#the ship sways

[clownsuu]

Thank you for indoctrinating me into being a Wally/Howdy enjoyer. It's not the pair I would have expected to see but still a cute pairing (with GREAT potential angst) nonetheless.

I saw a pajama-outfit meme a few days earlier that fit these two very well, though I forgot to save the actual thing it’s self smhhhh (basically it’s the ship dynamic of “slay slay bich serve” and other is literally just in their boxers MCGFGYDHJDD)

I like to think when ever howdy is content/sleepy/wholesomely happy, his antennae wiggle a lil bit

also bonus Sally and Julie cause I love their chaotic energy MCHHDH

[feroluce]

NO OK BUT I'M STILL NOT OVER BOOTHILL AND DAN HENG AND THE JADE ABACUS IN ENA'S DREAM!!!!!

For some extra context, I have a whole henghill manifesto I wrote over here, but the tl;dr is that Dan Heng decides to use the Jade Abacus of Allying Oath to save the Express Crew the first time. Boothill urges him to think it over carefully, but he doesn't stop him. And then, the second time Dan Heng decides to use it, we get this instead:

And just! That's so!! so!!!

Because like. We see in the first battle against Sunday that that Jade Abacus is effective, like we really do just get an entire army lead by a whole-ass Emanator of The Hunt right to our location and ready to fuck shit up. It's important. It's incredibly valuable. That is a huge amount of power to hold in the palm of one's hand.

But Tiernan's relic works the same way.

Galaxy Rangers are terribly dangerous. Boothill comments on this when discussing Acheron's motives, because he can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to get The Hunt on their asses. They're considered to be on a level even above The Annihilation Gang.

And now, with the burial relic, he has a way to get thousands of them, almost immediately, and all in one place.

And you can't tell me that wouldn't be something extremely useful to Boothill, like literally life-saving. He's wanted by the IPC. He makes his living as a bounty hunter. His whole driving motivation in life right now is to do whatever he can, up to and including throwing away his own human body, to ruthlessly hunt down one man and kill him in revenge. Like that has to be dangerous, the IPC is a massive entity with far-reaching influence and money and power and weaponry. He surely must have already had some close calls.

Like can you imagine it? Galaxy Rangers are solitary creatures. If Boothill were to find himself near death, he would probably be all alone. Do you think he had regrets? Did he wonder if anyone would find his own burial relic? Did it feel the same way it did when they melted his flesh, replaced it with metal? Did he lay there with his vision slowly blacking out until he thought of home, and family, and the little daughter who he never even got to hear her first word, until he was so full of fury that he could prop himself up on his rage like a crutch and find help?

Tiernan's relic would have been like a get-out-of-jail-free card. Just for one time, no matter where Boothill was, someone would find him. The Galaxy Rangers aren't sociable or organized between themselves, but they help their own. Someone would save him.

He chooses to give all of that up to help Dan Heng.

And I just cannot get over it, especially the wording of it, the pause before he speaks, the gentle way he tells him to hold onto his once-in-a-lifetime treasure...!! He wants Dan Heng to leave this to him! He wants him to keep this precious item that will help him save his companions again in the future! And maybe it's just...wishful thinking, me reading too much into it? But I mean. Just the way he says it...

I really do think it comes from a place of deep kinship and respect. That there's a lot of thought and feeling behind that statement. Something from one Pathstrider of The Hunt to another. Boothill fought for his home and his family, he fought really really hard! But. Sometimes that just doesn't matter. And now he's watching Dan Heng fight for his, too.

When he made that decision the first time, Dan Heng was in the parlor car of the Astral Express. He was completely removed from any danger. He could have chosen to get the hell out of Dodge and not look back. Obviously we know he would never even consider such a thing, but it was technically an option, and Boothill watched him decide to go back into the proverbial lion's den for his friends anyway. And I'm sure that was part of what sealed his decision, to later use Tiernan's relic instead of the Jade Abacus to summon enough people to disrupt Ena's Dream. Because he greatly values ideas like righteousness and justice and saving people, and Dan Heng so beautifully embodies all of that and then some.

Boothill doesn't have people to protect anymore, only ghosts to avenge.

And there is just something so endlessly endearing about him wanting to help Dan Heng, to make sure his friend doesn't go through that the way he did.

[illbeyourkeeper]

I'm curious about this

(note: allo = not ace/aro/other aspec microlabels)

Please reblog so we can get a lot of votes

[cuntyglam]

reblog for a higher sample size !!

i did these for most of the straw hats a while back but i never did a franky one !! i have a feeling there’s gonna be a frobin sweep but i also really like him and jinbe. though i’m a frobin fan through and through :).

also i definitely made up a lot of these ship names💀

[zukkaoru]

could you tell me more about why you dislike femskk?

okay disclaimer before i begin: this is not meant to be a dig on every person who enjoys femskk. the biggest reason i don't like it is honestly because it's just not my cup of tea and honestly it really makes no difference to me if other people like it. but beyond that my biggest issues with it are

1. the phenomenon of fans "yuri-ifying" the most popular m/m ship and then using that to prove they like female characters and f/f ships. this is not a bsd-exclusive thing; it happens with stsg too and i don't like femstsg for the same reason. but there's a big difference between actually liking female characters and just genderbending (or even making transfem) the big m/m ship. i literally went to the f/f category in bsd on ao3 the other day looking for fics and about half of them are skk fics instead of fics about like. the actual female characters in bsd. who i was looking for fics of. similarly, there have been some redraw trends going around twitter - specifically the i prefer girls cover redraw - and i have seen. i don't even know how many femskk redraws of that (along with a couple femfyolais and a femrimlaine) but only one redraw with actual female characters from bsd. same with the scene 14 redraw that was going around, and while that one wasn't originally two female characters, i have still seen significantly more femskk (and femsigzai, femsigchuu, femfyolai, etc) than i have ships with even one character who is female in the source material.

and imo this phenomenon is made even worse in the bsd fandom bc so many fans just see bsd as the skk show. so of course they're writing off the actual female characters; they literally don't care about anything besides skk. and obviously i can't do anything to force anyone to care about other characters but like.... bsd has so many other wonderful characters and dynamics (both romantic and platonic) that a good half of the fanbase won't even glance at because they're not skk. i do like skk, but bsd is about so much more than just them. they are, objectively, only one small part of it. like if you only care about skk, then just be outright about it and don't pretend you're "proving" you like female characters and sapphic ships bc you like femskk too

2. of the fans who only like skk and nothing else about bsd, most of them. don't even characterize dazai and chuuya correctly? i think the some of the best skk characterizations i've seen have been from people who actually like other characters and ships too, and some of the worst skk characterization i've seen has come from people who literally don't care about any other ships or characters. this isn't a hard and fast rule obviously but even with 30k skk fics on ao3, i have struggled to find ones that actually feel true to their characters. and the characterization seems to only get worse when it's femskk. if you're just going to turn femdazai and femchuuya into two completely different people, what's the point in it even being skk? why not write k.ousano or h.igugin or even a ship with one canonically female character? if you have to change the core characteristics of both dazai and chuuya... do you even really like them?

3. about femdazai: i actually don't mind the transfem dazai headcanon in general but most fans get her wrong. i made a post about it here but basically so many times i see femdazais that are just. completely unrecognizable as dazai. you can't strip away core aspects of dazai like idk the fact that dazai doesn't show any skin from neck to toe just because you made her a girl. i have seen some femdazai that's good! but i have seen so much that is just fundamentally wrong for dazai's character as a whole. mostly on twitter.

4. about femchuuya: i really truly just don't get femchuuya. i THINK the hype here is probably bc lesbians seem to get attached to chuuya (which. valid. i am also a lesbian chuuya fan.) and so they want to draw a chuuya they can be attracted to (i.e. femchuuya) which like. cool whatever i'm not here to judge. but looking at it from a "would this character actually identify as female" perspective, i don't actually think i can picture that for chuuya. maybe it's just because i so strongly hc them as nonbinary? idk. this one is honestly just a neutral "i don't see that but you do you"

tl;dr: from what i've seen, femskk is often mischaracterized, and genderbending the big m/m ships in a fandom is often a way fans "prove" they like the female characters and f/f ships while not actually caring about anything other than their main m/m ship

[sneakyboymerlin]

Fandom will be like “Arthur wouldn’t have been so bigoted if it wasn’t for [that EVIL Merlin trying to fulfill the prophecies through Arthur to create a long-lasting future for his kin. oh and Uther] the actions of everyone else around him” bro it doesn’t sound like much accountability is being held for one’s own actions :/ bro

[perrypixel]

The more I hear from others the Luz and Hunter’s VAs don't support lunter is laughable bc the way they were bantering and flirting with each other in Hunting Palisman like they really thought there was a chance that they were each other's character's love interest at the time of recording that episode

[alaskan-wallflower]

if i wrote a fic based off the “paul outs darry as wretched” thing would yall readit

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

reason: They’re incredibly queer-coded throughout the entire show and the creator frequently reblogs (and the other social media equivalents) artwork of them being shipped. They kiss once.

[rosesradio]

We gotta have percabeth for the ship poll

oh right i forgor the main ship of the franchise my b

Percabeth (Percy/Annabeth)

*elaboration in the tags is appreciated but please be respectful of others or you’ll be blocked, thank you!

[galactic-glossolalia]

wait I'm curious to see if there's any connection between multiple-gender attraction and multishipping.

Let's make a poll about it!

A few definitions:

Multishipper - for the purposes of this poll, someone who ships one character with multiple others, without these relationships crossing over. In other words, you ship A x B and also ship A x C.

Mspec - multiple-gender attraction spectrum

SGA - single-gender attraction

Aspec - asexuality/aromantism spectrum

Please reblog for sample size!

[cyndraws]

Transmigrator Kaito au ship?

Check out more in the #transmigrator kaito au tag!

I've been deciding between ShinKai: Kaito is the ultimate Shin fanboy. Shinichi keeps getting Very Confused throughout the story. Thinks he's trying to win Ran's heart. But Ran and Shin have more of a sibling relationship here.

and ShinRan: They're adopting Kai into their relationship cause he's being too cute for both of them HAHAHAHAH. Cause Kai keeps trying to rizz up Ran to help Shinichi during his Conan predicament. And Shinichi is annoyed and keeps complaining to Ran, but she's laughing so hard.

And honestly, Kai's like no.1 ShinRan fan. That's why he has these two in his playlist~

I'm ngl to everyone, these results may or may not sway my decision. But I'm curious on what people would love to see / are more excited by.

It's not really a serious poll that will change this entire au or anything hahahaha

[upside-down-low]

me trying to convince the duffers how stonathan and ronance endgame can actually make sense story wise and character wise and make the series rewatch value go up exponentially and make them one trillion dollars and

[br1ghtestlight]

im genuinely so convinced somebody is gonna write a callout thread on me for shipping basebulb bcuz its so Unpopular with most ii fans. so i should say i dont ship it completely 100% unironically (there are VERY few ships that i ship totally unironically in any media) but i think theyre cute and i love their dynamic as team leaders

Also i ship them in a less annoying and heteronormative way than anybody from 2018 did my vision for them is different im the ONLY person who gets them

[cryptid-stimming]

🍬 Long Long Man x Tooru-san 🍭 (Sakeru Gummy vs. Long Sakeru Gummy - さけるグミVSなが～いさけるグミ ) Stimboard

x x x / x / x x x

[Image description: a 9 gif stimboard; from left to right.

First line: a progress pride flag being raised up on a flag pole and waving in the wind, a gif panning upwards over several long Sakeru Gummy candies laying on a wooden floor, and a gif of someone holding a large progress pride flag as they ride their horse in the countryside facing away from the camera.

Second line: a still image of the character Long Long Man from Sakeru Gummy commercials, a close-up gif of a rainbow pride flag waving in the wind, and a still image of the character Tooru-san from Sakeru Gummy commercials.

Third line: a gif of a rainbow pride flag waving in the wind, a gif panning over long Sakeru Gummy candies hanging up in a store, and a gif of a large progress pride flag attached to a black car and waving in the wind.

End of image description.]

[art-of-firefly]

Commission for @ithegodot ! Fantasy Au with knights Aomine and Kise in the palace garden