#otp: a pair of weirdos

[nostalgia-tblr]

Imagine Your OTP meet in a really big library and then one of them DIES within hours of that meeting but then they meet again after that anyway and flirt some but then it turns out she's gonna murder him at some point in the future but they continue to flirt (because he is not put off by this IN ANY WAY) and then she does indeed murder him but then she brings him back to life again but she's still Destined to kill him (again) but she's gone off that idea by now (Because Love) so instead she just breaks Time Itself which he is NOT keen on as an idea so he marries her right then and there to fix everything and then fakes his own death to cheat Destiny and then a bunch of other stuff happens (including some more death) and then they end up going on a date that lasts twenty-four years and the last you saw of them they were both a bit dead (It's Complicated) but they MIGHT run into each other again because time is wibbley-wobbly like that so who knows eh?

[consultwithmouse]

How did we all, as a nation, move on from this interview ??

Interviewer: Which do you think is stronger? Arthur's romance with Gwen or his bromance with Merlin-

Bradley: Bromance with Merlin.

Interviewer: ...

Bradley: It's there for everyone to see. He's been around for dinner at Gwen's. He spends all of his time with Merlin. No contest.

The way he carefully thought about all of the other questions but he didn't even hesitate with this one

No contest. NO CONTEST? SIR???

[wol-fica]

-𝔹𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕤 ℙ𝕋𝟟-

pairings - wednesGAYaddams x fem!reader

summary - you and enid go out for lunch, some problems ensue, and wednesday has to step in

warnings - spooky scary guy but fluff at the end, physical assault, can be almost considered as SA

an - wrote this impulsively at like 2 am last night while on the phone with four people, was radical

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“And that’s how Ajax proposed to me!”

You smiled, listening to Enid rant about her newfound engagement to her four year boyfriend, who she’s been pestering about proposing ever since they graduated, poor guy couldn’t catch a break. 

But they have finally taken a step forward in their relationship and caused Enid’s excitement to skyrocket, hence why she whisked you out of the house for a girls lunch with just you and her. The restaurant she chose was cute, with fairy lights draped across the ceiling and vines trailing down from above, it was cozy.

“So anyways, enough about me.” Enid said, setting her drink down after she took a sip, “What’s been going on with my OTP?”

“Nothing much, we have been pretty relaxed lately.” You replied, taking the small piece of chicken off of your fork and into your mouth.

“Sounds nice, I know Wednesday can be a…well…handful.”

You stifled a laugh, shaking your head with a smile after setting your utensil down. Enid wasn’t wrong, Wednesday was most definitely a handful, but a good one. She had her ups and downs that were…irritating…but you loved her and you understood that everyone can have bad days.

“We all go through rough patches, it’s natural.” You said, smoothing out your shirt, “Wednesday’s just happen to be more bloody and murderous.”

Enid suddenly coughed, raising an eyebrow and flicking her eyes behind you. You followed her gesture and turned your head to the right, meeting the gaze of a man around your age.

He was staring you down, his husky blue eyes piercing through yours as he smirked. His hand raised, fingers waggling in a teasing wave towards you. You gave a tight lipped smile in return, slowly turning back to Enid. 

“Weirdo.” You mumbled, balling up your napkin to place on your empty plate, “I’m gonna go pay, okay?”

Enid nodded, beginning to clean up the table from your lunch as you got up and walked to the front. The feeling of someone watching you washed over your body, making you feel exceedingly uncomfortable and vulnerable as you made your way to the register.

“Lunch?” The cashier asked, giving you a comforting smile.

“Yep, for two.” You replied, watching as the price rang up.

As you went to retrieve your card from your wallet, a hand suddenly shot out of nowhere to grab your wrist and stop you. Your head snapped to your left, looking upwards to see the guy from before handing his own card to the worker.

“I got it.” He said, his voice chillingly low.

He turned to you, winking playfully and biting his lip at you. You smiled and laughed awkwardly, carefully pulling your wrist out of his grip. Your wedding ring was clear as day on your finger, but he either didn’t see it or was ignoring it.

“Thanks, you didn’t have to do that.” You said, putting your wallet back in your purse.

“It’s fine, I always pay for pretty girls.” He quipped, his eyes slowly trailing from your face to down your body.

He was checking you out.

“Okayyyyyy, well I’m gonna get going, stuff to do.” You spoke, turning to go back to Enid.

“Wait hold on,” His hand took your wrist again, swinging your body back around to him, “I never caught your name.”

“Never threw it to you.” You challenged, now feeling extremely uncomfortable and disgruntled from this guy's advances.

“C'mon don’t be like that,” He said, pulling his phone out and handing it to you, “Put your number in?”

It was more of a suggestion than a question, but you were absolutely not going to do that. Forcefully yanking your hand from his, you backed up slightly, eyes glancing in search of the unseen Enid. Where she could have gone, you didn’t know, but it was definitely stressing you out.

“I’ll pass, have a nice day!” You grimaced before hurrying away to retrieve Enid and leave.

You exited the restaurant, looking around to see if she had left and was waiting for you outside, but the blue and pink streaked blonde was nowhere in sight. Who was visible was the man, making his way to the glass door of the building and to you.

“Dammit Enid.” You whispered before hurrying down the sidewalk at a fast pace.

Not many people were out, just a few couples hand-locked and some businessmen with their heads in their phones, none paying attention to you and the man closing distance on you.

Your hands fumbled to open your bag, pulling your phone out to call someone, anyone. You had a few messages from your dad, and a missed call from Enid, but your fingers immediately went for Wednesday’s contact.

You pressed the call button, putting the phone to your ear as it rang. Twice it went straight to voicemail, the third it rang for a few seconds before her automated message rang out. 

“This is Wednesday Friday Addams, if you are not my mother, father, brother, best friend, wife, or pet, please hang up or be prepared for decapitation….”

“Nes please..” You begged quietly, pressing the call button yet again, “Pick up!”

As the phone rang, you had the unsettling feeling of somebody becoming very close to you, and before you knew it, your back was pressed against a brick wall. His breath hit your nose when he leaned his face towards yours, the stench of beer coating your senses.

“You know, it was really disrespectful of you to just walk away.” He said lowly, “I asked for your number.”

You gulped, tears in your eyes as his grip on you tightened. His hands were sweaty and rough, itching on your skin while he closed himself in on your personal space. A small voice inside of you was screaming at you, scratching the back of your throat as it tried to tell you to fight back.

“It’s not that hard, just tell me what it is.” He sang softly into your ear, his hand traveling down from your shoulder towards your hip.

A sudden phone ring startled you both into a frozen position, your heads turning to look at your phone. Wednesday’s face was on the screen, the name ‘Nessy Boo🖤🗝️🐈‍⬛’ bold up above. The photo you used for her contact was you and her on your wedding day, her in her stunning black suit dress , and you in a gorgeously slim-fitted white dress. 

“Who is that bitch.” 

Bitch?

Bitch?!

Your emotions flared, your hand shooting forward to shove him in the chest. He stumbled backwards, his body in shock from the force you produced, and he ran into a light pole. The insult he used made you mad, incredibly furious as your eyes glowed a glorious green. 

“Bitch?” You asked softly, vines beginning to grow out of the ground as you twitched your fingers, “Is that what you said?”

He looked at you in apprehension, his eyes tearing away to glance at the sky’s darkening state. Clouds rolled overhead, the subtle crack of thunder and flash of lightning causing him to gulp fearfully.

“I suggest you leave,” You said, the wind starting to pick up, “Before you get hurt.”

He nodded, now completely sober and running tuck-tailed away from you. You watched him go, your breathing fast and heavy as your abilities slowly calmed down. Your shoulders slumped, your eyes closing weakly from the small use of your powers; the ones you rarely ever show.

Your phone rang again, startling you out of your zone-out. You picked it up from the ground, seeing that Wednesday was calling you for the fourth time. Immediately you answered, bringing the phone to her ear.

“Hey baby.” You murmured, turning to gaze at the still dark sky.

“I saw your calls, and the sudden weather change.” Wednesday’s voice sounded through the phone, soft and dull as she spoke to you, “What happened mi vida?”

You sniffled, now aware of the tears pooling in your eyes as you cried. 

“Some guy, he got too close, I got rid of him.” You replied, dusting your pants off before walking back in the direction of the restaurant.

“Some guy?! Are you okay? Do you need me to come get you?” 

Her concern was adorable to you, but she was at least 25 to 30 minutes away from you, meaning it would be pointless for her to come get you.

“No need, I’m gonna find Enid and get an uber.”

She hummed in disapproval, not believing your fib for one second.

“I’ll be there in 15.” Then she hung up.

You sighed, knowing she would show up with a murderous aspect in mind, but you were too utterly exhausted to pick a fight with her. The walk back to the restaurant was longer than you expected, almost 10 minutes by the time you made it back. 

“Y/N, Oh my god!” 

You turned to see Enid running towards you in a panic, her hands reaching for your shoulders to pull you into a hug.

“Are you okay?! You disappeared! Did you get hurt?” She was rambling, throwing her hands in the air.

“I’m okay, I swear.” You responded, giving a small smile to her, “Just some guy trouble.”

Enid glared at you, a look of disappointment crossing her face. She pulled you into a hug again, her arms holding you way too tight as she scolded you.

“Never walk away by yourself ever again, you hear me?”

“Loud and clear.” You smiled, turning when you heard a car door slam loudly.

There stood Wednesday, fuming with fury and rage as she looked for you. Her shoulders rose and fell heavily as steam basically poured out of her ears; she was angry. As she scanned the sidewalk, her eyes locked with yours, her features relaxing in relief before she began to speed walk towards you.

“Y/N.” She stated before pulling you into her arms, “Are you okay? Does anything hurt? Did he give you any injuries?” 

You leaned back slightly to grab her face and push your lips into hers, putting a blockade in her rambling. She kissed you back immediately, wrapping her arms around your back and waist as an attempt to make you feel safe and secured in her hold.

“I’m fine, I’m fine.” You whispered to her, caressing her cheeks with your thumbs as you tried to relax her, “I’m right here, Nes.”

She sighed, staring at you with her endless black orbs. Her arms squeezed you, holding you close to her while you repeated that you were indeed okay.

“I’m never letting you out of my sight.” She murmured, locking her lips with yours.

You hummed, smiling into the kiss. The clouds above began to clear, and the plants previously growing from the cracks in the pavement started to shrivel and turn to dust. 

“I’ll take you both home.” Wednesday stated, pulling you in by your waist before walking to her car, “You need rest.”

You nodded, gesturing for Enid to follow the two of you. Wednesday held the door open for her, speaking her thanks after she got in, then turned for you to follow. You paused before doing so, leaning in to press your lips to her skin.

“Thank you for coming, I love you.” You said, rocking back and forth on your heel.

She smiled, a rare but glorious sight, and bumped her nose against yours in an affectionate way.

“You’re welcome, and I love you more.”

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[sisterdivinium]

You know, for a show with so many female characters that so many of us love given how they all get time in the spotlight one way or another and they fill that time up rather wonderfully since they are deeper and more developed than what we're used to seeing in general media, it is peculiar (to say the least) to see so few "alternative" ships to the main one.

I'm not saying the canon ship doesn't deserve its attention -- I'm wondering instead why the canon ship and it alone seem to guide the WN fans who just so happen to enjoy writing/reading fic or fanart or whatever.

You'd think all these cool women would inspire more ships or combinations thereof, but those of us who aren't invested in avatrice just... Float along, around one another, ignored (and, yes, mostly undisturbed too; being unpopular does have its advantages and that includes a lot less weirdos leaving you strange or awkward messages -- it does not, however, shield us from people flooding our goddamn tags on AO3 with fic that has nothing to do with our little ships and I do wish such negligence of the pairing itself meant we didn't have to deal with this spam...)

I am also not saying that fandom activity should be based solely on shipping (and recently someone on Reddit was rather confused by the fact that a lot of it is, which is quite an interesting topic to discuss in itself -- after all, there is more to fan creativity than shippy fic... Or there used to be), merely that, here, it appears that a canon relationship can outshine interest in the other, non-canon ones. It's already there and it was doubtless well-done by the show, so it's natural that it should claim people's attention, sure. It's just that being canon was never the parameter for whether people were interested in these or those two (or more) characters maybe being involved and trying to explore what that could mean through fanwork.

There has always been a complaint haunting fandom spaces concerning the minuscule amounts of f/f fic, art, discussion, w/e based on how few (interesting or sympathetic or relatable) female characters there are in media at large. So what I'm curious about is why fan creations made around WN -- a show that finally gives us a whole cast of female characters that are what we have been craving for decades -- don't also reflect its diversity.

There are alternative ships (I'm here, all happy in my tiny Doctor Superion bubble, and I know there are Camila/Lilith, Ava/Lilith, Mary/Shannon, Mary/Lilith shippers out there, so a warm hello to you if you're reading this), but go on AO3 and compare the numbers of things tagged with these proper pairings to the grand total of WN stories. Better (or worse) still, do so with the "otp: true" trick or simply by excluding avatrice from the search to see how many are left.

It's... A considerable difference. And a mystery, at least to me.

[bluedalahorse]

August for the character breakdown game!

Or if someone else already named him, how about [one secondary character of your choice] from YR?

August you asked for, and August you shall receive! I was hoping someone would ask me about him, and I’m really glad you did.

How I feel about this character: Good lord. The absolute perfect storm of what this character did to my psyche. I am not going to lie that I spent a lot of first season (and significant parts of second and third) screaming at him. And sometimes he makes me really mad at him even now! At the same time, he’s well-written and well-acted and terribly interesting, and I have wanted him to be able to figure stuff out and fix his life from the moment I learned that his father died by suicide and he’s dealing with traumatic grief. I have wanted to climb through the TV screen and pluck him out of an environment like Hillerska. August is such a fascinating example of the way the system fails even those it’s supposed to protect. I just want to break him out of the system, and write him into new situations. In conclusion, what a tragic blorbo I seem to have acquired. (Totally valid if he isn’t other people’s but I see why he’s mine.)

All the people I ship romantically with this character: First and foremost, Sara. I have a weakness for them as two weirdos who see a similar sort of loneliness and want in one another, who get drawn together even though there are plenty of reasons that that’s a bad idea. There are so many stories that can be written about them still. I think Sara breaking up with August was where their relationship needed to be at the end of season three, but I’m not ruling out futures-with-growth-and-therapy or alternate universes. They have the potential to be just as epic as any other pairing on the show! Outside of Sara… well, in my Nils post I talked about how much I ship August/Nils, and how there’s so much there that is currently untapped by fandom. And then Simon/August and Alexander/August are ideas that intrigue me, even though those are more in the realm of deliberate disaster fics.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I came out of season 3 really enjoying the terrible preppy boy friendship trio so August and Nils and Vincent’s friendship dynamic fascinates me. As someone who went to an odd little college with a lot of traditions, I could relate to it a lot. The people who’ve been in close quarters with you, who you’ve had fun with, but who you’ve also been jealous of and you’re constantly on one another’s nerves… man. I really felt seen by that kind of complexity! I also have to admit I have a soft spot for August and Wille’s relationship, since Malte and Edvin have a lot of chemistry together, and because it seems like August and Wille’s healing is so interdependent. I could talk about that for ages, really.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I cannot even pick one to share because I’m fairly sure most of my opinions about August are unpopular. Liking August itself, in a way a fan does where you want to write fanfic focused on him or ship him with other characters or envision a more healed future for him—even if you repeatedly write multiple paragraph disclaimers about the harm that he did—kind of feels unpopular. And I wish it was a little less unpopular. And maybe my unpopular opinion is that the unpopularity of this opinion (August is indeed worthy of our fannishness) is not wholly by accident. I have no beef with the portion of fandom that just doesn’t particularly like him and doesn’t care to explore him in fanworks. Sometimes you don’t like the dark-haired Byronic asshole and that’s a valid personal preference! And for some people, engaging with August as a character isn’t something they can do with full emotional safety, and I would never want people to have to engage with him if that’s the case for them. He does do legitimate harm. At the same time, there is also a second current in fandom that is actively hostile to fans engaging with August in a fannish way, that uses language in a way that reduces him to his absolute worst deeds and does bad faith readings of any post that dares to explore him beyond the harm he does. I’ve heard stories of sargust edits on TikTok getting endless hate comments, and talked to writers who’ve wanted to write August-centric fic but figured it wouldn’t be worth not getting many hits. I’ve watched an adorable video where Edvin and Malte get interviewed together, only to see that the comments section was full of fans demanding Omar be in the video and not Malte. And I’m just thinking… why are people tearing stuff like this down? Why get angry about there being the bare minimum of nuanced August content out there? It’s not erasing any of the tens of thousands of Wilmon fics and edits. It’s not giving August more screentime in the show or having him take over as main character because the show is already finished. The way that Sara (and by extension Frida) gets caught in the crossfire is doubly upsetting. The lack of August and sargust and nilgust fanworks may be partially due to lack of interest on the part of some fans, but I can’t ignore that active hostility on the part of other fans has also played a role in who sticks around fandom and what they create. And that makes me terribly terribly sad. Because I look at other fandoms and it looks like they have more room for nuanced approaches. Like Interview with the Vampire fandom is having so much fun with Devil’s Minion and I don’t think we have anything like that.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish August and Simon had more of a chance to interact in season 3 without Wille there. I’ve talked before about how Wille and Simon have fundamentally different issues with August, and that they aren’t actually as united against him as Wille seems to think when he gets all hypermasculine and protective. I don’t actually think Simon and August could have resolved all their issues in one season, and they might not be able to period. But they might benefit from some kind of restorative conversations, even if those end in a place of non-closure. And there’s a lot that’s similar in their experiences that they don’t even know about. The worst thing is, it feels like the show is aware of this, and maybe had some moments in mind, but then cut them. Like why have that scene in 2.3 where August tells Vincent to shut up when Vincent’s being awful to Simon? Why have Simon be the one who names August’s eating disorder? I feel like they were meant to have more, and maybe it got cut because it didn’t involve Wilhelm. And honestly that makes me so sad, too.

This got horrendously long-winded and I apologize. But hopefully my answers were worth reading!

[clancy-cornflower]

famous last words

so a day has passed and no one in the Amnesia fandom has answered me why the fuck everyone is turning a blind eye to a guy drawing pedophilia and incest, and why I, as someone who was harrased in my childhood (by a peer, but trust me, it doesn't make things any better) should move past it and ignore it, or accept the fact that the person just has a "sPeCiFiC CoNtEnT". No, it doesn't trigger me and I don't need to "survive the trauma", it's just disgusting and unacceptable. Can we talk about it? Yes, people can have specific fetishes and kinks. Yes, Amnesia is a story about a bunch of traumas, and it's logical to expect Amnesia content to talk about something dark and traumatic. And I won't lie, I watched Game of Thrones with great interest, which is full of similar content, but, as my favorite russian joke goes, there is a nuance. First of all, pedophilia isn't a fucking kink or fetish, get some help, weridos :) Second. Game of Thrones, Lolita, and even such shitty media as Tokyo Ghoul portray incest and sexual relations with children as something disgusting and horrible, even if they don't say so directly, because these things ARE disgusting and horrible (I hope I don't need to explain why they are). And there is a HUGE difference between showing how such relationships are terrible, destructive and unhealthy, and between "hehe, this is my otp, haha, they are so cute, hihi, you are the fandom police, don't stop us from having fun." No, I will stop you from having fun. Get help, weirdos, and don't "kys" everyone who disagrees with you on some issue. Or is that a completely different thing? In the end, both Shandy's political views and Eldritch's drawings are just words and pictures on the internet, but for one you can get wishes to kill yourself, and for the other - nothing at all, and even protection from some part of the fandom, because the "pairing police" came for his soul. Definetly not hypocritical thing.

I drop the mic and go cook curry. All those who disagree with me can cry loudly.

[therealgamble]

Writing prompt: Out of their element ~ and the pairing [my OTP] Gamble/Riley

"It's like those babes in bikinis car washes, but it's for the fallen officers fund." Beth explained, like that made it any better.

The ladies had put together some good fund raising ideas over the years, but this one wasn't high on Brian and Riley's list.

"So you want us to wash cars?" Brian asked, his face scrunching slightly as he pictured the team in bikinis and high heels.

"Yes. And we'll have some snacks and coffee for people to purchase too." Corinne replied with a smile.

Riley let out a loud sigh and shook his head. "It's a good thing you're cute." He told Corinne, pressing a kiss to the tip of her nose.

A week later they were all out in the parking lot of a mini mall near the station. The girls were holding signs that read "Get your car washed by a real cop", "Hot cops washing cars", "Charity car wash", and the like.

Riley was in a black tank top with jeans and his boots, dutifully washing a red Camaro and graciously dealing with the cat calls and propositions.

"Where's Bri?" Tabby asked him, looking around for her husband.

"Leaving me in the lurch. That asshole." Riley growled as he dunked his sponge into the soapy water. "Go find him, Tabs. Tell him I can't do this alone."

Just then Brian appeared from behind a building, wearing not his uniform shirt but a shirt painted to look like a cop's uniform, and what could only be described as booty shorts - black, tight, and made of something stretchy. He danced his way towards the car Riley was washing, arms waving in the air.

"What the actual FUCK?" Riley looked his partner up and down, then looked at Tabby like he needed confirmation of what he was seeing. A chorus of giggles sounded out from all directions as the ladies took notice of him.

"Babe! You wore the shorts I got you?" Tabby squealed with delight. "I told you he would." She directed her comment at Corinne and Beth, who were standing with hands over their mouths, trying to hide their laughter.

Brian shot a wink in Tabby's direction and then started climbing onto the hood of the car, doing a fair imitation of Tawny Kitaen in the Whitesnake video, sliding around and then grabbing Riley's sponge and dripping soapy water over his own chest.

The ladies were doubled up with laughter, which only spurred him on. Riley was trying to pull him off the hood of the car and simultaneously trying to avoid touching him. The lady sitting in the car was trying to stuff money into his shirt.

He finally slid off the hood, took a deep bow, and thanked the woman for the tip.

"I bet we never have to do this again." He remarked to Riley as he started towards the coffee table.

"I bet they make you do that every year." Riley replied, shaking his head. "Ya fucking weirdo."

Brian laughed as he walked away.

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

Rachel Dare! For the ask game :D

hiii, @riordanverseaddict 👋! thanks for the ask!

Three facts about them from my personal headcanon: Firstly, Rachel's love language is gifting. She has money to spend and she spends it. She saw Percy's sneakers covered with duct tape and bought him a pair of Nike special edition sneakers the next day. Second, she loves customising everything she has: she paints her airpods, phone cases, sneakers, tshirts. Third, her cave is a safe space for all demigods to just come, chill with her, and have fun being her muse.

One reason why they suck: Not many reasons haha. But if I really have to nitpick, then I would quote the time i found it uncomfy how she didn't really wait for an answer when she asked percy if he wanted to kiss her and didn't wait for an answer like she was a little pushy in that sense. but it's a kid series, a 15 year old and everyone did that in the series. so nothing ig 💪

one reason why they're great: she was a great friend to percy, I found it so sweet how she understood Percy's demigod burnouts and stepped up as a friend and basically gave him a safe space where he could chill and be normal.

one reason why I relate to her: weirdo artist who is very good at manifesting stuff✌️

top three otps: HERSELF (aroace!!), piper (I see the vision and I like it), (brotp) perachel.

five things that I believe should have happened: her become more of a environmentalist, a total brotp with percy AND annabeth (with teasing about how cringe they all were), teaming up with annabeth to design olympus (she does the art stuff), more of her funny school life as a green smoke spouting oracle, her interactions with the hoo crew (I FEEL LIKE SHED LOVE THEM)

five people she will never fall in love with and why: her bestie percy (I have this crack headcanon that she just pretended to flirt with percy because she knew that her involvement with percy would make him and annabeth rethink their relationship and speed up percabeth), octavian (need I explain?), literally any other three characters from the pjoverse, she doesn't really interact much with anyone 😂

[isleofair]

8, 11 and 18 for the TnB game!! 💚

YAAAYYY, thank you so much for asking!!! 🩷🩷🩷

8. Any ships? And if so who? And why if you want

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH NO 🫠🫠🫠

Okay. Okay. I will NOT write out an entire FireSky Ship Manifesto in an ask post. I will not. I will NOT.

AHEM. Okay, now that that's out of the way.

My first and obvious and extremely enthusiastic answer is, of course,

💖💖💖❤️💜 FIRESKY ❤️💜💖💖💖

I just... They are everything to me. I could tak about them forever (but I won't, I promise, maybe I'll make an actual ship manifesto one day 😅)

For now I'll just say... they fit together perfectly. They have a wonderful rapport that has everything I hold dear in a relationship. They might have been each other's low-key favorite since the very beginning. And putting them together is so freaking good, both for the characters individually, and for what it represents on a larger scale. My all-time OTP. 💖💖💖

Other ships I like are TaiBani (they're married, your honor), GoldenRose (they'd need to grow as people for this and it would be so good for them), KidCat (adorable baby lesbians who are low-key total weirdos together? Sign me up), and whatever the Agnes/Antonio ship name is (he'd help her chill out and she'd give him the love he deserves... if in her own Agnes way 😅).

11. Any characters you think could have been good friends if they had been given a chance

The first pair that comes to mind is Nathan and Agnes. I love that Nathan hangs out with the younger girls, but can you imagine the sheer power of Agnes and Nathan out and about on the town?

The second thing I immediately want to do is give poor Yuri a friend 😭 And honestly there are several decent candidates, it's just that Yuri himself would not give them a chance. Barnaby seems like an obvious choice, but I can't stop thinking about that amazing scene in The Rising where Kotetsu tells Yuri that he does not understand Barnaby at all, if he thinks Barnaby is now happy since Maverick is dead. Still, they could have had some much-needed conversations and a decent relationship.

18. Favourite (smaller) detail about one of the characters

Ooohhh, just one? 🥺 Nathan, then, of course! 💖

If we're talking about design, I love the shape of her eyes, and the tiny blue details on their Fire Emblem suit (along with all the color gradients, I'm a total sucker for gradients).

If we're talking more in general, all the complex up and downs of her self-confidence. They're mostly directly visible in the glimpses we get of her past, of course, but knowing they're there gives her current bold strength so many layers, so much depth. That one moment when she tells Keith she was actually still so unsure when she first became a hero... Oh, it means so much to me. 🩷 (Especially since Barnaby's suit data in The Beginning says they had a "spectacular debut"; just how much effort did that take? 🥺)

(The Tiger & Bunny ask game!)

[lemonyinks]

One Piece for the ask game?

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character: Nico Robin. She might be my favorite character of all time, not just in One Piece.

Least Favorite character: That's hard. Probably a tie between Garp and Spandam. They both disgust me.

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): I don't really have many ships for OP but maybe Nami/Vivi, Yamato/Ace, Killer/Kidd, Robin/Franky, aaandd I guess Uta/Perona (crackship but theres some cute art)

Character I find most attractive: Robin or Ace

Character I would marry: None of them tbh.

Character I would be best friends with: I want to say Luffy, but that's too easy. Maybe Carrot? I don't think I would be best friends with Robin but we are similar, so i think we would enjoy each others company well enough.

A random thought: really think Yamato and Carrot should have joined the crew, I miss them both so much. I also think its a lil silly that people act like they had to have a "roll" to be part of the crew and that's the reason they didn't join. Not everyone on the crew is going to have a designated roll.

An unpopular opinion: Hate Crocodile. Can't stand him. He's a good villain, interesting character. I just want to hit him with my car.

My canon OTP: None. Theres like no romance. None thats memorable to me anyway.

Non-canon OTP: Nami/Vivi.

Most badass character: Robin again LMAO. Can you tell I like her? But seriously, she's just such a strong character, and I don't even mean in terms of physical strength only.

Pairing I am not a fan of: Shanks/Buggy. Nothing really against it I just can't personally see them together.

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Sanji. He has all the building blocks of being a great character; he's kind, he's compassionate, he's loyal. He's got a lot of good scenes. One of my favorite scenes in the series is the one where he stands up to his abusive family and disowns them. Unfortunately all of that is undermined by the fact that he's a gross weirdo.

Favourite friendship: The strawhat piratesssss. All of them together. They're special to me. They're the definition of love.

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[fairyoak]

i'm a different anon, but i don't find your answers weird, i actually find them really interesting hehe. this whole thing made me want to ask you: what's your opinion on the different couples of fairy oak? do you have a favorite couple? idk, i love to ask stuff to other fairy oak fans, but i don't know that many fans, so yeah

haha thank you!!! and what a fun question, i hope i remember stuff correctly. also bear in mind that i haven’t read the og trilogy in a while so these may well be the impressions of 12 year-old me 🤷🏻‍♀️

#1 fairy oak otp for me is Pervinca+Grisam, obviously, with the exception that i actually headcanon them to split amicably while they’re in their 20s so one of them can embark on adventures around the world (pervinca, that is. homegirl would love solo travelling). i love their love for each other but i see it lasting longer if it’s platonic rather than romantic?

#2 is Duff+Tomelilla because i love when two competent and clever and talented bitches pair up together. these two have the craziest chemistry and everyone around them are constantly asking themselves when will they ever get together but they don’t know that they actually already tried it and figured out it didn’t work out. like they hooked up once and they were both “no fam this ain’t going to work” but they would still literally die for each other, they are each other’s confidant and give each other little smooches like it’s the most normal thing in the world. (if tomelilla is ace then duff is probs gay jn my book).

vaniglia+jim= FLOP. sorry but even as a little girl i could not get behind this. pass.

flox ends up with acanti if i remember correctly? anyway love a couple of weirdos so i can totally get behind that

and of course we stan all the gay couples mentioned in the epilogue to the last book, it was such a masterful way to normalise same sex couples in a children’s book. literally nothing weird about it, just mention it as any other piece of gossip. love!

send me a specific pairing if you want more opinions about it! helps me jog my memory!

[varley-of-torment]

1, then mercie for 10?

OTP?

Honestly, I gotta say Linhardt and Bernadetta! their supports and paired ending are so good. Not romantically, I don't think they see each other *that* way, more like two introverted weirdos that are not cut out for the noble life latching onto each other and relying on each other-- even if there's still room for bickering or misunderstanding. they're a fun duo!

What's your favorite piece of fanart for Mercedes?

This is kinda unconventional, but it's actually a panel from this comic by yul-is-sparkling showing various characters in the rain and holding umbrellas.

look at her. You just know it was her job to bring the umbrella and she completely forgot. it looks like she's holding up her finger to say "uh, so here's the thing... I forgot the umbrella". it's so on brand.

[incoherentbabblings]

Heyyy kinda saw Year of the otp and i want to ask if you take any fic req (and it’s okay if you don’t) but the (seemly) unrequited love or university au on April for seems interesting for imsteph or dickkory kejwksk

Take good care 💕💕

Oh! I'm so pleased to get a request! I did wonder if anyone saw that post. Let's go for it then! Here is one for April - I have combined the two. Some smutty time here, but (as you'd expect) nothing that explicit. This is beyond sappy. Hyup! If anyone wants to request ones for later in the year, here's the original post!

One More Mistake

It was a mistake.

Or so Stephanie told herself. Frat House party, too much to drink, the classmate she had come to see, one drunken and ill-advised night later, Tim and Stephanie were in a pharmacy, collecting a morning after pill.

She wasn’t pregnant, that was fine. What was less fine was Tim saying,

“Do you want it to be a thing?”

By ‘thing’, Stephanie had assumed he meant sex. She should have asked for clarity, but instead, she let her head get in the way, and told herself that if Tim had wanted her - romantically - he would have pursued her long before drunk sex. One didn’t wake up after a sloppy one night stand and think oh, no you are the one, you drooling on my back mid thrust half asleep proved it! 

Right?

Stephanie had decided long before sleeping with Tim that she loved him. Earnestly, foolishly, desperately. He was that weirdo who asked questions during lectures, sitting in the second row (not the first, that would be truly weird) and typing far faster than Stephanie could match with a pad and paper. He was that oddball who was dungeon master of a rather eclectic DnD session group, with the posters and books to back it up. He was the foolish boy who was nothing short of a good Samaritan, finding a lost dog and returning it to their owner expecting and accepting no reward, or chasing after a thief when an old lady had her purse taken and managing to body slam the thug into a wall.

He was the beautiful boy that she was so madly, pathetically in love with, that she would rather take a sliver of affection from him, meaningless and empty as it was, than have nothing at all.

No kissing. That was her own rule. Kissing made it too real. Pull his head down instead, right next to her neck, so she didn’t have to look him in the eye. If he looked, he’d know. If they kissed, he’d know. She couldn’t bear the rejection that would inevitably make their relationship, as ill defined and one sided as it was, come crashing down. 

Any rational person would realize such a relationship was doomed. Unhealthy. The sex was good, the pair of them climaxed without fail each time, drunk or not, but their day to day interactions remained unchanged. She still would turn up to lectures five minutes late, Tim near the front as always having arrived fifteen minutes early. Their working groups and tutorials and seminars remained firmly on work and work alone. 

What little pieces of information she'd managed to scrape together from watching and listening to his conversations with others only made her heart ache further. Dead mom, a trying but for the most part absent father, nice enough step-mom, a general dissatisfaction with where life was taking him despite an overwhelming pressure to succeed at something…

Stephanie knew what she was - a very convenient way to blow off steam.

So she let him. She wanted to be useful. And she would close her eyes, hold him as close as she dared, pretend there was something there, only for each time causing her heart to die just a little more. 

Today was particularly difficult. He wouldn’t let her hold him. Instead, he pulled her up so they were sitting entangled, his right hand was wrapped around her waist, the left holding onto her hand so tightly Stephanie believed the blood circulation to be suffering. She did not care, pretending that he was holding on to her because he needed her, she anchored him and comforted him and was an irreplaceable facet of his life and -

She made a mistake.

Her lips found his, just for a moment, brushing skin and heat and warmth. 

Tim jerked back, the expression of his face shocked (disgusted), startling Stephanie out of her day dream. Ashamed, she pressed her forehead to his collarbone, and let him finish his task.

Which he did, dutiful as ever, making Stephanie tremble and gasp and want nothing more than for him to once say what he felt, and mean it. 

She felt him finish with little more than a gasp and a quiver, then the expected happened. He moved out from underneath Stephanie, ignoring her as she immediately rolled away, grabbing her thin worn sheet to cover herself. Staring at his clothes on the floor scattered across the room, Stephanie listened as Tim sat on the edge of the mattress. She heard him tie off and throw away the condom. She heard him sigh, run his hand through his hair (she could do that for him, always, forever, as long as he wanted), then simply sit breathing for a moment.

Turn around, she wanted to ask, no, beg, Turn around and hold me. 

But he didn’t, instead he stood up, padded over to her tiny en-suite bathroom, and Stephanie heard him turn her cramped shower on. He’d come back through for his clothes, mutter about having to go finish the paper they both had not written on statistical thermodynamics that was due by the end of the week, and leave Stephanie behind, the room feeling much colder suddenly.

Stephanie continued to stare at his clothes, silently screeching as she watched, in an out of body experience, herself reach for his jacket. She was holding it reverently, back still to the bathroom. The noise of water running through old pipes stopped, and soon Tim emerged to the sight of Stephanie with her back to him, holding his denim jacket.

Piece by piece he collected his clothes, until all that remained was the darn coat.

She turned, resisting the urge to sniff and look pathetic, and handed it over. Remaining conscious of the fact that she was still naked and had yet to clean herself up, Stephanie twisted until she was sitting against the headboard, sheets pulled up under her arms. Determinedly, emptily, she stared at the foot of the bed.

“I have to work on that report,” Tim said, as expected.

Words would not come, so Stephanie nodded. Her throat closed up, feeling very tight. Damn, she really needed to open a window, the room was stifling and hot and must have stank - 

Tim paused at her door, then looked back.

“Steph?”

She made a humming noise in response, but continued to glare at her hidden feet.

“...I don’t wanna do this anymore.”

Oh. There it was. There was the broken heart. Of course. She wasn’t worth trying for, she wasn’t worth keeping, of course she knew this would happen. There was only ever going to be one outcome, so why should she feel her breath be stolen? Why should she feel her stomach turn in a nauseous tumble, threatening to remove any chance of dignity from this goodbye? She knew this would happen. 

And yet she burst into tears all the same.

Tim, to his usual oblivious idiot credit, looked mortified. “Wait - wait I…”

He came over, touching Stephanie’s shoulder. She flinched, strangling out a pathetic apology.

“I thought…!” Tim trailed off. “This is too hard for me! I can’t keep sleeping with you and pretending there’s nothing more. You don’t even look at me, let alone…”

“All I do is look at you,” Stephanie warbled. “And it isn’t enough.”

“You…” Tim got down on his knees, then took one of her hands, cradling them in his own. The distinctive dripping noise of fallen tears came, plip plop, onto the white bed sheet. Stephanie breathed unsteadily, then wiped them away. 

“Stephanie,” Tim tried again. “What would be enough for you?”

She said nothing, only shaking her head. “Tell me,” Tim urged.

“You wouldn’t be able to give it,” she whimpered.

“Try me.”

One hand moved into her hair, dishevelled and sweaty and tangled, stroking with his thumb the space behind her ear. She turned into the motion, finally looking at Tim on his knees before her. 

One last mistake, she told herself. Stephanie would hurt herself one more time.

“I want all of you,” she said.

Tim blinked twice, slowly, reminding Stephanie of a cat. Then, as if in slow motion, his blank expression melted, and his chest heaved a great sigh, as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

“I can give you that,” he said simply. 

“You…” Stephanie reached up, holding the wrist that cradled her hair. There was no pain, only a startling and intense feeling of hope. “You have all of me,” she whispered, pulling him up.

He perched himself back on the bed, letting the jacket fall once more to the floor.

“Then I guess we can keep doing this.”

And he kissed her, and all Stephanie’s mistakes felt right all at once.

[dorkassghostwriter]

Unova E4 ship headcanons!!

Okay so I love all of these dorks and I love pairing them together (even in a polycule) so I compiled some of my headcanons, with the pairings listed in order of preference. Feel free to use on your fics or art or whatever

GRIMSLEY/SHAUNTAL (OTP) -Weirdos; they are a bit too intense for their own good -Expensive restaurant dates, almost exclusively at night -Grims is always looking for ways to make Shauntal blush -She teases back but that only entices him further -But when they join together to fuck with other people they're invincible -She got him into her nerdy board games, he's too proud to admit he likes them -He loves beta-reading her novels -When making out, she always tries to mess up his hair in hopes he'll get a better haircut -Yes they are kinky, more than any other pairing in here, and Grimsley usually takes the lead

SHAUNTAL/CAITLIN -Caitlin is clingy and Shauntal lets her; she loves having her follow her like a puppy -Shauntal likes to tease Cait about being inexperienced with romance -Darach and Shauntal love to talk about Cait in ways that utterly embarrass the poor girl -Coffee dates; Shauntal needs the caffeine and Cait needs to quench her sweet tooth -Shauntal is exceptional at calming Cait down wheneve her psychic powers flare up -They love swapping outfits and trying out the other's style -Shauntal reads her short stories to Cait aloud -Caitlin's general naiveté brings Shauntal's dommy side in the bed -Still, they like to switch a lot

GRIMSLEY/CAITLIN -"M'lady," "m'lord" -They bicker about trivial stuff in a way that makes you want to scream "get a room already!" -Very extra, even when they aren't trying -They shop around expensive clothing stores and give (sometimes too) honest opinions about the other's outfits -Outdoor chess games! (she cheats at card games so it's all they can do) -They're the most coordinated out of everyone here when doing double battles -Grimsley is a service top to Cait's pillow princess -Though she also likes to dom after he's been particularly annoying

MARSHALL/GRIMSLEY -You'd never guess they're dating until Grims starts acting clingy -Marshall is bad at picking up sarcasm and flirting, and Grimsley loves to fuck with him -Sometimes Grims goes to the gym with him just to watch him and ocassionally go "that's my boyfriend" -Marshall is awkward at formal dates, so Grimsley just takes him to clubs to get shots and fool around -Grims taught him traditional card games and Marshall got too good at them, too quickly -The second Marshall shows any kind of physical dominance, Grims instantly melts -So Marshall obviously tops most of the time; Grims is just that bad at talking back to stronger men

CAITLIN/MARSHALL -These two are stuck together with glue -He used to treat her like she was going to shatter at any moment, but is now way more comfortable around her -They do focus training together so she gets even better at controlling her powers -He's very patient and understanding of her psychic issues, and is very proud of her ability to keep them in check -They love to travel together! -Cait takes the lead in bed, but they usually switch roles pretty quickly

SHAUNTAL/MARSHALL -She's the quirky counterpart to his stoic, awkward self -Shauntal loves recommending him audiobooks to listen to while he trains -She's too good with words for him, who usually gets flustered whenever she snarks at him -Marshall likes picking her up, and she admits it's not much different to flying on Golurk -Their dates often consist of long strolls across Victory Road and other places across Unova -Marshall is pretty vanilla, so Shauntal gets to have a fun time showing him kinky stuff

[electricrogue]

A, F, K, U, and V for the ask :)

Thank you for the ask! :)

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

I have one OTP the o stands for one and it's Teslen basically xD. Other than that? Eda/Raine from The Owl House and Crowley/Aziraphale from Good Omens (though they're... you know... not talking at the moment xD) as far as romantic ones go. Friendship wise I just watched The Marvels and I got hit hard with Kamala, Carol and Monica (yes the fanfic part helped but I was there ok I feel her so much with this).

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?

14 years and a half with Sanctuary apparently xD (God I'm old :)))

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

I'll go with favorite development arc and the first one that comes to mind is Cordelia from American Horror Story (Coven and Apocalypse and yes Apocalypse was a shit show plot wise but I still loved her in that one so yeah xD). Still, the way she went from basically a wallflower to the Supreme who tricked the Antichrist just to get her girlfriend back from hell? Yeah. I stan.

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

I hate the different thing because I can't do both sides of Teslen for the record xD. But fine. Girls it is.

Helen Magnus from Sanctuary. And it's a very long list as to why but basically Amanda needed something in which she was in charge ok? And I don't mean SGA in charge because that was more like a desk job if anything else. Helen is that, and way more. She's badass, no-nonsense, has a very big heart (too big in some cases but I don't want to talk about that), super smart, can hold her own in combat and does it in heels... I think that pretty much covers it xD.

Eda from The Owl House. Because I lowkey want her to adopt me if that's a valid answer (I mean I would also want Helen to adopt me but I'd maybe also want Helen to do other things to me or at least let me watch while she does them to Nikola and adoption would make that weird so yeah). No but serious answer? I fell for Eda the second she said that thing with Us weirdos have to stick together and yeah. She may be basically a wine aunt but she's also a mother hen (owl? literally actually xD) and she can talk as much as she wants about eating kids and all but she's too kind to actually do it. And she went from burning a school down to actually running the place (of course I don't have details on that fuck Disney but yeah).

Cassandra Cillian from The Librarians. I always said that from all the characters I've known she's the most like me (minus the brain tumor thank God and minus the magic unfortunately). But she has this quote about how she was basically a super smart kid but she didn't want that to be the only thing she was, and yeah. I felt that.

V - Which character do you relate to most?

I actually answered that above with Cassandra but yeah xD. I still stand by that :P

[mousegard]

If you’re still doing the character ask thing, Leonie?

leonie! yeah! i don't like, have brainworms about her like other characters, but i do think she's a really good character and i have a lot to say

favorite thing about them

the answer to this part of the ask is down in the "unpopular opinion" section so just scroll down to that. ok basically just read this post upside down, got it? scroll all the way to the bottom and grow up

anyway, leonie is one of many commoners in the monastery, with the golden deer house having the most of the bunch, and each commoner in the game shows a different facet of what it's like to be a commoner in fodlan, and i really like the perspective that leonie's backstory and personality brings. it's one of the many examples of the game's frankly underrated worldbuilding that brings fodlan to life and makes it feel like a real place full of real people!

least favorite thing about them

my least favorite thing is more of a gameplay thing than a character thing, she's a great unit on its own but if i'm recruiting her to another house or doing a full-recruitment run she sorta becomes redundant by other units i like more. sorry!

also, the fandom making "lol she wants to fuck byleth's dad" jokes. but if i complained about everything the fandom says that makes me want to tear my hair out about every character in the game i'd be here all day

oh and also her post-timeskip hair. i'm sorry i just don't like it. it looks bad on her.

favorite line

"Captain Jeralt said that, if anything should happen to him, I'd have to support you in his place. He didn't sound serious at the time, but it was right before he… you know. Before we lost him."

i think this line from her a-support with byleth recontextualizes a lot of the assholery she exhibits in her b-support with byleth (more about my thoughts on that down below in the "unpopular opinion" section) and it really brings a new dimension to the grief she feels about losing jeralt and her contentious relationship toward byleth.

brOTP

i talk a lot about her contentious relationship to byleth in this post but i honestly really like the idea of them being close in a platonic way. like yes their relationship is rocky at first but leonie does eventually get past her own resentment and grows to appreciate byleth as a part of jeralt's legacy and as someone who deserves her respect.

OTP

i don't have a lot of romantic ships for leonie but i really love her supports with bernie. especially in their c-support. bernie just seems so down bad and leonie is completely oblivious to the sheer about of butch swag she radiates.

i also love her paired ending with felix outside of azure moon, when fodlan becomes so peaceful that the two of them can't make a living as mercenaries and have to take jobs as street performers. i think it's the perfect job for felix, at least

nOTP

don't have any, there aren't any characters she has supports with that have me like, "no that's gross" or "nah i don't like that"

random headcanon

none, the things i like about her are all just right there in the text, so i don't have to make anything up

unpopular opinion

leonie gets way too much shit for her c-support and b-support with byleth. i think it's natural for her to feel resentment toward byleth, especially early on. like she's jeralt's biggest fan, knows everything she can know about him, wants to follow in his footsteps, and the person who got to have the life she dreamed of is this weirdo emotionless kid who doesn't seem to know anything about or appreciate at all the man she idolizes.

and i think her c-support is even better if you get it as soon before jeralt's death as possible. it makes his death even more of a twist of the knife.

and then you get her b-support with byleth, which i similarly love. the grief from jeralt's death for both of them is still fresh and raw. leonie tries to apologize for what she'd said to byleth before, but at the end she snaps again and that old resentment pours out, freshly invigorated.

i think those two support conversations are some of the most human support conversations in the game. because dealing with grief is hard and messy, and it can bring ugly things to the surface that hurt the people around you. this is unironically what i love about leonie. she's only human. she's a bit of a shit to byleth at first and when she tries to do better she gets in her own way because she's still hurting. it's just so good and i hate that she gets treated like a bitch for being human. unironically god forbid a woman do anything

song i associate with them

sorry, i don't have one

favorite picture of them

thank you three hopes for making leonie's post-academy design good

suzytookaflight

also i am going to give you my leobern brainworms

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