#like i have plenty of lesbian ships i like. im not a lesbian

[daffodi1]

And to be honest over the years I've started to think the fujoshi label is stupid too. Like yes fetishizing gay men is bad but people who enjoy gay relationships in media aren't inherently fetishizing them, even if they themselves are not gay. You're allowed to just... like material and characters that you can't relate to. It's okay.

[heatmiiiiser]

Ggrrr I wish disenchantment was better. I binged it all because I'm sick somebody talk to me about this.

[swagging-back-to]

i hate that there was so much opportunity to touch on how all those bubbled and corrupted crystal gems would feel knowing rose was pink diamond. it caused so much turmoil even among their tiny group, now times that by a hundred.

Also, all the gems who were corrupted but NOT crystal gems. sure, we see jasper and we see a clip of the nephrites (centi) but there must've been even more homeworld gems uncorrupted all at once. spinel showed more hatred and devastation about it than any of those corrupted gems.

and yes, they probably didnt do anything because all 4 diamonds were there, but afterward? once it's just them on their own? how could that not cause a bunch of chaos?

[olderthannetfic]

Im neither a proshipper nor an anti at this current stage in life, but at one point i was an anti i guess? And I hate it say it, but looking back, I understand why. I don't think I actually gave a fuck about Harmful Fanfic or whatever, it was just a substitute for therapy that i couldn't get at the time (because "literally neurodivergent and a minor" or whatever, but like...actually literally neurodivergent and a minor LOL).

As weird as it sounds like, no one cared about my ACTUAL PAIN, and that made me feel EVEN MORE PAIN, so i took it out on ppl who shipped "abuse", or whatever.

It's so stupid now, as an adult who is mentally better than I was then, but as ridiculous as it was, seeing someone ship an "abusive" ship or a "queer erasing ship" (like a canonically gay character with someone of the other binary gender)...it felt eerily similar to the actual abuse I was facing and the stress that everyone was putting on me to find a boyfriend or ask why my (closeted lesbian) self didn't like any boys.

But it was so much easier to keyboard warrior about how people who ship Bad things are Bad people, than it was to fix any problems in my actual life because...well, the actual problems in my life COULDN'T be fixed. That isn't a learned helplessness thing, there was genuinely nothing I could've done. So pissing off Shippers was, like, a vessel for that, and it *felt* like I was getting to lash out at the same people who were ACTUALLY hurting me, even though that obviously is not the case. Funny thing is, it wasn't actual fandom discourse that made me switch sides, it was getting to learn more about youth liberation movements and stuff, because it was then that I recognized the actual structures that were making me hurt.

I think one silver lining is it's made me more compassionate an adult. While I don't have any defense for the antis who do actual horrendous stuff like doxxing or sending death/rape threats, etc, I do have a lot of defense for the ones who were like me and would just make posts talking about how Wrong it is to ship certain things. I know that not all antis are in the same place that I was once was, and some are just genuinely immature brats, but it's like. . . I get it, you know?

The cycle of abuse/bullying is weird and it's not often a 1:1 "I had an abusive parent so now i'll be an abusive parent", sometimes it's the chronically online stuff like I did. It's also why I'm careful-careful to not engage and to just block or, even try to have a mature discussion if I can, and if the person I'm talking to is just "a little bit annoying" rather than "actual bully doing/sending illegal stuff". A lot of them just want to be heard, I think, and it really makes me sad that this is the way they choose to be heard...but also i get it, because i was that.

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Yup. We often discuss anti tendencies in this framework.

People want control over their environment when they have none. They want the world to make sense and for there to be simple rules they can follow to Never Mess Up. This is a very common reaction to trauma and also typical of brains that like order and neat boxes and a world full of justice and logic.

The trouble is that a critical mass of "I'm just pointing this out" type posts does tend to make all the other teens with an issue around moral scrupulosity implode. (And let's be real, plenty of the antis themselves are secretly into dark content and are trying to pray the gay kink away.)

I have some sympathy, but I'm still going to tell people they're sealioning when they are and tell them they're flat out wrong about how fantasies work, not sugar coat it because they're probably a delicate teen. There's no need to be excessively mean or treat people as irredeemable, but I also don't like how we talk endlessly about compassion for teen antis and not for teens targeted by antis. It's similar to how there are all those complaints like "Hey, I work hard to manage my mental illness, but all the support seems to go to people who are letting their issues rampage..."

[ecoterrorist-katara]

hello hello! can i just say, i love your takes so much. it feels like you’ve read my mind on how katara would actually react in certain situations. currently myself, im rewriting the structure of the show in a way that makes more sense (aka, getting rid of kataang altogether and focusing on actual growth for each character including aang!) and im struggling a bit on aang actually!

we know how brykke basically stunted aang’s growth because of their weirdness. but what if aang never had a crush on katara? what if he sees katara as the big sister he always wanted instead, making their relationship more wholesome than weird? i think he’s such a centralized character, but when i develop the others beyond the show, aang feels like he’s left behind.

maybe that’s part of it too! he is a boy out of time, and now more of a concept than a person as far as anyone else outside of his immediate group knows. in this au where i intend to age everyone up, i’m just curious to see what kind of man aang would grow up into if his motivations for katara was never there. i see him as trying to hold onto his lost childhood and then having to come to terms with the fact he can’t. but i’d love to hear your thoughts. who is aang outside of that? his journey has the opportunity to be so fascinating, but brykke kind of said hey! let’s not get into that! let’s make him a creepy god boy who gets whatever he wants!

(also to note, this version of aang is meant to be with azula and while i love the meta ive seen about taang i do personally hc her as a lesbian but i do like them but yeah!)

also sorry if this is too rambly i’m just very excited!

hi! This is such a nice message, and please never apologize for rambling! My blog is a safe space for all ramblers. Your fic sounds like a very exciting project!

I definitely agree with you that he’d try to hold onto his childhood & have a hard time with his grief; coming to terms with the depth of his loss would be an exceptionally interesting arc. His people were victims of genocide: his culture and his loved ones were brutally murdered. Nobody can replace that community, not even his chosen family of the Gaang, and certainly not a romantic partner.

But Aang certainly is somebody outside of all that tragedy too. I think his cheerfulness and optimism, his playfulness, his resilience, his reluctance to assume responsibility, and his prodigiousness are all important facets of his personality.

Here's my piping hot take: Aang is James Potter with a more tragic backstory and less of a cruel streak. Think about it: mischievous, funny, adventurous, brave, enjoys attention, popular, devoted to friends, prodigious, entitled when it comes to love interests, morally inflexible, dedicated to Good, can be too arrogant to recognize his own faults. We hear that James became a pretty decent guy, so there's plenty of potential for growth for Aang, especially if he doesn't get his forever girl at age twelve.

Aang has a big heart and stringent morals, but is still a bit of a trickster. Not in a malicious way, but in a “I have a zest for life way” that gives him a little bit of an edge beyond just being a sunshine boy. You can see this even in ep 1, when he sacrifices himself so that the village would be left alone, only to haul ass out of the Fire Nation ship as soon as they’re safe. You can also see it in The Great Divide, where he straight up just fabricates history lmao. Lying is not an issue for him at all, which indicates it’s not really part of his moral code.

On the other hand, he obviously feels very strongly about taking life, which indicates a black and white approach towards morality that is not uncommon in kids. I could see an older, more mature Aang being led to question his own approach to morality, particularly by someone like Zuko, who probably finds violence a lot more palatable than lying. I think there are very interesting cultural differences that can be explored here, which doesn’t necessarily mean that Aang will change his opinions, only that he’ll have greater respect for how other cultures see right and wrong, and that he can keep Air Nomad culture alive without taking on the burden of being the manifestation of that culture. He has the innate impulse to try to see the best in people, which is at odds with his black and white morals sometimes. Related to that, he really struggles with morally grey characteristics in his friends. I think that if he had a fleshed out opportunity to properly disagree with his friends, he may not necessarily change his own mind, but he might grow to value his friends' freedom of choice over imposing his own values on them, since one of the cornerstones of Air Nomad philosophy is apparently about freedom. I think his pacifist voice is an important contribution to their ragtag group of overpowered pre-teens and teens and I love it when that aspect is explored in fics.

I've seen some really good depictions of Aang-not-obsessed-with-Katara in fanfiction (Southern Lights has my favourite one; in fact it's my fave characterization of basically everyone except for Mai). I see most of his flaws as things he can grow out of, but only if he encounters difficult situations and learns to grow. Have fun with your fic, and please do share in any relevant tags once you start posting!

[makeproshipfriends]

Heyy!! My name’s Ellie, or you can call me Agave, or pretty much any name of my fav characters like uh, lain or smthn.. i like being acknowledged as them just so it feels like i’m roleplaying in a way.. ^_^ I LOVEE roleplaying, miss it so bad, and as much as I aint towards fandom roleplays of my more liked fandoms (which happen to be very dead and underrated imo) i ALSO do oc roleplays!! I also rlly enjoy making connected ocs with others, like familys or wtver. I play gacha and also use picrews for oc making, cus my drawing isn’t always the best.. at least on digital it isn’t. I’m a minor btw but idc if you’re older than me, I’ve had plenty of older friends in the past. Back to the roleplay part if you’re in any of my more enjoyed fandoms and you roleplay I WILL beg to rp wih you.. especially if it’s a darkship roleplay, cause i’m dying to roleplay my fav ships🥹 I’m lesbian and a cis-girl, and yaya thats it.

Finally to my fandoms sorry that was so long!!..

More enjoyed fandoms: X-Men, Jo_sipu, Misao, physical exorcism games, sentimental death loop, serial experiments lain, thirteen movie, stitched HD game

Lesser enjoyed fandoms: Soul Eater, gilmore girls, mieruko-chan, mouthwashing, victaton, homesick webtoon, tcoaal (but only julia. ashley and andrew are eh i dont rlly like them, especially as a ship.. I LOVEE ASHLEY X JULIA THO), inside out, Liar Liar 1+2, popopoka blondy and blind girl, mouthwashing

may have forgot sone but idgaf atp…!! also i might know more just ask and i’ll lyk if u feel like being friends ^_^ im soso sorry that was so long guys i info dump sometimes..

go say hi to Ellie/Agave! 🌻

[imminent-danger-came]

tbh you are so real for talking about the misogyny targeted to mei & other women in the lmk fandom. in general its like people only value mei as: a: the wingman to some basic mlm ship or b: macaque 2.0. its honestly crazy how so many male side characters overshadow her in the fanbase despite not even having a FRACTION of her screen time. idk chat i feel like the reason people dont care about mei but care about some random male side/background character is less because they're inherently more likeable but because some of you view women as inherently less likable. and everyone is always like "mei is so girlboss pussy cunt slay shes the only reason theyre still alive because she keeps them safe from their silly boy shennanigans shes their ultimate wingman shes so badass shes their lesbian best friend i totally paid attention to her when i watched this show LOL" and even ignoring the obvious misogyny here (ie. how people reduce her to being the male characters babysitter) its like... okay... i know mei is cool & badass already... could you name literally ANY other character trait she has. like people just value her as being "the braincell" who can get red son and mk together or something stupid and its like are we having fun still is this still fun. literally every day i go into the mei tag its like "look at mei shes red sons wifey and shes vaguely in the background of this drawing of red son and mk staring into each others eyes #trafficlighttrio am i right oh look shes macaques niece now this post is about ao lie why is it in the mei tag"

and thats literally JUST talking about mei and it doesnt even begin to cover the other female characters. chang'e constantly gets reduced to being red sons aunt/mom/big sister despite them like. not having any actual interactions in the show. lady bone demon constantly gets overshadowed by her minion who has like 2 seconds of screen time, or she gets made into a cartoonishly abusive madwoman who people call lady bitch demon. just in general people act like shes a horrible person for like. being a villain. liks yeah the trying to destroy everything was bad but also she was an antagonist and thats what antagonists do LOL. spider queen gets completely ignored. princess iron fan gets made into a cartoonishly abusive mother so that way red son can have a poor angsty backstory and some male character (usually nezha, macaque, swk) can take care of him.

(also theres just a great deal of ethnocentrism in the lmk fanbase? like im white so take what İ say here with a grain of salt but so many people will misconstrue aspects of chinese culture for their own personal hcs. people will say male characters are transfem or nonbinary while completely ignoring the time period/culture their from where thats the norm. like yippee youve implied that an east asian man is feminine/emasculine because he has long hair. how do you not see the negative connotations with this. people also turn pif (& lbd to an extent) into a dragon lady which obviously has negative racial connotations lol.)

anyway this is where my unhinged rambling ends have a good day have a good night İ had more to say here but İ reached the text limit. İ dont see a lot of people talk about the misogyny thats prevalent in the lmk fanbase so İm glad youre pointing it out lol.

Yeah, I totally hear you. The lmk fandom has plenty of issues with misogyny and, like you said, ethnocentrism. It's definitely something worth having a discussion about, along with these issues in fandom as a whole.

[lymooniee]

I was scrolling through tumblr posts because as one does lmao, I searched lesbian sonadow (I'm not sure why, I just adore the genderbent stuff so anyways), but I saw some talk about how there's never anything messy or angsty with blazamy or lesbian ships. Like it's always "cutesy hehe haha" and doesn't feel as real as when people characterize sonadow as a ship.

Honestly yeah I agree:(( I think the difficulty with wlw ships specifically in sonic for example, is that there's not always a lot of things to go off of canon wise (not an excuse btw I wish there was more realness displayed with Sapphic ships myself, unless you disclude whispangle), whereas shadow and sonic have a lot of conflict and tension to sort of base off of.

But then this had me thinking "I am an artist" therefore, I want to now make this kind of content HAHAH-- i think there can be plenty of things you could do to make blazamy way more interesting than two cute girls dating and being all cutie patootie.

I feel there can be a lot of interesting takes one could do when it comes to blazamy in regards to amy and her interest for Sonic and how that may make Blaze feel. I also feel these two balance well from one another similar to sonic and shadow, because of them being opposites but with similar morals and goals. It's so difficult to also characterize amy nowadays because we have SO MANY FLIPPING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF HER IT ACTUSLLY DRIVES ME INSANE IM NGL. Anyway, i feel using her hot headed personality would be the most realistic and as for blaze she's stubborn herself so you can also work a lot with that too. They're both also self sacrificial (similar to sonic and shadow cough) and both are typically underestimated even tho they're more than capable of handling themselves.

This is a lot of rambling, but I really do feel that there could be a lot more interesting content or storylines for these two and that it's sort of underrated as a ship because of this issue altogether. I adore sonadow myself, but I do love other ships as well ofc and idk. I know lesbianism is often portrayed in media with a tragedy (which also sucks because then they die in the end so yippeeee!!) But like that doesn't mean there can't be conflict because that's not how it works either. ok that's enough of me rambling sorry if i make zero sense i had no sleep

[shsl-gay-nurse]

//putting this in the seamoon tag becuase I have a point I wanna make sea fairy and moonlight cookie are NOT canonically lesbians, nor are they canonically dating. coding does not mean cannon.  your headcannons are NOT cannon others are MORE THEN ALLOWED to have a different headcannon then you and ship sea fairy/moonlight with whoever they want. it is NOT homophobic to headcannon the cookie with NO CANNON SEXUALITY as something other then gay

theres more sexuality's then gay and straight. plenty more, pull your heads out of your asses

further more, something else i’d like to state yes, devsisters has gone on multiple times to imply moonlight and sea fairy have a deep relationship with eachother, however i’d like to make it known platonic relationships can be just as deep as romantic ones

stop being entitled and accusing others of homophobia/telling them to fucking die over fucking fictional cookies. y’all need therapy -and before anyone calls me homophobic, im litterly a fucking lesbian lmfao

edit: becuase im seeing a lot of people missing my point, I don’t care why you think seamoon is cannon. nor do I care why you ship it. hell I ship seamoon, I think its a cute ship

this post isn't really about that, its about the fact that, there is no proof that ether sea fairy or moonlight are LESBIANS, yes theirs a lot of coding to suggest they like woman, but I will remind you all, BISEXUALS AND PANSESUALS ARE A THING, along with HUNDREDS of other orientations in the mix. and again, you do not get a say in how platonic relationships show affection. platonic partners are a thing, learn what QPP’S are for fucks sake NOT ONLY THAT, friends can call eachother “dearest” “beloved” or say “I love you”.  like, me and my irl friends used to kiss sometimes just cuz listen. I WANT more lesbian representation in media, I would kill someone for LGBTQ+ rep in shows I like. HOWEVER, it dosen’t matter how oppressed lesbians are telling others to die over fictional baked goods isen’t gonna fix the issue and thats my point. I don’t care about the seamoon ship itself, I care about us not being complete toxic basterds to each other 

[fukaimetsu]

I'm sure im not the only crazy enough who think this recent wave of online discourse on twitter of ''why do lesbian likes yaoi or become fujoshi?" are just repackaged Gold Star Lesbian right.....

like, this discourse is always framed with statements like, ''I'm genuinely asking, why do lesbians become fujoshi? Girl, what are you getting out of watching 2 men having homosexual sex?'' and then it veers into Gold Star lesbian rhetoric or polilez Kool-Aid, attempting to ''question'' lesbian fujoshi sexuality and whether they are 'true lesbians' or 'not lesbian enough.' This is often justified with the excuse that they are ''centering their sexuality or interests around men'' (wtf?)

It just frustrating to me, like why do people always putting women on higher standard & especially lesbian women always feels the need to ''prove'' themselves to be true lesbian and such. this is no different than usual biphobic rhetoric that bisexual women are just ''faking it'' or doing it for ''trends'' , full stop.

Like, do you guys also do this to gay men who like yuri or female pop stars? Do you also question this gay men sexuality or his gayness just because he obsessed with female characters/celebrity? Sorry but I see a lot double standard here, that people always celebrate gay men when they're liking female pop stars or female characters as one of your own but if Lesbian just liking fictional male characters shipping suddenly you guys need to interrogate them and condemn them as if, they're wolf in sheep's clothing. Like what makes this gay men who like female pop stars and lesbian liking fictional male characters that's so different that make you tilted so much, to the point attacking women.

I am annoyed at this people acting like they're just ''genuinely asking'' but then full mask off end up attacking women over asinine thing and most of the time because they're strangely being bitter toward Fujoshi somehow. Acting like lesbian fujoshi being some sort of traitor because they like BL instead of yuri feels insane to me. like come on, you guys aren't different like gold star lesbian who make snarky comment toward lesbians who sleep with men or used to be in relationship with men.

like, Nobody bats an eye when gay men don't like BL and not being a fudanshi, why suddenly it's an issue with lesbian being fujoshi/liking BL romances?

You don't know the people behind the screen, they could be using alt accounts dedicated to BL content, and it just so happens that they’re lesbian fujoshi (I know this because I am one, I have a separate account for BL coupling/shipping). Or maybe they do like yuri but just don’t show it because you don’t know them personally! Even if they’re not into yuri, why is that a problem? It doesn’t mean they’re lesbophobic. Is it mandatory for lesbians to like yuri? Not all lesbians enjoy the romance genre or feel invested in it. Liking yuri isn’t even a good indicator of whether someone is a lesbian or not. There are straight, bisexual, and asexual women who like yuri. There are also men, as well as nonbinary or genderqueer people, who enjoy yuri.

''But it still weird, why do lesbians liking BL"

Have you ever thought that, maybe, some lesbians just appreciate any kinds of gay romances? or whatever their reasons isn't none of your business? it really doesn't matter what's their taste on media, it doesn't always reflect to their real life identity-in this case, their sexuality.

Or maybe because some Yuri works depicting lesbian romance might feel too personal for them, because I know some plenty of lesbians who feels they unconsciously cannot stop inserting/projecting their personal experiences to works that focused on lesbian romances & it just makes it hard to enjoying said works.

And no, it isn’t always due to internalized lesbophobia reasons, even if that can be one of the reasons. Some queer people might have different perceptions of media that portrays queerness because it is very personal to them. It can be feelings of euphoria or be perceived negatively, depending on the individual, as each queer person has different experiences. You cannot assume that just because some queer people avoid certain queer works for personal reasons, it means they have internalized queerphobia ,therefore, that they are bad and need to 'fix' their mindset. I know a lot of gay men who won't read BL because they feel it's too personal for them, I know a lot trans people who won't read a lot of trans media because they might be projecting themselves too hard due of their experiences and this isn't even uniquely to queer people even cis het people also tend to avoid certain genre or media if it's happen too personal for their experiences and identity.

Regardless of the reasons, why does it matter to you? why you feels like it's personal attack if some people not interested with your favorite media/genre.

Again, Lesbian aren't monolith. they're person with different minds, preferences and interests lol. They're allowed to be a fujoshi if they want to.

and I notice this trends tend to be.....end up with people (who questioning lesbian fujoshi) to making up worse assumption of them in order to defend their favorite fictional female characters or AO3 statistics, lol. in the end it just shitty fandom discourse all over again!

it just weird trend of zoomer using faux-feminism & queer academic language just to get angry over asinine things because they're salty their favorite valid media/characters aren't popular. and of course always attacking women despite they claim to be feminist, good job!

I swear, I never see this people like being critical to men but always being hypercritical toward women (especially fujoshi who just...mind their own business most of the time)

like I am sure we can have good discussion about this, but I don't trust ANY people on that hellhole site with poor reading comprehension and mob mentality for having this type of discussion on good faiths, especially not when it always ends up they're just crying over AO3 F/F statistics again.

Also I never take any people who are using ''women who centering their lives around men'' seriously and I will just think of them as mini radfem/TERF because anyone who tend to use that talking point unironically end up being more insane toward their fellow women, more sexist & just one step away to call women as ''useless foid who worship men" just because they like fictional anime boy or boy bands. Not surprised if they unconsciously agree with trans women are invading women spaces or their ideology aligned with Rowling without they realized it.

Another note, Not everything in these worlds is makes sense and sometime everything can be contradictory. you might think lesbian fujoshi or lesbian who likes BL are contradictory with their sexuality/identity but that just how...the world is & it doesn't matter, at the end of the day.

You feel happier for not thinking too much about it & focus on stuff you likes. just look at this 🫃preggo man emoji

[wildwinterlunas]

Hi! i know you already get those asks but i really want to vent: i think them making pharmercy canon now would not be satisfating for me - im a lesbian, i feel like there was no indication since the game release that they have anything for each other, if anything mercy was very close to genji, they were very sutil with that, and all pharmercy 'flirt' lines are so recent feels like rushed. One of my favorite lesbian ships ever is Caitlyn and Vi from league, they construed they relationship for YEARs, from partners to lovers and just NOW in 2023 after years and everything they confirmed both as lesbians and even in Arcane they doing great with their romance. another exemple is leona and diana and killjoy with reze in valorant, compared with overwatch feels like they dont know how to develop a organic/fresh relationship between their female characters from the game, rigth now looks just pandering for me.

And yeah I do see where your coming from, Gency has had years of build up in canon while Pharmercy has just started being pushed. Though because of the fact that in the past we've seen OW writers say that they ship Pharmercy I don't think it pandering exactly. I think it's more wish fulfilment.

I also agree with what you're saying about what happened in other games when it comes to LGBTQ+ rep, those ships have had build up. To the point where I, a person who doesn't play either game, know what your talking about. I myself am also a lesbian and I have recognized Pharah as lesbian coded since I first got into Overwatch, which was back in 2016, they've had plenty of time to add things like voice lines or lore to this relationship but they haven't. I looked up their old Overwatch 1 interactions for this post and basically none of them have that flirting vibe that the new voice lines have, most of the personal ones being Mercy saying how she thinks Ana would be proud of Pharah and Pharah just going "are we talking about the same person here?"

Also I've stated it briefly in other posts on Pharmercy but I just don't think they would work, at least they wouldn't stay a couple for a long time. A big thing that people forget when it comes to Pharmercy is that Angela has a lot of issues she needs to sort out, one of those being her terrible communication skills and her ability to say goodbye to people. The reason this is important is because Fareeha has abandonment issues, and we see how Angela's inability to communicate already affects their relationship in "As You Are", we clearly see that Angela leaving without saying goodbye affected Pharah.

This also culminates into this being a story where one person has to wait for the other to sort out their issues, which is something I don't want for Pharah. This plot line with Gency works because it's mutual. If Pharah is going to be with someone I either want them to be dealing with something that Pharah can actually help with (like Symmetra and her inevitable identity crisis) or for her partner to be just as sure of herself as Pharah is (like Sombra or Kiriko).

Again I don't want Pharah to have to wait for Angela to get her issues sorted out, she already has to wait for her mother to come back, she shouldn't have to wait for her romantic life either, and Angela's problems are not something Pharah is really equipped to help with. We actually see how Genji and Angela talk while Pharah tends to offer silent support.

I don't hate Pharmercy and under different circumstances I think they would work, however, not only are the writers kind of fumbling to get me invested but Pharah and Mercy have so many things working against them on a personal level. Not only that but they're fundementally different morally, I think a lot of people forget that Angela doesn't like helix calling them mercenaries with no regard for civilian life, while knowing full well that Pharah works for Helix. That kind of difference would work in a friendship but that would not go well in a romantic relationship.

Anyway, again I don't hate Pharmercy, it's not one of my top ships but I do like it. However, what has been presented in canon either just doesn't get me invested or I just don't want to see happen in terms of characterization (again Pharah shouldn't have to wait for her romantic life in the same way she needs to wait for her family).

[ladyseidr]

anonymous asked: ❝ as just an observation and no hate what so ever, maybe you can clarify!! but it feels like you solely focus on gay ships for all of your muses and it feels like as someone looking in you don't really provide much variety in terms of shipping. it just hit wrong with you adding vanessa the first thing said was "who's going to gay marry her" that's where this all came from. ❞ ( ref )

Assuming you're referring to shipping as romantic shipping, because I definitely write plenty of platonic and familial stuff. I'm going to treat this as though it's really sent in good faith, but referring to me having a "lack of variety" because I don't write enough m/f in your opinion ( ???? ) is uh. strange. So, I felt this was obvious, but "who's going to gay marry her" was intended as a joke because I literally just added her. I'm not expecting anyone to jump into a ship with a muse I just added, it's a joke. But beyond that, she's listed as a lesbian on her muse page. This is both personal headcanon and a direct reflection of my dislike that a large majority of one of the only female human character's in-game plot involves her being controlled by someone we perceive as a man ( because Glitch is either intended to be a representation of William, OR, as some other people believe, literally is him). Even if I wrote Vanessa as bi, I still would not ship my personal portrayal of her with him. ( And I don't pass judgment on people who do ship it, this is only about me when I'm writing her. I literally do ship my William with a couple of game!Vanessas on his blog. ) I am also a queer person who grew up with little to no media reflecting people like me. So, yes, I do make all my muses queer ( although a vast majority I feel are bisexual or pansexual, so this shouldn't be an issue with "limiting" ships). Yes, my main fandom ship ( as in, what I ship outside of rp, in my personal life / fanfic / etc ) is almost always queer. Yes, if I'm hyperfixated on a ship outside of the rpc, it's usually queer. Yes, this means I often talk about ( non-mutual specific ) queer ships more vocally ( like Wil.lry for fn.af or Sai.oma for D.R ). But I mean this is the kindest way possible: I don't owe anybody romantic ships. I don't owe anybody m/f ships, or any other kind. Now, don't get me wrong! I am so, so, so open to shipping. If you want to ship with one of my muses, I never mind an IM about it. A vast majority of the time I'm down for it and, yes, that includes m/f ships. I have several ships both here and on @spring-lxcked that are m/f. But also like. If you're upset that I write [ insert muse here ] as gay, I'm sure there's other people who don't who would be willing to ship with you.

[zukkaoru]

Is there any bsd you don't like? Asking for boundary in case you prefer not to be asked about them

i’m pretty open to most ships and characters tbh but i would say ones i'm not interested in writing for would include (censoring so they don’t show up in the search): d.azatsu d.azaku s.igzai sigs.kk odaz.ai,, any ships with m.ori f.ukuchi or k.ouyou bc im not confident on my ability to write for them. any fukuzawa or fitzgerald ships bc i don't ship them with anyone (apart from zelda, for fitzgerald). any minor/adult ships or incest ships. and like. i hc yosano and louisa as lesbians so i dont ship them with any male characters / i hc aku as gay so i dont ship him with any of the female characters. also i wont write beast s.kk out of spite ❤️

there are plenty of other ships im not really into but either have written or would write for bc the rarepair waters are hard to tread out here in the bsd fandom and we all need to hold hands 🤝

[oceanwithouthermoon]

have you ever considered some abstract-ass pairings? like the "how the fuck did you even come up with that pairings?

im not accusing you of doing it lol, but i personally do and am. curious to see if i am normal

IM NOT TOTALLY SURE, because i tend to have very specific reasonings for why i think two characters would be good together, but i definitely think that from an outside perspective some of my ships can be seen as pretty abstract..

(under the cut again sorry im nonstop yapping for way too long guys..)

BUT almost any pairing you think of in a semi-popular fandom like saiki k, SOMEBODY has probably made content about it.. and its more popular in japan, so you may not be able to FIND ur pairing but theres probably SOMETHING out there about it, just in a language you aren't searching in or something.. like, toritsuka x kuboyasu is one pairing i have NEVER seen an english speaking person post about, but if you go in japanese or korean speaking saiki k spaces, that ship is EXTREMELY popular! theres TONS of fanart!!

so yea, whats popular or even what gets any content at all can be surprising sometimes.. like, a few of my favorite tdlosk ships are arisu x rifuta, arisu x aiura, and rifuta x yumehara (+arisu x yumehara but this is kinda popular i think) (im just a lesbian with a bias towards sapphic ships, i see two pretty girls and i ship..) and i shipped them before i ever started looking online for content and when i finally did, i didnt think i would ever see any content of them but. there is. theres plenty of content of them. theyre rare enough pairs that i dont think they have ship names so it can be hard to actually find that content since theres no ship name ever tagged, but it very much exists!

if youd asked me this like a month ago i wouldve said that saiki x suzumiya is one of these abstract ships for me (if you wanna know why i like it, i just like the idea of instead of satou being so average he balances her out, saiki just like superhero-ing every other minute without her even noticing. i also like this as a polycule which ill talk about in a minute-) but somebody on here posted it around that time LOL.. theres also some other rare pairs i enjoy like mera x saiki or kuboyasu x yumehara, but though these are rare-ish pairs, they still have a notable presence so i wouldnt quite call them abstract.. (also yo damn well kubosai is my NUMBER ONEEEE ship, which you could call a rare pair if you didnt go on tumblr or ao3 cuz its VERY concentrated over here and doesnt really exist anywhere else.. except in the japanese fandom LOL.. but yea its definitely not a rare pair over here, its gotten way more popular recently too..)

the more abstractness comes when you start shipping polycules... then its way less likely for you to be able to find your specific ship.. lol.. like the ones i just talked about, you put rifuta x yumehara x arisu x aiura all together ?? no WAY am i gonna find that, it may exist somewhere but youll never find it, or at least i couldnt lol.. some of my fav rare (more like completely nonexistent except for some IVE posted about) polyam ships are the one i just said, kuboyasu x saiki x hairo x nendo, (also love kuboyasu x saiki x kaido but this one actually gets content hehe.. same with kuboyasu x kaido x yumehara.. LOVE that one..) mera x yumehara x aiura, kuboyasu x saiki x saiko (x kaido maybe), toritsuka x kaido x yumehara, mera x saiki x kuboyasu (x saiko sometimes and/or hairo) and probably more that im forgetting... i also really love the psychickers x satou and suzumiya which im actually not sure if theres ever been content of them, i think the only time ive seen it mentioned is someone being like "theyre dating hehe" on a pic of them lol.. its a funny ship for me because its actually one of my favorites even though some of the individual ships im not a fan of + i also hc that satou is very very straight but idk.. somehow this works.. i feel like maybe if he starts dating suzumiya and shes bi and polyam then it might accidentally give him a sexuality crisis because hes probably never even considered that he could be queer before.. idk.. whatever.. it just works..

idk, someone give me examples of tdlosk rare pairs that could actually work...

[spitefulcrepechan]

as much as you find it "hard to believe"

seamoon shippers are not rude, but rather the fandom is more at fault for stereotyping these fans to be the most toxic people to ever exist when it's not true. i've seen more ignorant sf x men shippers who disregard her heavy lesbian-coding without THEMSELVES being toxic to seamoon first.

seamoon fans are annoying at worst, but they have never gone out of their way to send death threats over anyone who ships seamoon. if anything, they're literally just minding their own businesses.

while they make their own posts regarding the issue with lesbophobia over sea fairy's m/f ships, i've only seen them go into sea fairy x men shippers' inbox specifically to let them know that what you guys are doing is harmful since there are plenty of other female cookies you can ship with men, but instead choosing one lesbian character for you to seriously ship with.

other than that, i have not seen a single toxic seamoon fan act like a manbaby over ships in your inboxes that make them uncomfortable.

long story short, anyone who ships sea fairy with men are the toxic ones here. they shit on seamoon the most.

Can't go one fucking day without these shitheads storming into me askbox?

Listen, if you're gonna be stubborn about Seamoon being harmful then I'm equally gonna be stubborn about seamoon being harmless

A woman liking another woman doesn't automatically constitute as her being a lesbian, for all we know Sea Fairy could be fucking mspec or maybe somewhere on the aro spectrum-

May i also have to reiterate for the 40th time that I am NOT against the seamoon ship itself? I'm against the needless tryhards like you who try to make shipping wars all political instead ot just- hitting the block button?

Look, if you're offended by people shipping cookies you think are "lesbian-coded", you do you, but if you fuckers keep going into other people's inboxes and picking on people just for having their own little bit of fun? Then Im gonna call it out.

If you're gonna rant on and on and on about the next Seafire shipper going on your dashboard, then im gonna rant ON AND ON AND ON about how fucking deprived yall are to get so worked up over a ship-

You wonder why everyone calls seamoon shippers toxic?

This attitude is fucking why.

Gatekeeping how sexuality works, gatekeeping ships in of themselves, making something all over human rights when it fucking ain't, and just- Overall not knowing to not push your own boundaries onto others-

And also if you're gonna use the whole "you shouldn't speak over lesbians!!" BS, may I remind that there are other lesbian shippers of Seamoon who look at this whole schism and think "wow these people give us a bad name jfc" because even they have the brains to see this is all just stupid?

You're gonna speak over the seamoon shippers who don't even care if people have other ships?

Or are you gonna take your own advice and shove it?

[penrose78]

Most fan content I reblog goes to @artemyburakhstormentousnightmare , it's mostly Pathologic but I've started posting Funger and Disco Elysium as well

Creature of many names, you can just go with Jay or Penrose.

Man/genderqueer/genderfluid/I don't fucking know you can ask for a more detailed breakdown if you care for some reason

Mega-Queer

He/him, they/them, xe/xem/xyr are all good, it/its is also based IF you are close to me and/or also trans/genderqueer.

I'll list all my media interests as I think of them but here's a quick overview of things I like (note that I believe in piracy and consuming media critically)

Pathologic

Disco Elysium

Fear and Hunger

The Good Place

Bojack Horseman

Rick and Morty (to be fair, you have to have a very h- *gunshot*)

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss (frankly I don't fuck with the fandom for the most part, some of y'all are fucking assholes)

I'll remember the rest later.

I don't really care who interacts with my posts unless you're *insert long list of people who would actively ignore a DNI anyways* but I'm not gonna interact with you if you post excessively about any of the following:

Ship discourse from either side. I don't fucking care.

Anti-kink discourse and other puritan bullshit (consenting adults can do whatever they want with other consenting adults, even if its unsafe or unhealthy or off-putting, put down your binoculars ffs)

"You're a bad person if you consume X media" (Im not against criticizing media nor do I think it's ok to let bad people use their creations to further their influence, but there's a difference between consuming and endorsing. No this is not about HP that would take me like 5 paragraphs)

Pointless semantic debates and infighting (if you get weirdly up in arms about things like "is transandrophobia real" or the definition of a lesbian or any of that shit I am sick of hearing about it. I absolutely have my own stances about these things and there's plenty of valuable discussion to be had but you guys are not being normal about it)

Shit that's blatantly exclusionary (anyone else seeing a lot of intersexism around here these days?)

System/plural discourse (Online communities are for support, stop trying to play psychologist for strangers)

Leftist voter infighting

I'm all for civil debates and normal conversations but I come to tumblr for memes not to read a 50 page essay on why depicting any mildly upsetting thing in any piece of media will directly result in countless people committing horrible crimes or why TME trans people are actually not oppressed and also evil or if you vote for Harris you want to suck nazi dick.