#if that ain't a rarepair then idk what is

[sovawife]

i may be cringe but i am free. sometimes i have the insane urge to draw kinnieship art (aka two men who literally probably dont know each other exist in canon) and make them make out. its totally worth it. you should try it- it's healing.

(ok to rb)

[narugen]

Hey mate, I want to drop this lil ask here if you don't mind (it ain't even an ask I am here for something else and with that being said). I want you to know that you are an amazing writer AND artist that carries not one but TWO ships on your back, I have nothing but respect for you, Captain! Don't let the negativity get to you, both the HoshiMina and NaruMina fans are here for you and everything you do for the two pairs! Your works are amazing, magnificent and captivating! Both art and writing! Your fanfics and cute arts are the reason someone smiles! You always manage to brighten my day whenever I see a new fic or art, or just the random posts that pop up on my timeline, I have nothing but respect and admiration for you! Thank you for keeping both ships alive! I hope you have an amazing day, because you are the reason why so many of shippers are happy!

ohhh my goodness you don’t know how much it means to me to receive this 🥹🤍 have you commented on my fics before?? your style of writing feels familiar!!

that aside, ughrhforuldjeodjfoejofjdej <- me blushing because wah.. thank you 😭😭😭😭 idk this just makes me feel so seen i guess bc i do know im writing for what are essentially rarepairs one of which “doesn’t make sense” but it makes me so happy to write (and draw) for them regardless bc!!!! those are my fave characters!!!!! of course i wanna give them stories!!!!! i want to analyse their characters!!!

thank you so so much for this ask aghhhh it really made me so happy :’) and in return i only hope i can give people who do like hoshimina and narumina the same joy i feel when i write for them! <3

[floaromaxtowns]

K + M + R for SaSha!

Rarepair Alphabet Ask Game [Accepting]

Saga/Shaka

K - If available, share a WIP of your ship (fic, art, fanvid, etc., whatever you'd like!). If you don't have a WIP available, feel free to share an idea for a fanwork you'd like to create for them.

Ah man, I've been meaning to do some stuff with these two for awhile now NGL! But some of my other projects have been getting in the way. I guess I can share some of my future plans with them (IDK when or if I'll get to them, but yknow):

Make a Saga/Shaka sculpting work in a similar style I did with AldeMu. Or seek out another inspiration for these two (currently there's a Hades/Kanon project in the works.); Decide if these two will get an acrylic stand in the future. They are DEFINETELY in my pool of options for my next order (depending on how things go down, I will try to get some more as christmas gifts for me.); Make a post-ND ending inspired comic of these two, in a similar vein as the one I did for AldeMu. I've been getting some ideas and thoughts.

M - Do you imagine your ship entering a long-term relationship? Why or why not?

There's one item from my to-do list above, that I saved for this answer LOL.

I've been meaning to put some work into my Omega's future AU for the golds. This includes, Shaka and Saga. Who are definetely together, in this plot. IDK exactly how I'll go about it, but I really want to draw these two in their 40s, no longer officially serving as warriors to Athena's army. BUT STILL, finding themselves caught up with the mess. The fact they make it to Omega's setting (which is 25 years after the classic series' events), should answer this question.

R - Are there any songs you associate with this ship?

Kendrick Lamar - United In Grief

I've been goin' through somethin' One thousand, eight hundred and 55 days I've been goin' through somethin' Be afraid

What is a bitch in a miniskirt? A man in his feelings with bitter nerve What is a woman that really hurt? A demon, you're better off killin' her What is a relative, making repetitive narratives on how you did it first? That is a predator, hit reverse All of your presidents evil thirst

Sad (feat. Afrojack)

Who am I? Someone that's afraid to let go, uh You decide if you're ever gonna let me know Suicide, if you ever try to let go, uh I'm sad, I know, yeah, I'm sad, I know, yeah Who am I?

𝖏𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖆𝖉𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖔𝖋𝖊 - know u better

Delta Heavy - Punish My Love

Nobody needs you, not like I do The moon and the stars are both jealous of you

And I don't wanna be without your love Could offer me the world but it ain't enough Can't spend another day without your touch Don't punish me tomorrow if the world gets rough

[sin-cognito]

Sansgust bonus doodle for Reiko from their Sans/Nightmare fic! Yes I know, surprising ship but hey, it works!

[azulaang-chakras]

Would love to see you go off about Zukka mah guy 👀 (and then idk Zukaang 👀)

Oh, you want me to go off on tumblr, comrade? ON TUMBLR!?

Okay.

First, let me start by saying to my followers that I'm a very mellow kind of guy. If I dislike something you like or even love, there's nothing wrong with that. Live and let live, whatever floats your boat. So long as no one goes out of their way to be a dick to people, no one should be getting hate or harassment for what they enjoy. Just because I'm not in your lane doesn't mean I'm going to throw a molotov cocktail over to see if someone crashes. My parents raised me better than that. Plus, if I find posts I don't like, I block them. If I find people who annoy me, I block them. These are good pieces of advice, my friends.

That all being said, I'm not going to hold back when I decide to speak my mind, and zukka is fucking terrible. If it was a rarepair with only a small audience, I wouldn't care. It wouldn't rustle any of my jimmies, it wouldn't grind more than a single nerve if at all. But because it's so fucking popular I have to see that shit so frequently. I see talented fanartists use their talents on that ship and I frown cus that energy should be spent on better outlets.

Zuko and Sokka ain't got nothing to build a romance on from canon. The deepest their conversation goes is, "I love my girlfriend." "My girlfriend is awesome too." "Sucks that yours turned into the moon, my dude." Zukka is only as popular as it is because they're both almost 18 and they're conventionally attractive and masculine. The funny (and infuriating) thing on that last part is that a lot of zukka shippers want to feminize the ship by putting them in soft colors, softening their features, and/or putting them more in touch with their emotions and feminine side. This is bad because they will flat out ignore their canon personalities/aesthetics and also badmouth Aang, a man who is canonically in touch with his feelings and feminine side and is super confident in his softer side. This boy will wear a flower crown with a smile. Your fave will canonically never.

(I don't have time to get into why fandoms will feminize masculine men instead of thoughtfully engaging with men who are canonically in touch with their fem side, but the point is there. I will also say that a lot of zukka content is clearly not created by actual MLM. No disrespect to real MLM zukkas, but your club is full of straight girls and also your ship is terrible)

Zukka content, from what I've seen and heard of, is full of bad characterizations that ignore the show and flat out make shit up, and shippers will also make shit up to badmouth other characters. Zukka is so bad that it harms both of them and everyone around them. Just for an example on the two boys themselves:

.Zuko is not an uwu soft boi, this man used to terrorize villages on a weekly basis. If you ignore or try to minimize the parts of a redemption arc where the character was a fucking villain/antagonist, you are doing the character a disservice.

.Sokka is intelligent and it's great that he put in the work to unlearn sexism, but he's not Stephen Hawking and he was pretty sexist. He GREW over the course of the series, but stans and zukka shippers (which is a venn diagram with a huge middle) try to pretend that he was actually perfect from the very beginning. Also, if you honestly think that scenes of Sokka being the butt of a joke (which are 9/10 hilarious) are abusive on the writer or the other characters' part, do yourself a favor: never hang out with Irish people. Google may describe slagging each other as abusive, but it's really not. Slagging is a treasured past time of our people between family and friends.

If every cringey incorrect quotes post was a ship, it would be zukka. Zukka is overflowing with jaded klance shippers who took their bullshit from Voltron and fired it upon ATLA en masse like Persian archers at Thermopylae. Zukka is a notp. I will never write for it, I will never willingly seek out content of it, and if any pissbabies want to start shit over this 100% accurate argument, I will laugh at anything you send me.

As for zukaang, that ship do go deep. "If he's your love interest, why is he my narrative foil?" Protagonist/deuteragonist is top tier shipping, as is enemies to lovers. Their relationship, both on a micro scale as individual people and on a macro scale as the avatar and fire prince, is the cornerstone of the plots of some of the best episodes in the series, including The Storm, The Blue Spirit, The Avatar and the Fire Lord, and the Firebending Masters.

I sadly haven't read much of it, and I raise my eyebrow at just how much abo there is of such a relatively small ship, but I think zukaang is a great ship.

I hate that I spent so much time trashing a bad ship and so little praising a good one, but that's how it be sometimes.

[bitter-sweet-coffee]

Idk if it's a ship you do but, sonfinite 👄 for the ask meme ?

i don't remember which ask meme this was for anon because i totally forgot to respond to it not in my head 😎 lol so sorry i think it was the first kiss one right??? i'm gonna totally just say a bunch of sonfinite stuff to make up for this though

ok yeah there are slight (major) spoilers for Follow You if anyone cares dowksksk let's go

so like, when infinite "finn" the jackal becomes a frequent sonic cast member because he's shadow's roomie now, sonic is Conflicted. well, he's kinda emotionally attached to shadow (pspsps for the sonadow shippers but it's more like a therapeutic spiritual thing that's qpr if anything) but he KNOWS that even if they don't say anything that dog&hog are a thing and he can't hate finn.

like, yeah, he knows finn is infinite and than everyone knows finn is infinite and has been pretending to believe the lie for sonic's sake, but he knows and is pretending bc it's awkward and he doesn't care for some reason, because finn is actually a really cool guy and he kinda comes to forced-peace with what he faced in forces because a) sonic didn't wanna admit he was unstable and traumatized in the first place so he can skip all the self actualization b) finn pretty???

so by accident instead of getting with shadow he totally has a thing for finn (ok both of them) BUT LIKE NOT IN A WAY he's just occasionally joining dog&hog as a rental polycule but not in a superficial way sonic just ain't there for traditional domestic relationships he likes the edgy boys tho 👉👈 like they can flirt and have non-sexual sleepovers just guys being dudes

anyways the kiss??? yeah well sonic definitely kisses finn (who was fucking oblivious) and it's after sonic encourages him to like, enjoy the party they're at (he's kinda miserable after a shadow incident) and it's this chapter/song:

OKAYOKAYOKAY here's where it gets edgy

sonic and finn? yeah like a 7/10 they're wonderful together as qprish

... the plot twist i was initially gonna hide but @kagulyhan was posting some god tier art of an amazing rarepair so i spilled the beans in solidarity:

ehem, fleetway & infinite???!?!?! 11/10 GOD TIER

the short answer is that sonic is currently (in my canon) off limits from turning super in the fear that his current trauma suppression and instability will bring out fleetway and he won't revert back

... so of course when he has to rush in and go super because shadow accidentally slipped into some weird dark hyper mode that only happens this one time and kinda thrashes him around a bit bc mephiles and maria and the dome of "being allowed to beat the shit out of your op friends" (SHORT ANSWER WE'RE TAKING SOME L'S HERE) anyways yeah Fleets is back and so is Infinite (long story)

but not like, as villains. as anti-heroes who endlessly enable one another and now that sonic has a sense of peace of stability with fleets (a friend like infinite when in that mode) he can go super/fleets instantly without the chaos emeralds. WICKED, NEW ABILITY DROPPED!

so yes they're cute qpr friendsish who also kiss and flirt and dance together but like in a self-reluctant way but also while mutually having a thing for shadow to varying degrees.

ultimately, sonfinite is REALLY GOOD but in my canon and therefore most of my aus and general stances on sonic ships, it requires infinite and shadow as an already existing or budding thing. sorry to throw you in with the lot anon, but it's as genuinely complimenty as i can get!!! everyone can have some dog as a treat :")

[tantumuna]

Hello there!!! Saw the ask list, can I get number 1? Btw I love your stories, thank you for writing about rarepairs!

aw thank you! that's such a nice thing to say ;; i love my rarepairs

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

i'll put this below a cut :) and a brief disclaimer that I don't shame anyone for shipping these or discourage it, it just ain't my cup of tea. Obviously, answering for the Witcher Fandom here

I'm assuming by OTPs the question means ships cuz I don't really know anyone who has these pairings as their /OTP/ but.

I really don't understand Keira/Lambert. To me, Keira is just taking advantage of a man who is in a vulnerable situation. Lambert's lost the only friend he ever had AND the only positive father figure in his life. Keira waltzes in, and she's not exactly a kind person mind you, and he's falling in love with her after 5 seconds? It feels to me she is just looking for a guinea pig to experiment with her plague stuff on, and Lambert's the perfect person for that. He's vulnerable, willing to take whatever he can get since he has low self-esteem anyway (and has been told by the world he doesn't deserve nice things, since all of his nice things were just taken from him) and is a Witcher, so he can't catch the plague and her experiments won't likely kill him. Idk it just feels bad, and I genuinely don't see any romantic connection between them.

The other one is Letho/Gaetan. I have my suspicions that this pairing was founded on size kink stereotypes, since Gaetan is so small and Letho is so large. I mean, I can see them being besties who go to the store and talk about their pets together, but I can't really see them in a romantic relationship. Also, I'm a firm believer in Letho's a Big Submissive Breedable Bottom so that might be part of it LOL

thanks for the ask :)

[t-eyla]

13, 14, and 22! I love your vids, too, so feel free to answer this with vids as well as fic!

Hiii thank you for questions!

13 - favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

I don't listen to music while I write -- I struggle with any sort of soundscape while I'm writing, too distracting -- so I am going to tell you about the vid song artists I've discovered this year!

AJR - these guys wrote the song "Bang!" that I made my all-the-Wu-Xies Bang! vid to. They have great, rhythmic songs with inventive lyrics that are just weird and emotive enough to be great for vidding. I've got at least one more song (World's Smallest Violin) by them that I want to vid.

IDK How But They Found Me - I used their song "Choke" to vid Chen Moqun and Lin Nansheng from The Rebel (the Z1L WW2 communism show), and I adore their vibe. They're just the right kind of dramatic and rhythmic and cynical to work for the kind of vids I like to make. Am currently obsessed with Razzmatazz and trying to find a fandom to vid it to. Will say their name is stupid long and hard to credit in vids, though.

14 - a fic you didn’t expect to write

Just answered this for Elenothar here -- I got surprised by how interested I got in Xiaoge, but can't point to a specific fic as being very surprising. Including vids, I'd point to Chasing Cars, because the editing style and type of song is not what I usually go for.

22 - events you participated in this year

Hah, reading this ask I was like "don't think I did much this year??" but here's the list and, well, I did a couple things:

Guardian Wishlist 2021: Space to Live [Fic, DMBJ], Choke [Vid, The Rebel]

Wang Pangzi Week 2021: Recast [Fic Collab, DMBJ]

Sundial Exchange 2021: Kite With a Broken String [Fic, Guardian], Chasing Cars [Vid, DMBJ]

Fanworks 2021: Bang [Vid, DMBJ], 9 to 5 [Vid, DMBJ]

VidUKon 2021: Snakes (on a Plane) [Vid, DMBJ]

Vexercises: Lonely Shepherd/Bury a Friend [Vid, DMBJ]

Festivids: Ain't My Fault [Vid, Knives Out]

I am also signed up to Yuletide and working on that currently. We'll see if I'll have time left for treats. >_> I kind of wanted to check out the DMBJ rarepair exchange but didn't get around to it. I'll have to write all my Wu Xie/Huo Daofu and Xiaoge/Hei Xiazi some other time.

End of Year Ask Game