#ship 24/7... don't.

[dizzycloudzzz]

WELL UH

well

well 💗

little hearts

[yurki-posts]

Guys...Why can't I find any Flippy x Mole content??? Where am I not looking? It's real right?? PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE ELSE LIKES THEM ASIDE FROM ME ;-;

[pttucker]

For a moment there, I had this feeling that this world's balance of beauty had tilted to one side. A nonsensical amount of cheering erupted out all around us next. "Oh, ooooh! Dear Zhu Bajie-nim!" For sure, calling a face like that 'Yogoe' didn't seem all that out of place. Because well, it was inconceivable that a normal human would be blessed with such looks, after all. Eyebrows seemingly drawn by a single, uninterrupted stroke of a famed artist's brush; a nose and a chin shaped in perfect angles that defied attempts to measure them through mere devices of men; a pair of deep eyes seemingly carved out of a beautiful jewel containing all the misfortunes found in this world. If someone saw those features and not get immediately drawn in by them, then there must be something wrong with that person.

Yes Dokja, Joonghyuk is the most beautiful person to ever exist. Yes Dokja, you've told us before.

You've told us many times before.

Oh? This time he's got his vest half-unbuttoned? He's wearing a nice pair of black jeans? Zeroed in on that right away, did you?

Mmmhmm

Listen, we get it, Dokja. You're super big gay for Yoo Joonghyuk. He doesn't even have to wear the black Chinese dress with black garter belt and if he ever did your heart would probably go flying out of your chest and you'd gasp and curl in on yourself and die right there on the spot.

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So much for these guys letting Dokja relax.

[beanghostprincess]

I totally agree with your opinion on Z0$an.

For me, I really enjoy their canon dynamic and can see why people ship them but then when I see most fan content of them it bothers me because most of the time they’re being mischaracterized and I only like their very specific canon dynamic (I can’t really describe it). Additionally it bothers me when certain moments for other ships that involve one of the two get interpreted as platonic when these same moments would be seen as romantic if they were between Zoro and Sanji. For example basically every Sanuso moment but especially in Water 7 and Enies Lobby or the most egregious example, the „Nothing happened“ moment.

Yeah,,, It bothers me that most people are so intense and adamant about Sanuso/Zolu's scenes being platonic when those same scenes would've been perceived as romantic with Zo$an. And I am honestly somebody who keeps reaching a lot and looking for content in every little scene, but that's because idk, Sanuso (for example) doesn't have as much content as Zo$an. These shippers don't need to make everything about their ship for content and they don't even need any proof of it being canon, and yet they keep making other ship's scenes about them (the "nothing happened" scene could be seen as Zo$an too but c'mon we all know that's a Zolu thing. And the new art of Reiju and Tashigi??? I'm sorry but can we please let the sapphics have this one color spread instead of making it about the most popular ship of the fandom?).

That being said, I don't care about people doing this because they like the ship and like to look for content in every little thing (I do it too!!). What bothers me aren't Zo$an shippers (I even ship this myself lmao I know it looks like I hate it but I don't) but Zo$an shippers who genuinely believe this is actual proof for the ship being canon or saying other ships are "wrong" or "don't make sense". De nile is a river in Egypt and these people need to understand that probably 80% of their content is mischaraterized because they keep ignoring the beautiful, precious potential they have in their already canon dynamic. And also, your ship doesn't need to be canon to be enjoyed like... Some people need to understand that.

Long story short, I like Zo$an when it's in character and people don't force it down my throat. It's really sad because I think that Zo$an, despite being so popular, has a lot of wasted potential.

Also, don't mention Sanuso being underrated in comparison to Zo$an because I will end up writing a whole paragraph and nobody wants drama-- I prefer to blame Usopp haters rather than other ships for its unpopularity. But uh, yeah, a lot of scenes between Usopp and Sanji are extremely romantic and the fact that it's underrated (when other ships have more attention having less romantic scenes) bothers me quite a lot. But then again, I think one of the main reasons is because Usopp is criminally underrated.

[maddy-ferguson]

women will literally accuse women and esp lesbian circles of "not unpacking ""man-hating""" alleged ""misandry" sweetie xo" getting offended ppl aren't appropriately uplifting how "men are amazing and awesome and attractive and i won't be shamed for thinking so" as if appreciating men is a real counter opinion than blame whatever gave women of every sexuality instance to be jaded weary cautious and tired and who'll complain every now and then and continue on with her life until she dies putting up with patriarchy. just welcome to the "woke" internet where misogyny's over and "man-hate" "shamed for not hating men" is worth springing to defences for

yeah i've only seen people talk like men's rights activists and think they're being unbelievably progressive on tumblr it's kind of fascinating. like i can see how seeing people hate on men could mess with people and stuff but you can't demand men appreciation posts that's literally the whole world outside of idk your tumblr dash (or even on your tumblr dash because fandom misogyny from people who think they're not misogynistic at all is really something). men get praised for "babysitting" their own kids like be serious? it's very let men be masculine

i don't think being like men are soooo gross and we hate them is actually constructive and it can definitely veer into transphobia (you'll always be a man/"a male" and thus a danger to women/why would you ever want to become a man they're the enemy and the bane of society etc) and homophobia relatively quickly?

but the way people ON TUMBLR ""combat that"" is often so off to me like if the most basic feminist principles offend you then i'm not really sure where to go from here. i remember seeing a post that was like "men aren't your enemy. they're your friend/brother/father/colleague/neighbor" with a lot of notes and like i don't know how to tell you this but that's literally who's most likely to harm a woman, the men she knows?😭 and obviously not every system of oppression is exactly the same but would you say the same thing to someone criticizing white people like...just very weird

i think women who are attracted to men and dating them making jokes about how they only tolerate being attracted to men because they have no choice and especially the whole i'm bi so i love every woman and only find 1 in a 1000 men attractive (very often said while in a relationship with a man) thing is obnoxious and annoying for like everyone who has to hear it lmao but also when women who date men make jokes about it (not about them being ugly or unattractive or whatever but about them being bad partners in general) it's like. what else are they going to do like you said they're gonna endure patriarchy for the rest of their lives and as girlfriends/wives/mothers they go through the most it's very bleak? idk. it's not like you can date a better man yourself out of patriarchy

of course men aren't a all as bad as the worst guy you can imagine and they're not all out to get you or whatever but saying things like "men don't all benefit from the patriarchy rich men benefit from the patriarchy but jake, 23, is not oppressing you" is like. kind of insane. jake, 14, was oppressing me like have you never interacted with boys in school😭 and it's not like it was entirely their fault we all have to outgrow misogyny it's just you know society etc but some of them never outgrow it lmao and just...the takes you see on feminism on tumblr are astounding i hate it here

[yeonban]

𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎. answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog.

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐓𝐏 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒? — 99.9% of the time I have no set otp from the canon materials, so my otps are always the ships I get going with my friends on this blog through rp & plotting! I don't think something canon can give me will ever beat the love I gain for a ship when I see how well my version of a chara meshes with someone's portrayal and how excited we both get while writing/talking about them!! Every single ship I have on this blog is my otp for that respective muse and usually my only ship too bc I grow to love it so much it completely overshadows any other romantic possibility for my muse.

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐏 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆? — Pretty much anything that's not part of the disgusting de.ad dov.e/in.cest/pedo.philia/chea.ting category! I go equally as hard for vanilla ships that are the sweetest couple that has ever walked the Earth, and for batshit insane ships that would murder others and even each other out of love or possessiveness! Most of my muses are erm....... full of Issues so the chances are they'll be the perfect partner for their s/o but bring a whole bag of toxicity when it comes to others (<-particularly possessiveness; someone looks at their s/o and that person is GONE gone).

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐏 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐅𝐘? — It depends on the muse! If the muse is a minor, then someone within a year or two of their age is the most I'd be willing to accept. But for adult muses I'm much more flexible, especially since I have a bunch of mortal/immortal ships going on! Typically I'm more of a fan of ships that are roughly the same age since they'd understand each other better thanks to no generational gaps, but again, this depends entirely on the muse and dynamic we're talking about, and I'm always down to try something else if the romantic interest is there between our muses!

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆? — Definitely. Shipping with me means my muse will forever be tied to yours and I don't take that lightly at all! For us to ship we need to be friends, we need our portrayals to mesh well, we need our muses to fall in love organically instead of us discussing shipping from the get-go ooc, and I need the other mun to be fine with becoming singleship with me for that muse (<-aka only shipping that muse with me); all of which are pretty big steps to get through! But rest assured that if we do ship I'll always be thinking of our ship and my muse will never move on to someone else (<-guy whose muses regularly turned noship the second their partner left tumblr bc they were unable to feel interest for any other charas they interacted with henceforth). If we ship, your muse becomes part of my muse's canon; they'll be in hcs, threads, even ooc chatting with other people. They'll become a huge part of my portrayal, so I never hurry into it! I want to be sure that the other person won't take their muse off the roster or drop the ship in a few months' time while I'm still sat thinking about our ship 7 irl years from now.

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐅𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘'𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐒𝐅𝐖? — More or less around the undressing part, but I'd already be tagging it as ns.fw as soon as I'd imagine the scene is too much for someone to see while randomly scrolling tumblr near irl people!

𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇? — Like I said above, I don't really have any ships outside of the ones I cook up with my ship partners! It's very rare for me to dwell on canon ships and I never ship my muse with more than a single portrayal so I never end up seeing them romantically inclined for anyone else other than their singleship partner. At best, I could maybe list two people overall for a few select muses, but more often than not that's already a stretch.

𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔? — If our muses are just flirting with each other and there's no intention to get properly romantically involved with one another, then no. But if our muses are in love with each other after regularly writing together and you're willing to ship with me seriously (which, again, I know is a big decision to take bc I expect the both of us to be singleship for them!) then you can 100% ask me and chances are I'll say yes in a heartbeat! I myself don't usually ask people to ship bc I don't want to mess with their flow and potentially make them uncomfortable (<-especially if I know they're multiship and I'm unsure whether they'd be willing to become singleship with me) so unfortunately the other person will always have to be the one doing the asking, but rest assured I'm harmless so there's nothing to fear! ADHSAJDHSJ

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏? — I don't plan to ship (hence 50% of my muses being noship) so when I do ship it's because a dynamic I'm writing with someone has me and my muse #Obsessed. MEANING, I like to ship whenever chance wills it that my muse meets a chara they're really interested in and my + that mun's portrayals mesh well together! Whether that happens weekly or once in 5 irl years is not up to me though.

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏? — No. ADHGADSAJDJH I might sound #quirky but I simply don't have the energy to keep several ships going considering how many muses I have. If I had 2+ ships per muse I would simply turn to dust on day two of writing them! That, and my muses tend to love so deeply when they fall in love that it's literally a mission impossible for them to even look at someone else after they've fallen in love with a chara. I used to try to be multiship a few years ago but frankly neither my nor my muse's soul was in the 2nd/3rd/etc ships bc my muse didn't feel it as much as they felt the 1st one, so I simply stopped forcing my muse & myself into writing ships just for the sake of shipping. This is why I'm not multiship and since I don't want to feel like ship fodder, this is also why I won't ship with multiship blogs. [Romance lead vc] If we ship you're the only one for me 🌹

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐎𝐁𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 - 𝐎𝐑 - 𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒? — That depends on what we mean by this ADJSAHDSAGDJ if you mean wanting more ships, then usually nah. I'm good with my muses being noship and maybe occasionally flirting with people they come across with no intent of transforming that flirting into romance. Shipping is never a priority on this blog. But if we mean how I feel when I already have a ship going? Absolutely, downright obsessed with it. I'll be thinking of them while awake and while asleep and giggling about it like a highschooler in love all the while!!! No matter how much or little I post about my ships, trust me that they always are on my mind no matter what I'm doing or how much time has passed.

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐈𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌? — I feel like I'm repeating myself atp but back to #1 we go JADASDHGASDGHSAJ my favorite ship in every fandom is the one I'm actively shipping my muse with (<-also typically the only ship I have for that fandom). But outside of ships for my muses, I'm always the biggest fan of me x my favorite character <3

𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘, 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔? — Write with me! Chat with me! Come up with various intertwined plots/verses for our muses! The easiest way to get me and my muse interested is by sending me a bunch of things to reply to. Some might not spark inspo, but others might! That said, there's no 100%-going-to-work recipe I can give you for shipping with me. The main point that leads me down the shipping route is if my muse likes yours (<-which can only happen if we actively interact first) and is willing to let go of their ~lone wolf persona~ for your muse. Now what that entails depends on which muse we're talking about since the thing that would make one of them fall in love would disgust another. If you want to know a specific muse's romantic preferences, feel free to shoot me an ask or dm about it anytime!

Tagged by: @minban Red did you know I'm kissing you passionately right now. Tagging: @achroanimus / @antinomos, @cauterisen, @effigist / @cinderlynx / @longerhuman, @diuvus, @inhaunts, @hunting-songs & whoever else sees this!

[ectoodle]

Hello! I wanted to ask what made you fall in love with bingqiu?

Hey there!

Ah hmm that's an interesting question, I've never thought about it actually. I like bingqiu a lot, but I never considered it as falling in love with the ship? They're a fun ship to play with and they have a wide range that's pretty flexible so I'm always in my comfort zone drawing them.

I suppose most of the art I draw for bingqiu are a love letter to them, though. And I think that's pretty telling of my brain rot for them 😂

I think the food the fandom cooked up really helped a lot. SV fic writers are on a whole other plane of existence when it comes to analyzing binghe's character and filling in on his journey of healing with sqq by his side. I'm the annoying type of audience that gets bored when the main couple gets together at the end...so when scum villain ended the way it did, mxtx may as well have german suplexed me on the concrete. scum villain is a story that subverts its tropes left and right and the ending was no exception! I love that bingqiu getting together at the end was not an automatic happily ever after, but rather, they still are putting in the work and effort to understand and stay in each other's lives. The glimpse of that path we get in the extras really did solidify my desire to see how bingqiu will continue to stay together--bingmei vs bingge extra was probably the finishing blow for me tho lmao. I couldn't stop thinking about what the heck happened to bingge after he left the sv world that I read a bunch of fics about him and needed to soothe the angst with sv bingqiu

on a side tangent, bingqiu parallels another of my all time ship, nozomizo from liz and the blue bird. mild spoilers if you haven't seen liz, but nozomizo had a similar codependent relationship that needed them both to grow apart as individuals in order to stay together. bingqiu separated unwillingly and binghe's growth as an individual was fueled by betrayal, despair, and that dying glimmer of hope that maybe, maybe shizun could accept him now that they're equals. but they don't. because binghe still hasn't emotionally grown to get past his temper tantrums (thanks xin mo) and sqq is still failing binghe by constantly misunderstanding him. but bingqiu still choose each other, choose to love and support each other, and they refuse to be separated again. whereas nozomizo was a healthy separation with a promise of reunion, bingqiu was fighting through the muddy trenches with a vague hope that the other is reaching out their hands too. i thought it was neat how differently both ships handled their codependency that still guarantees a happy ending, no matter how dirty and bruised they got along the way.

I also think sqq's compassionate narration in regards to binghe's suffering got to me lmao. He truly does care for binghe, and even if naysayers argue it's not romantic, it's undeniable that binghe is special to sqq. although not the best choices, most if not all of his choices were for binghe's best interest (thanks system). sqq had so much heart for binghe that it affected me through the screen too. binghe's abandonment issues and fake wet tears have captivated me. his gap moe as a chuuni emo demonic overlord and wife with a maidenly glass heart has bewitched me body and soul. i want luo binghe to be happy so badly!!

i think that's why bingqiu fascinates me. most of the bingqiu arts i draw are like slice of life vignettes, so without the meat and bones of fanfic diving into bingqiu's messiness, i would not have ascended to this level of brain rot for them...

[nemo-in-wonderland]

I have a doodle of Mephisto and Aranea that is side-eyeing me SO INTENSELY, it makes me feel like I owe them money or something.

GAH, I NEED MY FREAKING TABLET.

I NEED TO DRAW THOSE TWO FREAKS TOGETHER BEING ALL GOMEZ AND MORTICIA TOGETHER, ONLY MUCH EVILIER AND MORE EDGELORDY.

Honestly, each time I think about their relationship I live.

I LIVE.

They are both so fucked up, but good Gods, they have found their match in one another and they know it, and they absolutely LOVE IT.

Like, I need

I need to babble more about them.

I NEED MOAR OF THEM. MOAR.

[lunalycana]

hi :) thoughts on barry/gadget (and/or infinite?)

Aw gee... idk I think they're pretty okay not much to write home abou--

AW CRAP STUFF IS FALLING OUT OF MY POCKET

OH NO THEY'RE GONNA KNOW I LOVE BADGET OH CHRIST MORE ARE FALLING OUT

OH GOD SO EMBARRASSING AAAAA NOOOO

Just kidding lol of course I love Barry and Gadget. They're extremely cute and fun to make stories and art for. Something about the appeal of "two protagonists of their respective games meeting and hitting it off" is so satisfying to me, especially when making headcanons for them separately and together is pretty easy and fun.

Throw Infinite in there? Spicy. Especially since he brings a LOT of questions to the table involving his growth, change, and morality. While redemption is very difficult for a guy like him (I mean we all saw what he did in Forces), with these two, the possibility of it is not only brought into question, but very interesting at its core!

That said uhhh Badget is great. Badginfinite lives rent free in my head for being full of interesting concepts and possibilities. I like 'em both!

[alexoreality]

You might not have to hear this but some one piece ships literally don't make sense that it gives me the ick 🥲 (some ships i just respect and leave alone, i'll color them in blue.) (And the ones that give me severe trust issues is purple)

AceSan - ...okay... The smirk...? What else...? Trauma bonding?? What...? I mean, its cute, i can leave the ship alone and its fans. I think this ship stemmed from the way Ace was drawn looking at Sanji *my boy was greasy* Y'all are horny though.- (sorry. But they'll get along so well with supporting and stuff- TRAUMA. MY GUY. I KNOW IT WHEN I SEE IT 😭

HanLu - thats a grown ass woman.

LawLu - and thats a grown ass man. (But Luffy's 19- AGE GAP???)

ZoSan - i'm sorry HUH. The two men that insult each other 24/7 were being shipped??? HUH. (But they respect each other- I KNOW THAT??? BUT GODDAMN THE FICS DON'T GET THEIR CHARACTER RIGHT 😭 ZoSan is a well-liked ship, but don't consider them canon and that they'll kiss after Zoro defeats Mihawk)

ZoBin - THAT IS HIS MOTHER FIGURE.

SaboSan - ...They never met 😶... and what if they do? Trauma bonding again?... Y'all I'm sorry but huh- how. Legitimately I'M SPEAKING RATIONALLY, HOW THE FUCK WOULD TWO PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE??? THAT WAY???

UGH ITS JUST A 2D CHARACTER!!

Well DAMN YOU WEREN'T TREATING THEM LIKE THAT WHEN I WAS DISSING THEM??

[burgycreeper405-blog]

i know i said that I'm dropping this topic but like, i find it funny and veerrryyyy annoying how those rexmet haters adds like "THERE'S A SCENE IN THE MOVIE WHERE EMMET CALLS REX HIS BROTHER SO IT'S INCEST!!" or whatever for their whole ""list of why Rexmet is a horrible ship"" thing

aka bcuz of this scene

when in reality, they're not really brothers in the first place??? like, if you see them as "real brothers", then that's also just an AU and chet, they're more so like a found family type of brothers chet if you see them as brothers honestly

and also the fact that they also add like "MAKING AUS WHERE REX IS ALIVE AND IS REDEEMED IS WRONG CUZ REX IS A UNREDEEMABLE VILLAIN AND HE'S DEAD IN CANON SO HAH!!" next to it

...then that also applies to your whole "they're brothers" thing, so y'all are also fighting yourselves cuz that is also just an AU cuz Rex is alive and is redeemed lol, and that's why it's called AU, "Alternative Universe" or "Alternative Timeline" and chet like that bcuz he's gone in canon, and like, canonically, the Emmet in TLM2 is the AU one if you think about it cuz Rex is like the og Emmet and then he time travelled to changed the everything

and he's not a unredeemable villain, he's still the lovable Emmet that y'all keep saying but turned into a "bad guy" and is still redeemable like the movie itself said lol

and this whole scene is just a joke lmao, cuz like, see how out of place it is for Emmet to just suddenly say "I can be the brother you never have!" when Rex doesn't even need a brother in the first place, especially with his whole backstory what he needs is to be not alone

even before i didn't ship them, i felt that whole thing that Emmet said was out of place lmao

the movie is just being funny and serious at the same time

but the book

that book is serious

and even my brother who doesn't ship them also knows that that scene is a joke / making fun of other movies who does those kinds of chet lol

okay, i am done for real this time

i just wanna get this whole thing out :P

[theauthorityvol1]

this was intended to be like magical girl transformation sequences okay this is the Barbie Doll Anatomy trope. i just wanted to draw teams and bodies. this is the "personification of their bond".

[acgames]

I do not talk about my Assassin x OC ships, because I do feel people aren't than interested in them, but everytime I think about those it's usually assassin falling head over heels for this random chick they met and then years of slowburn romance follow until they eventually start families, because guess what, OC felt the same blorby crush for the assassin.

Except for Julette and Arno, because those two went from being very indifferent about eachother, to being annoyed with eachother to working with eachother, to tolerating eachother, to befriending eachother and to finally just developing feelings for eachother...

[v-arbellanaris]

i think the problem (?) is that the only kind of (fictional?) love that interests me is the kind of love that changes the world. the kind of love that derails the narrative, the kind of love that changes everything -- not necessarily by how special or unique the love is but by the very mundanity of it. the love that grows, not in spite of the barren lovelessness of Before, but out of it. i think that's why I'm always so invested in ships that are two people diametrically opposed to each other, or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, or two people on separate sides of the morality issue coin, because i love it when love... not that it changes a person but it allows the person to Become. the space, the grace, to change. to love the monster, to love the unlovable and the intolerable, is to make it something other than a monster, than unlovable, than intolerable. i love it when being loved at your worst, ugliest, most horrible self is what makes you want to be someone worth loving. like is this ANYTHING to anyone or

[shacklesburst]

The way the question is phrased is supposed to redirect attention away from the real issue at hand.

First of all, yes, compensation need not always be monetary, it can also be status or power or experience. (However, this usually won’t work ad infinitum.) This much is obvious. Yet money is the unit of caring. And do these streamer businesses care about their chats being moderated? Do they care about this moderation being provided in a sufficient quality and quantity? Why do they care? Is it because large parts of their businesses (advertisers, sponsors, engagement) implicitly or explicitly require them to provide content moderation in their chats? Are their businesses, as such, dependent on the quality and quantity of services rendered?

Then there will come a time from which they will pay for that. The question is never if. It’s when. As a business owner, you can take on a certain amount of risk, and up to a certain point, you usually have to to even get started. But soon enough all these streamer businesses will pay, because hunger for risk always decreases with size. Some will take longer to reach this conclusion or not be able to reach it on their own at all, maybe because they lack the required business acumen or because they fail before they get to it. And yes, there will be gnawing and gnashing of teeth once they realize (or stomping of feet, as demonstrated by some of the man-children in the video). But nobody will get past that point without paying up in some shape or form.

Because the question was never really “should you pay?” It always was “can you afford not to?”

[yeonban]

Do you guys realize how batshit Dan Heng's story is. And this is AFTER the dozens of years he was forced to spend in the Shackling Prison. This was his freedom before meeting Himeko and Welt.