#you couldn't ship a character with one person it was insane how many ships I had on this show!

[userlaylivia]

going to continue my tsc rewatch again I just haven't been in the state of mind to do so tbh!! plus the cancellation still hurts after all of this time and it always will!! the cliffhangers and unanswered questions still anger me it had so much potential and after that season finale how they could cancel it is beyond me I know it was too expensive but I think that was just an excuse tbh and the ratings didn't drop that much until cadam broke up!! this cast had so much chemistry and this show was so damn shippable!! cadam is my otp but I ship jake/faye, adam/diana, faye/cassie, faye/diana, faye/melissa, faye/lee, jake/cassie, adam/faye, nick/melissa, even nick/cassie because i shipped them in the books even though cadam is my otp lol the only one I didn't ship is adam/melissa I liked their friendship but didn't want them together! cadam would've been endgame it just would've taken a little time but eventually they would've found their way back to each other especially when adam remembered and they found out the curse was fake anyone truly believing cadam was never getting back together is in denial lmao they foreshadowed it in their breakup!! they were together only three episodes they eventually would've gotten back together!! long rant short (I always vent about this show and cadam it hurts tbh ugh) but yeah going to start my rewatch again and get hit with all the feelings with all my ships but especially cadam because they deserved better but every ship on this show deserved better I'll always be bitter it got cancelled ugh but one silver lining is the cast are all still so close, at least britt/phoebe/shelley/thomas are because their the ones that have hung out the most ugh this show deserved so much better I know s2 would've been amazing if the cw gave it the chance!!

[leohtttbriar]

the sequence of “deadlock” to “thaw” to “tuvix” to “resolutions” is so interesting. a sequence of traumatizing events about: what it means to be intimate with no one but yourself, intimate with fear as a simulated person until you both fade from simulated reality but remain in the material one, and intimate with a merged half such that it's not two halves but one whole--and then with an equal with whom, by position and consequence, no intimacy can be allowed to exist. which i guess is just a different kind of intimacy?

it's like a cycle in which janeway learns she is alone in a fundamental way, making decisions and hard calculations with no other cooks fixing the broth, and while there could be a new and equivalent love, there actually can't. no matter the small acknowledgment, she walks back onto the ship to the start of the cycle, again. sacrifice, fear, choice, sacrifice, fear, choice, sacrifice--

in a meta way, there's an interesting read regarding how mulgrew didn't want janeway and chakotay to get together, and how she was right for it: the first female-captain character of this enormous franchise couldn't be the first to also have an explicit romance with her second-in-command. to be in a specific singular position requires constructing some scaffolding that might not otherwise be needed. in this is the implication that, while other captains would be as lonely as janeway, they might not be quite as actually alone. and it's like how strachey describes queen elizabeth i, forever unmarried, but in the most cunning of ways--prevaricating on committing to the personal, leaning into the tension but never breaking it, pledging only in the quiet so it can't ever be interpreted as contractual, all to retain a hold on centered power. a power which, in many ways in the story, is the ethic driving the crew back across the galaxy and acting as infrastructure for the culture of their unbelievably distant home, through sheer will. it's a kind of compromise of personhood to the position that seems particular to janeway, because of her gender and the fact that she's the highest-ranking officer of a distant culture's diplomatic and governing organization for 70,000 light years.

she has to be aware she's more representative than real at this point. like, it's almost an idea somewhat suggested by her brief duplication and her brief simulation. (and like of course she split tuvix back up--she only thinks now with two bodies instead of one, kathryn and captain, and it's inconceivable these separate persons might genuinely fuse.) the solitude of janeway makes either her insane or, as strachey put it, "a sane woman in a universe of violent maniacs."

[shinidamachu]

inukag was born to be shipped by me and I was born to ship inukag as well

For ages now I've been meaning to write about the reasons why I ship Inukag as fervently as I do and @inukag-week felt like the perfect opportunity to indulge myself, so here we go.

I want to start with how aesthetically pleasing they are. From their perfect size difference to the complimentary color scheme of their outfits plus contrasting hair and eye colors, Inuyasha and Kagome just look absolutely good together.

Their character design makes it clear from the get go that they're visually a great match. The association is so strong that the audience becomes unable to picture one without the other, as if they're two halves of the same item. Different, yet unequivocally a team, a pair.

Decades ago, they already had that classic quality to them and I bet they'd never get out of style even decades from now. And the rich lore that surrounds the pairing only adds to that aesthetic: the well, the tree, the beads, the robe, the sword, all of it enhances how iconic they are. Even something as ordinary as star gazing becomes uniquelly theirs.

Futhermore, I just absolutely love the entire concept of it. The subvertion of the fairy tale archetype, the idea of a love that transcends time, of soulmates who actually work on building their bond. Loving each other was both inevitable and a choice they made every single day.

Inuyasha and Kagome were just two teenagers from different worlds — literally and figurativelly — discovering together what love was. This made their relationship very compelling, because the excange between them is insanely substancial.

And their overall dynamic is so wholesome. There was a push and pull, a give and take, that made it fluid rather than static. Every single milestone felt organic and kept the audience thirsting for the next one.

Nothing felt forced or rushed. The slow burn was competently written to showcase their relationship being build on a very strong foundation, consistent in intimacy, mutual trust and acceptance — recurring themes for them and for the story — and so the stages of their bond had such a natural pace, it highlighted how genuine and healthy it was.

Consequently, there are so many aspects of their connection to explore. There's a never ending room for angst and for light hearted moments and you can adopt a more mature perspective or go for comical instead: they manage to be versatile without being generic and to embod the best clichés in fiction without becoming one themselves.

It's hard to think of a trope they couldn't pull off or an alternate universe that doesn't work for them. It gives the fandom plenty of freedom to be creative and to have the best time with it.

Plus, their chemistry was off charts. The romantic tension bleed through every single interaction. Their passion is so strong you could feel it even in scenes that had nothing to do with romance. And they didn't even need to kiss to achieve that level of synchrony.

They were also compatible. Inuyasha and Kagome balance each other quite nicely. Even in a relationship, they still keep their individualities and remain interesting both as characters and as a ship.

The very thing that dooms most pairings — opposite personalities — is precisely what keeps them together. Inuyasha and Kagome are completely different from each other, but they're actually extremely similar where it actually matters: their morals and goals.

And they longer they stay together, challenging one another, growing through trials and tribulations, inadvertently learning what each other's needs are and fulfilling them, easing each other's sorrows, covering each other's backs, saving each other's lives in every possible way, learning each other and learning with one another, the more their dichotomy turns into a duality, because they gain a more nuanced perspective of themselves, of each other and of the world.

It's a level of understanding, closeness and respect incredibly difficult to match. And for Inuyasha and Kagome, no one else even came close.

Another thing is that they're not just complementary to each other, but to the story itself. Their romance enhaces the overall plot. It has a structural placement in the wider narrative, strengthening its core themes and fulfilling the characters individual arcs, ultimately resulting in a more compelling journey.

So many romances are disposable to their own story, but Inukag was detrimental to theirs. Inuyasha and Kagome's interactions served as pivotal points of their respective arcs. Taking only the narrative into consideration, their relationship holds a lot of weight and greatly influenced everyone around it and it tied everything together.

That's why their happy ending felt so satisfying: it feels earned because everything went full cycle. All of that symbolism, all of those parallels paid off. Anything different from what we got would simply lack narrative and thematic cohesion.

And even if they didn't end up together, they could never be circumstancial. There was a real reason why they met, a reason why the fell in love and why they had ever lasting impacts on each other's lives regardless. It wasn't just love for love's sake.

This is what makes them, in my opinion, an epic ship.

BONUS: their soundtrack is lit and their quotes are simply legendary.

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

can i ask when you personally became a bkdk shipper? and how long have you been into bnha?

UHHHHHHHH funny story

I first got into MHA in 2017 via the anime. At the time, I was trying to improve my Japanese listening comprehension by having anime on in the background while I worked on art.

I can tell you now that this is, in fact, not an activity I enjoy LOL. I discovered that having my attention split actually put me in a very bad mood. I tended to get really irritated at whatever I put on.

I also happen to be someone who is... not predisposed to action shounen. The hallmarks of action shounen tend to bore me—power scaling, tournaments, prolonged mid-fight flashbacks, all that. I just tap out mentally, I don't find those things compelling on their own so I have to be really invested in the characters to stick around.

With that said, I shipped bkdk immediately.

I found their dynamic arresting and really, really wanted to see where it was gonna go. I found cocky little asshole Katsuki irresistible to watch, I couldn't wait to see him figure his shit with Izuku out. I loved Izuku right away, his nerdy little ass, his sincerity, his batshit insane approach to heroism. I was struck by his "check out how many bones I can break!" shtick.

To me, their relationship was clearly the heart of the series. They were always the reason I came back for more.

The thing is, I, uh, misjudged how slow burn these dorks were gonna be, and how expansive the story is in general. I was impatient for narrative pay-off. Every time Katsuki wasn't on-screen, I got bored.

I sporadically kept up with the anime until the Overhaul arc, which has......... less than optimal pacing and utterly lacks Kacchan, so I wandered off for a while.

Skip forward to 2021, I caught wind of Bakugou Katsuki: Rising and the apology. I was in a weird place in my life; I was trying to figure out how to enjoy things wholeheartedly. Without getting into too much detail, I had always felt too ashamed to love anything honestly and without reservation, and that made me miserable. I wanted to let myself love something without excuses.

I started reading the manga, and it became a conscious exercise in self-indulgence. I was able to enjoy it much more and appreciate parts I had not noticed before. The anime is excellent, but comics are very special to me. Comics are a totally unique storytelling medium. Reading chapters in Japanese, comparing translations, examining small nuances in the language, this became an intrinsic part of my relationship to MHA.

I got into the stage musicals and, already being a theatre fan, it was just heaven for me. They make me so happy. Being part of the subtitling team skyrocketed my language skill. I will never forget when I noticed it: I watched a scene in musical two as a casual first-time viewer in January 2023, and I didn't understand the dialogue right away. My listening comprehension wasn't fast enough, and I wasn't as familiar with the fluidity of casual speech. Five months later, I watched that same scene again and understood it so naturally I couldn't believe those sounds had ever confused me.

Honestly, if anybody is wondering how one might best learn a language, I can confidently say the answer is "find a hobby in that language." Maybe you get crazy into bonsai and start looking up advice in Japanese, so then you research grammar and vocabulary to understand the results you get. Maybe you love drama CDs so you play the tracks at half-speed over and over, transcribing what you hear so you can translate it and figure out the story.

Language learning works best when it is dynamic and constant, which means you have to love what you're doing or you won't do it.

Anyway, that's the story of how I became the biggest bkdk shipper got into MHA.

[lovelenivy]

you know what hate crimes md enjoyers, idk if this has been done before but i wanna start like a little tag game: i wanna know your favorite seasons in order, what you think is the best episode each season, your personal favorite ep from each season, any honorable mentions if you have them, and your least favorite/worst episode in your opinion. i'd also like to have you sort the main characters/fellows from favorite to least favorite, plus tell me your favorite ship (and optionally, a ship you enjoy and think is underrated)! feel free to toss in any explanations for why you chose what you did. (: kinda long, but oh well – feel like it'll be fun.

i'll go first (so you can see the format) – listing seasons from the best imo, to the worst, and the episodes.

Seasons:

1. Season 3

Best episode: one day, one room (?)

Favorite episode: merry little christmas

Honorable mention(s): cane and able, words and deeds, family, needle in a haystack

Least favorite episode: que sera sera (?)

it was hard to pick the best bc i'm biased towards merry little christmas, but i don't know if it would be the best of the season exactly. as for que sera sera, nothing really wrong with it but honestly i had a hard time picking a least favorite too. great season – to me it's like the classic house season.

2. Season 5

Best: birthmarks

Favorite: under my skin

Honorable mention(s): the softer side, last resort, both sides now, painless

Least favorite: big baby (?)

i literally just barely remember big baby compared to the rest, i think, no matter how many times i see it. amazing season though, honestly so up there with s3 for me that it became a tough choice.

3. Season 6

Best: help me

Favorite: wilson

HM(s): the down low, broken (part 1 & 2), baggage, lockdown

Least favorite: epic fail, remorse (?)

help me is such an amazing episode, it always makes me cry. epic fail is extremely annoying tho and idk why, like after i watched it more than once or twice i started having a hard time rewatching it. and honestly every time i watch remorse i get pissed off on thirteen's behalf and it's just not a fun feeling. not a bad episode though. i know a lot of people don't like s6 but i love it.

4. Season 2

Best: euphoria (part 1 & 2)

Favorite: no reason

HM(s): skin deep, distractions, hunting, clueless

Least favorite: sleeping dogs lie

i recently rewatched euphoria and it's so fucking good i legitimately cried. sleeping dogs lie isn't a bad episode, it just is frustrating to watch for many reasons. another classic house season.

5. Season 4

Best: house's head/wilson's heart

Favorite: house's head/wilson's heart, 97 seconds

HM(s): mirror mirror, you don't want to know, frozen, living the dream

Least favorite: the right stuff

nothing really wrong with the least favorite – it was honestly a tough choice. also i couldn't pick a favorite, it was so tough. i honestly really like this season despite how short and different it is.

6. Season 1

Best: detox

Favorite: detox

HM(s): three stories, histories, control, mob rules

Least favorite: heavy, everybody lies (pilot)

the pilot being orange just makes me laugh the whole time so it's hard to watch, and chase's insane fatphobia in heavy is just disturbing, which is the only reason it's a least favorite. for the best i was torn between three stories and detox, but i think detox is better. s1 is ranked so low bc of general weirdness.

7. Season 8

Best: the c-word, everybody dies

Favorite: the c-word

HM(s): dead & buried, twenty vicodin, nobody's fault, post mortem

Least favorite: we need the eggs

we need the eggs isn't bad, the case is just ??? weird and kinda sad tbh idk. i haven't rewatched the c-word yet but i remember it fondly, so i couldn't really choose a best episode. is picking the finale kinda dumb? maybe, idk. i like a lot of episodes from season 8 surprisingly, like most of them, but it's so different from the previous seasons with cuddy absent and the late addition of two new main characters that it can't be any higher for me.

8. Season 7

Best: after hours

Favorite: after hours, out of the chute

HM(s): unwritten, bombshells, the dig, moving on, fall from grace

Least Favorite: two stories

god i really can't stand rewatching two stories. idk what it is but the fucking kids that house gets stuck with in the principal's office are so annoying ??? probably my least fave episode in all of house. but despite how s7 is at the bottom, it did have some great episodes. just wasn't my favorite season at all, especially as someone who isn't really into huddy.

Characters:

from favorite to least favorite of the main characters –

1. House (of course)

2. Wilson

3. Thirteen

4. Cuddy

5. Chase

6. Foreman

7. Kutner

8. Cameron

9. Amber

10. Taub

11. Park

12. Adams

13. Masters

favorite ship: hilson (house / wilson)

underrated ship: thirteen / cameron, or chase / foreman

Tags:

anybody that wants to participate! i know it's kind of long so no sweat if you don't want to do it. i'm also indecisive so i had trouble picking episodes lmao

[davekat-sucks]

"Another banger from davekat-sucks. Sometimes I feel like you're the most sane person in this fandom, I swear to god."

TW: For Animal Abuse

I couldn't agree more with this sentence by anon up here. Nearly everyone in this fandom is batshit insane and only ever care about shipping and making the characters even more "quirky" and making really dumb headcanons about them Instead of actually reading the comic and not making up shit about the characters. I just reposted about how a year or two ago, a Twitter user DM davekat-sucks saying how they say a dog getting SUPEREXLED by two Davekat cosplayers right in front of them AND NEARLY DYING. Who knows all the depraved shit Davekat and or Homestuck cosplayers in general have done in some cons (Ex. Like the time people threw buckets and targeted Karkat or Gamzee), I think we're pretty infamous in general, actually. But davekat-sucks is about one of handful in people in this fandom who are genuinely not insane or had some depraved and disgusting past. I read another anon saying that "Davekat was the final nail in the coffin for Homestuck" which I also very much agree with. On a political stance I'd say I'm definitely liberal, but seeing this fandom ruining itself and doing the most depraved shit is beyond what's normal to me. What could've you done to avoid these problems or maybe fix the fandom? I'll start! Completely erase and scrap Davekat as a whole.

I remember that post either during or at the end of Requiem Cafe. And there are other Homestuck fans that are completely sane such as @casey-lalonde-egbert @caligvlasaqvarivm My friend and amazing artist @sahxyel And many others. You just have to look through really hard to find the good ones out of the bad. I just happen to make myself stand out to be more dedicated to post a bit more daily about this ship that I hate and not cave in to things like threats or insults. Part of me wishes others could be more free to say what they want. But sadly, with how shit like doxxing is easily more accessible and people gathering a group to harass someone, I can understand why are seldom to do so unless they prepare a lot of good measures to protect themselves from harm. If not just within the Homestuck fandom, it can be in other fandom spaces or creativity in general for things like art and music. See people harassing Japanese artists on Twitter as an example of Westerners using their own language to bully someone who barely knows it. I'd definitely scrap and erase Davekat as a whole. As well as try to bring back that everything and anything is canon, so people can like whatever they want, draw or make whatever they want, and not harass others for it. Because anything goes and if you don't like it, just ignore them. Another would be letting others interpret their own ending, which somewhat coincides with everything and anything is canon part. But that means shit like Epilogues, Pesterquest, and Homestuck 2/Beyond Canon are gone and never were canon. Let people decide what their ending they want. Lastly, admitting that Hiveswap was a scam and cancelled for good. It would suck for the people who had paid money for it, but hey, at least it is better than dragging out the dead horse and hope for the people who think the game is going to be complete. In the words of Bernie Sanders that the WhatPumpkin Team and the fandom had loved so much:

[justablah56]

*looking back at you with my big autism eyes* You should tell me about rwd. After your sleep. Eepy time, Aether

HIHIHIHIHIU OK YAY OK . ok . im all sleeped up and I'm going to be so insane at you ok . gonna put it under a read more though because . I'm about to be so insane .

SO ! rolling with difficulty , as you can probably tell from the title , is a dnd podcast . mechanics wise , it's on like . the complete opposite side of the spectrum from dndads lmao- they're still very story driven , but they're a lot more crunchy , very following the rules as written but like finding loopholes in them because for funsies . they do little 20 minute bonuses each time the crew levels up so you know exactly what each character is getting and all their new stuff , I actually really like those . the episodes are 3-5 hours long , but each season is only like 10 episodes . and it's not split up into each season is a campaign and it gets very confusing sometimes sbnxjsnxnd like the first campaign (the one I'm autism about) is the first 5 seasons , and they only just finished season 1 od their second campaign . anyways ! most of this stuff is why idk how many dndads listeners will be willing to listen to this but that's ok 👍

NOW !!! as for what its actually about !!! (at least campaign one I'm probably not gonna talk a lot about campaign two) it's about a crew of four silly guys on a space plane ship ! it uses the planescape dnd setting , basically like all the planes of existence in dnd canon exist on different planes that can be traveled between through portals or like the plane shift spell , or , in the cast of our beloved crew , you have a spell jammer , which is a ship that can cast plane shift and you can sail between planes and it's very cool . anyways , the crew consists of kyana - a human monk , finbar - a firbolg (giant kin fae thing) druid/ranger multi-class , VR-LA (pronounced veer-la) - a mechanite/warforged (robot) wizard , and Dani - a fire genasi artificer . the four of them basically live on their ship , the Per Aspera , which is owned by Dani's "Uncle" Otto , who sends them on little jobs and stuff and he's also kind of an asshole but I like him . they also take jobs from other people sometimes and then they forget to go back to Otto who gets pissed at them about it and it's silly . anyways . usually though , the seasons focus on an adventure relevant to one of the characters with other little jobs filling their spare time .

gonna very briefly talk about kyana and finbar just so you know those two before I go on a ridiculous rant about VR LA and Dani ok . so Finbar is just a middle aged firbolg (everyone else is like 20 except VR LA who's only been awake for a year ish) , hes a part of a chef's guild and makes it his responsibility to make sure these idiots don't get themselves killed either by y'know monsters , or just being stupid and forgetting to eat . and he's like 8 feet tall . he's a big guy . Kyana is just a little guy who ran away from her (evil) monk monastery and got found by the crew just . swimming . in the astral sea . which is the void between planes that spell jammers can sail on . insane . anyways . she has no idea what's going on because she's never been anywhere and she is precious and loves the world and loves these people who are nothing like how she was raised and isn't that wonderful ? I love her . and she's like 5'0 . shes literally a little guy <3

now I'm just gonna talk about VR LA bcs he's my little guy and I am spinning him around at record speeds inside my brain <3 his whole thing is basically that his previous crew on the per aspera got Got by a crew of space pirates , and he was the only one left . but then smthin happened and he lost all his memories and couldn't keep the ship like . flying . and eventually he shut down on that ship and was woken up by Dani , who had found the ship and made fixing it up her personal pet project bcs she's a little mechanic who saw a flying wreck and said I can fix her . and she did . and then she also saw the shut down robot on the ship and said I can fix him . and she did . this is how the ship belongs to Otto instead of VR LA , bcs he's like ohhhh Dani fixed it up and she's my employee and you don't even remember anything . anyways . Dani and VR LA are literally siblings to me . icy they're so important to me . the high int low wis siblings . that post I made a bit ago about how dndads doesn't have any characters who are like . little autistic brainiac smartasses . that's these two . both of them . and that is probably most of the reason why I'm so attached to them rn . like I need you to know that I did not recently listen to this podcast . I listened to this pretty soon after catching up on dndads two ish years ago and have just been like . passively into it this whole time . and now I'm like ok no I'm into this for real now . whoopsies . time to relisten and be autistic about this . and that's what ive been doing . anyways . back to the actual show <3

so Dani !!! she was found off the streets by Otto , who owns a little dnd fantasy mechanics shop , and he taught her how to be an artificer . shes incredibly smart , both like . street smarts . and literally anything mechanical . this comes with her being the biggest smartass known to man <3 she's very blunt but also very bad at expressing anything and is the least perceptive person ever (she has a passive perception of 9) she's a bitch and I love her so much <3 she's very snappy and abrasive and aggressive but also the ship is the single most important thing to her and it's not the ship without her crew and that is all she cares about <3 she doesn't give a shit about anything except for the ship she singlehandedly put back together and the people who live in it with her , and she would do anything for them . man . I love her icy .

now I'm gonna talk more about VR LA again bcs I'm not done with him <3 he's so abxnwjncjqnxjqmdn icy I love him . he just like me fr fr . he's also very smart , but he has . zero street smarts . ask him about anything and he probably knows something about it but ask him to talk to a person and he cannot . he does not know this . he continues trying to talk to people and like . persuade people and shit but he's so bad at it . icy he's so fucking bad at it . I love him so much . anyways , the other people on the per aspera are literally the only people he has and the only thing that could come close to them in terms of importance is his old crew , and yet he still picks Kyana and Finbar and Dani over them . man . icy this is a whole thing that I am very extremely ABJDJSNCHSBXHJA about . VR LA is a guy who has no memory of his old life but he knows it happened and he knows he used to have a crew of people he cared about but he can't even remember their names . (at the start) there aren't a lot of things that vr la actually cares about . he's very passive and like I'm staying with this ship because it's all I have even if it's not even legally mine anymore , and I'm staying with Dani because she's the only person I've ever really known . icy they're so siblings to me . ohuufhfggg . however !!! the one other thing he really *wants* is to know about his old life . he wants to know who was important to him before and he wants to know if they're okay even if he doesn't know them . it makes me ill . but he has his crew , and while those people might have been important to the old VR LA , Kyana and Finbar and Dani are important to *now* VR LA . so if it happens that along the way he can find out who he was , hed do anything to find them . but he has his people , and their safety and happiness is the single most important thing to him . if he will not lose a second crew . if hed have to hurt his current crew to find his first , then he's not going to find them . man . icy I could go on about this alone for hours . but I will not . anyways . silly little robot <3 I am so completely normal about him <3

also there's another silly robot named Maxim who you meet in s1 ep7 and I think him and VR LA should kiss . I'm not going to talk a ton about them beyond that but uhhh yeah . extremely repressed adhd sorcerer robot x extremely blunt autism wizard robot <3 Maxim hermit who is extremely emotionally intelligent but is very purposefully stomping out all the emotions because this is a purely professional relationship and we are here to professionally exchange mutually beneficial information and nothing else . VR LA adventurer who has never heard of romantic interest in his year of remembering being alive and just knows that he greatly enjoys Maxims company and he will tell him so despite having only just recently reconnected with him. and their compliments to each other are purely out of professional admiration . anyways .

and there you go ! and I didn't even really spoil anything past like the first few episodes <3 as you can see I am extremely normal about this podcast and it's characters <3 I went on for a lot longer than I thought I was going to but hey that's what happens when new hyperfixation <3

[wolveragrace]

8) call me nosy! is 4 too many? sorry!

1) Does your OC have a voice claim, if so who?

5) Do you ship your OC with a Canon character? If so who?

10) How does your OC handle their mental health? Do they take care of themselves?

14) Who's a character your OC cannot stand! It's on sight when they see them!

Oh hi hello! Be as nosy as you like!! :D

1) Not 100% sure because I've only started thinking about picking voice claim recently, but it might be Rapunzel from tangled. She and Vera have very similar energy. And kinda look alike, although that wasn't intentional.

5) I ship Vera with G'raha. I love that cat boy too much, I couldn't not. They're both sweeties, constantly trying each other to take care of themselves while ignoring their own needs. One of my recent wips is of their first kiss, right before he turns to crystal.

10) With toxic positivity! She had a bit of a breakdown after The Vault, and decided she can't allow herself to do that again. Not where anyone can see her at any rate. She will wear the strong confident hero mask even if all she wants to do is curl into one of her loved ones and sob. (It does not help that most of the time the person around who she's closest too is one of the twins. They are Babies and she will Not burden them like that.) Bonus points if she can do 500 side quests in a day so he doesn't have the time or energy to be alone with her thoughts!

14) Oh god I have been thinking about this one. At first Fandaniel came to mind for being obnoxious and insane, but no. It's not him.

It's Fourchenault.

That dumb ass made her baby siblings cry and she has not forgiven him. It does not matter that his cruelty was motivated by love. It does not matter that she adores the rest of the family and they have all forgiven him. She will put up with him for their sake, but she is always watching him. If he upsets the twins again she WILL deck him. She has told him this. So far he's been on his best behavior.

[hanyakocrafts]

TWST Cosplay Meet-Up at AX2023

This year I fortunate enough to attend this years Anime Expo in LA! July 2 was the day of 2 TWST cosplay meet ups, where I saw many OUSTANDING TWST cosplays!!!

I, myself was dressed up as Kalim Al Asim's Club Card Outfit!! Here are the highlights of the meet up!!

The first meet up, was in the entertainment hall which I had accidently stumbled across (I didn't know it was happening) and took some cute photos of all these amazing cosplayers!!!

Everyone was so nice! I actually screamed when I saw the Cater cosplay (i LOVE cater!) And the fem! Lilia and Cater were absolutely ADORABLE! The Halloween Vil and Jade were ACTUALLY INSANE!!!

And I ended up running into another Club Card!Kalim (I'm the one on the left!)

The Second Meet-Up Highlights

Group Photo!

They had all the Idia's come together and they all touched grass! I was crying of laughter!!

Azul vs Jamil, Childhood Trio, The Other Woman Trend! When they called The Other Woman Trio, I actually screamed and jumped! I'm so sorry I love the trope no matter how over used it is! I love Cater!

Floyd & Riddle

This will probably be the best thing you see ALL DAY! IT'S MY FAVORITE PHOTO!! Floyd x Riddle is lowkey one of my favorite ships in the fandom and I died when they did this, It's SO CUTE

Jamil and Kalim

And finally we have Jamil and Kalim!! The Jamil cosplayer positioned behind me in the photo above NAILED that annoyed look Jamil gives Kalim! I was SO HAPPY! If you couldn't tell, I'm the one holding the parrot!

I didn't know where to go so I had a Jamil cosplayer helped me and they were like "Even in real life I have to help you" It was so much fun!!

Goodies From Cosplayers!!

In the end a lot of cosplayers gave out gifts after snapping a picture of them and it was so cute!! The Fem! Lilia and Cater gave us goodie bags with notes from their characters and the Halloween Vil gave me tickets to VDC (with her socials at the bottom!) and this Epel cosplayer gave me stickers of Epel and Kalim!!

Every person I talked to was so nice and it was an experience I don't think i'll forget!

[sunshine-in-a-bottle]

hello, suds :D

i come with six ships for the shipping bingo card (pick and choose which ones you want to do): c!dreamnoblade, c!dreamza, c!awesamdrunz, c!aswesamdream, c!awesampunz, c!drunz (for the first two you can also use the bingo card from here (https://www.tumblr.com/sunshine-in-a-bottle/764332055865835520)

I am frothing at the mouth. God you are being so nice to me right now and letting me be insane. I appreciate you so much.

DNB^. I did both because of course I did. I love your template I Needed To Use It.

DNB obviously got a lot more for the second bingo than the first because they are objectively the healthiest possible pairing you can get here. Look at them. Theyre perfect for each other. Theyre narrative foils, theyre parallels going in opposite directions but forever side by side in their path. It would have to be a very specific universe for them to even BEGIN to be able to make each other worse.

I know because of the way things worked it couldn't be called something canon, but in a world where the DSMP was made in a different medium, DNB would have been an excellent endgame for both of their characters. It maximizes their healing. They both get to be understood at a fundamental level, and seek comfort that they just wouldn't be able to get from other people.

Techno gets to take care of someone who really needs that care, someone who laughs at his jokes and finds him funny, someone who is rewarding to try and make laugh, because god knows Dream tries so hard to be insurmountable. Dream gets that personal attention he so desperately needs without being enabled or placated, or shut down for expressing clear boundaries. Literally my only gripe with the pairing is that its so healthy that I can't go batshit insane about problematic behavior like I like to do.

But honestly the yearning can be so intense that it makes up for anything else. My god can these two yearn, quietly but intently.

Dreamza^. By god this is the greatest crack rarepair to have ever existed in the history of ever.

Its so incredibly unlikely to happen just because of how canon went, but they have so much hidden potential as both a character study and for Shenanigans. They're both admins. They meet for the first time because Philza broke into Dream's server. Philza's son has made Dream's life miserable. Dream is like a younger version of Philza in all the confidence and control and burgeoning power that leaves Philza with both a sense of deja vu but also makes him feel like he's back in the old days, when things were a little less complicated. Dream is reckless and has no self preservation, but even if he has the skill to back it up, Philza still can't help but want to watch his back. Dream's trust is fragile and intense and hard-earned, and doesn't it feel good to earn it? To see this silly young man who endures the world feel safe to reach out a hand to Philza and let Philza take it?

Also the AU concept of Dream being an insane coder with no training VS Philza who actually knows what he's doing and is fascinated and horrified by how Dream runs the server is funny, okay?

Also Kristen can watch them fuck, no notes.

^Awesamdrunz. Listen. Listen. I experience mental illness. I'm going directly to super hell. There's so many things wrong with them, and with anyone else this would go terribly but somehow they make it work. This is somehow the healthiest relationship they could achieve. They can make each other so much worse in some ways (excusing each others crimes) but they could also make each other so much better in others (Dream heals, Sam is redeemed, Punz feels less alone.) I read 100 fics about them and they were all my own. I too want to be an evil necromancer who is consistently loafed on and gets self care.

I didn't mark "I wish more people would ship them" because honestly I'm pretty content with the amount of people who do ship them already. This ship is one part porn, one part crack, one part angst, and three parts kidnapping, I'm not expecting everyone in the fandom to turn around and go THERE IT IS. THE SHIP OF ALL TIME when its such a specific flavor of insanity and doesn't have a ton of canon merit. I like being able to bother my friends about it, and everyone who wants to sit with me on tumblr and ao3 and rotate it with me is nice and good. This feels comfortable.

^Awesamdream. I had to take a break from writing this and came back wondering "why didn't I put that they were perfect for each other." maybe it was for Torture in Prison reasons??? Maybe I was thinking about how they aren't a ship that is perfect in a healthy sort of way, theyre both so mentally ill about each other from prison after all, and Sam's control issues don't naturally blend with Dream's control issues.

But I kind of don't mind that they aren't perfect for each other? I don't think they need to fit like a glove, weaving in and out of each other and completely complimenting the other. Their hands don't fit perfectly- if its post prison, especially, since Dream's lacking a couple fingers- and Dream steps on Sam's feet when they dance. But it feels good to write them a little messy, a little fucked up, but still able to Be Good to each other, Sam towards Dream especially. Not healthy, but happy.

(admittedly, I had to write them like that myself for the most part when I first joined the fandom. Most of what Awesamdream was at the time was torture porn and angst, because YKnow, Prison, but I really wanted to explore them Being Happy and wasn't sure where to start. I'm really grateful for the dreblr discord server for giving me a place to write a lot of my early fics for them.)

^SamPunz. Do you understand how delightful these two are? Do you understand The Vibes that they give when they're together. Listen I'm rapidly running out of braincells but I love to imagine just. In the CKAU the way that Punz fundamentally changes Sam for the better by forcibly instilling boundaries that Dream can't instill on his own.

The way that Punz is so misanthropic, so distrusting of people and so angry at the world and at Sam for what he did. Punz isn't sure they want to believe Sam's capable of change, because in their mind it would be so much easier to kill him and be done with it.

But Dream wants and hopes that Sam can be better if they just try, so Punz is forced to Not Kill As A First Solution. Punz is forced to deal with the an absolute travesty of a creeper. Punz goes from "humanity can't be saved lets kill the server and everything on it and becomes gods" to "actually people might be able to change and become better. I don't like having feelings about this. I don't like having to reckon with my own humanity. Goddamn it Sam."

Listen I'm just rotating Punz pushing Sam against the wall, holding the Communication Knife to his throat, and threatening him. Sam is trying very hard not to find this extremely attractive. He is failing.

I need them to fuck.

[pholiabanna]

Bylers chronically misinterpret and misremember things and it drives me insane. One of the common Byler viewpoints is that Mileven is toxic in season 3 because Mike and El separate from their friends to make out an “unhealthy” amount and don’t spend quality time together. But Eleven isn’t supposed to be seen or caught in the real world! So they can’t exactly go on dates or anything like that. So Mike spends all the time he can with his girlfriend cause why wouldn’t he? He loves her. They laugh and joke around and have a good time together. It’s Hopper who’s at fault for keeping them apart

I don't understand why you're sending me this when I haven't posted in almost a day, and I understand even less why you are on the byler tag if you don't like the ship. But since you don't seem almost as rude and insane as other milkvan anons I got, I'll kindly answer you:

When, in fiction, many characters in the show point out how there's something wrong with a relationship, maybe the writers are trying to make a point across, that wiewers are supposed to catch on! Hopper didn't try to keep them apart forever, he (even though he didn't approach it in the best possible way) only wanted for El to spend one single day without her boyfriend, which is normal, because you should have relationships with other people besides your significant other. The party members also point out how they don't like that they always ditch them to make out, because the main theme of the show is the importance of friendship, so ignoring everyone everyday to make out goes against the core themes of the show, thus meaning the Duffers didn't intend for it to be seen as a positive thing. It is not a good thing in real life either, by the way. There's a reason why El's season 3 plot of breaking up with Mike, making a female friend and hanging out with someone else for the first time and discovering what she likes is presented as a great growth from her character.

Also, no, we can tell they didn't do other thing besides making out because Hopper himself told Joyce "it is constant". I promise you if the Duffers wanted to present a relationship as healthy, they wouldn't make them unlikeable both to the wiewers and to the other characters while they are together. Even if El couldn't go outside, they still could do something else besides making out while being indoors, you know, like watching movies, Mike teaching El hobbies, or just having genuine conversations. But they do none of those. However, Lucas and Max are the same age, and are presented as a more normal relationship for their age in season 3, because even though they break up (unseriously) a couple times, they still hang out with their other friends, never make others feel left out, share similar interests, do something else besides making out... and they are likely to be endgame. That's how genuine relationships are written. Also, I don't think Mike and El are toxic, they just aren't the right person for each other, and they threw themselves into a relationship while facing insecurities for different reasons (that can't be solved by staying together) and that makes them regress as characters. It's really about understanding basic character analysis

[illarian-rambling]

for the oc/ship ask game: 15 & 16 for Nyda Burningrock, and B for any ship you'd like! - @viscerawrites

These are such great questions for her, thank you so much <3

First thing they remember feeling proud of

Uh, I'll keep it real with you, Nyda is proud of very little in her life. Though she's done many great things in the field of astronomy, every accomplishment was overshadowed by the fact that she was only doing this because she couldn't be a mercenary. Leaving for university should've been exciting, but instead, Nyda felt like she was admitting defeat by doing so. She couldn't recognize the value in her work before it was too late.

That said, I think it's a more personal moment that she's the most proud of. Nyda came out as a transwoman when she was in her early twenties. Elven concepts of gender are more broad and flexible than human ones, but change is still scary, and by this point, Nyda was doing everything she could to fly under her family's radar. She's very proud to be a woman and is grateful she came to the realization during such a dark point in her life. Realizing she was a woman sort of prompted Nyda to start on astronomy in the first place. It was a new beginning, untainted by her complicated relationship with Nabafyrian culture.

First thing they remembered feeling ashamed of

Dropping a sword. When Nyda began training as a Burningrock mercenary at the ripe old age of five, one of the exercises was to stand and hold a blade while one of the trainers swung a weapon in front of the child's face. This was to condition them to dangerous situations. While most of Nyda's siblings flinched a bit their first time doing this, Nyda dropped her sword with a yelp. This caused her father to berate her for showing cowardice. And such was the first time Nyda learned shame. It would be far from the last.

First impression of each other

Keeping on the Nyda theme, I'm not sure if I want her and Kaulakri's relationship to end up platonic or romantic yet, but either way, here's goes!

When Nyda first saw Kaulakri, she was a little disappointed. There they were, the new crew of a dangerous space voyage. Faalgun was obviously a seasoned sailor, Pash was clearly a skilled diplomat and looked like someone who knew his way around a blade. Anarac was there too, I guess, but by this point, his silence was coming across as more broody than insanely traumatized. And then there was Kaulakri; this short, chubby scribe of a selkie who had clearly died of a disease rather than a battle wound like the rest. Nyda was worried she'd be a straggler at best and a liability at worst.

Kaulakri's impression of Nyda, before learning her name, was mild annoyance. This loud, piercing-covered, mohawk-having, elven punk claimed to be an astronomer? Sure, whatever. But then she heard the Burningrock name and was immediately filled with the rage of a hundred generations of cartographers. Nyda's greatest accomplishment as an astronomer was figuring out how to calculate the movement of Illaros's wildly shifting stars. However, she was killed before she could enlighten anybody as to how she'd done this. And so cartographers like Kaulakri were left having to rechart all their star maps every few years because this damn 13th century dumbass couldn't be bothered to write shit down. This massively influenced Kaulakri's opinion of Nyda for quite a while, especially considering Kaulakri's intensely meticulous nature when it comes to such things.

So, long story short, they didn't really like each other all that much lol

Thanks for the asks! I can't wait to start on Starbreaker properly, but until then, questions like these help a lot when it comes to fleshing out characters :)

[lycorogue]

One Piece NoPixel

Ever since the 4.0 launch of NoPixel (a private GTA Online roleplay server), my husband and I have become OBSESSED with the Yuno Sykk storyline going on.

Considering Sykkuno has been streaming NoPixel for roughly 8hrs every day, there's no way I can fully keep up, so my insomniac husband tends to give me recaps the following day. As he's telling me the story and is trying to get me to understand the relationship ties between characters I had an epiphany: Yuno is just Luffy from One Piece.

People already joke that Sykkuno has "plot armor" and is the "main character", so his GTA character Yuno being Luffy already kind of fits. Plus, both Yuno and Luffy are ADHD/Autistic balls of chaos that are also unintentionally beams of charisma that attracts just about everyone to their side. It doesn't matter how insane the plan is, if Luffy/Yuno says it people will follow through. You also have the fun of wondering if Luffy/Yuno is just insane with godly amounts of luck that allows their plan to work out, or if they are secretly geniuses that had already calculated everything in the background and the plan worked because of that discrete planning (or if it's a happy combo of the two). Luffy and Yuno are both almost impossibly optimistic and goofy, and people INSTANTLY know to take these boys seriously the second they become serious. If Luffy/Yuno stop smiling, you KNOW shit is about to go down! Also, Luffy/Yuno is INSANELY loyal and protective of his found family. On multiple occasions, Yuno has been informed that if he were to betray the speaker that would kill their last bit of faith in humanity, because if they know ANYTHING it's that Yuno doesn't lie and doesn't betray. Much like Luffy.

OK, so Yuno Sykk is Monkey D. Luffy (If Yuno's name wasn't just Sykkuno's I wouldn't be surprised if he had included the D. initial).

I then thought about those around Yuno. While the personalities don't work one-to-one, my husband and I were able to map a lot of Yuno's friends onto Luffy's simply based on relationship ties.

First is obvious. Yuno, through the 3.0 adoption chaos, ended up the adopted grandson of cop (and eventual Police Commissioner) Sam Baas. So, Baas is Garp. The fish-name connection is just a bonus.

Next up is the inspiration to both start an illegal lifestyle and to become the best possible at it. A pseudo-father-figure and mentor. The man whose blessings and pride in Luffy/Yuno is just about everything to the boy: Lang Buddha as Yuno's Shanks.

Luffy/Yuno couldn't get as far as he does without his true ride-or-die. The man who is loyal to a fault. Who will gladly give his life to not only save his best friend and brother, but also to simply lift him higher, if that's what's requested of him. A man who will smile as he participates in mass murder, and whose homicidal tendencies are surprisingly calmed when around Luffy/Yuno: Raymond Romanov as Yuno's Roronoa Zoro

The personalities don't really match, and YMMV when it comes to this ship, but 4.0 brought about Yuno's "relationship arc". This introduced us to a woman that Yuno loves spending time with, is very protective of, and joys in making her smile. She is there to comfort Yuno, but understands that he needs to do things his way and on his own sometimes. Yuno keeps saying that they're only best friends, and that may be true. He may honestly have no romantic interest in her, despite her obvious romantic interest in him. Even so, she's His Person and he wants to be with her and protect her as much as possible. If there's one person that Luffy/Yuno cares about that you DO NOT mess with, it's her. Ladies and gents, meet Yuno's Nami: Lottie Mae

On the flipside, we have a woman who started off as an enemy, but was instantly charmed by the lengths Yuno would go to in order to help someone that had threatened him. Someone who has family who viciously protects her. Someone who is completely smitten despite Yuno not really giving as many "I want to be in a romantic relationship" vibes as he does with Lottie. Someone who clearly has a jealous streak to her. The main person people seem to ship with Luffy/Yuno behind Nami/Lottie. Our own Tsundere Queen: Gigi Costello as Yuno's Boa Hancock

Next up is a man who is a more serious leader who doesn't approve of Luffy/Yuno's shenanigans, but he also can't deny the results, so he begrudgingly gives Luffy/Yuno free rein. He still tries to talk some sense into Luffy/Yuno and his friends, and they do listen to him on occasion, but those moments are few and far between. He also can't ignore Luffy/Yuno's charisma, and, in spite of himself, he's equally drawn in to the King of Chaos. Congratulations, Tommy T. You are Yuno's Trafalgar Law.

We then have someone who is older. Someone who is a bit of a mentor, but also would gladly follow Luffy/Yuno. Someone who was once a leader himself, but has since disbanded his own crew (or, at least, left them). Someone who is incredibly protective of Luffy/Yuno, but also understands that the kid can hold his own (for the most part). Someone who can't fathom Luffy/Yuno ever betraying anyone. Someone who is a master a steering??? This one is a little bit of a stretch, but my husband believes that Tony Corleone is Yuno's Jimbe.

Finally, we have someone who is a pseudo-ally to Luffy/Yuno, almost begrudgingly. Someone whose goals differ from Luffy/Yuno's and those differing goals caused tension for a bit before the two decided to break off from each other. Someone who has a sort of 1920s gangsta vibe with his underground gambling and mob-like connections. A man whose main goal deep down is to find a family of his own. Marty Banks as Yuno's Capone Bege

My husband also thinks that Benji Ramos would be Yuno's Sanji, mostly due to the incessant flirting with little-to-no success. Also, Mickey Sinclaire as Usopp due to Mickey being a cowardly schemer and master liar. I'm still on the fence for both of those. This list was largely mapping parallels on how these characters relate to Luffy vs how they relate to Yuno. The Benji and Mickey parallels are more about their personalities pairing with One Piece characters.

I think that will have to be a different list, though.

So, NoPixel/One Piece fans, what do you think? Does this work? Would you have picked other character parallels? Are there others we didn't think of?

[captainbobbin]

Ship ask, xigxem?

SORRY for some reason tumblr didn't notify me that this came through asjdhaskdl

(referring to this ship ask meme)

XigXem Absolutely Makes Sense And Also Compels Me

god its a fucking CRIME that I haven't written about the two of them yet. they're besties. they're worsties. they cant stand each other. they're all they have. they're strangers. they're lovers. they'd find each other in every lifetime. they cant bear the sight of the other in this lifetime. they hang out and have coffee. they haven't spoken in months. they hate the position they're in. they cant imagine themselves anywhere else. they couldn't be more different. they're the only person in existence and nonexistence to ever understand. they know each others secrets. they don't know each other at all. god. god. god. fuck.

I have many thoughts. I blame many of them on my bud @nicedracula (if you were the one to send this in. brother. brother. hello) but god yeah I NEED to both write about them and draw them more. I love their fucked up dynamic. I love the lack of it we see. I love the hints we get. I love that they're ride or die. I love how easily it falls apart. I love them both as individual characters and together. I must do more with them. I have to. I'm insane about them actually

[respondedinkind]

Get to know the mun.

respond to the prompts out of character!

what made you pick up the current muse(s) you have? I started writing Khan back in 2012 even before the movie came out - just based him on that single teaser thing that existed there, I was so incredibly hooked by his character. And when the movie finally came out I continued to write him (obviously) so yeah. The insanely good portrayal of him (thank you, Ben) and the character itself... captivated me. That's why I chose to write him back then and that's why I am still writing him. I just love the way he was brought to life, all the details of how he behaves, talks, moves... and how incredibly non-Ben Ben looks there. So fucking impressive. Could rave about my boy 24/7. My Stephen I picked up only recently and I happened to do so because I got immensely hooked on him as well, rewatched the movies, found my muse suddenly exploding for him. I wasn't sure for a while and pondered about writing him for 2 weeks, but then I decided to go for it. I was also very inspired by certain events back then that made me pick him up eventually, but... things turned out a bit differently than expected. Anyways, i really enjoy writing him as well and he's just such a wonderful contrast to my Khan, it feels refreshing. I also write Leonard McCoy, but I do so more or less privately with just a few selected people. I enjoy writing that sassy man, and I basically just made him to explore some relationships (lol) but yeah. I enjoy doing that on him.

is there anything you don’t like to write? Such things as Character Death (if there's no way for them to be resurrected and/or somehow come back into the story lol) and Bad Endings. I can't take it, will never write it for the sake of my own mental health. I am very much a happy fluffy writing person, I love drama and angst but it needs to turn into hurt / comfort and something nice at some point.

is there anything you really enjoy writing? Well... I hinted at it above (lol), I love fluff, happy stuff, I also enjoy it immensely to write relationships. I love shipping (romantic), but I also love to explore platonic relationships. I have to admit though, shipping is something I oftentimes feel drawn to and that's just how it is, which doesn't mean I won't write anything else, but it's one of my favorites. I also enjoy writing slice-of-life stuff and just... cute things. The way life happens with two muses. I also love writing family stuff... and what their future develops as. That includes possible conflicts and problems the have to solve (and will solve lol bc I need my happy endings) and add some nice angst and drama into it for the delicious hurt/comfort and the happy things after. And yes, just to throw it in here as well: I also enjoy writing smut. Not all the time, not always, not like 24/7, but when the muses have chemistry it just happens man. :)

how do you come up with headcanons?  I am oftentimes inspired by a thing I see or listen to, or they just pop up out of nowhere. Sometimes I read about a thing or see a thing on TV / in a video and am like 'Oh yes, this is very much my muse'!. I do have to admit that I am one who sometimes sees a headcanon somewhere sometimes and be like 'oh yes, I agree with this actually, this is so good' - it has happened in the past, but I try to refrain from that. Some headcanons also are just 'so general', in a way, that they can be seen similar by many people writing the same muse - especially when they stem from the source material of the canon. Anyways, cough, most headcanons I develop over time or they just pop up out of nowhere and 'feel right'.

do you write in silence or do you play music? Silence, actually. Music distracts me, sadly so. I used to be able to write with music but at some point... I just couldn't anymore? In fact, it even distracts me to have my partner sitting in the other room watching a TV show, if he's doing that on a volume that's too loud for me to handle I won't be able to write. I struggle with that quite a bit and it's very annoying that my brain is such a bitch about it honestly, sigh.

do you plan your replies or wing them? I usually wing them, but I oftentimes also plot with my partner and we talk about what's supposed to happen within a certain time frame so I can direct my muse to that part of the story, so to say. Oftentimes, though, muses just do muse-things in between and I enjoy that a lot - In fact, I am always looking forward to 'muses being muses' and something surprising happens! So exciting!

do you enjoy shipping? God, yes. Like, I love shipping. I don't ship everything and there's ships out there I don't like, and I am also the most comfortable with m/m ships (those happen quickly, ngl), but when I have a ship between muses where the chemistry just sparked by itself? Delicious. But yes, in general, I really enjoy shipping, 100%.

what’s your alias/name? L.

age? 34

birthday? January 25th

favorite color?  red, pink, black, blue

favorite song?  I don't have 'one favorite', I have a lot, so I cannot decide. :'D

last movie you watched? Oppenheimer.

last show you watched?  Uh I don't watch shows...

last song you listened to? Ready Aim Fire - Imagine Dragons

favorite food?  Sushi. Closely followed by burgers.

favorite season?  Winter, Spring and Fall (basically whenever it's more cool and not hot. I hate heat.)

do you have a tumblr best friend? I made some wonderful connections to people over the years and especially so 'recently' with me getting my Khan muse back and also writing Stephen, and I am so happy and thankful about everyone I am writing with and everyone I am also chatting OOC with. Thank you for being here! ♥

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[madara-fate]

Hi, Madara. I bumped into this on Twitter and saw a user post a screenshot that has Ino and Sakura with a text saying this:   

“Sakura and Ino were very close friends,  and they had been rivals. Just the other day, they'd been put on a mission as a team.  It had a very sudden assignment, but they'd worked together perfectly, with flawless cooperation. They practically breathed in sync. But to think that they'd come to the same store at the same time, and reached out for the same item in the same instant… it was like fate was pulling a prank on them. They couldn't have pulling off the timing better if they'd planned it beforehand. Maybe they really were breathing in sync. If they'd been man and woman, they might very well have falling in love. Maybe tiny hearts would've been popping and failing around them.” 

The screenshot has no source for people to read on their own and it didn't sound like an official interview. It was just pictures of Sakura and Ino and a paragraph above. No name of the interviewer or a comment from Kishimoto.  

The next part is from the poster comment. 

“The fact that it has been officially stated that Sakura and Ino would have falling in love with each other if they'd been “a man and woman” is so insane to me. Hetnormativiy truly is so nasty.” 

This user also shares a lot of ridiculous claims about how Kishimoto is homophobic. And share more “evidence” that Kish wanted Sakuino/Inosaku and SNS to be endgame but was forced into making straight canon ships. When will they realize sexual orientation was never a topic in his story? As far as what was shown, all of his characters are heterosexually until said otherwise by the creator. They need to learn to live that not everyone is going to abide by their fantasy of wanting every straight character gay in the amine/gaming world. They need to entertain authors who do add homosexuality to their works and stop attacking people who don't. I don't see the Heterosexual attacking an author who works surrounds with gay ships and bothering them to add straight couples. And Naruto wasn't about all that, sure they had straight ships but nothing against them. Geez, Kishimoto, and other mangaka are not obligated to make ships for their preference. If this person doesn't like it don't watch or read their work. Instead of making useless misinformation, taken-out-of-context posts they should just focus on posting what they like and not attacking the author and his work. I have seen plenty of Inosaku and SNS shippers who do just that and stay in their line.

I'm sorry if this is a repetitive question you get. You are one of the many blogs that have a commendable sense for the author's work regardless of personal feelings and I wanted to hear your thoughts on this post. Thank you for what you do because it is appreciated by all fandoms.  

I'm all but certain that Kishimoto didn't say that quote from your second paragraph. It obviously wouldn't be the first time someone presented a quote as part of an interview and people just believed it because they're sheep. Secondly, that user's comment...

“The fact that it has been officially stated that Sakura and Ino would have falling in love with each other if they'd been “a man and woman” is so insane to me. Heteronormativity truly is so nasty.” 

Is yet another example of another one of these buzzwords (heteronormativity) that people like to throw around carelessly. It's not as misused as "misogyny", but it's up there.

Wherever that quote came from, why did it ruffle that person's feathers? Sakura and Ino are canonically heterosexual, they're attracted to the opposite gender. So yes if we're keeping their canon sexualities, they would have needed to be opposite genders in order to feel romantically and/or sexually attracted to each other. That obviously doesn't mean that whoever said that quote is indicating that only a man and a woman can fall in love with each other.

Also...

This user also shares a lot of ridiculous claims about how Kishimoto is homophobic. And share more “evidence” that Kish wanted Sakuino/Inosaku and SNS to be endgame but was forced into making straight canon ships.

That doesn't even make sense. If Kishi apparently wanted SakuIno and SNS to happen, then he's clearly not the one that person should be accusing of homophobia. It's the people who apparently "forced" him into making the straight canon ships that they should be throwing those accusations towards. So not only can they not even form a coherent argument, but the mere fact that they even believe that Kishi wanted those ships in the first place, and then use some made up quote with no sources as evidence, tells me all I need to know regarding their logic and reasoning.

They need to entertain authors who do add homosexuality to their works and stop attacking people who don't. I don't see the Heterosexual attacking an author who works surrounds with gay ships and bothering them to add straight couples.

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That is the single best and most truthful thing I've read in a while, seriously. I wish people would remember that the next time they feel like bitching about a lack of LGBT representation in a work of fiction. Not every work has to feature diverse representation of everything.