#i'm shipper trash

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

“So, babysitting?”

Alberu follows after the delinquent. From the record the vice-principal gave him access to, Cale frequently drinks alcohol, he often gets himself into a lot of fights, and he barely passed his classes at the end of the grading period. The teachers never call on him in class, girls and boys avoid him alike, and he is- supposedly- completely intolerable.

Which is why Alberu Crossman, who’s only a little older yet infinitely more mature has been assigned by the principal (his father) to get the troublemaker under thumb. Cale's father is quite wealthy, actually, and since there isn't much known about the successor to the Henituse family... it'd be bad if he had to be expelled.

Cale scowled. “Yes, babysitting, your highness. Please, leave if you must,” He jeers at Alberu, but internally he thinks, 'No, really. Please leave.' Otherwise, he might get caught in the act.

Of not actually being Cale.

Roksu aims a sour expression at Alberu, who returns it with a more flowery one. Acting as his twin for the day had been easy enough, mainly because being trash is great!- until Alberu Crossman strolled into his lunch period and introduced himself.

He is even following him out of the school to his job. Well, this job is Roksu’s and not Cale’s, but because he can’t ditch work nor can he get glib-tongued Alberu off his tail-

Well shit.

Thankfully, the kids call him hyung. Except Raon, who calls him human. Hopefully Alberu doesn’t look into it too much. If everything goes right, Alberu Crossman will be Cale's problem to deal with tomorrow. As it should have been.

“I didn’t know you liked kids, Cale,” Alberu smiles charmingly, walking side by side with Roksu. “Can you introduce me?” Roksu struggles to not put on his own disarming smile out of spite, instead plastering on a classic Cale Sneer™. It fits on his face perfectly, like he’s playing a character in a play.

They enter the building and ‘Cale’ guides Alberu to a colorful playroom, decked out in toys and a fountain of running water as the centerpiece (A gift from his father, who is still upset that Roksu doesn't visit more often). There’s a tray of fruits and oatmeal on the small table in the corner of the room, except not a soul to be seen. Picking up a bowl of oatmeal and finding the ceramic to still be hot, Roksu almost smiles.

Alberu frowns. Where are the kids he's supposed to babysit?

Roksu tells the empty air, "Come on out."

Three children appear out of nowhere in front of them.

“Hyung!”

“Human! You’re back!”

“Hyung, nya.” On examines Alberu some more.

All of the kids had been revealed the moment that Roksu spoke, as Raon unveiled the invisibility on them.

Raon runs up and grabs Roksu’s hand, who places it on his head, rubbing the black hair comfortingly. “Mm.” Raon beams at the affection.

“Raon, On, Hong,” they each look up at him at the call of their names. “This is Alberu Crossman, he is doing a report on my trashy behavior. Don’t be rude."

All three children become hostile immediately. “He isn't trash!”

On observes Alberu with an intense glare. Raon shifts under Roksu’s hand, his deep blue eyes glinting with magic. Roksu positions him away from the older teen’s view. Raon grips onto Roksu’s pant leg with a vengeance. Hong stares openly, offensive.

Alberu smiles at them.

"I'm visiting with Cale Hyung for today, nice to meet you."

Hong gasps suddenly.

“He-!” On gives her brother a look, and he clamps his hands over his mouth. Alberu feels a deep curiosity, as if something isn’t quite as it seems.

Roksu sighs. It’s going to be a long hour.

At the midway point, Alberu has easily disarmed the children. They look fascinated at the magic he shows them, while Roksu can only rub a palm over Raon’s shoulder as a warning to keep his dragon magic under control. He's still just a child that wants to brag. Everything is going well.

Bang!

“Hey Roksu! How was-“ Cale bursts through the door, bright red hair equipped with a shit-eating grin, wearing clothes far less fancy than his usual. He tenses up, frozen in place when he spots Alberu on the floor, politely sitting "crisscross applesauce" with the children. Roksu narrows a withering glare at his twin.

“… Roksu?”

Alberu looks at ‘Cale,’ sitting next to him, the one he's spent the entire day with, who is trying to send what must be the real Cale into the sun with his eyes.

“Ha… ha?” Cale winces. Roksu wipes his expression from his face.

“Cale-hyung, run! That’s the human’s bad look!” Alberu’s eyes widen as he watches the confirmed real Cale bolt back into the hallway and out of the front door. Alberu whips his head back toward the stranger behind him, who is a perfect replica of the Cale who ran like Hell. Cale has an identical twin?? Since when? Why doesn't he go to school?

Roksu levels an emotionless gaze at Alberu. “Hello, your highness. Don’t mind me.”

Alberu can only watch in astonishment as this stranger walks out of the playroom, with a smooth and deadly gait as he hunts down his twin like a predator would to prey. He recalls the look 'Roksu' gave him and it sends a shiver down the principal’s son’s spine. That gaze held secrets.

Something about this stranger is even more interesting than the sudden appearance of a twin.

On walks up to him, sitting down in his lap and looking into his eyes. “Roksu-hyung will be back soon, nya!” Hong bounds over and sits next to his sister, grinning widely. Raon huffs and looks at the door. He wants his human to come back.

[sunlightgaps]

this scene where dennis casually refers to dee as his friend stuck with me because i initially thought it was hilarious that he friendzoned his actual twin sister but then i became obsessed because. they’re literally friends 😭😭😭😭 they WILL leave each other’s asses the moment trouble strikes and they’re each other’s #1 target of bullying BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS COME BACK TO EACH OTHER. their bond is thicker than circumstance. they devoured their triplet in the womb. their team-ups are ruthless and destructive to those around them. and on top of it all they’re friends!! they're dance partners. they scheme to exploit welfare & get addicted to crack together. they instinctively reach for each other when they’re scared. “deandra's gonna side with dennis—that's a given.” the chardee macdennis game teams naturally pair dennis & dee. in dennis's ideal universe dee doesn't have the forehead injury she got from falling on the ground. dennis shields her when a food fight erupts during thanksgiving dinner. dee gives dennis a soft smile underwater even though she'd just said "whatever" in response to his "i love you, sis" right before they think they're going to die drowning. do you See. do you Understand. twins by chance, friends by CHOICE 💪🔥 their toxic codependent sibling slay...

[thatlittledandere]

KARKAT RECREATIONALLY PICKS FIGHTS ON THE INTERNET

DUDES??? 😭😭😭 MY GUYS??? THAT'S SO ROMANTIC

[demonslayedher]

Low-Key Married AU fluff

Kochou said that I was disliked, so I asked her if she disliked me too. For someone so quick to have a smiling response to everything, she struggled to reply. She was the one who proposed marriage and swayed me, so I had thought that meant she had feelings for me. There would be no other way to read it. However, with as unbothered as she is by my absence, I have to wonder.

It’s been ten days since I had last contact with her. I went home to the Butterfly Mansion, but she had just departed for a mission, so I didn’t stay long so as not to trouble the girls. It may still be a few days before I can return again, but it’s always likely she’ll be busy. She’s incredible in that way, taking on all the care of our injured Corp members in addition to her Pillar missions. It must be in her personality to keep adding to what keeps her busy, like taking me in as though I looked like I needed the care. Although the times we’ve spent together have been nice, I don’t require it. My duties call for me to always be ready for battle, and I’ve always kept my heart steady.

So has she. We are Pillars first, and no amount of affection can sway us—whether an abundance or a lack.

I’m not bothered by lacking something I didn’t deserve in the first place.

Last night again, I was too late to prevent a family from being slaughtered. There were no survivors this time, aside from the eldest child who was still ravenous with a recent transformation. Having to chase him down and keep him from harming anyone else kept me off the trail of the progenitor of demons, who had to have been close by. For centuries, he’s evaded us this way over and over, sacrificing entire families to throw us off his trail. If I were to chide myself over every failure, I would have lost the ability to do anything ages ago. Each time, the anger is something I carry with me, to push myself harder the next time, and the next. Any extent more that I can push myself may be the difference to someone’s survival, no one can afford to lose their life over any of my own lost confidence.

“CAW!! TOMIOKA GIYUUUU! NEWS FOR TOMIOKA GIYUUUU!”

Each time it's a crow I think I recognize, my stomach drops. My mind is already playing the words I dread to hear, as though trying to protect my mind once I someday hear them.

"Kochou Shinobu has died."

Even if I hear them, I'm a Pillar first. That was what we promised each other. I'll always do as I must.

The crow says nothing as it delivers a letter.

YES, YES, I KNOW, THIS FANDOM HAS TURNED ME INTO SHIPPER TRASH. For this pairing, it was more specifically my own joke AU which later bit me in the back and made me start really, really enjoying GiyuShino (which, for the record, I do not consider canon). Was throwing ideas back and forth with @reicchel again the other day and so here we are with ship content!

Part of the reason I love the Low-Key Married AU (in which it's mostly canon as usual, except that Shinobu and Giyuu have been married for over a year or so, and it's not a secret but they make such little deal about it that many people don't even know they're married) is that it's a frame through which to see every interaction and either make it really, really funny, or very, very, sad. Everything was supposed to be funny, but it keeps hurting, hahaha... aaahhhh.

For instance, in a regular romcom situation, it should be funny that Kanzaburo doesn't deliver all of Giyuu's letters. Knowing these two, who might had started this whole "well, we'll be a couple when we have time" thing by actively writing regular letters, this could had simply given the impression that the other person wasn't writing as much, so they both naturally decreased frequency to match. It's a little lonely, but neither one is going to push the other for more attention.

No!! I refuse to let this post end with angst! Time for omake!!!

[akany-22]

Happy new year my darlings!

Anyways! Have this Sonamy art! Kinda like a remake or somethin' like that

[nemesis0001]

The tanaoi stans believe a fancanon that "Aoi has a crush on Tanjiro and give up because of Kanao" when that shit did not happen in both manga and novels. I really hate TikTok for spreading this fake info and now they are hating on Kanao just to ship tanaoi. I'm sorry that Kanao was picked by Tanjiro and Aoi was not? And Aoi did not give up shit for Kanao in canon lmao. She loves Kanao as a sister yes as stated in the novels but she show her love for Kanao by understanding how Kanao's mentality work instead of being controlled by her low self-esteem and Kanao show love to Aoi by comforting her while she's having a breakdown realization in the novel.

None of their relationship revolves around Tanjiro because that shit was a headcanon and not canon and I hate that their sisterly bond is being lowered to ships.

If Tanjiro and Kanao had barely interactions in canon then Tanjiro and Aoi have even less interaction. Have we even read the same manga and novel or this is another ya'll fancanons? If we are gonna play about conon moments between ships, Kanao has always Tanjiro's attention and notice her ever since until the end wether it's because of her skill or eccentric behavior. Tanjiro always approach Kanao first and vice versa. He approach and blush while thinking fondly that she's 'sweet' at the closing end of the manga hinting their growing romance because Tanjiro's goal is already achieve so he has now time to be young. Aoi is barely noticed by Tanjiro but acknowledge her hardwork say nice things about her just like any other people at the mansion and Tanjiro never tried to approach Aoi since then and barely interacted with her than he was with Kanao. The thing is, it's also Tanjiro who understands Kanao's anger at Inosuke in the novel and made Inosuke understand why she feel that way causing for Inosuke and Kanao to reconcile immidiately.

The funny thing is, Aoi has more interactions with Genya in the novel than with Tanjiro and Inosuke in both manga and novel. Genya was the one who defend Aoi when a slayer insulted Aoi and Sumi for being non slayers and not in the frontlines and Aoi took care of Genya the whole time even though Genya was shy and tried to push her away. And no, I don't ship Genya and Aoi. I ship Genya and Muichiro. I'm just pointing it out.

Ship tanaoi all you want but leave Kanao alone.

Calling Kanao a 'pick me'. You learn a phrase and run with it.

If we are going to call Kanao pick me because she's silent and has tragic past, shoul we call Giyu or any other male characters who are quiet and has a tragic past a pick me too?

I don't usually go to war for ships but they are shitting on Kanao and get into tankana space? Like stay on your lanes.

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

[apathyfairy]

every time it's the end of the year i feel like i'm going insane like the entire year just culminates into me just mcfreaking losing it on new years eve

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Me: *pokes the arranged marriage AU with a stick* do something

The AU: You ship Cinta and Susurrus now :3

Me: WHY

[belindarimbi13]

The soaring dragon

天駆ける龍の如く!

Like a dragon soaring through the sky!

Oh, I see.

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

please please please please PLEASE let Alysmond say the L word to each other I NEED TO SEE IT plz HBO people please

[shredsandpatches]

I realize it's very silly to expect any sort of nuanced commentary from one-sentence context summaries of individual operatic arias, but also: this sort of description shows up a lot for this specific aria and I think it's very off, tonally. It's not so much an expression of "hatred" as...affectionate contempt, I guess? The world sucks and people suck and I love that for them, and also, more importantly, for me. (Hear that, squishy human whom I dragged along to this party? I OWN YOUR ASS)

[theophagie]

Sorry for being a hater but the way I've never seen anything on Izuku-Ochako-Himiko as a ship that didn't instantly make me cringe (and not in the "lol cringe" internet way)

[tealvenetianmask]

I'm sure someone has talked about this before, but crossing out the o is such funny and poignant characterization for Blitzø because he could obviously just spell it without the o (like I tend to do out of laziness), but it seems like that option has actually never occurred to him. For what? The 5+ years since he changed his name?

He full on corrects people who have never seen his name written out. "I'm Blitz. The o is silent!"

He puts considerable energy into distancing himself from his old name (his past), and by doing so actually calls a ton of attention to it.

It makes me think about how he's shit at distancing himself from other things too. And by other things I mean Stolas because I'm shipper trash. He could just deny accusations that he's in a relationship with Stolas and move on, but he just has to act like a flustered goof about it (Harvest Moon Festival) and go on about how Stolas just sees him as a fuck toy for way too long and make himself upset (Oops).

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Jiang Cheng fans assemble!

Gather round and I will tell you the reasons why if you love this bad bitch:

You will adore this sad bitch:

A.k.a Why Jiang Cheng fans need to read Yuwu right now!

♡ First off, Jiang Cheng and Mo Xi are essentially the same person:

Noble, first born sons.

Same hair

Similar traumatising elements within their families. E.g. dead parents, elements of parental infidelity, periods of being very sad within their childhoods.

♡ Secondly, both get their entire worldview completely blown up, trashed and shit on by the narrative.

Jiang Cheng's pride over his achievements being damaged by the golden core reveal.

I'll only describe Mo Xi's vaguely because I'm trying to convince people to read Yuwu and there's heavy, heavy spoilers involved. BUT he basically risks his entire life to find out the truth about something and is under an Oath that will turn him to ashes and tear him out of the circle of reincarnation if he breaks it. When he does discover the truth it devolves into some of the hardest-core self-loathing I've experienced in a danmei I am certain Jiang Cheng fans will eat up.

♡ Thirdly, I originally bought Yuwu myself because Ximang was suggested to be Wangxian coded. They're not. In writing this post I have realised Ximang is actually a pimped up version of Chengxian. If you ship Chengxian, Ximang is the payoff you didn't know you needed or wanted. Allow me to explain

Ximang are plagued by thoughts that neither is good enough for the other, but Mo Xi is infatuated with the idea of building a home for Gu Mang. He wants to be his family with all his being.

Ximang will happily risk their lives for the other.

Ximang have all of the feelings but none of the communication skills.

If as a Chengxian shipper you are into the idea of Jiang Cheng being jealous of Lan Wangji, but Wei Wuxian being all in about Jiang Cheng, Ximang will absolutely scratch that very specific itch.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, now please go and read Yuwu.

[gffa]

I hate ob*k*n shippers but you're like the sacred hermit of this fandom. Your posts are on point

Anon, genuinely, what am I supposed to do here? Half of my dash are Obikin shippers and I find them to be some of the most chill, kind, fun people in the fandom, I'm not going to throw them under the bus to be The One Exception for an anon on the internet, when I find most Obikin shippers to be pretty cool. Are some shippers annoying? Have some of them started shit? Of course, ANY subset of fandom has its annoying people who start shit. And maybe you find me more tolerable because I've shifted my attention in more gen directions and don't talk as much about them on a pairing level lately, which is fine, I'm glad that my blog can hit the right spot for you. But I'm not sure what you want from me, given that I am still very much an Obikin shipper, I hang out with other Obikin shippers, and I like those Obikin shippers and think they're some of the best this fandom has to offer. Other than some troublemakers (again, ANY subset of fandom is going to have those), I'll defend Obikin shippers as a whole because they've been some of the best people I've met in this fandom. Not just a handful of exceptions, either, most Obikin shippers I've known are people who are just out there doing their own thing in their own lane. It is totally okay to hate a ship, most people have ships they really just cannot stand! But I'm not sure I'm going to give you the reaction you want, when you come to an Obikin shipper's blog and say you hate Obikin shippers, like, fair enough if you don't want to interact with them or you find my blog to be interesting enough in other places, that's all fine, but I'm not the place for validation of trash talking shippers who, by and large, stay in their lane.