#they’re an INTERESTING ship

[theneurodivergentfox]

No but really this is a huge thing for me with published fiction. When I’m reading or watching something between two characters that is *fucked up* toxic manipulative or whatever but it’s like fuckin Hannibal or Breaking Bad that’s like exactly what I signed up for and it’s *interesting* and nobody whose shipping it is trying to defend it or say it’s healthy or whatever but when I try and read these YA romance novels where the author is trying to convince me it’s “true love” and “couple goals” meanwhile it’s incredibly codependent and toxic and the male love interest is almost always this overprotective controlling asshole I’m turned waaaay off because it’s *trying to pass* as healthy and good and it’s just Not and it’s marketed to impressionable young girls who are *being told* that it’s “couple goals” and it makes me sick

Sometimes you read a fic where the author is clearly and intentionally writing dead dove content like:

These garbage boys are going to torture and gaslight each other until they’re inextricably intertwined 😈 they are going to make each other the most fucked-up and worst versions of themselves 🔪 they will be so codependent and broken they will never be able to be with anyone else after ☠️

And, like, this is probably written by a pretty normal, well-adjusted person. Genuinely. The dove is dead but the author knows that the dove is dead because they killed the dove. On purpose. Gleefully. They were like “wouldn’t it be fucked up if…” and then wrote the if.

But then sometimes you read a fic where the author is like:

uwu these soft boys are soooo cute and in love 🥰 they’re so sweet and pure and good 💕 I just want them to be cutesy-wutesy and in lurveeee forever 😍 this is my new fic about soft boys being soft 💋 this is the height of romance 😘

And then the fic is. Not. The relationship is THE must fucked up, manipulative, passive-aggressive shit show where both characters are being awful to each other, but in the most socially-acceptable heteronormative way where you could 100% picture a friend of a friend telling you this bizarre story at a party while you’re sitting there like wow 😬 straight people are wild who acts like that?

I don’t read fics like that often, but whenever I do I’m always like................... 👀 you good? You doing okay? You seem to think this kind of behavior is, uh. Normal. And, uh, romantic? But these characters certainly seem to hate each other. Not in the narrative, in the narrative they’re super in love somehow but uhhh. Um. You good?

There is such a chasm between people writing something fucked up on purpose vs someone writing something fucked up on accident. And the latter is where things are not tagged properly, and they’re infinitely more disturbing imo.

[theweeklydiscourse]

I’m sick of people passing off patronizing and condescending commentary about how naive and impressionable women are as useful and educational. These people will base their analysis of fiction on sexist notions about how easily women are “tempted “ by malevolent villains and then act as if that’s some revolutionary take. They’ll unironically construe the narrative in a way that takes away all agency from the female heroine and frame her decisions as entirely the result of the villain’s manipulation.

They wring their hands about how dangerous it is for women to be exposed to these stories and moan about how terrible it is that hot villains appeal to the “baser instincts” and tempt female viewers further (Yes, I actually saw someone make this argument) It’s truly bizarre to see people agreeing with such patronizingly sexist rhetoric and saying things like “I miss the days when villain romances were cautionary tales and not encouraged.” As if women thirsting after attractive fictional villains is some epidemic that threatens society.

It’s especially irritating when women are the ones saying these things. They want to believe that they are a rare exception that, unlike those other brainless girls, can understand that liking hot villains will threaten their morals and lead them astray…OH THE HORROR!! Please save your dramatic preaching for the next purity conference and stop pretending that your sanctimonious commentary has any substance whatsoever.

[nite-puff]

this was what their dr:s interaction was originally gonna be. trust me. i’m mr. danganronpa

(no cuz seriously. how are you gonna have them interact and then forget that hiroko canonically has a bit of a thing for takaaki?) (i say this like the dr:s writers even knew who the other captives were)

[veinsfullofstars]

💝 MetaDede Week 2024 Day 3: Gifts 💝

(ID: Kirby series fanart of King Dedede and Meta Knight giving each other a gift. Top - the boys sitting side-by-side, MK looking up with a pleased smile behind his mask as DDD excitedly flips through a green leather-bound book the knight has given him, the spine titled “Fight the Stars!” and an arrow pointing to it that says “book of famous intergalactic wrestlers.” Bottom - the boys seated at a table, a chocolate parfait in a large handled glass between them, the treat layered with fudge, mousse, and ice cream, topped with brownie bites, edible silver pearls, and a fanned wedge of chocolate emblazoned with MK’s mask. MK, delighted by the gift, leans forward with wide eyes and spread wings, practically leaping onto the table in his eagerness to dig in, while DDD reclines with his elbow propped up and his head resting in his hand, gazing at the knight with a soft smile. END ID.)

Parfait inspired by various MK-themed desserts from the Kirby Café.

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Started 08/11/24, finished 08/16/24.

[beanchristine]

i am begging. for the love of god, please let the gays and the fanfic writers find the boys. there are so few fanfics for a show so heavily laden with homoerotic tension, loss, and slow burn potential !!!! y’all are telling me that you’ve watched hughie choose butcher over annie time and time again, without fail and always with forgiveness, and you don’t think they’re in love ???? y’all watched butcher give up his only chance of getting becca back to save hughie’s life and just said “yeah that’s something a bro would do—he’d give up his entire raison d’être (getting closure and vengeance for his wife, which is the ENTIRE plot of the show) for this scrawny little guy he met a year or so ago. that’s normal!” please. they’re so murder husbands coded i can’t stand it.

also, almost everyone i know who watches this show is so right-leaning, and i literally cannot fathom how they’re watching this show. the boys is one of the most scathingly leftist, political, satirical shows i’ve ever seen. homelander is the BIGGEST allegory for donald trump, and somehow none of the conservatives that watch this show have realized it. it is so genuinely laughable. they just keep watching.

so please. if you’re interested in blatant homoerotic tension, superheroes, and critiques of the american political system and its capitalist foundation, watch the boys. fair warning about the extreme amount of gore, and sex, though. actually, just attach any cw or tw you can think of to this show.

end rant.

[allisonjamaica]

posted abt this literally two seconds ago but i’m still thinking about Them so here we go

like look at that body language!! the open expression!! theo literally dragged him in there while liam was losing control but he’s not giving off any anger toward theo at all until theo goes out of his way to be callous about brett and lori. he’s just so earnestly letting theo in on his line of reasoning and i will never not be obsessed with the way he asks “well, are you gonna watch hunters murder [my friends]?” because he so obviously says it as a rhetorical question like!! tell us you’ve started to trust theo without telling us you’ve started to trust theo why don’t you

first of all liam’s little “why are you yelling” is adorable but second of all can we appreciate how he’s just So Confused but he seems more concerned that theo has lost his mind than anything else? like it doesn’t even occur to him that theo’s doing anything shady, he just has no clue why theo’s screaming in that moment. and his expression when theo yells at him to shut up and his whole “did you really have to punch me?” will never not be iconic like PLS he’s basically just whining at theo at this point, there’s no real anger or concern that theo actually wants to hurt him

MYKONOS SCENE MY BELOVED. look at him!! he literally has to take a breath at the end of his infodump because he was so caught up in letting theo in on his plan. like it’s so important to him that theo understands where he’s coming from?? also liam totally talks with his hands in both this scene and in pressure test when he’s explaining to theo that brett and lori were part of satomi’s pack which is (a) adorable and (b) definitely comes across as a sign of him gradually getting more comfortable around theo

all in all i am obsessed with way liam behaves around theo in 6b because he’s so obviously trying to maintain his hostility toward him, but so many of their scenes together make it so clear that, more and more, he’s forgetting to keep it up

[sanasanakun]

I guess I find the shipping discourse a little funny because fandoms are gonna create ships regardless of the subject matter. I think really heavy, depressing media creates a need for people to see human connection. It’s like a way to cope, you know? More importantly and specific to this game (Mouthwashing), I also find it a little funny just because the devs themselves seem to be leaning towards ~one~ “ship” by retweeting artwork that depicts them as pretty close and protective. They even did an edit of them on that Florence Pugh and that one white guy romance movie with a “what could have been” caption. Sooo tldr the ship drama is kind of dumb. Please block and move on cause the discourse is taking up space on my feed when I’m trying to look for more art of Daisuke lmao

[daiziesssart]

@ the marauders fandom

[dallasgallant]

Dallas and twobit giving the worst girl advice known to man. And yet somehow it fucking works for them, sometimes.

Soda and Steve go steady with girls and are slightly nicer but could not give good advice to save their lives- just can’t word it right rather than it being brow raising.

“You have to treat a car like you treat a woman.”

Pony is doomed.

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

Some dinopants!

[bruhstation]

Can we see some interactions between Ryan and Thomas and/or Ryan and Daisy?

in daisy’s defense, she always saves ryan from all the awkward and borderline WWE-like gresley family reunions. he’s gotta make it up to her.

[dceasesd]

another win for fans of the dick & jay brotherhood agenda

[its-haughty]

Can I request you draw soushi- nah I’m kidding give us more keishin PLEASE

ok i’ll combine both your ideas into one horrible mess if thats ok

[nato-obenkrieger]

i am a man of my word MORE SLUSHPUPPIESna

[scrimblyscrorblo]

My Poe/Lucy ((NOT a ship)) fusion because I love fusing these people TT ❤️💜

I envision this as a plot point w a fusion based ability - being used to strengthen abilities and completely baffle foes by forcing them to become entirely new people

So I used Lucy’s post-guild-fall outfit mostly and some of her og fit combined. The hair bandana is absolutely meant to mimic cat ears, they’re cat coded

I imagine their combined ability is Cask Of Amontillado inspired! Anne, the puppet, would look more like a jester -> like in the story. Combined with Poe’s world-making ability, Anne’s room becomes a massive labyrinth that traps its captors within the walls

Ideally, they’d be able to summon more than one Anne to chase people through the labyrinth.

She’s nervous and easily a bit agitated but above all very dedicated to his work and his loved ones

I imagine she jumps back n forth with pronouns

Also these two learning they’re both orphaned would be neat and they both have like tears in their clothes for some reason TT e.g. Lucy’s skirt and Poe’s suit jacket

Bonus Pre-Guild outfit combo sketch!!

[del-stars]

“wolfstar is boring” = skill issue