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In some ways, Jem found being married to Mary née Vance was the easiest thing in the world.
To begin with, if he ever referred to her as Mary née Vance, she cuffed him lightly on the shoulder before she rolled her eyes and then drew him back down for a kiss.
He’d learned the only place to refer to her as Mary née Vance was their bed.
Which he must refer to simply as their bed, not their marriage-bed or anything of a similar high-falutin’ tone which she would accept from his mother and tolerate from Rilla and would otherwise laugh at almost merrily.
As someone not much given to flights of fancy well before the War had made him watch his friends and fellow soldiers gassed and killed, his brother gone without the chance of a farewell, his mind and body scarred in ways he knew as a physician would never fully heal, he found Mary’s unmitigated pragmatism as refreshing as water in the desert.
It also put his father at ease, as Dad said Mary reminded him not a little of his own mother, though Mary was notably less concerned with the vast quantity of pie the Doctors Blythe could consume of an evening, and her piecrust was arguably the equal of Susan Baker’s, though they’d all agreed not to utter such heresy at Ingleside.
In the privacy of their non-marriage, most ordinary bed, with its soft white linens and goose-feather pillows, Jem was free to tell Mary her pastry was actually better than Susan’s, as she had a lighter hand and her piecrust never once reflected any sense of consternation or outrage over some doings in Glen St. Mary, which could not be said of Susan’s best tarts.
Mary was practical and matter of fact. She had a good head for accounts and was far more intelligent that he, any of the Blythes or Merediths (with the exception of Carl) had ever given her credit for. It was easy to discuss the running of his practice and the economic advantages posed by a move to one of the larger towns, the intellectual stimulation offered by hospital work.
Mary did not worry about leaving Mrs. Marshall Elliott behind and she did listen when Jem spoke of his mother’s broken heart with oblique allusions to Walter’s death and more direct remarks about Shirley’s move to Montreal. Even more, she was willing to allow his mother precedence in ways Faith Meredith would never have countenanced.
(Who knew what Faith would truly have countenanced? She’d eloped with Bertie Shakespeare Drew shortly after their mutual return from England and had immediately bobbed the golden-brown hair Walter had once referred to as her crowning glory in a sonnet Jem was never meant to see.)
Mary was patient and funny, an impossibly good mimic. She had a seemingly infinite supply of riddles and could curse a blue streak with the fishermen down in the harbor, who respected Young Doctor Blythe all the more for his sharp-tongued wife.
She complained very little, never as much as she ought about what mattered most, and only to the degree she would amuse him about things that didn’t matter at all.
She was never troubled by his nightmares, by being woken by Jem clutching her tightly, his tears falling onto her neck, salt on his lips when he kissed her.
Mary liked to be read to of an evening, but not poetry. She liked Dickens, which didn’t surprise him, and Eliot, which did. She liked mysteries the best, pulp, which made him chuckle, and Lupin instead of Holmes, but she didn’t press him on nights when anything French was the door opened to memories he couldn’t bear.
She was warm, save for her cold feet. She’d tuck them against his shins and it wasn’t like anything else in the whole world.
She was reliable, steady, quick to take his side. Quick to see his side, even before he did.
She was pretty and she didn’t count it worth much, without any of the vanity of any of the Blythe women.
She was eminently, exceptionally lovable—except that she was difficult to love.
She shrugged off praise.
She didn’t care for ornaments or nosegays, perfume or sweets or what Rilla called a stunning new cloche just the exact color of blackberry fool.
She looked after him and their home so well, there was little left for him to do.
He was at a loss, one she was aware of and found entertaining, when Rilla remarked one day how much Rosemary Meredith’s new cat reminded her of Mary.
Then he knew.
Mary liked to have a cup of tea made just so, with plenty of milk.
She liked to end the day sitting with her stocking feet tucked up under her.
She liked to have her hair stroked, even if his hand trembled, which stopped much sooner when he was paying all his attention to the silkiness of her fair hair and the delicate skin at her temple, her throat.
She liked to sleep early on cold winter nights.
And sometimes, when they were together in the shadows, she liked to be called Puss. She liked it exceedingly well.
#aogg#anne of green gables#fanfic#mary vance/jem blythe#rarepair#mary vance#jem blythe#post canon#canon au#rare pairs about#faith meredith/bertie shakespeare drew#rilla blythe#romance#marriage#jem is a simp for mary#team mary vance#the author and jem are both Mary Vance stans
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*chugs a full half and half Monster Rehab*
So, you know how Darkseid is looking for the Anti-Life Equation? Well, Danny and the other Halfas are kinda Anti-Alive. Idk, my mind is going to how Thanos is trying to impress Lady Death in the weirdest ways possible (like killing half the universe or making her side piece immortal), and changing the names to Darkseid and Danny.
Darkseid attacking the earth was far from a rare occurrence. Usually his attacks were centered on the Justice League, but around every 1 out of 5 times he would just show up on a regular Tuesday with his army pouring through various Boom Tubes in every major city.
This wasn’t even the first time Darkseid had attacked like this since Danny had joined the League. The only difference was that instead of flying to Fawcett City to help Captain Marvel fight the invaders there, Danny had been in Gotham helping Bats and Diana with an artifact smuggling ring. The two of them immediately got in the Bat-Plane and headed towards Metropolis as fast as they could and Danny had been dragged along.
Darkseid was already holding Superman by the neck when they flew overhead. Diana jumped out to help Supergirl fight some messed up guy in a pink robe while the two Superboys were beating up an old lady. Batman gained Darkseid’s attention by firing missiles at the space tyrant which froze him to the ground and knocked the struggling Superman from his grip.
Darkseid’s glare followed the plane as it flew overhead. Then it started actually following as his Omega Beams burst forward.
“Hang on!” Phantom yelled, grabbing ahold of Batman and turning them both intangible just as the beams destroyed the plane around them.
He gently flew Bats on the ground. Bats did his customary grunt of approval he gave out if you saved him from certain death and ran to help the two heroines take out cloak man as Danny flew over to help take down the grandma. A few other heroes were focusing on keeping the Parademons flooding through the portal contained. Danny recognized a few, mainly Steel, Booster Gold, and Black Lightning, but there were even more that he didn’t.
He turned back to his own fight just in time to avoid getting hit by the old lady’s baton.
“Sorry, Grandma!” Phantom smirked, phasing through the attack. “Any chance I can let you pinch my cheeks and we call it a day?”
“Temping, porkchop, but an old lady needs her hobbies. And conquering planets is one of Granny’s favorites,” the old lady laughed swinging at him a few more times, only for each blow to pass through him like the last.
“Well, next time we’ll just invite you to bingo night,” Danny remarked, grabbing her wrist on the last blow and twisting it behind her back. The older Superboy tackled her through the Halfa as the younger one flew up high and plummeted feet first into her head, knocking Granny out.
The fighting seemed to be winding down. Diana had the guy in the pink robe tied up in her lasso while Batman ran over to help the Atom close the Boom Tube and Supergirl flew over to help her cousin fight Darkseid.
The only fight that was still going strong was Superman and Darkseid. Neither Titan was willing to bow to the other. Supergirl flew in between them, snapping Darkseid’s head to the side with a well placed kick. The space tyrant staggered for a moment before grabbing her leg and throwing her at Superman. The two Kryptonians fell to the ground in a tangle of limbs as Darkseid charged up his Omega Beams.
Danny didn’t even think. One second he was floating next to Jon and the next he had teleported in between the ruler of Apokolips and the two Kryptonians. He barely managed to throw up a shield in time. The Omega Beams shook the shield and kicked up dust around it, but Phantom gritted his teeth and managed to keep it steady. He only let the shield finally fall once the dust had settled.
“Impressive, child. Not even a Lantern Ring can shield from my Omega Beams. What are you?”
“You know, just a dead guy who doesn’t really know how to stay dead,” Danny chatted, keeping Darkseid’s attention on him. The portal was directly behind the tyrant. Wonder Woman and the Superboys threw their respective bad guys back through the portal.
“How can you be both dead and alive?” Darkseid asked. If he was confused, he didn’t let it show. Batman gestured at the two Supers behind Danny. They gave him a small nod and looked at the tyrant. Danny raised a hand to stop them.
“Back everyone up and cover your ears,” Danny whispered under his breath at a level only the four supers could hear. The Superboys quickly got everyone away from the portal while Superman and Supergirl gave him looks of confusion, but eventually relented. The entire time Darkseid’s attention was on Danny and Danny alone.
“Guess I’m just that stubborn,” Danny chuckled at the dictator. “I died, it didn’t fully stick, now here I am as a ghost.”
“Breathtaking.”
“You know what else is breathtaking?” Danny sucked in as much air as he could, not that he really needed it, and released a wail.
At once, all windows on the street shattered. Everyone covered their ears and the heart breaking cry sweep through the area. The Supers all collapsed to their knees, the sound even worse for those with super hearing. Tears threatened to spill from everyone’s eyes. Everyone but Darkseid.
The Dictator of Apokolips seemed almost stunned. Blood streamed from his nose and probably his ears, though those were hidden in his helmet. The sound waves slammed into him and he did nothing to fight back as the waves set him careening head over heels back towards the portal.
Darkseid barely managed to grab the edge of the portal and the wail stopped and Danny fell to his knees. White rings flickered around him and started to change him back into Fenton, but he managed to stop them before anyone could who wasn’t already looking could see. And the only one looking was Darkseid.
“Someone close the portal!” Batman yelled. All of the heroes staggered to their feet and tried to run to the Mother Box as Darkseid just stares at Phantom.
“Such beautiful cries of pain,” Darkseid muttered. His gaze never left the exhausted Phantom. He realized almost too late that the heroes were going for the Mother Box. He charged up his Omega Beams and shot them at the closest hero, Wonder Woman. She managed to ricochet them off her bracelets, but the beams kept coming back for her. The other heroes had to back up in fear of getting hit or getting in the Amazonian’s way.
Suddenly, a yellow blur swept through the area, knocking Diana out of the way are replacing her with an unconscious Parademon. A figure, this one white and red, landed on the Mother Box, destroying the device. Finally, a red blur ran in and punched Darkseid in the face, sending the tyrant careening through the closing portal.
“Sorry we’re late.” Flash chuckled, as a frustrated Kid Flash and Impulse stopped behind him. “What’d we miss?”
A series of groans ripped through the heroes as they just sat down and waited for the Javelin to get there for med evac.
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You’d think Danny’s first time fighting Darkseid would be a bigger deal, but it was honestly not as big of a deal as everyone made it out to be. Danny had been fighting genocidal inter-dimensional tyrants since he was 14. What was one genocidal space tyrant making the list?
Batman apparently didn’t think it no big deal, though, if the worried version of the patented Bat-glare and Bat-grunt were anything to go off of. It had been a few days since the fight and the Bat had finally managed to wrangle everyone who had been involved in the Metropolis fight to the Watchtower for a debrief.
The meeting was supposed to start five minutes ago, but only the Flash was still missing. Danny, Conner, and Kara had been making jokes about it to a groaning Kid Flash and a pouting Impulse when the Boom Tube opened.
Everyone jumped to the ready. Batman pulled out a Batarang. Wonder Woman readied her lasso. Superman, Super girl, and the younger Superboy all started floating while their eyes glowed red. The older Superboy got into a fighting stance that Booster Gold quickly copied. The Atom shrank. Black Lightning’s hands sparked with electricity while Danny’s hands glowed with ectoplasm. The two speedsters vibrated in place.
They were ready for anything to come through. Except for a box of chocolates, a bouquet of roses, and a severed head of a yellow, bald alien. As quickly as it opened, the portal closed again. Kid Flashes summed it up best.
“What the fuck?” The yellow speedster yelled.
“Is that-“ Diana piped up, only for Superman to interrupt.
“It’s Mongul,” the Man of Steel growled.
“Who would send a severed warlord’s head with a bunch of romantic gifts?” The Atom piped up from where he stood on Booster’s shoulder.
“Well if it’s not poisoned, dibs on the chocolate,” Impulse gave a nervous laugh.
Batman and Black Lightning approached the table. Batman took a device of his belt and scanned the head then chocolate, each one coming back clean. Lightning picked up the bouquet and found a note.
“To Phantom,” he read out loud. “Your screams of agony resonated through my very being. You are the answer to my billion year search for the Anti-Life Equation. Join me and together we can enslave the universe to our will. Darkseid.”
The room fell into silence. Everyone had various looks of disgust on their face. The silence was eventually broken by Danny groaning and rubbing his eyes with his palms.
“Why do I only attract fruitloops?” He yelled up to the ceiling.
“GUYS!” A red blur yelled as he burst into the room. Flash had finally arrived. “I saw Desaad buying flowers in central city! And then Granny Goodness showed up with a box of chocolates and they Boom Tubed away! Hey, they actually looked a bit like these. Holy shit! Is that Mongul?”
Black Lightning just handed the Scarlet Speedster the note. Flash summed it up the best.
“What the fuck?”
Idk, let me know if I got to continue.
#dc x dp#dp x dc#Darkseid is a creep#i’m so sorry#sometimes the sleep deprivation hits when you think about rare pairs#you know?
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Regulus: James is going to take me to miniature golf tonight
Sirius: Oh! Well, I guess for you, that’s like regular golf
Regulus: Short jokes? Really, Sirius? You’re, like, a quarter of an inch taller than me
Sirius: Yeah, and don’t you forget it
#jegulus#wolfstar#black brothers shenanigans#they’re both short and sirius will gloat about the last inch if he could#sirius black#regulus black#sirius & regulus#the black brothers#incorrect marauders quotes#incorrect black family quotes#marauders#harry potter#incorrect harry potter quotes#james potter#daddiesdrarry on instagram#incorrect hp#hp#hp rare pair#hp incorrect quotes#hp imagine#incorrect hp quotes#hp marauders#hp text post#sunseeker#starchaser#james x regulus#incorrect jegulus quotes#source: big bang theory
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wives
#tempestjack#art#digital art#mlp#fanart#mlp g4#mlp fanart#my little pony#mlp ship art#mlp apple jack#applejack#tempest shadow#mlp tempest#mlp tempest shadow#OK I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THEM#i know theyre such a rare pair that nobody is going to love them like i do#but i do love them#and i can do what i want#rarepair#mlp rarepair
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Ah yes my favourite coffee shop workers, they should be allowed to shoot any annoying customers.
#smg4#smg3#smg4 karen#mango art#hey this is the rare pair that i don't ship i kept talking about. again i dont ship them but they understand each other#customer service work has given them a warriors bond
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not romantic or platonic but a secret third thing (bonded pair)
#I think more character dynamics should be described as bonded pairs#are two characters very attached to each other in a way that's hard to define? bonded pair.#are two characters rarely seen in a scene without each other? bonded pair#do two characters get anxious when separated? bonded pair#I don't mean this in a weird way I mean it in the way cats will be bonded when at a shelter together or something#this can apply to so many characters I think#regardless of whether they're romantic or platonic or whatever#most necrocav duos in tlt for example#and too many duos in fma to count#like obviously knowing me im thinking about greedling#but also the elric brothers or mustang and hawkeye#but also. many of the side characters.#doing my massive spreadsheet (almost done btw!) has shown to me that jerso and zampano are almost always in the same scene#that's a bonded pair babey#brosh and ross too. to me.#anyway. someone once left the tags ''bonded pair do not separate'' on a greedling post of mine and i haven't stop thinking about it#that's just how I conceptualize their dynamic now#two cats that have to be adopted together or else they'll start destroying furniture
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Omg it's rpf Monday! Stop what you are doing and start talking about rpf immediately
#rpf#the rpf of it all#rpf monday#send in asks etc#we are gonna talk about why those freaks are looking at each other like THAT#send prompts/fic recs/head canons/aus/rare pairs etc etc etc#anything goes#just talk about your favorite little guys
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October 18th - Prime and Protector
Tarn / Optimus Prime
For the @tfrarepairing fest 2024
#2024TFRarePairingFest#tf rare pairing fest#transformers#maccadam#tarn#optimus prime#tarnop#damus#aecho's art#I am so unwell about them#ultratarn is interesting on many levels but tarnop takes the cake#in which OP continues to have a horrible taste in partners and chronic I Can Fix Him disease#showed this to my friend who mistook damus' chest for a BIRTHDAY CAKE and op's upper body for soME SORT OF BLANKET#I'm.#most hilarious thing that's happened this year#oh my god. I need to calm down I'm cryimg alsljklfgjsidjgjek3djd
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to all the fanfic writers who write about small, niche tropes and random crossovers that have less than a thousand works total and rarepairs and one specific vein content so that despite the master pieces you write you only get a couple hundred hits: you are doing god's work. i am kissing you on the head. you are my lifeblood.
edit since its getting lost in the tags: the thousand works comment is not to minimize the people who write for subgenres with maybe 10 works or rairpairs with like 3 works, but to include people who, while garnering more attention than the former, may still feel disheartened for receiving less attention on their work than people who write for megafandoms or very common tropes. 1000 is more than ten, but 1000 is closer to 10 than 200,000.
#i love you infinitely#fanfic#ao3#rare niche fanfic about the strangest crossover that fuels my heart#edit: this isnt meant to minimize people who only get maybe 8 hits or amhave 10 works in their content realm#but to include people who write things that might be bigger than some fandoms and pairs#but are still miniscule in comparison to mega fandoms
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#fanfiction#fanfic#tumblr polls#polls#milestumblr#personally i split each pairing into a document bc i can keep my shared notes about dynamics and lore etc#sometimes if a fic gets long enough it’ll get its own doc#but i rarely write fics that long#and i also rarely write more than one fic for a pairing#also if u saw me post this already: no you didn’t
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me at myself: please stop shipping rare pairs that no one ships, and also, please stop putting your greedy lesbian hands over your favorite female characters
me, not listening, making ilia×tp!zelda and ruto×sheik/oot!zelda kiss like barbie dolls: huh? did you say something?
#listen i think ilia/zelda is so cute like they're the rarest of rare pairs#but farm girl × princess my beloved trope#ruto×sheik has always been a fave of mine actually lmao after that one line ruto says about thinking sheik is hot#like yeaaah let's go#but miry you say#ruto thought sheik was a dude#don't worry i say#and i hand you my bi ruto headcanon and leave#anyway I'm deleting this later lol#miry's yapping
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It’s emoji time again
#one piece#charlotte katakuri#bon clay#portgas d ace#donquixote rosinante#Shachi one piece#my art#They’re for a rare pair server so I was trying to aim away from straw hats lol#THE THIRD ONE IN IS A LITTLE PRINCE FROM MOTHER CARMEL’S HOUSE OF LAMBS#YOU KNOW THE ONE BIG MOM WAS IN#SHE ATE HIM SHE ATE MY SOB#MY SON*#BUT I STILL LOVE HIM#anyway hey if yall wanna use these feel free I made them discord sized#but if u do id love to hear about it
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Hermione: Like any other 11 year old girl, all I wanted to do was sit in my room alone reading books on history of magic
Pansy: Every story about your childhood makes me so sad, darling
Hermione: Then one day on the way to math camp—
Pansy: Oh, even sadder
#pansmione#she actually loves hearing about hermiones childhood#pansy parkinson#hermione granger#pansy x hermione#incorrect pansmione quotes#incorrect harry potter quotes#harry potter#pansy parkinson x hermione granger#daddiesdrarry on instagram#hermione x pansy#incorrect hp#hp#hp ships#hp rare pair#hp imagine#hp text post#hp incorrect quotes#incorrect hp quotes#pansmione squad#incorrect hermione granger quotes#incorrect pansy parkinson quotes#source: brooklyn 99
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#dgm#d gray man#art#my art#Nea x Link#nea d campbell#howard link#rare pair#I wish there is more fic about they#especially those where Neas is obsessed with Link for no reason
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QUICK!!
Alex/Logan/Oscar, yes or no?
#logan sargeant#alexander albon#oscar piastri#loscar#sargebon#loscarbon#or whatever the ship name is#the three who match each others freak#stares pointedly at the china gp team torque episode#this is for a fic and no i don’t have any more information about it#if people can had their rare pairs why can’t i have loscarbon 🤨
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