#😔😔 i guess it really is too much of a rarepair

[cammy-mcspammy]

could i pwease have some gonta/shuichi 🥺 thank you 🐞💚💙🔍

Of course! They seem so cute, I love wholesome ships with two soft boys 😭😭😭

It's also nice to see somebody willing to protect and defend Shuichi when normally, he's the one to do it for others.

[fumifooms]

What do you think of Lamari (Laios and Namari)? Both as a ship and the relationship between the two.

I don’t like it sorry broski 😔 Seeing them interacting in ep 9 again made me see the appeal more, it’s cute how they interact, how they trust each other’s abilities and judgement! But ship wise…… I can’t. I’ve been seeing cute fanart of them around though, and I know a few people on discord that like them too. Like hmmm I guess I can see the appeal in the dynamic even if it doesn’t grab me but I can’t form a narrative for them… Usually I need both to truly get into a ship, a dynamic I find fun or interesting + some sort of progression and impact it’d leave on the characters, I don’t really see the character/relationship arc that’d happen, or at least not one eventful enough for me. When it comes to how I think their relationship is during canon, I see it as being professional and hinting at maybe friends, a neutral rather than negative thing mind you.

With Laios, well I’ve spoken about his character and arc before a bunch, but with Namari the part that interests me most is the whole exile thing, how she works hard to fit in both with keeping a good work reputation and shaving, for example, and how she’s not all that good with it because of presumably her bold personality... Because of this and more, and spoilers but I’ve planning on making a rarepair post about it for a while, I like shipping her with Toshiro mainly. I think that she balances out his doormat tendency but his cool attitude would be soothing and grounding and- Well gdbdgdg you see how it is. And to a certain extent I can see why people would want to apply the same logic to lamari, but… I don’t even think Namari and Laios would be able to bond over both being foreigners much tbh, I feel like Laios would sort of remain an odd mystery to her and though they could connect in a weird roundabout way I don’t think they’d exactly understand each other— and see this is the part of lamari appeal I get, the sort of tentative tension of "oh you actually respect me. That feels… Rare. And nice." Thouuugh like I was saying to be fair, it’s true Laios also tries and fails to fit in so that could be an interesting angle to go at it with. I think Namari wants stability and I just don’t really think it complements Laios well. I think trust’s the most important thing with Laios so on his side him liking her enough to be interested or open to a relationship I could see, though in a kinda mild and dry way imo… Like with Laios especially when defining how he and someone fall in love, there are sort of two modes right, and of course these coexist to some degree, but there’s Laios being his partner’s silly goober, and there’s Laios being very mature, more of his subdued stoic but composed self, all king-like, the more like connecting through meaningful conversations side. And idk how to put it into words but with lamari, I feel like Namari being paired with him doesn’t give a fresh spin on the former, and with the latter I feel like they’d always keep missing each other halfway communication wise, I don’t see them ever getting to that level where they deeply intuitively know and understand each other and how they work, maybe Laios -> Namari yes but Namari -> Laios I don’t see it, like I said I think it’d remain like, a mystery that nags at her and she might feel attracted if anything, but I can’t see them as more than casually dating idkk idk.

Namari has that fun ‘gets fired up about what odd things Laios is doing and reigns him back in’ dynamic but it’s something that literally so many other characters have too. I’m not knee deep into Namari yet so who knows maybe I have a wrong angle, but I did start giving her some thoughts bc I have a fic I have in mind for toshimari I wanna do. But yes it’s cute how protective she can get even if it’s shouty or tough love, like how she looks out for Laios’ equipment and for him not to get scammed, or brings in Toshiro here in the convo because she doesn’t want Toshiro to do his conflict avoidance thing and not stand up for himself & stay in the party even if it sucks hah. That bold borderline rude protective personality of hers with that awkwardness with intimacy/non-professional relationships is what’s unique to her I think, but yeah the laios & namari duo strikes me as strangely distant yet strangely interested coworkers who exhange glances over the cashier desk but personally I can’t see myself doing anything with that.

I’m not here to say it’s a bad ship or anything obviously! It just really doesn’t call to me personally and I don’t see stuff with them that I’d find interesting to analyze, if anything it’d involve the wider party a lot. I do want to make a masterpost on Laios’ career history and the old members of his party so I might analyze how Namari and he interact in those pre-canon comics idk. But yeahh like I find nothing to dig deeper at personally, you could make cute fics of them hinting at interest between the two, if Laios went to get drinks with her at a tavern etc etc, but all I see with them is just what canon straightforwardly showed us and I don’t get the urge to explore the possibility of them at all.

Sorry to disappoint, but yeah I won’t be a good source of lamari content or thoughts. I have wayy too many drafts I actually want to get out so I’ll be storing further Laios & Namari analysis for a big maybe, one day. I feel so bad I really hate to be negative at all and as a fellow rareshipper I send u my best wishes truly, good luck y’all deserve fellow stans and content. Feel free to leave pro-lamari arguments in the comments or reblogs if you want idm but preferably not asks (and just don’t be aggressive & don’t expect me to respond/react 🫶) like truly this post isn’t meant as a diss but anon asked me about my personal thoughts so… I love youuu lamaris hope y’all thrive 🙇🙇

Trying to think of crumbs and it’s true she blushed when she saw him in his cape at the end so y’all got that W. Namari having a thing for tallmen is so real

Edit: oh she went with him for equipment shopping… Ok that’s cute

[manofmanymons]

Everyone knows I'm deranged about Digimon Survive, but here are some unhinged things I did while in other fandoms!

MHA:

Was a leader on the kiribaku amino.

Amino.

Amino.

Let that sink in just a little longer.

Participated in a secret santa event in said amino by compiling the most requested prompts by all the members and writing for all of them. Why did I do that to myself!

Hetalia because yes I was that cringe:

Opened a short story collection to requests, forgot to specify things I didn't want to write, didn't want to turn down my first request, and wrote abo smut. I think I was like 15 at that point ksjskd I cannot express strongly enough how much I do now and did then hate abo

...changed my pfp to a sfw screenshot from an nsfw comic because I thought it was funny that no one could call me on it without admitting they recognized where it was from💀 yeah I was...one of those kids 💀💀💀💀

Kingdom Hearts:

Wrote 200k words worth of fic for that fandom. For reference I've only done ~40k for Survive.

Most of it was for a rarepair that never met in canon because something is very wrong with me! A lot of rest was for pairs that have met but are still also rare because again something is very wrong with me!

I reread. The entirety of Roxas's diary from 358. Just so I could emulate his writing style for a fic.

Actually ran a gimmick account for a while! I haven't done that before or since!

Temporarily replaced my entire personality with really loving Vanitas. Kinda like how I am with Kaito rn but somehow even worse. Somethin about a fucked up black and red color scheme boy 😔😔😔

Talked about it SO MUCH irl that two of my friends literally stopped wanting to talk to me anymore cuz they were so sick of hearing about Roxas

Genshin Impact:

Wrote a joke fic for a ship I hate but accidentally took it too seriously to the point where it was not clear that it was a joke and it became my second most popular fic not on that account but of all time and I'm STILL angry about it

Wrote one of the first 5 fics to ever exist for, you guessed it, another rarepair

I...see this isn't about my behavior in the fandom necessarily but it's kinda embarrassing how feral I went over Thoma. Like,,,spent money on the game for the first time just to get a weapon that matched his outfit, built a whole ass shrine to him in my in-game home, GOT MY EARS PIERCED DO YOU KNOW HOW EMBARRASSING THAT IS, listened to nothing but his theme song for a very very very long time, bought entirely too much merch of him/him and Ayaka, refused to take him off my team no matter how useless pyro was even in floor 12 spiral abyss, and perhaps most embarrassing of all...read x reader fanfic for the first time since I was literally 11 💀 That man DID something to me y'all

Sasaki to Miyano:

Knew the manga so well that I could tell you exactly what chapter any given scene was from

Sent a different picture of Sasaki to my irls' gc every day for over 200 days

Got better at baking and learning recipes for friends as a way of expressing affection because that's what Sasaki does

[a-crystalclearsquid]

*sigh* you don't have to answer this if you don't want to, but I just posted a fic in another fandom that wasn't Batman yesterday, and it's only gotten TWO KUDOS and twelve hits. I really liked writing it so I'm just really bummed rn, ig... I've posted almost 20 fics in the Batman fandom so I think I've just been really spoiled (in a sense) and my view/idea of how many hits/kudos to expect in a certain time frame is skewed.

(okay, fine: I looked at other fics with this pairing, and they all have very low hits and kudos, so it's not just me i guess 😔. plus what i'm writing for came out like 12 years ago and there have been tonssss of updated installments of it, so... maybe it's just not as active as it used to be, understandably. it's still kinda disheartening though, bc I had a bunch of ideas for a series but know idk if i'll even be encouraged enough to write them lol. Now I'm super duper extra grateful for all the love via kudos and comments I get from this fandom 💕)

hi anon, i actually have no idea how to respond to this because i don't have that much kudos on fics that i write haha.

but you must be feeling new to getting small number kudos especially, as far as i can tell, you're writing for a fandom that's inactive and for a ship that's a rarepair? i'm not sure but it seems like it.

please don't be disheartened too much about the low responses your fic gets, because (assuming that you really are writing for a rarepair, from an old fandom) as reader of rarepairs, i know that lots of those readers appreciate the work that you shared, given the small amount of fics and/or art they see 💕

also this might just be you wanting to rant and let out some frustration, which i don't mind.

[fayesdiary]

hmm, since I'm always asking about Faye, how about you do the RGB trio (Lukas, Forsyth, Python) for the ask game instead?

Heck yeah, the technicolor trio!

First impression: I glossed over them in my first playthrough. I used Lukas a bit in the first chapters but then dropped him because he was slow and 4 movement is horrible, I didn't use Forsyth for that same reason and Python... do I even need to say it?

Impression now: Genuinely some of the best characters, you can thank @good-beans for helping me reconsider them a lot. They're so good on their own but even better together, especially with the Rise of the Deliverance content! (Python's supports with Lukas and Clive are especially top notch, can't believe a character said both aro rights and fuck the monarchy in FE) Honestly it's a bit wild that they're so fleshed out for characters that don't even play that big a role in the story after Act 1!

Favorite moment: For Lukas it's either his rebuttal at Fernand or the scene where he saves the Deliverance by taking the Rigelian civilians hostage in the DLC (But also you could argue every moment he talks becuse Greg Chun's voice is ✋😔👌)

For Forsyth it's definitely his support with Python where he keeps bickering with him... and his post-battle quote if Python dies. The way he initially thinks he's just loafing around but then slowly realizes what happened and he calls for Python again in an incredulous manner...😭

For Python his support with Clive, full stop. Clive already gets called out on his biases and prejudices by Alm a fair bit in the story, but Python chews him out hard on those while also taking potshots at monarchy as a system. Really, Python is based af

Idea for a story: At the moment I've got nothing, sorry

Unpopular opinion: Well, I guess it's that they deserve more appreciation? Haven't heard much about them besides here on Tumblr

Favorite relationship: With each other obviously! Forsyth and Python are definitely gay for each other, and I do love the idea of Lukas being in a QPR with both!

That said, I do have a soft spot for Python/Silque as a rarepair, I just think it's cute.

Favorite headcanon: A slightly angsty headcanon I have is that Lukas is secretly deeply freaked out by Witches because they remind him too much of himself.

Forsyth eventually succeeds Clive as the captain of the Zofian knights, and he's obviously thrilled by it.

Modern AU Python would work as a coder because haha programming joke, but also he would definitely form or at least join a union.

Also the job he has after Echoes is both because he wanted to do something that was actually useful, but also give him plenty of time to slack off.

The trio still sees each other, and often Forsyth and Python visit Lukas at his school.

[astarkey]

Fanfiction would you rather?

Tagged by @hellishgoat! Thank you for tagging me, buddy!!! 🤗💞

Friends to lovers or enemies to lovers? Both!

Be forced to watch a terrible movie adaptation of your favorite fic or an amazing adaptation of your least favorite fic? Watch a terrible adaptation. Sometimes the terrible ends up good!

Read fanfic chapters backwards, last to first, or read them as parsed from google translate? Parsed I guess. I never read anything parsed from google translate, so idk how it would work if I were to try it lmao.

Consume every fanfic as an audiobook read by a monotone narrator, or have to read every fanfic on a tiny printed piece of paper written in yellow highlighter? Audiobook. I have a monotone voice anyway, so it works out!

Get a tattoo on your body of every fanfic title you read, or never read fanfic again? Uh, get a tattoo!

Vampire Au or Werewolf Au? VAMPIRE AU!!!!!!!!!! (I’m already doing a vampire au fic, and already it’s fun, omg. Vampire jokes, and a human screwing a vampire while the vampire bites and feeds in the middle of sex. Vampire’s fucked up because they love the human but knows they can’t be with the human forever and does not want the human to be what they are, and the vampire can’t be with the human during the day and can’t touch the human’s skin under the sunlight, even though touching is their love language. Plus, vampires are just so fucking extra for no apparent reason other than because they’ve lived for hundreds and thousands of years and to them, time doesn’t exist; so they can just do what they want.)

Get sold to a boy band, or be stuck in a time loop with your love interest? Time loop 😔

Kill your favorite character, or marry your least favorite character? Marry least favorite character...

Meet your love interest in a coffee shop AU or a college AU? Uh... I actually don’t mind both.

Have your fic history leaked, or never read another fanfic again? Leak the fics, I don’t care. Most of the ones I like/have read are gone, anyway!

Be able to read amazing fanfiction but it always has an mpreg plot twist, or only read bad fanfiction for the rest of your life? ... I guess read bad fiction.

Gay ships or straight ships? I prefer straight ships, but I actually don’t mind gay ships. 

Ship a rarepair with almost no content, or a pair with lots of content but almost all of it is cracky nightmare smut? Ship rarepair, omg. I wouldn’t know how to deal with cracky nightmare smut.

See your OTP shatter years after their happily ever after, or never have the happily ever after happen in the first place? I’m gonna say shatter, so that way after it shatters, they’ll find some way to rekindle that relationship; be it if they return to being together or remain as friends on good terms.

Read a poorly written but complete fanfic, or a literary masterpiece last updated June 2013? Literary masterpiece.

Read SSSS++++ tier smut with almost 11k words, or 70k words worth of fluff? BOTH!!!!

Read only alternate universe fanfics, or only canon fanfics? ALTERNATE UNIVERSE ALL THE WAY! 

Introduce fanfics to your normie friend with an ongoing smut fic with great writing, or a complete fluff fic with terrible writing? Complete fluff fic. I don’t want any of my normie friends knowing I write smut. Do you know how much it would damage my image as the good girl in the group?

Read your NOTP with all your favorite tropes and perfect characterization, or your OTP with tropes you despise and inconsistent characterization? NOTP. They’re actually quite entertaining to read, too, just as much as OTP fics.

Read a fic with an interesting concept but very poor writing, or read a fic with an uninteresting concept with really good writing? Interesting concept. I can excuse the poor writing, I’ll understand what they’re trying to convey.

Have a major character death, or have a bed sharing scene but it's a ship you hate? I feel like it just depends. Like if it’s a major character I hate, I could care less if they die? But like if it’s any of my fav characters, I just can’t do that, my friend. I’m gonna have to go with bed sharing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I can handle it...

Read a fanfic that has consistent grammar and spelling mistakes, or one that the characters are wildly different than canon? Grammar and spelling mistakes :3

Every fanfic includes Jackson Wang, or every fanfic includes at least one NSFW moment? I don’t know who Jackson Wang is, and I had to look it up if it was like a new fanfic term I’m just now hearing about 😂 But I’d go with at least one NSFW moment. IT’S FUN!

Read the most absolutely messed up dead dove with your most wholesome otp, or subject yourself to 100,000 words of your NOTP all written in a solid block with no punctuation and horrible grammar? Dead dove ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Have the power to read every fanfic in existence, or have the power to make any ship canon? Have the power to read every fanfic in existence.

Have your OTP get together in canon but one of them dies in a tragic way, or all members of your OTP survive but get together with other people? Get together with other people. I’ve read angsty fics where both were like that, but I can handle the separation more than having one or both of them end up dead.

Read a cringy 70 chapter Harry Styles mafia AU, or a highschool Kpop AU y/n fic horrible grammar? I really want neither of them, but I can tolerate the mafia one, I guess...

Accidentally send your boss a super detailed smut fic, or read a super detailed smut fic about your boss? Omg, noooooooo! Eh... If I were to read it, NOT out loud, I’d be alright with it. However, I’d be looking at my boss completely different and never the same again.

Read smut fanfic aloud to your parents, or submit fanfic to the employer of your dream job? Hell no, I would not read that shit out loud in front of my parents! They would definitely force me to go to church, then! I’d rather submit to an employer. Maybe they’d want me on board to make a project out of it; that’d be cool.

Pine after an oblivious love interest, or be the oblivious love interest being pined after? Pin after an oblivious love interest.

Hanahaki disease, or your soulmates first words to you tattooed on your body (and they're really stupid)? Lmfao, the tattoo one! 

Be an Alpha, Beta, or Omega in omegaverse? Neither. I am unfamiliar with omegaverse.

Read a fanfic where the characters turn into furries, or a fanfic where the characters all get pregnant? Omg, neither?! No no, I don’t want any of these! 😂

Be able to resurrect dead fics, or have the power to create of plethora of new fics effortlessly? Power to create! I have so many ideas that I need to unleash effortlessly.

Tagging (no pressure!!!): @alwaysupatnight, @lilmissuncreative, @musicrunsthroughmysoul, @chronic-ghost, @ambrosiaswhispers, @fortysevenswrites, @bensonstablers, and anyone else who wants to do this!!

[tales-of-sweets]

Vesperia for the meme 😚

send me a fandom and i’ll tell you…

the first character i ever fell in love with: Yuri! I loved his snarkiness and thought he was very pretty. Additionally, I was deep in the hell of my other fandom (Tiger&Bunny) which also features a long haired, GNC, vigilante named Yuri so there was immediate love as soon as I heard the name lol.

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: I don't think I have any, I loved everyone pretty consistently and still do!

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: l'm not sure that I have any really, I pretty much ship the same things I did when I started. Though, as with the Symphonia ask, I will tell you one ships I used to NOT like that I now DO like: Yuri/Raven/Judith OT3 :)

my ultimate favorite character™: UHHHH It's difficult hmmm... I think I love Raven and Zagi equally 🥰

prettiest character: Am I allowed to say Cumore? Because yeah, he looks awful but I'm also ridiculously attracted to him fjsjfkf Alexei is a close second.

my most hated character: Hmm, I guess I could go with the standard answer of Ragou. Though I also really do not like Nan (outside of specific AUs) because she's such a little shit to Karol.

my OTP: Aaaaaa okay can I even answer this? There's so many... Yuraven, Yeager/Casey, Schwann/Alexei (for the angst).... then some of my rarepairs like Duke/Yeager, Zagi/Yuri, Yeager/Cumore... I love all of these ships too much, I can't choose one.

my NOTP: Any ship with Patty is a no and Raven/Rita is a huge squick. The rest are just rarepairs and crackships that contradict my sibling/family HCs like Duke/Alexei, Rita/Judith, Yeager/Gauche/Droite/Zagi (any combination of any of those four is a huge no for me), and Zagi/Estelle (this last one I've at least never seen)

favorite moment: Schwann Reveal :') Though Yuri starting a guild with Karol is a close second.

saddest death: Zagi's death and the conversation that proceeded ripped me to shreds. I refuse to believe he's truly dead 😔

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: I'm not sure. Does the fandom love Nan? Lol I love most of the characters and the only ones I hate are like Ragou and Barbos and stuff.

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: Cumore, Zagi, and Alexei my beloveds💖

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: RAVEN!!! :( This poor sweet man has been to hell and back (maybe quite literally on more than one occasion) and he has so much trauma and little will to live. As much as I love his heeling and him being accepted by Brave Vesperia I hate hate hate how they treat him :(

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: HMMMMM.... Well, I think I have a lot of these as a villain liker lol. Schwann (or Raven)/Alexei, Cumore/Flynn, Zagi/Yuri, Yeager/Alexei

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: A guess for me it's the popular pairings like Fluri, Ristelle, and Yustelle. I love people's fanart of those ships (especially since it's always so soft and cozy) but I'm not rabid over them like I get for my rarepairs.