#ride or die ships

[thescholarlystrumpet]

Show Me Your Top "No White Flag" Ships as of 2025

It's my birthday and I wanted to make a fun post so I thought I'd start a tag game for top Ride or Die, I Will Go Down With This Ship and get my friends to post their faves too :D

no pressure tags: @quona @gleafer @kotias @hakunahistata @mielpetite @klikandtuna @loversandantiheroes @lexarturo @timelordthirteen @beeeinyourbonnet @abovethemists @emospritelet @bisexualr2d2 @rufeepeach @roselynnthornwood @lassitr @starfish-spencer

Aziracrow/Ineffable Husbands (of course)

Shassie (my newest ship but I'm deeply invested now)

Agathrio (had me in a chokehold from Ep ONE)

Huskerdust (I'm SO HERE for their "slow burn romance" which is canon per Viv!)

Whouffaldi (do not @ me. they are in LOVE.)

Jeff x Annie (I'm aware of the problems but DAMN their chemistry is REAL)

Bubbline (even before I knew it was canon, I knew they belonged together)

Rumbelle (the first OTP that got me writing smut!)

Sarah x Jareth (baby's first ship, the one that started it all. Iconic, problematic, and formative AF.)

Honorable mentions below the cut!

Garcy

Barson

Callian

Capt Ryan Clark x Billie McEvoy

WandaVision

Hameron

[retrokid616]

Critical Role Campaign 3 Episode 81 pregame

so the trust exercise went well?

yeah who am i kidding it went south fast

so other than that oh yeah f.c.g almost went full termenator on the bells

but like always orym was the fucking goat of the party

so lets see if there's any more goat'ed moves before the new year tonight on critical role so until then take care happy holidays critters and enjoy the liveblogs.

[smeerp]

My personal vision for how Quark/Odo could have become canon in DS9

[barghuest]

I made this so I can print it out as motivation for my final year in college so I thought I'd share

[mixaonyii]

Late night lava🔥🪨

[aspiringjester]

bro i could be dead in a ditch somewhere and my favorite and i mean FAVORITE thing in svsss fanfics is when qijiu are being their usual fucked up selves and people are horrified at how sj treats yqy who OBVIOUSLY has feelings for him and then are DOUBLE horrified bc he's a freak that likes it

idk just the reveal that like "hey maybe they're BOTH fucked up" just genuinely brings me so much joy i love them so much they're both little freaks

[pipedreame]

Ride AND Die AU

(Danny Phantom DanDash Prompt #1)

AU in which Dash has been part of the squad since third grade and goes into the portal with Danny (as a show of solidarity against Tucker and Sam’s annoying nagging) and they both come out half-dead. There are now TWO ghost boys running around Amity Park.

With a heaping load of angst: Danny for letting Dash go with him into one of his parents’ malfunctioning contraptions and Dash for accidentally tripping Danny and making the damned thing turn on in the first place and of course Sam and Tuck for egging them on and resulting in their two best friends dying and not to even mention the fact that Danny’s parents now want to hunt them both for sport and disect them in the name of science

But also a healthy load of fun and fluff: the boys learning how to use their powers together, increasingly absurd excuses to get out of classes/events to go fight ghosts, and a super fun and convenient mind and/or physical link caused by the two being in such close proximity during the accident (they were totally hugging, but who can blame them, really)

Sam: Guys I think the term is ‘Ride OR Die’ not ‘Ride AND Die’

Dash: Well maybe we’re just more serious about this friendship than you are, Manson

Danny: Yeah, Sam, we’re deadly serious. Get on our level

Tucker: I feel like two dead friends is enough actually

Dash: You’re right, two’s a party but three’s a crowd

Sam: What’s four, then?

Danny: A funeral procession

[lautityy]

PERFECTANGEL!!!! i love crosshipping :3 they both rant to eachother about things they dont like i fear. yapper x yapper

[mari-lair]

Teru have a lil blush here.

Seeing as Aoi is looking up, I'm pretty sure her pretty panel is from Teru's pov, so is cute that she is surrounded by flowers.

[my-amygdala-is-synthetic]

their relationship means so much to me...

[burningcheese-merchant]

How on earthbread do you ship BurningCheese. Im gonna try to not judge you. This is 80% a non-rethorical question. like genuinely how do you ship them?? /lh

I was wondering when someone would come ask me this lol. It's ok though, you can be honest, I can feel you narrowing your eyes at me through the screen 👀

I could honestly go on for a REALLY long time about why I ship BurningCheese/GoldenSpice. But I'll try to distill/narrow down my thoughts the best I can so my answer isn't longer than the Bible

I adore the enemies to lovers trope and hero/villain pairings in general. I did long before Cookie Run and I will long afterwards

I like how they complement and contrast against each other, aesthetically + personality-wise + backstory-wise

I love how they interact with each other. I love how they talk and snipe at each other. Golden Cheese's frustrated yet unyielding confidence and wit VS Burning Spice's brash, raucous excitement is fun to see. (The back-and-forth they have during their fight in episode 6 is dangerously close to how I've written them in my fics, even before the episode came out. So technically, in a way, my fics have been canonized lol)

It's fun imagining them together in different ways. A one-sided crush/obsession on Burning Spice's part is fun in a dark way (my Yandere Spice). So is a mutual love and respect between them. Main canon for me is a slow burn romance and a slow redemption arc for Spice alongside it. I also have an AU where Golden corrupts and becomes a Beast herself, and they become an evil villain couple. I have another where Spice doesn't get better and Golden doesn't get worse, they just have the standard forbidden love affair that they hide from the world (the latter out of fear of judgement, the former just so no one can try to keep them apart). I've got a million story ideas with them. You can do all sorts of things with them imo. And I think it works because of how they bounce off of each other. Put them in different situations and see how their relationship changes/adjusts/adapts, see if love can exist and how

I like their size difference. Spice is significantly taller and wider than Golden and it's really funny to see lol

The way they and their relationship/dynamic parallel actual Egyptian and Indian mythology (the latter in particular) is absolutely unreal

Not kidding, I can go on about the symbolism and allusions and references forever. I could write an actual paper on it. How can a ship go THIS hard

Come on, don't act like they wouldn't give each other a fantastic time in bed lmao

They follow each other around in my kingdom almost 24/7. Literally every single time I log in they're next to each other or one is trailing behind the other while they walk somewhere. If they want to be together that badly, I'm not going to stop them

They are literally the cycle of life and death, they have the single most important connection of all the Beasts and Ancients, one simply cannot go on without the other for together they make up the foundation of the goddamn cosmos

It actually all started with me and someone irl joking about Burning Spice having a stalker crush when the very first trailer came out. Then I went "haha that could be a funny fic". Then I wrote it and went "wait this is an interesting idea". Then episode 5 came out and I went "wait wtf does he actually want her??? He's acting like he does in my fic!!!" Then I wrote more and got even more attached to the one-sided attraction dynamic. Then I started imagining them in an actual, normal relationship and how that might pan out. Then I started writing stuff for/about that and I got extremely attached to that. Now they have a fully fleshed out relationship and they're married and have two kids, and I have a billion side stories and AUs, and any other ship involving either of them viscerally repulses me. I unironically memed too close to the sun and immediately fell straight down into BurningCheese hell (but it's ok, I like it here and I don't plan on leaving ever)

I can and I want to and no one can stop me

I still wrote a Bible, didn't I lol. BurningCheese/GoldenSpice is perfect in every way, they are my ride-or-die and you can pry the ship from my cold, dead hands. The end, roll credits

[minniiaa]

Your honor, they’re in LOVE.

[ahhrenata]

five more minutes.

[idk how i stumbled onto this ‘Daryl/Jesus aka Paul’ ship during my walking dead rewatch (which I’ve stopped because 😭😭 I’m delaying the sadness). But i love the idea of them, the potential ✨]

[junespriince]

Heavily based off this

Dick, looking up from his book: Hey, Wally, do you like me or like-like me?

Wally: oh... I guessed I never told you this huh? just assumed you knew.

Wally, staring at Dick: I have an unhealthy, earthly attachment towards you. I'd commit all sorts of atrocities if you'd ask me to, but I trust you with this information because I know you're a good person, I am dead serious, I would do literally, anything for you.

Wally, going back to sciencing: anyways, what do you want for dinner?

Dick, confused: uh Chinese.

later that night, in the same bed together.

Wally, in his head: Glad to finally get that off my chest.

Dick, in his own head: He never answered my question...

[dykedvonte]

No but like imagine all female crew minus like Jimbalaya lol

I like this thought but like I imagine you mean Jimmy is also the only guy vs like everyone being girls with Anya.

Cause then it becomes how different women react to when something like this happens. Like I think Curly’s reaction would be different if Curly was a girl on a fully female crew. I think those behaviors and comments towards Anya Jimmy would make wouldn’t fly so much. Not just because Curly can tell they aren’t his usually “harmless” teasing but because there’s other women that are reacting. She’s seeing how bad those reactions are and is second guessing how much she let slide.

Daisuke would be a young woman, likely more conscious and aware of guys like Jimmy since she would be considered a party-girl. He’s like the guy you have to watch your drink around, gets to close and “accidentally” grabs or touches something, factors she would mentions to Curly. Swansea is an old gal, knows men that think they are owed something when a lady is nice to them or just because. She still has the same past and can see that selfishness in Jimmy, likely tells Curly to get some sense about her friend, not just for their sake but for herself.

Again, when I talk about Curly being marginalized gender wise and having that experience I don’t see it as her not getting it, but simply wanting to believe Jimmy is one of the nice guys… well nicer guys… well okay guys. And then she still has to think about that. Having all the other women point out all the signs makes her tip her rose colored glasses a bit, sees those red flags for what they are. I don’t think it’s easier for her but she’s more willing to act out of her feelings.

It would bring up a part of rape culture that doesn’t get depicted a lot of how woman can accidentally or even purposely enable it against other woman. Internalized misogyny, slut shaming and just the assumption of trust. Curly wouldn’t think it was Anya’s fault but she wants some type of hope to exist Jimmy isn’t that sort of man, it’s an internalized denial that slows her movements because this was a man she trusted, a man she had put her safety in, gave so many chances to to… she wouldn’t like thinking about it, but she has to as the Captain, as a woman and as Anya’s friend.

It’s a very harrowing situations especially because they are all women with one guy but it feel like it is resolved quicker and the horror aspects and context surrounding it centers on the crew slowly coming to see Jimmy as a figurative monster and the literal monster he is.

[p0rchc0ll4ps3]

illicit meetings w your other captain's steward (aka the 'maybe if we meet enough like this they'll get jealous' to 'actually scratch that im obsessed with you' pipeline)