#this ship is SO fucking annoying

[cheesymorgue]

The intellectuals' yaoi

[annyankers]

for all the amicability in the whirlwind later on i think it's really important to never lose sight of why dru was turned and then why she in turn sired spike. she was tortured and turned for angelus' enjoyment, her continued suffering brings him pleasure. he owns her, she is a Thing to him and she has no way to escape this. she makes spike to be "her brave knight" a position that, especially in fairytales, means a very romantic man physically protects and serves a woman who is usually gonna end up being some kind of damsel in distress.

while yes dru is evil and a vampire she's still obviously very upset about what happened to her and those moments seem to be her times of lucidity, not delusion. not to mention that she's already been beaten out of the notion that she can escape angelus, she tried to as a human and it didn't work, it likely won't work now either, especially if darla sides with him. but with spike around there's someone who basically always takes her side and fights to keep angelus away from her. who is, at least, a buffer between her and her tormentor. he also takes care of her and validates her, something neither darla or angelus seem to be interested in doing at all.

i feel like people tend to intellectually remember what happened to her but forget that it you know, has long lasting consequences when say, they evaluate her behavior in late s2 when angelus comes back. like... yeah ofc she goes back to appeasing him and shit. spike's a wheelchair and she was beaten into shape to be "daddy's little girl" (gag) YEARS before she even MET spike. her abuser is back and her defender is out of commission not to mention her whole view of reality has been actively warped by the most narcissistic sleezoid around.

and all the reasons why people love spike or point to as why he's better with buffy or whatever.... dru was the one who saw those first and picked him because of those. like... it's wild to see people act like they spent a loveless century together and spike was just used the whole time when we SEE them literally in love, he states MULTIPLE times she means so much to him and we get an OUTSIDE SOURCE CONFIRM THEY HAVE "AFFECTION AND JEALOUSY FOR EACH OTHER". we have the spike we know of today because drusilla saw the hero in him and wanted him to rescue her. and ya know, he kinda did. multiple times. over a century of deep, mutual horrifying love. you only even GET spike and buffy in the same ROOM because he loved dru so much he saved her from a mob, traveled with her across a continent (maybe 2 depending on direction) and over an ocean for even a SHOT at a cure. like... cMON.

this got a little off topic into some of my pet peeves but also kinda not because just-- i don't think people always remember that dru is still a victim and a victim who was intentionally frozen the moment of maximum despair and internal destruction. then spent about 20 years being groomed by her tormentor before she ever had anyone care about her as a priority. i think people tend to forget that it was angelus who wanted to turn spike into a monster and drusilla who wanted him to be a hero. it's dru who gives him his swagger, his confidence, his love for life, who encouraged his romanticism and adored his poetics. it's not that she groomed or built him, but just that she saw all that potential already in there and facilitated it and nurtured it. sure in a fucked up vampire way but still.

[idolomantises]

Just a random question to my artist followers: does anyone enjoy posting their stuff on tiktok? I can't tell if its just a me thing or if that app and its userbase are the most obnoxious compared to other social media

[plutonious]

hm. going insane over @teethmongerrr's freaking MTTV on Air au. I'm plagued. can someone put me down. they're objectkins.

[dewwshi]

The people demand more Minlach. ( please more we are desperate and your art of them is so good 🥺🥺🥺)

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my beautiful yuri... sooo critical to me that minthara 1. fell first 2. fell harder. something abt the idea of this self-avowed villain being utterly and inexplicably smitten with the sweetest nicest golden retriever girl in the world

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

On the one hand Silco ABSOLUTELY DID NOT deserve what Vander did to him, it was absolutely horrific and he is such a tragic character.

On the other hand, given how this mf monologues constantly and makes it his life mission to cause maximum psychic damage to anyone he interacts with at all times, it's a bit of a shock he didn't get throttled sooner

[keferon]

Feel free to ignore this ask if it's uncomfortable!

I just realised I haven't seen any ships with Rodimus from you except LostRod (although I may be forgetting something). Do you ship Roddy with anybody (Thunderclash?👀) or is it just not to your taste?

I was making a bunch of Thunderrod fic illustrations a while ago but genuinely. My favourite part of all thunderrod fics was always Roddy’s friendship with Drift haha

For some reason every dynamic he has with any character is ten times more funny and interesting if they aren’t romantically involved.

[littencloud9]

“top/bottom dynamics matter extremely to me because the sex dynamic changes the regular dynamic of the characters to fit into traditional BL roles and i only believe in one” i don’t know how to explain how much of a skill issue that is on your part

[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)

[weareallgonnaliveforawhile]

Crossguild HC

When Shanks finds out about Crossguild, he's actually convinced that his Exes got with Crocodile in a poly relationship and is devastated.

The entirety of Crossguild is doing their absolute best to make it clear that the day they fuck any of the other members is the day they lose every ounce of their meager self-respect, but Shanks keeps walking in on them in 'odd' scenarios and any progress they had with convincing him is ruined instantly.

At one point he walks in when Buggy has lost his temper and is yelling at Crocodile a bit, his limbs floating. Shanks is instantly brought to tears and is like 'Oh my god, you're yelling at him while shaking your disembodied limbs angrily...you used to do that to me when we were together, I guess you've really moved on...' Crocodile and Buggy both just...stop and share a look of mutual look of 'What the fuck is he going on about?' before being disgusted that they had the same thought, which only proves to further cement them as a couple in Shanks mind.

I need to make it as clear as possible that for Crossguild, the thought of dating each other hadn't even crossed their minds. They'd honestly be fine with faking it to fuck with Shanks if they weren't so uniquely horrified at the idea of dating each other. This can end in a slow burn where they actually do end up getting together or them just getting slightly less homicidal (and gaining some grudging respect) to each other cause

'You know clown? If I had to grow up with that red motherfucker like you did, I'd kill everyone on that ship. Respect to you for not doing that.'

'...thanks? I guess Crocy. And you know, Mihawk? If I was married to that bastard, I would've actually killed myself so honestly respect for not doing a murder-suicide.'

'Thank you, believe me, it crossed my mind.'

[prince-liest]

Thoughts on radioapple as a qpr?

I'm of two opinions on this... forewarning that I'm giving my general and genuine opinion in this ask. Insert disclaimer about "not all radioapple," this is not a judgment on those that like what I dislike, don't come for me, etc, etc.

I'm not a huge fan of radioapple as a ship, QPR or otherwise. A lot of this comes down to how they're characterized in that ship on average. I love Alastor and Lucifer as characters independently from each other, but radioapple has pretty broad mass appeal and thus a tendency to see their characters simplified into personality and relationship tropes. (I remember being genuinely very confused when I realized that radioapple is more popular than radiostatic, to a degree that is really funny in retrospect.)

That said, there has been radioapple that I've read and really, really enjoyed (check out my AO3 bookmarks). Generally it's been slowburn as hell, genuinely dedicated to portraying Alastor as aroace (and usually sex-repulsed which is my preference in this context; I also feel like non-QPR radioapple has higher rates of "wow this Alastor is definitely not ace" vibes than other ships from what I've anecdotally noticed), and taken a lot of time to dissect both of their personalities, goals, and the ways in which they'd clash and subsequently build on them both individually as characters and in relation to each other.

A lot of my issues with radioapple comes from not being a fan of typical "enemies to lovers (or QPRs)" tropes, which I think in turn ties into my being very aro and very ace. If you give me an enemies to partners then you better be very fucking dedicated to proving to me why these two end up actually liking each other, because there is nothing I find less relatable than horny hatefucking or a relationship built on humiliating or putting down your partner (in a non-kinky way, or in a kinky way that disguises genuine poor treatment). A lot of the "they take turns humiliating each other" or "Lucifer puts Alastor in his place" flavored fics that are intended to be shippy just put me off entirely. Especially given radioapple's intended endgame flavor most of the time is that it's not a toxic ship.

This extends to them in a QPR. Any kind of emotional connection between these two for me would require writing dedicated to the emotional legwork. I think this is why I don't enjoy a lot of radioapple art, too - by the nature of the medium it's hard to capture that in a single image.

Tl;dr: 99% of the time, hard pass. 1% of the time, fucking amazing work, good job, love it, can't WAIT for the sequel.

[skrunksthatwunk]

two trucks

[parab0mb]

Snug as a...

...nah. I shan't say :)

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Getting back into a Psillypomp mood. Also trying to motivate myself to draw stuff that isn't just shitposting, so I finished up one of my many sketchdump doodles for fun. Vena's newly developed wings aren't just good for flying; they're also great for cozying up with (being a colossal nuisance towards) her bestie.

There *is* a distinct possibility she still smells like she just crawled out of a sewage treatment plant, so Col may not necessarily be wrong to be grouchy.

[barbara-gordons-glasses]

He DID make her feel stupid and unimportant. I will never understand this argument because they dated for MONTHS and they hung out uninterrupted, like, one or two times? Amber gave him way too many chances, in my opinion. Is he a superhero? Yes. Does he risk his life for the safety of others? Yeah. But, to Amber, for most of season one, he was just a normal guy. She set boundaries for their relationship that he blatantly ignored the entire time. Sorry, everyone—MARK WAS A SHITTY BOYFRIEND. Do not give me that “she knew he was a hero and still treated him badly!!” Argument. she knew for WEEKS out of the months that they dated. She gave him chances to tell her and he didn’t take them.

You guys can have your opinions about characters but most of Amber’s hatred is racism or peoples’ lack of interaction with women. They’re not all lenient. They’ll have boundaries in a relationship.

[alexandraisyes]

The cutest reminder ever that the way family works in TSAMS canon is that two parties have to be in mutual agreement that they are family. If one party doesn't agree then they aren't family. Parties can revoke familial ties whenever they want and that means they are no longer family.

"Code Relation" theory is stupid because you're then implying that Eclipse is Sun and Moon's child. Which he isn't. Or that Killcode is somehow Moon's child and his brother at the same time that he's Eclipse, Lunar and Bloodmoon's "father" at the same time that they're Sun and Moon's grand children. Like, we're seeing the issue here, right?

Don't make things more complicated than it has to be. Just accept the fact that family is literally determined by a verbal agreement between two animatronics and nothing else because none of them were born from wombs. That means respecting canon when characters in canon decide that they aren't comfortable being family (like Eclipse) or just straight-up disown everyone (like Bloodmoon). It's okay to have headcanons, but don't try to push them onto canon.

[way-down-aevistown]

I love apothecary diaries but I cannot handle how 99% of the fandom are allonormative as fuck.

The fact that people are reading the kiss scene and the frog scene and coming away with the conclusion that Maomao reciprocates his feelings???? Where did the reading comprehension go??? Out the window? Buried in the yard?

For a series featuring so much detective and investigative work you'd sure hope that some of those braincells rubbed off on the readers but no. Clearly not the case.

It's as close as it could possibly be (given the historical context) to being outright stated that Maomao is aroace and autistic. People are happy to accept shes neurodivergent, but are suddenly blind to the other part purely because it doesn't serve their shopping shipping interests.

Anyway there's an art book out