#also special shoutout to miorine/suletta

[21tailsofwoe]

aside from arknights ships what are your favorite yuri ships ?

TBH i don't even have arknights ships i go hard for (i haven't had the brainworms strong enough to make content for them i appreciate them from afar) but OOOHHH BOY what a question to ask. you see me venture into a pristine pine forest and ask me to point out my favourite trees?

i have been obsessed with many ships over time but to save everyone and myself the trouble i'll talk about the three that currently plague my mind:

qi yan and nangong jingnu (jwqs): i am not kidding when i say they've permanently rewired my brain. yuri so "toxic" (that's what the new yuri buzzword is now i guess) they needed a million words to give them time to torture and destroy and rebuild each other. my attachment to jwqs mostly came from my carnal desires for qi yan, the main character, but gosh this ship is absolutely bonkers. this novel has permanently changed the way i write my characters and the kind of characters i get attached to. (special shout out to li yanru the masked person gotta be my second fictional favourite lesbian)

2. mary/bloody queen and vera nair/perfumer (identity v): a "rarepair" where the characters have never interacted with each other and have nothing to do with each other i just ship them because i fancy them individually as characters and then i wrote a fic that got the ball rolling and now that ball has gathered so much debris it has come crashing down on my life and ruined everything. after some recent lore happenings though this ship built on nothing but scraps has suffered a devastating blow but at least i have friends to indulge me to row this canoe. no scene of them interacting in the lore anything but have this picture of my maryvera plushies. that joke about ships being two dolls that you mush together to make yourself happy except that shit is literally true for me. I hate it here

3. qi shiyi and tang si (identity v): two idv ships because this game forms 67% of my personality. this time the ship is legit and rich with subtext (or as rich the subtext could get with idv characters). qi shiyi is a playable character while tang si is an npc mentioned in qi shiyi's backstory and is a major motivation for qi shiyi's motives. qi shiyi by herself is a very interesting and layered character (a retired assassin with a tragic story, found peace living a quiet life with tang si, till tang si was taken away from her) so it was about time I would fall for this ship. unlike maryvera this one should've had a greater following but alas, it doesn't. so once again I'm rowing a slightly larger canoe with like three other people. I love it here