#gay nerd merch

[guardian-of-da-gay]

Be gay.  Keep hydrated!

Mugs, travel mugs, and water bottles are all currently 20% off on my Redbubble store!

[reecehaswritten]

TOMMY HAS TUMBLR NOW??? SHIT-

anyway uh- you want an idea from a draft that i will eventually finish? um- sure you get it anyway

Tommy is the child of two abusive parents. he lives in the middle of the woods. one day he spots a shiny compass in the dirt and decides to follow it to wherever it leads. bad idea when you're 12 and dont know the first thing about surviving in the dense forest. However it does have a happy end featuring sleepy bois finding him :]

[basementloser]

I would've loved an episode in which Danny and Dash switch bodies.

I imagine it happens because Dash is talking to Kwan about how cool Phantom is or something, and at some point he says "Man, I wish I was Danny Phantom!"

Of course Desiree hears this, she appears before him ("So you have wished it, so shall it be!"), and the next day Dash wakes up in Danny's body. Danny Fenton's body. In Danny's room.

At this point he's pretty familiar with Desiree, and he assumes she just heard him wrong, befause Fenton and Phantom do sound alike. ("Huh, how weird! How has no one noticed this before?" We hear Wes screaming in the distance as Dash makes this observation.)

But there is no way in hell that a puny little nerd like Fenton could be Dash's hero, so something must've gone wrong. He decides to find Desiree and correct his wish.

-

Meanwhile, Danny (to his horror) wakes up in Dash's body.

He assumes he overshadowed him for some reason, but when he tries to leave, he finds out he doesn't have his powers. He also doesn't feel Dash's presence in the body.

"I know i asked for a growth spurt, but not like this!"

This isn't good.

-

Dash makes his way downstairs, and is immediately greeted by Jack Fenton, who has a million chores for him.

"Come on, Danno! Those ghosts I fished out of the ghost zone with the Fenton Ghost Fisher™️ aren't gonna put themselves back!"

Before he can object he is pushed into the lab and has to fight a couple of ectopusses. This goes very badly at first, until Dash remembers the bit of ghost hunting training Danny gave him and his classmates, when they had to rescue their parents from that big pirate ship.

As soon as he's done, exhausted on the floor (Damn, Fenton really needs to work out more!), he hears Jack yelling down the stairs.

"Son, don't forget to change the ecto filtrator! You don't want Amity Park to blow up, do ya?"

More dangerous chores keep getting added for longer than Dash thought was humanly possible.

(At some point Jack gave him some fudge, which helped.)

How does Fenton live like this???

-

We switch back over to Danny, who is now looking around Dash's room. He already knew about the cute pink teddy bear collection, but he didn't expect to find what can only be described as a fan shrine to Phantom.

There are newspaper articles, pictures, merch ("Wait I have merch? How come i didn't know that? Who is selling Phantom merch?" it's Tucker), and a poster.

(the b-story of this episode is Sam & Tucker running a Phantom merch line, and trying to stop the Box Ghost from stealing all the boxes of merch.)

Danny keeps looking around Dash's room, and finding out more about him through his stuff.

At some point he finds Dash's diary. He contemplates if he should read it or not, but in the end he decides that since Dash is always such a jerk to him, he doesn't care about morals and reads it.

Reading the diary, Danny starts to feel kinda bad, because in the entries Dash actually seems human. He's insecure, and he actually struggles with a lot. He's afraid to talk about what he's going through.

His parents are very absent, and the A-listers kicked Valerie out when her life wasn't perfect anymore. He doesn't want that to happen to him.

(I personally headcanon Dash as an extremely closeted gay guy with a lot of internalised homophobia, who hasn't stopped trying to convince himself that he's straight, but his struggles could be about anything.)

After reading all that, Danny starts to feel kinda bad for him.

-

Over the course of the day ghosts keep showing up to fight or talk to Fenton, and Dash is incredibly confused by this. Also Danny must have a weird cold or something, because he's been exhaling cold air at random all day.

"I AM THE BOX GHO- Hey! Wait! Why are you running away? You never run away. You always trap me in your cylindrical contraption of doOoOoOm!" (The Box Ghost is wearing a Phantom t-shirt, and is holding a box full of other Phantom merch. After Dash runs away, Sam and Tucker appear, chasing the Box Ghost through the street, trying to get the merch back.)

Later Johnny 13 shows up to fight, because he and Kitty broke up for the 4th time this week, and he wants to let out some steam. "Shouldn't you change for our fight, kid?" Change into what? Wait he wanted to fight, right? Dash puts on his gym uniform, and boxing gloves. Johnny looks at him weird, but doesn't question it. They have a little boxing match in the backyard.

Youngblood came by to play astronauts with him, and was very disappointed that Danny didn't fly up to space with him. (Wait didn't that dead kid kidnap Dash's parents??! Also why in the hell does he think Fenton has the ability to fly?????!! And breathe(!) in space?!!!)

After finishing what seems like a billion ghost related chores (and dealing with way too many ghosts), Dash finally manages to get out of the Fenton house, and starts to look for Desiree.

-

Danny walks out of Dash's room, and runs into Dash's dad. He opens his mouth, but he doesn't seem to care about what he's going to say. "Son I am so incredibly disappointed in you." the dad starts, then continues to list all the reasons he is a huge disappointment who should try harder. "Those weird little bears in your closet!" and "Why don't you have a girlfriend yet?"

The whole interaction is horrible, and makes Danny appreciate his own parents (weird as they may be) so much.

Dash's mom also berates him about being a disappointment, because they found his Phantom collection ("He is a GHOST, Dash! He's dangerous!"), and because his grades are so low. ("What do you mean tutor? Just study harder!")

They threaten to take Pookie away if he doesn't get his shit together.

-

At some point Danny has deduced that this body situation must be some ghost bullshit, and he decides to go to Fentonworks.

Then he runs into Dash in his body, and they have a little spiderman moment

After the internal shock and "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY BODY GET OUT!"s have gone around, Dash tells Danny what happened.

Danny informs Dash that most of Desiree's wishes become permanent after 24 hours. They decide to team up to get Desiree to undo this wish before that happens.

It's noted that Dash didn't say the word "puny" or any other insult, when he says "I really don't wanna stay in your body.".

We see a compilation of Danny and Dash searching Amity Park for Desiree, and other wishes she has granted. They fight off a couple of small ghost things together.

(during this compilation we see Sam and Tucker chasing the Box Ghost around. "How is he this hard to catch?? We've done this millions of times already!!!" -"Well maybe if you didn't drop the fucking thermos!")

After the fight, Dash sighs and says "Man, I had no idea how difficult your life is, Fenton. I've only been living it a day and it sucks."

they have a little heart to heart, and Dash sincerely apologises for bullying Danny so much.

"why did you want to be Phantom anyway? I assume his life isn't that easy either." Danny says.

"I dunno, man. I just thought it would be cool to be, y'know, going ghost."

White rings appear around Dash. He turns into Phantom.

they have another moment like this:

"WHAT THE FUCK!"

"WHAT THE FUCK!"

"I"M- I- YOU- YOU'RE PHANTOM??!!!"

"NO! YES! NO TIME! FIGHT HER!!!"

Because of course, this is the moment that Desiree appears, and starts fighting them.

"I dont know how!!!"

The beginning of the fight is very awkward, with Dash not knowing how Danny's powers work, and Danny not being used to fighting Desiree without his powers.

Eventually they get the hang of it, with Danny telling Dash how to activate and use certain powers in the moment, and they defeat Desiree.

All the wishes get undone, and they suck her up into a thermos.

After that, they talk about Danny being Phantom. Danny tells Dash the story of how he died got his powers, and Dash shares some of his secrets with Danny so they're "even". (it's some stuff that wasn't in Dash's diary. Danny doesn't mention that he read that, but that can be conflict in a later episode)

They aren't friends yet, but it's a start. Now that he walked a mile in Danny's shoes, Dash feels so bad about bullying him all those years, and he starts to question his life choices. (start of a Dash redemption arc i guess). He promises to stop bullying in general, and help out Danny however he can. (He also promises to not tell anyone about Danny's secret identity.)

(The episode ends with Sam and Tucker, having finally caught the Box Ghost, only to realise that in the chase/fight all the merch got way too messed up to sell, so it was all for nothing. Tucker throws the thermos down in frustration, the Box Ghost gets free, grabs the Phantom shirt he wore earlier, yells "BEWARE!" and flies off. Sam sighs and gets ready to start chasing him again, but Tucker stops her. "I give up. Let him have the fucking shirt.")

[glittering-moonlillie]

Do you have any random headcannon? If yes can you tell us? 🐑

Random Headcanons for the Batboys!

Yes yes yes I love this idea! Here are some random thoughts from my little noggin.

When Damian was younger, he totally would sleep in animal onesies and imitate any new animal he learned about. He totally had a capybara phase where he would dance around like one.

Tim totally recorded that as future blackmail

I have mentioned before that Damian is a bad cook, but I take that back (only partially). The only food he does know how to make are special arabic dishes that his mother taught him. So sometimes if his beloved is feeling especially tired but still wants something from home, he'll roll up his sleeves and make Kabsa!

We all know that Jason is a literature nerd so it would only make sense that he would write gay Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby fanfiction during his earlier years. No one knows about this except for maybe Alfred.

I am complete stan for nerdy Tim watching X-Files and Psych and Monk and Gravity Falls and such, and creating huge power point presentations explaining the Lebam v Mabel theory (among other such things)

Dick has won Sexiest Man of the Year a few times, perhaps before Bruce himself. The family has the magazine hung up like a museum piece.

Tim exposed Damian to video games such as Pokemon and Animal Crossing and he has been hooked ever since. I like to imagine that Damian prefers softer games like Slime Rancher and Minecraft rather than First Person Shooters or RPG's.

Any batfamily member loves to see their s/o in any of their merch. Especially the more possessive ones. They love the idea of coming home from patrol and seeing you spread out on the bed, passed out and wearing, say a specified hoodie with their branding on it. It probably turns them on, ngl

Dick and Jason really love Disney movies. They could probably cry over the sadder ones.

I want to see Tim have his own coffee brand.

[spidey-x-male-reader]

Could I make request for Roy Harper x reader where reader and him are on a fake date for a mission that ends up being a bust so they just finish the date?

Pairing: Roy Harper x male!reader

Warnings: ///

A/N: I LOVE ROY HARPER SO MUCH AND I WILL WRITE LITERALLY ANYTHING FOR HIM. also the reader is being described as gay here just for your knowledge. BUT I LOVE ROY HARPER SO MUCH

REQUESTS ARE OPEN

MASTERLIST

It was a sunny afternoon in Star City when you found yourself standing outside a quaint café, nervously adjusting your shirt. It had been a while since you had been on an actual date and, as it turns out, getting ready for a fake date was just as stressful. But eventually you managed to pick out something that looked alright.

This was a mission with Roy Harper, you had met him a few times already. You fought side by side on some missions but this was a different kind of mission. You weren’t sure why someone thought it would be smart to send you on an undercover mission but you were here now. The objective was to gather information from a suspected arms dealer who frequented this very café. And to be unsuspicious the two of you should pretend to be on a date.

You weren’t sure why they chose you two out of all people though. There were some heroes that were actually dating that for sure would be less suspicious. But you are here now.

Roy Harper, ever the charismatic charmer, approached you with a playful grin on his face. Dressed in a casual yet stylish outfit, he effortlessly exuded confidence. For the love of god you had no idea how he managed to be so chill while you were a nervous wreck internally. 

"Hey, handsome. Ready to play our parts?" he asked, his voice laced with a mischievous tone. Immediately you felt a bit more at ease. Roy had that effect on you.

Taking a deep breath, you nodded and smiled back at him. "As ready as I'll ever be, Roy. Let's make this believable."

Together, you entered the café, Roy wrapping his arm around yours in a feigned display of affection, you tried your best to stay calm but having him this close was just making you nervous. 

As you sat down at a cozy table near the window, you observed the other patrons, trying to identify the arms dealer among them. The atmosphere was light, filled with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and the murmurs of conversations.

Roy leaned closer, his breath tickling your ear as he whispered, "Remember, we need to be subtle. Let's talk, laugh, and act like we're genuinely interested in each other."

“Oh so you’re saying that I am not usually your type, mister harper?” you quietly asked in a joking tone.

“I mean I won’t lie, you’re cute but you’re a big nerd.”

You faked hurt, putting a hand on your chest but then grinned. “Wait, aren't you the guy who reads programming text books for fun? How am I the nerd here?”

“Well yeah but I don’t wear superman merch in my free time.”

“Oh shut up. Hood has Wonder Woman boxers and no one gives him shit for that.”

Roy now looked at you for a few seconds. “...are you serious? Because if you are, I might have to use this as blackmail material.”

He wanted to say something else but you two got interrupted when a waiter came over and asked you to order.

You ordered and then looked over at Roy who’s eyes were still on the menu. “He’s taking a latte and…one of those muffins.” you ordered for him and the waiter already disappeared.

“Did you just order for me?”

“I should do something for my fake boyfriend.”

“Naw. Am I your first fake boyfriend?” Roy asked with a grin but you could swear that he actually seemed to be interested.

“In fact, yes. I usually don’t get into situations like this.” you said with a chuckle.

“Fair enough. But I bet usually the guys are all over you.” 

“Oh you really don’t know me that well.” you just grinned, shaking your head.

“What? Come on. You’re kidding. I can’t believe–” the waiter came back and put down your drinks and snacks and he looked after them for a minute. “Where was I? Oh yeah. I can’t believe that.”

“You’re not in a relationship right now either, right?”

“Yes. But I chose that.” he grinned while leaning back in his chair.

“I thought Starfire broke up with you.”

“I…okay yeah that did happen but I’m over it.”

“I mean I wouldn’t be over it if someone like her would break up with me but whatever you say.” you grinned, grabbing your cup to start sipping your drink.

“I thought you were gay?”

“I am. Doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate a beautiful woman. I’m gay, not blind.”

He laughs at that and you continue talking for a bit, almost losing track of time when you feel your phone vibrating in your pocket. You get it out to check your messages.

“Are you using your phone while on a date, (y/n)? Very unprofessional.”

“It’s Oliver. Apparently the guy has just shown his face somewhere else.”

“Seriously? Man I came all this way and– hey why is Oliver texting you and not me?” he now asked, leaning over and looked at your phone. “And why do you have him saved as Ollie??”

“What can I say? Your father likes me more than you.”

“Oh shut up.” he chuckled, lightly hitting your shoulder.

“What? I’m fake dating his child. Obviously we are forming a deep bond there.”

You just chuckled at that. The tension that you had felt when you arrived at this place had begun to dissipate, leaving behind a newfound ease between you and Roy.

“Well… we’ve been stood up. Really a horrible feeling.” Roy grinned, the tension from the mission lifting from his shoulders. “But you know…we’re already here. We might as well enjoy the rest of our date.”

He grinned while reaching out to put his hand on yours.

“You do know that we don’t have to play anymore, right?” you grinned slightly.

“Oh believe me, (y/n/n), I’m not playing.”

Oh.

And as it turns out, being on a date with Roy Harper was not as bad as you originally anticipated. Mostly because you weren’t the best at dates yourself.

As the sun began to set eventually, casting an orange hue across the city, Roy leaned back in his chair, a content smile gracing his face. "You know, for a mission that turned out to be a bust, this turned out to be one of the best dates I've ever had."

Your heart skipped a beat, mirroring his smile. "Yeah it was pretty nice.”

Eventually the waiter came again and Roy insisted on paying. Only minutes afterwards you were outside the café looking at the sky. 

“I guess you’re heading somewhere else so…this is where we split up” Roy slowly spoke.

You moved your arms around your torso, shuddering a bit against the cold that you felt due to the wind but nodded. “Yeah…”

He looked at you for a moment but then pulled off his jacket wordlessly handing it over to you. 

“Roy. I can’t take that.” you slowly said.

He just pushed the jacket into your hand. “No problem. Just give it back to me on the next date.” he winked at you and then left in the other direction. 

You smiled slightly, slowly putting on the jacket and trying to ignore the flattering in your chest when you realized what he had said.

The next date.

[ventismacchiato]

do u have any btl headcanons? like just random ones you can’t fit into the fic cus if so i’d love to hear em 😊

i’ve been waiting for this one

kazuha does those laugh or smoke challenges and gets high on stream

xiao is a huge twice fan and drags everyone to concerts and spends sm money on them he’s also a weeb he can’t be hot and not be a nerd like imagine him reacting to trailers and teasers on stream

if they had those random kpop dance challenges at twitch con i imagine xiao and star wud kill it everytime so nobody bothers to try anymore

heizou drags kazuha to go ghost hunting w him for videos and kazuha believes it’s all bs but he plays along

scara has never been in a relationship but he’s been on dates and hookups so after it came out he was balladeer they all bragged about it on twt

scara paints his nails on stream

i imagine fatui did one of those house tours for their shared home after scaras face reveal

xiao does streams in chinese sometimes and childe in russian for fun

i think ayaka wud be into cosplaying also not a huge fan of her idk i’m a hater so i like to imagine she’s in love w star and is sad when they get tgt w scara

childe makes edits of everyone under favonius and the fans can tell it’s him cus of his editing style

cooking challenge videos like the i cant see hear or talk ones and u guys never manage to cook anything

stardust merch always sells out in .5 seconds

after ur face reveal a lot of creators slid into ur dms

post angst scara saves edits of u and fans expose him for it and u leave dirty comments on all their edits of him

compilations like “xiaoae being parents for ten mins gay” “scara being babygirl for an entire hour” “my favorite kazuha high moments”

forgetting to turn off stream and kissing eo

[justafrogghost]

Sup, this is my intro post :)

Name: Conner or Percy, you can pick one or switch it up (I go by Conner irl, percy is now my nickname because i love Poseidon)

Gender: Dude. Male. Very guy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Pronouns: He/him

Sexuality: Gay (but I may also be attracted to enbys idk) (also I know I’m really hot but I’m taken sorry)

Also I’m arospec. Sometimes romantic attraction doesn’t exist.

Favorite color: kinda dark blue but like with a bit of navy and mustiness idk how to explain

Favorite ✨ texture ✨: Mdf (medium density fiberboard) also sawwwwdust

Favorite smell: Mdf being laser cut also sawdust i stg it’s so good (this may be an autism thing idk)

I love all animals, especially dogs, ducks, horses, and goats

I have earbuds in 24/7 listening to classic rock, more recent hard rock (like Volbeat), dear evan hansen, 21 pilots, masked wolf, mad tsai, EPIC the musical, and panic at the disco

I’m a huge nerd (if ur a cnc machinist or CAD designer please dm me I’d love to talk to someone who has more experience)

I wanna build Mars rovers for NASA

Special interests: Jegulus, the marauders, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Coriolanus Snow, Snowjanus, CNC machining, Hazbin Hotel, CADing, Rosekiller, robotics

I’ve been told I look like emo kermit. I’m mid height and always in a hoodie and robotics merch.

Things I post:

Shit about my life, reblog a lot, marauders (especially Jegulus), the Jegulus fic I’m writing, and art (mine and other peoples’)

Side blogs:

@the-frc-frogghost @jamespotter-rp @coriolanussnowontop @coryosnowkin

Ship names:

Me and @starmanbutitsregulusblack have the ship name Ronner ^^

Me and @dracosleftarsecheek are Flonner, an american-british deep sea fish

Me and @touslin are Rerc. Sounds very cool and ngl kinda like a dinosaur

Me and @rainbownerd12345 are Maynner (not mayonnaise)

feel free to ask for a ship name with me id be thrilled :D

Idk what else to put feel free to ask questions and dm me I’d love to talk to y’all wonderful people <33

I love love love getting asks and dms please interact with me I wanna talk also y’all are just very cool

[deadjam6]

MY UNDENIBLE PROOF CHIP AND DALE ARE LOVERS AND NOT BROTHERS

its such a LARGE misconception that chip and dale are canonically brothers, and it pisses me off, cuz some of the things i see them doing are just....NOT BROTHERLY AT ALL!! and if they are brothers.....it's very Incesty and that's ..... fucked up

the first thing id like to mention is they ahve never canonically every been referred to be brothers, i have watched. EVERY. SINGLE. POSSIBLE thing chip n dale thing tha has touched the planet earth (ask my friends!)

in the movie dale stated chip was LIKE a brother he had never had, but from personal experince i can say with confidence sometimes people say this because they dont wanna outright say they like the perosn! (happened with me and my wicked hot girlfriend when we first met!)

but now onto my photographical proof (i wanted to include vdieos but tumblr isnt letting em for some reason :raise eyebrow:)

we see them meet in the movie for the first time IN THE MOVIE ?!!?!? 

Now if you are saying “well techinally :nerd: thats meta, so does it really count?” dont worry friend, i have more

THIS ENTIRE EPSIDOE ?!!??! IS AN ALLIGORY FOR MARRIAGE 

there are SO MANY sreenshots i could get form this single episode (and the entire series) that depict them being lovers. I literally don't know how anyone can watch this episode and confidently say they are brothers afterwards

everyone in this epsiode had RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS ! then they see chip and dale being happy and think they are so cute, THEN CHIP AND DALE BREAK UP AND EVERYONE IS SO SAD AND JAW DROPPED!

and this???? hello??? do i even need to explian this?????????

are you guys doing this with your siblings???????????????? is this something siblings do????????????????

there are TONS! of shots in this series of them with a HEART BACKDROP BEHIND THEM like............................?

if THAT is some how not enough proof ?? i have more !

the MERCH OF THEM??

listen call the corprate mouse homophobic all you want but are you kidding me???? the fuck is this

THIS.

Do I even even need to elaborate

other mickey mouse and friends couples

MOST of mickeys friends are part of same animal couples, including himself, disney did this alot with their older characters, mickey and minnie, donald and daisy etc, so why would chip and dale be any different?! lol!?

now some of you may be saying, but clarice? lol? they were so into her?

LOOK AT HER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT is a lesbian if id ever seen one!

not only that but she was totally hooking them up in her original debut? lol? moving out of the way to make them kiss instead? lol? :rainbowflag::vineboom:

SOMETHING. id like to mention, because i feel like people will bring it up!

now i know orginally the creator had stated they were “simply little brothers” in his autobiography, which can link up again to what dale had said in the movie that chip was “like a brother” to him (not blood related), but really......look at everything dinsey as done with these guys, if they were blood related that is just, so messed up?? morally??? yknow? if that was ever the case then park life as most certiantly retconed that (even though it was NEVER mentioned to begin with in anything before park life) 

anwyays! that is all i have. happy 80th birthday chip n dale! You are my favorite gay Disney couple!

[ineffectualdemon]

Re Contextualising everything about Shen Yuan and Cumplane knowing that Cucumber binged the book in 20 days just as it was finishing

And he was so fucking weird about it Airplane remembered his handle decades later because "wow. This guy has issues"

Cucumber's issue is his internalised homophobia and that's about it (maybe his internalised denial about how much of a fucking nerd he was as well)

Btw, I like to believe his family totally knew he was gay because he's canonically shit at hiding it. And they are actually all really supportive (if a bit misguidedly) and were just patiently waiting for him to come out

After he died they find a lot open tabs of official work and fanworks about the same fictional guy having sex and nod knowingly and sadly. They bury him with the Luo Binghe body pillow they found in his room. "It's what he would have wanted"

(it was not what Shen Yuan wanted)

And yeah he did have a lot of merchandise because when he wasn't binging the novel he was buying Luo Binghe merch because he's a rich intense weirdo/nerd (not that I'm not also an intense weirdo/nerd who binged SVSSS in like 2 days the first time I read it I just don't have money)

But also that 20 day thing makes Cumplane sugar daddy au's so much funnier

Actually any scenario where they become even friends is so much funnier when it's not even a long running fan. It's some asshole who hate read your million word novel that took 4 years to write in 20 days but also now he's your best friend/lover?

It's so stupid and I'm in love with it

[write-like-wright]

not a request but a thought I've been plagued with and need to put out there. Tall emo boyfriend Simon and short gamer girlfie. and they're BOTH chaotic switches

okay so this is 100% not what you had in mind sending this in but may i present to you one of my favourite ace attorney crack pairings because they absolutely fit this description

drumroll please

simon x maya

like i'm pretty sure they never even officially met but once my twisted mind learned they were the same age it got to work babes. like just think about the possibilities

he's been convicted of murder and maya's on the verge of being convicted of murder at literally all times

samurai shit. just samurai shit. maya lets him see her rare holographic steel samurai trading cards and he almost pisses himself because he's a freaking nerd under all the eyeliner

disaster younger siblings to disastrous (gay) ladies

both owe phoenix their lives. would also relentlessly bully phoenix because he's a loser normie (affectionate). disaster younger siblings energy.

simon would absolutely go feral for the idea of being a gallant samurai protecting the head of the fey clan. like mall ninja protecting m'lady *tips fedora* fantasies.

getting mcdonalds delivered and watching steel samurai is the pinnacle of class and romance for them

maya would definitely be a sims or a stardew valley kinda girlie and simon's like lmaooo that's so lame those aren't real games *secretly spends his nights making goth sims and has put 300 hours into his farm*. she owns his ass in literally any game they play together tho like she is in it to win it.

their colour schemes clash in the worst way and i can't ever imagine them being dressed for the same event

he calls her fey-dono and she calls him babygirl

they accidentally give each other (real) matching katanas at the WAA office christmas party and phoenix looks on in terror at the monster he's created (he probably introduced them) when they unsheathe them and proceed to have an overly intense impromptu sword fight

also i feel like they'd have like the tackiest apartment in the universe that's like part a crypt and part weeb merch

this is canonically their height difference do with that info what you will

[guardian-of-da-gay]

The Redbubble 20% off sale is almost over!  Save 20% off on everything in my store until March 7th!

[300iqprower]

id say in the case of karna and arjuna its objectively speaking probably being enabled by the writing far more than any of the other examples you listed bc the market for homoerotic male rivalry stuff (esp if theyre related for some fucking reason) is absolutely insane. idk exactly how intentionally they were gunning for it from the start but i seriously doubt (as in, even a het dudebro otaku would have to be seriously out of it in nerd culture to not know about the kind of market they appeal to) they didnt know what kind of crowd they were baiting when they decided to introduced karna's previously teased half brother who was also the guy who killed him by introducing him on the same banner karna was released on, as his thematic and also COLOR CODED foil, having them have the same linked trial quest, focusing every story chapter and almost every event they appeared in and all their interpersonal conflicts around their og conflict, and also making the profile of said brother hyper focus on karna to the exclusion of everything else in a way that made little sense when you think about how much actual irl stuff there is on arjuna.

at least in the case of nobukatsu or the dioscuri there's either not much about the person beyond their relationship with their more famous sibling or theyre mostly known for being a pair (not that this justifies the incestuous sub tones but ykwim), but fgo intentionally took a very famous hero with TONS of legends about his life and reduced him completely down to one interaction with one man, and then ramroaded him into primarily interacting with said man as 'the most significant thing in his life.' they also took karna who previously was more nuanced in earlier fate works and pared him down to focus more on interacting with arjuna and i do think it was to a degree intentional, even if it was purely 'im sure their fans want to see them interact' (for shipbait)

and this is probably bc they know they can make a fuckton of money selling posters and merch of karna and arjuna together by banking off their popularity as a ship regardless of how hamfisted it is, all while maintaining plausible deniability that that's what theyre trying to do. not to mention the doujin network bc if nothing else, stans of gay pairings will write that stuff long after every other artist has left for greener fandoms.

ALL OF THIS

[strangertheories]

Can we stop making fun of that video of Stranger Things fans at a convention please? I've seen some accounts on TikTok (and I know you guys have Tumblr too because you have the same username) saying that they're ashamed to be in this fandom because of "cringy" fans and making videos to the sound taking down your Stranger Things merch.

You're not funny and original for saying you feel bad for Grace van Dien listening to them sing "Chrissy wake up'" as if she didn't laugh, film it and post it (and she probably asked them to do it in the first place). And you're not better because you have a superiority complex about not being one of the "new" fans, acting like not a single one of these people at the convention hasn't been watching it from the start or like you weren't a new fan after S3 came out.

There was one post with hundreds of thousands of likes and 1.6 million views, and I only found 3 positive comments, all of which got ratio'd. So if you've liked one of those posts or comments or made one yourself, listen up; if you are calling fans cringy or nerds for enjoying themselves and joking around with an actress from the show they love, you need to grow up and take a look at yourself. They are hurting nobody. And the amount of people being ableist in the comment sections make me want to scream. "It's fine being a fan of the show as long as you're not one of those fans who's super obsessed and makes it a part of their identity." Like what do you mean by that? You're just describing a hyperfixation/special interest.

Also please stop acting like you're above it all. These people are fans of the show singing a meme about a show they like. You're also a fan of the show and as much as you guys pretend it now, you probably found 'Chrissy Wake Up' funny at first until the internet turned on it. If you were at that convention, which a lot of you would've gone to if you could, you would've joined in and found it funny until people started bullying it. Especially sending this out to some queer shippers because a ton of these people in the comment sections are saying "these fans are the ones who make everything gay" or "they probably ship Byler". Don't align yourself with those people.

If you're still upholding cringe culture in 2022, grow up and stop judging people for having harmless fun. You're the ones who make me ashamed to be in this fandom.

And yes I cross tagged this post because this is the only way you guys are gonna see this.

[longtallglasses]

Favorite ship

favorite ship? favorite SHIP?

titanic for sure i had a huge fixation on it as a child i even came up w a roller coaster idea for it although ive been told it would be distasteful to execute

but actually sry anon im going to have to use this as an excuse to talk about every single one of my favorite ships and why i love them bc ive had a notes list going for a while…

in really no particular order:

wolfstar - what can you say you know if you know you know they are the definition of literary soulmates. the fact that j** wrote them without the intent of making them be in love is so baffling it’s ridiculous. people talk about ships like oh they’re the sun/star and so and so is the moon which is all well and good but is it written in the text?? do their names literally translate to moon and star?? THEIR HISTORY wolfstar is the blueprint no one’s done it like them and i dare say no one will again

byler - my current brain rot and just may be becoming an all time fave (no that’s a lie they’re my fave) best childhood friends to lovers my favorite trope they are a ship i’ve always yearned for. small town 80s nerds the pining the angst the Horror! their potential is so promising and have become such a amazing vessel for me - i relate to both of them so much on so many levels that it makes the creativity just FLOW

catradora - catradora. CHANGED. THE. GAaaaamee. best friends to enemies to lovers?!? WHAT. honestly this whole show changed the game. nestled in each others hearts they know how to twist the knife but also know exactly how to make it better ! that one intense homoerotic friendship u had when u were younger that slowly destroyed you. catradora my beloved.

victurri - from yuri on ice. this one was esp special to me bc i watched that go down live my senior year of hs so it was quite formative. i hadn’t fully grasped my queerness at the time(even tho everything i consumed was gay…) but i did suspect i was somewhere on the ace spectrum and watching their relationship build and come together through a growing emotional intimacy was soooo special to me and they will always be famous. (also weirdly it’s the fandom i hav the most merch of w/o ever buying a single thing bc i never shut up about this show when i was younger so ive been gifted everything them stickers, key chains, posters, pins so much lmao)

dorlene - badass girlfriends. i have a whole backstory for marlene in my head that i think veers from the most popular characterization of her (she’s been very sirius-ified by most of the fandom which i’m not mad at but!) my dorlene MY dorlene is very srs and very important to me.

elmax - okay okay lumax for the show elmax for personal reasons. el a sheltered traumatized girl being exposed to true love and friendship w/o expectations or conditions by a gives zero shits free spirited max - max being harsh and stand offish to most people bc of her own history but is so warmed and won ovr by el’s honesty and naivety. the way they Can Grow together ! the way they can be exactly what the the needs!

honorable straight mentions lol:

recently carmy and syd from the bear !!! oooo that slow burn

jily obvs

and percabeth that is a beautiful ship of my childhood dreams and i’m so excited to see it play out now on screen!

[snailienz]

I really hate DND merch.

Not to be a big downer, but as much as I like the BIG d20 popcorn bowl, it's another one of those "wotc does not know what it's fanbase actually likes" things. Like, so much of their merchandise appeals to old school fans who like that gritty hard-edge medieval fantasy aesthetic, when most of the dnd people I know are like...gay anime nerds who want their character to look like a jrpg person.

Fan made merch is way more diverse and creative and cool. If wotc wants me to buy stuff from them, they need to stop letting "accidental" racism slip into their books and actually read the room on the merch they create because its like...I dont want a red d20 lunchbox. I don't want a black backpack with your red logo pasted on it. I don't really care for a dice tower that looks like some thing I never got nostalgia about.

Why do they not make class-specific pins and mugs and candles and dice and shirts? Why are they not making books full of art to use for npcs? Why is there not a book just full of complex puzzles that are easy to work with a team of players? Instead its like "here's a new adventure and a red box with our logo in black" like????

Take this store for example, it's literally a store that turns 5e spells into abstract art. This is the coolest thing ever. Why wont wotc find people who make cool shit like this and throw money at them? It's literally already made for them. They literally could sell a ton of this shit.

Or this lovely person who makes like potion bottles with dice in them? Do you know how cool it would be if they would pay this person for their ideas and branding and make them easier to make and purchase? How happy that person would be that they're making money without having to hand make, self advertise, and undersell their work?

Idk, maybe the problem isn't that people make dnd inspired merchandise and they have too much competition, and that their stuff looks like its made for a teen boy.

[sickgraymeat]

(to a gay couple) which one of you is the nerd and which one has your own merch and an axe