#Discussions of Bl/nkshipping

[subway-boss-jericho]

SORRY ABOUT STEADY TRACKS if u want I can… send an ask in about it… if it would help… maybe… 

Going on the coupled (Uncoupled) post- struggling to communicate turning into an Issue that makes it Harder to communicate but then the characters realizing they Really Have To Communicate and Doing so even tho it’s hard is. So good. It’s especially interesting here with emmet kinda dealing with trying to figure out how to reverse the fusion Without any real input from ingo. 

(I do freaking feel you Emmet. Forgetting that people have you Explicit Permission and Freaking out despite being aware they knew the risks. Man. It’s rough.) 

Love seeing stories about their relationship. How much do you love your brother? How well do you know him? Just how far would you go? … could you forgive yourself? Could he..?

Mmmmm tasty. Especially since the answer is often “yes” jejdjdnenidjx

It’s also nice to see a story where initially trying something that seems like a good solution didn’t work! And possibly made the situation worse! (Or perhaps is exactly what they needed to get talking with one another) 

No one is perfect! It’s so fun to see what these two characters who love each other would do. 

On that- I. Feel you incredibly hard about the romantic aspects of “love”. It’s… very sad to see how little people feel friends can do with one another without it being “romantic” in nature. Even more so for siblings. I’ve also written fics where I read it back and I’m like “will people misinterpret this? Will they think that this is wrong?” And it sucks. It really does. (I usually put a “this is Not romantic in nature” and have to trust that people won’t assume things.

“I can't really control what other people will think, say, or do. I just hope they don't get me involved”

as you said, about sums it up.) 

(ok now. Gimme a sec to whip up something for two left hands jejdjsjdnbxns)

Don't worry about it! Firstly, you can do whatever you want forever <3 Secondly, it is never anyone else's fault if my brain switches tracks. I mentioned Coupled (Uncoupled) offhand on a totally unrelated ask and then hyperfixated on them for the rest of the week sdjhgsdg That's just how my brain does stuff sometimes, which is the real reason why working on big long-term projects (in this case, Steady Tracks) take a while. Thirdly, this is the most anyone who doesn't know me personally has ever interacted with any of my not-steady tracks AUs, so please know that I would go through the trenches on your behalf

I got mentally ill again + was busy the next day so I blame my delay in answering this ask on getting so excited that I genuinely didn't know how to respond right away ksjdhgsdgh

So hard to write good conflict! So funny when I look back on how I write conflict and it ends up being inextricably tied to my life experiences 🤣 (wheeze) Art can tell you a lot about the artist?? really? that's crazy who would have guessed /j /s The struggle with him trying to reverse fusion is the first "major arc" that I mentioned on one of the other posts. It's one of the shortest ones, thankfully, yet also has an extremely dense angst content sjkdgsdg Unfortunately it's easy to spiral when you believe everything going wrong is your fault. it's a bit hard for me to talk about much more without starting to spoil the story and I'm trying so hard not to 😂 The love was always there! It always has been and always will be! But Emmet needs to stop feeling guilty so he can accept that love and move on, and Ingo is going to keep doing his best to try and communicate + show support in the meantime.

The splicers initially making things worse is definitely one of the funnest parts of the AU for me :] it was supposed to help Emmet feel more secure, and yet instead it made everything way more complicated + made him feel way less secure... I can't pretend to be normal, I'm very fucked up about them

🤝I won't drag out the romantic/platonic discussion because I know it makes people uncomfortable to discuss- more than fair, it makes ME uncomfortable to discuss -but hell yeah solidarity. It's at least nice to be able to voice my stance on it, since I feel like it's hard to even bring up in the fandom. I love a civil discussion about hard topics :D love setting boundaries. Peace and love

Thank you as always for the asks!! 🌠✨

Coupled (Uncoupled)Masterpost

[drawingwithdonnie]

for the send me a character ask game... ingo pokemon perhaps.... or mephone4 if you'd prefer lolz im not gonna lie i was so shocked seeing you also like the funny subway bosses!!! absolutely the most pleasant jumpscare ever LOL I LOVE INGO AND EMMET POKEMON!!!!!!!

POINTS AT YOU. FELLO SUBMAS FAN?????? HELLO?.??????????? Oh my god . That's so cool. JUST FOR THAT I WILL DO BOTH !! (Mephone under the cut bc this post is getting Long)

Ingo:

• song I associate with him:

I'm honestly awful with assigning songs to characters but hear me out. Everything Stays from adventure time. I can't explain why but you gotta just hear me out.

• a personal favorite hc:

Other than the obvious "both of the twins are autistic" that's practically canon rather than fanon, I really like the HC that he has a sweet tooth :] and also that he's CRAZY strong post hisui, to the point he can practically carry around Crustle on his back /hj

• an otp / pairing:

Ingo x going home safely 😭😭😭😭😭 But laventon/Ingo is pretty good ?? I'm not crazy about shipping ingo tho lol

• a notp

Other than the obvious (bl@nkshipping), the world's biggest ick for me is Ingo (or emmet)/elesa :( nimbasa trio as family unit please and thank you

• favorite platonic relationship:

Obviously nimbasa trio as stated above, but the Uncle Ingo hc + either akari or rei is PEAKKK. I see it most often with akari bc Ingo is truly a girldad at heart but where's rei </3 Ingo can have two niblings </3 (also ingo's friendship with irida is peak. Btw)

• fav thing/ reason I like him:

I am nothing if not the biggest sucker for siblings in media. I have four brothers !! Of course this is my bread and butter !!! i can't pin down why I like him and emmet so much but i really love the lore behind Ingo and his time in hisui. GAH it just hurts my heart so bad but !!! It's so sweet at the same time??? it's hard to explain but I love legends arcues so BAD

• something I don't like about him:

His English voice in the anime. THAT'S NOT INGO 😭❓ no offense to the VA but he does noooooot fit ingo. To me. His pokemon masters voice is peak tho

• favorite moment from the series:

"I'm starting to recall a man who looked... like me. We'd battle and discuss Pokémon, I think... The words "I like winning more than anything else" flashed through my mind just now..."

"We'll soon be arriving at Wayward Cave's exit. Even if the memories themselves have faded... it appears much still lives on in my heart."

...yeah. I'm still emotional over that DON'T LOOK AT MEEEE

WRITING ON THE WALL BY WILL STETSON. I DON'T CARE THAT ITS A GENSHIN IMPACT FANSONG. ITS MEPHONECORE. BREATHE IF YOU AGREE.

MePhone4:

• a song I associate with him:

• a personal favorite hc:

I have too many to count but </3 ive dubbed him Mr Emotion Bottler for a reason !!! He would rather die than have a candid conversation about his feelings

• an otp/pairing:

you already KNOW what I'm about to say. TWOPHONE SAVE THE WORLD BABEYYY!!!

• a notp:

shipping him with any meepling is an automatic red flag imo. or with ballpoint. or with bot. I'm very opinionated

• favorite platonic relationship:

HIM AND 3GS !!! "But Zel isn't mepad your favorite meepling" I hear you say. Not any more (sorry king) ITS 3GS O'CLOCK FOREVER. I need a full miniseries of just mephone and 3GS LAST WEEK. God I love 3GS. This ain't about him but he's my little guy <333

• fav thing/ reason I like him

He's just like me for real. Also my favorite brand of character is "red/blue tragic sibling with daddy issues and some degree of trauma who I can project onto" so of course he's my #1 guy. Also he's an Asshole with so so many layers of complexity and I need to put him in my pocket

• something I don't like about him:

s1ep1 voice /silly but honestly the flaws he has as a character make him way more interesting so I don't really dislike anything about him

• favorite moment from the series:

End of s3 up on the volcano... Or just 90% of his screentime in the s2 finale lol

[theoddbun]

Alright gonna address this publicly so there is more clarification about my DNI since I do get asks about it warning me about certain people. (Which I do appreciate!) Read if you want more specificity about my boundaries!

I’ve gotten many asks since I started to be active in the Subway Boss fandom again warning me of certain secret bl*nkshippers, people who have drawn it, etc. A majority of people sent to me have been blocked as long as there is proper documentation to support it. I want to reiterate I do NOT like bl*nkshippers. I don’t want them near me and I think what they do is gross. Incest shouldn’t be fetishized and I think the fetishization of it shouldn’t be normalized.

Now there is this very specific person, I don’t like namedropping so let’s say their name is R. R has drawn bl*nkshipping for a private commission. I have this person blocked and muted as I’ve known about this before I started getting active publicly again. While they have addressed this saying they still don’t condone it, as a larger artist myself I personally couldn’t imagine putting my own morals aside for a commission when I know I could easily have the slot filled by someone else. That being said… I am also aware not everyone sees it that way, and because of that I unfortunately cannot control who my mutuals are friends with. So for this specific situation, if a mutual interacts with this person under the genuine belief that they did what they had to to survive a financially rough situation I will give my mutual the benefit of the doubt given they will still clearly state they do not condone bl*nkshipping and that they respect my own decision that I do not want to interact with this person.

I’ll even go a step further and just explain my thoughts about this fandom phenomenon in general. I don’t like using terms like proship or antiship because I feeling like they can make issues like this seem less nuanced than they actually are. No that doesn’t make me ‘neutral’. Under the made up standard that these ‘proshippers’ have made I am an ‘anti’. I am someone who does not think that the fetishization of incest, beastiality, pedophilia or many other deplorable acts should be normalized or encouraged. I DO think they have some place in fiction for SERIOUS discussions, as they are topics that occur in real life and should be treated with delicacy given the subject matter. I think proshippers have dumbed down any real discussion that can be had in favor of ‘muh free speech’ and free thoughtless jerk off material of what equates to fictional CSEM. The fictional part in that does NOT make it, nor will EVER make it okay. And that same goes for the people that ship the twins together too, dumbing down such a serious topic for your own jerk off material. I want it far away from me, and I don’t want to be associated with it EVER.

I hope this clarifies some things for a lot of people. Of course if anyone ever needs more clarification they are free to personally DM me!

[1863-project]

Not sure if I should ask this but how did Ingo become a Pixiv sex symbol?

The truth is...I'm not sure. But it happened.

There was a popularity poll at the time of Gen 5's release. The top three favorite characters as voted by fans were N, who you spend a significant amount of time interacting with in the story...and Ingo and Emmet. Skyla and Elesa were distantly after them. When the respondents were divided by gender, in the women's poll Ingo was actually more popular than N, a character who is widely beloved for being pretty, having a tragic backstory, and having one of the best story arcs of any character in the entire franchise.

This is the original poll. You can see the numbers disparity between the top three and everyone else. But now, sorted by gender of respondents...

(found here)

Ingo reigns supreme with female respondents, even over N. So what's the deal?

There's a few factors that I'd guess at here. One is that unlike the US, trains are still huge in Japan. Culturally, trains are such a big part of daily life compared to here, where the auto companies won after World War II. It's difficult to find a place with good public transit in the US. I live in the NYC area, the closest thing we have to a comprehensive transit network. But in Japan, you can get nearly anywhere, even relatively remote areas, by train, and railfans are fairly common (and hopefully made fun of less than they are here). The train thing is definitely a factor.

The other things I can think of are that he appeals to people as a supportive older brother type, which is very much a trope people are into, and...well, the twin thing. People go nuts over twins and always have. I won't elaborate on what that entails, but you can likely infer. (Fortunately we're now in an era where there's less Bl*nkshipping than before, but obviously it's still out there, including very much so on Pixiv.)

It fascinates me because these are two characters who weren't designed to have sex appeal at all. They look like Muppets, and sometimes official art of them can land squarely in the uncanny valley depending on who draws it. But nothing can stop a thirsty fanbase, and most fanart since 2010 has depicted them as quite attractive. Ingo got hit hardest with this on Pixiv and still does to this day (Emmet tends to be more likely to be infantilized in fanart, another discussion for another time).

So basically, two characters that you can interact with optionally in the first games of the Gen 5 cycle who were not designed to be sexually appealing in any way became two of the most popular characters in the entire generation, with one of them even beating out the game's designated bishounen woobie in popularity with women playing the games. I think it's a combination of the factors above, but there's no one definitive answer, because people are attracted to different things platonically, romantically, and sexually and different character types appeal to different people for all sorts of storytelling reasons.

(Case in point: I love them both because they remind me so much of myself and allow me to embrace that part of me...but Emmet's goddamned laugh got me. It's always that for me.)

[neon-moon-beam]

I haven’t touched PLA in almost 6 months. 

As always, please don’t send me your headcanons, theories, etc. I don’t like to discuss these things with strangers. I’m also not interested in arguing over my opinions, or calling anyone out specifically, nor am I saying all headcanons, au’s, are bad, etc. And please don’t ask for my approval of yours’! Make what you want, just please be considerate of how you portray characters and whether or not making an OC might be a better choice!

bl*nkshippers dni--I will block you.

Sometimes I think about shiny hunting, since the shiny spawn rate in that game is ridiculous, but the game itself made me feel bad because the plot is that you do everything literally everyone asks, but NONE of it helps the player character (or Ingo) go home. I can understand sometimes devs run out of time and sideplots resolve quickly and/or anticlimactically, but not only were some sideplots just dropped, but the main plot as well! Story is one of the most important parts of a game for me, and PLA seemed to not even know what it wanted the story to be. “Complete a PokeDex. Wait, stop Dialga and Palkia. Oh wait, the real issue here is Volo with Giratina! Oh, finish the PokeDex. Show Arceus around...perpetually?” The “ending” is unsatisfying. There’s no payoff. We don’t even find out why two characters have been misplaced in the first place, or if they return home! Yeah, Arceus wanted the PokeDex done, but why was this urgent, and why did this require sending almost definitely Dawn/Lucas back in time? Why wasn’t the player character an ancestor? When a game poses more questions than it answers, it’s often a sign that the storytelling is not good. Some mystery is OK, and not being able to know every last thing is realistic, but dropping everything seems like all the developer effort went elsewhere, they ran out of time, or in some cases, are DLC or sequel-baiting (and doing so via dropping the plot is poor).

It also feels like PLA didn’t bring much to the table in the end; we had some new mechanics that might not even return for Scarlet and Violet, a few regional variants, and one (hideous) new Force of Nature. Being able to choose when Pokemon evolve was great--no more having to press B after every level up or perpetually have an Everstone. Sneaking up and throwing a ball at Pokemon was fun. Being able to send out Pokemon almost anywhere and interact with them was fun. But on the other hand, the trade-off seemed to be the plot, as well as so much of what made battling fun. Abilities are gone and Pokemon can’t hold items. I didn’t enjoy Strong and Agile style, nor did I enjoy that I could only use one Pokemon while someone else sent out three, or getting attacked by multiple wild Pokemon at once. It felt unfair, especially because at times level seemed meaningless when 3-4 Pokemon could attack twice before mine could get a hit in.

PLA itself wasn’t advertised as open-world--fans made that assumption based on the trailers. Scarlet and Violet are supposed to be open world and if some of the mechanics are reused (it’s rumored many won’t be), that makes PLA sound like a test room that was released to the public with a price tag.

And then as a fan of Submas prior to PLA, PLA has now left me wondering if they’re just going to ruin two of my favorite characters, And fan spaces have become unbearable in response to PLA, when they could have been a refuge from a game that left Dawn/Lucas and Ingo’s fates up in the air. First it was overwhelming angst, often without resolution. When you’re not a fan of that, it gets tiring and alienating. Then other trends picked up, such as specifically making Emmet and Volo ooc in order to make them “unhinged”, ships that more often than not center on the characters being unhinged and possibly abusive to each other, bl*nkshipping rearing its head again (though thankfully much more people are opposed to it than during Gen 5′s initial run), Submas and Volo being ooc to the point of asking, “Why didn’t this person just make an OC?”, and of course, the ableism. 

As someone who played PLA and combed through every inch of it in order to make reassurance posts for anyone worried they might just leave Ingo, it was disheartening to see how much content that made fan spaces unbearable for me came from fans who hadn’t even played PLA, and/or their takeaway from the game was “Submas = angst” and “Volo and Emmet are unhinged and will hurt anyone given the chance!” I’m aware that some people may be unable to play PLA for whatever reason, and this isn’t about them. This is about people who haven’t played and won’t play, or played and didn’t bother to think critically about what they just played, who just came for the angst and/or s*xymen, and rendered complex, canon characters into two-dimensional OCs without giving any regard to the source material and what the game devs showed regarding these characters, to the extent that fans not into this kind of content, or not wanting to constantly engage with this kind of content became alienated from their own space.

Volo is a complex character dealing with some deep-seeded trauma that, unfortunately due to the story being dropped, we don’t really get any details about what happened. We do however, get hints in-game that he’s not a completely bad person, but more morally grey, likely a more good-aligned character having a bad moment. And Emmet isn’t even in PLA! As of right now, we don’t even know that Ingo is “missing” in the present day. For all we know, Ingo will be returned to the exact moment he was pulled from and nobody will even know, or the devs may go on to say PLA isn’t canon in some way. But for people to take these characters and run wild with angst and then get ableist on two autistic-coded characters (for the second time in 10 or so years), has been a huge turnoff in engaging in any fan spaces, and I wonder if the devs had more time to develop and finish the story, or whatever the issue was that led to this game being released unfinished with little hope of a DLC, if we could have gotten more answers and maybe the fandom wouldn’t have taken this kind of content too far. Many people have tried to address the ableism (here is a link to Submas Autistic Joy’s resources, a by no means exhaustive collection of such posts), but people are going to make what they’re going to make, whether it’s appropriate or not, and sometimes this means people have to leave the fan space, or create their own, which has become sadly necessary here.

PLA looked like it was going to be a great game, but it needed more time and care than apparently the devs were able to give it, and unfortunately in fan spaces, it seems characters in or associated with PLA are all too often not being given time, care, and tact in how they’re being portrayed. All of these issues have made me come to not care for PLA at all.

[subway-boss-jericho]

(Art anon… hammer anon? This is going to be funny when I inevitably post that art (I am actively making sketches help))

Oooo I freaking. Love it when one delves into the Implications. Like- both parties agreed to this, but neither knew what it would actually Be Like and now they are just showing their Whole Soul to another person and it can be absolutely Terrifying! But they are going to communicate anyway. Because they care about each other enough to. Because the other person is Worth It.

(also love that Emmet asked ingo if he wanted to fuse so they could never be apart again and ingo said Yes. This means so much to me. I don’t even have words I’m just. *gestures franticly*)

(I am Very Incredibly Normal about Diamond Crossing. So Normal)

I love this. Shaking coupled (uncoupled) so hard now. I think it’s actually Really Cool how a lot of the people in this fandom are like “yes the twins have a good relationship but that’s because they Talk with one another and seek to Understand each other” fusion is just another Fantastic way to symbolize that! (And ough I would Love to see more less acknowledged emotions and relationships there too. It’s So Much Fun to play around with)

not! Asking you to spoil the whole plot! I’d freaking Love to read whatever fic you write about it =D

feel free to continue to use my asks to Absolutely Go Off. it is verrry fun to read!

Yep (nodding my head) they DEFINITELY communicate with eachother. That definitely happens and nothing goes wrong. Trust /lh

Read: They Get There Eventually.

My favorite part about Coupled (Uncoupled) is that fusion is not the magical cure-all to Emmet's anxieties that he wanted it to be. It makes the story much more nuanced and fun to explore, although it does also make it much more sad and upsetting before it eventually gets a lot brighter. And like I mentioned on the master post, he is Not stuck like that. Yknow. Forever :]

(Rest of the Jericho-typical ramble continued below!)

(insert crying emoji that isn't on tumblr) Yeah. It means a lot to me too. The thing that hurts most about the story, which I will ""spoil,"" is that Emmet does kinda blame himself for things "going wrong" (read: not being how he expected), and by extension in his upset + anxiety, he forgets that Ingo explicitly agreed to try it with him. The first + second major arcs in coupled uncoupled are the hard emotional parts that make the later resolutions feel all the more powerful and unshakable, but even in the beginning, Ingo had always agreed to at least try. Even before things are resolved, the core emotional foundation of this domino effect chain was still always trust and love.

High fives in So Normal About Diamond Crossing. we're so normal.

You inadvertently inspiring me to ramble about Coupled (Uncoupled) has had the accidental effect of making me think about it a Lot. I'm so fucking glad someone else is shaking them besides me (and again, the few close friends I talk about my AUs with,) because holy SHIT I want to talk about them + share their story + make their story + draw them all the time so bad it makes me look STUPID but I have also failed to talk about them Anywhere online before this point. It's one of the stories I'm the most tight-lipped about since I actually Want To Write It, downside of that is that I, by extension, never get to talk about it Or, never got to before now :D thank you again! infinitely! forever!

Accidental side effect: rip to Steady Tracks, I have not added any more words to the document for several days. Because I have been staring at my computer and being so ill about coupled (uncoupled). I WILL be back to it very soon though, I refuse to let my attention... waver :p

Anyways, yeah, while I love a good "we fit perfectly together" pair like Ingo and Emmet, I also really really love it even more when that intensely strong bond is build on a firm, realistic foundation of mutual care, support, and communication. So a lot of my AUs exist because of me wanting to stress-test that devotion/appreciation/commitment to work out problems, which makes things Extremely Fun to write but also oooohhh.... so goddamn complicated...... This is why I consider myself a "Hurt/Comfort" writer, because I almost universally find stories most compelling if they drop to very low points, dark moments, or genuine, heart-breaking struggles, only to show that this earnest and wholly compassionate care does and will always prevail in the end. That (a relationship) is not about never having problems, but about learning to solve them and being committed to recovery/change after the fact.

Gonna move on before I sob about them. I care them SO much, and coupled (uncoupled) is one of the strongest examples of this in my writing. They have gone, are going, and will continue to go the distance for eachother, thick and thin.

Minor side-tangent based on the last thing about other relationships/dynamics in fusion-

(Edit: After writing a lot more I realized quickly that this was, in fact, not a minor side tangent. It is in fact a major and worthwhile extrapolation on how i feel, however might also be mildly uncomfortable to discuss, and that's okay. If you don't want to hear me talk about my frustration with how our society bastardizes close platonic relationships, you can stop reading at any time or skip to the bottom 👍)

One of the other reasons I haven't talked about Coupled (Uncoupled) online yet is because I get really nervous about it. Fusion is very frequently connoted as romantic, and the coupled twins themselves are very physically affectionate with eachother (yknow, before & after the Horrors™) and so internally I've always been a little worried that people will think I am being weird/creepy/portraying them in a way that is 'too far' for some people, or just generally that people will misinterpret them having a good and healthy relationship with them having an unhealthy and uncool 'relationship.' you get my drift.

On the scale from Aro/Ace-to-Allo I am so fucking far into the side of Not Experiencing Romantic or Sexual Feelings Of Any Kind that I often fear my very firm and active appreciation + inclusion of platonic affection will be taken the wrong way in. Yknow. The twins' familial context.

If it helps put it in perspective, nothing I ever write the twins doing is stuff that I wouldn't also do with close friends and family. I like platonic hand holding. I like platonic cuddles. I like being tangled in a platonic knot of limbs on the couch. I like platonic forehead kisses sometimes. Hell, I got to have a friend over for thanksgiving and I recently got a really comfortable but also large bed, and instead of banishing them to the couch I gave them a spot next to me. (it's a big fuckin bed??? it's a BIG bed. Styled to look like a couch. Very cool and much needed QoL upgrade for me) and it was probably the best and easiest night of sleep I've had in actual months. I bonk foreheads with my little brother, I hug my dad as closely to my chest as I can. So while my relationship with affection and how to show it physically is perhaps pushing the normal societally accepted expectations, it brings me a lot of joy.

And I want my art/writing to be able to express that through the twins without it having some kind of fetishized romantic connotation, because it bothers me a lot when the level of affection that I view as healthy and appropriate within platonic boundaries is Forced to be coded as romantic. (shipping family members together in general just, really makes me violently uncomfortable beyond a way i can put into words. I'm not going to go into it but there was a point in time after I had been on the internet long enough to know that it has bad/uncomfortable sides that I started distancing myself from my family IRL, and only recently started to open up again)

aw shit that ended up being long and serious. well uh, sorry. Probably not the ramble you were hoping for ;^; I care a lot about the coupled twins, and especially how close they are, so by extension it also takes me a lot of vulnerability to post about them online when I know the internet can warp and twist the things i love into something disturbing and upsetting to me. Here's to hoping that doesn't happen, but I can't really control what other people will think, say, or do. I just hope they don't get me involved :[

So, while not spoiling the "whole plot," I think it's easy for me to say that Coupled (Uncoupled) is built on an intense, unconditional love. The whole story is about love. The whole story is about how loving people is hard, about how loving someone means putting in the work to understand and know eachother. About how love can hurt you, but how real, strong love built on a foundation of trust and compassion will heal you far more than it can ever hurt you. there's a reason why the AU is named how it is.

cool I'm gonna go explode into tears about them now 🥺 im real fucked up about Coupled (Uncoupled).

(Actually I do want to note, you accidentally encouraging me to ramble about them is Also why I didn't immediately answer this ask and the next one. Because I was thinking about them so hard I couldn't actually think straight long enough to write the reply I wanted to yesterday.)

As always, thank you for the ask! 🤍 It is appreciated beyond words. Although I feel like the sheer number of words I use to answer them are pretty clear indicators of how much fun I'm having + how much this means to me

[Emmet-Black sketchbook doodle; The first time they fuse.]

Coupled (Uncoupled)Masterpost