#(And no; I will not be combining any of these ships)

[lord-of-bad-art]

i genuinely just need to rant but the lotf fandom has been in such a downfall recently and it’s making me some weird combination of disappointed, upset, disgusted, and just downright frustrated. i have no idea where it all started and have TRIED to stay out of the drama as best i could but can’t help but get roped into it every single time.

as of recently this lotf evil confessions blog that has risen up has caused nothing but trouble—and i’m not afraid to say that—within our small and fragile fandom. it may be a way for people to “let off steam” anonymously but it’s really just setting off sparks that do NOT need to be spread any further. i’m serious, if you have some weird fetishization or confession please keep it to yourself, i’m tired of hearing about all these abusive or sexual headcanons it’s so uncomfortable especially since these are CHILDREN.

misinformation spreads so quickly and i can’t even count how many accusations have been spread about people i know, causing them to leave the fandom even though said situation was not their fault at all. no matter where i go—tiktok, tumblr, ao3–it’s all the same shit over and over again. i do want to make it clear that i am NOT leaving the fandom, ive spent too much time on here and its a place that i have built a community in, despite its never ending flaws. however, im practically begging everyone to please get it together. i don’t understand why we can’t just be a group of people that talks about the book and enjoys the symbolism and yeah, maybe we indulge in some shipping in a NORMAL, NON-SEXUAL WAY. like can’t we just hold hands and skip around joyfully and whimsically or no.

i’m so sorry for everyone that has been threatened by other individuals and were innocent, you didn’t deserve that and we should really be focusing our attention on the real problematic people that DO need to be ejected from this fandom. anyways i just needed to get that out there and im happy to talk to anyone who disagrees, this is just my opinion and i’m not afraid to share it.

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

Answers below the cut to make this more of a straight reblog:

Favorite Toa: definitely Lhikan

Favorite Matoran: Jaller (apparently I have a thing for guys wearing that one gold Hau). I like Jaller better in the non-MoL media, if that's a distinction I'm allowed to make.

Favorite Turaga: look, I could say Lhikan again... but I'll go Vakama. I love the "from a certain point of view" lie-telling mentor.

Favorite Toa Team: the Metru. As a team, they have the best arc: from ordinary to super-powered to on the run to overwhelmed to transformed--to self-sacrificing, and become "normal"(er) again.

Favorite Villain: Makuta Teridax, with an honourable mention for Roodaka.

Favorite Kanohi + Mask Power: I love the Hau (classic or Lhikan--Nuva is okay and I do not acknowledge the Adaptive), as a visual, but for a mask power, shielding is mighty be less than exciting. For mask-and-its-power combo, the Pakari is more fun: great looking AND a fun power.

Favorite Toa Tool: Tahu's sword

Favorite Rahi: Kane-Ra. No, Muaka. No, Kane-Ra. No, Muaka.

Favorite Bionicle Media (Book, Movie, Game): Fanfic (and Tumblr long-posts)

Favorite Bionicle Figure or Set: See Answer 1.

Favorite Setting / Koro / Metru / Island / etc: Mata Nui. Count me among those a bit sad it gets crumbled away by the end of 2008.

Any of your favorite Bionicle-related things not already mentioned in this list that you wanna share! Toa Kaita (best combiner). Sleep spares him pain (best movie line). Lariska (best non-set character). Daggerspider (best ship). McToran (best six-pack of characters). MNOG (best media, atmospheric division).

Bionicle Reblog Meme

In celebration of the Bionicle fandom being alive and well despite the passage of time (among other things) I’m bringing back tumblr ask memes only make it a reblog meme so blogs that don’t usually get asks can still share their love of Bonkles :)

Pick and choose any/all and reblog with your:

Favorite Toa

Favorite Matoran

Favorite Turaga

Favorite Toa Team

Favorite Villain

Favorite Kanohi + Mask Power

Favorite Toa Tool

Favorite Rahi

Favorite Bionicle Media (Book, Movie, Game)

Favorite Bionicle Figure or Set

Favorite Setting / Koro / Metru / Island / etc

Any of your favorite Bionicle-related things not already mentioned in this list that you wanna share!

[eclipsedshadowk]

Surely, no one will understand me, but

[ya-boi-haru]

Kaleidoscope, Prison Duo, Ghaae, Centross x Kai, End Duo, Ariboo, Garden Duo (probs more - pick your poison)...

With a Beauty and the Beast AU

(More specifically, the 2011 "Beastly" adaptation)

[elpeadro]

I diagnose the Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld gang with QPR (queer-platonic relationship). It is so blatant and I love them so much.

Jentry-Michael: childhood best friends who haven't seen each other for half their lives after one of them accidentally burned down half the town (including her best friend’s home) with her magical fire powers and got sent away to Korea. Hit it off like nothing ever happened the day Jentry gets back in town. Gugu teases her about him because Jentry is not subtle at all. Protagonist girl x stereotypical love interest boy. Get to bond over being pressured to be someone they’re not by parental figures and being lied to about their powers. He dreams about her at night. (Don’t worry it’s not creepy.) She nearly kills him while he’s at work. Dating life stop-starts like 5 times because of shenanigans and poor communication and also maybe because their relationship isn’t meant to be romantic in nature.

Jentry-Kit: shapeshifter-adjacent demon who stalks, flirts with, seduces, lies to, threatens, and makes and wears a skin-suit of his mark only to fold after one (1) conversation, when she suggests he already has a soul, because he is that desperate for love and validation. Oh, and he’s working for the main villain who killed her parents, her great-aunt, and is actively trying to kill her. Protagonist girl x cool aloof bad boy love interest. Get to bond over being manipulated into fighting their authority figures’ feud/war. Lowkey is responsible for her almost killing stereotypical love interest boy. One kiss is enough to make him crash out when she rejects his advances afterwards. He falls for the oldest trick in the book, which is falling for your mark. He nearly dies distracting Cheng so that she can save the day (fuck you canon; you can’t take him away from me). He does this by wearing his Jentry skin-suit. They share the most homoerotically-charged scene in a TV-PG show while he’s building and putting on said skin-suit. Him nearly stealing her qi is so intimate and also please don’t do that without her consent sir 💀.

Michael-Kit: did you not SEE episode 5? They’re the nastiest parallels to ever parallel, to the point that their narrative energy warps reality and makes the lunch lady go on a comically direct lecture about how they need to choose for themselves what they want. This lecture is somehow about their identity issues and entire life’s course, and also about what they want for lunch. It is entirely unprompted. Kit nearly got him killed at work. They’re two-thirds of a love triangle, and a triangle can only be a triangle if it has 3 sides. (You get what I’m saying?) They were brothers-in-arms at the Alamo. They’re both incapable of not lying. Michael dreams about him the same number of times he dreams about Jentry. (Don’t worry it’s still not creepy.) They somehow avoid the stereotypical “high school love triangle drama” plot points between the two of them only because they’re busy fucking up their relationships in even bigger ways. Oh, and he prom-posed to Kit.

Michael-Stella: walking cliche of the high school “it” couple that was doomed the moment they set foot on the show. They were going to go to college together ffs. They dodge love triangle cliches regarding Jentry because they both think she’s that cool. She makes him protein bars. (Which suck, but it’s the thought that counts.) Football player x comphet lesbian. No seriously, she’s the most comphet lesbian to ever comphet lesbian.  They have cliche “romantic chemistry”, but then they break up because he lies to her about wanting to be a shitty flute player over a superstar wide receiver recruit (except it’s not really a lie, but also it is), and they move over the “awkward exes” period and are much better characters and friends. He dreams about her at night as well. (Again, still not creepy.)

Jentry-Stella: the girliest girl friend duo in the world. Stella helps her adjust to a new school in a way that is so nice and sweet that it’s one of the more unrealistic parts of the show. They have a scene in Stella’s bedroom. Their male love interests fumble them at roughly the same time, and then they do spirit week together and are having the time of their lives. She braids Jentry’s hair. They’re both so cool, but also so lame in their own ways. Also there’s no way Stella doesn’t have somewhat of a crush on her because 1) Jentry is that cool and pretty and awesome, and 2) Stella is a certified girl lover.

Kit-Stella: look they didn’t really interact in canon, but he’s on her shit list. She’s got her eye on him at all times, because Jentry may have forgiven him, but she’s watching out for her friend. She 100% gave him the shovel talk. Things get REALLY awkward if Jentry and/or Michael aren’t there, because these two are easily the weak link of the QPR.

Also all four of them are some form of queer.

[achirding]

Sonic finds that there are some definite perks to being the king. C:

[dabeth-is-dead]

One fun thing about being definitively aroace but loving romance as a plot device is that my shipping knows no gender restrictions because my interest is entirely literary/anthropological in nature

[kakushigotofanclub]

Obasanegiyuu is so freaking funny to me because I imagine it's just Sanemi and Obanai complaining about Giyuu to each other and the complaints slowly going from "he acts like he thinks he's better than everyone" to "why is he so dark and mysterious all the time" to "he's got these infuriatingly gorgeous eyes like-"

And then one day they just look at each other and go oh shit

[spittyfishy]

Danganronpa WLWeek2023 day seven: Free Day

Athletic polycule slowly absorbing enough members for a full girls volleyball team

@danggirlronpa

[autumnalfallingleaves]

I think they'd be cute, to be honest, and if they don't have a ship name yet, I vote for "HavocSpecter" :)

Bonus doodle and rambles underneath the cut

reblogs are highly appreciated, and please do not repost my art

[nevertheless-moving]

thinking about how fucking impossible it would be to pine secretly after someone on roshar. Like even if we assume that passionspren are only summoned by the most intense love and/or horniness - that's almost worse isn't it? Because you wouldn't be able to laugh it off like 'haha just a passing thought. Whoops again? Hahaha oh I suppose I have a little crush'

Anyway Kaladin doing one of his canonical epic hero glowing stunts with his canonical destroyed/soaked clothing (what. the man is constantly avoiding shardblades and arrows by a hairsbreath and flying around In Highstorms. The only reason he would even have pants at the end of WOR after the everstorm/highstorm fight is because we're following comic book rules- there's no way this man isn't going through clothes faster than James T Kirk - even if he's not his uniform shirt is WHITE and -)

ANYWAY kaladin having one of his Protaganist Moments and like. There is less than than zero time between the 'Oh. Oh.' Moment and Eventual Feelings Reveal because blorbo B is very visibly displaying a personified manifestation of intense romantic adoration.

[crescentpaws]

was told to post this here so. yeah.

where my fintan x bronte enjoyers at yoooooo (i’m delusional)

[midnight-blue-goth]

An OT4 where they all 'hate' each other 👌💯

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

Ethan: I think I'm in love with Alabaster. Thoughts?

Chris: ...and prayers. You're going to need them.

[getvalentined]

Getting back on my Zack Is Canonically Polyamorous soapbox because the people need to know and also the number of people accusing Aerith of being unfaithful in Rebirth is absolutely fucking ridiculous when taking Zack's romantic escapades into account.

There are spoilers here, and I'm tagging accordingly, but I'm not putting it under a cut.

We know for a fact that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith. We've known this since the OG, although we didn't know most of the details back then, just that they were together. In Remake, Aerith describes Zack as her "first love." In Chapter 11 of Rebirth, the first memories of Zack that Cloud reclaims are of him talking about how great Aerith is, and Cloud describes him as being "head over heels" for her. In Chapter 8, we found out that Zack's parents were able to recognize her based entirely on Zack gushing about her when he wrote home—and this is one of the most important parts, honestly.

Zack has a thing with Cissnei. We don't know how deep it is, but throughout Crisis Core (and even in the summer event in Ever Crisis) we can see very clearly that there is something between them, and it's never treated like a big deal. She's never completely honest about her feelings, so we can assume he didn't know that she saw him as anything more than a casual thing, but they have a relationship. It's made explicitly clear that this is the case when Zack returns to Gongaga and she lets him know that she's spoken to his parents, and he warns her that they're basically going to suggest that she marry him.

Zack's parents know about his relationship with Aerith and they also apparently know enough about his relationship with Cissnei to suggest that she make that relationship "official." They want her to join the family. They asked, she apparently reciprocated, and she lives in Gongaga after Veld is "killed."

Cissnei is also aware that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith, but that doesn't stop her from pursuing him anyway. She gets it and she's okay with it. She never, at any point, tries to push him away from Aerith—she's the one that tells him how special Aerith is, how important, how lonely. She's supportive of his relationship, and doesn't seem to feel that it makes her own feelings or their relationship any less valid.

Okay, so that's proof that the people around him are, at the very least, okay with him having multiple partners. That doesn't necessarily mean he's poly, though, maybe he's just a womanizer and everyone accepts it. Weird, but possible. He's really endearing so maybe they all give him a pass.

But no! No this isn't it at all! And we know it because of how Zack responds to Aerith being in love with someone else in Rebirth. When he finds out that Aerith is has feelings for Cloud, there's not a hint of jealousy in a single thing he does or says. He's disappointed when Marlene says it's because he wasn't there, but it's not disappointment in Aerith or in Cloud—it's disappointment in himself, because Marlene is right. He wasn't there. He couldn't protect her. There's also no spite there, he never responds like her feelings are wrong because he's here now and that means Aerith can rely on him again, and we know that because of how he responds to this information.

Zack finds out that Aerith has feelings for Cloud, and his immediate mission is to make sure that Cloud recovers as quickly as possible. Now it's not just for him, it's not just because that's his friend, it's because Aerith loves him (too) and that means he has to save Cloud for both of them.

He's fully supportive of Aerith and Cloud having a relationship, to the point that the last thing he says to Cloud when he gets thrown into a dying timeline is a request that he take care of Aerith. He's not exactly passing the torch here, because he's still alive—but he doesn't know if he'll be able to meet back up with a version of Cloud that is awake again, and he needs Cloud to know that he supports them in this.

And then, in the dying timeline where Zack is banished after fighting Sephiroth, he has the ability to synergize with Cloud from across the multiverse. The DMW limit break connected to Aerith is active in the space. All three of them are together here, just not physically; Cloud and Aerith are protecting Zack as much as Zack has been struggling to protect them.

Zack loves that Aerith loves someone other than him because that's how he is too. Zack has multiple relationships at the same time, he loves multiple people at the same time, he has emotionally intimate connections with multiple people at the same time. Why would he take issue with the love of his life feeling the same way?

Cloud isn't his replacement any more than Cissnei and Aerith are interchangeable, and Zack understands that, because Zack is polyamorous—and he's really happy that Aerith may be, too.

[boimlerkisser]

The love of star wars re-entering my body when I listen to the music