#tragic ships

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Listen it's the final couple hours and I don't think Destiel is gonna pull through especially because Orhpydice is SUPER tragic but I'm gonna put propaganda for Destiel anyway because they're my blorbos.

FIRST OF ALL LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS QUOTE:

So there's that. Like, "the very touch of you corrupts"? Okay bro. Damn. Also let's talk about how when Dean gets the Mark of Cain and Cain (as an immortal Knight of Hell) becomes a central character of season 9, they kinda tell Cain's story like "yadda yadda so yeah I killed Abel because he wasn't talking to God he was actually being coerced by Lucifer and I cut a deal with the devil for my soul in hell and Abel's in heaven but it could only be sealed if I was the one who killed him BUT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE LOVE OF MY LIFE COLLETTE WHOM I, THE FATHER OF MURDER, GAVE UP KILLING FOR?" and Cain had this whole tragic love story with Collette about how she forgave him for his misdeeds but his past came back to bite him and he accidentally killed her in the process of trying to get rid of some enemies and this is a lot of context to give you to tell you that during season 9 when Cain and Abel come up, y'know, probably the most famous brothers in the Bible, you think they'd make a lot of parallels to Sam and Dean but actually what ends up happening for most of that season is they focus on Cain's tragic love story with Collette and they make a lot of blatant comparisons except were not calling it romantic because this is still the queerbait show to Cas and Dean??????

And I guess just my biggest piece of eviden e of them being a tragic love story is the final confession. I feel like if you're on Tumblr and you haven't at least heard of the Destiel confession then you're probably the odd man out. Yeah it's been turned into a news meme and yeah there's all the jokes about turbo hell. But here's the thing. I think so many people who were just on Tumblr for the spectacle and didn't actually watch the show missed a couple pieces of context that makes the confession scene all the more tragic, which I will mention below:

^ This is the deal that Castiel mentions making with the Empty in his confession. Note how ready he was to give up his life, and how ready he was to keep his sacrifice a secret.

Then of course the actual confession:

And there's a couple things I want to say about the confession:

Firstly, that's not the first time Castiel left him with a handprint on his left shoulder

It's specifically where he "gripped him tight and raised him from perdition". He left a mark in more ways then one. And Dean left a mark on him too.

Cas literally went from:

"I'm hunted, I rebelled, and I did it, all of it, for you, and you failed. You and your brother destroyed the world, and I lost everything... for nothing. So keep... your opinons... to yourself." in Season 5 episode 2

To

"You're the most caring man on earth, you are the most selfless... Loving human being I will ever know. You know ever since we met, and ever since I pulled you out of hell, knowing you has changed me. Because you cared, I cared." in Season 15 episode 18.

And it's made even more tragic by this quote by Chuck aka God: "So spare me your contempt Castiel, the self-hating Angel of Thursday. You know what every other version of you did after ‘gripping him tight and raising him from Perdition?’ They did what they were told. But not you. Not the one off the line with a crack in his chassis." Because he's saying he's broken. That this one is wrong for loving Dean. In fact in the scene where Chuck says this, he calls all the guys broken, and for what, caring?

I think about this conversation that Castiel had in season 6 episode 20:

And I know he did in fact hang himself with it. He took his freedom. He used it for love. He used it to be with Dean. To find a family. To save people. And to ultimately give up his life at his happiest moment to save all those things. That was his freedom.

That's why Destiel is tragic.

Tragic Ships Tournament Semi Finals

Propaganda under the cut!

Orphydice:

"y'all probably know the story of orpheus and eurydice. but they are SO tragedy. they are TEXTBOOK tragedy. they redefined the genre. on their literal wedding day as she's walking down the aisle eurydice gets bit by a snake and dies. orpheus loves her so much he goes down to the underworld to try and save her. hades allows him to take her back to the land of the living, as long as she walks behind him, and he cannot look back, otherwise her soul will be taken. he's mostly fine , but begins to doubt and at the very end of the tunnel, he looks back. they lock eyes for a moment before she disappears back into hell. orpheus is then so distraught that he wanders the earth singing mournful melodies and gets stoned to death by some nymphs who think his sad songs are bumming them out. DUUUUDE their story consumed my every waking thought as a child."

Destiel: No propaganda submitted :(

[starnana7]

when the trope is someone who thinks they're unlovable and someone else who loves them like it's breathing.

“I know. I know how you see yourself, Dean. You see yourself the same way our enemies see you. You're destructive and you're angry and you're broken. You're... daddy's blunt instrument. And you think that hate and anger, that's... what drives you, that's what you are. It's not. And everyone who knows you sees it.”

[lynsstrange]

I think the scene where Ekko has to talk Jinx down from killing herself is one of the most dark and powerful of the entire series. The fact that it takes him six or seven tries because of her sheer determination to die. Her activating the bomb a few words into their conversation every time so she doesn’t have to listen to him. It’s a repeat of their last scene together on the bridge in season one- when she very nearly succeeded in killing both her and Ekko before Silco dragged her unwillingly from the grave. Now Ekko is doing the same thing, yanking her back from the brink. And when Ekko finally persuades her not to use the bomb because it’d kill him too, the first thing she does is immediately jump off the ledge so he wouldn’t get hurt. After he finally convinces her to join him she’s dead soon after. She gets what she’s always sought and believed her purpose- death. And he’s left with nothing except the knowledge that they could have worked in another universe.

Edit: I’m aware that Jinx is implied to be alive, but I’m discussing more about how the events went from Ekko’s perspective specifically, and how tragic and unfair it really must have felt for him

[m40160]

[midnight-masquerade-p5r]

Here's some of mine! WARNING SPOILERS FOR A LOT OF GAMES/ANIMES! Shuake

Ryomina

Akishinji

Jundori

Marumi

Yujikiri

Mafuyuki

AshEiji

Also, I will say I've never actually SEEN Banana Fish, but some people have talked about Ash and Eiji so much I've fallen in love with them and want to watch the anime so bad, but I've already been spoiled on what happens.

Pearlrose

Teito/Mikage

Inuyasha/Kikiyo

Fluttercord

take your pick

[mochasucculent]

Quick 2 am pose studies yaaaay

[judeiscactus]

Tragic Gay Men Tournament Finale

please reblog

[dxkjf]

I finished beast wars why did I kinda like it that's wild

Anyways I kinda brain rotted over Optimus primal and dinobot while watching so heres some older crumbs

[impossibleprincess35]

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.

I am a tragic girlie. I love all the tragic ships. I collect them, like little strange nuances that I can carry with me and cry over songs about.

BUT KANERA.

KANERA.

No one prepared me for it, and when it happened, I just got pissed and decided that Dave Filoni is an absolute garbage human being who loves to traumatize his audience with sadness and a side of anxiety, grief, and self-loathing.

Listen, Obitine is my #1 SW ship. I will go down with it. I will swim to the bottom of the Mariana Trench to wallow in the sadness of Obi-Wan and Satine's epic love story and how their desire for one another was denied by their obligations to Mandalore and the Jedi Order (which both, BTW, went to shit riiiiiight about the same time they coulda been flirting, fighting, and fucking somewhere in the galaxy and raising Korkie together as a happy little family)..

..but Hera and Kanan are Mothering and Fathering, and they are the Kitty and Red Forman of the SW universe. They deserved every. fucking. happiness. in. the. galaxy.

And thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

There’s people watching Ahsoka that have no idea about Kanan and Hera. It’s probably the greatest Star Wars love story of all time and people just don’t know 😭

[potato-lord-but-not]

oh no…. guys…. (<- brain is being consumed by new pathetic podcast characters)

[alwaysrunningoutoftime]

a jossam kiss in 2024 thx to our lord & saviour reddit u/girlbvy3e

[tragic-ships-tournament]

Tragic Ships Tournament Quarter Finals

Propaganda under the cut!

Orphydice:

"y'all probably know the story of orpheus and eurydice. but they are SO tragedy. they are TEXTBOOK tragedy. they redefined the genre. on their literal wedding day as she's walking down the aisle eurydice gets bit by a snake and dies. orpheus loves her so much he goes down to the underworld to try and save her. hades allows him to take her back to the land of the living, as long as she walks behind him, and he cannot look back, otherwise her soul will be taken. he's mostly fine , but begins to doubt and at the very end of the tunnel, he looks back. they lock eyes for a moment before she disappears back into hell. orpheus is then so distraught that he wanders the earth singing mournful melodies and gets stoned to death by some nymphs who think his sad songs are bumming them out. DUUUUDE their story consumed my every waking thought as a child."

Janice and Melina:

No propaganda submitted :(

[blackkatdraws2]

I don't know what I was doing When suddenly, we fell apart

[Achromatic Loop AU]

[katsinspats]

Girls with threatening auras

[derpwithit]

*taps mic* So erm...any fiddlestan enjoyers out there tonight?

Im ashamed to say that this ship has utterly taken over my life, I just want them to be happy and GOD THEYRE SO TRAGIC UWFIBJNKFQNC

[thatlazybones]

"I'm a very fortunate soul, Kal'tsit. Every time I leave, I do so with my dearest friend by my side..."

Comm for @/sighoflethe! ♡