#otp 4ever

[crazykuri]

i’m locked up. i’m happy and in love :’>

(someone needs to gif this better, please)

[dawnstudies]

Finally my for you is starting to show more and more perciver content. I'm winning y'all

[frogs-are-cool-but-so-is-medea]

i really should write my moby dick essay... but i keep looking up ishmael x queequeg content instead... sigh....

[winterlogysblog]

Saw this going around on reddit so I made my own.

(I'm not posting it in there, you guys are chill over here)

[spxcesuits]

devastating when ur otp and notp are constantly brought up in association with e/o just bc they both have the same character and are compared even tho the dynamics are not that similar at all 😔

[cryscal]

Random fic question: why do you ship your OTP?

*flails at picture for a solid minute*

Okay, I'll use words. lol

I watched the original Battlestar Galactica when I was a kid, which was the right time to see it, but when I learned Edward James Olmos would play Commander Adama in the '03 reboot, I knew this version would be Something Different. Deeper.

From that moment on I was like an imprinted duckling. I didn't bother to learn anything more about the cast (though the O HEY STARBUCK AND BOOMER ARE GIRLS THIS TIME was pretty hard to miss) or any changes to the storyline. I didn't need to. I committed to the miniseries on EJO's casting alone.

Aaaand then Mary McDonnell.

Of course I was impressed by Laura Roslin and Mary's portrayal of her from her first scene. And with every interaction between President and Commander, my certainty grew that here was the relationship I'd be coming back for. By the time Roslin confronted Adama with her immortal "we need to get the hell out of here and we need to start having babies," I was hooked, sucked in, totally gone. At this stage I had no assumptions about whether said relationship would eventually turn romantic … but the seeds of hope were planted, and started sprouting fan fiction almost immediately.

With Bill and Laura, not only do we have two monumentally talented actors with chemistry to burn, but also two beautifully drawn, multilayered characters who just keep getting deeper as the series progresses. And their relationship deepens too. You like Enemies to Lovers? Try Wary Colleagues to Enemies to Reconciled Colleagues to Friends to Flirtatious Friends to Longing to Lovers. And it's not a 100% linear progression. Bill and Laura support each other (after the, y'know, the coup thing) but they are also two strong-willed people who know how to hurt each other. But their bond stays solid in spite of every argument. Real and true at the same time.

I could go on for pages, but I'll restrain myself. 😉 Feel free to ask about any details you want to know. I'm in the process of formatting and uploading my fic to AO3, and I'll supply links as I go.

[love4luffy4lufe]

Ayo you need some kobylu pics? Dw pookie just dm on Insta i got 325 pics <33

[that-one-bird-that-wont-go-away]

THE SHIP NAME CAN BE VIRGIYLVANIA

pennsylvania and virginia have been sickeningly in love since the american revolution and I will stand by that 🙏🙏 (wish they could be in love with being good parents but

[crazykuri]

🥰

[puttersmile]

Chocolate x Vanilla

From this day forward my otp is Maggie x Dogday. I will never draw a Dogday x Bobby Bearhug pic ever. again. Chocolate x Vanilla 4ever!

Inner Bobby is just Bobby's internal thoughts represented as the normal little bear version of her. She is playing an Epoch Game Pocket Computer

[codename-adler]

jean moreau please

Joooooo of course <3

How I feel about this character

E V E R Y T H I N G. he is my love, my pain, my hope, my ghost, my light... i love him so much, it is unbelievable. i want nothing but the best for him. i could never bear to hurt him. he makes me sick and i demand more.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Jeremy, Neil, Aaron, Andrew, Andrew & Neil, Kevin (but not endgame), Kerejean (i wrote them once but again i do not see an endgame possibility with Kevin in the mix), Jeremy & Aaron (hehe)

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Jeaneil or Jeancat 4ever. but also Wymack!

My unpopular opinion about this character

obviously you'll have noticed i did not put Renee in the ships, so, there's that. i won't elaborate, i simply don't like it, pls do not send me hate aight?

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

my mind is somehow blank-- only thing on it rn is for TSC2/TSC3, i'm wishing for more Rhemann & Jean interaction, yk? or maybe Bobby. like, trustworthy adults who'll protect him teeth and claws. i need everything not to be on Jeremy's and Lailalvarez's shoulders.

[mondritter]

They are soulmates 😭

REAL LOVE™

[mith-gifs-wrestling]

Sami/Adversity OTP 4ever, it seems.

[belleandsaintsebastian]

for this, jess mariano!!!

hiii hellooo omg thank u for sending jess i always want 2 talk abt him my bby <3

fave thing about them: when he has wet hair bc he just dived in front of a sprinkler to impress the girl he's in love with!!! + his big brown EYES + fluffy curly hair + silly magic tricks + his snarkiness + sense of humour + obsessive reading habits <3 + proclivity to run away from his problems (same) + the way he says words + BOOKS IN BACK POCKETS + umm everything basically.

least fave thing: when people hurt his feelings!!!!!!!. like um please DON'T do that?? also perhaps umm. inability 2 communicate his problems sometimes...perhaps....

brotp: omg paris geller friendship of C!!! and lane kim they should have been best friends swapping cds AND they should have been in a band together.

otp: JESSRORY.

notp: i dont know hmm. sorry its always just jess + rory for me 4ever and ever...

random headcannon: BISEXUAL. also in my magical made up s4 world where jess + rory get back 2gether (hooray!!!) he totally steals all her yale hoodies <3 ALSO he also plays bass actually....

unpopular opinion: umm that like. hmm i dont know if its unpopular or not but...i think he was totally justified in being so pissed off at luke in s4 like. when he yelled at him it was soooo like. hes nineteen?? hes just been kicked out i mean obv hes going 2 be upset??? let him be pissed off etc!!!!

song i associate w them: born to run by bruce springsteen!!!

fave picture: again i have added. three...i cannot be stopped oops...

character ask game :))

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

What do you make of the Zuts who claim that Kataang fans are mean to them? Every ship has toxic fans, so I'm not saying it didn't happen, but the worst vitriol generally seems to come from the ZK side of things and KA fans are more frequently defending themselves (and Aang).

They're absolutely right about the Kataang fandom having it's own bad apples. I have seen some of them attacking Zutara fans, unprovoqued, just for liking a popular fanon alternative to their OTP, which is very childish and pathetic.

Here's the thing though. Like you guys know, while I was never into Zutara, also wasn't always into Kataang. During four of my nearly six years of truly being part of the ATLA fandom, I didn't hate either ship, but I didn't really care for them, and I was not shy about saying it.

And not once did I get death/rape threats or "kill yourself" messages from Kataang fans, not even when I was saying stuff like "I don't think their romance would last" or "I think the show would still work if they were just friends" (and that last point I still agree with). Nor was I told I clearly only didn't like Kataang because I had internalized misogyny or was against interacial relationships - like a cartoon couple could have anything to do with real world issues.

Whenever I read a fic that happened to have Kataang as one of the main pairings (like some fics for Maiko, a ship I always liked), the author never went out of their way to make Zuko, or any other character except sometimes Jet, look like an absolute monster just to make Kataang look better, or force a pairing to happen just to "get Zuko out of the way". Same for the metas about the show.

Whenever I saw fanart or fanfics for ships like Toph X Aang or Haru X Katara, I did not see dozens and dozens of "Ew, gross! Kataang 4ever!" or "This is really pretty, too bad is for an awful pairing, it'd be so much better if it was Kataang instead." Not once was I sent a "Even if you don't ship Kataang, this other ship is just objectively awful" ask just minutes after saying "I don't like Kataang, but I do ship Katara with Haru and even Jet"

Not once was did I ever a Kataang fan repeatedly tell me I should stop writting about my OTP and replace it with Kataang, or write both together, after I had already said I didn't like that ship and was not interested in writting anything except my OTP. Not once was any of metas that were COMPLETELY unrelated to Kataang, often not even mentioning either of the two characters, derrailed into being someone's "If you don't support my ship, you make the story worse" post.

More importantly, I could criticize the bad behavior I DID see from some Kataang fans, and be met with support from other Kataang shippers that were also annoyed at it, instead of having them deny it ever happened, or going "But what about what Zutara fans do?" do deflect, or saying "Don't generalize, we're not ALL like that!" even though that was not what I said.

Meanwhile every single one of these things happened when it came to Zutara fans. Repeatedly. To me, to my friends, to friends or my friends, to people I didn't interact with much, to people I didn't like very much. To people that shipped Kataang, Maiko, Jetara, Toko, etc. For God's sake, these people call the showrunners pedophilies just out of spite for not having their OTP become canon.

The Kataang fandom has bad apples, and like any large group, it can sometimes have TONS of bad apples. But a very big portion of that same fandom clearly doesn't approve of it and tries to keep them in check.

The Zutara fandom meanwhile often seems to go out of it's way to have ONLY bad apples, to the point that I constantly get asks from shippers that say they can't engage with the fandom anymore because people "on their side" are a nightmare to deal with. All because they seem to believe they can bully their way into being canon.

The situations are not at all comparable.

[crazykuri]

this 🥹

and also this 🥹