#but i know theres people out there in this fandom that ship stuff Primarily bc of the size difference like huh what huh

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out of the hundreds of tf ships that have massive drastic size differences, like proportionally comparable to a building and a chihuahua, I manage to mainly care only about the ships where one of them is like. Just a head taller than the other

[actualbird]

zak, how do you find things like fanarts and other kinds of ship content for tot that's not mc x one of the boys? asking bc recently i got into marius x artem but aside from some fics on ao3, i can't never find things like fanarts or just posts about them. i feel like I'm looking in the wrong place? kajsjs but i only know of the tot tumblr fandom.. 😭😭

heyyo anon, and hehe welcome to martem!!! theyre a cute ship, i enjoy the fics of them on ao3 :DDD

that being said, yea it is kinda difficult to be finding art and posts about any of the nxxboy ships. frankly, the only reason i can find stuff myself for marluke is cuz vjJKHVJKH I JUST (to some degree) KNOW OR KNOW OF EVERYBODY WHO SHIPS AND MAKES STUFF FOR MARLUKE HAHA. theres not very many of us, so it's easy for me to just follow Everybody whos ever made a marluke thing HJJKSF

one thing that can help tho for hunting art and content is through tags!!! i discovered a lot of great marluke arts here just by searching their ship tag #marluke or #mariluke (idk what divergent tagging evolution happened that marluke is more commonly used on tumb but on twt, it's primarily mariluke)

if im not mistaken, the common tag for marius/artem is #martem on twitter. sadly though, it doesnt seem to be the common tag on tumblr and idk what the martem shippers are using here DDD:

still, if it's any help maybe as a jump off point, heres a bunch of fanarts i found by searching through #martem on twitter!!

so many fanarts by user melrw22: one. two. three. four. five. six. seven.

this cute art by user pul8ang!! (who also has made a bunch of marluke arts too <3)

this ADORABLE COMIC THREAD by user SpringgOnyo

tho overall, my advice for finding more stuff for the nxxboy ships is tbh to reach out to any shippers u can find!!!! say hi!! if they made a thing u like, tell em u liked it!!

all of the nxxboy ships are very much rarepairs, in comparison to the other ships. there really arent going to be very many people, but the people who Do ship the ship are most likely gonna be extremely passionate about it. or at least, thats been my experience meeting and talking and making friends with other ppl who like marluke!!! small bunch, but very passionate. talking to the ppl around who ship the ship can both help u find more stuff of the ship and you might get a friend along the way too!

i hope this could help somehow! and wishing u the best on ur martem content hunt :D

[aro-aizawa]

suprisingly not that many people ship them, but the thing is. the "&" is literally in the top 3 relationships!! i have not been in a fandom where a "&" is one of the most popular rships. (im not exactly.. against them? i prefer brotp in general but there are a lot of uh racist antis against that romantic ship so i like it on principle for the ~spite~)

i think theres a difference between a ship fic and a ..normal fic(?). like. usually in ship fics the plot and the focus would be their interactions/getting together. whereas for regular fics u can kinda balance plot and rship, but the main plot isnt actually getting together. do u kinda get what i mean haha

no no feel free to rant! its kinda funny that they taught u to swear in yr6 but rip for not being able to censor urself. and also. broke up. over facebook??? better or worse than text lmao.

the only rship ive had started off... not great. like it was an online friend from south america, and they asked me out literally the day i rejected my friend. so... i said yes out of guilt for rejecting my friend bc it didnt look like my friend was taking the rejection well ^^; not a wonderful start rip. went well for 6-8 months then we broke up bc the honeymoon period wore off and i havent talked to them since! ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 it was fun tho, but it felt honestly just more online friends tbh (....interesting decisions all around yknow? )

it be how it be. i was still id'ing as panromantic ace at the time. but still. im wondering if i could eventually "work" with someone? or is that just. allonormative asgsggshshd

i see enemies to lovers but what i Rlly want is enemies to friends to lovers. the friends is necessary!! at least in a long fic haha. ...and love at first sight sounds really fake to me? it sounds just like a hyperbole tbh. like maybe it was first wow u seem like a great person and then u like, get to know each other and then fall in love, etc etc

(👀 oop i type a lot. Rip)

oh yiiiikes i hate when fandom gets those racist fans. i’m kind of,,, dense?? about that kind of thing (abt a lot of similar things too), so whenever i see it, it’s like. mega bad. but nice! i don’t ever pay attention to what’s the most popular in terms of ao3 because when i get into a fandom i’ll blacklist every thing i’m not comfortable seeing in said fandom and then save that for when i’m gonna check out said fandom. for example [here is my atla filters], [here is my mha filters] and [here is my ml filters]. (i also use an extention called ao3rdr which has a blacklist function and my blacklist is SO LONG. but it’s an essential so that i don’t feel like my brain is going to rot by trying to find good fics.)

ye!!! i always think abt it in terms similar to genres. i hate watching films and regular books because genres are so....stilted? and ridgid in what it involves? so in fandom terms i think there’s two main kind of genre categories that have sub categories. there’s ship fic, then there’s genfic. no clue if these are wide spread terms i’ve just kind of understood it that way lol. but within those two categories, there’s sub genres like canon divergence that focus on said ship but with a focus on the plot as well so there’s two plots going on rather than just the main plot. usually there’s always equals in both sides. i think that’s what you’re thinking of. the difference is how the authors approach their fics, whether they think it’s a ship fic explorating the how do they get together of relationships or if it’s the genfic of exploring the relationship itself.

lmao yeah it was like. the only way we’d communicate in non-irl fashion because we were both like. 12/13 so we’d have like. pay as you go plans for our phones so i at least, hoarded my credit and primarily used alternate communication methods. so idk if this is wide spread but at the time we never got into the habit of communicating via text. it’s why still to this day i never ever contact my irl friends via texts, and always through social media (the only time i ever use facebook nowadays is to message my friends tho i’ve been,,,, rather lax abt that. i need to respond to one of my group chats but i’m,,, procrastinating). and we were both awkward people, so i wasn’t bothered by the online breakup, if he didn’t break up w me that way i’d have guessed we just,,, wouldn’t address the relationship ever again and still technically be together but not at the same time lol

oh man that sounds rough. never had any experiences w online relationships, but i can definitely see where it could feel like an online friendship. because,,, idk maybe it’s just me but there doesn’t??? seem like there’s much?? romantic-esque stuff you can do exclusively online?? it’s why long distance relationships are hard, and they only fit certain couples. and lol i deffo understand that feel of internet friends dropping out of your life suddenly. i still think of nearly all my internet friends fondly...except for the bad ones. yeah some of those ones ten years ago were p bad.

it is!! i think that people always shorten it to just enemies to lovers though because it’s easier to say lol. i’m MUCH more interested in the genfic varient of enemies to found family because it goes from “god i want to kill you so bad” to “god i need to kill for you like rn”. it’s just,,, *chef’s kiss*

(dw i type a LOT too lmaooo and sorry it took so long for me to reply, i didn’t feel like talking to anyone for a few days ahah i just get those kinds of moods sometimes. as evidenced by my also ignoring of my friend group chat of over seven years, that i’ve been meaning to reply to for over 24 hours and i haven’t yet. yay.)