#crackships keep fandom alive

[atopvisenyashill]

why do you think jonsa is happening tho? jonerys is different bc they are going to be enemies, but i don’t see what jonsa does for the story

so let me first lay out roughly what i think is going to happen should jonsa become canon. I personally love going down meta and graphic spirals, so I'm including links to other people’s theories/explanations/graphics of events too - also I would like to shout out @istumpysk because half these metas and gifsets were stuff I found on their blog initially, and also was the one who really convinced me that jonsa is less of a crackship and more of a contender for an actual canon theory, and from there i really found my niche in this fandom. specifically this meta about jon being the mummer's dragon is what pulled me out of my "we're never getting twow and if we do it's just gonna be that stupid dany has jon's magical baby while tyrion watches, then they all die theory" slump and lit my brain on fire again. let's goooo:

The Ashford Tourney Theory - Something Shady goes down at the tourney Petyr has planned that requires Sansa to make a quick getaway, and likely causes her to run into Brienne while fleeing. This theory for me is about hinting at Sansa's romantic future, allies, and how she's getting the hell out of the Vale: both the dark haired, Not Targ Looking Targ Prince that is the son of A Great Prince That Never Was being her romantic endgame but also it's about Brienne (/Dunk) getting her the hell out of there and becoming Sansa's number one ally and protector (with Sansa's number two being Bronze Yohn!! But he's not fleeing with her - if he helps her get out of the Vale, it'll be to cause a distraction or a fight so Sansa can slip away unnoticed. Bronze Yohn is coming with the knights of the Vale later to help defend his girl!).

The Girl In Grey - Out of options on where to go, Sansa & Brienne makes a long, fast, and dangerous trek to the only family she knows is still alive: Jon Snow at the Wall. No, I don't think Alys Karstark is the girl in grey on a dying horse; I think she's a red herring, the same as the scene where Sweetrobin destroys the snow castle, and that the real girl in grey (who slays the savage giant) is Sansa. Melisandre says that she sees "Jon's sister" but doesn't specify more than that, or how she knows it's Jon's sister, even - why would she assume Alys is Jon's sister and not some random Northern girl? Why was she so sure that it was his sister? It's because Alys isn't the girl in grey, it's Sansa, her horse dying because she's traveled halfway across the continent with Brienne and Pod, desperately trying to keep ahead of the dozens of people hunting her down.

The Blood of Winterfell - Sansa and Jon will reclaim winterfell together. This one is similar to above; just like Alys was a red herring, the scene where Sansa rebuilds the castle has a lot of foreshadowing (imo) but that isn't the moment in the prophecy Arya hears. The Savage Giant is Littlefinger, the castle of snow is Winterfell, and Sansa is going to liberate her home alongside Jon and what's left of the Northern lords.

Stone and Snow Remains - THIS is where Sansa and Jon will fall in love while fighting for the North. This is also the part where you lose a lot of people, because they think the evidence is real weak sauce but like, I also think the Jonerys "evidence" is weak af too (and no wonder, we have at minimum 2k pages left to get through!!). There's several believed foreshadowing points to this one, bare with me for this weird ass formatting because I can't do sub bullet points on tumblr:

1. Sansa's linking of snow with love and affection - "drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks...She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams." along with her snow maiden and snow knight.

2. Bael the Bard and the Rose of Winterfell - the chapter where Sansa gets her period for the first time, Cersei refers to it as “flowering” a dozen times, linking being a maiden (a young girl, not quite of age or just barely of age) to flowers and several people refer to sex as ~plucking. Also notice the one who stole her from KL is Lord BAELish.

3. Aemon the Dragonknight & Queen Naerys - Sansa compares herself to Naerys, Joffrey to Aegon, and wishes for an Aemon, among the many similarities between her life and Naerys'. Jon not only calls himself Aemon, he has a deep connection with a different Aemon Targaryen. And if you’re thinking “Sansa isn’t Naerys, X is Naerys” I would remind you that Sansa as a character existed first, George purposefully had her compare herself to Naerys, and parallels don't belong to just one character.

4. Jenny of Oldstones and The Prince of Dragonflies - there's honestly a lot of parallels between them but like the Aemon/Naerys parallel, the Jenny/Duncan one stands out to me.

5. Janos Slynt - I mean. Iconic. This was the scene that made me first think about what their relationship could be in the future and there’s a reason Jonsas fixate on it. It’s about Sansa being desperate for a hero and the hero she dreamed about being Jon the whole time. 6. Societal Alienation - There's the bastard parallels here, the "it would be so sweet to see him again", the "Winterfell belongs to my sister, Sansa." It's about how Jon, through circumstances of his birth, finds himself alienated from the rest of society and reconnects with his prim and proper sister Sansa, who finds herself alienated from the rest of society as well but for vastly different reasons.

Robb’s Will - Howland is going to show up in the North, along with Maege and Galbert, with some WILD news about why Jon can’t rule Winterfell. There’s a lot of contention around this. Bran probably shows up around this time too, and Arya gets to the Riverlands to discover Lady Stoneheart and give her the gift of mercy. This is where all the inheritance stuff is going to happen and I have no idea how it's going to go down besides it's going to be messy as all fuck.

The Pact Of Ice And Fire - Jon & Sansa get secret married bc they’re in love, not siblings, & jon is the only man she trusts not to steal her claim. This isn't the only possible foreshadowing instance of a marriage either - some believe the Sandor/Sansa scene during the Battle of the Blackwater is foreshadowing as well (personally I feel that's a bit of a stretch but I wanted to include it anyway).

Jon As An Envoy - I talked about this in my "what's Jon's ending" a little but I believe Jon will act as an envoy for either Sansa or Bran to Aegon VI, essentially playing out a similar story that he does in the show with Daenerys. By which I mean, Jon is not the King because the ruler themselves do not go as an envoy, that’s stupid and dangerous, but he goes as an ambassador for Sansa or Bran, to treat with a new claimant to the Iron Throne that is gaining support - Aegon VI & Jon Connington. They will probably clash, Jon will probably have yet another identity crisis, there had BETTER be gay incest subtext, then Aegon dies, and Jon has his sixth quarter life crisis in a row.

“King” of the Gift - again, something I touched on in my Jon meta is that I think he’s going to have a hand in resettling the Gift. Personally, I think it's likely that Jon leaves to protect the claims of his siblings (see: Duncan and Jenny) and goes to the Gift to help resettle it to keep out of the way. This ending is typically referred to as the "bael the bard" ending but i like to think of it as the "brandon's gift" ending instead - though he is not physically with his family, Jon feels fulfilled having confirmed his family loves him through reclaiming Winterfell and marrying Sansa, being reunited with Arya, and being given the Gift by Bran. Sansa claims her children were fathered by a wolf.

So…what does all this do for the story?

Well, in my opinion, several things.

I think the main barrier here is that most people in the greater fandom describe Sansa's story as ~growing past childish wants~ and Jon's as ~rejecting love~ and I do not agree with either of those takes even a little bit. This is where (imo) the dividing line between Jonsas and the rest of the fandom is. I don’t think the answer to Sansa’s question “will anyone ever marry me for love” is going to be “nah" - that's not just a sad story to me (wanting to be married isn't childish! craving intimacy and understanding isn't childish! it's also not wrong for a child to be childish!), I think the idea that Sansa (or Jon) will not find another love just doesn't line up with how George approaches his story. Who Sansa's husband will be has been such a big question, and her story is so heavy into the more romantic tropes like courtly love and chivalry and the line between politics and love and identity, that the question of Sansa's hand in marriage will be plot relevant. I also think it's kinda naive of people to pretend like George isn't very interested in the sexual dynamics of the characters he writes about (yeah, sure, no woman needs a man but "needing a man" is not what this is about. look at everything this man wrote in F&B and tell me he is going to write a female character that longs for sex and desire and doesn't get it!).

After AGOT, nearly every time Sansa thinks about marriage involves her longing for love but believing she will never get it because a man will only ever love her for her claim. Giving her a man - like Jon - who not only will not steal her claim and in fact has defended it twice over already, who will love her for who she is and not what she can give him, is a really important aspect of her story in my opinion.

As for Jon, I am even more firmly against the opinion that his story is about rejecting love; Jon’s story is about wanting to be a good man, to measure up to his father ~despite~ his bastard blood. When Aemon asks if Ned would choose honor over love and Jon stubbornly says yes, Jon is wrong and it’s important to not forget that. Ned has never once in his entire life chosen honor over love; he chooses his daughter’s life over his honor, he chooses his sister & her son’s life over honor, he chooses Arya & Nymeria over honor, and on and on!!! Ned chooses love at almost turn but none of his children know that just yet - look at Robb choosing Jeyne’s honor over his own and how upset he is at the idea that Ned would be disappointed despite the fact that Ned would have understand Robb’s decision! Jon's whole arc is tied up in realizing that it is not wrong or dirty to feel and choose love, passion, and desire and if he never has another romantic arc again, I think you lose the second part of that lesson which is "you are responsible for how you act when you feel love but that doesn't mean that simply choosing love makes you a bad person."

There's also the fact that George has talked a lot about "who lives, who dies, who gets married" and yet we have not one marriage at the end of the show AND there's not a lot of guesses at what "who gets married" means besides Jon/erys (and even if Jonsa doesn't happen, I simply do not see Jon/erys happening. they are not similar enough, they will not be in the same space for long enough, and they are on wildlly different trajectories for their story, they are not getting married let alone having sex). I think Jonsa fits that bill very well.

These various theories - from Sansa being queen, Jon living in exile, The Ashford Tourney Theory, the secret marriage, every one of them - are ideas and themes that I have really been thinking about for about 12 years now. I think Jon and Sansa's relationship could fit with the themes in their stories, the overarching themes in the books, and my own personal opinions. I think it gives George a great opportunity to delve into the courtly love aspects he enjoys so much, as well as delve into inheritance, legacy, legitimacy, honor, incest (yes, that too), and above all, what George himself has said the whole series is about - love. The human heart in conflict with itself is what I think Jon and Sansa as a romantic couple does for the series.

[areyoudreaminof]

King Under Your Control-An Azris Playlist

It's the final entry to the ACOTAR Playlist Project? Can you believe?!

I wanted to finish with a bang. Azris, the crackship to end them all. I'm also of the opinion that Azris has some of the best writers in this fandom, and this playlist is for them. This tracklist was inspired by all of the art and fics I've been blown away by. @iftheshoef1tz, @ofduskanddreams, @secret-third-thing, and @krem-does-stuff specifically. But there are too many to name.

LISTEN HERE and take a look at the tracklist behind the cut!

King-Years & Years

I was a king under your control And, oh, oh, oh I wanna feel like you've let me go, so let me go Don't you remember how I used to like Being on the line? I dreamed you dreamed of me calling out my name Is it worth the price?

Zephyrus-Bloc Party

And all you said in your quietest voice Was "I needed you as much as they do" And all you said in your quietest voice Was "I needed you as much as they do" How fast must we run before we can just take off in flight? How far must we run before they do not recognise us? So let's take this from the start, you'll be me and I'll be you

Casanova-Allie X & VERITE

I'm here lying on the bed of your tongue My heart listens to the sound of your war drum Steady tiptoeing to your neck of the woods I feel danger on your lips but it tastes good

Sex and Violence-Scissor Sisters

Everytime I spend myself it never runs too low Woah, woah, woah I can't escape my need for

Sex and violence Never let you see them hand in hand One is with the other The softest touches deeper than the ocean Give it to me faster, feel it, feel it

NEW MAGIC WAND-Tyler the Creator

Ayo, take one look in the mirror, implications so clear I live life with no fear, except for the idea That one day you won't be here I will not fetch the ball Eyes are green, I eat my vegetables

Ties-Years & Years

And you're a dancer, well, I'm a spy It's so beautiful to see you lie Are you having fun? Then give it up, you don't need that stress You're still hungry for another test Are you having fun?

Under the Sheets-Ellie Goulding

We're under the sheets and you're killin' me In our house made of paper, your words all over me We're under the sheets and you're killin' me Like all the boys before

Bad Habit-Foals

'Cause if I go Where the flowers grow Into the deep below Oh, would you forget me now? And if I could Make the days okay Wash the stains away Oh, would you forget me now?

Pink + White

That's the way every day goes Every time we've no control If the sky is pink and white If the ground is black and yellow It's the same way you showed me Nod my head, don't close my eyes Halfway on a slow move It's the same way you showed me If you could fly, then you'd feel south Up north's getting cold soon The way it is, we're on land Still, I'm someone to hold true Keep you cool when it's still alive Won't let you down when it's all ruin

Sweet Dreams-Angel Olsen

Every time I take a breath Something once living inside me has left Yes, it's alive but it's just passed through It's just left me and it's just left you On your own

Only He Can Heal Me-Bloc Party

When the trappings of the body Lead me to that hopeless place And I feel my spirit crumble Under strain and under guilt Lay me down in rivers cleansing Where the tall grass grows and grows And let me wait until My saviour comes home

In My Room-Frank Ocean

Got this lust for life in me, yeah Horny for the game, uh First they kiss, then they bite soft, uh Then that bitch wanna play it off, huh Fuck it, I'm pretty still in a pit of snakes While serpents shake some brand new scales I need a new face, I'm tired of these weirdos

Wolf Like Me-TV on the Radio

Dream me, oh, dreamer, down to the floor Open my hands and let them weave onto yours Feel me, completer, down to my core Open my heart and let it bleed onto yours Feeding on fever, down on all fours Show you what all the howling is for

Genghis Khan-Miike Snow

I know there's no form And no labels to put on To this thing we keep And dip into when we need And I don't have the right To ask where you go at night But the waves hit my head To think someone's in your bed

Magnets-Disclosure

Dancing past the point of no return Let go, we can free ourselves of all we've learned I love this secret language that we're speakin' Say it to me, let's embrace the point of no return

I’m Done with the World (& It’s Done with Me)-Foals

The fox is dead in the garden The hedges are on fire in the country lanes And all I want to do is get out of the rain An autumn day, an autumn day My daughter's asleep in the garden The leaves are on fire in the country lanes And all I want to do is get out of the rain On an autumn day, on an autumn day I’m done with the world and it’s done with me All I wanna do is get up and leave Sun falls into the garden I’m on my knees

TAGLIST: @iftheshoef1tz @ofduskanddreams @krem-does-stuff @secret-third-thing @queercontrarian @born-to-riot @yanny-77 @acourtofladydeath @witch-and-her-witcher @fieldofdaisiies @chunkypossum @thelovelymadone @velidewrites @octobers-veryown @asnowfern

[just-1other-nerd]

Good Omens live blog ep. 12

Once again, did not totally forget this one in my drafts, I don't know why you're saying that...

He doesn't have real candles anymore, after the incident

How did he know from which class Muriel was?

I like the way he contrasts heaven so much, it just looks so weirdly pretty. Also, he's just got the gayest walk

Oh no, not the angel outfit

Maggie, love, now is the wrong time to awake your inner badass. Aaand just minutes later we've got an I told you so situation

The circle is such a nice callback and clever as well

The Muriel Crowley combo is one of the best things in this season

Crowley was high up in the heavenly ranking? I just know that there will be so many fan theories

Gabriel, or shall I say Jim, is just enjoying the chaos

Did Gabriel just say "Nah", like for real? He's such a bitch

Why is Saraqael so chill right now?

I'll do myself one better: Why was Gabriel so chill about going to hell? Very sus

So that was the institutional problem, a bit unspectacular if you ask me

Not the BOOKS!!! As a fellow bookseller, this season really hurts me as much as the last one. Why do they keep doing this?

So halos are weapons? Cool. Idk how to explain it, but he throws it in such a gay way. Are they dead? Discorporated? Unconscious?

Love how Crowley just keeps giving orders, and they just follow them like he isn't a demon

So we got the high-ranking angels there, Lord Beelzebub and this seemingly high-ranking demon, but wtf is Furfur doing there?

Crowley just keeps insisting that there is no war and weirdly everyone listens?!

Saraqael has got the sass

I knew something was up with the fly! But I thought it was a false lead or to spy on them, not a container of Gabriel's memories!

Beelzebub is strangely nice and gentle

INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY IS CANON?! I thought of this more as a fun crackship, and I thought it was so silly that this would never become canon, so I didn't expect the fly to be connected to Beelzebub in a good way.

When he shows them the statue, they just make an "okay weird" face and move on, I think that's hilarious

How his love for Beelzebub not only makes him do a miracle but also appreciate earthly things

But that montage convinced me that they deserve a happy ending somewhere where they can't hurt anyone. The way they look at each other. Damn Beelzebub has a pretty smile

Today everyone seems to forget Saraqael's name

Crowley's got such a fun dynamic with so many people

Oh, that one guy is still alive

Maggie makes some moves, you go girl!

The way Crowley proudly watches when Aziraphale becomes bossy

Alpha Centauri is back, I can't cope!!!

They're singing their song, that's so cute

Shax and Furfur being besties, like slay

Is that the Metatron? What is he doing here? I sense something bad coming

The way Crowley recognises him before everyone else is so funny

The Ritz, oh my God, the Ritz! And alone time?! Like a date?!

Crowley is putting everything back to where it was, that's husband behaviour

Nina and Maggie speaking the truth! And Nina called her angel! Best advice, 10/10. Is this really happening? Will the ineffable husbands really become canon? So excited!

The romantic music from the Blitz!

No, Aziraphale, don't interrupt him now!

Please, don't let that go to where I think it's going!

FUCK IT IS!!!

Aziraphale, I know you really believe what you're saying, but I'm with Crowley on this one!

We get a love confession anyways? I think I might be dying. The way he looks up trying not to cry, like same.

So many daggers are being put directly into my heart right now!

The sunglasses, NOOOOOO!

He really does understand it better than you, but he needs to explain it! There is so much more to say!

No nightingales. Really?! Neil knows the fandom to well, he knows exactly where to hit us, so that it really hurts. I love and despise him for this

Oh my God, it's happening, everybody stay calm, stay fucking calm! They really just kissed! It's canon y'all! But also: not like this! NOT THIS DESPERATELY AND NOT THIS DEVASTATINGLY! I'M IN AGONY!

Not the "I forgive you"! Aziraphale, you idiot, I can't even express why that line and Crowley's answer are so damn emotional and full of meaning. The parallels! I can't cope! I literally rolled off the couch, and now I'm lying on the carpet crying!

Not the lip touch!

I don't think Muriel will do any harm to the shop, but they'll probably make lots of mistakes...

He doesn't take anything with him because Crowley was the only thing that really mattered!

Crowley judgingly and sadly looking at Aziraphale and the Metatron makes the pieces of my heart break again! And the dramatic strings in the background aren't helping!

The second coming?! We're in for a wild ride in season 3, not only emotionally and characterwise but also plotwise! I literally can't wait!

I can't help but hope that he won't step into this elevator until the last second, but somewhere inside me, I know that he just isn't there yet in his character development

Crowley looks so heartbroken, he finally sees their relationship for what it is and now he's lost it! He's shutting down the nightinggales song and drives away expressionless

WHAT KIND OF AN ENDING IS THIS?! WHAT THE FUCK, NEIL, WHAT THE FUCK! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO US! ONLY SEASON 3 MIGHT BE ABLE TO HEAL US, BUT IT'LL TAKE FOREVER TIL IT'S OUT!

Loved this season, but damn do I feel an emotional overload and I have a love/hate relationship with that ending because as an aspiring writer, I would have done the same, it's brilliant, but it hurts so much!

[sunsetcorvid]

Seeing that you emjoy a hat in time, could you please apare some [read as many as you want] headcanons for this, as the steam page put it, cute as Peck game?

YKNOW WHAT YEAH I MIGHT HAVE SOME!!!

Hat Kid and Mustache Girl become sort of friends again after the whole time thing. I mean, it takes a bit, but they kinda figure it out.

Cooking Cat looks after Mustache Girl. After the game she heads back down to the planet to make sure the Mafia don't start a plague again and just. Adopts Mu. Like "wow this kid almost killed us but like. damn she needs some food she's been livin in a cave." and then later gets like. Mustache lore (whatever exactly the fuck happened with the Mafia is. very much traumatizing and Not Good for this kid to almost destroy the world because of it) and that moment is like "Alright im takin care of this kid fuck yall"

Crackship between Cooking Cat and Empress. Listen, I think it would be kinda funny alright.

Dadtcher is one of my favorite collective fandom headcanons

Bow Kid spends a lot of time with DJ Grooves and Conductor and ends up learning how to dj a bit from Grooves.

She also spends a lot of time in Nyakuza Metro. She's knows pretty much every cat down there by name. Even the trains!

Hat Kid starts picking up a lot of mannerisms from Snatcher because he pretty much lives in her ship now and sometimes when Cooking Cat is there and she checks on her, she swears she sees Hat's eyes glowing. Could just be lighting, though...

Every few weeks there's a game night where the cast shows up on Hat's ship and almost destroy it because Bow keeps winning at Uno, Snatcher keeps winning at Monopoly, Cookie (Cooking Cat, easier typing Cookie) has no idea what the hell is happening and is staying in the kitchen (very much keeping the Conductor out), and Conductor and Grooves keep arguing over stupid shit.

I think Snatcher could purr. Maybe. He's some sort of fuckin ghost thing, he already has the fur stuff on his neck (I know it's supposed to resemble his hair from when he was alive, but I think ghost shit turned it into fur.), so I think he should be allowed to purr.

Hat constantly wakes up from nightmares about Vanessa. She's only been in that mansion a handful of times but by the gods that woman is terrifying.

It's one of the reasons Snatcher stays on the ship. He knows Vanessa's fucked up from experience and this kid's like what. 12? yeah no he is not letting shit happen to this kid. He tends to find some way to comfort Hat back to sleep. He denies everything in the morning however because he's totally not her dad /s he doesnt care what happens to the kid he just wants her soul /s

i think that's about it! i said i might have some but once i started typing i realized i had more aksjhdsiuhdgf

hope these are nice!

[prpfz]

Hidey ho everyone!! No clue how to start this so straight into it!

I would love to find anyone into Identity V, 18+ only as I’m 18!! I’ll list a few ships below, but send me whatever and let’s do it!! just no cc x oc!! It’s just not something I have fun doing, but cc x cc or well written oc x oc!! Preferably 🕊️

(Some!!) of the ships I’m looking to play!! The character I would like to play will be in the (parentheses) the character I would like you to play will be in bold!

Identity V:

(Norton Campbell) x Anyone!!

(Luca Balsa) x Anyone!

(Matthias) x Florian! <333

Emil x (Ada)

I’m always down for new ships, even if they’re a reach!! Crackships/rare pairs keep fandoms alive, leave a like/comment and I’ll get back to you ASAP!! (Literally nothing is off the table, any ships. We can talk it out!)

give a like and anon will get back to you

[silver-wield]

So FINALLY Clotis decided to uninstall that trashy game?? All Clotis should have uninstalled since this pattern of them giving some crumbs to #that crackship and then releasing a canon/romantic event for Cloti right after so we stayed was made VERY clear. Thank God now all Clotis noticed this pattern that I noticed a VERY LONG time ago. That game is just there to keep alive the toxicity of the fandom. So I say fuck SE for still trying to get promo and noise for their average game by fueling the toxicity in the fandom. Fuck them for playing with their costumers mental health, everyday I feel less inclined to support them. It's a shame Tifa is stuck in that company. She deserves so much better.

Hopefully it's not empty words.

I uninstalled last Halloween when they not only didn't give Tifa a skin but also did an event in nibelheim and didn't give her a skin or mention.

They spat in our faces and people kept supporting them, even when I said they'd keep taking the piss. People were huffing copium trying to find something decent about that shitty amarant skin and yet se continued to take the piss. They eventually realised they were pushing their luck and placated players with the mermaid skin, and nomura designed her bahamut skin so ofc that's pretty, but he doesn't actually design them all. He does as many as he's able to, but he's busy, and he didn't choose the skins for ff9, he just chose to crossover with it.

Toriyama is running ec and aside from the main scenario which nojima handles, he is inserting his bullshit whenever he thinks he can get away with it. That's why it's so inconsistent. If another dev pops in, he has to behave. If he's unsupervised he fucks it up.

[crosspunzel]

really seems like the younger generation doesnt understand crossover ships. keep the dream alive!

Yeah anon, they are like:we should bring them back

And I'm like:WE ARE STILL HERE???? WE NEVER GO AWAY AAAAAAA

Or they call us cringe or we did something terrible, people learn about your roots, crossovers are always a thing about fandom. Also tag correctly, a rarepair isn't a crackship. If they are from the same show is rarepair. But a crackship could be a rarepair, puss x nick is a crackship crossover one and is also so rare that I'm the only one that ship it jsjsj

[circlemidnight]

Do you really think we’ll get ack of jeronica in present timeline I don’t want to have my hopes up but what you said about having breakfast at Tiffany’s moment had me 😭😭😭 I need it NOW and I also want cami’s hideous wig gone 😂

Omg let Wig!Veronica liiiiive!! I know how you feel tho, like it would suck to crackship something so long and then only get served a little taste of what could have been. And it’s tough especially when so much of this fandom (and even some reviewers) are obviously gunning for Veronica to get some bullshit strong single female ending or pair her off with Reggie again. I’m not really taking any stock in people who insist it’s all going back to the exact couples and exact set up as S6, because Tabitha already told us what is going to happen? (And because I don’t think the writers are that boring??)

And I don’t think they would be going out of their way to show how compatible Jeronica are just to dump them back in the present with an amicable handshake?

Like yes they have this happy little bubble right now that is going to burst when other players enter the stage again. But that is a normal arc of a romantic plot anyway. People fall in love, they face conflict, they come apart, they find a way back to each other.

And obviously they are stirring everything up to make the last few episodes a whole lot of will-they-wont-they scenarios. With the exception of Cheryl and Toni. (I would guess Midge is alive in the new present and married to Fangs instead of Toni?)

So I think we have a really good chance of seeing them back together in the present. I don’t know if it’ll be angsty or fluffy or he’ll be chasing her down to the airport and they’ll go to Paris together or if he shows up at her door to kiss her or maybe he just wakes up in the present with no memory of before and she’s sleeping next to him. But we’ll see them in the present in some way. I don’t think the show is going to give them a miserable ending, not with all these comparisons to married couples they keep making. Don't forget there's also infinite timelines and universes! Maybe we'll see more than one outcome? Or Veronica will choose an AU where she can be with her own Jughead.

I’m choosing to be positive, and even if it doesn’t turn out how we hope, they canonically fell for each other when given a second chance to meet again? Which is something we’ve been speculating about all along so like, small victories, right? Enjoy it episode to episode and don’t overthink the ending yet! Because you know our fandom’s production studio will fix it if we are not satisfied anyway!

[winterfest-gift-exchange]

Winterfest'23 Fandom Term Dictionary

Hello all! 

Here's a little list we compiled of common fandom terminology to help you guys with your sign up forms!

Many of these terms have multiple different definitions that depend on the situation, but to keep matching easier and to make sure no one receives content that might make them uncomfortable, we tried to come up with simple definitions for this event's purposes.

Relationships and Shipping

Shipping means simply relationships between characters. Character names separated by / refers to a romantic relationship, whereas & signifies platonic or friendship. So asking for Chivalry/Rurisk means you want the two to be romantically involved and Chivalry&Rurisk would mean that you want to see/read about the two being just friends.

Please make sure you use the correct forms in your request and offer, this is important for matching purposes.

You can add as many ships as you want to  your request.

Gen/genfic

Not focused on romance or sexual relationship, for general audiences

Smut

Smut is shorthand for sexually explicit content. We know that's not everyone's cup of tea, and that's why it's important to be clear whether you want to receive or create some or not. Do not add smut if your giftee didn't specifically say they want it/are okay with it.

PWP

Porn without plot. despite the name, PWP stories can have elements other than sex, but the sex is the most important part

Dubcon and noncon

Dubious consent and no consent, these terms refer to fanworks with consent issues. As these can be very triggering to people, do not include these in your gift unless your giftee has specifically said they're ok with it.

H/C

Hurt/comfort. A character is sick/injured/harmed in some way and is cared for by another character. Usually expected to have happy endings.

NoTP

NoTP refers to ships a person does not want to see. If your giftee mentions they don't want to see a certain ship, do not add it into your gift, even as a background ship.

BroTP

Two characters as BFFs, this is your fave pair of platonic soulmates, not romantic or sexual

OT3

A throuple, a romantic/sexual relationship between three characters 

Crack/crackship/crack pair

A ship between characters that might have never met in canon, weren't alive at the same time or are in some other way an extremely unlikely or hilariously impossible match.

AU

Alternative universe, usually refers to stories set in the modern world or some other specific age or setting like space, ancient Rome, steampunk or Louis XIV's Versailles

Canon divergence

A fanwork that differs from canon but not as extremely as an AU, usually because the creator changed a major canon event. What if Fitz hadn't died in the dungeon but gone to trial instead? What if Kettricken had died of the poison instead of Rurisk?

Canon Compliant

Fanworks that do not deviate from canon. Missing scenes or scenes told from a different POV, for example, what was going through Patience's mind when she heard about her husband's infidelity?

Fluff

Teeth-rottingly sweet, nothing sad or angsty here. Antidote to sadness, fluff fics are cuteness for the sake of cuteness. Ignore the Forged ones roaming the forest, we're playing with mice and having ginger cakes in a cuddle pile.

DDDNE

Dead dove, do not eat, or Exactly what it says on the tin, refers to fanworks with extreme subject matter like SA, vore, necrophilia, bestiality. Used to signify that the work contains exactly what the tags say. DO NOT USE THIS TAG WITHOUT CLEAR WARNINGS FOR WHAT THE DDDNE CONTENT IS 

Squick

Squick is a trope or a thing that gives a person the creeps, not enough to be a trigger but still something they don't want to see/read about.

Bashing

This means content created just to express dislike for a character or a ship. While this can be fun and a good way to vent, WF is not the place for it. This is a positive event, please don't request or offer bash content. If you dislike a character or a ship, just mentioning that you don't want to receive any content with them in your request is enough.

Prompt and tropes

Prompts are ideas for your gift maker to draw inspiration from. Feel free to add as many as you can think of. Moods, songs, scenes, anything can be a prompt. Try not to make your prompts too restricting or overly detailed, they're supposed to be for inspiration, not an order.

Tropes are themes that reoccur in fiction and media. Friends to lovers, arranged marriage, fake dating etc.

[thefudge]

dr. fudge I'm just here to be sad about the sab/soc spinoff cancellation (the latter of which only happened 48 hours ago). like yes it was at times a mess but it was MY sexy hot mess.

that said, i was also delighted to find you've written kylo/alina (still to read), never change ❤️

yeah, i feel you, while i was not interested so much in sab anymore, i am sad about the soc spinoff, the writers & actors sounded excited about it.... i'm thinking at least soc can migrate to a different platform? if not, at least the fandom will keep both properties alive. even though i liked the way sab & soc were intertwined in season 1, i wonder if they'd been better off left separate. anyway, i'm glad you're curious about kylo/alina lol crackships are the real backbone of fandom! <3

[scrion7]

Fic and Tag Masterpost

General Tags:

my writing: writing that is mine

my ideas: posting main ideas of outlines

keep on keeping on: updates on progress

cue the queue: queued posts

my lack of writing: not writing by complaining about writing

the holy subtexts: theory posts about various fandoms

tw: puns: punderful jokes

Note: If you feel inspired, feel free to take inspiration from these. The chances of me actually writing these are very small.

RWBY:

Change of Skin and Heart

-Ilia/Weiss Childhood Friends to Lovers.

A Magnetic Personality

-Penny meets Pyrrha shortly before their match, puts her foot in her mouth, and changes history.

Ship of Theseus

-Saphron Cotta-Arc/Red Haired Woman crackship taken seriously.

--CH1 Posted!

Rosenkavalier

-The opera Der Rosenkavalier, retold as a Frosen Steel story.

Fe3H:

Consolidation

-Lysithea & Edelgard childhood friends to adoptive sisters, except its more like childhood prison mates.

Lusus Naturae

-The Chalice of Beginnings is successful in bringing Sitri back to life... as a giant zombie dragon. Golden Route.

Persona:

the old age new age adage (series)

-Futaba & Fuuka, Haru & Mitsuru, and Ryuji & Chie found family shenanigans, as separated fics.

Genshin:

Are you sure you want to delete this file?

-Nahida successfully stops Scaramouche from deleting himself. She then shows him how to do it correctly.

a flower for the dove

-Columbina/Rukkhadevata crackship taken seriously.

The Fifth Descender

-A full Aloy story quest. Major HZD crossover.

old friends (are the easiest to prank)

-Venti/Hu Tao summer fling crackship, ft. Suffering Zhongli. Outlined before 3.4

Unheard (but not unwelcome) (series)

-Abyss Princess Lumine had no idea her brother was alive, thanks to the machinations of the Abyss. When she finds out, the Abyss has a bad time.

Venerated Archons

-Compilation of the archons being fucking dumbasses.

Worm:

Hiveswarm

-Taylor doesn't go to her camp, joins Emma in the alley, cluster triggers alongside her, and Escalates(tm) with intertwined powers.

Useless Prey (affectionate)

-Sophia adopts a dog who can’t do anything… other than set Shadow Stalker on a redemption arc.

Vistalante

-Despite both of their best efforts, Vista and Shadow Stalker accidentally adopt each other.

Other:

Advanced Placement

-(Carmen Sandiego): Julia gets hired as Player's teacher.

baby's first gaslight

-(Honkai Star Rail) Bronya decides the best way to annoy (flirt with) Seele is to say outrageous things with the excuse that she's sheltered. Sampo is perfectly fine being the scapegoat for once.

Duality

-(GenLock): Miranda is GenLock compatible.

-Probably abandoned.

A Spark of Blue

-(BNHA/Monster Hunter): Kaminari (among others) gets a Monster Hunter inspired quirk(s). Heavily explores quirk classifications.

[fireheartfaery]

moonthalar headcanons

day 4: headcanons

of course I couldn't participate in a crackship week and not do one of my absolute fave cracks. when I first came up with the idea for these chaos beans all those many moons ago I didn't expect it to divulge into any direction past a quick discussion and some light hearted consideration. but after the valentine's day challenge I had this year (and the first moonthalar fic I ever wrote) they've been one of my bigger and most favored crackships. this is also very much due to Cass' encouragement and enthusiasm over them. anyway please enjoy <3

@sjmcrackshipweek

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They braid each other's hair. Like often super often. It's therapeutic for both of them. And it calms Hunt down. Fenrys is more sensitive on his head so he doesn't let many people touch it. But he will curl up next to Hunt and guaranteed five seconds later fingers will be carding and twisting and plating.

They have matching tattooes. Two links from a chain, with one of the links breaking open. It means all sorts of things for them. The first being that they did and can break free from whatever shackles them.

They both adore sweatpants. But if they need to dress to the occasion holy shit do they go for it.

Fave times of day are 12-3am and Sunday mornings. They love the quiet. It's like they're in a bubble floating above the earth, untouched by the chaos of their realities

Fenrys can bake anything and Hunt takes full advantage of this.

Neither of them can cook for shit though. But Hunt is still better than Fenrys. There's been one too many pasta-sauce-on-the-ceiling-stains to let Fen in the kitchen by himself.

Hunt loves eating pancakes right off the pan. Fenrys will be whipping them up in the morning and Hunt is sitting there being fed as the spatula lifts it up.

They're so fucking indulgent of each other. Fenrys says he wants a specific type of shower gel and Hunt is purchasing fifty bottles of the stuff three seconds later.

Hunt wants dessert at the restaurant even though both of them know he's never gonna eat more than one bite and Fenrys orders the entire dessert menu and feeds him whatever he wants.

They just cannot deny each other. They've been denied everything from happiness to freedom to simple choice for so long.

It's not really about extremes. It's about knowing where they fall.

They're the tall couple :/ you know the ones that tower over literally everyone and it's actually just disrespectful you feel like you're talking to the clouds. But still Fenrys is the shorter one by nothing more than a hairs breadth and a tiny rise on the toes but still! Hunt lordes his extra millimeters over his boyfriend like a trophy.

It also makes getting top shelf stuff an absolute spectacle.

Hunt is always pressing himself up behind Fenrys whispering in his ear, "can't reach baby?" "Want me to get that my love?""Here let me help you mi corazoñ""you sure you're okay sweetheart?"

Speaking of, they use a frankly disturbing amount of petnames. Hunt speaks three languages and he knows like ten endearments in each of them. Fenrys positively melts at all of them.

His faves to call Hunt though is "baby" or "mi cielo". Just something about the way Hunt goes mindless when he hears it.

Hunt is scarrryyyyy organized. Like plans for everything he could possibly plan for organized. Like has different colours for different events on the calendar organized. Like needs three to five business days to change his schedule organized.

Fenrys on the other hand will wake up and decide he wants to go river rafting in the afternoon.

It's actually hilarious to their friends to see them argue about it. Hunt says he has three different things to do in the day and they all have to be done by 5pm and Fenrys says "I'm coming to pick you up at 1 for lunch I will drag you out of that building if I have to."

Smut headcanons cause why not:

Hunt fucking loves dirty talk. And Fenrys is very very good at it.

They're both switches but Hunt prefers to bottom and Fenrys doesn't have a problem with topping.

But when Hunt tops hollyyy fuck Fenrys honestly believes he could go blind his eyes roll so far back in his head

Also Fenrys has an oral kink

And Hunt has a degradation kink

They keep a list of kinks they've always wanted to try, things they've never wanted to try, and things they're hesitant to try but may at some point given the right space, thought, and time.

They've had a disgusting amount of semi public sex. Neither of them knew they were voyeuristic or exhibitionists until that very first time in Fenrys office.

Their hard limit is nothing out in the open. It's more the idea of getting caught than the actual getting caught part that turns them on.

When they first started dating they used to fuck like they hated each other but now they fuck like it's their sole purpose to ascend to new plains of existence

[perseusjackson-jasongrace]

My favourite thing about the anti-[ship] tags in this fandom, particularly pertaining to hoo characters, is that the anti-shippers main argument is that the ship has no chemistry

Lmao, boo? Did we read the same books? None of the ships had chemistry! Even percabeth was a watered down, tasteless celery stick compared to their former glory in PJO!

Thats why it's so fun to ship everyone with everyone because you can do whatever you want.

Rick gave us a blank slate for 8 (7+reyna) characters and said: "do your worst"

[perseusjackson-jasongrace]

Oh I adoorreee this!

Jason + Piper + Percy + Annabeth

requested by anonymous art©cookiecreation

[chaosciara]

Popping into your asks again just today someone brought up Chaol/Dorian/Fenrys and oh my god all my shipping problems have been solved. How did i not think of this earlier???

IT IS THE PERFECT TRIO!!!

Big brain energy only in this house

[indigo--montoya]

1 and 10?

Hi, thanks for the ask!!

What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*

All of them? The concept of OTPs in general? Idk I'm a multishipper

So far as popular ships go, though, there's a couple I don't really get. The one I least understand is zukka. Literally where did its huge popularity come from, if you want to ship two guys (which so far as I can tell is one of the main draws?) then, well, both sokkaang and jetko have more canon basis. Is this partly just me being salty that two ships I love that have actual canon grounding are ignored most of the time (one more so than the other) in favor of something that is pretty much a crackship? noooo (yes)

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

This part got long enough that I decided to put it under a cut.

Hmm ok, so this is a hard one. There's a few arcs I have significant issues with. The one I think I dislike most strongly is Aang's arc, though. Like, they had most of an amazing growing up arc (emotional dependence to emotional independence, it could have been so cool) all done, and then just. Completely flubbed the ending!

They started setting it up in the very first episode, when Aang sees Katara and forms an instantaneous attachment. All through Book 1 it stays a healthy relationship, where they get closer and make mistakes and work through them. There's foreshadowing for what will come later, but for now it's a good, healthy friendship.

Then in Book 2, we get the first real signs of trouble. We're shown in The Avatar State that Aang's emotional dependence on Katara has grown- he'd needed her support before, for instance when he saw his mentor's corpse, that was a completely reasonable time for him to rely on her. But here she doubtless needed more support than he did since she'd just been buried alive, and had to turn right around and calm him down instead. As Book 2 progresses, this is not addressed, and his emotional dependence on her only grows.

At the end of Book 2 is another key moment in this arc, where he's forced to begin to confront the fact that he feels like he needs Katara specifically for emotional support, as opposed to friendships in general. Book 3 doesn't do as well with this arc (hardly surprising, given what Book 3 was like in general), but there's still enough support for this arc that it feels like they could have stuck the landing with a few tweaks.

But by the end, nothing is actually resolved here, at least not in a way that makes sense. We see Aang so close to a good end to this arc at the beginning of the canon finale, and then at the very end we see an Aang who seems like he could almost be the one at the end of this arc, but there's no character development in between, just a bunch of glowing. GLOWING IS NOT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!!

What really gets me here is how easy it would have been to make this an absolutely beautiful character arc, just by changing some of the details.

Change the focus from shipping to buildup for Aang learning not to use Katara as an emotional crutch, take away the kisses (especially if you want ka to be endgame), either remove Ember Island Players or completely rewrite it.

Show Aang realizing Katara isn't the perfect angel he built her up as in his head, show him beginning to accept that (the episode with Hama could be a great place to start this part, TSR is another good place to work on this stuff).

Keep him running away right before Sozin's comet, but for goodness sake give him some agency in it instead of having a lion turtle come by and hypnotize him. Have him choose to leave, with the intent to come back and fight Ozai, even kill him if he has to, but he's damn well going to try everything besides killing him first. So he waterbends his way out to a sandbar, bends himself a tiny island, and starts meditating.

He doesn't get quite the same answers from the past Avatars in this- I'm thinking Yangchen probably encourages him to look for an alternate solution, but reminds him to do what is necessary, even kill if he has to. He ends up using meditation to unblock his chakras, on a very visible time crunch because he headed to the coast of the Earth Kingdom to be sure he'd be there when Ozai arrived.

He's in the Avatar State during the fight, and in control, but it's not just ~magical glowing that does everything for him~ he has to actually fight. It's the hardest fight of his life so far- Ozai is powerful, and he's inexperienced. He's struggling, trying to hold Ozai off without killing or significantly injuring him, hoping against hope he won't have to use lethal force. Maybe at one point he hits Ozai hard enough to stun him and almost has a breakdown but then Ozai gets up.

Anyway, how the fight ends is he knocks Ozai to the ground and traps him like General Fong trapped Katara, all the way back at the start of Book 2. He doesn't use energybending and he doesn't need to, because with a little creativity (and embracing earthbending) he finds a nonviolent solution that we already knew was a thing that could happen. This should have been canon fight me

Oh and then if you're doing the ka version, instead of a kiss at the end Katara and Aang have a really sweet heart-to-heart where they both agree they're not ready for a romantic relationship yet, even though they both have feelings for each other they need more stability first and want their friendship to be a constant in a quickly-changing world. Because their friendship means the world to them.

End on a hopeful note with them holding hands, and boom! You've turned ka into something I actually like! Heck, you get the details right and you just turned ka into a ship I think about and write about and care about to a degree most would consider excessive!!