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yknow i say im a huge multishipper but i wouldnt actually consider myself much of a shipper at all. just open to the idea of trying everything once. the term has typically romantic connotations and follows the assumption that i think, and want, these characters to be good for eachother.

I'm, personally, less interested in the prexisting chemistry than i am in the puzzle of figuring out what differing circumstances could potentially cause two characters who have seemingly nothing in common to become eachothers everything.

This could explain my favorism towards rarepairs and more convoluted dynamics, and my aversion to popular, fluffy pairings that have already been explored a thousand times over, there's no work for me to do there.

Not to mention that when a ship becomes too popular it starts cannibalising itself, and lots of good, interesting characterisations are lost in the sea of people bending characters into pre-orchestrated, saccharine dynamics. alot of which are usually downright fetishy in nature, particularly in mlm pairings.

I mean i would say being able to get ooc and self indulgent is downright mandatory for making a good fic, but there's only so many times i have to read a fic about a big, overprotective, manly-man top who does all the work and the shy, small, swoony, softhearted femme-wifey-bottom before it starts to just be lazy.

I actively have to go out of my way to search 'switch' tags if i want true-to-the-character, mutual emotional reciprocation. which i really, really shouldn't have to do as an ace person who actively skips through nsfw.

And it's not that popular wlw pairings aren't guilty of these problems aswell, but those tend to lean more into the 'soft lesbians who can do no wrong' stereotype, which always completely (butch)ers all nuisance that makes the ship worth shipping in the first place.

As well as that's if they're even the focus of the story at all and aren't just shoved to the side by the main mlm couple. mlw pairings can be culpable of both these things, with the added risk that you find out the author made a twitter post with the characters in front of the 'super straight' flag.

Though i also wonder if me being aspec plays any part as again; im not as interested in the romantic aspects as i am in the possible hurdles they may face throughout the potential relationship.

Anyone else feel like this?

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My vibe about ships since forever tbh

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which faction of the dream smp are you?

(rb with ur results in the tags)

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Fans in adwd arguing about whether to jump ship for 5012 or stay with Casper are BOTH wrong actually. I have two hands and am weak to pretty men.

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They're so fucking unhinged I love it

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"I wanna study her like a little bug" ME FR FR OH MY GOSHSJNDJSKSO

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Btw I just finished devil venerable last night and had SO much fun! This ask is an excuse for you to share what your favorite parts of it are/make a pitch for more people to read it 💜💜💜

so so so so so happy to hear you enjoyed it !!!! 🧡🧡

this is not going to make much sense but as I've said before the main points that truly made this novel so great to me are:

1) the excellent balance it keeps with its different tones, it is very much a comedy. Until it isn't. and there's a sense of care and respect there, to the characters, to the story itself, to the audience—the way Cyan Wings manages each shift, they always makes sense, it never feels jarring.

2) the characters, they're all so good all so distinct, no blurring at the edges, no boring filler to pad the cast. they're unhinged fucking clowns but they all have Something, and they all work with each other so brilliantly. the dynamics Cyan Wings chooses to explore are fun and deep and never on the page just for the hell of it, these people learn from each other—for better or for worse, depending on the point of view lmao

3) i think this is a refreshing take to the "what do you mean my life is a book?" type of story, wenren è is the perfect main character for it. his narration is delightful and his point of view is just so funny, he really does just want to know.

4) there's flipping of tropes and metanarrative and someone gifts wenren è the moon and women women women and a whole demonic sect coming together to grab a baili qingmiao by the shoulders to tell her "girl stand up!!!!" and metanarrative and true curiosity and a skeleton woman and the importance of having a strong support system no matter what shape it takes and oh the metanarrative and the shocking disbelief in being loved back and found family except it's not found so much as forcefully cut out of another story and oh the delicious metanarrative, have i mentioned the metanarrative elements?

i've said once that this book wants you to have fun while reading, wants you to have a good time, but it also very much tells a story and most importantly cares about the story it tells and the characters it needs to tell it.

.....if that makes sense

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OH MY GOD

Seductress: okay here’s the plan: you’re going to sexually harass me so the male lead can save me :D

Devil Venerable: …..Subordinate you do it

Subordinate: 🥺

Devil Venerable: you don’t have to follow the script exactly. Just do what feels right

Subordinate: 😃

*throws her out the window instead*

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I’m just gonna lay here in my bed of dissociation and possibly grow moss in my lungs and let woodland critters burrow into my corpse to make themselves at home while I wither away into the ether from brainrot.

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

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I beg this to be like kitchen nightmares where the professionals scream at the landlords and call them a donkey about home safety and the potential mould in the corner.

pitching a new HGTV show called “help my landlord is evil” where the professionals come in to renters’ homes and fixes whatever problems their landlord has continuously ignored or fixed cheaply and poorly.

The episode ends with them confronting the landlords, possibly fist fighting them too i haven’t decided.

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Had thoughts for years now of how ‘Master of Death’ isn’t actually being the Master of the incarnation of Death. Instead it’s equivalent to having a master’s degree, for example a Master’s in Potions.

Harry just has so much interaction with death in his life that he’s become an expert on it.

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twitter liked this lil rough thing from yesterday, so I thought I'd post it here too :D

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Hello little cursor.

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Forelsket

some alcale illustration story.

im dying hahaha, and commissions are still open! visit my card or VGen.

thank you for reading!