#ask game : top 5

[sitp-recs]

Top 5/10 drarry fake and/or arranged relationships (going a little broad to give you options)

Thank you, friend! That’s a trope I don’t read very often, it’s not among my personal favorites (I just have a hard time being convinced into any “fake” scenario 🤣) but there’s no doubt we got lot of great fics out there. I’ll go with 5 fics for each:

Fake dating:

Game On by @pennygalleon (T, 5k)

Reparatio by astolat (E, 17k)

Drawing Down The Moon by scoradh (E, 20k)

The Venice Job by nishizono (E, 25k)

dirtynumbangelboy by @magpiefngrl (E, 39k)

Forced marriage:

Tarry, Tarry, Wait For Me by @toomuchplor (E, 8k)

Two Houses by @tackytigerfic (E, 11k)

Take the Moon by tackytiger (M, 15k)

House Proud by astolat (M, 23k)

That Old Black Magic by @bixgirl1 (E, 77k)

[wisteriagoesvroom]

Top 5 Oscar Piastri expressions please! (He has so many and whoever says he doesn't, I will personally fight them)

1. mouth scrunch (sardonic, mild)

2. the weird woobified-despite-himself heart eyes but specifically at lando because lando is his teenage crush and i’m not fighting ppl about it cus it’s factually true

3. the challenging face when he’s being asked whether he’s truly the best driver on the grid and he’s like. is that even a question

4. the one in the winter break picture with lily at the restaurant like good lord, that’s the face of a romance protagonist who got the happy ending

5. whatever is going on here

[nottheweirdest]

top 5 favorite sonadow headcanons? :p

Love this question, though it's hard to pick lol I have so many! Top 5 swf headcanons!

1. Shadow is a secret softie. Hard, stoic shell, big soft feels in the inside. He cares deeply, feels intensly. He hides it (wouldn't want to show a 'weakness'!) and truly cares for a select few. Sonic tops the list.

2. Sonic has ADHD and Shadow is autistic

3. Sonic is fascinated with Shadow's chest fluff. He plays with it whenever he and Shadow are in private and cuddled close, to the point where it's a stim. At first it drove Shadow bat shit (he's not overly found of idle touch) but eventually it became soothing, something that will coax him into sleep faster than almost anything.

4. Shadow cooks. He enjoys it. Sonic gets overwhelmed in the kitchen and hates it -- though he's mastered pancakes. He'll bring them to Shadow in bed on the rare occasion he gets up before him. He's proud of his one dish and uses it to show his love.

He leaves a huge mess in the kitchen afterwards but Shadow loves and savors the gesture too much to say anything.

5. Sonic is big on traditions. The ones he's built with his friends fill in the gaps he longed for as a kid without a family. Shadow hates them at first. Partly because he doesn't enjoy being around Sonic's friends and partly because they make him miss Maria. Eventually, he finds a bittersweet joy in them that turns to warm appreciation when he sees how happy it makes his partner.

One year he even filled in for Big as Santa so the group's gaggle of kids wouldn't be disappointed. It was a role he returned to every year after and even though he pretended to hate it... He actually would go on a rampage if anyone tried to take it from him.

The others knew lol they didn't even try.

Ask me my top 5 anything!

[cyber-skeletons]

um um top 5 fics? (other people’s)(megop if you want smthn more specific but doesn’t have to be)

^ Me diving into my bookmarks to dig up only the finest, filthiest robot kink fic imaginable. Beautiful art below the cut.

#5: Belong To You by AndromedaPrime — MegOP, Cyberverse, E, breeding/cumflation/pregnancy kink, them being generally soft and silly. Never fails to knock me on my ass <3

#4: Flash Point by lastSaskatchewanPirate — MegOP, IDW(?), E, mating cycles/in heat breeding fic character study???? made me go fucking insane and feral for like a week

#3: Treading Water by goresque — Rung/Megatron/Rodimus, IDW, E, BDSM/Master/Daddy kink. NOT MEGOP???? I know, I know, but This fic, this fucking fic, holy fucking shit. I adooooore realistic BDSM. Honestly the entire series this fic is from is a gold mine, but this fic especially is one I treasure because it's messy and mistakes are made and people get hurt. You so rarely see people writing BDSM scenes going wrong and this one is done with such immense love and care.

#2: Waiting at Eternity's Edge by Silver_setting_sun — MegOP, IDW, E, set in a universe where both Megatron and Optimus are exiled from Cybertron in the aftermath of the war. This fic was a spiritual journey and a love letter of characterization that I hardly noticed the sex. Absolutely fascinating, rewarding, and fulfilling.

#1: Pay Unto Evil by lord_squiggletits (megatrons_mouth_laser) — MegOP, IDW (again, wow) & Shattered Glass, M, set in a universe where the Shattered Glass Autobots get swapped with IDW1's Autobots during the height of their respective wars. Literally one of the most gorgeous stories about healing, ethics, recovery, redemption, and restorative justice we've ever read.

[operationslipperypuppet]

top 5 murph npcs? & top 5 brennan npcs? :)

oh excellent question

murph npcs:

general jaina bronzebeard (shoutout to the end of jainabaiting and to her having legendary actions now. and also to her slipping in c1. icon)

ol cobb (god, what a guy. i miss him so bad but what an exit. he flirted with mavrus mid battle. he’s hardwon’s best friend. i love him.)

jolene the green (a murph mom dude. a freaking murph mom. devastating. beautiful. and also believably living for thousands of years?? there’s something about how murph plays an immortal. “we will not rain arrows down from our towers, we will always shine a light” has been written on my wall for a year and a half. god)

balnor (feels rude to put him this low but like. couldn’t skip him. this man was a CARD. he’s gonna make you cry. we’re the hounds. we’re the freaking hounds.)

kenna (KENNA!!! new addition but god i love her. she does Not want to cover up her hammer with a knitted cover, mr bufo, but thanks for the offer. she is giving you a potion. she’s jumping off a cliff. she’s so so strong.)

special shoutout to mira kilde and melora bc i love them and couldn’t omit any of the earlier ones to put them on the list.

brennan npcs:

sandra lynn faeth (i love her so much she’s so much fun and she sucks but she’s working on it!! also it’s so sad that there wasn’t time to ask her about the bobby dawn thing bc holy shit)

alejandro (brennan excels as an old, slightly nuts wizard. he fits this mold perfectly. his reaction to finding out dale is dead is so freaking funny to me every time. plus kingston can summon him in tuc2. it’s wonderful)

esther sinclair (she can’t cry. she wants to fuck ricky so bad. she’s a wizard with a baseball bat. she’s mad. she’s right. she’s running a secret society of wizards. i. love her)

avanash the bones guy (numbers don’t really matter on this list but this guy is so funny. and the bit lasts a good amount of time. it’s so dumb)

jan de la vega (she’s just so rad. she’s against them but then she isn’t and she will kick their asses later if needed. she’s so fun)

it was hard to narrow both those down damn

ask me my top 5 anything

[lurkingshan]

your top 5 good finales of BL (not necessarily of 2023)?

This is such a hard question since most shows have mid to weak finales, but I did come up with five from shows I watched this year (though not all originally aired this year).

I Cannot Reach You

If you haven't watched this jbl yet, please do so immediately. It's on Netflix now in most regions. Truly a perfect friends to lovers narrative that is so smart about the tropes it deploys, and sometimes subverts. The finale left the relationship in such a strong place, paid off the sexual tension in a way most jbls don't, and did one of my favorite trope subversions of the whole show.

La Pluie

I know some of y'all complained about the pacing of this finale but I gotta say, you're just wrong. We needed to see Tai make his long slow journey to work through his own bullshit and be the one to find Patts and finally use his words. It was a fitting end, an important conclusion to Tai's character arc, and a final exclamation point on the show's themes.

Jack O' Frost

I love love love this underappreciated jbl about the lies, big and small, that we tell in relationships and how they affect trust, and I love that its message was ultimately that it is worth sticking it out with someone you love even if they have disappointed you. Ritsu's realization that he had also been dishonest, even if not on the same scale as Fumiya, and his realization of how much joy and confidence the relationship brought him, opened a door for him to see his way to forgiveness.

Wedding Plan

THE GAYS WON!!! Yiwa told her parents to fuck off and eloped with Marine. Sailom was freed from his fake wedding and any expectations that he would ever marry a woman. Nuea got the love and devotion he deserved. And we got a beautiful story about finding the bravery to live an honest life and rebuilding your family with the people you can trust. Such a beautiful show.

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

This show originally aired in 2019, but I watched it for the first time this year, and its first season has one of the best final episodes of all time. The show is slice of life but there is an ongoing relationship arc playing out across the season, and the season finale pays it off beautifully, with Shiro and Kenji experiencing a moment of emotional catharsis that was so well-earned. Not sure anything will ever top it.

Ask my top 5 anything in bl

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Top 5 color?

Ooo interesting question, and I have such different answers to this:

It's funny cause lighting design is one of my favorite things and yet I never talk about it. For uses of lighting, I have two favorites for the year:

Moonlight Chicken

gif from @wanderlust-in-my-soul

The warmth of Jim and Li Ming's home, the cold of Heart and Wen's home, the way the light slowly dims throughout the entirety of Wen and Alan's break up? Moonlight Chicken has some of the best, most thoughtful, and incredibly interesting uses of lighting of the BLs I've seen from 2023. (Fun fact! Orange and blue lighting color combination is probably my favorite lighting combo because it's so gorgeous).

Playboyy

Playboyy is certainly a messy messy show, and I don't think it is using it's lighting intentionally like Aof was in Moonlight Chicken, but it is getting fucking creative and artistic with some of it's lighting and I love that shit. They've been going hard on the reds and the purples in this show and I support it.

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For my absolute favorite color moment of the year, I have to give that to:

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

gif by @my-rose-tinted-glasses

Shiro getting him and Kenji matching aprons for Kenji's birthday. The colors may not match, there may not be a color exchange, but holy mother of god this scene absolutely destroyed me. Shiro has grown so much throughout the course of this show and it makes me so fucking emotional.

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My singular favorite use of color in a show this year:

Last Twilight

gif by @tomystars

Once again Aof is taking the crown for such intentional uses of color. I don't care here if the pink has an actual meaning to the color, what I care about is what this shirt does to show Mhok's character, grant some autonomy to Day, and give you a sense of how Day's vision works. Which, I know the show has been doing pretty consistently throughout, but you can really see here why bright neon colors work really well for Day, and why Mhok 100% puts those bright neon yellow laces on Day's old shoes.

and finally...

Net's skin

gif by @ueasking

Net has such a gorgeous skin tone, and @neuroticbookworm and I weep every time some magazine, show, or other promo photo lightens his skin. Honestly I am personally not vibing with Middleman's Love but both Net and James look so good in it.

ASK ME MY TOP 5 OF ANYTHING BL 2023

[the-sun-and-the-sea]

What are your top 5 Odesta fics?

Good question! Here are my top 5, in no particular order:

Where Soul Meets Body by ellizablue

A View from the Lists by Mithrigil, puella_nerdi

The Monument of Us by BeesKnees

i’ll see you with your laughter lines by hellebored

The Adventures of Two Jumpy Victors in Annie's Kitchen by thankyoufinnick

Now I’m wondering what others people’s top 5 odesta fics (or THG in general) are. Feel free to reblog/comment with your additions, I’d love to hear them!

[nyaboshi]

Top 5 anime.

Top 5 animals.

Top 5 TMNT turtles.

Anime:

1) Demon Slayer

2) Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun

3) Bungo Stray Dogs

4) Mashle

5) Kamisama Kiss (nostalgic purposes, otherwise it wouldn't make top 5)

Animals:

1) DUCKS!! I love ducks

2) Cats

3) Snakes

4) Lizards

5) Dogs

TMNT Turtles:

1) Tied for Rise Leo and Rise Donnie

2) 2012 Leo

3) 2007 Leo

4) 2007 Donnie (can you tell I have clear favorites yet?)

5) 2012 Raph

[sitp-recs]

top 5/10 ask game lists

big thanks to everyone who indulged me and sent these amazing asks! I thought it would be best to put all lists in one place before I lose them to the tumblr void lol I’m saving this at the bottom of the vol. 4 recs masterpost :)

angst with a happy ending

comfort fics

draco/harry characterization

draco in prison

dreamy & magical

eighth year fics

established relationship

fake dating/forced marriage

fics that made me laugh and cry

mpreg

rare pairs

top moments in a fic

triads

non-hp recs

[valyrfia]

top 5 races you ever watched and why

5.Mexico 2023 Beginning of Lestappengate madness, Charles and Max being our evil villains taking out the home favourite, the SF-23 somehow being....faster with a broken front wing. These were great vibes.

4. Jeddah 2024 Ollie debut! Immaculate Ferrari vibes! Ollie Bearman finishing ahead of Lando and Lewis! There's nothing else to say, this was such a fun race to watch and makes me so excited for the future of Ferrari.

3. Zandvoort 2023 Peak chaos, I loved it. There was no certainty, everyone was moving up and down and up and down and just trying to keep their cars on track. Most random podium ever. Strangest strategy calls. Alex Albon leading on like 40 lap old hards. Poor Liam Lawson was wondering whether he woke up in a nightmare. THIS is peak F1.

2. Las Vegas 2023 LOVED this race. Charles was peak Charles Leclerc in this one, if he hadn't been stuck in the SF-23 he would've won this by an easy mile. If there hadn't been the safety car, Charles would've also won this one! Only time in the 2023 season Red Bull was overtaken on pure pace. It's a masterclass.

1.Spa 2023 Personal favourite, but it's the first one I ever watched live actually tuned in to everything going on and how things worked. I watched Canada, Austria, Silverstone but that was with friends and I wasn't fully switched on so this was the first time I actually realised how FUN this sport is. Max's drive up from P6 was also jaw-dropping to watch.

send me a category and i'll give you my top 5

[ilikekidsshows]

Top 5 most understandable canon reasons for a character to get akumatized (excluding Marinette's/Adrien's akumatizations cause they'd probably be at the top).

Reflekta: LET THE GIRL BE IN A PHOTOSHOOT. IT'S SUCH A SMALL THING BUT APPARENTLY IT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK FROM SOME PEOPLE

Frozer: The category of "got royally screwed up by Chloé" has so many characters, but I decided to limit myself to one per same type of Akuma motive, and here we have a guy who lost his job, had something he valued be destroyed, and he's defending an important public facility from being turning into a private luxury location that will never be used.

The Mime: He got set up by someone who he thought was his friend so that said friend could steal his job. If I was him, I wouldn't have forgiven the guy.

Stormy Weather: She was publically humiliated in a rigged contest, all done on purpose. She can go off.

Santa Claws: The abusive father of the one person who treated him nice that evening accused him of committing a crime for wanting to help his son. Anyone wanting to deck Gabriel is fully justified.

[cyber-skeletons]

What are your top five Megatron’s actually? I’m curious now because choosing mine was too difficult

#5: Cyberverse Megatron

#4: Animated Megatron

#3: Prime Megatron

#2: IDW1 Megatron

#1: Earthspark Megatron

[operationslipperypuppet]

Top 5 familiars/ pets in Naddpod and Dimension 20 combined?

ooooh combined makes it harder actually. love it

paw paw (too easy. you have to hand love to the scramble man)

bukvar

boggy

ox

foster

it was too hard to narrow it down to 5, so shoutout to lake and baby. la gran gata isn’t on the list due to being more eldritch being than pet but would rank otherwise lol

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[lurkingshan]

Not sure how many of these you'll have, but Top 5 'if they had sex right now, it would probably be less gay than whatever the hell is happening here' moments?

Hmmmm I think I do have a few. First, let me be a curmudgeon and say nothing is gayer than actual gay sex lol. But those moments when characters give their very gay intentions away or just lay it on extra thick are always so fun.

Yai and Jom making flower garlands, I Feel You Linger in the Air

When having him literally read porn to him didn't get through, Yai moved on to doing the gayest activity he could think of. He really wanted Jom to pick up what he was putting down.

Jae Won teaching Ji Hyun how to surf, The Eighth Sense

That was an awful lot of unnecessary touching, sunbae.

Tinn dressing Charn in his fussy blouse, Laws of Attraction

Honestly it was hard to choose just one scene from this show but I think this one takes the cake.

Hantae pledging his life to Baram, Sing My Crush

Fellas, is it gay to take one look at a sad cute boy and dedicate the rest of your life to making his dreams come true? ...fellas??

Mhok feeling up Day's hands, Last Twilight

Sirs. What the fuck.

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[thedarkeyedcaptain]

ooc: top five stormlight characters ???

1. shallan davar. she was immediately my nr 1 fave. I fell a bit out of love with her for a hot second the first time I listened to wor, but upon relisten I realized how stupid and ridiculous that was and it has been thoroughly rectified. she's so trans she's so npd she's just the best girl i adore her

2. adolin kholin. what can i say. i live for characters that are canonical sluts. he just cares so so so much and it makes me a bit insane (in a positive way)

3. jasnah kholin. once again. cares so so much. i can't believe people buy her ice queen facade because she is so terrible at not caring. its also so cool how she's basically the only atheist in a world seeped in religion. she's so aksmfhajfjg

4. renarin kholin. look i know he's barely got any screentime where im at. but i also fell in love with him at first sight simply because he encompasses that one specific character archetype i always end up loving

5. I know he's a side character (and like a side side character, not a side main character like renarin (though I think he gets a bigger role and even some own povs in the later books)), but there is something about moash man. he's got me. I love you moash I support all your wrongs

that was the post nothing else to read here haha have a good day

Okay. Hm. You may have noticed something.

But wait Kaladin mod, you may now be thinking. Where is Kal? You know. The dude you have a whole sideblog about?

Well.

Hm.

Here's the thing.

there is something about him that rubs me the wrong way a bit. the way he is so modest. the slight "holier-than-thou" vibes in everything he does (and ESPECIALLY THAT HE DOESNT SEE IT. HE DOESNT THINK HE IS SELF OBSESSED BUT HE IS HE IS) the whole reluctant hero thing. how he low-key condemns everyone who doesn't follow his idea of what is right and what is wrong.

like. it's not that I don't like him, not at all. but he *was* my least favorite pov character in my first readthrough. I already liked him a lot more in wor when he let his more petty side go wild, and I actually learned to appreciate him a lot more through this very blog since it made me think about him and who he is. And it's not like I ever DISliked him. it's just. sometimes I wish he would just shut the fuck up yanno?

The thing that compels me about Kaladin isn't his character (like it is with Shallan for example, which was love at first sight) but the extremely very obvious parallels with a bunch of people he hates - parallels that he himself isn't aware of (which is why I chose to make this blog from *his* POV: the cycles and patterns and parallels are RIGHT THERE)

please forgive me 😭🙏💔