#btw i'll ship virtually anyone with anyone

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The problem with being such a huge fan of Steve Rogers and Scott Summers at the same time is that Steve's unique status within the comics universe and the roles that he's often given (and Scott's position within his corner of the 616 universe) mean that, quite frequently when Steve shows up in a book with Scott, he's very often wrong. Like, on the wrong side of a conflict, expressing a wrong opinion, just generally behaving as an unreasonable impediment or a dickhead in the worst way that stretches the bounds of his character unflatteringly, at best, and is outright maliciously out of character, at worst.

He's very, very bad with anything mutant-related. Not all the time, but consistently. Mostly due to plot demands or a forced maintaining of the universe's status quo that you can't quite look at head-on--have to squint at it, kind of, and just not question it too hard. The problem is that his presence always rubs right up against the boundaries of that status quo in a really conspicuous and illogical way--you have to contrive reasons for him to not care about things that he would obviously care about, being who he is. He can never quite be himself because the whole thing would unravel. So you're left with these really unfortunate implications about why Steve Rogers doesn't seem to give a shit about the mutant plight, in really obvious and immediate material ways and very broad ideological ways, even though his hands are tied.

So I have to side against him and sit there like jfc Steve stfu why do the writers treat you this way. (I know the answer, of course. He's a convenient tool of authority, he's recognizable, and also most people don't get him, let alone know how to write him.) I'm embarrassed for him when he shows up in someone's book and behaves that way, even though I know it's for stupid reasons that aren't really representative of his character. Like, Steve, you're better than this. I love you. Get it together.

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hii! your writing is really good Vincent is so cute when he's sick :') do you have a backstory for/ are these ocs based on anything? oh and ur snz spellings and illness descriptions are top notch btw!!

Hi anon!! Thank you so much for the kind words 😭💕 I think this is actually the first time anyone has complimented my snz spellings? I'm happy that you like them!!

do you have a backstory for/ are these ocs based on anything?

This is maybe kind of embarrassing, but to be honest, I truly just sat down and wrote part 1 of Fool Me Twice in 3 days last year, from 1/26-1/28. Yves and Vincent did not exist before that. (In fact, Yves actually had a different name for all of 24 hours before he was Yves, because I wanted their ship name to be a pun... but I can't say what it is, because I might die of embarrassment.)

I have so much respect for people who are able to draw up complex character sheets and fill out extensive lists of likes/dislikes/relationships/preferences/etc for their OCs - that has never been me. At the time, I was thinking like... fake dating is one of my guilty pleasures; I guess I'll just write something extremely trope-y and appealing to me and me alone 😭 and then I just posted it. It was truly one of the least agonizing, least self conscious things I've written, which is definitely a rarity for me. I was very shocked that people seemed interested in reading more at the time

Y & V didn't exist at all before pt 1 of FMT! So I guess that's to say they're not based off of anything except my desire to write one of my favorite tropes. There are certain things I also chose intentionally about them, because those things felt very personal to me, but this answer is already so long, so I won't go into specifics here.

But generally, I like to just write and let my characters surprise me instead of doing any sort of "legitimate" planning (which I know makes me sound like the most unqualified writer ever haha). I have virtually nothing planned aside from what you might've read already 🥹 But there are a few very crucial things that I do know that I don't want to say until they're officially revealed, because they are substantial, and because the story / character writing hinges upon them.

Thank you for the question!!! ❤️ (I was really excited to see this in my inbox when I snuck a peek at work haha)

[your-rdo-gf]

Decided to make myself a pretty little pinned post so people can get to know me a little!

This'll be updated and changed randomly as I become more bitter and more in love with Charles btw ❤️

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My art

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My name is Saoirse Blair, though I usually just go by Blair! I'm a 27-year-old woman from Michigan, a hobby artist and writer, as well as an obsessive Red Dead Online/Red Dead Redemption 2 player.

I'm most active on my TikTok, but you can find my other social media links on my Carrd. On Tumblr, you'll mostly find screenshots and videos from my time fooling around on Red Dead Online, especially my favorite ship (my RDO character and Charles Smith from RDR2 story; Charthur truthers look away haha) as well as the cabin I built with the mod menu I use, which I've dubbed "Arthur's Overlook" due to the placement.

If you have any questions, please don't ever be afraid to send an ask! I do have anonymous disabled, so I'm sorry for that, but the ability for others to send anonymous hate makes me painfully uncomfortable lol.

DNI Morston shippers, anyone that posts AI generated images as art, and people that are religious and loud about it (especially Christians, leave me the fuck alone). You'll be blocked if I come across your blog. TIA. ❤️

I'll wrap this up with some screenshots I've taken that I feel summarize this blog!

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O W L

Sorry this took so long! (Also, am aware there's another I need to answer which is in my drafts rn)

Answering the asks from this list.

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

Where Our Blue Is - Tatsuya Kitani. Well. That's an easy one at least. SatoSugu from JJK. I still haven't watched anything after Hidden Inventory but between that arc and JJK 0 I got swung around so hard on this particular pairing. Before JJK 0, I'd sorta presumed shippers were mainly just mashing popular characters with a history together (and my opinion of Gojo was kinda "he's like an older Itadori in a lot of ways so I'm sure he's interesting for some people but he doesn't really capture *me* because he's mainly there to be OP and/or comic relief". Meanwhile, my opinion of Geto was "he's racist" - admittedly, I still think that about him, but he's got more layers now), but JJK 0 itself leaned in so much on the "old friends" and "love is a curse" stuff that I came out of the film like "oh, wait fr?" (Also, keeping the whole first name no honorifics deal even as enemies, but my memories of s1 are so blurry that I can't remember if that came up before then) But yeah, Hidden Inventory. The whole stuff around Geto acting as Gojo's moral compass and low-key being the social buffer to smooth things over between Gojo and everyone else is so fascinating when you know full well where they end up. And the way that Gojo's OPness *does* actually get explored in terms of how there's this whole gap between him and everyone else that Geto is heavily conscious of. The fact that they were a "them against the world" to Gojo and to Geto it was "Gojo against the world (with everyone else just along for the ride)" but when Geto snaps Gojo remains. He could have fulfilled "them against the world" but he chose not to. And Gojo ends up taking the role that Geto previously occupied, mimicking the moral compass that Geto was trying to convince himself of. Something about fake it 'til you make it, trying to act as an example to your counterpart without necessarily being fully convinced yourself. Also, the yin-yang visuals, obviously.

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

Oof, I have a few tbh? I'll just list a few off rather than going into any depth (though I can say more if asked). (Update: Ngl, this started as specific tropes and quickly devolved into something else but go with it, thanks.) - The main tropes I dislike relate to the idea of mandatory romance ngl, so stuff like pair the spares (where you eventually end up with absolutely everyone paired off by the end of it) and that whole thing where you get two female characters who barely interact in canon together but in doing so entirely ignore their canon personalities and/or interactions. - Cinnamon rolling of characters, especially ND-coded ones who are given actual depth in canon and then the fanon flattens that all out, removing the agency they have in canon in favour of proclaiming them "innocent" but not much else. I feel like people doing this may like the versions of the characters that they see, but they're missing so many layers that they're actively making them more boring. - And finally, pregnancy stuff. I know some people really like to read that kind of stuff in fic or see bio kids as some natural "progression" of a relationship, but it just really squicks me out personally (and there's some intersection there where the main fandom I see that's weirdly into this is one where the main pair already have an adopted kid so the idea they need a bio one as well has some weird implications to me even if I can't say that every single instance of it falls into that) (Please take this list as me generically complaining rather than judging anyone that does like these things btw)

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

Klavier Gavin is very confident in what(?) he wants. Possibly more than any other character in Ace Attorney. Whilst every other prosecutor/defender is off creating convoluted roundabout methods of showing that they care for others, he's just straight up offering the opposition his help from the get go.

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My Top 10 Ships of 2020

It's been a weird year but I've seen other people doing this. Plus this year I've been way more into gen fics (love a bit of found family especially in clone wars and marvel) than anything shippy. So I genuinely don't know what imma put on here aside from two ships for sure. Sorry this post is super long idk how to do the below the cut thing and I've had this app for 5 years...

10) Viktor Nikiforov and Yuuri Katsuki - Yuri!!! On Ice

It was a real toss up between this, supercorp, kanera and wolfstar cos they're all very integral ships to my fan heart but this son because of the Yuri on Ice fandom's rebirth this year. I've never stopped shipping this, never stopped reading fanfic of them for any extended period of time, they're still my most bookmarked ship on ao3 (although I think now star wars - all media types may have overtaken them for fandom). They were one of the first things I watched where the queer ship I loved became canon and I can't wait for the film (and hopefully someday a season 2). Heck I even made my mum watch Yuri on Ice with me so I think that says it all.

9) Edelgard Von Hresvelg and female Byleth - Fire Emblem: Three Houses

My first fire emblem game was fates when I was like 14 (and finally gay awake lol). I was so disappointed that I had to be with a guy character because the only female option was kinda creepy and also I wouldn't get the character of kana. So when three houses came out I was so happy because finally there were beautiful incredible female characters my female byleth could romance (I'm so sorry mlm you deserved so much more than you got). I got the game as soon as it came out (had to search a lot of shops let me tell you) and started on black eagles. I was actually kinda disappointed back in 2019. I didn't like the explore the monastery bit (still find it kinda tedious) and the battle mechanics weren't quite the same as fates (no pairing up?! Aka my main battle technique for protecting the weaker units). So I got like 20 hours in and put it down. Came back to it in lockdown and finally finished it! I'm so proud of myself I virtually never finish games. And I fully fell in love with the useless lesbian edelgard in the process. When I started back playing in 2020 I was like eh I wish I'd picked a different character to romance (like shes an emperor that's morally very shady) but then the romance stuff started with edelgard and I fell the heck in love.

8) Cory Matthews and Shawn Hunter (and Topanga Lawrence) - Boy Meets World

Disney+ was released in the UK this year and I finally got the opportunity to watch boy meets world in its best quality (aka not on YouTube). I watched it back when I was like 12 or 13 and it's such a nostalgic show for me. Watching it again I still absolutely adore it (and my bi ass was low-key crushing on Shawn especially in chick like me - I'm 18 btw and I got so scared for a sec but rider strong was 18 when chick like me came out so it's fine woah). And of course now I see the possibilities of the beautiful Cory and Shawn relationship like they were so bromance it was basically romance and throw in topanga it's the perfect ot3 (but I'm also fine with just Cory and Shawn or just Cory and Topanga). Read some good fanfic for them this year. My favourite was one about Shawn stealing makeup and stuff and exploring gender (need more fics like this I'm biiii).

7) Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes - Marvel Cinematic Universe

I rewatched all the MCU films this year too. And got really into Peter parker whump and irondad. Plus my eternal obsession with identity and relationship reveals of course led me from Spiderman identity reveals (and found family cuteness) to stucky coming out. Especially when it involves the internet and social media. Not my favourite ship but it's been significant to my year due to the sheer amount of marvel stuff I've read.

6) Satine Kryze and Obi Wan Kenobi - Star Wars

I rewatched clone wars in prep for season 7 and wow Satine's death was sad and sudden. She first appeared in S2 E13 I think and just the sheer sexual tension of their bickering. "The sarcasm of a soldier. The delusion of a dreamer." Just ugnnhhh my bi ass can't take much more of this. And Anakin just sipping his wine in the background grinning. And I fully believe korkie is a Kenobi.

5) Commander Cody and Obi Wan Kenobi - Star Wars

I am very much an Obi wan multishipper. I don't really have a favourite but I fully believe he was with satine and Quinlan in his life. I don't think be would've actually done anything with Cody because of the whole superior officer thing. And this probably isn't even my favourite Obi wan ship - that honour probably goes to quinobi or obitine. However the most popular ships in the fandom are codywan, quiobi and obikin. No offence to anyone who ships these they're just personally not to my taste, but I can't stand quiobi, and obikin I find only slightly more tolerable and I think that's just because there's so much obikin content so if I like the concept of a fic that happens to be obikin I'll read it. I'm just not a fan of the mentor/student relationships. So I generally favoured the codywan fics when there was shipping involved meaning I read a lot of them this year. Needed that nice fix it content post season 7.

4) Zuko and Katara - Avatar: the Last Airbender

Again I am a multishipper I have nothing against zukka it's cute. But I'm a zutara shipper first and foremost because when I first watched avatar I was like 13 and denying my gayness and gayness in general so I shipped the straight things and the straight things only. Most of these ships I stopped shipping - dramione, spuffy, some my little pony ones which we don't talk about. Zutara stayed. (I have nothing against any of the things I used to ship I just stopped shipping them so much/shipped new things more). I've continuously shipped zutara since I first watched avatar even if I didn't necessarily spend that much time on it it has always been here as one of my favourite ships. It has such good fanfic I swear including my favourite ever fanfic from any fandom - love thy enemy. Plus like the black games (reread this for the millionth time this year), a delicate subterfuge (which I read for the first time this year and damn it's so good) and so many more. With the avatar resurgence this year I haven't actually rewatched avatar aside from my normal random episode every now and then when I feel like it. But there's been a lot of avatar on my dash from people I follow getting into it and people I followed for avatar returning so naturally I returned to the fandom and read quite a lot of fanfic. I also read just a lot of avatar gen fics which were great at the whole found family thing I've been so obsessed with this year.

3) Catra and Adora - She Ra and the Princesses of Power

Catradora is canon! They kissed! What more is there to say. Arguably they should've been top but I never shipped them that much since I was always very much a multishipper when it came to she ra so yes I was very happy it became canon because we actually won for once but also I've never read much fanfic for them etc. But they are very much a dynamic I love and watching she ra all again in prep for season 5 I really enjoyed the build up of their relationship. The other two only go above because Buffy is my favourite show ever and damn there's some good fuffy fanfic and Aphra and Tolvan is both fresh in my mind and star wars owns me. Would love some catradora fic recs btw if anyone has them tho.

2) Buffy Summers and Faith Lehane - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I didn't realise it was last year that I got super into them but according to my ao3 bookmarks it was lol. 2020 I swear it's lasted an eternity. I got into them about a month before lockdown (which feels like another lifetime). I've loved Buffy since I first watched it when I was 13. It's arguably still my favourite TV show. I've been through a lot of ships for Buffy - bangel to spuffy and now fuffy. I still think angel and her were a beautiful ship back in season 2 and especially in the angel episode I will remember you. But faith and Buffy had so much chemistry in season 3 - she would've been a fresh start for Buffy and the amount of fix it fics I read I swear. My favourite has to be one where they met in LA during Anne and how that changed everything feat Buffy's internal homophobia.

1) Cheili Lona Aphra and Magna Tolvan - Star Wars

I read Darth Vader (2015) and Doctor Aphra (2016) for the first time at the end of 2020 (got a comic subscription which has served me very well already I've nearly finished the star wars canon comics). Just to see canon queer ladies in star wars was so magical for me as a queer lady. I didn't think star wars would be so overt yet as to have a queer kiss in canon (even if it's in the comics) and especially not with the main character of arguably their main comic series. Now we just gotta hope that we'll get it in live action someday soon. They weren't the ship I consumed the most content of in 2020 but they were the highlight of my 2020 because star wars did that and I finally found out about it

Honourable mentions: Vivian and Elle - Legally Blonde, Candace and Vanessa - Phineas and Ferb, Stevie and Alex - Wizards of Waverly Place, Xander and Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I actually don't ship this but damn some authors are good - this was the ship that made me realise I don't need to like a ship if the author is good enough to write it well), Eli Vanto and Mitth'raw'nuruodo - Star Wars (started reading the books last year but finished this year and only started with fanfic this year), Villanelle and Eve - Killing Eve, Kanan and Hera - Star Wars, Barriss and Ahsoka - Star Wars, Remus and Sirius - Harry Potter, Kara and Lena - Supergirl (let's hope this becomes canon next year!) (Those last four are ones I've shipped forever some of my og ships but nothing particularly big has happened for me this year with them so)

I got Disney+ this year so rewatched a fair few things from my youth and though hey my obsession with that character may have been a little gay.