#flawless ship

[slayerdurge]

reverse fake dating trope where enver & durge are both telling bhaal & bane respectively that they're manipulating the other's affections to ensure their loyalty, but in reality they're actually just regular dating.

[musicalmoritz]

Most people’s “how can anyone hate this?” ships are like super fluffy pairings that can do no wrong but unfortunately mine are always massively toxic to where I understand WHY they aren’t for everyone but I simply cannot imagine passing up that much conflict

[fannedandflawless]

Lily Evans: Golden Girl or Something Sharper?

📌 A soft disclaimer for Snily and Marauders fans: this isn’t about bashing anyone’s favourite. It’s a perspective—a way of holding the light at a different angle. I say this as someone who once stood firmly on the Snily side, and now simply asks harder questions with quieter hands.

Lily Evans is often portrayed as a paragon of virtue: brilliant, kind, and principled. But beneath the immaculate sheen of this seemingly flawless figure lies a quiet arsenal of emotional precision, silences sharpened to a blade, and decisions that suggest something colder than mere goodness. Was she truly the golden girl of the wizarding world—or someone who curated her own narrative, and cut clean anyone who threatened the edges?

Darling, it’s not a fall from grace if she never planned to descend.

1. The Severus Snape Fallout: More Than a Single Word

The moment Lily walks away from Severus Snape is typically framed as a principled boundary after a grievous insult. And yet, the truth has more layers than a well-enchanted onion.

Snape and Lily were inseparable for years, bound long before Hogwarts sorted them into separate destinies. He was, for a time, her only true confidant.

Her final words to him—"You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine"—are less a boundary and more a guillotine. No door left ajar. No room for return.

And let’s be clear: this wasn’t after he became a Death Eater. It was before. The slur wasn’t the crime—it was the confirmation.

So no, she didn’t just end a friendship over a word. She ended it because Severus became—publicly—a version of himself she had no desire to explain away. And once her trust cracked, the rest of him fell. Gracefully, but irreversibly.

2. The Petunia Problem: Sisterhood in Ruins

People love to reduce Petunia to just bitter and jealous—but that’s such a convenient myth. She was a child too. And her sister got plucked into a magical destiny while she was left behind in a perfectly ordinary world with no map and no warning.

In a letter to Sirius, Lily notes that Petunia was “being a bit more pleasant than usual, though she still won’t talk to me directly.” Which reads not as care but condescension—with just a splash of smug.

Lily may have loved her sister, but did she ever truly see her? Validate her? Or was Petunia just part of a life Lily was perfectly happy to outgrow?

And to make matters more theatrical, Lily later brought James into that same household—a man who clashed gloriously with Vernon. Did Lily intervene? Attempt peacekeeping? No record of it. The silence says enough. And silence, in her hands, is never neutral.

The tragedy wasn’t just that Petunia was left behind. It was that Lily didn’t look back—not really. She didn’t throw a rope. She didn’t offer a bridge. She simply kept walking, robes pressed, spine unbent.

3. So Who Is Lily Evans?

To understand Lily is to accept a paradox:

A principled, brilliant, but emotionally exacting woman. Someone praised for her elegance and ethics—yet rarely questioned for her lack of softness once crossed.

She picked the "right path"—and if you didn’t match it, you were cut from the frame.

She loved fiercely, but you had to meet her at the level she deemed acceptable.

For her, forgiveness was not a kindness. It was a credential you had to earn.

Nowhere is this clearer than in her final chapter with Severus. He apologised—honestly, humiliatingly. He waited outside Gryffindor Tower, pleaded, laid bare his regret. And still, Lily never opened the door. Not even a crack. And if that door ever squeaked on its hinges, rest assured she hexed it shut.

Regret, for her, was not a passport. Once crossed, you were disqualified. Permanently.

She saw pain—but unless it matched her internal rubric of morality, she left it untouched. She wasn’t cold, exactly. But she kept her warmth tightly rationed. And heaven help you if you failed her. Because that sort of fall from Lily’s favour? Darling, it’s irreversible—with no parting gift but poise.

Was it grace? Was it pride? Or simply the comfort of always being right?

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Lily Evans isn’t a saint. She’s not a villain either. But oh, she is a masterclass in controlled distance and curated silence. The kind of woman whose restraint stings more than most people’s rage.

She didn’t just live by a code—she monogrammed it, framed it, and ensured no emotion would dare smudge the edges. Not because she was heartless—no, never that—but because she refused to be made messy by someone else’s chaos.

And maybe that’s the truth none of us want to sit with: that the boy who lived owes his life to a woman who loved on principle, but lost on tenderness. That her silence? It wasn’t passive. It was precise.

And it cut deeper than she’ll ever be blamed for.

[azaharinflames]

Respectfully, if after six-seven years of friendship (timeline in 911 is just a vibe tbh) your friend doesn’t even know if he matters to you, AND you don’t even say an I love you as you’re saying goodbye (at least for now) … yikes. Like atp I’m genuinely curious as to how they see this as being the pinnacle of affection / them being in love.

I just think it’s funny how so many people put them as the best relationship (romantic AND platonic) when they’re not even close to being the best friendship in the series at this point. Just last night proved (to me) that Chim and Hen’s friendship is leagues better. And it annoys me they don’t get nearly as much recognition (I do have my suspicions about it. It’s bs and it annoys me).

I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s intentional to stop people shipping them so much, though that’s a bit useless for all the buddie journalists will ignore it and twist it in their favor. So will toxic buddies. Regardless - their friendship has gone a bit downhill lately, and I genuinely don’t understand why or how people think it’s the best we got in 911.

Not even close.

[carabarabonanza]

Shes sick of her moms being so gay

[ragnarssons]

going through the edwina tag and i gotta say, y'all are weak for thinking edwina is the worst character ever for being mad at her sister for one (1) episode after she deceived her.

also could y'all hold men accountable for their actions even less???

[sengenism]

You don't know how much this blog is affecting my obsession with Sengen.

Like, you made me realize so many things on why Sengen is so cool, amazing and things (I literally cannot put my feelings into words wtf)

Like, they are so similar and different at the same time, they both hide their feelings behind a marks carefully crafted by them and how they both would immediately see behind eachothers mask.

I'm literally not okay that ending/sequel is so Senkaku coded, I mean cool ship but I really don't see chemistry behind them, but ignore that.

And, and, I don't see enough people taking about it but only Senku and Gen (and Byakuya) have dual coloured hair.

I think they are soulmates but because it's a Shounen jump they were afraid of the gays.

Anyways, thank you for your blog and for feeding my Sengen delusion, I love you and continue being cool.

- 🧅

OH MY GOD AN ASKKKK!!!!!! THANKS ANON <3333

i understand not being able to put feelings into words because same i have so many thoughts on sengen in my drafts but it's so hard to make it all... proper-y

and one of the things is the dual coloured hair thingy!! i've noticed that and it's just sitting in my notes here like:

they are complete opposites and yet so similar. they match each other's freak so badly it gets on my nerves and everyone else's. like there's so many little things about sengen that one can elaborate about, which makes me think inagaki-sensei put a lot of thought into their dynamic?

for example, shoes. gen goes from barefoot (representing tsukasa's side, as tsukasa is also barefoot. minami, tsukasa's #1 fan is also barefoot) to wearing matching shoes with senku for winter (as far as i'm aware, only taiju and yuzuriha, senku's best friends, share the same shoe style, so it can be inferred that senku made the shoes for gen. although, nikki's is similar but slightly different too) to going barefoot again after winter, then finally officially wearing the senku shoes post treasure island arc. shoes/outfits/designs really say A LOT about the characters in dr stone imo and we need to talk about it more (boichi clearly puts a lot of story details into the design!) like the villagers wearing the same shoes/colour etc... oh i could go on and on.

so yeah definitely– senku, byakuya and gen being the only characters with dual coloured hair is something to discuss! i feel like gen is highly involved in the top best byakuya story lore moments honestly but that might just be me and my sengen goggles on idk lol

as for the extra chapters, i honestly just kinda ignore the senhaku in it?? LMAO like they made it easy to ignore since the scenes were just a few pages and not really continual. that being said, i don't mind senhaku and i think it's a decent ship which would be fun if explored romantically, but yeah i personally see them as like... cousins or something. not only senku and kohaku tbh, but senku and all the villagers are in some sort of relative-y relationship in my eyes because it's hard to remember that senku and byakuya are not biologically related when they look like carbon copies of each other lbr

thanks for the ask! u sound really cool too idk if i should be happy about spreading mass delusion but i am and we can meet at the ward :D

[puppy-barkz]

i finally watched she-ra at the ripe age of 22 and i did not expect to cry that many times <3

[70yearoldmanpussy]

The whole "Beast x Ancient ships are problematic" debate in the Cookie Run Kingdom fandom annoys me so much because 60-80% of the people saying it are hypocrites who go "oh but except SM and PV!" When it inevitably comes around to a ship they actually like.

Burning Spice x Golden Cheese is problematic because he tried to murder her and aspired to destroy everything she loves because destruction is the only thing that brings him joy at all. None of this matters but, sure, I get WHY you'd think that. Obviously if they were in a relationship it'd be abusive. Mystic Flour x Dark Cacao is problematic because she essentially murdered his friends/soldiers, leaving him alone so it'd be easier to manipulate him, almost convinced him into believing nothing truly matters so she could steal his Soul Jam and use its powers for her own purposes, showed him a vision of a reality where he died because of her, in which his son took his throne and nobody really missed him all that much to further prove her point. Yeah, that's mighty fucked up!

...but Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla? Oh they're just two goofy goobers who've had a couple bad moments from time to time but it doesn't define them or anything. They still love each other so much! There's nothing abusive here! I once saw someone say (essentially, not word-for-word) "All SM did was turn his friends into cards and fuck with them a bit, that's not abuse!" And... buddy... pal... amigo... Shadow Milk psychologically tortured Pure Vanilla, threatened his friends lives as if they were toys, altered *his own memories* in which he was supposedly watching him throughout his entire life to make him believe everything he knew was lie, that no matter what he did he could never escape his presence, and broke him down so badly all in an attempt to take his Soul Jam. THAT IS ABUSE!!!! Does "abuse" just mean psychical violence to y'all?? Of course it doesn't, because MF also psychologically abused and manipulated DC, and you can recognize that, but when it's a ship you actually like? Oh nothing wrong here! That abuse *totally* didn't happen, and if it did, it's not a big deal anyway because it wasn't even THAT bad! Do you not see how this sounds?

This is what I mean when I say "antis are antis until it's a fucked up ship they like" and that "'problematic ship' really just means rarepair." Ships they don't like are problematic (because they know calling a ship "problematic" is a buzzword that instantly makes them win the argument even if it's untrue), but ships they do like, even if they're also problematic, conveniently have a thousand excuses for why they totally aren't bad but the Other ship is, even if it involves entirely erasing/ignoring integral parts of the story and the characters actions. Rarepairs (BS x GC, MF x DC) are easier to attack because hardly anyone will defend it, but popular ships (SM x PV) never get criticized, because if you try to, you suddenly have a bounty on your head, even if that ship is literally by their own definition problematic (sometimes even more than the looked down upon rarepair!).

Shadow Milk x Pure Vanilla is a "problematic ship". It is abusive, it is abuser x victim, NOT in the "uwu quirky toxic yaoi (they were mean to each other like one time)" way, and no amount of you woobifying Shadow Milk and blatantly lying about what happens to spread your narrative that it isn't will change that. This is not an opinion, or an agree-to-disagree situation, it is an objective fact. This isn't being said to scare or insult you if you're an antishipper that likes Shadownilla, my point isn't that "SHADOWNILLA FANS ARE PROSHITTERS!!" It's that none of this matters at all because it's just ships. You're not supporting *real life* abusive relationships just because you find an unhealthy relationship in fiction hot (which you can't even control). Accept it and move on

[foreignswaggersession]

how much time passes in iwtv e1?

i'm convinced episode 1 takes place over only one month and 1-2 days. why? louis has breakfast with his family the morning after threatening paul (aka the morning after lestat finds him). at the table, grace says, "one month til my wedding day..." this is the only firm deadline in this episode, and there's no indication that the wedding date is delayed. the morning after the wedding, paul takes his own life, they have the funeral (i imagine it was either that day or the next - it was 1910 and balmy in new orleans), and lestat turns louis that night.

another key date - lily's death. we learn from miss carol at the fairplay that lily's body was found 2 weeks before paul's funeral. so, the 3L threesome must have taken place at least 2 weeks before paul's funeral. and we know louis avoided lestat after the 3L threesome. so, of the one month time period, louis ignored lestat for at least 2 weeks of that time (and that assumes lestat killed lily immediately after the threesome).

ok so what? well, i keep seeing people claim that louis and lestat spent a lot of time together, even months together, before lestat turned louis. most cite to louis's lines, "it was the fall of 1910," and "it was a cold winter that year, and lestat was my coal fire." i don't agree that these lines supersede grace's line in setting the timeline. one, grace's line is so specific that i believe it's in the script precisely to tell us what timeline we're on: one month from this conversation, there will be a wedding (spoiler alert - there are 2 weddings). two, louis's lines don't completely contradict grace's statement - fall and winter overlap in the same month, so maybe the episode takes place in december? grace's cruise tickets are for february 1911, so a winter wedding makes sense. as a result, i think louis and lestat only dated for maybe 2 weeks.

to me, the drama of loustat arises from their ignorance of each other. they didn't actually know each other before jumping into a intense bond, and they soon realize they have very little in common and actually don't like a lot about each other! but they balance each other - lestat excites louis while louis grounds lestat. i think my assumption of the timeline makes me look sideways at takes that assume louis knew what he was getting into b/c he spent so much time with lestat. i think they went out for a few weeks, had sex ONCE and louis ghosted him for at least 2 weeks. that's why louis wanted to go home the morning after his turning - he had a full life separate from lestat and expected to continue it. lestat was the one obsessed with him, not the other way around.

also, the comparison to heroin was about the bite, not the sex, but that's another conversation.

[daisychainsandbowties]

It doesnt matter which AU or gender identity, Ava is a total simp for Beatrice, thats just a fact

what i love about writing ava is (everything) but also god yes how absolutely incredible it is to write her when she’s looking at bea. when she’s in the same room or the same galaxy, when they’re laying on the sofa in a spaceship talking about a spider book or when bea’s crawling in through her bedroom window after an escaped pokemon.

i think ava in general is such a delight to write 🥰💖 everyone knows i like her with lilith too, and maybe most of all with bea and lilith, but i also just love ava. i would love her if she was a worm

she’s maybe the character of all time to me m. it doesn’t matter if she’s a little lost jedi or a chess prodigy or a child of poseidon or if she’s bea’s homoerotic bodyguard boyfriend or if she’s a fucking space probe - if ava’s a girl or a boy or neither or both or nobody’s fucking business actually - i think she’s beautiful and luminous and she reminded me back in 2020 that i could feel joy again, that i could kiss my reflection and run on the beach. that i could get the girl and i could fall very gently in love in the middle of a not-so-gentle world.

so yeah 🤝 no matter what, ava is someone i’ll never get tired of writing because her perspective reminds me that you can lose so much time to hatred & fear & accident & neglect and you can still come back again and again and there’s always something out there, always the next sunrise, always the next time you open your eyes or your mouth or touch sand or kiss someone. it’s the way she comes alive with a scream and the way she walks toward death with her head held high because she loves, and is loved, and knows that she’s worthy of it

[fannedandflawless]

The Role of Pride in Lily Evans’ Unforgiving Nature—Was It Principle, Ego, or Both?

📌 A gentle note for Snily and Marauders fans: this isn’t an attack—it’s an examination. I say this as a former Snily loyalist turned emotionally weathered centrist. This piece is not here to villainise or romanticise, but simply to trace the weight of choices that never got buried with their makers.

This piece is a direct extension of "Lily Evans: Golden Girl or Something Sharper?"—because darling, some women don’t just close the chapter, they seal it with wax and walk off the page.

Lily Evans is often described as principled. And oh, how lovely that sounds in theory. But when we examine her choices—who she forgave, who she didn't, and the emotional calculus behind it all—what emerges isn’t just moral clarity. It’s curated boundaries, polished silence, and pride dressed head to toe in virtue.

1. The Unforgivable Apology: When Regret Wasn’t Enough

Severus Snape apologised. Earnestly. Desperately. He waited outside Gryffindor Tower, laid bare his guilt, asked for forgiveness—not once, but repeatedly. (Darling, he was practically on emotional bended knee.)

Lily never opened the door. Not metaphorically, and not literally. Because why settle for closure when you can have a cold, gilded lock?

The world often applauds her for drawing the line, for protecting her worth. But there’s a difference between setting boundaries and monogramming them into stone. For Lily, once her pride was pierced—once someone she trusted made her feel wrong for trusting them—there was no path back. No redemption arc. No middle act rewrites.

She didn’t cut people off. She shut them out, and sealed the entryway behind her with grace so elegant it could pass for sainthood. And saints don’t look back. Not when the lighting is better from the pedestal.

This wasn’t about the word Mudblood. It was about the humiliation of having once vouched for someone who later proved her wrong. Severus didn’t just fail her standards—he embarrassed her taste. And Lily? She was not a woman who tolerated emotional misalignment in public.

So she did what any refined girl in control would do: she vanished, left the guilt in his hands, and never gave him a chance to return them.

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2. Petunia Evans: The Sister Who Wasn’t Worth the Bridge

Lily’s pride wasn’t reserved for friendships. It ran thick through her family too.

Petunia was jealous, yes—but she was also a girl left behind in a world that no longer made room for her. Lily could see her sister’s discomfort. She could have explained, softened, reassured. She didn’t.

In canon, Petunia’s bitterness is dismissed as petty. But Lily’s aloofness never helped. Even years later, Lily writes in a letter to Sirius that Petunia "was being a bit more pleasant than usual, though she still won’t talk to me directly." There’s no warmth there—just polite distance.

And when Lily brought James into their home—a boy who sneered at Vernon and represented everything Petunia had grown to resent—Lily didn’t intervene. She didn’t apologise. She let the tension sit, perfectly composed.

If Severus failed her morally, Petunia failed her socially. And Lily’s response in both cases? Silence. Just long enough for the wound to scar over.

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3. Forgiving James Potter: The Selective Mercy

The greatest contradiction in Lily’s story is this: the boy who bullied her closest friend—who mocked Severus publicly, gleefully, and often—was not only forgiven. He was loved.

Did James change? Arguably, yes. But Severus also changed. He tried to come back. He apologised. He regretted in a way James never publicly did. He asked for mercy Lily never extended.

And yet, Lily chose James.

Why?

Perhaps because she needed a new narrative. Severus was a story of disappointment. James became the story of potential. And Lily, above all, chose to believe in the version of someone who hadn't failed her personally.

Was it principle? Or was it pride in refusing to look back?

She didn’t just forgive James—she allowed herself to forget. His bullying, his arrogance, the way he laughed while Severus burned—all smoothed over by a present she preferred to the past.

Severus reminded her of a misjudgement. James offered her a chance to never admit she made one.

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Grace, Guilt, and the Unsent RSVP

Lily Evans wasn’t cold. She was curated. Proud enough to walk away from anyone who couldn’t keep up with the version of themselves she’d approved, and polished enough to make it look like emotional maturity.

She loved James not because he was perfect—but because he wasn’t Severus. No inconvenient history. No public regret. Just a new story she could spin without ever citing her sources.

She left Petunia not because she was cruel—but because she refused to carry someone else’s bitterness in her handbag. (It didn’t match the robes, darling. She’d already curated the guest list, and neither Petunia nor the one in patched Slytherin black made the cut.)

And she never forgave Severus—because doing so would’ve meant admitting she had once misjudged, once invested wrongly. And that sort of vulnerability? Lily didn’t do clearance sales.

That’s not just principle. That’s ego in silk gloves.

And in Lily Evans’ world, they weren’t just dressed the same—they shared a wardrobe.

But what Lily likely never imagined—darling, what she never planned for—is that one day, the weight of all this curation would land on someone else. That Harry, her child, would inherit not just the love that protected him, but the bitterness that never got resolved. That he’d grow up with the only living relative she’d silently written off. That he'd arrive at school to find a professor who loathed him on sight—not for anything he did, but for the unresolved wreckage she left behind.

And Harry? He just blinked. And bore it. And kept going.

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Related post: Lily Evans: Golden Girl or Something Sharper?

[mrsdooggle]

My attempt at Flawless Sparklemoon

[hotwaterandmilk]

Finally received my copy of the first Magilumiere print volume from VIZ Media. Here it is beside my copy of the first Japanese volume. I don't have the space to be double-dipping on things but Magilumiere is an exception.

If you have enjoyed reading the series for free via official digital channels and you have the cash spare, I highly recommend supporting the official release that's local to you (or close enough, per me supporting the US release).

And if you haven't checked the series out on Manga Plus, now's your chance to get started in book-form before the anime series debuts in October-ish!

[beastsovrevelation]

What is it with Netflix shows, and female leads having utterly flawless facial expressions when it comes to longing?..

[captmickey]

Yeah, it's funny seeing Guybrush be a klutz and a goof and silly.

But it's also cool thinking how he probably practice for weeks on end to waltz/ballroom dance for Elaine for their wedding and it's the one form of dance he can do because of how hard he practice.

And he still remembers it.