#otp: a pipe dream

[runoutofsteam]

Andreil are so “I’d find you in every universe” but Jerejean are “this universe is our only shot and I need to make the most of it”

[treefish815]

It is actually so cruel and unfair that after 7 years of wanting more Hansry content and 7 years of shipping them and 7 years of them being canonised being nothing but a pipe dream, now Hansry is a super popular ship and actual romance option in game my brain just doesn’t care about them anymore

Don’t get me wrong- will forever and always be my OTP it’s actually embarrassing how much that ship means to me, I think I just temporarily burned myself out on Hansry content in Feb-March of this year because I romanced Hans in my playthrough like “ah yeah that’s nice :)” and then went fucking UNBELIEVABLY feral over Janosh/Adder who

1. Have five fics on ao3

2. Have like… 1% of the screentime in game Hansry does

3. Are not at all canon (in fact after the backlash over “changing” Hans from a womaniser into queer from the game’s target audience I’d say there’s no way the new character they introduced as a massive slut for pussy would ever be canonically queer as far as the game is concerned. As if that’d stop me)

[thesulkycroissant]

for the character asks midnighter and apollo?

Hi friend thanks for these asks as well!!! :)

Midnighter

How I feel about this character

I love him to pieces. Midnighter is endlessly fascinating to me also. I think knowing the character was originally created in the image of Batman, it is so fascinating to me to see the way that he was developed differently, and I especially think this in regards to the way that M is so open and blatant about his love for Apollo. He's frankly sappy. I also think the fight computer is so so so cool while providing so much room for angst.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Apollo only and exclusively.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

I think his relationship with Apollo is interesting outside of romance too, but to give it variety I'll say I am especially interested in his relationship with Jenny Quantum (his daughter). Especially the first little while while he had her by himself taking care of her while planning how to get his team back. It's fascinating to me that Midnighter doesn't appear to believe he can be gentle yet when you see him with Jenny he is so gentle.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don't know if this is necessarily unpopular but I actually think I would like to see him and Dick interact if the writer who was writing the comic actually cared about and understand Midnighter. I think that M would provide an interesting foil against Bruce because he unapologetically prioritizes certain lives while killing other people. I think M would punch Bruce in the face if he had a chance after finding out the things that Bruce has done or allowed to happen to Dick and the other kids.

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

I'd like to see him interact with Batman but from a writer who does not see Batman as the one starting with the moral high ground. This of course makes it basically a pipe dream lol.

Apollo

How I feel about this character

I am enamored with Apollo. Apollo's ability to continue to have a bright outlook on life is so admirable to me. And I think Apollo loves wholly and without reserve and that is so powerful for a character like him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Midnighter only <3

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Like with M, I really like him with Jenny Quantum. But I also think his relationship with Jenny Sparks is really interesting and I would have liked to see her convincing them to come back to action/the team a little more.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don't think I have an unpopular opinion about him! Maybe that I don't think he's a Superman fanboy by any means. I think he would respect Clark but it wouldn't go much further, and I don't think he would police himself heavily for Clark's sake if he felt he shouldn't.

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

I'd love to see a team-up with Apollo and Superman that is more than just Apollo doing nothing / being mind controlled / imprisoned. I'd love to see Apollo actually being able to fight and to be an equal with Clark on that level. Like with M I don't think it would ever happen but it would be very cool.

[thereallennon]

get to know ur moots

didn’t realize i was enough of a moot for THE @daisychain-unchained to tag me!! ty, love ur fics!

what's the origin of your username?: this is a doozy. my main username is toxicalTomb. started as a time i mispronounced tombstone as tombstomb (toom stoom) and decided to make it my handle. then that evolved in toxicalTomb in 2023 cuz i was super into homestuck and dirk strider was my favorite character (his username acronym is tT, which is also why i sign off ao3 comments w that). just kept it. thereallennon came from my discord username, therealegbert (another homestuck reference). yep.

OTP(s) + ship name: mclennon. mclennon. mclennon. and also mcstarr when i want mindless fluff.

favorite color: greem…

song stuck in your head: POURRRRR YOUR MISERY DOWN!! (only happy when it rains by garbage). performing it live in april!

weirdest habit/trait: idk. eating skin.

hobbies: reading. writing. drawing. listening to and writing music. beatles. beatles. beatles.

if you could have any job you wish, what would it be?: some sort of musician. music is my life. my earliest memory is me singing lady gaga’s poker face while it played on mtv. i have a good ear and can keep a beat. my playing is shit, but my passion is there. im fine with a mundane job, too, as long as i can keep music close. tis a pipe dream, my dear.

something you're good at: analyzing music and obsessing over it and playing it and music music music.

something you hate: clothes i can feel. ma not trusting me. ppl only focusing on the bad things someone did. ooc beatles and beatles adjacent!!! no linda mccartney would not let mclennon happen hello!!!! she’d get her and her kids tf out of there!!!!!

something you collect: dead insects. started as a game w my younger siblings and cousins, trying to find me as many dead beetles (heh) as they could. i didn’t even ask them to! now i just have a bowl of dead bugs in my room.

something you forget: what someone said two seconds ago.

what's your love language?: touch, to the point i have to physically hold myself back from holding hands/brushing arms w acquaintances since im so used to doing it w friends and family.

favorite movie/show: a hard days night cuz im so beatlebrained. it’s a comfort film, ive got most of the lines memorized. ofc i also love get out and nope…jordan peele saev me……

favorite food: appyl🤤

favorite animal: bugs! any of them. spiders mostly.

what were you like as a child?: sad. very sad. and eager to please.

favorite subject at school: english.

least favorite subject: english.

what's your best character trait?: im funny (supposedly). im passionate and thats abt it, really, im kinda awful. and i quite like my writing.

what's your worst character trait?: moody bitch w too high of self esteem who procrastinates and has low empathy and doesn’t know social cues and only yaps about beatles beatles beatles until everyone tunes her out. mm.

if you could travel in time, who would you like to meet?: john lennon but i wouldn’t talk to him. don’t meet your heroes.

no pressure tags: @maccamacca @terminallyneurotic @shirojohnlennonswife @miscartz hey guys…..are we moots enough for me to tag you ^_^"

[almaverses]

9, 18 and 45 for the OTP asks!

9. What are their thoughts on having children? Both of them actively want children but I don't think either of them really saw it as a real possibility. It was more of a pipe dream considering Anders carrying the taint in his blood. So of course when they have not one but two oops babies three years apart it comes as kind of a shock. A welcoming one, but a shock nonetheless. 18. How likely are they to have fur babies? How many and what kind? They have Alma's mabari for a bit, big lovable lug called Boros. But after they flee Kirkwall she gives him to Aveline, at that point he's quite old and probably not built for the amount of time Alma and Anders are on the run. Before Heidi (their first child) is born Anders befriends an extremely fluffy grey cat they end up calling The Wizard. The Wizard does his own thing but he knows Anders is always there for cuddles and food. 45. Can they fall asleep without the other? Alma can sleep through anything, she's like a baby bird in that the instant the lights go out and her head hits the pillow she's gone and won't wake for anything. It doesn't matter where she is or if Anders is there. Anders however, doesn't like being in bed without her. While he can fall asleep without her, he doesn't like it and it makes him uneasy. (a year in solitary will do that to a mf)

[sparrowdrama]

Thank you 🙈 I'm still "new" to fandom (5 years thanks COVID) and I am always worried that I'll come across as anti-ship when that is the last thing I want coz really that is obnoxious behaviour and not OK at all. I think I'm struggling because I now realise this is the first OTP I adore who aren't canon so there is some real anxiety for me around how it ends. If Buck and Eddie were both straight and I knew it was a pipe dream then I could just live in the fantasy world but now with part queering of the whole, it feels like I could almost get what I want but not and I do not like that feeling!

Basically, I need to learn to sit in my anxiety (my imaginary therapist would be so proud of me) and continue being happy with the very very vast world that exists (someone said there are 25K Buddie stories on AO3 so I guess I'm spending this (long in India) weekend deep down a Buddie exclusive rabbit hole.

And fingers crossed about Eddie. This whole slowing down with Marisol thing makes me want to throw things at Eddie coz seriously I adore that man but dude what is up with him??

I'm feeling terribly guilty about my feelings here but for some reason this whole Kinley storyline is giving me anxiety. I want Buck to be comfortable in his own skin. I want him to have a love interest that treats him well. I am so happy that the bi community and the larger queer community are going to get such an insanely great rep experience because I truly believe this storyline is safe in Oliver Stark's hands.

But I'm still anxious. I can't get onboard with Tommy. I don't want to make Buck's story all about Buddie but maybe I am and that isn't cool. But I don't know how to express that when fandom is so so happy and we deserve happiness. I'm just sitting here feeling stressed though and that sucks.

[winterblues]

But yeah Andrew is the softer one in the relationship:

- This is a part of him he thinks must be in new bloom. The world says rough, the world says weapon, the world says joyless and so there must be some truth to it, right? Yet he finds himself wanting to cradle Neil’s hands to his chest when he needs steadying from a nightmare, have Neil’s bare wrist pressed flush against his ribs so that he can feel their pulses thrumming against one another. And he can’t sleep at night until he’s ran slow, deliberate fingers through Neil’s soft hair, every comb-through an indulgence, fingers massaging Neil’s delicate scalp, learning the structure, the very shape of it. He wants to press his lips to every scab, every contusion, everywhere Neil tore himself apart in hopes of survival. He wants to alleviate and cradle and absorb.  - Neil often ends up kicking his own blankets off of himself at night, and in the winters it drives Andrew absolutely crazy, so he’ll wake up a couple of times in the middle of the night just to fix Neil’s blanket and pull the covers back up over his shoulders to keep him from shivering too much, right before closing his arms down over Neil’s middle like a brace like a ring of fire. - Andrew likes to tease Neil about being clingy, but there are times when it’s difficult to say if there’s something wrong with his system or if being separated from Neil for longer than a few hours at a time has him emptied and aching in more ways than one. One particular evening at Sweetie’s, while watching Neil, Nicky and Kevin engage in some idle conversation he doesn’t remotely care to pay attention to, Andrew subtly tilts his cone in Neil’s direction. Neil regards it a moment before gladly accepting the soft serve and taking a small bite out of it. They share the rest of the cone together. Nicky attempts to tease them about it at one point, but stops mid sentence when he catches Andrew’s murder-glare from his periphery and changes topic. Andrew will never admit it, but once it becomes a quiet, shared ritual; he likes getting a little ice cream on his nose on purpose so that Neil has the urge to kiss it off. Slowly it becomes ok, even in  public. - There are nights when Andrew lets Neil wrap his arms around his stomach and pull him close, his chin on his shoulder, Andrew’s back digging into Neil’s chest. Andrew sleeps better when he can feel Neil’s heart beating against his spine. It leaves him strangely warm and punch-drunk.  - Sometimes in the midst of exploring, Andrew will take Neil’s hands and press them to his own diaphragm over his t-shirt so that Andrew’s breaths can do the speaking for the wordless, happy hum that he’s feeling. He likes Neil’s palm resting there, at the centre of him. - Andrew anchors his fingers in the back collar of Neil’s sweatshirt whenever he feels Neil tense by his side. As soon as Neil’s on edge, all it takes is for Andrew to hook his fingers and give a light tug on his clothes to reground him. Other times he’ll bunch his hand in the hem of Neil’s t-shirt and twist or press a steering hand around the back of his neck, but never to control. Always to guide. Neil will never not be amazed by the impact the slightest contact with Andrew can make on his nervous system. - Andrew strives to smoothen out his hard edges, catches tail ends of hushed conversations where the Foxes relay mutual shock at noticing the incurvated places where Andrew lets himself cave in, allowing himself to be vulnerable, allowing himself to be worshipped. The devotion and unrepentant trust that builds a monolith within him when Neil fiercely defends him. “I don’t need your useless concern,” he’ll mutter. “Too bad because you’ve got it,” Neil will usually reply. “They have to stop preying on you at every given chance. You’re not a monster to me. You shouldn’t be a monster to anyone. If they fail to understand that, they’ll be sorry.” Andrew’s tone is offhanded. “I don’t care about what they think. Nor should you.” Neil just shakes his head. “We’re family. We have to treat each other like one.” The words bite at the crumbs of Andrew’s nonchalant demeanor and he lets his guard down wholeheartedly. It’s an understanding. He and Neil have something that the rest of the world can only dream of, and nobody can take that away from them. - Neil often spends time bare-chested with Andrew so that he can further familiarize himself with the feel of Neil’s lacerated skin and by the time they’re falling asleep, Andrew almost invariably ends up wearing Neil’s oversized hoodie he shed earlier to bed.       - He doesn’t feel particularly gentle, but Neil insists that he is. “You’re always so careful,” Neil’s voice is thick with some unchained emotion, yet conversational as he runs fingers over Andrew’s split knuckles. The night air is humid and dark, rain-heavy clouds blot out the stars. They feel exhausted after a particularly grueling game, like battlefields after war, but the heat of Andrew’s body is lilting and makes Neil feel kind of dreamy. “With me, I mean. Nobody else has ever been that considerate.” Andrew’s blank amber eyes stare back at him, shone like opals in the campus lights reflecting from down below. “It’s not concern,” Neil nods in agreement. “No, it’s not.” Andrew then wordlessly takes their entwined hands and holds them against the side of his jaw, just below his cheek. Neil reacts with an elaboration. “Even though it’s always yes with you, you understand that some days it might be a difficult yes. You don’t touch to feast, you touch to steady. You make me feel safe and like I exist. You go about it like flower picking, if that even makes any sense. Cautious but hot, never incomplete and still somehow leaving me wanting more.” Now Neil’s smiling and nudging Andrew’s foot with his own. Their hands still twined at Andrew’s throat. “It’s really sweet.” Neil expects a comeback, an evasion, an immediate it is not but instead Andrew’s silence is pensive. Neil can feel him swallow against his fingers. The swift bob up and back down. “I don’t ever want you to feel like you have to.” He finally declares. Neil’s heart enflames as he leans in, close enough to Andrew’s mouth that he can taste his breath on his tongue, an inch keeping from tipping over into a kiss. “And I don’t ever want you to feel like I don’t want to. Because I do. I want so much it scares me. Pretty weird, right? Going from being nothing to wanting so much.” They gaze patiently at one another, not kissing, breaths spreading against lips like ripples in a pond. “What if I stopped asking?” Andrew’s voice is barely a whisper, hoarse; afraid almost. “I would like that, but only if you feel comfortable with a decision so big. You don’t have to make it now. Not for me.” Neil replies. Andrew closes his eyes. “Tell me one final time.” Neil traces one of Andrew’s eyelids with a barely-there finger and takes a breath. “Yes. Eternally yes.” Andrew crushes his lips hard against Neil’s: a chemical reaction. The kiss is a languid drink sipped by a man who’d been thirsting for years. The kiss is a game changer and Neil feels it in every single one of his arteries. If such a gesture could be measured, it’d stretch on for eternity. Neil is so thankful when they come apart for air that he’s stunted speechless. Andrew’s expression, once an uprising, now lays its armor down and then, the barest, shortest of burning smiles. Neil thinks he’ll forget how to inflate his lungs. And sitting there, atop their little pocket dimension of a rooftop, with Neil’s face moon-bright and stained red with surprise, Andrew thinks this gentleness will become a bad habit.

[tim-lucy]

#two times Tim let go of the woman he loves #but only one time he couldn’t stop himself from looking back (inspired by @sculderfan)

[mymelodypink]

I... listened to the album you gave me. To be honest though, "Exercising in the Moon" wasn't that good. But I did enjoy "Blue Scar on the Heart." The melody was nice and I could enjoy the lyrics. I really enjoyed it.

[rhodeslibby]

“I’m not a hallucination,” Neil said, nonplussed.

“You are a pipe dream,” Andrew said.

[runoutofsteam]

Andrew Minyard and Renee Walker scheming to get all of Class I Exy to gay kiss each other

[watermelonsverything]

My happiness hinges on the thought that after Cyclonus and Tailgate left; they either founded and led an interplanetary exploration team of their own or work for one while living in an apartment or big house full of alien cyber plants

[andthebubbles]

guys i’m so fucking tempted... /sobbing in the corner (lol)

it has AIRCON!! it nearly has the same tape deck as my car!! it has such low km and no rust!!! it has one of the most reliable engines ever and epic off-road ability!!!

the biggest thing i am hmmm about is that i’ll probably have to upgrade the suspension immediately (it’s leaf springs at the front and back). also, the price. i will be so broke. but they’re selling it pretty cheap, which is why i am like *grabby hands*

siiiiiiiiiiiiigh. some pics for longevity because they’ll disappear when it’s sold:

gosh you’d have to do a lot to it though...

anyway and then people do such cool things to it, like:

this ^ is the 2019 model though but yeah, it’s ... a lot of it is the same...

*deeeeeeeeeeeep sigh*

[sparring-spirals]

Also Yasha has been super soft to/protective of Jester this whole episode and it gives me all kinds of warm fuzzies. <3 <3 

[doortotomorrow]

eight and grace

[klanced]

Will there be any klance in this rewrite?

Yes because I am a 🤡

If this was ao3 the first tag would be “#rivals to friends to lovers” bc I love slow burn development.

V:LR doesn’t revolve around Klance so I can’t tell you the exact timeline of their relationship but, in general:

Season 1 involves them going from rivals -> work friends -> something approaching real friends.

Season 2-3 will develop their relationship further until i have CEMENTED the fact that they are a good team. I am ATTACHED to my otp tag for them on this blog lol.

Seasons 4 & 5 are yet unknown.

Additionally:

Lance has a bi arc, but it does NOT revolve around Keith. Klance WILL happen, but not immediately happen after Lance’s bi arc. Keith is not the reward for Lance’s internal growth, nor is Lance’s sexuality contingent on Keith.

Keith yearns first.

They will go on dates. I have no idea how I’m going to write that bc I am way out of my depth when it comes to romance, but. I will try nonetheless.

They will be sweet, and dumb, and normal teenage boys, but never ever tragic.