#let my ship sail!

[respectthepetty]

Dear BL Gods, it's me, Petty.

I know I still need to finish watching some shows as an offering for getting YinWar and MosBank back. I know it's a miracle that I'm getting some of the Dead Friend Forever crew back so soon when it's taken years to get the KinnPosrche kids back. I also know it's only been two episodes of 4 Minutes, and I should be happy I already got my boy Mio back, but . . .

Dome was on the phone with someone and told them he'd be over later, so, like, . . .

LET IT BE BUMP!

I know I wrote I would wait until 2026 to get them back on my screen together, but Tan and Fluke were my ghost ship in Dead Friend Forever, so if I could have these two actors back together right now right now, I'd be thrilled!

I waited years for Ta and Barcode to fulfill my Porchay and Macau ghost ship dreams, so I can be patient, but there is no need when the opportunity is RIGHT HERE! Give me that Tan x Fluke AU fanfic special where a brilliant biochem major falls in love with a pre-med student. Give my boy a boy.

WE deserve this!

[polyphasmous]

Our lord and savior YV gave Finn two hands for a reason 🙏

[chaoticelegant]

Few things are as infinite as the yearning for the sea…

[starchaserfanatic]

Was just talking to a friend about fanfiction and they said they were getting into the Harry Potter fandom, and so I asked them what they were reading.

Was fully expecting to talk about Drarry fics-I was wrong. They said they were reading mostly Dramione and I had that mind-blanking moment where I remembered that there is actually heterosexual fanfiction, but like I kind of forgot it was a thing?? Like oh yeah, my bad, guess I’m just so gay I forgot there was another option.

I don’t even remember the last time I read something with a straight couple that wasn’t a background pairing bro. Like I was maybe thirteen. Yeesh. My bad.

[hotasfahrenheit]

YIM LITERALLY PICKING UP SOL

YIM AND SOL LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

like come on Sol this is a make up artist SUPPOSEDLY but he's picking you up in that convertible and he looks that stylish?? pls

take him to Korea with you to be your personal make up artist, it's the perfect excuse for you to be together all the time

[cosmicrhetoric]

i really like nami and jinbe's relationship but i completely forgot that she makes him like actually sob tears of guilt/gratefulness on their first meeting just from how like. magnanimous she was about the whole arlong thing. like she was living proof of all his fears for the east blue and still forgave him and her hearing arlong's past/the full history of fishman persecution was a big step in contextualizing her own trauma. i literally just thought she liked him cause she was happy she no longer had to sail the entire ship by herself <3

[thefirstknife]

Hi Bel,

I keep seeing comments about people complaining about the quality of destiny’s writing and story in the last few weeks. I haven’t really engaged with destiny since season of defiance, what’s currently gotten everyone so riled up? I thought that people were enjoying Season of the Deep/Witch in terms of narrative, why is Season of the Wish causing people to deride the destiny writing staff again?

I don't know!

Deep and Witch have been absolute bangers in every aspect to me. I've been enjoying all interactions and lore tabs we've received. A lot of them are stuff that we've never had before, a lot of reunions and closures, a lot of development and interactions between characters who you wouldn't really think would have much in common.

Sloane's return and healing from what she's been through has been fantastic, Drifter opening up with her to help her because he also got help from others was fantastic, Sloane reuniting with Aisha and Shayura brought me to tears (Shayura's descent into madness was triggered by immense trauma of Sloane staying on Titan and Titan disappearing), everything with Sloane and Zavala...

Witch was just incredible in every single way; the focus on Eris, the amount of Eris and Ikora content!!!!! Everything about Xivu and Savathun and their interactions together!! Eris finally fulfilling her goal she promised Savathun YEARS ago, getting that closure.

Wish so far has been equally great to me. All the new stuff about Ahamkara is amazing, finally giving us proof for long-standing speculation about Ahamkara and how they aren't universally evil creatures and expanding on them as a species. I love all interactions we've had so far; finally we have Petra back, Mara's singleminded focus on figuring out how to defeat the Witness and her continuous work to improve as a person, ALL SJUR MENTIONS!!!!! I won't talk about the "leak" because we have no context for it so I will wait for the full story to be revealed before I can pass judgment; something that I think should be a lesson to learn from this entire year. Maybe wait for the story to finish before judging the story.

Literally everything this past year that involves Osiris, but especially this season now that he's back in his element with the Vex. And of course every little detail we get of him and Saint. Osiris honestly shaped this year for me with everything that he's done to uncover the biggest mysteries. I think a big reason is that a lot of people just don't like Osiris, which I consider a massive skill issue.

Other than that, I don't know what are the issues people have besides just not being interested in any of these storylines and attributing it to a nebulous "bad writing" claim. I also genuinely believe that way too many people get wrapped up too much in fandom, imagine storylines they want to see and then get disappointed when the actual story doesn't go there. Almost like people forget that this isn't their story and these aren't their characters. A lot of it is also fandom completely warping characters into not what they actually are and then feeling like the canon story is the one that's wrong.

Whatever is the reason, I guess everyone is entitled to their perspective of the story and everyone is free to explore the story in different ways through fanfics and AUs and whatever. I do that too!

But I would definitely ask people to be normal with how they engage in criticism, especially in the current state of affairs. Writers are developers; they experience a ton of harassment and negativity from the community and also from inside the company. And they are online: they can see what we're saying. It's been documented that community commentary has been used to harass writers:

Imprint this into your brain and never forget what these people had to go through. Let's not forget also the way people treated Seth Dickinson on social media when he was active with Destiny fans. "Fans" were actively arguing with him about his own work (telling him that HE is wrong) and were utterly disgusting towards him when he tried explaining what he wrote. His works are now hailed as the best writing in Destiny and people want him back. If I were him, I wouldn't want to come back ngl, not with how he was treated and not with how fans are still treating writers (and hey, Seth wrote LF Collector's Edition! So he was back, technically, this year!). Let's not forget that a lot of writers are members of various marginalised groups. And I'd definitely not want to go back with zero support from leadership.

Which is also an important aspect for all developers, including writers: sometimes they have orders they may not like, but can't argue against. They do the best they can with what they're given, the time they have and directions they receive. And with that in mind, I am enjoying everything we've gotten this year, obviously with some specific complaints about things I didn't particularly enjoy (like the universally mid reception of Defiance; I've spoken about my gripes with it before, a big one being the shafting of Suraya who should've at least been mentioned in a lore tab).

I can tell that there is passion in their work, even if maybe they would prefer to do more with it, but can't. Maybe even if they want to take different routes, but can't. But from what we got, I can feel that they care about this world and these characters. I can tell that someone lovingly wrote about Sloane and her friendships with two grieving women. I can tell that they deeply cared about Sloane's friendship with Zavala and that they loved showing us Saint and Drifter caring about a fellow trauma survivor.

I can tell that the writers are immensely careful and loving towards Eris; everything she went through was crafted with love and passion from both writers and her VA. Eris' story is such a fundamental aspect of Destiny and I can tell that this was important to the writing team and that they gave her everything they could to do justice to her character and her arc and her healing and her release from the cycle she was trapped in for so long.

I can tell that there are writers who care a lot about Osiris and Saint and their relationship. I can tell that someone cared a lot about expanding on Ahamkara and giving them more personalities. I can tell that someone cared DEEPLY about Sjur and Mara and that her repeated mentions are the passionate work of writers who want us to remember her.

I could go on. And I know that not everyone sees it this way, which is fine; we all have different ways of perceiving stories. I enjoy discussing things we in the fandom disagree on and I enjoy hearing different perspectives! Unfortunately, this has recently become rarer and rarer. And for the love of god, please try and treat writers with some respect, especially now, especially those who are still working and doing their best with the shitty situation they're in. None of the cries of "poor devs" ring true to me unless the same is given to writers, instead of treating them like punching bags.

[for-ships-that-never-sail]

Me, checking the LUKOLA tag every. damn. day. like…

If you’re on this 🚂 DELULU-TRAIN 🚂 with me, I do hope that this is also ALL that you’re doing as well…

Just waiting on ✨crumbs✨, and not actually inserting yourself into the situation 👀 by tagging Nic and Luke (or their SOs) into your delulu posts and vids and theories.

Let’s not be #Uncouth my guys 🙏🏼

[peppermint-whiskers]

Guess who's playing with God designs??

[discountsoysauce]

Oak is the #1 Tiernacinthe supporter

[danothan]

batflash is soooo real to me and also it can never be reciprocated at the same time or else it’s not batflash to me anymore

[zzzadventures]

Listen, I'd like to imagine that this is Kaz and Inej in their late twenties. I know that they both have a lot of things to work through but I just need this :<

P.S. I saw a spoiler screenshot from the show (imma cry because I've seen shadow and bone on netflix) but this is inspired by that screenshot

Let me imagine okay! Characters belong to Leigh Bardugo. Wylan & Jesper are up next then Nina & Matthias ❤️

[respectthepetty]

moonlight chicken doesn't play around when it comes to their lighting...and alan got his first (?) official warm yellow glow in the last episode...right when he went to talk to gaipa. coincidence?? 👀

ANON, how dare they hit us with that glow up for Alan!

I don't believe in coincidences, not when it comes to fictional characters and world building, so as Canadian actor turned rapper Aubrey Graham would say "We started from the bottom now we here." And it's been intentional:

So if Alan is getting that warm lighting treatment, IT'S LOVE! (I'm on my Alan x Gaipa bullshit)

Let me present my evidence.

When we first encountered Alan, he was in the blue. *picture above* But during the confrontation with Jim and Wen, we really saw his blue shine. Before he showed up, this was the scene:

As soon as Alan popped up, the blue started seeping into the scene.

And started sticking to others

When all was said and done, even Jim had the blue on him.

Now, some might claim that the blue is the moonlight, so, of course, it would be on Jim. Yes, BUT...they had been in this spot throughout the night and the blue didn't shine as much until Alan brought it in the scene. We see this blue in the flashback with Jim as well.

The blue doesn't touch Jim as much, but there is clearly a blue person bringing the coldness.

Back to Alan! When he showed up at the funeral, he stepped into the scene in the blue.

And stayed in the blue portion, but his normal blue coloring wouldn't stick.

When he fought with Wen in the diner, the blue stuck.

But when he looks at Gaipa, the blue dissolves into the warmth, and we don't start seeing it return until Alan watches Wen working and goes to leave.

Once outside, the blue and coldness starts to creep back onto him

While Jim remains warm

Jim, outside or inside, is naturally warm, mostly untouched by the blue.

And he gives that warmth to Alan. By the end of their conversation, Alan appears warmer.

So maybe this blue boy can learn to live in the warmth rather than the cold again

And maybe this former blue boy turned red can help him

Because he already has.

[godofstupidsentences]

I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about the new heartbreak high s2 trailer

[zivazivc]

https://open.spotify.com/track/14UiJ7VaTWsG41YYAs6uha?si=O_wQSPfvRgexvWahmsbcng floyd song

I struggled a bit to figure out what song you sent because I don't have spotify and sometimes these links don't want to open ksjbdvb. but YOOOOO Floyd in the bottle song, hell yeah, thank you anon! you are strong, floyd, we love you

Please take my own (bipolar, ex bandmates au) Floyd in the bottle song, where he's going a bit mental from being trapped and having to think about his life 🤲

[user2872]

I don't want to simply get baited.

I want them to boldly showcase countless Zutara scenes right in our faces, only to slap us with a Kataang finale, in the end.

I want to embrace the agonizing pain that follows so that I would undoubtedly be forever scared by Zutara, to ever have a chance to move on.