#but pls share if you have a fave ship that isn't on here

[sienarossosource]

In honor of Bridgerton Gay Week, what's your favorite sapphic ship for Siena?

Please vote! (maybe i'll also make a gifset for the winning ship :D)

[incesthemes]

HELLO! I have to know, what did you think of Madhouse at the End of the Earth??? What were your favorite parts?? :3c pls share your thoughts

OMG THANK YOU i will say i have literally not stopped thinking about this book since i finished it early last week. i have a normal amount of sticky notes marking my favorite quotes/events and other notable moments.

(pictured: exactly 120 sticky notes.)

literally i don't even know how to move on from this book, it made me so insane. i NEED to do horrible and illegal sex acts to adrien de gerlache. there isn't enough de gerlache rpf to satisfy my desire to see him stepped on. he's so utterly pathetic and useless and stupid. no redeeming qualities whatsoever. just a soggy idiot who gets them stuck in the pack on purpose and then has the audacity to regret it. like how do you get any better than this. i cannot believe this man was real and actually existed in the same world i live in today. what the hell man.

anyway. favorite parts are probably. de gerlache and lecointe getting the belgica stuck in the pack on purpose was like, an unparalleled reading experience; i physically yelled out loud while reading it because i couldn't believe my eyes. but here's my full-ish list of every part i marked for being completely deranged:

lecointe SLEEPING on the tonite to thaw them out. literally what an insane man. ok girl (secondarily: lecointe thawing out the tonite by holding them close to the fire. GIRL)

that time cook and amundsen tore apart a seal and drank its blood directly from its veins while tollefsen watched in horror

every single time sancton described cook's nose (the "peninsula" comment got me bad)

"strangely enough the thing in sir john's narrative that appealed to me most strongly was the sufferings he and his men endured," amundsen wrote. "a strange ambition burned within me to endure those same sufferings."

and by god he did. even if he had to force the issue (the iceberg plan is a particular fave)

everything about the penguins, from de gerlache's petulant, childish refusal to eat them because he was salty the men didn't like the food he picked out, to amundsen's obsession with eating raw penguin meat, to the fact that they lured the penguins to the ship with van mirlo's godawful cornet playing

the time they caused a fire on tierra del fuego and had to go put it out, only to return to the ship to see it decorated for christmas. nothing says season's greetings like the minor destruction of someone else's land

they ran the ship aground. TWICE. before ever even making it to antarctica. TWO TIMES!!!!!!!!!!

cook and amundsen's first date climbing up a mountain and nearly plummeting to their certain deaths once each

de gerlache hosting a meeting about what to do when they were out of the ice, being pathetic about it, then begging lecointe to let him change the minutes so he'd sound cooler

DANCO'S BODY STANDING UPRIGHT AT HIS FUNERAL AS IF IT WERE POSSESSED

the fact that everyone hated michotte's cooking and yet no one bothered to even do anything about it. like what. if you hate it that bad make your own food cmon girls......

the unexplained random screaming that amundsen, cook, and koren heard but no one else did............. okay! #normalthings #sanitywin

cook going off the rails worshiping the sun. antarctica claims yet another victim (cook's sanity)

speaking of cook, the fact that the most likely theory for why everyone went insane was cyanide poisoning. from cook's photo developing solution. the DOCTOR did all this. it seriously doesn't get funnier than that

cook hanging penguin carcasses along the belgica's hull as they made to escape the pack. like imagine being in puntas arenas and seeing this ship no one is expecting come into port and everyone has these crazed eyes, some of them are screaming and in the throes of a full mental breakdown, and there's fucking penguin carcasses hanging off the ship like some kinda charms. the mental image alone sent me into hysterics i swear

and most importantly, the fact that all of this happened and they still managed to keep the ship. i think sir john, crozier, and shackleton (et al) are rolling in their graves over this expedition. most incompetent freakass men you know got to keep their ship and yours is at the bottom of the ocean. i can't even believe it.

on a serious note this was just genuinely a great book, it's written so well and in such a particular way; reading nonfiction has never been so fun—sancton made these cold boys sound like shounen anime characters, for real. it was awesome seeing the steps they took to ensure survival and the mistakes they made which undermined the expedition. there's a lot to learn from this expedition and a lot to admire about it, for what it was. it was also just an insane ride from beginning to end—everything went wrong, nearly every guy on that ship was in way over their head and completely wrong for the job, and they kept making the worst possible choices at every turn. the fact that they survived is a miracle and honestly i do think, even though cook was probably accidentally responsible for how crazy they got, he deserves a lot of praise for keeping the ship together and being so proactive in their survival. and never have two people matched each other's freak the way amundsen and cook did, oh my god. they're calling tollefsen the madman while yearning to plummet from an antarctic mountain or live on an iceberg. but sure tollefsen was sooooo crazy.

anyway sorry this is really long but holy shit this book made me so crazy. it's gonna take such a long time for me to get to a point where i can be normal about the belgica after reading this. holy shit man.

[nostalgia-tblr]

right, so.

obvious disclaimer: yes, some Migratory Slash Fans are wanky and annoying, but we regularly Discourse about that and I feel like I spend more time around Migratory Het Fans so they get more chances to annoy me and i would like to vent.

2nd disclaimer: i shall be using "het" to refer to m/f pairings and yes this is not always accurate but this is the terminology we're currently stuck with, pls someone fix this (thanks in advance).

so.

The Migratory Het Fan is someone who moves from fandom to fandom in much the same way as a Migratory Slash Fan, only they can fly a bit under the radar due to having more canon pairings to work with and because it's not seen as "weird" in quite the same way that slashing is. But they share the traits of primarily interacting with fandoms/canons through a shipping lens and thus ending up in fandoms with Popular Het Pairings or Canon Het Pairings that appeal to them in some way - careful observation will often show a MHF making characters fit their favourite tropes with as much gusto as a MSF turning protagonist and sidekick into their fave Any Two Guys. Again.

First thing: some MHFs, mostly ones who have stuck to canon or semi-canon pairings, are really weird about non-canon pairings and slash pairings, conflating the two and asking with bizarre bewilderment why anyone would be pairing those characters who spend a lot of time together and who clearly value each other as friends. This is quite hard for me to take seriously as an argument, as to me this seems hopelessly naive about fandom in general and about what they themselves are doing/have done with different characters. It can also come across to slashers as an offensive refusal to accept that shipping is shipping and we're all freaks here. Oh, good for you, Susan, your E-rated OOC fluff about your faves is so much less weird than that person's E-rated OOC fluff about their faves. The normies are sure to leave you alone when they're picking on the internet weirdos.

Second thing: this can also involve a lack of understanding about what happens when you have a canon ship that conflicts with your OTP. As I have aged into Fandom Old-ness I increasingly feel like the best approach is simply to ignore such conflicting ships and pretend they don't exist (not an ideal solution, but there isn't an ideal solution, as I am about to explain). And some people just don't like doing that, that want to fit their canons a bit better, or they want to write about how the other pairing is Bad and worse than their fave both artistically and morally. Which is annoying, yes. But it can be really hard to discuss a canon without having to discuss one or another canon pairing. There isn't really anything that can be done to stop people getting mad at each other over things like this... except you can Just Fucking Block People and this will hide a lot of it from you.

My point, which I lost somewhere - the 'rival' shippers are not going on about your pairing all the time because they're "obsessed" with it or with you (or at least most of them aren't), they are doing so because it is "in the way" and this must be dealt with in one way or another. Having been on every possible side of such situations over the years I can assure you that it sucks for everyone, nobody likes it, and see above about Just Ignoring That Part Of Your Canon. (Aside: long rants about why this or that ship is Terrible, Actually are generally preaching to the choir. You ever met anyone who realised via a tumblr post or a tweet that their OTP was Terrible, Actually and promptly changed their ways and jumped to the rival ship? Well, exactly.)

Another thing: a lot of het fic is generic and OOC, but this is true of a lot of slash too and I don't actually think either category is better or worse at this part of fandom than the other. Sometimes the only reason the m/m porn doesn't feature any bodice-ripping is that neither man was wearing one. I think that a lot of MHFs (I won't guess a percentage) do just skip from one fandom to another producing generic romance novel content for every pairing they get into, just as MSFs often do, and that this is just a general Shipper Problem, not one with any connection to the genders or sexualities of the characters involved. You can say "but MY ship is CANON!" all you want but that loses some of its supposed power when you discard that canon as easily as the MSFs discarded your fave female character, reinventing your (random example to avoid offence) pair of ruthless space pirates as (again random) 21st century accountants, one of whom is moonlighting as a dominatrix and the other is looking to explore his interest in submitting to a hot chick. This is no longer a canon pairing, you do you but the hill you're trying to die on is now a double-decker bus. So haud yer wheest.

I think that's all I have enraging me this evening on the topic of Migratory Het Fans. I actually suspect that most people would consider me to be one of those, including myself on occasion, so I'm not slagging off the concept, just the annoying things they sometimes do.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

think i'll complain about migratory het fans this evening

[hooned]

That 2gether ask game is ADORABLE. Maybe 24, 32, 11, 25, 35, 45 and 49 sweetheart?? (I want to ask everyone question!!)

hello, love!!! 💙 it is isn't it?? 🥺 a great way to release our 2gether feels..!!! ahhhhhhh.

11.Character that you think was underrated (sell us on your fave!)

hmm i'm not sure if he's underrated but i feel like we, as a society, should talk about how man & boss are literally the bestest friends ever. they are there for sarawat ever since he met tine at the concert, supports him in his quest in finding him again, calling sarawat whenever they can't come with asking if he saw the boy already. and when he did!!! they were nothing but supportive. even coming up with ig username for wat (and man opposing to lovetine lmao), pulled all the strings just so they could be together!! always behind wat in his surprises for tine!! from them fixing wat's blue tiara, and at the anniversary surprise i think it's only fitting that man and boss are there becoz!!! they know how much tine makes their friend happy!!! and just. they're goofballs but when it comes to it, wat knows he can count on his dumb friends. 🥺 and it is so so wonderful 🥺

24. Who is someone that you met because of this show/fandom that means a lot to you? (Share the love!)

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY MOOTS AND FRIENDS 🥺💙💙💙 this fandom is so so sooo full of wonderful wonderful souls. literally one of the, if not THE best fandom i've ever been into. like,, everyone is nice and we know each other by names, and we all share mutual love for the show and its actors and characters. IT'S WONDERFUL!!!

25. Your fave fan-created piece of content (fic, gif, edit, song, the list is endless…)

oh oh oh i can't piiick!!! 😩 hmm BROWSE MY 2GETHER TAG COZ EVERYTHING U SEE THERE?? I ABSOLUTELY LOVE!!! 💙 tbh this fandom is sooo full of wonderful creators for edits to gifs to fics to fanarts to songs!! u name it!! i am surrounded by talented, wonderful people. 🥺

32. Which gang would you want to be part of more: White Lion Gang or One Braincell gang?

oh oh if i would sort myself, i think i would fit in more in the one brain cell gang lmao. i mean, fong having the single brain cell in our friend group doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. (+ i would be that friend who secretly has a crush on tine but won't ever act on it because i know how happy he is with wat and tbh i ship it too. so be happy tine, i love u.)

35. What is one thing that the show taught you?

i answered this one in here my love! but another thing the series taught me ig is that love is not supposed to hinder u from your own growth. like, mantype and sarawatine taught me that love is not supposed to cage you. it's not supposed to allow you to be stuck in one place when your wings are itching to soar high. love is the wind that pushes you higher up towards your dreams. love allows you to grow not just with the person but as an individual yourself. just u know, healthy love and healthy relationships 🥺

45. Would you be on the football team, a cheerleader or in the music club?

definitely in the cheerleading club. i have a big crush on their president alright but pls don't tell. shh. 🤫

49. If you had to get deserted on an island with one of the 2gether characters, would would it be and why?

tine!! coz at least the experience will be fun?? coz tine is adorable and i have a crush on him alright. + i know someone will come and rescue us immediately because sarawat will definitely do anything to rescue tine which means i'll be rescued immediately as well. YEY!!! 💙

2gether ask game 🌿