokes
see that’s what I thought at first too, but then
HOLY FUCK
homoerotic undertones
???
dick jokes
[10 seconds of shaky footage of an icy portal opening in the centre of an upper-class apartment living room. A man in xianxia style hanfu stumbles out of it, followed by a much taller man with long, dark hair, and skin tinged faintly blue.]
passionate ranting
MOBEI JUN???????????
binghe obsession
is that fucking shang qinghua
homoerotic undertones
WHAT
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MOBEI JUN???? FROM PIDW?????
what the fuck. what the Fuck
homoerotic undertones
what the FUCK
this is so
passionate ranting
oh my god. you weren’t kidding. that’s the real luo binghe
oh FUCK peerless cucumber died last year and no one even knew
AND HE GOT TRANSMIGRATED?????????
homoerotic undertones
THEYRE REAL???????????????
wait why are they in OUR world?????
binghe obsession
I think I need to lie down for a minute
passionate ranting
why is shang qinghua there???? isn’t he supposed to be dead??????
dick jokes
PC just called him airplane
passionate ranting
AIRPLANE SHOOTING TOWARDS THE SKY????????????????????????????
homoerotic undertones
imagine getting transmigrated into your own novel and your biggest hater is there too and he’s fucking your protagonist
villainess isekai protag peerless cucumber is real and I don’t know how to feel about this
binghe obsession
I just know this is your fault somehow
all three of you
dick jokes
ME???
WHAT DID I DO??
homoerotic undertones
wait oh fuck this means airplane died too and no one noticed
how did it happen twice???????
dick jokes
……….. shang qinghua and mobei jun want me to paint a portrait of them too
passionate ranting
omg….. moshang is real……..
homoerotic undertones
DJ GO HOME??
JUST LEAVE
dick jokes
they’re doubling my pay
one year of rent is worth so much more than my sanity
binghe obsession
I just remembered when like two years ago PC said something stupid on weibo
and it was one of his “lbh deserves better than this shitty novel” rants so I commented something like “luo binghe isn’t gonna fuck you, dude”
he was so pissed at me
but like
homoerotic undertones
LMFAO
binghe obsession
he really did it. luo binghe really fucked him
#I don’t. know what this is#hopefully you enjoyed it???#envy writes#I fucking guess#svsss#svsss fic#in-universe social media#disclaimer: the opinions presented here are not necessarily my opinions#peerless cucumber discord server#<— new fic tag
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Rin, identity issues, and the complications of being an isolated, alienated teenager
It feels sort of weird to say but I generally don’t head canon characters as having particular sexualities. Whatever people go for in fics is usually fine with me - gay, lesbian, bi, pan, something more general like queer. As long as it makes sense for the story they’ve built and the character they’ve shaped to fit it, I’m good. Unless you’re ignoring a canon LGBTQ+ sexuality, in which case, yeah, I’ll take issue with that.
But anyway. Rin.
I’ve got my personal ship for him (BonRin my beloved), but regardless of the pairing I see him as bisexual. He’s so open with his infatuation with Shiemi, and okay, sure, fandom likes to ignore the love interest in shounen for the most part because we’ve got gay ships to peddle. But I don’t see the point in that unless it really reads like it’s a front, or a result of a character suppressing themselves for one reason or another. And with Rin, I think it’s pretty clear his affection for Shiemi is sincere. You technically have the in-universe evidence of the demon that brought out his true desires to back that up, but even without it, Rin likes her. It’s complicated because of Yukio and Shiemi’s own inexperience with romance, and yet I never once doubt he really likes her.
That being said… he’s very appreciative of the guys in his life, too. (Peddling my gay ship here) Bon in particular, considering he’s often admiring how cool he thinks Bon is, that his haircut suits him whether it’s the blonde rooster look or the undercut. If you don’t want to see it as romantic interest, that’s your prerogative, but to me Rin comes across as seeing cool and cute as different traits he finds attractive (in Bon and Shiemi respectively).
I also think his bisexuality would fit neatly into his narrative struggles to “pass” throughout the early parts of the series. Rin has grown up as the neighborhood problem child, ostracized for being violent, and eventually he decides he’s fine with just his brother and his father — and the rest of the monastery, presumably — for company. (Except that’s absolutely not true and clearly he’s starved for friendship and support.) People looked at him and saw a monster, even before his demonic heritage made an appearance; why would he bother giving them even more ammunition when it comes to reasons to hate him? So no matter when he figured out his attraction to guys, he’s not going to lean into it, because he also likes girls, right? (Ignoring for a moment that bisexuality is a lot more nuanced than that.)
Rin likes girls, Rin is human — that’s what’s going to get people to like him, or at the very least tolerate him. That he likes guys, that he’s half demon, he can shove that shit down and pretend it doesn’t exist. Lock up any stray thoughts and keep the sword sheathed around anyone who doesn’t already know.
(Excuse me for being amused by Rin wielding his humanity and supposed heterosexuality as a sword and shield.)
The problem, of course, is that he can’t keep up the facade forever. The narrative won’t let him. Rin has to embrace his demonic side, because it’s the only way to move forward and to continue to help his loved ones. And once he’s moved past the issue of his friends being upset over the deception, when they understand he’s still Rin despite what he’d hidden from them, Rin is finally allowed to be himself. He uses his flames, he lets his tail move freely in the open around the Cram School kids. Rin still doesn’t like this side of himself — it’s inextricably tied to every moment of pain and isolation he’s dealt with his entire life, including the death of Father Fujimoto (and, y’know, his mom). But he is moving forward, he’s trying to adapt.
And isn’t that some great fucking subtext for his bisexuality, too?
#king’s court#blue exorcist#ao no exorcist#okumura rin#rin okumura#bonrin#because I love them#anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk#I probably made more sense in my head than I did writing everything out#but oh well#there’s a similar conversation to be had about yukio and his suppression/obsession that develops#but I am not qualified for that one#also I promised myself when I made this blog that I’d try to be engaged with the fandoms I got into#because the one I’d sunk a lot of time and effort into on my main no long brings me much joy and I miss interacting with people#so. uh. here I am I guess#god this is probably less compelling than my season 2 analysis of bnha seven years after it aired
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I feel like many people misunderstand us, the unhinged, insufferable people with OTPs so. Here's a quick guide into the mind of an rabid buddie shipper.
I'm not clinging to buddie because I fail to see how awesome Buck's bi growth is. I AM BI!!! You think I don't get how awesome this bi character, this story arc, this bi representation is? Get out. Don't tell me, a bisexual how I should watch and experience a bisexual character. I drive my own brain, thanks.
And I know that it's possible to multi-ship. You don't need to tell me that!!
People need to understand that multi-shipping isn't some grand, epic personality trait that always comes with maturity, that the people who don't multiship are just wee dumb babies.
I may sound like I'm 14. I am not. I am very much not. I'm OLD. So old. And guess what that means? I know myself!!! That's maturity, too. And who I am... Is someone who falls hard, and obsessively.
I know I am just not built to be a multi-shipper. I have tried, sometimes. I have tried so hard. And realised, that's just not me. Multi-shipping is never as fun, and interesting or rewarding to me as focusing on my One True Pair. It just makes me feel suffocated, to attempt to like something I don't really find much joy in.
That doesn't mean that I hate the actors or characters who are "getting in the way" of my ship. Nope. I actually often adore the characters and actors, and the writing. I can also see and appreciate what some other character means for my OTP's growth.
Like in this case... Lou, playing Tommy? Not only do I love his acting choices (so funny, so skilled) but he also, he sounds like a lovely guy. I'm a fan!! Also, damn he's fine, I need a bucket for my drool.
And Tommy, the character...? I think the character is interesting - and don't get me started on "problematic", the shaming is futile. I am all in for fucked up, problematic characters. If you don't get why, you should really read some literary classics. Fucked up, problematic characters are art, they make you think, they broaden world-views. My best educators have been the monsters, and I will take this stand to my grave.
Demand for "unproblematic" is demand for censure, and censure is just another form of oppression. Want characters without flaws? Go watch Teletubbies. Ffs, even moomins have flaws. (Of course they do, Tove Jansson was a freaking amazing writer.)
Anyway. The point here is.
I am a mono-shipper. And I love slowburns, I love the romance of them, I get attached to ships. And I'm queer.
But where are the queer slowburns? I have been waiting for a slow-burn queer romance for so long. I CRAVE IT. Getting that, truly, would be queer history, a revolution.
And I see the potential for it in buddie!! The spark, the history, the journey. It has the potential to be the greatest queer slow-burn I've ever experienced.
You think I'd just abandon a ship like that, a slowburn like that, for some fast food, cooked up in what... Two episodes? Pffft. I invest. I am waiting for my roast to cook.
So yeah. I'm not going anywhere. I will watch, and let my freak flag fly, and I will have the time of my life. If buddie never becomes canon? Well so what. I can deal. It's not my first rodeo. Disappointment isn't actually deathly, you know. Trying to avoid disappointment kills hope, and enthusiasm. So yeah, I refuse to manage my expectations. I'm all in, and enjoying this mad ride.
"Well, I'd still take you."
"You think so?"
"I KNOW."
#911 abc#911 buddie#evan buckley#buddie#eddie diaz#buddie 911#911 on abc#evan buck buckley#tv: 911#eddie díaz#tommy kinard#bi buck#queer media#abc 911#abc buddie#let the freak flag fly#lbgtqia#oliver stark#lou ferrigno jr#ryan guzman#mono-shipping#otp#delusion for the win
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OH GREY WARDEN, WE'RE REALLY IN IT NOW.
ID in alt text, notes and oc infodump under the cut! PLEASE ask me about them they're my new babygirl of the week
Yeah. Ben-Hassrath Cousland is wild, I know. This was one of those 3 am thoughts that became a beloved oc and now they're my canon protag. Basically: She was being trained to be House Cousland's left hand to spy within the noble courts and intercept threats to her family's rule, and a large part of that meant being covertly sent to Orlais to train as a bard. Buuuut the bardmaster she studied under was an undercover Hissrad, and she wound up being converted to the Qun by her. Teenage Laurentia was in a spot where, like every kid, she was questioning the Andrastian beliefs she was raised with and all the unfair things she noticed in her society, so she was very open to the Qun.
Her role once she was sent back home was basically just to send reports detailing the inner workings of the Ferelden nobility and to be aware of any Tal-Vashoth activity in the area. Pretty benign shit, and the former task is what she was doing for her family anyway. Still recruited by the Wardens the normal way, via Duncan doing his "come with me if you want to live" shtick after the fam dies. None of the Blight Crew find her out save for Leliana, because Leli knows everything. She only reveals it to Sten just as he's about to hop on a ship back home LMAOOO.
They're genuinely very compassionate and sweet. A lil whimsical. Highly loyal and protective. Very lawful good (emphasis on lawful). It's a weird sort of internal reconciling - they are genuinely kind to most people and love listening to others' issues and helping them out. It just so happens that this makes them an excellent spy, because they're exactly the sort of person people feel comfortable opening up to, and they see no issue with passing relevant information on to the powers they spy for. The kindness is genuine, but it's also a tool, if that makes sense. Their duty comes before any attachments. On that Master Coercion grindset.
No romance because they're aro, but they do have a little homoerotic espionage cat and mouse goin on with Leliana (singing campfire songs and trading stories and braiding each others' hair included). They get along with all their companions besides Morrigan and Oghren, and even Morrigan is more just.. cordial passive aggression.
They exist in the same worldstate as my Orlesian Warden-Commander Gavriel! He's a veteran warden who joins them on the road after Lothering because his ass snuck into Ferelden to help the Wardens solo, and then he'll later become the WC while they become Arlessa because they have more political experience and he has more military experience.
They generally make the nicey nice choices, albeit not where magic is concerned, and even then it's purely out of an abundance of caution. They do NOT annul the Circle, they do that secret third option where you tell Greagoir there could still be blood mages so he puts the mages into quarantine and Wynne still joins you but the game counts it as siding with the Templars. They let Isolde kill Connor, rip lil dude. (Not like they have a choice, they would rather that than the blood magic anyway, but they kill Jowan soooooo.) Besides that, all nicey choices. Bhelen on the throne, Anvil destroyed, Zathrian reconciles and everybody lives, Ashes are not tainted, Loghain recruited, Alistair and Anora rule jointly, Gavriel and Morrigan know they'd never agree to the Dark Ritual so they do it behind Laurentia's back and nobody dies lmao.
Small notes on their disabilities: Wynne was the healer that did their cleft lip surgeries as a kid!! Their last surgery was when they were 6, so they do remember her :D & their hearing aids are lyrium-infused lazurite, the runes are all enchantments that combine to make it collect and amplify sound like an actual HA does. I love bullshitting magic technology.
Their mabari is named Princess, because they got her when they were 10, okay.
#dragon age#dragon age fanart#dragon age origins#dragon age warden#dao#dragon age oc#dao oc#grey warden#hero of ferelden#warden cousland#warden commander#qunari#ben-hassrath#the qun#original character#character design#bard#disabled artist#my art#oc: laurentia cousland
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i've seen the "he'd never date a woman" thing with ford so much, which i think about a lot. like it's one thing to just headcanon him as gay but there are a lot of posts where internalized or blatant misogyny shine bright. one i saw straight up had multiple people going "he respects women too much to want to date/fuck them" like hello? do you realize what you are implying ab real women when you say that?
i'm not great at articulating my thoughts but i think it's especially prominent with ford because of his intelligence + unconventional demeanor. he's off-putting and a genius and didn't want to give up his work to settle down into a standard marriage with kids. women can't be weird or smart in the same way men can for example and all women want the typical white picket fence nuclear family american dream. therefore you are off your gourd if you think he'd ever want to be with a woman. so there’s that on top of the already rampant misogyny present in fandom spaces with shipping especially.
there's also the whole "gibe the oracle your phone number" / "i miss dimension 52" that could have some implications if you want but ig i can't blame people for forgetting jeselbraum because hirsch barely expands on her LOL. but basically it’s all up to interpretation and it really isn’t all that wild to think he could be attracted to women.
personally i just enjoy projecting my own sexuality onto him. “what gender are you attracted to?” don’t care. can i show you my isopod colonies. “how would you describe your sexual attraction?” uhhhhhhhhhhh (<- is probably demisexual)
So, I deleted my post because I felt like I was rehashing points I'd previously made a million times before, but I stand by it.
I want to address what you said and then I want to kind of go on a tangent (shocker, I know) about the interpretation of GF at large because I've been engaging with a lot of Lynch stuff recently, who we know was by and large the most influential person for Hirsch, and one of the biggest things around Lynch's work is the beauty of subjectiveness. I think Hirsch carries that legacy with him at the heart of his work.
So yeah, the comments about Ford 'respecting women too much' is insane. If anyone thinks that they are probably the kind of person who doesn't respect a woman anyway. If your hands sully the one you touch, perhaps your hands were not so clean to begin with, yknow? That's the vibe I always get with those kinds of comments.
Society approaches women so differently from men in this regard, as you said. Where a man is 'quirky' and 'cool', a woman is 'annoying' or 'trying too hard'. She suffers for her differences where as he profits for them. She can only commit the crime of being Cringe, and in my experience, people will forgive many things but never that.
There is certainly merit in the way in which a lot of people recognise that Ford is partial to things that are 'weird' or that are shunned by society, especially because of his hands, and that plays well into Queer culture. It's a feeling most of us (if not all of us) experience. So I can see where there connection comes and it's totally cool to hold that belief. Queer is BIG umbrella and I think he falls under it myself, what with the ace/aro stuff. We're given much more canon evidence of him being ace/aro, in fact, than of anything else. I maintain personally that canon Ford is asexual and aromantic, and that romance doesn't factor into his life in the way it does for 'normal' people. It's why when Bill mentions that quiz Ford does in his dreams in TBoB it makes me think of my own struggles with asexuality: "I'm not normal, everyone else is feeling this type of way and I'm feeling that type of way. There's something wrong with me. I'm weird. I need answers." It feels very much like Ford is attempting to understand that side of himself and is very afraid of the answer.
The Oracle stuff makes me so sad it was never expanded on more. I really love Jheselbraum and it felt like she was one of the first people that Ford met who was of higher intelligence than him, and who actually did just want to help. She extended an extreme kindness to him. Whether it was more than that doesn't even really matter. There was still a relationship formed there that can't be discounted. But again, it can be interpreted in lots of different ways.
This is the other thing. There's nothing wrong with projecting yourself onto your favourite character. We all do it. I do it. It's fun and it brings comfort. And that's okay! But that means we can all do it. So it's unfair for someone else to say "you're wrong for thinking XYZ about Ford" because we're all just kids in a sandbox playing house with these characters. You can't gatekeep someone else's enjoyment.
You can believe Ford is gay. You can believe Ford is ace. You can believe Ford is whatever you want him to be, but what you can't do is then rescind that privilege from someone else just because you don't like it or because it makes you feel better about yourself to punch down on someone else. People are entitled to their own interpretations of media, even if they make you feel uncomfortable or whatever.
Which brings us onto Lynch. Now, I'm not a huge surrealist fan, I like Lynch most for the person that he was (ugh I'm still so sad to type that). One of the biggest things about him was that he valued the intelligence of his audience and respected them enough to allow them the space to interpret his works as they saw fit. He never wanted to define his films in a way that would prevent another person from taking their own meaning from it. There was no definition, only feeling.
There's a clip of him being asked to expand on his meaning for one of his films, I forget which one, and he just replies "no". It's so fucking good because that, to me, is art. It is fundamentally subjective in its existence and the way I view something is not going to be the way someone else does, so why take that interpretation away from one to give to another just for their approval? We may align in thoughts but the way we process the media is going to be entirely different. Why? Because we're different people. Our experiences throughout our lives have informed the way we interact with things.
I think Alex Hirsch enjoys other people making their own interpretations of his work in a similar way. Just as Lynch does. Hirsch wants you, the audience, to derive personal meaning. He doesn't need (or even want) to tell you how to engage with the themes because why would he? It would only make him work harder to get a simpler point across and it would risk alienating parts of his audience. He wants the audience to connect and to find their own familiarities, and he respects his audience enough to give them the space to let them do that. He's often evasive when he's asked to tie things down firmly. To be honest, I think he should be braver in just saying "no, I don't want to answer that" sometimes. You can tell he wants to but he also wants to engage with people so it can be hard.
People are very desperate to want to have answers in black and white. They need things to be canon in order to feel vindicated, when in actual fact, an idea is just as legitimate when it comes to fiction. Fiction IS an idea. It isn't tangible and therefore cannot be quantified, so it can be interpreted however.
Anyway, by forcing your interpretation of the work onto others (ie. 'Ford would never', 'Stan would never' etc), I think you fundamentally misunderstand what the purpose of the work is. You're taking away the light of other people because you're scared yours doesn't shine bright enough. And you're scared because other people previously took your light away, but all you're doing is repeating the cycle and taking away from the rest of us.
Your ideas can coexist with others. No one is right and in that, everyone is right. Does that make sense? Idk.
I voice my opinions of disliking certain ways the fandom engages with elements of the show, but I don't think they have less right to have those ideas than I do to have my own. I interpret Bill as one way and someone else will interpret him another. That's okay. You're allowed to do that. But I don't think you're allowed to be actively vicious to others over it.
Engage with honesty and recognise that other people enjoys things in different ways, and it's okay not to control the narrative of that sometimes.
I have my criticisms of Hirsch but I also have a lot of love for the guy, and one of the biggest things I respect about him is him allowing us to draw our own beliefs. Do I think he could stand to do some things better? Yes. But that doesn't mean I don't love what I already have from his work.
I'm not sure if this makes sense, I'm having a bit of a Day, but I hope it at least reads well enough to convey my meaning.
#asks#anon#gravity falls#this is so silly i didn't need to get into it this much but idk#it's important to remember that we're all just playing around with fictional things
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You mentioning the Big Mac comic made me removed just how much I love that story lol. It’s one of the only times we get a sense of real interiority for his character and it’s just fun to see him play off of so much of the supporting cast.
I especially love the running gag where he’s just effortlessly pulling mares left and right without even trying (including Luna? Maybe? Now THERES a ship for the ages).
It’s even funnier when you consider the fact that he was canonically a chatterbox when he was younger, so his whole romantic arc throughout the series is basically “man tries shutting the fuck up for once in his life, immediately starts drowning in women” lol.
Anyways, all that preamble to bring you to my ACTUAL question:
Which other(s) of the non-main and/or background characters do you Headcanon as having ungodly amounts of game? Just having others swoon over them without even trying?
I always assumed Maud’s romance game was untouchable personally (pulling Mudbriar, Starlight, and hell probably Trixie too lol).
HARD MODE: Can’t say Sunset.
Yeah that comic run is so cute, it shows a little slice of life of a festival day in ponyville and it feels so loving and fun and just cute, everyone is having a good time and enjoying themselves, even Luna! And I love that Big Mac, the big farmhand handsome quite man pulls so many bitches. Honestly I wish Applejack got the same treatment, she really really fucking deserved it, but the show is allergic to having the protags have any romantic relations.
Women literally fighting for him in the background. Good.
WOMEN REQUESTING AFFECTION, PERFORM EVASIVE ACTION
I wasn't gonna say Sunset bc she's not a sidecharacter 😎
Also I'm not sure I even agree with the idea of Maud pulling a lot of bitches, I think it makes more sense for her to be someone that pursues that a lot, but rarely gets lucky because people are 'off put' by her. I feel like she and every Pie sister would suffer of this exact issue, tbh. Sure, Pinkie might get more bitches than the average because she's much more outgoing than the other Pie sisters, but even still, how many people could even stand Pinkie on average? Most ponies hate all the noise she makes in canon and are always annoyed when she's around. By all means both pinkie and maud got lucky... Limestone and marble didnt.
But about your question, honestly, that's a hard one. If nothing else, most of the show is like. So loveless and sexless when it comes to romance, and the little romance that is there tends to be incredibly monogamous. Like, I'd LIKE to say that Cadance should be a love madwoman that has dated dozens of stallions and mares but thats just unrealistic to all of her canon.
I'd like to say applejack, I've done dozens of jokes where every femme in a mile radius can sniff her out and wants to get closer, but still. Again, tragically goes utterly against canon. Even saying that a more obscure character like Raven Inkwell regularly visits gay bars is tragically reaching... So sadly I don't think I got an answer.
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okay, hear me out on this
first of all, i am in no way judging people who ship twiyor romantically, i think it's really cute myself and i actually do engage with content like that too
BUt, as someone on the aro/ace spectrum (and don't get me wrong, i do enjoy my fair share of romance) i also really like displays of platonic intimacy. the fact that twiyor are platonic (so far) is one of the reasons why i like SxF so much, because it is undeniable that twilight and yor genuinely care for each other and i love seeing how they are slowly getting more comfortable with each other and becoming a safe place for each other (that moment when twilight comes back from his mission and collapses as soon as he comes home--i interpret it as his body recognizing that he's finally safe when he sees yor's smile and i'm LOVING the implications of that). these moments of casual intimacy between them (like when yor sang a lullaby with twilight's head in her lap while he was passed out, or when they were on the island resort with anya, or simply any time they spend time as a family) melt my heart and bring me so much joy.
so yeah, i think i'd still be happy if they end up falling in love with each other but i also wouldn't be disappointed if they don't
anyway, don't mind me, i'm just yearning for representation of other kinds of love in media
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Lynnmanda headcanons?
OK FINALLY ABLE TO GET BACK TO THIS- Recovered from my fever... Anyway, thanks for the ask! I don't think I have very specific headcannons, just a very clear idea of their dynamic in my own eyes let's say? For example, a lot of the time when discussing ships and such there is the point of who's more dominant/submissive in fandoms yada yada. A lot of the time with Lynnmanda, I see people view Amanda taking the very dominant role, which I stray away from.
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Amanda is a fucking crash out. HAHUIREHFUI- She also lacks a lot of experience Lynn has, so there is quite an imbalance when it comes to any aspect of that ship you look at, be it romantic or sexually. Lynn likely has had many average relationships and is married... Oh and having an affair! Sure, she isn't the healthiest example of romance, but in comparison to Amanda? Who's only canonical relationship was with a man who helped her when it came to her drug addiction? Yeah. Lynn is ''better'.
Because also if we theorise other relationships for Amanda, somewhere like when she was in prison isn't the best place for any healthy dynamics. That's also where her addiction started. Then during her time with John? I don't believe even flings were on Amanda's mind, let alone a romantic partner. When people point to her behaviour in Saw 3, let me say it again. AMANDA IS A CRASH OUT. Because whilst yes she was all up in Lynn's business enough for her to likely tell you what shampoo brand she used, Amanda is also sobbing some minutes later and relying on Lynn. Her emotions fluctuate so much and the scenario that is going on isn't the best place to draw conclusions around how she'd act in an actual relationship, romantically or sexually.
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Look, it's Saw. I don't have to think this hard, but I do. HURFHIUER Anyway, Amanda latches to people and she isn't just a loyal person, she is DEVOTED. Whether that would extend to Lynn after John kicks the bucket is a thought to be had. One thing I mention a lot when discussing this, is the fact that Amanda does not have a clear definition for love. Be it romantic, parental or one of idolisation. The way she navigates her feelings isn't the standard and the way she displays them isn't either. So much overlaps? These posts I think I articulate myself a bit better and go in more depth??? In regards to them as individuals and together.
Because another thing I'd say I don't subscribe to as much as some of the rest of the fandom is Lynn taking on a very nurturing role to Amanda. Don't get me wrong, when it comes to Lynnmanda I don't think Lynn is leaving Amanda to her demons.... But she's a brain surgeon not a psychiatrist. I see their dynamic as more a push and pull, leaning on one another even if they can't exactly HELP what the other is going through. Neither can be ''fixed.'' I think both have had enough of the concept of people trying to better them.
Characterisation wise with writing I really love my associate @arythias work in the Lynnmanda tag, seeing as we discussed it a lot together :P
And with some of these you may find me in the comments yapping away too. Anyway I am spiralling off- Once again, thank you for the ask! I may come back to these points whenever I feel like it...
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Saiki and Aiura are bound to end up togethre because Aiura predicted it and her predictions are never wrong by the way! Hope this helped! Soulmates cant be platonic beacuse thats not what she predicted!
? im not sure where this is coming from but my point isnt and has never been "aiura and saiki are platonic soulmates", its "regardless of their status as soulmates, it cant force them to fall in love and so that relationship will just develop as it may, platonic OR romantic." the way you say this honestly just makes it seem like you dont understand what "soulmate" means and WHY people call them "platonic soulmates", its not that people think "platonic soulmates" is a specific label that defines them and that thats what the universe wanted them to be, its that "soulmates" cannot be defined as strictly platonic OR romantic without being an extremely creepy forced romance or friendship and it doesnt make sense that way anyway, so people are allowed to think their label as soulmates ends up being platonic FOR THEM.
and also that its really creepy that people think she has some sort of ownership over him or something... that just because she tells him theyre romantic soulmates means his feelings dont matter, youre not allowed to ship him with anyone else and hes not allowed to love anyone else, even if theyre not dating because she already staked her claim on him or something 😭
and nowhere in canon does it say she predicted that they end up together btw, its already very clear to me that youre very biased but this is just something you made up. if you headcanon that, thats perfectly okay!! but as far as we know, it didnt happen. nowhere does it say or even slightly imply that her soulmate power has anything to do with her predictions of the future, most of her powers that we see actually dont lol she predicts some futures but her other most prevalent powers we're shown are her ability to see auras and "compatibility" (which you can headcanon or theorize as having to do with future predictions, but again in canon this is never even so much as alluded to)
so yeah its not a future prediction and also even if it was, they literally prove in the show that the future can be changed, especially if you KNOW the future. but regardless, i doubt its a prediction in the first place and all evidence points to it not being so, especially since aiura went out of her way to come to pk to find her soulmate which, if she had already predicted theyd be together eventually, would change their future, their meeting, and their love story drastically and, although i have criticisms for how she wholeheartedly trusted her power and didnt actually make any romantic connection with saiki before trying to date him, aiura is not nearly stupid enough to mess it up that badly
anyway, like ive said a million freaking times, i do think "soulmate" the way she says it has a romantic connotation, but my point is that that doesnt actually mean much in terms of anything romantic happening between them. it didnt happen in canon and theres nothing to imply that it ever will. shipping and headcanoning is awesome and fun and i love love loveeee aiura and saikis friendship and how fun it is to build off of, but a romantic relationship between them is not canon, not now and never in the future. in myyyyy opinion, they found each other and theyre good for each other and thats what matters to me about their relationship and thats what makes them "soulmates".
also guys me saying your ship isnt canon shouldnt be considered an insult to your ship, i dont know why people take it that way 😭 im a fucking diehard kubosai shipper which is the least canon you can possibly get and you dont see me desperately grasping at straws to force it to be canon, join the club ??? its not that hard ??? also some of my other favorite ships are teruaisai and poly psychikers so its not even like im saying mikosai is impossible 😭 also last note, i find it very very hard to believe that people genuinely think asou would and did make a saiki ship canon LMAOOOO he gets close with ships sometimes like with satou and suzumiya, he somewhat implied they both like each other but not that they would ever get together... i wholeheartedly believe terusai is implied to be reciprocated and i have a lot of evidence for it, but its not CANON for a reason, asou would not do that and its more interesting this way anyway. we can agree to disagree on implications, but hating on me because you think your ship is CANON is next level delusional
#i wasnt going to post this but i say on it for a few days and was like. yea i like how i organized my thoughts here#sorry if its a lot#not anti ship just anti stupid people and canon claims#saiki k#tdlosk#the disastrous life of saiki k.#aiura mikoto#saiki kusuo#meows post#meownalysis#<- putting that here because this post has a lot of my thoughts on the canon of mikosai and soulmates#eventually i will do an analysis on aiura and saikis friendship as a whole cuz i love them so much
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Can I just say, whoever Nancy ends up with, be it Jonathan or Steve or neither, it is not what matters the most about her character. HOWEVER, I really don't think she should end up back with Steve. Steve is not a bad guy in the slightest. He is one of the best guys and characters in the show. But, he and Nancy want different things and I think that's really important to focus on, because it's why they don't work. Steve talks about how he had this fantasy with Nancy as a mother to his children, and that's okay that it's what he wants from a partner, but Nancy doesn't. Remember the argument her and Jonathan had all the way back in season 1 where Jonathan mentions her "rebelling" and then settling down with Steve just like her mother (which Ted and Karen Wheeler should NOT be your romantic goals). It's clear she doesn't want to do that. She literally wants to fight the government and the patriarchy, seen especially in season 2 where she wanted to "burn the Hawkins lab to the ground" and season 3 where she wanted to stick it to her douche bag bosses. Jonathan, I don't think he wants that perfect family either. He seems perfectly fine with helping Nancy do all her illegal shit. He's fine with standing on the side, holding the camera and telling her that she's doing amazing sweety. Of course, if Nancy ends up on her own, that's fine, although I LOVE Jancy especially for the dynamic of it's them against the world. I just don't think Steve and Nancy rekindling their romance is the best idea.
Quick side note, I like the idea of Ronance, but I personally love Jancy and, from the few bits I've seen, Robin and Vickie ( Rovickie? Unsure if the ship name).
Edit: Let me just address some things.
A.) I think Jonathan talking about going to the community college and not wanting Nancy to follow him and resent him wasn't saying he could ONLY see the relationship becoming loveless, he was just saying that the plan they had was not working for both of them. That he had to deviate, but it doesn't mean Nancy should and he was afraid she would and inadvertently ruin what they had. In a round bout way it's a preservation move. Going to a college because your girlfriend or boyfriend is, is never a good thing. Now, yes, Jonathan and Nancy's relationship seems strained. I don't want to say loveless, but strained. But Jonathan has been in California for awhile now so that's bound to happen. I do think there is still love there, it's just difficult to navigate and they're still technically teenagers ( in the show). I'm just saying strained, yes, but loveless, no.
B.) In season 2 Jonathan was very much willing to help her burn the lab to the ground. They knew it was dangerous, but they did it anyway and he supported and helped her. Season 3 while, yes, at first Jonathan did not want to rock the boat at first, it was because he needed that job. Think about where he comes from vs. where Nancy comes from. Really in that argument, I see both sides. Sexism bad but also he needs a job for his family. Anyway, he came around in the end, from what I remember, which again is difficult with the money decision. Again sexism is bad but he never dismissed that the bosses were douches, just that they needed to put up with it. Something I'm very sure he changed his mind about.
C.) When I say that Nancy doesn't want that, I mean that Nancy doesn't want to be like the perfect mom Steve's fantasy has her to be. I never meant no family, just no perfect family. That if they did have a family they would teach their children to make waves because " Nobody normal ever accomplished anything meaningful in this world."
D.) as for Steve wanting Nancy in his future and that's all that matters, yeah I may have misread that maybe, but the perfect mom scenario he painted just wasn't something I agree with. But, hey, that's just me.
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ACT 3!!
I can't believe it's over :((
This is probably more analysis than the other ones I've done lol, spoilers below :o
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AHHHHH so sad, I loved it sm
WE GOT MORE EKKO!!! FINALLY!!!!
THE RECORD BEING JINX AND EKKO INSTEAD OF VI!!
I was joking throughout ep7 and saying oh this is the closest we'll ever get to timebomb when she hugged him, then when they were working on the hextech AND THEN WE ACTUALLY GOT TIMEBOMB???!!!!!!!!
At first I wasn't a massive timebomb shipper, I preferred them platonically icl but it was SOOO FUCKING CUTE and I've been converted! (mostly, I still think they're sweet as a platonic pairing too but either is good) (the au has definitely won me over lol but I personally still think in the main timeline they'd have a different relationship anyway, maybe Ekko has/had a crush on her and in the finale maybe it was mutual but it needed more time to be fleshed out for me to properly ship it, I generally see Jinx as not really in a place to be interested in romance)(grey romantic/demi maybe???)
MA MEILLEURE ENNEMIE?????? THAT SONG HAS BEEN LIVING RENT FREE IN MY HEAD SINCE THEN AND I AM NOT OKAY. ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SPECTACULAR SONG
I think they should've given us a couple extra episodes because him and Heimerdinger, Mel and the whole Jayce Viktor story did not get enough screen time imo, could've done with a bit more interaction idk
Claggor glancing at Mylo being bros!!
HEIMERDINGER STAYED BEHIND!! NOOOOOO. he was such a silly guy I was very sad
ik yordles basically respawn or whatever but still :((((
Cait being like "who decides who gets a second chance" like it wasn't her busting Vi out of jail like 6 months prior
JINX SHE WAS SO BROKEN😭😭😭😭MY POOR LASS
lowkey wish we'd got to see her go absolutely batshit over Isha's death but I get the direction they went in (or just been able to see more of their reaction and recovery from her death in general)(because that shit was glossed over)
Vi being so upset and destroyed about Jinx, saying she shouldn't have done this and then Cait going mf I practically engineered this whole encounter😭😭😭
CAITVI IS A GO!!! I REPEAT CAITVI IS A GO!!!! HHHHHHGHHHHHGGG THEY'RE SO FUCKING CUTE!! I really love how the scene played out
VI'S "Cait I don't FUCKING CARE" just marry her already (ngl not the way I thought that confession would go but I'm glad it was pretty happy)
MEL!!!! I love her character design smmmm it keeps getting better and better🤩🤩🤩she needed more time and practice with her powers though, I think they rushed that a bit.
EKKO MY MAN!!!! HE REALLY WAS THE BOY SAVIOUR!!!!! COMING IN CLUTCH THERE AT THE END
JAYCE. VIKTOR. YOU GAY MFSS LMAO (platonic or romantic they are so in love) I also think they rushed their whole story because both of them were suddenly like "oh yeah besties again✨✨" and I wanted a bit more story there but THEY STARTED IT TOGETHER AND THEY ENDED IT TOGETHER🥲🥲(they basically saved Piltover with the power of friendship lmfaoooo)(jayce's whole monologue to Viktor was absolutely adorable though)
JINX NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'm not okay💔 I know it's what she wanted, really, but it felt so flat idk I wish she'd lived and come to terms with every (also I love her and she needs to come back so that's probably why I didn't like it too lmaoo)(ik she fell like a hundred stories or whatever and canon divergence is a thing but my girl is a big part in LoL so maybeeeeee????)(I'm once again in denial....)(COPIUMMM)
ALSOOO CAIT WAS LOOKING AT THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THE HEXGATE AND HAD JINX'S BOMB SO I WILL STAY UNDER MY LITTLE DENIAL ROCK THANKYOU VERY MUCH
Honourable mentions:
Heimerdinger being like "you sure it's 4 seconds???" and Ekko just like •_• "mmmhm yep definitely" poor guy was TRAUMATISED😭😭😭it was so funny to me
Also Heimer's bard moment, him just being able to chill for once hahah<3
All the outfits in ep 7, I loved them! ALSO THE DANCE SCENE!! SO SWEET
LEST!! I wanted to see more of her she was so cool!
The blue haired woman who died:(( rip to a queen
And the guy who took over manning the hex gun🫡
Maddie, ngl I wasn't expecting her to betray Cait but it was unsurprising really, I would've loved to see what she'd make of the aftermath and better terms the city's are on but it was also a very dramatic moment for Mel and I liked the twist lol.
FIRELIGHTS(EKKO) FIGHTING TOGETHER WITH JINX!!!! AYYY
Just the whole union of Piltover and Zuan in the fight against Ambessa and the Herald(I wanted more build up for that too tbh but anyway)
VIKTOR GOING THROUGH ALL THE TIMELINES TO FIX IT AND IT BEING JAYCE!!!
The sweet little Cait and Vi scene at the end🥹
My mum who's been subjected to all of S2 and her main comment at the end was "I'm still a bit confused" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
#arcane#arcane spoilers#arcane season 2#arcane jinx#arcane vi#caitvi#arcane caitlyn#mel medarda#arcane jayce#jayvik#viktor arcane#ekko arcane
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