#cursed rarepairs

[reineydraws]

hiiii happy birthday @conartisthaiji 🥰🥰

thanks for being one of my first ever kryk cheerleaders and also my very first beta reader! u make the haikyuu fandom a better place 🫶 hope u have a good one!

[zeestarfishalien]

Oops, John Constantine Found Family

[Day 1 dpxdc week 2023; John Constantine // Found Family // Oops]

• John Constantine/Box Ghost/Lunch Lady

John curses the Infinite King the first time he’s asked out to dinner.

It’s ridiculous, the parents of the little ghost child are loud and obnoxious and…definitely not endearing in the slightest. He’s sure he’ll be sick of the word “beware” before the end of the night.

But it is and he’s not.

He agrees to another dinner, more to prove to himself that this would never come anywhere close to working. He doesn’t get nice things and these two are just so…ridiculous and it’s so different from how his entire life has been, one nitty-gritty moment after the next; dooming his soul for power and favors.

But they aren’t turned off by his life or his rude demeanor. They like him and they show it. Against all odds, they just work.

And to think it all started with the end of the world…

~•~

John hates when he’s the last call, the hail mary pass, for the end of the world. Most of the better options for solving problems take time to put together, which is something few on the Justice League seem to understand and even fewer (read: None) seem to remember when a big threat comes about.

Since it’s potentially the end of the world, what’s one more time selling his soul going to hurt?

Possibly a lot this time. The King of Restless Dead holds sway over those that fall in the in between. They are historically stronger than most demons and spirits and on par with most deities. And since it is a title one by conquest most of the time the one to take over the throne is more powerful than the previous holders.

Now John really isn’t all that keen on joining the King’s legions but like he’s mentioned previously, end of the world and all that.

It’s a fitting enough end for him, he thinks and he hopes that his planned contract doesn’t have any loopholes for the King to take advantage of. Loosing the King of Restless Dead, King of the Infinite, King of the space between worlds, upon Earth for them to wreck havoc would probably cause Batman to revive John just so he can kill him again.

So it’s with a heavy heart and skyrocketing blood pressure that John starts chanting the words to bring the King of Ghosts to Earth, this Earth here and now. He’s got to be specific. Every single word matters…

…

John doesn’t know what he was expecting. A terror of the night? A horrific figure or possibly some sort of Eldritch entity that nearly melts his brain with its very presence?

Not a teenager that’s for fucking certain.

He’s not…he’s not certain what exactly he’s seeing as a funky little girl with blue skin and pigtails hikes herself up to peek over the teen’s shoulder.

He opens his mouth, probably to spit out some snarky comment or another but something in the teen’s eyes stops him. Then the overwhelming power hits him with the full force of a speeding freight train.

His lungs are too tight, too full. He can’t breathe, he can’t even twitch a bloody muscle under those glowing toxic waste eyes. The teen tilts his head, assessing John, weighing his tattered and bloody soul.

“What do you want, Laughing Magician?”

And that’s a fucking title. The King has his fucking title in hand with just a glance at him. The teen is all seriousness despite the little girl floating up to rest her upper body on his head like being The King just means he’s a glorified babysitter. She’s unaffected by the roiling waves of power washing off of him and crashing into John repeatedly.

He swallows and chokes on it because his throat is suddenly too dry. He coughs a few times before sinking into a bow.

“Oh King of Restless Dead and all those trapped in between death and life, I came seeking your aid to save this world and its inhabitants.” He doesn’t dare look up no matter how crawly his skin feels or how the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.

“Ohhhh. Oh yeah, I was keeping an eye on that but then Boxy asked me to babysit the tyke here. It’s that bad already?”

John has to fight every cell in his body not to look up at the King and give him a taste of the incredulous look on his face.

“We’ve lost several heroes already and countless civilians. Superman is stuck in recovery after an attack, he can’t be out there. Wonder Woman has a broken leg and Batman is no-“

“Okay, okay I get it.” He interrupts, “It’s bad. I’m on it. I just need one thing in return.”

“My soul?”

“Ewww no.” John finally does look up at that just to catch the genuine disguston the teen’s face. “I need you to watch little Boxy junior here while I take care of this. She’s too young for the battlefield.”

“But I’m not qualified to take ca-“

“Thanks!” The King plops the little ghost girl on John and she grabs onto him while he’s too shocked to respond. It’s a good thing she’s a ghost and can fly since it takes him entirely too long to wrap his arms securely around her.

She’s studying him furiously and seems to find him suitable since she eventually grins and introduces herself.

“I’m Box Lunch. Who are you?”

“John,” he answers and that’s all he planned to give her but she stared him down with her beady little red eyes, waiting. “John Constantine and as His Majesty said, I’m also sometimes called the Laughing Magician.”

“Ohhh, so you have lots of names like Danny does.”

“Danny?”

She sends him a flat look.

“You’re kinda slow aren’t you.” When he doesn’t respond she lets out a big sigh, something she definitely doesn’t actually need. “You call him King and use one of his titles but you don’t know who he is?”

Now that’s an answer. And an alarming one at that. Just how high in the ghostly courts are her parents that she can casually call the King by name?

“I uh…” he fumbles a moment for words. “News and info about your world doesn’t cross the veil to here very well.”

“Oh…” She says it like she didn’t realize that. “Oh yeah, that’s Danny’s world. I’ve never actually been to a living realm that wasn’t Danny’s.”

“Not even when you were alive? Or were you from His Majesty’s world?”

She levels that unimpressed look at him again before sighing the worlds biggest sigh. Highly entertaining coming from someone so young and so small.

“Come sit with me.” She floats to the floor and snags his hand to drag him down too. “I will teach you Silly Magician.”

He follows, not sure how to tell her no thanks without upsetting her, so he goes along with it.

~•~

By the time that The King in all his teenager glory popped back in, John and Box Lunch were snuggled into a nearby couch with John reading to her from a spell book (it’s the only thing he had on hand and he made sure to only read the kid safe parts to her).

And the rest is, as they say, history.

More accurately the continuation of John’s very very strange life but details, details.

[summonademon]

What if the real Curse of Achilles was all the dead boy-crushes we made along the way?

[rewritingcanon]

i was today years old when i learnt there was an ANTI SCORBUS TAGGHH 😨😨 there are scorbus antis???? i promise im not trying to be stuck up but im so shocked bro. i didnt think scorbus was popular enough to have antis 😭

[scrion7]

post 4.2 furina

It might be just me, but I vastly prefer Focalors to Furina.

From a logical standpoint, Furina really should be one of my favorites, right up there with Venti and Hu Tao, but somehow I don't really enjoy her to the same extent. I think its because she hasn't really had time to be Extremely Herself (and not Extremely "Archon") at other characters, as during the Archon quest and her story quest she's either playing a role or being depressed. I think that once she appears in a limited time event and talks with other characters I'll like her more.

In particular, I really want to see what Arlecchino thinks about post 4.2 Furina. Honestly, I think she'd really respect her for successfully pulling the wool over her eyes, as well as essentially being undercover for 500 years. As a spy and a parent, she'd probably have Opinions with a capital O on putting a 'newborn' human through such a deep undercover op without any check-ins like that. I've got a post 4.2 Fatui!Furina AU rolling around in my head, but I'll wait until we get more Arlecchino to get that started.

On the other hand, Focalors is absolutely my favorite part of the update. Her calm and elegant manner juxtaposed with "Anyway, so then I cursed her" is. Perfect. That plus "I'm a genius, I know" cemented her as my favorite archon we've seen yet, even above the tone deaf bard. You can just tell that in an informal setting she'd be a complete menace. "The sweet sound of bewilderment" indeed. There's also almost as many hidden nuances in her words to Neuvillette as there is in an average Venti-Hu Tao interaction, so expect a long post about that coming soon (tm)!

Her dynamic with Neuvillette is also really interesting. I bet a bunch of modern AUs are going to crop up with Neuvillette and Focalors parenting kid Furina.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Troi'Pel [Check out my Patreon for more Telepathic Lesbians]

[1tz-4ll-m3]

Gummigoo x Caine is toxic yaoi coded

[arjengelly]

I’m gonna put this out there now… I’ve been shipping them in my Non-Cursed Eda AU (that I’ll eventually write 💀)

Don’t hate me 🙀

Camila was too scared to move on after all these years but Luz assures her that it’s ok and that she has Manny’s blessing. (Luz got a chance to meet with Manny in her brief visit to the afterlife. There is nothing he wants more than for his family to be happy, even when he himself is gone.) Yet nothing could prepare Luz for the person her mother took a fancy to.

Olly Porter to Meadow Park: “Our family tree is so jacked up… I can’t tell if Luz is my cousin or my aunt at this point…!”

[brawlmetaknight]

i probably have hundreds of snaps of these two by now but i attempted to narrow it down to some of my favourites 🍑🫐

[ectogeo-art]

Garashir Wedding Registry

Announcing the Garashir Wedding Registry, an ao3 prompt challenge collection for marriage- and wedding-related Garashir fanfics!

I got married a few weeks ago, and my wonderful friend @wanderingwriter87 wrote me a Garashir fic, a slight complication, as a wedding gift! My spouse saw how happy I was after receiving this gift fic and joked that we should have made a wedding registry that just asked for various fanfics, and I was like "...okay, hold on a second, that’s actually genius" lmao!

So! I’ve decided to use the occasion to humbly request/encourage some Garashir (well, mostly Garashir*) marriage fics from the fandom! (*My two most cherished cursed rarepairs, Sloanshir and Siskarak, will also appear briefly in the prompt list as well, so just scroll on by those prompts if you only are interested in Garashir lol. But, because of who I am as a person, my cursed rarepairs are actually always secretly Garashir anyway, so I've made that a stipulation in the collection too haha!) There is absolutely no pressure to write anything for this, I just thought it was a very funny concept to have fanfic wedding registry haha, so please only join in if it seems like fun to you! And despite the shameless self-indulgence of it all, I truly do hope this prompt challenge brings joy to not only me but to the rest of the Garashir community too! Every day is a good day to celebrate Elim Garak and Julian Bashir's undying love! May these prompts inspire you, and may any contributions to this collection delight you! <3

Click here for more info and the (very minimal) set of rules, and click here for the list of prompts (sorry that the non-Garashir rarepair prompts show up near the top... I wanted them at the bottom but I can't seem to fix the order now that I've posted the prompts lol). Feel free to message me via asks or DMs if you have questions or need help with adding a fic to the collection! <3

[tantaliart]

oh I will ruin you

[5oz-mud]

they should be blown up or smth. it should be illegal what theyre doing to my brain

[mad-serotonin]

hellooooo what are your fav mha rarepairs i need to know!!! (no pressure tho)

Oh YES

So my all time fav ship is bakukami for sure!

I could go crazy talking about them if I ever had the time they are permanently ingrained into my soul

And some other top tier ones for me are

KamiSero and AoIida

KamiSero was my OG bnha ship and they mean a lot to me. They defined my later high school personality.

And every time I rewatch the license exam I just get reobsessed with Iida learning Aoyama’s mannerisms and trying to understand him at a deeper level. Ugh my heart ❤️

I’m currently getting very into these again

Kamiida

Seroroki

Dekuyama

KiriKami (And Bakukirikami)

OjiKami

MonoShin

Todokami

Tokoyama

It’s literally almost all Kami ships I fear it has always been this way and it will never change.

Thank you for asking! It was fun to think about!!

[gontagokuhara]

Three months. That’s how long Byakuya Togami has been sealed inside of this place. Not a long time, not in the grand scheme of things, but certainly long enough for him to have come to several concrete conclusions.

One: endless, aimless downtime is as useless here as it has always been.

Two: in recognition of this downtime, making his way through the library’s extensive collection one book at a time is the most constructive use of what remains of Hope’s Peak Academy’s amenities.

And three: when not caught in the crosshairs of his classmates, despite his numerous and severe misgivings about this entire situation, he can achieve something that could almost, possibly, be peace.

In the quiet of the library, Byakuya’s following exhale comes out slightly heavier, a barely-there acknowledgment of his own wry thought. He turns a page in his book. As if.

(or: a brief exploration of life for class 78 pre-memory loss, from the most annoying guy possible)

for nelly / @11037nonsense as my piece in the @shsl-islandmode-events gift exchange!

[stjarnskrik]

i wanted them smooching because I love them!