#have *checks notes* my otp 🤣🤣

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Never go to Ismere without:

- sleeves dramatic cloaks

- appropriate knitted goods

- 6'5 human snowplough of a boyfriend

inspired by @sirwilliamofdeira’s adorable tags on @gremlinbehaviour’s wonderful fic 🥰🥰🥰

for more cosy/festive/snow related shenanigans please see brrberry by @lit-beyond-measure, a snowflake fell and it felt like a kiss by @mumble-muse, Snow Day by @botanicallyinclinednerd, this art by @lemissingmask​, and  November Song by @sirwilliamofdeira​ 💕💛💜🧡💙

(ID under the cut)

[ID: a digital drawing of Percival standing calf deep in snow carrying Elyan in a piggyback, both of them smiling widely. Percival is wearing chainmail, a woolly (on mobile it’s dark pink but on dashboard it’s more purple) scarf and a blue and pink/purple striped bobble hat. Elyan is looking over Percival's right shoulder with his arms wrapped around his chest, wearing chainmail, a woolly purple scarf and a turquoise/green and purple striped beanie. Elyan’s red cloak is wrapped around both him and Percival and is covered in snowflakes as are their hats and scarves. In the background are snow covered mountains and it is snowing heavily. End ID]

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Scott/Jean, Scott/Logan and Logan/Jean for the ship bingo :D

You will note none of these have the aesthetic box checked, because none of these are particularly compelling on a visual level to me- nevertheless they make me COMPLETELY INSANE ♥️

Scott/Jean

MI AMORS. The only conflicting factor is that 90% of my favorite Scott/Jean moments that had me frothing at the mouth when I first read them have been retconned to be between Scott and the Phoenix Force so that's awkward lmao but no, they're SO GOOD, I love them so much, they compliment each other really well and they are SO SO MESSY GOD BLESS like I can't explain it, I love them both as sugar sweet OTP babies and as messy twice divorced middle aged disasters, I love them best at their relationships extremes and they have been through SO MUCH together, not to mention they canonically have sooooo muchhhh of the weird cringe shit I love in OTPs (telepathic bonds! mutual pining! dying for the one you love! killing the one you love!) Scean is good good shit, but I have not found a lot of good good Scean fiction (though I have found some!) and have been tragically underinspired to write some myself... Maybe someday. Anyways, I love them ♥️

Scott/Logan

MI OTRO AMORS ♥️. It genuinely took me a while to get into this ship- for a long while I literally only read it because Scott was my fave and I was DESPERATE for Scott centric stories. I fell in love with them as the inverse of Scean- if Scean is rooted in the characters closeness and the drama comes from division, Scogan sets them as diametrically opposed and the catharsis comes in the moments when they see they're more alike then they are different. The Scean moment that had me running around showing shitty scans to everyone I knew was the Plateau Sex Scene (the layers!! The trust!! The vulnerability!!) and, by contrast, the Scogan moment that straight up converted me, werewolf style, from begrudgingly reading Scogan for lack of anything better to read to frothing at the mouth and howling at the moon that I SHIP IT was the epilogue of AvX when Scott asked Logan to murder him (THE LAYERS!! THE TRUST!! THE VULNERABILITY!!!!!!) God it genuinely makes me insane. He knew he was going to die and wanted it to be done by someone who cared!! I'm literally nauseous just thinking about it! They make me sick, I love them! So yeah, Scogan has a lot of shit I find uncompelling- the bullying is obnoxious, I hate when Scott is written as a stick to make Logan cool, I also hate when their relationship is flattened to make it more conventionally shippy- but what IS compelling makes me want to walk into the sea and I LONG for a comic arc to truly Go There with these two and give us the deranged canon relationship we all deserve to bear witness to

Jean/Logan

The thing with Jean/Logan is- I get it. I truly do- both from the Doylist perspective of why others might ship them, and from the Watsonian understanding of why the characters are attracted to each other. That mutual attraction and the conflict around it is an important part of their dynamics, I would not do away with it! But it is lacking that je ne c'est quoi, except I can c'est quoi, because that's Scott. Like, without Scott there, it's just generic romance novel dynamics to me, which I get and think interesting stories could be told around, but is just not for me dawg. I also really like fics where Jean and Logan have settled into a platonic relationship, knowing they'll never act on their attraction, and some of the other axes they align on can be explored.

I realized I just said I only like Jean/Logan when they're actively cucking Scott and am laughing at myself because that's ridiculous, but it's true. They need to reenact that Erica Moen comic or nothing baybee 🤣 Slightly more charitable is just admitting these three have been my trash OT3 since age 12 when I watched the movies and I can't imagine Jean/Logan apart from that, but I'll stick to laughing at myself

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33 andd... 50?

33. Come up with the best way to ask someone out, right now!

.....yeah i got nothing 🤣

50. Any arospec headcanons?

*SLAMS heavy folder down on table* RIGHT

1. Dani from Sense8 - Aroace

daniela my babyyyyy i have literally no words problematic fave she is an aroace person who is VERY sex favourable and she’s in a straight up qpr with lito and hernando in canon and she’s so fucking important <333

2. Sir Leon from BBC Merlin - Aroace

literally what is there to say... that is a man. he is aroace. i’ve seen him be called straight before even tho he’s literally the only knight where attraction/relationship to a woman or anyone else is not even slightly suggested ik he’s boring but that’s entirely separate to his orientation xx

Tahani Al Jamil from the good place - Grayromantic Bisexual

my ICON the way her romantic relationships are usually a way for her to feel valued and she recognises this and works on it and she has a happy ending that does not involve a partner in any capacity and it’s so SUBVERSIVE whether she’s arospec or not but i gotta project xx

Kala Dandekar from Sense8 - Demiromantic Demisexual

kala didin’t want to get married bless her. kala went on several long rants about amatonormativtiy and was EXTRMELY salty about the notion of giving up a career to marry and have children. girl fell for wolfgang fairly quickly bc of their instant deep emotional connection thank you sensateness then the finale is her realising she’s actually in love with her husband too and having a massive poly demi crisis darling im so sorry i love you but it is fucking HILARIOUS 🤣

The Doctor - Aromantic Asexual Aplatonic spectrums (also genderkdsfklglhl) (but none of it bc they are an alien!!!!)

I HAVE DECIDED. mayyybe they are varying degrees of each depending on regeneration or maybe it's just how they show it but just... the way they experience relationships and how they will leave people behind and not think to pop back.... they like having company and spending time with friends and depending on regeneration are very affectionate and some people they do bond more deeply with and they don't like being left (it's the rsd) and they NOT do well on their own but... they just need someone? idk they tend to move on quickly and not look back and as long as they've got the tardis and the freedom to travel and at least one nice person to run with them show them the sights, they're all good <3

Morgana Pendragon from BBC Merlin - Aromantic Lesbian

it feels so wrong to hc her like this when she’s the literal embodiment of the aromantic stereotype - cold, beautiful, suggestive demeanour, her lack of capacity for love emphasizing her evilness- but at the same time i can’t leave her off this list, and she’s very much an aromantic lesbian before she ‘turns evil’. i can’t see s1 or any other season her being interested in romance, even if she’d stayed ‘good’ she just wanted to be able to be herself and for her friends to be safe.

Samantha Carter from Stargate SG1 - Aromantic... Heterosexual? maybe??

this is a recent one i galaxy brained the other night and the reason why samjack always felt a bit beyond just ‘they’re in love’ finally fell into place *checks notes* ten years after they became my first otp. n e way yeah she’s aro and doesn’t know it and ends up with an increasingly shitty series of men when she already has a perfectly good qpr she’s very happy with and i will make a full post about this bc she deserves it <3

All the female royalty in BBC Merlin bc they deserve an aro club <3

SORRY but this mithian quote in particular just... SCREAMS pining aro struggling to accept themselves under amatonormativity <3

Michael from The Good Place- Aroace (+Agender!!)

which is GROSS 🤢 by the way, kissing is GROSS 🤢🤢You just mAsH yOUr foOd hOLeS tOGeTheR, they're not 🙅‍♂️ for that!!

he makes me feel seen 🤣💚🤍🖤