#ship edit things

[snow-licity]

It is so frustrating to have an idea of what edit videos you're making and then hear a song and IMEDIATLY think of idea for that video ALSO FOR THE SHIP YOU ALREADY HAVE 10 VIDEOS PLANNED OR MADE FOR SAID SHIP😭😭

I have too many ideas and songs I want to make for Olicity, but then I also have to make vids for other couples, and it's to the point where I might do three vids a month bc I have SO MANY olicity vids it's going to take a year to put them all out😭

(I have a Laurie and Amy vid going up next month, and I have enough vids for Olicity to get me through JUNE!!) But EVERY SONG I hear reminds me of them so now I have litterally enough IDEAS to get me through at least next February!!

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[lazylittledragon]

my art shop is OPEN!!!

anyone who grabs anything has my eternal love bc i'm so happy to finally be able to do this

also all proceeds from the watermelon sticker are being donated to MAP (medical aid for palestinians) <333

[vaunteir]

bgc is so gay/aroace hostility

[theloopus]

gay 70s copaganda thesis is actually about the inherent homoeroticism of the western genre and the cultural image of the male cowboy it borrows from. or as Susan Sarandon once put it, "They got their guns out because they couldn't get their dicks out"

[pineappical]

do you think they explored each other’s bodies

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

jin guangshan and lan qiren yaoi perhaps? since their shapes create a perfect balance?

Two old men perform worlds first successful 96.

[ladeldee]

I like to think now, every time they look up and see each other they just can't help but happily greet one another

[bootsysblog15]

Just rewatched mikes speech for an edit and started punching my pillow. WHY IS HE CALLING HER HIS SUPERHERO SHES A HUMAN BEING I ACNTUALLY CANNOT. AND ALL THE BITCHES BE IN THE COMMENTS GOING “wow.. 🥲 he really got the confession right this time guys 🥰” WILL IS LITERALLY GIVING HIM A BACK MASSAGE AS WE SPEAK

[hitachiincest]

[alicentsaegon]

Lucien Vanserra and Elain Archeron

[queseresere]

It is funniest if Martyn objects to the marriage and still ends up here the next morning.

[harmonysanreads]

thought of the day, aventurine who cannot stand coworker!reader in front of others but, is actually leading the [ aventurine x reader ] ship group in secret.

[espurr-roba]

(crash) landing in scala

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

[candyheartedchy]

A little animatic based on the dancing scene in Chapter 6 of @tornrose24’s Scratch x Reader fic “Being Here With You”.