#not sure if I should tag this with the ship

[ask-rain-world-characters]

Artificer? Hunter? What are your thoughts on each other?

Hunter's response:

“Artificer? Well- I- uh… they’re brilliant for starters. Able to use their natural gifts to defeat any obstacles in their path! Their strength is undeniably amazing for any creature, and their explosions are like brush strokes on an old canvas! Hell, I'm just jealous I couldn’t meet them for the first time. Whenever I see Artificer, I just get lost in their beauty. Their scarlet fur, their beautiful eyes... eye. I just wish they feel the same… but uh, *ahem, yea they cool, they cool. When you see Artificer again just don’t tell them I said all those things, ok?”

Artificer's response:

"Hunter? Well... they're a great fighter, funny in their own way, and they have an amazing charm about them! I'd say I love them... I wonder if they feel the same"

[zeropro]

Hi! I'm SOOOOOO sorry to be asking this because it's probably already been asked dozens of times. But should I be tagging your art as Trine Shipping? I genuinely don't know if the trio are just Bros or not, and I wanted to make sure. (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

I have no problem if people want to ship my seekers, they are not at all related to each other.

I write them as brothers in the sense that I am thinking of the situation with Megatron from the angle of an abusive parent and three siblings, but that’s meta textual. megatron’s not literally their dad. I also don’t write them as being intimate with each other because I’m not super comfortable writing that sort of content. but like, if you want them to kiss thats valid. thundercracker and starscream could totally kiss. uwu

tag stuff however you want.

[nthspecialll]

Okay, so I agree with some of these, but others not so much. I am just going to give my thoughts and it is absolutely not any hate to the OP.

Hosea and Dutch have been running together for many many years, about 25, and back when they met Dutch seems to have been the more passive of the two. Hosea admits that he was a very aggressive person, believing he was right in killing and robbing, and being above the law, while Dutch for example was the one who taught Arthur to read. While in 1899 Hosea is trying to keep Dutch back, he was the one who enabled Dutch back when they met, leading him further into a life of crime. That is not to mention that Hosea is eleven years older than Dutch, meaning Hosea was around 31 when they met and Dutch was 20.

OP and anyone else is naturally allowed to dislike Susan, but I think those two situations were a bit too different to compare them like that.

Micah is absolutely disgusting, but you can still like a character despite that and be an okay person. I don't particually like Micah, but I think he is very well written and I think it is interesting how he doesn't quite know if he is okay with the isolation he is in or if he wants to make friends. People can like him without being okay with the things he does, otherwise we would all be condoning murders, because that is what all the gang members are. Similar to how people can like John but be aware he was a shit dead beat dad at first and not condone that.

You thinking Javier is overrated is okay, that is a personal oppinion and you are intitled to that but saying "I just don’t see how people flock to him when we have characters like Charles" is like saying "I just don’t see how people flock to vanilla ice cream when we have ice cream like strawberry." because everyone has different taste and that is okay.

I honestly have not seen anyone hate on Pearson but yeah people need to give him a bit more love and I sure hope he got himself some kids too, especially after that interaction with Mary Beth.

I agree, she wasn't. And calling her a 'bop' is a bit strange, glad I have not seen that.

I don't read a lot of fanfic, so I have not seen a lot of people writing him, but I have heard that it is bad, and if it is then yes.

Yep! Just one example is that recently I have started getting drunk in camp and greeting folk and he says some... things, like saying Abigail should smile some more or that he could mistake Trelawney for a circus monkey, and that is GREET.

I don't ship Bonnie and John either, but people can ship whatever they want, that is part of fandoms, if you don't wanna see it just go into the ship tag and press block. Ships are not meant to make sense, just let people have their fun. Crackships, rarepairs and similar and the backbone of fandoms.

Absolutel love Molly, she really did deserve a lot more.

My red dead hot takes:

1) Vandermatthews sucks. Hosea deserves so much better then to be shipped with that car wreck of a human being.

2) Miss Grimshaw fucking sucks. She didn’t hesitate to shoot Molly but hesitated to shoot Micah and Dutch and never did shoot at him. I didn’t feel bad when she died, I’m sorry.

3) If you like Micah, you give me the ick. The man killed a dog, kicked a four year old, is a rapist and racist who kills for fun, and killed Arthur. I don’t care how much you try and defend him, he’s disgusting.

4) Javier is WAY too overglazed. Like, he’s alright. I just don’t see how people flock to him when we have characters like Charles.

5) Yall need to ease up on Pearson btw, I see some mean stuff about him and it makes me sad. I was so happy when I found out he was running the general store in Rhodes, and was married. He seems like such a girl dad, I hope he had kids.

6) Abigail wasn’t the second rat. Get over it. She was child when she was doing sex work, stop calling her a “bop”

7) Y’all are a bit too comfortable with stereotyping Charles, yes his half Native but that’s not all his personality. Did you not pay attention to his character at all?

8) Arthur isn’t a great man. I love him, SO MUCH. But he’s not a good man. He did good things and believed in good things, but still

9) I don’t like it when people ship John with anyone besides Abigail. They are ment to be in my mind, JohnxJavier makes me roll my eyes and JohnxBonnie makes me wanna gag. She’s 27 and he’s in his early to mid forties in rdr1

10) Molly deserved SO MUCH better. My poor darling girl was just in love, not only did Dutch and the majority of the gang not give a fuck about her, but so did the whole fandom. Luckily I’ve found a bunch of people who adore and defend her.

People play the whole game and sweat up and down that Molly really was the rat when Micah and Milton both admit who the rat was. And I KNOW it’s just it’s some back wash drinking misogynistic cretins that hate on Molly for no real reason.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #7711:

I should not be made fun of because I want to see more posts in certain tags of characters in characters, critical thinking regarded to moments and want to see less shipping or more canon shipping in fandoms. Majority of it is out of character stuff and lgbt shipping. Why do I have to be bullied for wanting some actual variety. I did t join the fandom for headcanons only and I sure as hell didn’t join because of headcanons. It’s gotten to the point where I think people don’t take off their lenses and have forgotten what the actual character personalities or relationships are like and even what’s actually going on in scenes/the story.

[galaxylover06]

Their name is Barry and they can't escape the digital cir

[r-aindr0p]

I- I might have doodled some more- Rollo can point anything deadly at Rook all he wants, it still won't make him back away or stop grinning. Rook's been knocking at the window randomly for weeks before finally getting (accidentally) invited in And he's probably awake during daytime too because why not, the trickier to move around the funnier ! It's like playng the floor is lava but actually deadly ! :)))

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[lacrimosathedark]

Hiya. Aroace-spec enby Hazbin fan and Radioapple shipper here. No hard feelings here, but you are incredibly misinformed so allow me to learn you a few things.

Firstly, I can tell that this is something of a vent post. That's okay, sometimes you need to just get your feelings out into words and be heard by somebody, anybody. That's alright.

That being said, when that vent includes something people enjoy in non-harmful ways (like shipping fictional characters) you don't add those tags. Ship hate stays out of ship tags for everyone's safety; so the shippers aren't hurt during what could be their only fun time, and so you aren't hurt when less understanding people retaliate. Because they will, as you've maybe noticed by now.

I'm putting the rest of this under a cut because it's long because I am incapable of shutting the fuck up and overexplain. I just want you to know I'm not yelling at you and hopefully don't feel too overwhelmed by this.

Now, I'm glad you want to defend us, but defending us without accurately understanding us only causes harm. As someone on the trans spectrum that's usually overlooked (and maligned if you're transfem) I hope you recognize that. People are so intensely misinformed on sex and gender that even when they advocate for us, sometimes they unintentionally spew transphobic bullshit. That's kind of what you're doing now.

Asexuality and aromanticism is, as you said, about attraction, but that's all it is; attraction. It's that yearning or hunger for that specific thing. This does not preclude aromantics from participating in pseudo-romantic relationships or actions of various kinds, or asexuals from sexual relationships. Sexuality is not synonymous with libido or hedonism, romance is not synonymous with intimacy or companionship. There are lots of sex-positive asexuals who are some of the horniest motherfuckers in the world; they just don't feel attraction. Similarly there are aromantic people who want the reliable closeness of a romantic partner just without the lovey dovey stuff, and may even act in ways that can be perceived as romantic from a platonic standpoint. And the mesh point non-sexual non-romantic aroace committed relationships is a queerplatonic relationship. It's kind of like "best friend" but more committed and takes many forms.

Also presuming we need to be sheltered, that we're all sex-repulsed and romance-repulsed and should be protected from such things, is a little infantilizing. I'd love more media without sexual implications, and I know aros who are beyond sick of all media being about romance. But we live in this world every day. Personally, I'm infantilized enough as a small transmasc. I appreciate the intent, but your methodology is flawed.

Now to the Radoapple of it all.

You're commenting on a fandom you aren't in and know nothing about. You weren't even sure how to spell the character's name. That's not a good starting point.

Alastor is NOT canonically aromantic, though that's a common headcanon. He IS asexual, but as mentioned, it is a spectrum, and he's only shown blatant repulsion to he topic in regards to a character who is hypersexual, which could make even allos uncomfortable. The creator has given shippers her blessing to do what they will, so there's no issue there. And for the "strongest" shippers, even her disapproval wouldn't have stopped them. How often do you see straight characters made gay and gay characters made straight in fandom for the sake of a ship? That's ignoring canon characterization AND it's bi erasure and it's common as fuck and that drives me nuts but I'm getting side-tracked.

Alastor shippers are often very respectful of Alastor's identity. Some of the most common ao3 tags for Alastor are "Non-Sex Repulsed Asexual Alastor" and "Sex Repulsed Asexual Alastor". People come at his sexuality from both sides.

Radioapple in particular is one of the healthiest ships Alastor is put in, in large part because everyone is in Hell and his other big ships have a History behind them.

There's also just who Lucifer is as a person. He may b contentious with Alastor (I'll get to it) but on the whole, Lucifer is very sweet. He adores his daughter more than anything. He very blatantly misses his ex-wife who has been absent for at least 7 years. And we could all but guarantee that if he were to somehow date Alastor, if he said no sex ever, Lucifer would accept that. Partly because he's been alone without his wife for who knows how long so it's nothing new, but also how he won Lilith over in the first place.

Lilith left Adam because he demanded she be subservient. In mythology this is often boiled down to he insisted on "topping" and she refused to "bottom". She's a proud woman and would not be under anyone's control. But she met and fell in love with Lucifer soon after, so you can imagine what that may imply about him. At the very least, he showed Lilith respect and didn't make demands of her. He knows how to respect someone's boundaries. (where also, notably, Alastor's other common ship partners canonically don't. No shame on those who ship them, just making a point)

Alastor and Lucifer met on screen, and sparks flew. Literally. They were firing shots at each other. It was mostly verbal with magical flourish for visual, but it was also the first time in the series Alastor was less than composed. He'd had one big on-screen confrontation and a few small ones before that and he never lost his head or so much as swore. He said "fuck you" to the devil's face less than 5 mins into meeting him. And they got very in each other's faces. People were going to ship them.

So, this? This is why they're shipped.

On top of this, lot of fledgling aros and aces explore their identities through Alastor and shipping him in whatever ways they like. And it's fan work not official work, so where's the harm in self-exploration? A lot of even some of the nastier fanfiction is people processing trauma, which is healthy and can help those who find it too. The existence of "bad" fan work is 9 times out of 10 a good thing.

But I'm guessing you aren't so much reading as seeing drawings, but here's the thing about that: unless it's a comic, a picture is a single moment. You don't have context of the artist's perspective on his identity unless it's right there in the color palette or there's a straight up flag. You don't know if the artist respects Alastor's sexuality or not. You don't know if, hey, they find his design appealing and wanted to mess with it. At a glance you can't know. And assuming the worst, that all these artists are aphobic, is not good for you, them, or us.

Try not to jump to conclusions just because you saw a suggestive drawing.

I know this was a lot, but I hope this helps you.

not aro or ace, but whenever I see radioapple in particular, like Lucifer/Alastar or something, I forgot bro's name.

I get so fucking pissed, because it's SO popular, but I'm pretty sure Alastar is aroace and everyone keeps on excusing it on the 'aces can feel sexual attraction too' or something for aros and I just.

YEAH. Yeah I agree. I might not know the concept personally, but yeah.

But to me at least, it's never been the point of being aroace???? the, well the centre of it?????

like, to me being aroace is not feeling romantic attraction/sexual attraction

or being on the spectrum of something like that.

tbh it's a bit easier to understand the spectrum if you think it's kinda like the nonbinary spectrum.

I'm a demigirl, I can safely say I fall under that.

So....maybe ?? It's like that for aroaces too? ...sorta?

I just feel like everyone keeps on dismissing the aroace thing, just to focus on their fantasies.

Like.

I don't know following my previous thought, I see Alastor (ohhhh) kinda like Paintbrush (II)

I might not understand much, but Paintbrush is nonbinary they/them

being nonbinary is a spectrum, but their identity in particular is also the clear 100% of what you first things first think a nonbinary person is. the pinnacle, the top of a mountain.

kinda like non-diluted alcohol.

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To me Alastor has never really been stated to like ummmm....... well...... be apart of the 'Ace people can feel sexual attraction too' thing? or maybe romantic attraction for aromantics....??? I dunno

There's lots of terms tbh, arospec, acespec, I can say im nonbinary and still be a demigirl.

can acespec people say they're ace and still mean that too? bweh....

but like, yeah.

I think I always saw Alastor as like a clear no on those topics, so I've always disliked people loving to ship him....... sorryy?????????

then this sorta stuff happens irl, and I just.

feel pissed.

because it feels like weird weird weird discourse is targetted towards aro's and ace's in particular and I nfjcjcksjdcndkjd.fjcmn. if i see one more guy say weird shit about clothing being an invitation,

ugh.

[squinkoblinko]

Redraw of a DTIYS entry I did for @greasby on insta forever ago hai haiaiis

why is there so much awkward space with this croppifn i’m too lazy to fix zzz

photo for reference (the whole dtiys was just to find a vintage queer photo n redraw it as a tf2 ship :•3 WAS FUN ASF)

[crowliphale]

loa server joked that every time gideon and kremy fight this is what torbek feels like (based on that one picture of the furry family lol)

[kesopan]

youtube recommendations are wild bro

[laurellala-comics]

A Shakespearean comedy of errors

bonus:

[starrypawu]

boy put that lava bucket down right this moment!!!!

[shkika]

i need a name for this bug

[cubezart]

I Depend On You

[goffilolo]

They were not meant to be separated

[owlheartt]

Something I really like about timebomb is that Ekko actually knows what he's getting into.

I'm not really seeing it get talked about but in season 1 they mention that Ekko and the firelights help people addicted to shimmer get off it and lead more fulfilling lives within the community. I should probably rewatch the scene for the exact wording (might be misremembering tbh) but that comment implies A LOT.

First: Ekko's mission is helping people where he can, he would probably try and help Jinx even if he wasn't in love with her

Second: He has experience dealing with severe mental illness as that often goes hand in hand with drug abuse, namely depression/suicidal ideation like what Jinx was exhibiting

Third: He's probably mapped out best course of action FOR dealing with this and has already figured out his own limits/boundaries. Meaning he knew what he was getting into trying to talk Jinx out of suicide, and was thus more equipped to deal with the aftermath

Fourth: He's probably helped ex members of Silco's gang. The firelights seem to have a theme of healing and repairing and recovering, so they've probably also learned to forgive. If they're mission is to rebuild the lanes into a safe space, they can't exclude people they don't like, they have to make room for them. I think they fought Silco out of necessity, and I doubt Jinx would be the first person they help who's killed one of them.

These all might be a bit of a stretch but I think it really fits. Beyond that, it shows that Ekko can ACTUALLY help Jinx. As much as unconditional love can do, Ekko has the tools for Jinx's recovery and a path ready for her. He also probably knows that her "healthy" will look different from AU Powder's "healthy." On top of that, I expect he knows how to respect her even in the middle of psychotic breaks and won't agitate her already frail mental state