#i really like that one but its not really shippy

[oscconfessions]

i need this fandom to shut the fuck up about shipping for just one moment. please. oh my god. shut the fuck up. and no i do not Hate All Fun And Shipping As A Whole, this is coming from an avid multishipper and rarepair enjoyer but jesus christ some of you bitches cannot hold a 5 minute discussion of any of these shows or their characters unless its about romance and shoving characters together. its fucking exhausting and an absolute hellscape for the aspecs of this community (and DO NOT fuckin try me with that "aro people can still love blabla its a spectrum" shit either i will Bite you)

its literally impossible in most osc spaces to discuss ANYTHING non romance related or even dare to criticize this exact issue cuz people will just call you a killjoy and spam over you with their random shippy bullshit. like cool way to alienate all the romance repulsed ppl around you. really showing your support for the Whole Aro Spectrum. /s

there are so many more ways for characters to care for eachother outside of romance. there are so many interesting character arcs and stories to explore in these shows that are NOT ROMANCE CENTERED. please. just try at least for a few minutes. do something with your favorite show without any romantic shipping. try to analyze the story arcs, the themes, hell, even relationships without using the words "yaoi/yuri" just once. some of you people act like it'd kill you. once again i say this as an aro who is so so incredibly sappy for fictional romance of all kinds, even i have my limits.

and don't think i don't notice how common y'all only give aspec headcanons to the characters you really don't care about, or only give them to either the "cold unfeeling" or straight up infantilized characters. in 2025 no less?? i cant even imagine how y'all treat any canon aro characters.

osc is never beating the amatonormativity allegations.

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[petricorah]

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[sabo-torao]

Sabo Week Day 5 - Mission(s)

where's the fun in things you specifically do for fun if you can't be extremely self-indulgent at least once?

i love the idea of sabo and law running into each other repeatedly during the timeskip, especially if it's during one of sabo's missions. i want this boy to be silly and have fun so he can ignore the pain that's corroding him from the inside even more than usual, and who would be a better partner-in-crime than trafalgar law himself?

p.s. this was supposed to be kiiind of a "parallel" to day 4 (same but opposite composition, the contrast between teen sabo and ya sabo, etc) but i don't think any person outside of my own self would get it. i'm just too stupid

[cometshift]

misc

[stardoopy]

Miscellaneous hajime/izurus cause im obsessed

[piratespencil]

Something something Sanji being there to rescue Nami from the wedding with Absalom, and Nami being there to rescue Sanji from the wedding with Pudding...

Whole Cake Island really giving me a whole new appreciation for the Sanji and Nami dynamic. (Nami should have gotten to bridal carry Sanji tho smh.)

[skitskatdacat63]

Wish I had it in me to color all of these rn but alas! Let me know which Rüß you like best...?

Comparison to this same concept from more than 3 years ago(urghhh the passage of time kills me):

I didn't realize how bug eyed my style was atp LMFAO

[pinkyjulien]

Valentin & Mitch | 600/?? | We 💚 Arizona 🌵

[themyscirah]

If Red Lantern Rankorr has 1000 haters one of them is me. If he has 100 haters I'm there. If he only has 1 hater that is me. If no one hates him I am no longer on this Earth. I hate Rankorr. Fuck that bitch

LMAOO going through my drafts rn and damn I really hated this guy. I mean I still do but idk this is funny to me

[mootmuse]

devastated and confused that the jai lava kusa tag is near completely empty. have none of you realised how absolutely astoundingly smoking fucking hot ntr jr is in that movie

[hecatesbroom]

👀 Will you write more Grace and Frankie stuff?

I've got one Grace character study in the making right now (which I'm in the process of rewriting, because s7 revealed some new details about her that conflict with what I'd written up to that point 😂) and I'm hoping I'll have enough motivation to finish another little character study on top of the one I'm working on right now! :)

That being said I do most of my writing when I can't sleep, but I've been sleeping very well lately so it's a bit slow going haha

[thedevotionaltour]

i wish i could like garak more than i do when im not seeing him on my television screen because i do think he is actually an interesting and compelling character however i hate his fanbase actually no more than anything i hate gar.as.hir fanbase where then all he becomes is ship fodder and is just. the way they talk about him is so annoying and boring and stupid and shippy that i'm truly convinced i just hate garak until i see him on my screen and go fuuuuuuck he's really neat and i'm fascinated by who he is. but his fans especially those who are like mostly his fan only for shipping and refuse to separate him from julian (i also hate the julian fan side of this too and i think it definitely turned me away from loving julian as much as i did initially which is very sad because he was one of my favorites on the show and now i barely think about him ever when or feel little when i see him on screen) are just so. infuriating. anyways the reason i wrote this out was because i was going to say it is with a heavy heart i must say i think matt would be quite compelled by garak (due to his enjoyment of spy stories as has been mentioned before). and then i got sad about going why do i have to lead up to that with a heavy heart. because see im not doing it with the annoying fondness im doing it with a disappointed shame. which isnt fair bc garak is funny as fuck. anyways

[oflgtfol]

god so my interest in caves started with reading a bunch of shit about floyd collins. which i learned about from jacob geller's fear of depths video. and in turn i learned about that video from. a fanfiction. that i cannot name and i totally wiped from my mind until now but after my thermo final tomorrow im gonna hunt it down and reread it

[bellamysgriffin]

wait i actually can't stop thinking about it bc like. she has a fundamentally different relationship to everything that happened out there than the rest of them. "there is no 'it.' it was just us!" is one of thee lines of the show. at first we thought natalie was the true non-believer because of how she behaved in the adult timeline, but it's so interesting now to see that she's participating in the rituals and allowing them to name her queen as an immediate escape hatch from the absolute horror of her split-second decision to let javi die instead of her. i also think that this is partly why adult natalie is so thoroughly a mess, because it's clear that once they were rescued any conviction she had that the wilderness chose etc. and there really was an "it" (which was probably flimsy at best anyway) immediately crumbled and she was just left to live with everything they did

shauna never buying into the ~wilderness~ stuff is one of the more interesting parts of her character to me, bc she never is able to use it as an outlet for her guilt or grief. adult lottie doesn’t feel guilty about natalie bc she thinks the wilderness chose. it’s a scapegoat for her guilt and grief. but shauna never once believed it, not even in the teen timeline. so when they repurpose her trauma as a prayer to the wilderness of course it only makes her angrier. there is no way out for her! not out of guilt or grief or anger! and not for her entire life

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel weirdly compelled by this

[fatalism-and-villainy]

This is a bigger problem in the fanfic realm as well, because I have recently frequently been running into the problem of being drawn in by shippy fanfics that involve things like captivity, enslavement, and other scenarios that inherently constitute reduced autonomy and thus dubious (at best) consent, but actively refuse to engage with those implications.

And it's frustrating, because these are scenarios that I find compelling, and that have the potential for very rich emotional work. I like the juxtaposition of physical pleasure or emotional fulfillment with feelings of fear and violation, and the shame and self-blame that those feelings bring about. And I like digging into an experience of love and desire that is frighteningly selfish in its negligence towards the personhood of its object.

But I see so many of these fics that are explicitly framed as seeking to avoid these story elements - they'll have an author's note or something at the beginning with something like "I know this is problematic, but I've tried to mitigate the dubcon elements as much as I can!" And I find this... deeply frustrating! Because it's seeking to ameliorate the very dynamics that make this sort of story interesting to me!

And by the refusal to engage with the inherently nonconsensual aspects of these premises, I'm not necessarily referring to fantasy romance plot scenarios in which the characters overcome the violence of their initial dynamic to live happily ever after in a more egalitarian relationship. I can understand that these plots are living inside a sort of non-diegetic BDSM fantasy bubble, and they are still engaging with and deriving their initial eroticism and intimacy from violence implicit in their premises, while using the fantasy aspect to mitigate the actual "realistic" consequences of that violence. (I read some danmei novels that did this in ways I found really enjoyable; I think Hannigram also arguably fits into this mold in certain ways, especially considering that it is a fantasy about the parts of abuse that can feel intensely thrilling and that can make you feel recognized and known in ways no one else can.) What I'm referring to is, well, a refusal to engage at all with that violence and violation; an implementation of these premises that feels like just another pretext for introducing the characters and getting them into a relationship, without attentiveness to the implications of the specific pretext in play.

And there's something worth probing at with these kinds of authors' notes in the sense that... there's a lot of concern in fandom nowadays about "romanticizing" rape and abuse, and the seeming necessity of portraying perfect negotiation and consent in fanfic. And yet these sorts of paratextual framings seem to me to be dangerously mistaken about what consent even is - to be conceiving of it as a magic script with no interpersonal or situational antecedents, one that intrinsically smooths over systemic power differentials or lack of personal trust.

I wonder also if that's actually related to the simplistic approach to textual criticism that I sometimes call "checklist criticism" - the idea that a text can be deemed harmful or not, problematic or not, -ist or not, simply by going through a list of "is x present? check yes or no" bullet points, rather than taking a more holistic approach to the relationship between textual production and broader systems of power, being attentive to the specific premises and genre/stylistic aims of a text, etc. Possibly that's too much of a reach for what is ultimately a complaint about the difficulty of finding really juicy darkfic, but it's worth considering.