#mouthwashing ships

[tinywafflerat]

MOUTHWASHING FANS PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM!! I want to know what people think of these Mouthwashing ships! Only the first question is needed!

I don’t usually use google for this type of stuff, so please tell me if I missed something 😅😅

[mouthwashingconfessions]

something a lot of people don't understand is that with anya x curly, this relationship ISNT portraying their in-canon relationship. it's portraying a relationship they could've had should Curly have apologized and protected her. And the same ppl that criticize it will turn right around and ship jimcurl, calling it toxic yaoi (it is literally an abusive relationship, and 90 percent of fics on it are jimmy r*ping curly)

Wait...People are making r*pe fanfics with Jimmy and Curly...? 😨

I have nothing against dark topics in fiction or in fanfics. But I find it weird when people romanticizes dark topics in fiction/in real life and in fanfics. <----- (This is targeted at people who aren't survivors of those heavy topics and treat those survivors as a Sexual fantasy then a real person yk. Ik there are survivors who might do that as a unhealthy coping mechanism.)

[altn0g]

best friends

[bwaindamegd]

just a captain bonding with his crewmates

[ooohladymaria]

‼️THIS IS NOT A SHIP‼️

The kiss of Judas (WIP)

This game singlehandedly freed me from a six-months-long art block

Thank u mouthwashing very cool

[succubixchz]

The dead pixel analogy is probably my favorite thing about this godforsaken game. One of my favorite analogies in game history. Every time I think about it it brings a tear to my eye. The dead pixel. A flaw you could only see if you stood really, really close. A detail that's lost to anyone keeping their distance.

Anya telling Curly that the dead pixel always lives in the back of her mind, but Curly never got close enough to see it, it's the kind of writing that I don't see in games much anymore.

He was never willing to get up and look for it because it never affected his view of the bigger picture. He was never going to fix it because he never noticed it in the first place. Nobody cared about the dead pixel until they were standing eye to eye with it.

But that was all Anya ever saw. That one damn pixel. They never heard her until it was too late.

[koipepo]

Mouthwashing: characters sketches + commentaries (FULL SPOILERS)

i think a lot about this game even though i only watched playthrough of it..

[mrliverboy]

At least they have each other still

[drsatyr]

this was funnier in my head

[bimboredfield]

Born to be coworkers forced to go through trauma together

[phurpurr]

not to be rude but the fact that some of y'all's takeaway from this game is this makes me sick 🤮

[tinywafflerat]

ships I support cuz I forgot to mention

I’m rating it on a scale from 1-5: 5 being “soulmates” and 1 being “platonically cute” (0 stars is illegal/hate it with all my heart) (❤️ are my favorite ships)

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TADC SHIPS

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Ragatha x Pomni (mainly because of @ask-the-rag-dolly, literally my favorite ask blog ever)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ragatha x Gangle (I’m all for yuri)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

I love you ask-the-rag-dolly !!!

Ragatha x Princess Loolilalu (lesbians. am I right)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ragatha x Princess Loolilalu x Pomni (solution to ship wars? Make it poly)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Zooble x Gangle ❤️ (YES.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jax x Caine (I actually have no idea but the ship art is cute)

⭐️⭐️

Gummigoo x Jax (ok. You know what? They’re meant for eachother)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gummigoo x Chad x Max (THE LADS)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gummigoo x Chad (chad is too cute ok)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gummigoo x Orbsman (crackship time!!! they kinda have the “divorced dads” vibe)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Martha x Princess Loolilalu ❤️ (more lesbian. yes)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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MOUTHWASHING SHIPS

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Daisuke x Anya ❤️ (the sillies!)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jimmy x Curly (their dynamic is amazing! I don’t want them to be happy though.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jimmy x Polle (idk it’s kind of funny.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Swansea x Mouthwash (BEST SHIP IN THE SERIES. 1,000,000/10)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (/j)

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MURDER DRONES SHIPS

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V x Uzi ❤️ (IM SORRY!! YURI IS LIFE)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

N x Thad (worker drone x murder drone is the best ship)

⭐️⭐️

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MISC.

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(cult of the lamb)

Narinder x Lamb (I’m not sorry. Narinder deserves it.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goat x Lamb ❤️ (CO OP. AND DURING PRIDE MONTH)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(ramshackle)

Stone x Skipp (they were boyfriends from the start ok.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(friday night funkin)

Pico x BF (play softmod.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(trolls)

Viva x Barb (I find Yuri in everything don’t worry)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

(memes)

Those two guys from Friendpilled Visitmaxxer (they’re made for eachother)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(Indigo park)

Lloyd x Rambley (argue all you want. toxic yaoi)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mollie x Salem (toxic yuri I’m so so sorry)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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ships I don’t like (no hate to the people who ship these!!)

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TADC SHIPS

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any ship with kinger (besides with Queenie) (it’s the age gap)

(0 stars)

Jax x Pomni (I don’t hate this one, but I don’t like it. Classic main female character with main male character. )

⭐️

Gangle x Jax (No. just no.)

⭐️⭐️

Ragatha x Jax (same as above, but worse… honestly not that bad but like.. ehh..)

⭐️

Pomni x Caine ( there’s too much suggestive stuff under this tag, and once again a classic main female character + somewhat(?) main male character. I’m disappointed.)

⭐️

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MOUTHWASHING SHIPS

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Jimmy x Anya (NONONONONONONONO.)

(No stars)

Anya x Curly (pretty good ship!! Just not my thing :)

⭐️⭐️⭐️

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MISC.

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N/A

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Once again, please no hate to me or people who ship these characters!!

[mouthwashingconfessions]

the wave of anti-shipping in the fandom is really disappointing. Like come on guys this game has been out for less than a month and there is already bullshit drama. For a fandom that puts emphasis on analysis and interpretation it’s really weird to bash other people who interpret the relationships of the characters differently than you do. A lot of these people love to act like shipping is inherently antithetical to analysis and only flattens the characters which is fucking crazy. There is a big difference between respectfully disliking a ship and claiming some sort of moral superiority over the people that ship it. I’ve literally seen people calling these shippers “typical misogynist fujoshis” and “yaoipilled” which is absolutely fucking insane. I have been in fandoms with similar dark content and themes and NONE of them have been this bad. Please do better Mouthwashing fandom.

What you said is pretty fucked up (with how the fandom is reacting to ships). No one deserves to be harassed or made with very weird term thrown at them.

There is some ships I do not 100% agree on but it's best to censor the tags of the ship and block the shippers with ships you do not agree on. Like there is a ship I am not comfortable on, its not unhealthy or has dark topics being romanticised it's pretty harmless but that ship isn't my cup of tea so I just censored the tag and if the ship still appears due to some I follow or mutuals with in the same fandom, I just block the shipper that they reblog from. I'm not going to harass that person who I follow/mutuals with and the person they reblogged from. It's just dumb and it's not fun for someone getting harassed over something they don't like.

Blocking and censoring tags are important no matter if the ship is unhealthy/heavy topics being romanticised ship or a harmless ship. Harassment isn't a way to go about these things.

I understand there are worries about ships in this fandom, however that's are much better ways to get these worries out without harassing people, without seem like they don't want people to have fun in a fandom and policing the fandom. Ship discussions exist and everyone is allowed to have their opinions.

It's very disappointing to see that kind of behaviour from any fandom.

[go-fornicate-yourself]

Every day I am in the trenches fighting for my life defending this poor man. He was going through so much and people online demonize him and say he's as bad as his abuser

(I've got a lot of thoughts about this so I'll make sure to separate things to make it easier to look at lol)

Curly is a victim of abuse. Jimmy is his abuser. This is something that I feel a lot of people tend to brush over or don't acknowledge it often.

And I'm not just talking about post-crash. Jimmy's abuse of Curly is there pre-crash too. The party scene where the crew learns about the company going under is a huge example of this. Jimmy verbally abuses him, he gaslights him, he blames him for their (his) misfortune. Jimmy accuses Curly of thinking he's better than everyone (better than him), that he doesn't care about them (about him). That he's going leave them (leave him). Which is not true. Curly tries to explain himself but Jimmy shuts him down and he just takes it.

The fact that he just allows this to happen makes it seem like he's used to this... That this kind of behavior is a recurring thing with Jimmy. And the fact that nobody else tries to defend him or stands up to Jimmy just normalizes it for him. When Anya tells Curly what Jimmy did it catches him off guard. Bc he genuinely didn't think that his friend was capable of that. It wasn't something that was obvious to him. There were absolutely many red flags in the past but they were subtle enough for him to not see them bc he cares for Jimmy, he trusts him. Jimmy's the only one he feels he can open up to, who he can let his guard down with. Jimmy's his home. That's how close they are.

Because of this deep love for his friend and the subtlety of Jimmy's cruelty, he doesn't see the constant verbal and emotional abuse as what it is: abuse. Which is why he finds Jimmy's abuse towards Anya so shocking and jarring.

He isn't a man covering for his rapist friend bc of the 'bro code'. It does look like that from a certain angle and it's understandable why people see it that way but that's not what his character is really about as much as it makes sense otherwise.

He's essentially a battered housewife who's still in love with her husband but is realizing for the first time that the man she loves is a monster. That the man she loves and devoted her life to has been hurting her this whole time and she didn't even realize it. That the man she loves and spent so much of her life caring for has gone and hurt someone else. That he's most likely hurt others before and she's been utterly unaware of it the entire time she defended him and made excuses for him when he wasn't the best or the fairest or the most responsible or when he screwed up yet again solely bc of how much she loved and cared for him.

And Curly barely had any time to process ANY of that before Jimmy decided to try and kill them all to avoid the consequences of his actions. It was ultimately a selfish act even if he thought he wasn't just doing it for himself. Jimmy is selfish and needs to be in control or he loses it. He cares for Curly. He loves him. Curly's done so much for him. Curly's the only one who understands him, who doesn't hate him. Curly's his home. He resents how 'successful' he is but that's only bc he thinks so highly of him. He constantly puts himself down and put Curly on a pedestal and worships him while simultaneously mistreating him.

He treats his best friend like shit, he's awful to him. But he's not aware that this is the case or maybe he's in denial about it. He can't or just refuses to see how he's doing all of what he does for himself in the end. He justifies his attempt to kill them all (to himself and to Curly) by claiming he's doing this for them both. That if they were to get back to earth it would all be Curly's fault, that it'll ruin his life and career... despite the fact he had basically nothing to do with Anya's abuse. Jimmy's shifting the blame on him while acting like he cares for him. Well, he does genuinely care for him but clearly not nearly enough to not mistreat him or use him as a scapegoat for his own guilt.

Jimmy is the rapist, Jimmy is the one who does all of these horrible things. And yet it's highly likely that Curly would just blame all of it on himself bc that's exactly what Jimmy did to him. He's in so deep he can't see the facts of the situation.

It takes abuse victims so long to come to terms with their abuse. It takes time and reflection to see things with an unbiased and healthy perspective. Abuse (especially years of it) isn't just something you can just escape. It consumes you and can twist your reality. Curly had about a week or less to process all of it and then take action in a way that protected his crew and abided by Pony Express' guidelines. Dealing with something this serious in a setting that makes resolving it extremely difficult in a practical sense is already hard.

There were no locks on any of the doors except for medical and the cockpit. They couldn't just kill him. There was nowhere they could detain Jimmy that wouldn't involve corporate potentially penalizing the entire group. They could have used the cryopods but then there'd only be three available for any actual emergency and there were already five crew members and four pods in total. Also, I doubt corporate would be 'okay' with them using the cryopods for anything other than their intended purpose. Hell, even if they were able to make it back to earth without any incidents there's a good chance that corporate would consider the situation 'poor team synergy' and collectively punish the entire crew for Jimmy's actions.

So on top of having to deal with an already difficult situation, Curly has to grapple with the realization that Jimmy a: abused Anya, b: has been abusing him as well (for a very long time too), and c: has probably abused others before Anya and he had no idea about it. He needed to act but he didn't and it doomed all of them.

But it's so unrealistic (maybe even cruel) to put that much pressure on someone, force them through an utterly earth-shattering realization, and then expect them to do the correct/right/responsible thing in that moment. It's a little ironic how people vilify him for that when other characters do the same thing that nobody blames for it.

Anya is the ship's nurse. Curly is the ship's captain. They both have duties and responsibilities on board the Tulpar. She has to keep the crew healthy and safe and is the only one with enough medical knowledge to do so. He has to make sure that everything goes well and goes according to procedure. He's responsible for the crew, the cargo, and even the ship itself. Both positions are integral and require a lot of responsibility to do properly

They're both put through distressing and traumatic situations where due to them being human people with emotions and fears that make them essentially avoid their responsibility/doing what's required of them.

Curly has a freeze response and doesn't act when he should have when it was crucial to have done so. Anya has a fawn response and essentially puts her patient in danger and harm's way. She knew full well what Jimmy was capable of. She experienced it herself and she witnessed it happening to Curly as well. And yet she allows Jimmy to be alone with Curly while being fully aware of how dangerous he is. Which she shouldn't have, that wasn't the 'right' thing to do. Keeping him safe was her responsibility.

But Anya's human. She's going through a lot at the moment. She's terrified of Jimmy and she's trying to appease him so he doesn't hurt her again. It's a natural very understandable thing to do even if it's not the 'right' or 'responsible' thing. They failed each other when they needed each other most and I think that's the most tragic part of it. If anything, all of them failed each other in some way, shape, or form.

So it's incredibly frustrating to see people give Anya so much sympathy and grace for doing something so human yet still 'wrong' but then turn around and give Curly none of that for doing essentially the same thing she does.

I don't know for sure if it's actually because Curly is a man or if it's only part of it or maybe some people just lack that sense of awareness but it's depressing and frustrating as fuck as a male victim of sexual violence and abuse to see this kind of behavior and this much victim blaming towards a character who is undeniably a victim of abuse like I am.

[niinnyu]

No one's coming.

I couldn't help but also think of the secondary anti-capitalist tone under the enabler-culture commentary of the story. How there's no way a company supplying mouthwash that was okay sending 5 people in a ship with 4 non functioning cryo-pods is coming back to save anyone. A company that did announce that it was laying everyone off and shutting down 20 years ago to boot. The cryo-pods were formality and nothing more.

[manilovescp166]

Made another one, but this one is less funny.