#yelling about ships and such

[giggly-squiggily]

I don’t know if you have answered this already, but who are your favourite dr stone characters and ships?

Oo, this is a great question! I don't think I've answered this yet, and even if I had my answer has most likely changed!

Below the cut for length!

Favorite characters:

Oh gosh I love all of them so much! I don't think I have a character I dislike besides Hyoga, so pretty much everyone else is loved! My favorite favorites are Senku, Kohaku, Ryusui, and Chrome! And of course Gen- I love Gen so much!

A new character I fell in love with too is Francois! They're just so neat and such a sweetie!

Favorite Ships:

Sengen- Beloved; an iconic ship in my humblest opinion! This is mainly thanks to @skribblz and @intheticklecloset- they've made me love this ship so much! They just work so well!

Ryusui x Tsukasa- I wasn't expecting to ship these two as hard as I do- it just kinda happened? I really love the dynamic of Eccentric king + Gentle Giant; one over the top and loud while the other is calm and at times softspoken. Plus in the manga Ryusui literally declared he desired Tsukasa and that was that.

Ukyo x Chrome- This is kinda in the middle for me; I like them both platonically and romantically, so I can go either way. :D

Those are the big three, but I have some rambly ones:

Taiju x Yuzuriha; I feel like these two are pretty self-explainatory. Byakuya x Lillian; They worked well in the flashback scenes we see of them, and I think Lillian would absolutely adore Senku if she ever got the chance to meet him.

I think that's it for ships? There's probably more but I can't think of them right now.

Thanks for asking! :D

[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

[copypastus]

Poly+ ACOTAR Week - Day 3 Secrets (Feyre/Tamlin/Rhysand) @polyacotarweek

I'm weak for 'two enemies put aside their differences coz they love me more than they hate each other' trope and I was somewhat sad that's not where Feyre's love life went. Just think of the possibilities.

[thevillainsfangirl]

There are some ships that you just know would be 100% canon if they were an M/F ship, and that's mainly what pisses people off the most in these situations.

It isn't just about the ship; it's also very much about the homophobia (whether the creators know it or not) that is preventing the ship from being canon when they otherwise would be.

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[anongalactic]

[cupofmilkyway]

I promised old man yaoi and I HAD to deliver

[press-f1-to-grieve]

why is this giving max saying "i always know if i make it to f1, charles would make it"?

and what do you mean by "he sets out dream scenario for the pair"??? why is it giving highschool sweethearts making promises about their future together?

ollie has no doubt kimi deserves to be on the f1 grid alongside him next year. hmmmmmmmm

it's giving charles telling the press he and max go way back in interviews... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

oh ok, he really got into f1, saw a grid full of people and said "my championship fight is with kimi tho". and speaking in "we", is it?

how lestappen's son of you, ollie

fun bonus: ollie taking after charles

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[diamondcitydarlin]

hey i had a wild and crazy idea, just bear with me here bro, but maybe if you're beetlebabes dni you should try not going in the tags constantly to announce that to everyone who is the exact thing you're trying not to interact with. idk just a thought! like consider that we all know you exist, no one who has shipped beetlebabes for any amount of time is unaware that there are people who find the pairing and the people who ship it disgusting. i know that this new film must have all of yall huffing massive amounts of copium to deal with it all, but you could also just, yknow, not interact with it at all. not talk about it. stay in the lane of things you actually like instead of treading on other people's fun bc your disgust with it makes you feel entitled to try to shut it down. just put it in your bio if you feel that strongly about it and move on with your life maybe? choose happiness instead of bitterness? focus on improving yourself and your life instead of trying to play fandom cop every day? just thoughts, do with them what you will!

[kelocitta]

As a pre-downpour fan, what are the major changes/differences you noticed between the fandom pre- and post- dp?

Really the only thing I would say is a notable 'change' is a shift in how most character-based fanworks is. Base game RW slugcats are pretty straightforward lil animals with small hints of personality, but nothing really strong. It's less a personality and more a vibe. The iterators aren't much different- the ways they interact with you and with each other is something sort of hard to dig into. A lot of people came away with just understanding moon and pebbles as "the nice one" and "the mean one" and the slugcats were very similar. People complain about infantalizing Pebbles now but god I'll take that over the villianization. Funny enough, if I had a nickle for every "Robot that was characterized as a complete asshole before getting a sequel that better explained their actions and issues and suddenly they were infantalized instead" I'd have at least two, which is fun. DP has a lot more direct character, even if you don't think its fitting. The slugcats are more distinct from each other and fit nicely into archetypes if you want them too, but there is still wiggle room for people to change it up without being 'wrong'. The iterators have more in-game content of or about how they interact with the world and each other, they have more personal relationships with certain slugcats, they have actual designs for more than Moon and Pebbles, etc. Its much easier to get a feel for the characters and that means content directly about them is more appealing. Not just shipping (although absolutely shipping, since pre-DP the characters you had actual interactions for were animals, or siblings, or you had like one blurry picture and an offhand reference. People still tried!) but anything about how they would play off each other or behave is just... easier to do. So you have more of that. The less vague things are, the more people actually pick up on it. A lot of vanilla RW asked you to dig into it yourself, which a ton of people simply aren't going to do- even people who LIKE the thing. DP has a very different vibe than vanilla RW, Its well done but if you dig into it you can see the ways it attaches onto the base game rather than seamlessly extends. And I think one of those ways is just that its much more broadly appealing storytelling. Other than that its just a bigger fandom with bigger fandom issues. Not anything unique to RW, just par for the course for fandoms to get bigger and suddenly things feel more disconnected or overwhelming or less friendly or that it feels like theres more drama. And these issues aren't absent from pre-DP RW, there was its fair share of drama in regards to people who were either assholes or predators. It never didn't have that problem because thats an unavoidable problem to have when you have a bunch of people who are strictly united by the fact they like the same thing.

[necrotic-nephilim]

jealousy really is the driving force of DamiTim as a ship. love that for them. love how Tim has the Robin mantle ripped away from him and he has to suffer the jealousy of watching Dick and Damian bond. how possessive over Dick Tim can be, to have him stolen by Dick.

even more so though, is the jealousy from Damian. how on earth do you cope when you finally get to be Robin, a role you've convinced is your birthright, and no one really likes you? every prefers the Robin who came before you? Dick regularly reminds you that he can always go and call Tim back when you act out? like the complex Damian has over Tim is unreal. Tim, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had everything handed to him his whole life. he never had to struggle or fight for his place like Damian did. Damian has spent his whole life fighting and proving himself, and yet he can't ever seem to truly claw the mantle of Robin away from Tim. even when Tim lets it go, becomes Red Robin, they seem to share it. Tim can slip back into the role of Robin whenever someone like Dick or Bruce need him to, because *he's* the Robin who they need. he's the Robin who was able to find Bruce. he's the Robin that Ra's wants an heir out of. he's the Robin who even Jason respects. in Damian's eyes, everything Damian has fought tooth and nail for, was handed to Tim.

so of course he's going to react to Tim with violence and aggression, especially after finding out Tim has contingency plans for him. no matter how much Damian proves himself, he's never going to be enough, especially not to Tim. and so his deep refusal to see Tim as family, to acknowledge Tim's legacy is all driven by such an angry jealousy. Tim understands aspects of Bruce's legacy that Damian doesn't, like the need to sweet talk and play nice with the elites of Gotham, even if they're corrupt. they exemplify different aspects of Robin, and the aspects that Tim exemplifies are the aspects that Damian knows he'll never fully understand and therefore holds such a deep contempt for. he wants to fight criminals, not play nice with politicians. Tim understands the side of Gotham that's utterly foreign to Damian. if anything, he represents that side of Gotham, to Damian. a pretty little rich boy who's nothing but a know-it-all and not a real son of Bruce. he can't be a Wayne. he can't be Damian's family.

and all of that angry jealousy leading to unhealthy obsession turned a weird, angry crush from Damian is just my bread and butter. that is how DamiTim should be. to me. Damian obsessed over hating Tim Drake so much he accidentally ends up sort of in love with him and that only makes Damian angrier. because he can't prove everyone right by *also* liking Tim. he can't let Ra's win like that, because frankly why wouldn't Ra's be delighted by Damian and Tim getting together. and it builds and builds with angry passive aggression towards Tim that culminates in angry hate-fucking-that's-not-just-driven-by-hate. love and hate are always viewed as opposites in shipping and i think they're the same intense passion just in different directions. and for the best ships, they're very intertwined. what is DamiTim is not the peak of that. "i put so much of myself into hating you i had no choice but to fall in love with you somewhere along the way" core. love that bleeds into hate and hate that bleeds into love. "you make me so angry i regularly passively try to kill you but not with any real effort because who would i obsess over if you were actually gone" core. murder attempts as a form of courting. contingency plans to take each other out as a love language. they're unwell.

[emmafallsinlove]

thinking about how people arguing about rory and jess doesn’t have a “you jump, i jump” moment but like. have you ever been 17 and a guy bought your home made basket for $90 and sat with you on a bridge by the lake, look into your eyes and told you “you know, ernest only has lovely things to say about you”? because tbh, it changes everything.

[somewhereincairparavel]

This meme but it's Jason when Piper got claimed by Aphrodite, he reacted quite literally EXACTLY like this

[silver-dragonborn]

Well, if anything good came out of the shitshow that was House of the Dragon Season 2, it's that all the family-oriented Team Green headcanons that were lovingly written by those who stan Alicent and her children have been blown to smithereens.

"Alicent loves her babies! Here's an essay on how she--"

Alicent continuously tries to sue for peace even though she actively prepared her sons to war against the sister who was supposedly going to kill them, Alicent sees Aemond (her favorite little Hightower) as a monster who usurped her role as Regent, Alicent pities Aegon at best and is hatefully indifferent towards him at worse, Alicent only sees Cole as a means to indulge in her weird obsession for Rhaenyra, Alicent is single-handedly responsible for her daughter's unhappiness (marrying Helaena off to Aegon, forcing a crown she never wanted upon her head, and dragging her into a one-sided feud that spun out of control), Alicent threw her own sons under the bus when she snuck to Dragonstone to sue for peace and beg Rhaenyra, the woman Alicent swore would be a threat to her children, to run away with her. It just proves that it was never about "protecting" her babies from their "evil" older sister...this drama started over hurt feelings and envy and was extremely one-sided because Rhaenyra barely retaliated.

"B-but Daemon--"

At this point, it's safe to say that he never thought of his older brother's children until shit hit the fan and Lucerys was murdered. Daemon never thought about the Targtowers at all and only reacted when he found out that his brother died, his body left to rot, and his stepson murdered at the hands of his brother's son. If Daemon didn't think about his brother's children then, he is now because he has his own family to protect and avenge.

[thedastrash]

haha I love you mentioning how Cassandra is constantly talking about Varric and what he thinks of her because I am obsessed, OBSESSED with how they literally cannot shut up about each other, you can barely get through a conversation with either of them without the other one coming up somehow, I swear those two have a severe case of Mentionitis for each other

Hot hell YES they are obsessed with each other it’s unreal! The thing that hit me most recently was a line she says chatting with the inquisitor in trespasser. She just out of the blue said “I’m an optimist. Ask Varric” girl WHAT??? (I love her)

Y’all are spending a lot of time with the other person on the tip of your tongue! It’s destroying my shipping heart! I can’t take it!

I need to like read through all their lines and pull out all the references to each other. they keep randomly bringing each other up - her talking about what he might say in response to what she’s said - or him saying what she might think about his character… there are so many assumptions between them and I want to make them sit down and untangle that messy ball of yarn so badly.

[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.

[midnightdemonhunter]

PAULARUSSELL NATION STAYS WINNING!