#so I'll just tag games and ships

[endlesslytired]

[yore-donatsu]

Some idiot #sketches on Ramattra and D-va bc I like them 😊 (both as silly friends and/or like a ship💜) Before some people start moaning: I love to see our great ommiac in good company and be happy ! 😚

[mono-socke]

inho and gihun song pt. 2 (as a ship or not, works perfectly for their canon dynamic)

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[hamofjustice]

nemona feels like an obscure blorbo instead of the main rival character from the latest pokemon game because to get to her really good content from people who really get it, you first have to wade through the ocean of yandere pervert obsessive stalker annoying punchable bimbo amazon goddess interpretations of...

... a neurodivergent and possibly disabled high schooler who's desperately trying to make any friends or get any support from her rich neglectful family - while everyone in her school is jealous of their own imagined version of a privileged asshole version of her they made up - who deeply and platonically loves and supports the one new kid who agreed to take the time to get to know and respect her and her special interest without having to hold back her true self

unlike her, it's not great!

kinda feels like she has the same problem in our world that she does in hers.

[calamitoustide]

There are tears in James' eyes when they look back. They found themself a tragedy. Regulus isn’t the best at saving people. He’s never done it before, but he’ll succeed for them. They might be the only person worth succeeding for. The moment settles over them, and their lips turn upward. Not very much, it’s hardly noticeable even in the light, but it’s something. The ocean is still climbing in their eyes, and the tides go in and out with their breath, but they’re smiling now. They’re safe. Regulus will save them again if need be, any time no matter where. He’ll do whatever they want. Whatever they want. I Might Like You Less Now That You Know Me So Well

Leonard Cohen - Boygenius/unknown/unknown/More Than This - Patrick Ness/Cowboy Take Me Away - The Chicks/We're in Love - Boygenius/Cowboy Take Me Away - The Chicks/Alex Hirsch/Unknown/Unknown/Leonard Cohen - Boygenius

[avicinda]

What is your Giroda/Avicinda take?

(Oops this got really long and rambly...)

So first off, to me their dynamic is rooted in their narrative positions at the start of the story and how they reverse places by the end of it. It's not just for ship purposes, but it is where my shipping them comes from (though I apologize if most of this ends up not being very shippy-like because, to be honest, that aspect is actually pretty secondary to how I think of them as a pair!)

The main thing is that while Giroda replaces Chigda in their society, I think Avicinda is a more direct foil to him.

With how faewish sprites place importance on family/heritage/lineage, it seems to me Kuroda's (falsely tarnished) name shaping the way Giroda was treated by the other sprites mirrors the way Avicinda's lineage shaped him. I feel like there's a lot of angsty fun that could be had with this parallel? Also IMHO Avicinda's description of his family's prior duties didn't necessarily mean his entire family were all knights, but he chose "Whim and swordsmanship" to be the "strongest" servant, and so ends up as Captain of the Paladins serving a fake god while neglecting service to his fellow sprites. Contrast with Giroda who is descended from a knight but was barred from becoming one formally while doing everything to help those around him. And of course, by the end of the story they've swapped positions with Giroda as leader of the sprites and Avicinda having a poorer reputation (though he doesn't seem to be as hated as Chigda is).

And they even literally swap places with Avicinda being locked up in the same cavern Giroda was kept in while Giroda moves into the temple that Avicinda was previously one of the only sprites allowed entry to—

So how it could develop as a ship:

1. Avicinda/Giroda could get pretty dark quick if it happens before or during the main story, considering Avicinda's position of power and Giroda's desires to be a knight...in the very organization Avicinda controls. Being so spiteful to Giroda specifically, I can imagine he'd dangle the promise of knighthood over Giroda as an extra way to torment him and let off some stress from serving Chigda on top of other things he'd claim as all part of punishing Giroda, because Giroda as the traitor's descendant is the antithesis to his knighthood. On Giroda's part, I've always thought that while he might truly hate Avicinda for all he's done to him, Giroda would on some level still be seeking his approval, because Avicinda as the concept of a paladin is his ideal at that point. This is, of course, the perfect recipe for a very nasty relationship to form.

2. Post-story, I can't imagine it happening until several decades or even centuries have passed. I'm fond of imagining that Giroda will one day be the one to come find Avicinda on a quiet night to tell him he should rest. Because Avicinda in my mind is the type of character who decides that he must atone eternally and then never actually forgives himself and never gives himself a chance to breathe ever again. Considering how black and white faewish sprites seem to view the world, an older, wiser Giroda who has been Wish Master for a long time might become the only other sprite to understand him and even remember or care about why he's doing what he does. Bonus: "moron" for old times' sake, but affectionate.

3. AFAIK we don't know how old any of the faewish sprites are definitively other than just vaguely knowing some of them must have been alive for a long long time, but I am under the impression that due to the timeline of when Chigda took over as Wish Master versus when Giroda's parents were sent off to hard labor, Giroda is actually much older than implied? And was maybe actually locked in that cavern for centuries??? (I might be wrong about this bit of Giroda's lore and need to go and dig up more of the books again and rewatch some quest scenes...) And Avicinda is relatively much younger as the rest of his family seems to have died out since the days of the Wishing One.

Point is, if all of the above were true, what if...Giroda escaped before Chigda picked out Avicinda to be his knight and sent those esselings after him (that it was a setup by Chigda is headcanon). What if Giroda and Avicinda met out in the mountains before all that!!! What if they became friends (and then lovers hehe) due to their shared ideals of knighthood and serving the Wishing One. Giroda thinks Avicinda is so cool for training Whim/swordsmanship everyday and asks him to teach him. This not-yet-a-knight Avicinda thinks of Kuroda as a traitor but doesn't know yet that Giroda is his grandson, so as far as he knows Giroda is just a sprite he's never met before who happens to be just like him! And yes of course he'll teach him how to use a sword and become a powerful stylist.

(Chigda is probably going to sabotage this, but they can be happy while it lasts.)

4. And for that "No Nikki" AU where Avicinda and Giroda team up and do the Swordsmith Ruins together, Giroda gets to watch Avicinda's faith in Chigda shatter and the self-loathing start, just as Avicinda gets to watch Giroda become what he always thought he was going to be. There's some resentment, but Giroda doesn't let that grow. He needs Avicinda's help here to take the fight to Chigda and right what he's done wrong, and maybe after some much needed introspection, Avicinda takes on the mantle of turning the paladins against Chigda while Giroda evacuates the other sprites before joining the fight.

Giroda still gets elected as the new Wish Master, but this time he asks Avicinda to stay as Captain of the Paladins. And Avicinda who might have left to look for a new purpose in life if not asked, ends up agreeing. He stays, and quickly becomes devoted to Giroda. Maybe he's just shifting his need for a target to swear an oath to onto someone new, but in the process he ends up symbolically becoming Giroda's shield instead of how he was as Chigda's sword. And Giroda as Wish Master gets to direct that knightly energy somewhere productive for the sake of all faewish sprite society this time.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

if dorian didn't show up, do you think louis would have shot minnie?

I do. I know some people think either he wouldn't have or he would've missed so that's why the writers had him shoot Dorian instead, but mmmmmm no, I don't personally think so. I like to think that if he had taken the shot, his shaky hands would've caused him to shoot her fatally.

Mostly because I'm already so normal about the fact that of the Ericson crew, Marlon and Louis are the only ones with a body count. Well, that we know of, but shown to us in the game, at least. Plus, we know it's Louis' first kill.

Like yeah, Clementine and AJ become part of the crew and they have bigger body counts, and if we're counting indirect kills caused by actions, then Tenn has a count... and I guess everyone has blood on their hands for blowing up the boat... but I'm talking about killed directly with a weapon like....... I lied, I'm not normal about that at all, Louis and Marlon are the ones who have killed someone in Louis' route. I'm also not normal about the fact that Louis kills Dorian and then even as he's clearly in shock, he tries to go with Clementine to get AJ, and then later on when they talk about it, he says it feels like bile but not quite and he's glad he has it in him to do it.... listen, listen, listen... I'm obsessed with that.

Anyway, so if Louis shot Minerva, I think he would've accidentally killed her and can you imagine? He's already enough of a mess after killing the woman who pinned him down and tried to cut his finger off [or succeeded] but he knew Minerva, they were friends before the twins were taken. Even Violet couldn't kill her even though that would've been the smarter thing to do, and we know thanks to meta knowledge that killing her would've saved lives, but Violet couldn't, and I don't think Louis would intentionally either.

Speaking of Violet, if Louis killed Minerva, I hate to think about what that would've done to Vi. I think she might've actually left at that point, like what was planned before it got changed to her being burned. I don't think she would've attacked Louis over it, though, like yeah she attacked Clementine in the cell but Louis? I don't know, but I don't think so just because it's Louis and he'd be a mess about it anyway.

Though if he did kill her, it would be a neat parallel to draw... y'know, because Louis forgave AJ for killing Marlon even though he was pissed and heartbroken, and Violet was annoyed with him the entire time... but could she ever forgive Louis for killing Minerva? Y'know? We already have a similar parallel with AJ shooting Tenn, but still.

If Clementine killed Minerva in that moment, though, then I could see Violet attacking her since in her eyes, Clem proved her right.

So yeah, I get why they added the Dorian kill to his route. It adds another compelling element to Louis as a character, but we also need Minerva alive for episode 4; Louis can't kill her, he can't miss, and he's not going to stay with her because we need Violet to stay on the boat and him to be on shore for all routes.

[dailykeiji]

do u ship keiji with anyone? or just yourself (cuz yeah same)

oh i'm open to most ships involving keiji!! he's my favorite so he gets all the lovin........ if i had to pick favorites though i'd say i think keiji & mishima, keiji & q-taro (especially if it's a polycule and mai is also there) and keiji & kai are all pretty cute :)

[kozachenko]

A little MS Paint thingy of Keiki and Chimata in more modern, casual clothing, added some varients of just the girls on their own and one without the background

[snuggles-and-struggles]

Could I get some uhhh ships to draw possibly in february batting my eyelashes

[clovercrafted-txt]

Title: Forwards (To Anywhere and Everywhere)

Fandom: Rain World Rating: Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death, Mild Gore, Canon-Typical Suicide, Mental Health Issues, Toxic Relationships, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm

Characters: No Significant Harassment, Chasing/Grey Wind, Seven Red Suns, The Hunter, The Rivuet

Summary:

There’s a life out there, outside of this box, this birdcage, a life Sig has longed to grasp in his hands, to tear from the cold death grip of those who made him, those who abandoned him, a life he longs to live so utterly joyously that his creators would probably drop dead and pass from the world just with the shock.

It’s a life not meant for him, for any of them. And he’s tried. He’s tried and he’s tired and he’s so over failing again and again, so done with asking endless questions, thundering towards a goal he has no belief in. Is it really so bad to want to leave? Is it really so awful that he wants to live?

~

No Signigicant Harassment finds himself stumbling through life with a very long list of regrets following him. But with a little help, a desire to give his creators a middle finger and a need to fix his mistakes, somehow he finds himself becoming the first of his kind to cast away their can and walk the world. What he does with that new found freedom is yet to be seen but he's sure he'll fuck it up somehow.

[pokimoko]

5, 10, 20, and 25 for fic in review ask thing!!!

5. What ships captured your heart?

I am a gen writer through and through, so it's a very rare thing to see me writing a ship-focused fic. That said, I really enjoyed the pairing of Karlach and Astarion this year, though I wouldn't say I shipped them necessarily in a romantic sense. The fic I wrote that had them together had their relationship tagged '(it's fairly ambigious; is it romantic? queerplatonic? platonic? yes), (the love and devotion is there regardless)' which I think basically sums up how I view them (and also how aromantic I am about shipping 😅).

I also liked Billford, but in a strictly 'oh yeah they're super divorced, they are never getting back together' kind of way. Not sure if that counts as shipping, but hey, it's definitely counts as something.

10. What fic was the most satisfying to write?

I would have to say either 'The Poetics of Space' (Gravity Falls) or 'On Waxen Wings We Soar, In Spite of Inevitable Ends' (Baldur's Gate 3). They were the two fics I was the most happiest with this year, not only regarding the quality of the writing itself and the themes they explored (the constance of change not only in the world but also ourselves, and finding joy in and making peace with the time you have left), but also how they tied everything together in their conclusions. Both of them equally made me feel a 'wow..I did that' feeling of accomplishment when I finished them, so yeah, they both were absolutely the most satisfying to write.

20. Share your funniest line.

Being more of angst-based writer kinda limits my collection of comedic lines (even my more comedic story this year was extremely angsty), but there was one line I wrote this year that got a couple comments about it making the reader laugh, so I'll go with that one (because if two people found it funny, surely it must be, right):

“You try fixing an interdimensional portal for thirty years without learning physics," (Stanley) said. "I know what quarks are now. Do you know how much I hate knowing what quarks are.”

25. How did you recharge between fics?

Usually I'd spend the first few days after finishing a fic trying to figure out the what the heck to do with the spare time I had previously allocated to writing said fic, and then once I figured that out (and had yet to be overcome with the urge to write something else), I'd probably watch a TV show, read a book, play video games, and do some art. I'm boring like that.

Send me a number!

[sunset-peril]

Villain here. Yeah fr. I was kind of a jerk in my post/tags but only because (especially on that day) I was quite frustrated and fed up of the "m*phlink happens in aoc" "um aksually m*phlink is canon in aoc ☝""zelink can never happen in aoc" arguments I kept seeing online in various places.

I do understand wishful thinking and all but it has felt like nobody saying these things actually played the game (or watched the cutscenes all the way through), just purely repeating what others said and running with the fact the champions are alive while ignoring the actual content presented in hwaoc.

Like, if I was a writer setting out to make m*phlink canon, I would not give her a single scene of focus (her introduction) and then have her in the background for the rest of the game, while writing zelink scenes like that castle hallway moment that feel pulled straight from a fan's pre-calamity zelink fanfic lol. Koei Techmo/Nintendo's intent seems pretty obvious (especially since they went and added an entire extra zelink montage in DLC content), so I really don't know how "m*phlink canon in aoc" became such a popular idea?

There's also the robot in the room: Terrako. The name means "earth child" and becomes glued to both Zelda and Link as if they're his parents. I mean one of the DLC scenes even makes them both look like out-of-breath parents who have been searching high and low for their missing toddler (the comedy of the moment being that Terrako is actually more than fully capable of handling himself and they just missed the intense battle that happened)

NOTE: If anyone decided to reblog this, please do not add any ship tags for anyone. That's gonna be my policy moving forward for content like this.

~~~

Completely and entirely understandable. No judgement here. Can't judge actually, I'm a problem sometimes. I've been guilting of misinterpretations too. I had my crap called on my characterizations of Rhoam called out this year, and I've had to revisit both BotW and AoC to fix it. If I blocked everyone who had One of Those Days where they decided to pick a fight against the Fandom, especially for a mischaracterization, I'd be blocking all my mutuals, a lot of people I respect in the Fandom, and also I'd be blocking myself. We're human it happens. So long as you don't endorse being a butt.

I lose my lid on misinterpretations a lot more than I really want to admit. Especially when they have that real coercive wording of "accept the thing as canon or else," or just refuse to acknowledge itself as a headcanon, then get butthurt when they are (very politely or gently) fact checked by someone else. Both of which could have been entirely avoided if people were upfront with whether the Canon had been regarded or not (which is usually what sinks my battleship).

I've sniffed both ends of the skunk (does that saying work?) concerning this whole mess with AoC and BotW and all that jazz just from fic writing alone. Having ZeLink be canon and have there be a true reason for the Zora Armor's existence? Yikes. Piss keyboard warriors on both sides off. (the gist of it being that Link was part of a dying sub-tribe to the Hylians and agreed to an arranged marriage to Mipha to prevent himself from having to commit inc*st, however, Mipha was clear that she knew Link didn't love her and that he only agreed in order to save his sister, and also willingly dissolved their contract when he fell in love with Zelda instead. But that's another post)

But I'd never try to coerce someone into accepting that as the reason for BotW's semi-confusing set up. For all canon purposes, I blame the Zora themselves for not critically thinking about Link's current situation, and believe that they may have been unintentionally manipulative to him simple because they weren't really thinking about Link's complete absence of memory/sense of self. Yet again, not something I'd force somebody to believe as canon. And emphasis on "unintentionally," because I really don't see malice in any of them. Especially Sidon (and whoo, he's a whole other dumpster fire)

As someone who would easily place Age of Calamity into the My Top 3 Zelda Games (shoot me, I know), I've spent a stupid amount of time analyzing that game. The idea for ZeLink being pregnant at the time of Calamity innocently enough came from me and my cousins analyzing the game together and actually making fun of the sheer waistline difference between the white Prayer/Priestess Dress and her pre-Calamity armor. And don't you know that would make people boil if I tried to present that as canon 😂

I fully believe Terrako is 10/10 intended and written to be Zelda and Link's "son." But I wouldn't use any fanon discourse to try and prove that. I don't think I need to with the game in hand. There can be a bit of "stretch" I think that ZeLink fans pull in determining how early in the game Terrako "decides" Link's his dad (I don't believe this happened in the cutscene where Link defends Zelda from the Yiga and Terrako beeps a ton and kind of bites at his ankles, which is where I've seen a lot of ZeLink-ers say it happens). But to me there's absolutely no doubt that Nintendo and Koei intended for Terrako to be their child. And some fans' decisions to try and define One Instance™️ that Zelda/Link/Terrako became one family doesn't detract from the fact that the game heavily appears to be going in that direction. I mean, Zelda is clearly his mom, don't need a degree in Nintendo to figure that one out, which raises the question of why Terrako is almost always following Link around instead of his "mom." I also won't force people to accept that if they don't want to, as long as they at least acknowledge what the canon is actually saying and not what their fanon desires. Points for the newbie fans/offline fans for that one because they're not in this discourse mud all the live long day! (I also watched the Restoring Terrako cutscene again to make sure I'm not accidentally lying, and when Terrako wakes back up and recognizes Zelda, Link does that nod + very slight smile thing that he does to Zelda when Calamity is defeated. He nods a lot in the game of course, but I think those are the only two times he's nodded and smiled. Don't quote me I didn't rewatch the entire game)

The DLC at times definitely feels like Link and Zelda dealing with their little toddler, haha. That picture he takes of them both at the end OOF.

Honestly, it really feels like Mipha is ignored once the Zora Princess plotline is over. Unless I'm severely miscounting, she has about as many "alone" moments with Daruk as she does with Link. And ain't nobody shipping them in AoC! (as far as I'm aware, I'm sure there's someone)

I feel like if Link was supposed to have any chance of falling in love with Mipha in the BotW storyline/universe at ALL, they would have made that astoundingly clear in Age of Calamity. But they don't. It feels even more like a joke in AoC than it did in BotW/TotK. The DLC slams the lid on those fingers even harder.

In fact, we could sit here for the whole night debating about whether or not any ZeLinkness in TotK was already written/known to Nintendo when this game was made AND whether or not they specifically made this game Heavy on the ZeLink or Not Heavy on the ZeLink simply because of whether or not there would be ZeLink in TotK. Because there was at least some time where there was production overlap between the two games. No clue how much, but there was some.

Actually, despite whether or not I wanted to make Link end up with Zelda/Mipha, I still wouldn't have cast her aside like it did. After the Zora Princess plot when Mipha bonds with Ruta, it starts feeling like her only driving motive is her affections for Link. Which we know from Champion's Ballad, the Zora Princess plotline, AND when Sidon/Riju/Yunobo/Teba fall out of the sky that her love for her brother, father and people equates (I would actually say "exceeds") any Link-related motives or personality points that Mipha had. So I would force the story/game to put Mipha in places where Link is completely out of sight out of mind. Because there are some parts of BotW/AoC where it acts like Link's her only purpose in life. Which is a problem.

If I wanted to make sure the public knew that Link was supposed to love her and not Zelda, I would have made it dang sure it was obvious. And the only thing I really find obvious in AoC is that her affections are played almost like a joke (or at best a subplot where everything but the beginning and end were cut from the game last minute). I can't remember how to unlock the Zora Armor in AoC, what quests you have to do, but I do remember it was a LOT. Like, the fact that you have to do a LOT of mediocre side quests (I think you have to be post-game to unlock it? I cant remember, but it raises more points if you do) to unlock it instead of it being accessed through the main story says something about Nintendo's intentions, and to me that "something" smells like "included for reference/fanservice only". It was actually one of the last clothing items I got simply because there were a lot of hoops to go through to get it. (I mainly wanted to unlock it to read the description, and the description almost sounds like Link is making a joke of it, or if he's actually concerned that he could GET IN TROUBLE for having it which... raises a lot of flags).

I would have made sure Link got that armor during the main story if he was supposed to love Mipha. I would've made sure to include a part with Zelda and Terrako that more or less says "I know you like him, but he's not your dad" if he wasn't supposed to end up with Zelda. However, neither of those things exist. And they would HAVE to exist (or something very similar) to outweigh everything else occurring in that game.

The whole rest of the game smells so heavily of a ZeLink fanfiction, I actually want to laugh. I couldn't have based ZeLink fanfiction so heavily off this game if there was no ZeLink.

What also makes me want to laugh? Every interaction Urbosa and Revali have in that game. HYLIA she seems so done with him.

[winter-spark]

I notice that even though Citron's my fave, I spend more time here talking about Orange and Navel.

I think it's fear of being wrong.

[avernusfuries-a]

tag dump.

[peppermint-3]

i quit tagging #rb

why was i ever doing that