#it do be an oc x fanon time tho

[silent-scribbs]

[blubushie]

tf2 tumblr changes a man (not positive)

its so horrible like this fandom is so stupid i genuinely couldnt believe it. the time i got anon hate for my medic x oc ship, the fact that fanon has replaced most of people's view of characters, the fact that if you opened the tag for a brief window in time you would see someone saying something stupid this is why I only talk with my mutuals about pauling and scout doing it freaky.

At this point I generally only interact with the art side of the fandom. It's decreased the toxicity I see by a LOT lmao

Twitter is even worse tho. Blech

[pulim-v]

okay what’s YOUR favorite /least favorite Oc anddd what kinda fan would you be. Would you be starting discourse, popping bottles, making gimmick blogs for the characters? Also what would you say is the most wild /toxic ship in FGCC (non canon most likely)

Rowan bbg they could never make me hate you (in terms of side chars then Agate and Basil (<-remind me to rant abt her) also come close)

I don't have a least favorite I love all my kids

I'd be the 🪴🎍 fan (btw how do you know what this means.) who somehow calls it when the two first meet, and draws them both one billion times (<-aka a mix of my fandom attitudes regarding TOH, MHA and UT)

In terms of toxic fanon ships, there's the usual ones that every fandom has where some weird people get incesty (a major fear of mine is making it big and stumbling upon Spark x Lighting or God forbid Mist x Cloud), but there's also some more interesting fucked up ships lol

☁️🪴 can work but only post-arc and then ☁️ is already with ⚡️ (it's canon in the Superhero AU tho)

🪴❄️ has an uncomfy age gap and 🪴 would get codependent FAST

I cannot fathom what would make someone ship ⚕️✨️ like she hates her and she's aroace and she's married

☀️⚕️ is fundamentally incompatible because she cares too much and she cares too little

🌨🎍 isn't that bad but. Why would you do that.

[trouslinabone]

what do you think about undertale ships?

WARNING: THIS IS A LONG LIST OF VARIOUS SHIPS OF BOTH UNDERTALE AND DELTARUNE. SOME SHIPS ARE IMMORAL. (With pictures :D)

Depends on the ship.

When I first was learning about Undertale, I looked up a lot of Undertale Comic Dubs (I knew more about AUs than the actual game for a while), so I was prone to a lot of ship material, notably Frans, Sanscest, and Fontcest. As I matured, I lost interest in most ships, but there are some I think about from time to time.

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I was into Frans for a minute, as there was so many cute comic dubs of it, but stopped caring about it as I eventually starting disliking Sans. I was still a kid at this point. Like 13 or so. While I like Sans as a character now, I still don't go after it as it's immoral and typically feels like a power complex.

(Made by WaiqiuVale)

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I was into Charus for a while, and still am to a degree, but the moral ambiguity of it makes me not really look into it much anymore either. (Is Chara still a kid even if Chara has been dead for ages? Probably. Is Papyrus a kid as well due to his childish manners? Probably not.)

I mainly liked it due to this specific scenario where Papyrus successfully convinced Chara to abort genocide and thought them to be a better person. You can tell I liked this when "Chara is evil" was still the fanon consensus.

(Made by TallestDwarfGremlin)

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I hate Papyton. No real reason, I just think it's a toxic ship and Papyrus deserves better. I also dislike Mettaton as a character. He's funny, but in comparison to everyone else, kinda flat. He's the most 2 dimensional character.

He's a star, he likes being a star and wants to be a bigger star but wasn't always a star. There's minor interesting things, but eh... As I believe Papyrus has an insane amount of depth, I'd want him to be with someone with a lot of depth as well.

(Made by GalacticJoelle)

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Asriel x Chara (Chariel?) feels like step incest. It can be cute, but it's a tough pill to swallow.

(Made by Renrick)

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Speaking of incest, Fontcest is a ship I dislike. I understand the appeal - Papyrus and Sans have really good chemistry, care for eachother, and are funny together... But that's because they're family.

Something that comes to mind about Fontcest tho, there's this one high-quality animation that is genuinely insanely good and emotional that's fontcest. AM I SUPPOSED TO DISLIKE IT OR LIKE IT???

(Made by xXMimykoXx)

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Sanscest exists. It's incest on steroids for the most part. Everything wrong with incest on a practical level is doubled with Sanscest, and I have gotten into heated debates about this. Am I serious about it? Not really, but it's something fun to think about.

(Made by The-Cyan-Wolf)

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Soriel is canon to me. In my AU, Deltarune: Insanity Calls, it's canon. It just makes too much sense. And Toriel appears about 40 (even if she's actually 900+ years or whatever), and Sans appears about in his mid 30s. It's a bit of a gap, but nothing to bad for me. I think it's cute.

Especially the Deltarune version of the ship.

(Made by daisiloou)

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Papyrus x Frisk (Papyrisk?) is arguably canon. I always bring it up in arguments when people are against Frans. I've already discussed how I don't care for Frans, but it's another one of those things I'm not really serious about, but just find it interesting to talk about.

(Made by Mozer)

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On the topic of Papyrus x Frisk, Alphys x Frisk is also arguably canon. Same thing as above, but I dislike it more than Papyrisk as there's no Papyrus, and I enjoy Alphdyne.

(Made by Gaster)

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Speaking of Alphdyne, it ain't an OTP for me, but it's the only undeniably canon ship in Undertale and it's cute.

(Made by Caligmaera)

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I hate Temmie x The Annoying Dog as it's immoral to ship real people and both of those are self inserts.

(Made by Arinna1)

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[Character Here] x Self Insert/OC is something that I've done often since I'm an avid roleplayer. Notably I've done long term Sans x Self Insert and various Papyri x OC roleplays before. They're okay. Nothing to write home about.

(Made by @braindeadskeletons)

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As a bonus, some random Deltarune ships:

Kris X Susie X Noelle (A Poly ship... Kruselle?) is my personal OTP for Deltarune. Susie x Noelle is cute, Kris x Susie is cute, Noelle x Kris is cute, the best way to get around this? They date eachother. I used to have bad trauma over polyamorous relationships due to my own bad experiences with them, so this is actually good progress for me :3

(Made by @pillowbug99) -

Spamvil is basically canon, and I like it as it's canon in the same AU of mine I mentioned before - Insanity Calls - but I like it more in terms of Jevil having a massive, obvious crush on Spamton and Spamton hating Jevil's guts. That dynamic of Spamvil is more interesting to me than Spamvil itself.

(Made by Mipexch)

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Spamton x Alphys (A real ship, I swear. Also Spamhys?) is a cute ship. Not a lot of content about it, but it fits Alphys' personality I feel like (her dating an AI) and it feels like a good match. I'm a sucker for [Nervous Character] x [Smooth Talker], even if Spamton ain't as smooth as he used to be.

(Made by anon artists on 4Chan)

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Spamton x Papyrus (Another real ship, I swear... Spamrus?) is funny. I toy with the idea a lot. It probably wouldn't work, but it's by far an insanely funny crack list. I only know this ship is a thing due to a ex-friend of mine who really liked it.

(Made by Eugenia_yesme)

So yeah, those are my thoughts on Undertale (and some Deltarune) ships!

Before anyone mentions it, yes I know I didn't give Suselle its own tier, but my opinion kinda falls under the Kruselle ship.

I barely scratched the surface. Some honorable ships are Kris x Berdly, Noelle x Berdly, Alphys x Asgore, Gaster x Asgore, Gaster x Grillby, Grillby X Sans, Burgerpants x Nice Cream Guy - you get the point.

Maybe if this gets any interest what-so-ever, I'll do a part 2 where I go over more ships and give my two cents about them.

Let me know if I miscredited any artists or if you know who did the Alphys x Spamton art.

[gummygoatgalaxy]

Idk abt you but the "BAWWW CANON X OC BAD!!1!" argument is stupid to begin with - because when you think abt it, weren't ALL official characters technically somebody's "oc" at some point?? People gotta remember that at some point in time, big cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Spongebob were once merely a silly goober of a singleton's mind at somepoint.. they're all ocs, just the difference being one is "official" and one is "fanon".

in all seriousness tho if y'all bash canon x oc in general just please find something better to do with your lives.

EXACTLY

Honestly, if you're gonna say that to me, then be ready for me to share what a jerk you are lol

[dodgeballstuckonthegymceiling]

Hi, so I saw that you're willing to do oc x canon? I wanted to request something (platonic) for mine, she is a creepypasta oc, all fine if not though <3 here you have all her info [Okay, let's start from the beginning...

Her given name is Katherine, althought her "real" name is Variaton_LifeExperiment.07.-Attempt1.

She is an experiment realised by The Offenderman, she was made using parts of a recently dead body that he found in a Hospital and tons of wires and robotic parts and programings. She was created to guide young beautiful girls to him under the cover of asking them to take her to x place saying she was lost, so The Offenderman could woo them into spending a night with him.

Katherine was always LifeExperminent07 to The Offenderman, or at least for the first few months of her existence, because as time passed by her human brain began to work again thanks to the electric shots that sometimes the wires sent through her body, and so her past memories started to appear again along with human behaviors and emotions. He saw how LifeExperiment07 began to develop human emotions and thought acording to the age of the corpse he used to make her (a 13 y/o teenager exactly) and so he gave her a name, Katherine.

After some time, Offenderman had to go away for an indefinited period of time to "solve" things with The Splendorman and left Katherine with his most responsible brother, The Slenderman, and so she went to live with him temporaly.

(and since this oc was made in 2017 you can imagine that my oc started living strange yet funny adventures with all the fanon! creepypasta steryotypes we had back then lol).

Now that her backstory's been explained let's move into her appearence:

She is 5"3 and has medium dark brown hair, very messy dark brown hair, it gets kinda wavy in the ends but not to the point of being curly.

She only has one human eye, a blue one. The other one is covered by a piece of metal since he used the eye cavity as a space for conecting wires.

What is left of her human skin is white, a pale tone of white, but not to the point of looking like a glass of milk tho.

She has little freckles in her nose and right cheek (the left one is the one that has the eye covered with metal and so you can't see the freckles).

Her original clothes were a kinda torn apart hospital T-Shirt alongside with a pair of short jeans, black stockings and a pair of white converse. Anyways, when The Offenderman started to notice her more human-like behaviours he bought for her a new outfit, her current one, which is composed of a black oversized hoodie with a red rose drawn on it's center, a red skirt (the same color of the rose) and the same stockings this time with red doll-like shoes.

If we move onto her personality...

She is a very caring bionic little thing who loves to smile and to make people smile. She tends to laugh at everything that seems funny to her and can tell pretty good jokes.

Her intern program is connected to the internet so she is a very good help to plenty of the manor residents when they need information on something. She also has a selected dictionary that, to her much dismay, won't let her curse so the creeps like Jeff and Ben tend to (kind-heartedly) laugh or make fun of her when she can only bring herself to say "Zoinks!" when scared or frustrated (just like Shaggy from Scooby Doo lmao).

She can also mes a little with her programing and use her human eye as a projector on the white wall on game/movie nights.

She is also kind of hyperactive and as her two legs are mainly metal and half of her right arm is too she loves to go into places she shouldn't. Like climb onto trees, walk on the manors ceiling, hang from the spider lamp in the dining room or sleep on the top of the fridge 💀] That is all the information I have about her! If you need more just dm me! <3 So, now that's outta the way, here is my request ^^ Can I please have separate headcanons for Ticci Toby, Laughing Jack, Masky and Jeff reacting to Katherine taking a huge liking to them and basically being a ball of sunshine attached to them? (like seeing them as their reference model and/or father/big bro figure)

That is more than enough information for this ask, so don't about it :)

Hope this does Katherine justice!

Ticci Toby, Laughing Jack, Masky and Jeff

Ticci Toby

★ He's going to act like a older brother to Kathrine. He shows her the best places to climb around the manner. Which window are the best for getting on the roof and all the places you can hide to try and scare people.

★ When someone swears around her he will actually cover her ears. Kathrine is innocent, so watch your toung! She doesn't need to hear that. He completely stops swearing around her and even started a swear jar. Jeff's lost around $50 to that damned jar.

Laughing Jack

★ He likes talking to Kathrine about bening things like cartoons, it's a nice break from the usual conversation in the manner. Also she is a bit childish and he is good with children so being around her helps his more violent tendencies. (in my au he doesn't kill children, none of the pastas do)

★ Watching old cartoons with her is one of his favorite pastimes. He enjoys the company and some old cartoon have that spooky feel, ya know? He also enjoys hiding/climbing in weird places and showing her.

Masky

★ He might act like he barely tolerates her, but in all honesty he is really glad that Katherine is in his life. She's a welcome change from what he is used to and it kinda makes him feel like there is still good people in the world.

★ He is also a victim to Toby's "swear jar" but has lost a lot less money than Jeff because he talks less.

Jeff

★ Not gunna lie, he thought she was trying to trick him at first. Nobody made by Offenderman could be that kind and sweet, right? But don't worry, she quickly grows on him.

★ As stated earlier, he's lost $50 to that swear jar Toby set up. It kinda pisses him off to think about but he'll get over it. I swear, one day that jar is going to go missing and he will look awfully suspicious.

★ On a different note he takes Kathrine out for midnight gas station runs, she has the money to buy a snack thanks to the swear jar.

[sapphire-writes]

I am absolutely obsessed with your fics, I cant decide if I love the aemond or aegon ones better.. which do you enjoy writing the most?

And I know your requests are closed, but maybe you would consider writing something like that in the future bc I really think you could pull it off: The first part of the fic focusing on Aemonds relationship with Oc, and when all issues are resolved they let aegon move in with them cause he got kicked out or whatever. Oc and Aemond are into rlly kinky stuff and aegon gets no sleep from it, and their New neighbor (another Oc), who only has seen aegon a few times, thinks the bags under his eyes are bc aegon is the one having fun with 'his gf'. And thats where you would put the focus on the pairing aegon x Oc :))

I dont wanna give too much plot, bc if you wanna write it you can decide which course you take with either of these pairings. What I would love to see tho would be aemond getting his hair braided by his gf ��. And aegon being super experienced in bed but having 0 experience in the dating field and being super awkward w his Oc, which contributes to her thinking he has a girlfriend.

Omg thank you so much love!! 💞😘

As for which ones I like writing most….that’s such a hard question!! My gut wants to say Aemond because I’ve written far more for him than for Aegon, but I do love writing fanon!Aegon so much! I’ve said before I think there’s a little more freedom to be silly with writing Aegon which I definitely enjoy!

As for the fic idea….😏

Definitely filing that away for a rainy day! Thank you for sharing it with me 💞

[seabunnieart]

(I'm feeling like a victorian peasant exchanging letters at this point)

Wuya and floyd 🥹🥹🥹🥹ugh i love floyd so much (and he was my main ship with my oc at first, now it's mostly oc x idia but oc x all of octatrio is still a fav) he was actually why i got into twst to begin with

The tier is so silly/pos I make the most random stuff with these, malleus on the very bottom 😭the poor thing

My oc is also not a yume/self insert (even tho she was originally created so I could ship her with my favs, I could never be nearly as girlboss) and even tho I also roleplay (has been for the last 6/7 years maybe?) It was always mostly ocs, I'm too insecure for canon characters most of the time and I sometimes like some fanon concepts that can crawl their way into my writing and I feel like most ppl would dislike it, but in the end having 2/3 ppl hyping your ocs like savage beasts is what makes my day, and that's why I got so interested in wuya, super cool seeing other ppl passionate about ocs like that, I know if ppl asked about mine i would go savage so i do the same with other ppl's

asdkjhgkjfsdhg thats fine, we can be like,, digital penpals or something.

kalim was actually the character that got me into twst. however it's my preexisting love for the ocean and everything in it, that drew me to octa. and im really particular and picky about shipping. especially when it comes to my ocs. dynamics and any possible character development is super important to me. i've got a lot on the two of them in my brain. i fixate and work any kind of dynamic to the bone tbh.

i think im quite the opposite btw, i primarily write canon muses. mostly due to me being kinda uncomfortable throwing my ocs out there. but outside of rp and whatnot im a lot more comfortable with them, and sharing designs and stuff. my friend group in general is super oc friendly. and we all kinda hype each other up. it's def nice.

[melodythebunny]

⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆WELCOME to my dreamscape!⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

(also known as my blog)

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i'm Melody! You can call me Mel if you want. o₍⑅ᐢ..ᐢ₎

-Please read through this before interacting!-

I draw....like...ALOT. No seriously! I can fill up an entire notebook in a short time period. both traditional and digital art...though I tend to have my time to post my digital works.

I also write and love LOVE LOVE! To read. Pretty much a book worm also.

I have a sweet tooth and occasionally I love eating savoury foods.

𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼 𓋼 𖤣𖥧 𓋼𓍊

My hyperfixtations can be and not limit to:

Wordgirl, Eddsworld, Adventure Time, BATIM, Cuphead, DHMIS, bee and puppycat, and undertale/deltarune

I like to make ocs. Be for a fandom or original work! („• ֊ •„)੭

Speaking of original works...

Im hoping to turn one of my ideas into an animated series someday!

i really post most of my original content on my side blog @the-mis-adventurers (it means alot to me if you do look at my original work) ( ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ഒ

𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊

(ˊ•͈ ◡ •͈ˋ) is okay to ask/do

-art commissions! Only if you want and have the money. Message me about commissions.

-art trades (depends on how busy I am tho)

-collabs/crossovers yes plz!

-rp (also long as it isn't that creepy stuff or adult rps like NSFW, that stuff makes me uncomfortable)

-Art requests are for FRIENDS only. Bc I trust that they will repsect my limits u-u (don't friend me just so you can Free art. (•ˋ _ ˊ•) I AM A PERSON WITH FEELINGS TOO!)

-share headcanons, rant about each others ocs

-tone tags helps with jokes so no one gets confused on anything

❌❌❌ Things I DONT LIKE/accept or have limits with

-venting (venting is OK as long as we KNOW eachother. And we both feel comfortable venting to each it other, keeping in mind that neither of us are professionals/therapist and everyone's experiences are different)

-NSFW, fetishes (this include jokes, asking for me to talk and draw it, rping that, showing any of that to me. ILL BLOCK YOU WITHOUT SECOND THOUGHTS)

-hate talk/speech

-please don't harrass me for art

-trying to bring drama. (I got enough drama to deal with irl )

-Pro shipping and incest (EDIT: including selfcest. Its confusing to me and I don't get it)

keep in mind that if I feel uncomfortable its in my right to block you.

shipsss. Yeah I have ships... (No hate. I understand some of these are considered mid by the vast majority but idc/pos) and I'll update the list over time bc I'm always joining new fandoms.

Experimental cheese (two brains x oc)

star crossed cheese (two brains/Steven x oc)

Bigslie ( Mr. Big x Leslie)

Quesibrent

Plasmarope

whatever the ship between the butcher and dupey is called

tobecky

Whatever the ship between violet and scoops is called

Starco (yeah ik it's mid but I could have written them better)

Jantom (aka the ship between Janna and Tom.)

cherry oreos (if you know you know)

Cherry soda (same with this one)

Dancing portraits

Randy x Theresa (Rc9gn)

edd x coco

Edd x honey(the ship has grown on me)

Eduardo x laurel (depends on the fanon version of they're exes or not)

Eduardo x Claire

(Ik almost nothing about My hero academia but I have two ships) dabi x miruko and izuocha

fluttercord. (I may have fallen out of mlp but this is my forever otp for that fandom)

Sonamy

Silvaze

Tailsmo

Knuckles x Rouge

cherry pie (bob x oc)

Sugar crash (Kevin x oc)

pastel gothic (streber x oc)

deadly love (patty x friend's oc)

inner reflections (Dexter x friend's oc)

Some cool friends/mutuals to check out!

@crazywolf85 @wordgirl-reboot-eva @nyxcharliechaos @animation-is-my-jam @ninjastormhawkkat @drtwobrains @drtwobrainsstuff @professor-boxleitner @oddedd @kagurafernandes @lartmacabre

@earth-420-69. @liloskull343 @pantakichi @bloodthirstypigeon @kadiwright @notsosw3et @peanutbutter-doodles @fluffytimearts @hibiscus-candy @soupsy-daisy @misscreativity94

@luckykaix @spaaceeboyy @lauritanaomystery @sfcabanasstarcgs

Andd A BUNCH of other cool peeps too! 😊

[nickibxby]

Nightly Visits

Dabi x GN pro hero reader suffering from memory lost after an accident (Dabi and reader have a history together thought they are and have been broken up, he’s using their memory lost as a way to sneak back into their life//// I mentioned other characters but left it vague to imply that the reader did go to U.A at some point and at the very least acquainted with those mentioned with the exception of Bakugo and midoriya who implied to be childhood friends but the overall context is up to you (tho when I imagined it Reader is older than all the 1A kids mention and either older, or the same age as Mirio, Tamaki, and Nejire )/// but honestly this was siting my drafts for wayyy too long so I decided to post it, also this might be OC dabi 100% is canon wise but even like ‘Fanon’ dabi wise it might be lol

Fluff I guess if I finish it and do a part too maybe potential angst or if it goes further than maybe smut

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Things were hazy there were names, names you could put to faces but who they were?… what they were, what they meant to you was hard- harder for most than for some . You recognized your parents? You’d recognized Izuku and Katsuki… childhood friends of yours? You sure but the familiarity burning in the back of your skull and the hurt in their eyes suggest something as much. You recognized others Ejiro, Tamaki, Mina, Nejire, Ochaco, Mirio, Denki, Shoto the feeling in your heart suggested you knew them for some time but from where and we’re you close? They came to visit so you must have been … right?

There was another person that came but never stayed. They only came after general visiting hours had long finished never really revealing their face or anything that could be used to identify them, often sitting the corner having yet to leave you with a name; but their form was familiar and their voice bittersweet when they spoke. It sounded as if they were glad to see you, but at the same time they were hurt....Though whoever they were they knew you well; all your favourite snacks, and drinks,  along with gifts— They knew exactly what to bring you and these gifts were the only trace of proof they left of being there after swearing you to secrecy about their Nightly visits that somehow felt typical of them and honestly heart warming.

The gifts they left you big or small were all assumed to be sent my well-wishing fans and served as fond reminders of previous nights leaving you in anticipation for the visit that coming night. You were always curious as to what they would bring you, or what they would tell you, and what you’d talk about until you would ask or pry for some kind of conformation as to who they were and it would result in your own little personal game of detective

“Let me see your face” you’d requested only to get the same response you always did;  a change of topic, or some other kind of diversion followed by a flat out slightly hesitant  “No” if you persisted. This always left you feeling somewhat deflated and they would always leave shortly after as if to prevent you from putting together any of the puzzle pieces that made them so familiar, their voice,  the way they spoke, their mannerism, the overly relaxed body language that seemed tense as if they were expecting to have to react and flee at a moments notice, paired with tired?, Lazy?, calculative? eyes that you couldn’t particularly describe but never left you even for a moment— it was all so familiar, it felt like the name was sitting at the tip of your tongue but still it was all so hazy you couldn’t place it yet, so you’d wait... wait  for the next nightly visit hoping that you’d figure it out or even better they’d tell you finally tell you.

[thirstyforred]

so 2020 was a year, and technically speaking I still have 2 and a half-day of it to survive, but honestly, I feel like it was a tiny bit better for me, so here are my achievements

i started my witcher fandom sideblog @oxenfurt-archives and while unfortunately, i don't think anyone would be able to read all of the fanfiction that during this year was showcased there, i did find and read some cool stories and saw so many amazing OC, and, the most important, got to know plenty of creators, all wonderful people 🥰

around February i came up with the idea of my own fanon witcher school, and while i kinda failed with delivering more lore about it [sorry guys :'D ], it snowballed into really unexpected territory that is Jacques de Aldersberg x Hubert Rejk ship, and literally thousands of words i wrote about them, some as random posts on my blog, some in form of fanfiction posted on my ao3. I'm just so amazed that other people find that ship as compelling as i do 😳

also man, Schadenfreude now lives in my head rent free, and i will put it out in one form or other mark my words! 

speaking of writing, i subscribed to 750words and finished the full month of writing back in May, creating 25k of unpublished and unfinished Xiaolin Showdown fanfiction Lighting a Match in the Rain

also special shoutout to @pissedoctahedron who was kind enough to let me rant at her about the story even tho she never watched the show, real mvp 🥺

my two favorite stories i wrote this year and happened to be written almost simultaneously, both making me feel feverish at times: The Botanical Compendium for Dragon Age Rare Pair Exchange, and Self-similarity which is just as messed up as Alvin

also, just because it gave me a rush - the fact that i could select German as the langue of my story for the first time, and small [for now] character/ship tags that i had to write in manually on ao3 bc they haven't been used before - ajhfgdakfdakdjhaslkdhaj

this year i made and posted something over 250 gifs, mostly gwent ones, which, easily, is at least a hundred more that i made last year, and that's absolutely nuts

and now at the end of the year i got into digital drawing, and of course, it's far from perfect and i need like actual practice, not just coloring and tracing, but it's just a nice thing to do while listening to a podcast or watching yt 😌

also! i made and posted my first mod, which then i wasn't able to update thanks to my laptop crashing, but it's still out there! it might even still work! :'D

and finally, despite losing my second job back at the start of lockdown, i managed to save during the year enough cash to start 2021 with a brand new gaming laptop \o/

[full-course-identity]

gonna split this between canon character ships and oc-sprinkled ships. we'll start with canon (i also know most of these answer but eh): jeremy/rich, mr. heere/mr. reyes, michael/chloe, jake/rich, squip/michael, squip/brooke, brooke/madeline (STILL COUNTS, SHE'S TECHNICALLY A CANON CHARACTER), squip/rich's squip (in general fanon 'rich's squip isn't mo' situations--i'mma ask about OUR r!squip in the next ask)

HI SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG

Warning: Some of this goes into darkfic territory, and is lightly NSFW/NSFT.

Jeremy/Rich

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell (when this option is italized, it means OTP feelings, not Shipping Them As Problematique)

THIS IS MY FAVORITE ALWAYS-FLUFFY (or the comfort portion of hurt/comfort, or tragic lovers, etc) SHIP. It makes me SO VERY INCREDIBLY happy; Rich and Jeremy have this magnetic chemistry in the musical and in fandom--Hell, I even genuinely enjoy most fanon interpretations of the ship, which is really rare for me (still don’t read much fanfiction besides yours though... >u>; )

Also? Hot. Very hot.

... that was not meant to be a pun but I think it probably is...

Mr. Heere/Mr. Reyes

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell (bolding this one means it is/can be Problematique, obvs)

Platonic H/R? Nahhh. I think portraying both of them as queer is a good idea (Reyes gay and aro, Heere bisexual with a strong preference for women and femme enbys), but it just feels like Mr. Heere would want something else tbh. I mean, Mr. Reyes is pretty openly anti-children during the play, and Mr. Heere really loves his son and his son’s friend. I just can’t imagine they’d have much chemistry if they tried dating

Oh but what if... they were predators bonding over their mutual love of abusing the vulnerable people in their lives... haha jk... unless?

Michael/Chloe

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

This... is fascinating. I’m getting more into bisexual Michael for the sake of variety, and this would be... a very fun ship, actually. Especially if it was the two of them targetting Jeremy together... or, oh, actually, this would be a FANTASTIC companion to a Jeremy/Brooke story, w/ Michael and Chloe playing the villains... hm...

(I just really like playing around w/ evil Michael)

Jake/Rich

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

I’m so torn on this one. I really dislike most Jake/Rich in large, large part to just... the fandom around it... but I can also picture it being really fucking good in NSFW art, portrayed in particular ways (especially if it doesn’t act as a companion to boyfs), or like, if you did it? IT COULD GENUINELY WORK, but I haven’t seen it done in a way I particularly enjoyed.

Evil!Jake on good!Rich is fun, though I’m not suuuuuper into it--it’s a VERY nice change of pace with us, I like it in AUs, but I prefer Jake to just not be involved or else a small blip/one-off mention... or as the metaphorical sugar daddy to shenanigans gfnbhjvgfdfvdjnjvhfk

Squip/Michael

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

... I’m sorry friends, I’m just not interested. I see why it’s intriguing, I can see that it has what-if potential, but I just can’t care. Not even in an OT3 with Jeremy (though Jeremy being in a relationship with both of them separately would actually be pretty cool). 

tbh, if I have to ship the Squip with a human that isn’t Jeremy, I reaaaaaally like your growing interest in his and Rich’s relationship. 

Oh, and...

Squip/Brooke

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

Much as I think Squip is generally boy and nb masc-attracted attracted, Squip/Brooke would be genuinely, extremely, incredibly fucking adorable. I wouldn’t do much with it personally, but this is the sorta thing I’d love to see shippy art and/or an ask blog for if that makes sense?

Fuck dude, Jeremy watching his Squip come back in a body just to fuck his ex is the funniest shit ever tho, he’d be so disgruntled.

Brooke/Madeline

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

[insert heart eyes emoji]

Even though we’ve generally portrayed Mads as het-but-fools-around-a-little, this is probably my other Really Good Brooke Endgame Ship right next to Brooke/Jenna. I just feel that like... their chemistry, both how we portray it plus the canon stuff (“implied sluttiness” and the way Brooke thinks she’s so cool and tries to model herself off her) is. Mmm. Mmmmmm. 

Plus, not to be all My Autism Makes Me Hyperfocus On Other Character’s Autism, but like... their autistic peculiarities would line up fantastically? Imagine them cuddling and like... touching each other to stim...

squip/rich's squip

vomit / don’t ship / okay / cute / adorable / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell / additional category: I’m genuinely unsure because I’ve only seen hints of how other people portray Rich’s Squip

So the thing about Rich’s Squip in the fandom is that like... outside the occasional character design making a brief appearance in larger prints, nobody really talks about them?

I mean. Okay, granted, I haven’t read enough fanfic yet (... God I really want to eventually, I’d just like a Handy Guide for Who Is And Isn’t An Anti and also I keep going “okay but x character would never be like that�� even though that’s wroooong and I don’t seem to have that issue in visual media and....... you get the picture), but after... 2017? After the fandom’s first explosion died down, people rarely talked about R!S. 

I think this was a direct reaction of the Anti movement finally making the solid change to fandom landscape it’d wanted to, unfortunately; this found a swift and sudden tidal wave of backlash to most Squip (primarily shipping) related anything, seemingly killing ALL Squip content that was not sufficiently “briefly used for boyfs or JakeRich angst” enough for a good long while.

Eventually, the growing rise of a sub-fandom around Squip thirsting and Squip redemptions (attempting to be ~untainted by gross shippers~, usually) started around the time badlydrawnBMC started to really pick up steam along with a few selfshippers, inspiring people to Squip-ship in an “acceptable manner”.

The problem is, none of this has affected Rich’s Squip--at least, not yet. The kinda people scared of (or that are) antis have “no good reason” to redeem Rich’s, since “she” (he/they at the beginning of BMC fanon, widely-used she now) did or caused stuff way more egregious, IE the fire, making Rich a bully, and stifling his bisexuality. As a result, there’s a very subtle, unspoken pressure not to really... use her much. 

Jokes are... mostly okay, but there’s a huge preference for Kermit!Rich!Squip if you do.

Anyway.

From the little bit we hear of her in actual canon, Rich’s own words and her brief voice and stuff... I could see her being much colder, possibly meaner then Jeremy’s Squip, probably. They probably have a dom!bottom/sub!top abusive slave relationship. She makes Rich fuck her while mocking everything he does, and then seduces him and promises a little bit of love when he tries to refuse. He would be hopelessly devoted to her, desperate for her approval, and she’d string him step by step. By the time he realizes how well and truly fucked he is, it’s too late; the last stand happens, they fight in front of everyone, and it all goes up in smoke.

Thanks for the question! Hopefully the next doesn’t take this long @_@

[mattcullen]

i don't know if you'd want to (you mentioned him in some of your other asks) but kent for the otp meme thing? you don't have to answer :)

hi anon, nah i’ll defo answer for kent. when i talked about him before that was in relation to main and more prominent characters in the comic who i feel are often pushed aside in order for kent (a pretty minor character ngl) to get the spotlight

now this is defo not me coming for anyone. i love kent, he’s honestly one of my favs and i read stuff w him in all the time, he’s just quite present. anyway enough of that, onto the meme

My OTP: patater - man it’s just an all round good ship and the fanon people have come up w for it is really impressive

My NOTP: like in the bitty ask, it’s parse and bitty. dunno, just makes me uncomfy

My BroTP: oh god obvs kent and troy (rip swoops 2k17) also future kenny and jack

Overrated pairing: again not criticising anyone, i like the pairing honestly, but pimmbits is v popular and i’m like eh 

Underrated pairing: i am going to use this as an opportunity to plug @marswithghosts who is responsible for maybe my favourite oc ever. her fic if this isn’t nice, i don’t know what is introduces javier as kent’s love interest and honestly their relationship is my world. everyone needs to know about this and everyone needs to fuckin read that fic if they haven’t already!!

The ‘I used to ship it, but not anymore’ ship: was momentarily into kent and lardo, not entirely sure where it came from tho

The ‘I used to dislike it but it grew on me’ ship: pimmbits probs. still not a diehard fan but i like it

The ‘guilty pleasure’/crackship: this is admitting that patater is basically a crack ship lmao but also i do like kent x ransom x holster, what a good

Overall thoughts: my messy trash baby that i really love. who also really needs some srs therapy and probs a hug. love him for the Drama

[diamondarmored-blog1]

Just some stuff from yesterday’s post nothin’ special particularly--

@corditeheart  Idek, it's so small that people think one comment speaks for the entire fandom

INCOHERENT HOWLING NOISES. I can’t even comprehend this mindset. Clearly I am still a summer child who knows not the struggle of fandom veterans. I was relatively late to the party and it’s still my firm opinion that people can do what they want as long as it’s not in an attempt to overwrite someone else. I sort of assume everyone else feels like that as well, so it’s never occurred to me to take one comment as law.

@ahmyhotdog I can only speak from where I've been. Most people in this fandom are nice. This is true. I've met way more nicer people than not nice. But I think part of the issue is if you don't want to people with certain people for whatever reason then a lot of others just don't seem to play with you as well? Or it could just simply be once you find people you enjoy playing with you just end up not looking for new muns to play with.

That’s true, actually! So it could be partly down to misreading peoples’ motivations for doing that? I would usually assume it’s because our headcanons don’t mesh, though I will say that’s happened to me elsewhere. I don’t think it’s the fault of the collective though, I think there are just arseholes wherever you go. Idk, I hear “x is a bad fandom” and I think of Bloodborne (INB4 SOMEONE IS A BLOODBORNE PART TIMER AND TAKES OFFENCE... @ them, come on, man, you know exactly what I mean here. BB is a mushroom cloud on the horizon for everyone else). 

@eruditorem I’ve heard things but honestly ive never seen anything and everyone has been so welcoming??? so idk either. also i dont pick my nose, i pick my butt. i  mean... wait-- dont reply to that

Mostly adding this so everyone knows Bri picks her butt

@legendaryturk Hmm.  Well I'm kind of newish to the fandom at least for RP, and I think...things just go in cycles?  I've seen ups and downs in various fandoms - not just 8, but also ffvii, doctor who, mgs, and tons of other fandoms I've RPed in.  overall I'd say ff8 has been mostly welcoming to me? it's small, and tumblr being the animal it is, people may just flock toward others who share similar writing styles or fanon. Idk, if I find I have something in common with another mun, be it writing style or fanon ideas, I'll kind of squee with them over it, but I *never* do so with the intent of excluding others, kwim? that said, there are times where I feel like muns talk around me and there's a joke I'm not in on, but, I think that's just the beast that is tumblr, and not fandom related tbh.

You were in MGS tho//// / ?!?!?/q/1/

That part about not doing it with the intent to exclude is so important tbh. So far, I’m getting the impression that most of it is misunderstanding. I can’t imagine anyone I’ve come across so far being deliberately dickish in that way. Eg, there’s one person I can think of who doesn’t really want to acknowledge me, but that’s okay, cos I know they’re a heavy Seiferx[redacted] shipper and I’ve already said I’m not, so I’d not be much use to them. We still follow each other, though, and I can’t think that they’d be all like YOU CAN’T SIT WITH ME if I spoke to them.

@diosleighrp  There's douchenozzles in every fandom who try to dictate what other fans can and can't do. It's quite unfortunate, but there are just entitled brats everywhere.

I can’t say much about this, I haven’t had it! Idk why. Maybe I’m too babbymode for the haters to have found. I have had it elsewhere though so I know what you mean and you’re right, they are definitely lurking somewhere. They’re lurking everywhere. 

@lionseed Just like American politics, it's the small angry voices that get the most attention for some reason. Sometimes there's a bad experience, and people take that as proof the fandom is shit.

MMMM and there’s always people with a bad experience to talk about because nowhere’s perfect, so I guess it’s partly on the reader to be on it enough to realise that. I would like if people within the fandom wouldn’t say that about all currently participating members though :( Obviously people can talk about their experience, good or bad, but their experience is with a person, not all of us. 

@underplater Okay, so. I will say that what I've personally experienced with the ff8 fandom is a lot of, "oh wow, I really like your blog and your take on the character you're doing. That's wonderful!" "Oh awesome, do you maybe want to do something with her/him/me?" "Uh... Maybe." Which... Means no. And then people are always all, "You just keep doing you, dear, it's wonderful," but no one sends in memes or replies to stuff? And it just.. I always feel like I'm pressed up against the glass, looking in.So I'd say my experience with the ff8 comm has definitely been that it's very insular and hard to for me, personally speaking, to break in on. ... Sorry, I'm fairly sure this was about my comment earlier? I think I was the one who used insular.... Unless, of course, I guess the problem could be me? But if it is, I wish someone would tell me so that I could drop the muses and just stop cluttering up people's dashes.

JJKASHDJASHFGGHFJDSJJHH this hurt me to read and is the main reason I’ve made time to do this reply post rn. I couldn’t remember who said what, to be honest with you and it surprises me that it was you, purely because you’re always one of the first people to come to mind when I think of “the FFVIII community”, you seem like a valued part of it to me, even if you’re not one of the most active. YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT THE PROBLEM. I can’t really say with 100% certainty what *is*. With the meme thing, I think it depends what it is. If someone reblogs one of those “send me x and I’ll tell you about y”, I try to send it, but if it’s a starter or something that feels thready, I won’t unless I have an idea to back it with, cos it doesn’t feel any different to writing an actual starter for me. I’d rather do that, but I won’t do it uninvited/randomly because that’s putting pressure on someone who didn’t ask for it. If a lot of people do the same as me and don’t mention it, then that could be a big factor because people can well end up waiting for each other to approach without realising it. It might also be something to do with you having multiple blogs (particularly Reno) and that altering your perception. The reason I say that is because I had the exact same thing myself, I had a male muse in a fandom and everyone loved him - mostly everyone wanted to lowkey do him tbh - and I had a female one who got comparatively zero attention because she wasn’t as accessible to such a wide audience. Ellone in particular is a complex character and it’s a sad fact that people tumblr-wide aren’t always into the idea of paying attention to something before they interact with it. Reno is much more easy to interact with in a casual way, since he’s had more exposure in source material and is widely regarded as being a fun, not-serious character (though I acknowledge he very likely IS, and I know from experience that you will have put a lot of thought into him - I love Reno and anything that gives him some substance). He attracts people from further afield, people who might have only seen Advent Children or only know him through fan works. Ellone doesn’t have a movie or much fanfic, and she’s not really subject of the most popular speculation (lbr - by that I mean “who she’s sleeping with”), so she doesn’t have that far a reach. Your Ellone is so valuable to the whole community, you have a hell of a lot to share in your headcanons and your ideas. I haven’t seen you use Julia too much yet, but I’m sure she’ll be that way too. I think you should pick one of those ideas, pick someone who seems like they could pull it off and tell them about it, because I’m so sure 90% if not 100% of us would thread them with you. That’s all I do tbh!! I’m always prepared for someone to say no, but mostly they’re happy to have been approached with an idea to use as a starting point. PLEASE DON’T DROP THEM. You’re not cluttering up anything. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s sad to see you inactive on her whenever you are, tbh. I don’t think you realise how essential she is. I know it’s a small, slow fandom, but anything you post raises the overall standard for the sheer fact you did it, and it had your characteristic level of consideration put in. Course, I’m probably biased, cos I think I can tell when people work more behind the scenes than out front on their muse and the related background and I appreciate that, always have.

@misplacedxheroics .... I'm hoping this is permitted that I comment, as it was my blog where you read this post. I'm only addressing what I've experienced in the community, not trying to speak for everyone here. In my personal experience with VIII, more often than not, I see a lot of the insular behavior mentioned. Several blogs that start up are made to feel so unwelcomed that they leave or close up shop. Then there are the pass/agg anons, the ones who attack strong female characters (OC or otherwise) and 'correct' headcanons for canon characters. Whoever the person is, I have to believe it's just one single person. But anons have begun to reach out and outright tell people who they can or can't write with, which is baffling. And lastly, I'm guilty of this, and I'll own it -- We also become so comfortable and so familiar with who we write with we don't try out other players. There's also the overlap of muns playing with 'private' blogs. To me, the word 'private' tells me I don't have access to them. So what's the bother in following or engaging if everyone who writes muses that are in the fandom closed off to the rest of us? I can't say how the fandom should be run, I know I'm the least liked person in this fandom but this is my experience. A very polarizing, cold and unwelcoming experience.  We need to communicate more among one another, set clear boundaries and maintain community and unity, imo.

I think private is just a word people slap on a blog to make it look legit these days, or as a get-out clause if they find themselves followed by some kind of My Immortal Eldritch horror. Least, that’s what I’ve seen in my travels. Private blogs seem to favour their existing friends, but be open to others who will bring them ideas. I had one blog I called private and that’s because I kept getting people saying “wanna rp?” and I’d be like “yeah okay” and they’d literally say “alright you come up with an idea then”. ? / / //???? Also... I’m trying to word this in the least mean-sounding way possible because I’m not one to shit on anyone’s parade, but if I’m really honest with you, I had to unfollow you on an older blog because you were posting vagues about people so often. I don’t mind when people vent, but it got to the point where it was almost every day someone was on blast and I felt like I’d walked in on a family argument. You can do what you want with your blog, it’s on me to unfollow if I don’t like it, so I did. But. Any oversensitive person seeing it probably assumed you meant them and that might have something to do with you finding it difficult to connect with people. You follow that up by slating the entire fandom when it’s not exactly a fandom problem, which makes people less likely to approach you as you’ve already indirectly blasted them. I’ve had people tell me more than once that you’ve posted something about me without naming me; notably when you made a point of reblogging that one anti-Xu post from an inactive account after saying you hate people who disagree with you “on purpose”. I had just posted a silly Xu support one liner that got a few reblogs. I don’t really have a fig to give whether it was about me or not, but it’s a good example of how a vaguepost causes negative ripples. If one person assumed that was about me, another ten probably guessed it was someone else. I was welcomed to the fandom with a couple of how-do-you-dos and an anon telling me to stay away from you or you’d bully me into deleting. That was the first of several. Then you got that anon telling you to stop sending me hate when you hadn’t (what basis did that have?), and one of your friends for some reason assumed I was the one who had sent it and demanded that “anon” show IP proof, which gives the impression that they’d been led to believe it was me for some reason. I know you said you didn’t understand the logic behind me saying that, but we’re both running Statcounter, you know as well as I do how it works and what the implications are of saying that. It’s also how I know the anons I’ve had that I’ve mentioned are not all one person. Maybe it really was a totally out-of-nowhere thing that person said, but when you combine it with the vagues and the assertions that there’s a split in the fandom that no one else (so far) has detected, it causes bigger problems than it would on its own. I’m not trying to put you on blast, this ain’t a callout post and I haven’t taken any of it to heart - it’s no big deal to me - I’m just trying to offer an outsiders’ perspective because I read this as you being honestly oblivious to it, and if I didn’t I’d either have to ignore your comment or lie to you, neither of which I think you’d appreciate - and I assume since you made the effort to drop in despite not following me that you would want a response.