#lingfan discussion

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

Can I ask, if you have top favorite romantic couples (can be canon or non canon) of all time from any media? Why love them? Thx :D

... now this, took a minute to answer in some ways. There a lot of ships I like, so this was really easy and hard to answer at the same time. Some ships it was an immediate yep yep and others I had to go '... but is it a fav of all time, though?" But I think I got it narrowed down.

So here we go, fav ships of all time from any media, no particular order. I didn't get any specific no. to do so I'll just list a handful until I can't think of any others. (Anyone who comes across this that sees a ship on here you don't like and feels the need to say something about it, stay in your lane this ain't about your opinions it's about mine.)

The main FMA ships

Arakawa Hiromu, nigga, you cooked. Imma just put the FMA ships as one and leave it there because if I do it separately, we'll be here all day. But if you wanna see me diving into why I like these ships in a manic ramble, here's a post I made on that here. The romance in FMA is literally a category and a discussion all on its own that I can go about on for hours. FMA has the best romances in shounen so anyone who has consumed FMA will know what I'm talking about. Like, whenever anyone tries to use a manga being 'shounen' to justify shitty romantic writing, I point at FMA's brilliant riding. An animanga's demographic is not an excuse for terrible executions in romance. EdWin, RoyAi, LingFan, AlMei and all the side ships drank and left no molecules.

NaruSaku

Toxic shippers, again, stay in your lane, I don't feel like dealing with y'all any day. I have been shipping this shit for years, always have, always will. Ignore the fact I ship Sakura with literally everyone from the Akatsuki to Hinata to Sai to Shikamaru. (Y'all I used to look up Kisame/Sakura fics, unironically TAT). (Same for Naruto honestly, I've shipped him with Sasuke, Ino, Temari, Tenten, the list goes on and on.) The way Sakura goes from finding Naruto annoying to almost dying multiple times to keep him safe, I will never EVER be over that. Naruto's love going from puppy to something as passionately red as the thread of fate itself. The MinaKushi parallels. I have a lot (and I mean a lot) of ships in Naruto pertaining to these two, but NaruSaku is my absolute favorite. Like it was literally confirmed that Sakura got over Sasuke and then it got retconned for some bullshit. Saying it with my whole chest, argue with a wall, it should have been them. I won't dog any other ships, but yeah, it should have been them. 699 chapters of Naruto being in love with one woman, I sing the praises everyday.

SakuHina

Hinata's prince charming is literally Sakura. I have a whole ass fic I am slowly, painstakingly writing about what Naruto would have been like if Hinata had a crush on Sakura the whole time. I just think they're really cute together, have amazing chemistry and balance each other out. I didn't expect to like SakuHina as much as I did but here we are.

Kyoru

I mentioned it before in another answered ask but Fruits Basket was my first manga (if you're curious what my first anime was, it was Yu Yu Hakusho) and Kyoru was probably my first OTP. There are two characters I think upon so many rewatches and rereads that were prime game for who Kyo and Tohru could have ended up with had things been different (which, I do really ship as well. Multishipper here guys) but I'm not mad about the endgames that we got. From start to finish, Kyo and Tohru's relationship is beautiful and you can feel how strongly they feel for one another. It's like, wow, Takaya really gave us one of the best ships in shoujo and didn't even apologize for it.

Klance

Red + Blue = True. They had chemistry, supplemented for what the other lacked and we really don't need to have me diving into the bs that was VLD. That show wasn't even out long, my god, it was a mess.

NeuviFuri

Should I explain to you the romanticism of Hydro x Hydro? Oof how I love them. A Genshin ship after my own heart, truly. But if anyone is trying to against MiHoyoverse (I was here from the Mihoyo days, leave me alone) in terms of seeing who ships NeuviFuri more, we all lose. They literally paid people to do an ice dancing program in NeuviFuri cosplay, paid a guy to make a companion piece to Furina's song from Neuvillette's perspective and several other animations concerning their relationship in some way. But the Mihoyoverse shenanigans aside, it's the build up of 400+ years of working together, the care they still have for one another and yes the complementary abilities and color palettes. Not enough time in the day to talk about them, I don't think.

AriDante

Almost thought I wouldn't have a gif for them, then I remembered THEY GOT A MOVIE. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is one of my favorite books in the world. I have reread it once a year religiously since 2017 when I first discovered it. This is such a beautiful novel and relationship and if you haven't had the pleasure of reading it or the sequel, please do yourself a favor and buy it or rent it from your local library. It's just, the way Ari has been in love with Dante for so long and didn't even realize it but it's so, so clear to the reader because of just how he talks and describes him? I don't even want to go to deep into this one just in case there's someone here that hasn't read this book because it deserves to be read and experienced blind. Just, just please y'all read it.

[aeroknot]

the thing i’m realizing about my absorption with lingfan as an otp is that i literally can think them in any direction. i can herd and corral so freaking many interpretations of them, and find there’s yet more skittering in my periphery to be chased down. i’ve always thought that’s what i’ve done with all my otp’s but like... these two hungry bastards put the others to shame with that. my ideas about others are usually way more solid and constrained within the same timeline of events, admittedly with a little give here and there, a bit jello-y, but lingfan’s just.... they’re like a fucking still-dripping finger painting triptych refracted in 59 mirrors.

perhaps they were paired together since childhood and have been inseparable ever since, to the point where they’re already in a secret courtship that’s going on under all our noses throughout canon. or, wait, no, maybe she’s only pretty recently been assigned to him? perhaps a year before their journey? but they became close really fast and it deepens in their journey, and by the promised day they know and admit they want to see how they can shape their future in a way neither would have possibly dreamt of before.

or no, they get back to xing, and they still just pine like crazy and it takes forever for them to confess. or it gets all super angsty, even: ling will revolutionize many things but with a tenuous start to this upstart’s reign, there are just some things that you sacrifice in order to negotiate change you’d like to see in more impactful areas, and she’s forever his shadow but never the woman by his side. maybe all they get is a secret romance, an affair even if truthfully she’s not the other woman, she’s his one who devours his heart but the one he can’t fully have. or wait no Fuck That they’ve suffered Enough for this country’s sake and he will Rip the court apart with his bare hands if he has to because he’s been forever branded by the memory of someone important who taught him you never turn your back on who you really want, those who you love so deeply they become part of your very soul. so they find a way. but it’s a compromise, not only with the courts but between she and him, in that she’s his wife but she doesn’t want to be an Empress, that’s too terrifying for her, and yet even as she’s merely trying to interact in the world in the way she’s come to most understand, with integrity and heart and humility-- just by being her, by her strengths complementing his and his confidence bolstered by his reliance on their teamwork, her deferral as a ruling power inspires him to come up with new governmental developments, like perhaps parliaments or prime ministers or elected governors or what-have-you side-by-side with the emperor, people mimicking their relationship in a professional capacity, who he can trust in ways similar to and as powerful as her influence while never usurping either of them. but even having said that and truthfully enjoying it, i can still sometimes feel incensed all like... Let Her Be Empress You Cowards she fucking Saved All Y’All’s Asses and Is The Reason He Got A Stone At The End Of It All and the One Who Asked On Everyone’s Behalf For Him To Accept Y’all.

but then like.. i don’t wanna be totally impertinent (at best) or completely white-washing/being eurocentric in my appraisal of the court politics (at worst), and just, well... so what if they can only be together if they flee Xing? which would be a very strange turn for them (but one i cannot relinquish and keep playing with in Xerxes AU even if them being together is actually not the catalyst for why i came up with that story; more a ling character study), but something that they ultimately get to revel in; they get to be in resembool so, so much with ed and winry. they become a part of the elrics’ lives as the “free-loading” auntie and uncle to the elrics’ kiddos (the elrics, mei and alphonse, as well as the elric-rockbells), bc ling is infertile as a result of becoming a human-based homunculus plus lan fan doesn’t find pregnancy appealing in the slightest. and YET....what if he just didn’t host greed long enough? what if alkahestry could reverse it? so as easily as i can enjoy and honestly get behind lan fan not being pregnant and like to go down that thought road, too — esp if they stay in Xing and she always wants to be his bodyguard — i can still see her as a great mom in some contexts, and i think of them as pretty sexually active, and well, real reliable contraception is kinda a novelty too in this time period so uh... Surprise Honey It’s Not Just A Food Baby??

also is he freaking immortal or not?? how much do i have to prepare for their next eventual and this time permanent separation oh GOOOODDD are they the next trisha and hohenheim??? i always wondered why hohenheim and ling have the same exact hair tie

i.... don’t really have a good ending to this. bc their love dynamics ARE neverending. whoopow!

[astridthevalkyrie]

Oh, let's have some fun. Salty Ask List, HTTYD fandom, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19

I’m so sorry, I went through half this post before realizing you only meant the HTTYD fandom, but it felt like such a waste to delete everything, so just ignore all the non-HTTYD stuff.

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

Okay, here are a list of ships that I do not get, as in I don’t necessarily hate them, but I can’t bring myself to ship them:

Harmione, Kataang, Zutara, Merricup, Jelsa, Barchie, Jlaire, Rayllum, Jason /Janet (is there even a ship name for them), and Lingfan.

There’s no OTP in the HTTYD fandom that I don’t like that is popular. Hiccstrid really is the only big pairing in the fandom, and I like Hiccstrid, so...

2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?

Basically see above? Every single ship on that last is a couple whose non romantic relationship I thrive for. 

But in a general sense, nearly all my ships. I like writing people being friends more than I like writing them being in a romantic relationship. I like writing Hiccup and Astrid being friends with each other - even when they’re a couple, they’re friends who kiss every now and then. SO, every ship technically. 

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?

I do not care for Rufflout or Dagla or Heathlegs but I don’t consider them popular OTPs. 

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

Zutara, Harmione (these two are gonna be recycled a lot, pfft). Hiccstrid to a certain point, the love square in MLB, Jake and Amy? Kinda?

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

Already answered!

9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?

REGINA MILLS. There’s probably others but I cannot stand Regina Mills, holy crap. She is everything I hate. Her character and fan following boggle my mind so much. The woman is terrible and the writers’ love for her screwed over every other character. That being said, I love Lana Parilla.

There’s also two meanings to “dislike” in this sense. Characters like Regina are ones that I dislike but ultimately am still entertained by. Cheryl Blossom and Severus Snape fall under that category too. But I could also dislike a character simply because they’re boring, like Nini from HSMTMTS or Elena from TVD (but I’ve only watched one episode of TVD so don’t come for me there).

For HTTYD I dislike RTTE Hiccup, RTTE Tuffnut, Grimmel and Dagur to a certain point. 

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

Regina’s redemption arc because she never regretted anything and constantly blamed everyone else and never did anything to atone and literally separated the evil from herself as though the evil part of her was someone else and not just her. Like, she was not possessed, she was not controlled, she may have been manipulated by Rumple, but her evil actions were entirely her own.

I also dislike Dagur’s redemption arc honestly? He never was shown to be changing, he just did a complete flip out of love for Heather and didn’t really have to go through any work for it, so it doesn’t feel satisfying.

14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?

Already vocalized, but some people hold HTTYD up on a pedestal and ignore its flaws. Its villains are racist and antisemitic and the writing is sexist (yes, even the movies, describing astrid in a “sexy ball of fire” is weird). 

15. Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?

Which opinion do I have about RTTE that isn’t unpopular, pfft. Let’s see if there’s any I haven’t talked about yet...

The timing of the show was so weird? It’s supposed to take place when Hiccup is nineteen, so one year before HTTYD2 at least, and yet it’s kind of impossible that everything happened within a year. Specifically in Shellshocked (I think), Astrid mentions that Hiccup has been working on a plan for months, months that we did not see that happened between episodes. The writers also seriously wrote the show as though they had not seen HTTYD2, and while Mala and Atali and Minden are cool characters that I appreciate, BERK SHOULD BE THE ONLY ISLAND THAT HAS MADE PEACE WITH DRAGONS. As for being “canon,” it depends on what you define as canon. 

16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

Have Hiccstrid be in a relationship already. Give Dagur a proper redemption arc. Snotlout and Astrid are bisexual. Hiccup changes outfits so that he starts wearing armor closer to his HTTYD2 outfit. More time spent on Berk. Less of a “gotta catch em all” feel. More villages introduced. Heather is a proper grey character. 

17. Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…

Instead of the dragons leaving, I would have had them stay and beat the odds and gotten an optimistic ending instead of a pessimistic one.

19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

I’m not on Tumblr as much anymore, but I wish that there were more discussion posts like there were around HTTYD2/early RTTE times. I know it’s hard to discuss theories and stuff when the franchise is over, but I miss analyses and discussion and that kind of fun.

[nerd-nowandforever]

Do you have any ideas for fullmetal alchemist brotherhood headcanons I can use in my Post?????If you do send them right away please

Hey! Gods I am so sorry it took me so long to answer your asks. I've been in the middle of exams and uni stuff keeping me busy but I finally got the chance to go through your blog!

I love your posts. And you're in so many of the same fandoms as me!! I do have a few headcanons which I will definitely get to you through your asks but that won't be until atleast September. August hasn't even started and I know it's going to be a b*, I'm an international student so along with finals for my summer courses I'm going back to uni after a year which is just hectic af.

But I can't wait to be able to send you headcanons and maybe even discuss the other fandoms!! I loved mungen train too btw. And lingfan has my heart ❤️❤️ though Roy x Riza is my favourite ship in FMAB.

Hope you stay safe till then. I look forward to your next post

[greeblingyaoza]

I might get shit for this, but I’m going to express my opinion here anyways. In regards to headcanons involving Ling’s sexuality/gender identity. This gets kind of long, and is also me analyzing why I feel a certain way about these things and whether I should think differently... Also some of my feelings/opinions may be problematic. 

I dislike headcanons for Ling being gay (as in 100% gay, ONLY interested in guys), a trans-woman, and even a trans-man. 

Before I go on, I will say that I’m not saying people shouldn’t have these headcanons. Have whatever headcanons you like. However, I’m only expressing my personal opinions on them, and I have nothing against someone who has these headcanons. 

My reason for disliking gay Ling headcanons: If Ling was gay, that would destroy the Lingfan ship, one of few ships I genuinely care about. It also destroys my self-ship with him, since I’m a heterosexual girl who has a huge crush on him. I know he’s not real, and I don’t own him, and can never be with him anyways, so him being gay would really change nothing for me. It would just mean I couldn’t self-ship with him without erasing his sexuality, so I’d likely have to force myself to get over him. 

Reason for disliking trans-girl Ling headcanons: Again, I’m a straight girl with a crush on him, so it doesn’t work for me at all. Also, I don’t exactly get the point of the headcanon because he obviously considers himself male, so hc-ing him as a trans-male would make more sense. I get people like to project onto their favorite charactesr, so if someone is a trans-girl, they want their favorite male characters to be trans-girls as well. But I feel like it would make more sense to headcanon the already female characters as trans women. 

Reason for disliking trans-male Ling headcanons: Okay, this is what I might really get shit for. I’ll be honest. I’m not sure if I’d be willing to date a trans-guy. Well, if I’d be willing to date ANYONE to even begin with (I’m only interested in fictional characters) I feel like I probably have a preference for cis guys. I know that’s considered transphobic. Because this implies I wouldn’t see him as a man. I do consider trans people as the gender they identify as. Let me get that straight. But I’m not sure if I could date someone trans due to anatomical reasons. I know that’s probably awful. I don’t know if this makes me a bad person or not. I like to think that it’s okay to have preferences as long as you aren’t shaming people for not fitting their preferences. Like....I rarely ever shave my legs. I realize a lot of guys don’t like that. I think they’re allowed to have a preference for shaven legs...but I would take issue if they put me down for not shaving my legs. I know that’s not the same as gender identity, but, that’s just how I feel about it. I’ll just say it, I prefer cis Ling. Also while I don’t consider fictional characters confirmed straight until proven otherwise, in my mind, I think of characters as cis unless proven otherwise by the creator. I never have trans headcanons. But this is also because I’m a cis person who doesn’t need representation. 

Would Ling being any of these above things be good rep? Yeah, sure. However, if I had the choice between...Ling becomes canonically gay and trans and people are happy for the representation, OR Ling is cishet and I get to continue shipping myself with him and shipping him with a girl, I’d choose for him to be cishet. Because I’m a selfish person. 

The headcanons I’m cool with for Ling is...straight Ling, bi/pan Ling, asexual Ling, cis Ling...that’s about it. Because those would still work with what I personally want. 

Non-binary Ling? Eh....it’s okay I guess. Aromantic Ling? Ehhhh...I’m not really aro or ace (though I may be demisexual at the most, because other than someone I feel very strongly for, I’m kind of put off by sex and sexual things)....but I’m definitely not aromantic so...wouldn’t really work for me. 

I’m cool with bi Ling because I 100% ship him with Lan Fan and I casually ship him with Greed on the side, but I’m not as serious about it. But that’s it. And if I ship him with Greed, I prefer him to have feelings for Lan Fan as well. Like I can’t see Lingfan not being a thing, but this is also because I’m suuuppper biased. 

And there’s on more thing...Poly Ling. I have mixed feelings on that. I don’t believe I’m polyamorous. I’ve never been in a relationship in my life, but I definitely would prefer a relationship between me and the one person I love, and I wouldn’t be comfy with them dating other people if they ended up being poly. However, I currently have romantic feelings for both Greed and Ling. Normally my feelings only focus on one character at a time, so this situation is a bit unusual. I feel like if they were real, I’d be willing to try to be in a relationship with them both, as long as they were cool with it, and I’d even be okay if they were together as well. I also can enjoy LingGreedFan as an ot3 even though poly ships aren’t really my thing. However, bring anyone else into the mix? Nope. Can’t do it. However, would this relationship work if they weren’t poly? Would me wanting to be with both of them make me poly? 

Thing is I could also see Greed being polyamorous. I mean we see him with two women at one point in the manga. I could do some reaching and say that maybe he was filling the lonely void in his heart with multiple sexual partners just like he was with other things, such as money and desire for world domination, and that post-Greed-admitting-to-only-wanting-friends would be totally willing to settle for a monogamous relationship with the right person. But of course, let’s say he was real...I would never be able to handle a relationship with him or Ling if they wanted to date other people as well. If they wouldn’t be happy in a monogamous relationship, I’d just let them go. Same with anyone I would happen to have feelings for. Some people may say it’s abusive/toxic to not let your poly partner date other people if they want to...so best thing to do would be to not date a poly person myself. 

I think the thing about the poly headcanons is that I still have this idea ingrained into me that monogamous relationships >>> everything else. I grew up with the idea is that it’s taboo and wanting to be with a lot of people or sleep with a lot of people is inherently bad. Which I know is wrong...poly relationships can be just as valid. And if people want to sleep with a lot of people, that’s not a crime as long as it’s consensual and honest. I guess I just can’t relate, so it makes it harder for me to be completely open to it. 

Also I do tend to ship mostly het ships. Which may be bad? Idk. But I think the reason for that is that I usually don’t give two hecks about a ship unless it 1) involves a character I have a crush on and 2) involves another character with the previous character that I can project onto and imagine myself in the place of. And since I’m a heterosexual girl...well...naturally my preferred ships end up being het. 

Also, this is the same reason that leads to me feeling uncomfortable about Edl/ing. But why is it that I’m okay with greed x ling but not Ling x Ed? I think the reason is...I have a crush on both Ling and Greed, so I can get behind it. Ed...I don’t have any attraction to, nor can I self-project onto him, so it doesn’t work at all. It makes me kind of sad, because that ship is getting so popular lately (probably more popular than Lingfan, which makes me feel...somewhat salty...I mean just the number of new edl/ing posts on the daily compared to the lower number of lingfan seems to show that edl/ing is more popular now. (sometimes I worry that it’s because people think Lingfan is bad/problematic/unhealthy and shouldn’t be shipped :/ ) I mean a lot of people are just sick of het stuff, so maybe that’s why so few people seem to care about my otp anymore...I guess that’s valid. Again, can’t relate. Sometimes it makes me sad. Sometimes I try to force myself to like the ship. Sometimes I see art that’s objectively good and cute and I would have shared it...had it been Lingfan instead. I feel bad about not sharing it. I feel hateful. Sometimes I get angry whenever I see the ship. OR people talking about how great it is...and how “canon” it is, like I just don’t see it. If someone wants to try to convince me why it’s good, they can. I’m open to hearing other opinions, but I just prefer them as friends only. 

I know that’s so immature. I really dislike all these headcanons and that one ship because it gets in the way of MY ship and MY romantic feelings. Which is stupid because...none of these headcanons, mine nor theirs, are canon. Lingfan isn’t canon, no matter the implications. Greed x Ling...not canon. The ship I can’t get into...also not canon, therefore it’s not really threatening me at all??

Okay so, if anyone wants to give my constructive criticism on this and say that some of my feelings here are problematic and harmful to others, you can. I’m willing to have civil discussions on the matter. 

Also another thing, is I realize I’m probably unhealthily obsessed with my fictional crushes, and I need to seek professional help for it, along with my many other issues. It’s not healthy that I feel so saddened by a ship involving my fictional crush that I feel like it invalidates all my feelings and headcanons and essentially ruins my whole day, and leads me to not be able to focus on anything else. 

Sometimes I HATE having romantic feelings at all, because this is how I get, with every single character I fall for, every single time. 

[wolveswithhats]

WIP Week

An actual current thing I’m writing, whaaaaat. An anon prompted me for lingfan h/c a week or two back. Got a lot of the fan so far, not so much the ling (I am working on it, he is in there SOMEWHERE). Also def hurt, but comfort? who? what? where? Takes place in the same universe as my Revival AU, so pretty Greed-heavy too. Basically I took the prompt and went in a totally different direction than was requested. Don’t ever commission me, kids, I will ruin everything.

EXCERPT WITHOUT CONTEXT:

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Greed, by some miracle, has first hand experience acquiring forged documentation. New names and fabricated histories for his chimeras–not the squad that works under his command on the royal guard, but some crew from Dublith he balks discussing in any sort of detail–and even one for himself. It seems even unmitigated desire and eternal life is sometimes no substitute for the value of a legal identity.

“You would not believe the red tape involved with running a business,” he complains, with an expertise Lan Fan never would have attributed to the avarice-incarnate. A knowledge on lab-manufactured beings, for sure, homunculus and chimera alike; an impressive array of combat skills, dirty street fighting and cobbled martial arts; and a seemingly endless list of sexual positions, most of which she assumes have to be made up on the spot. Operating a business? Not so much. But he swears once did, wholly legitimate, barring the fake name. Greed the Apparent Entrepreneur, on paper known as Galen Kress, proprietor of the Devil’s Nest bar. “Was all up to code and everything.” He grins, with a touch too much sleaze. “Legally–not so much morally.”

They spend a long evening by the campfire, piecing together their encrypted request for new identities in hushed whispers. Code-breaking is a craft in itself, but code-creation was no easy task either. “Please,” Mei begs, with tears in her eyes. “Put in a message for Alphonse. I don’t want him to think I’m dead, or a traitor. He has to know I’m ok.” It’s not a bad idea, in all honesty. The Elrics had their hands in so many government affairs, it seemed inevitable the information would get passed on to the higher officials, and if anyone would think to look for a cypher, crude as it may be, it would be them.

They settle on an innocuous letter framed as a traveler’s exploits to his family, with reassurances of his and his companions’ safety during the siege. No need to disguise as much, as a thousand other letters of a similar intent are being sent across borders, but they do slip in their code, spelling out their need for counterfeit visas and Greed’s forger contact with the first letter of each sentence.

“This is really the best we can come up with? The kid’s weird cat could probably crack this.” Xiao Mei bristles, as does her owner (“she’s not a weird cat, she’s a panda!”) but no one has any better suggestions, Greed included, for all his complaints. He begrudgingly signs off with his fake name, and as an extra measure, draws a wobbling approximation of his tattoo next to the signature to cement his identity. “If they can’t figure this one out, we’re just as fucked if they intercept this anyway.”

[kristicles]

(I was tagged by @mirsan​ who I can’t believe is peer pressuring me *again* and @little-known-artist! )

RULES: Choose any three fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions. Then tag some friends.

I choose:

Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist,and Game of Thrones

The first character you loved:

Inuyasha: Absolutely, 100%, always Sango. My first episode was Trap of the Cursed Wall Hanging and fell in love immediately.

FMA: Riza Hawkeye. Mostly bc Angie told me I would and I trust her judgment on who my favs will be. 

GoT: Hmmmmm, I think Jon Snow wins this, but Daenerys and Arya are honorable mentions.

The character you never expected to love so much:

Inuyasha: I’m kind of copying on this one, but Miroku. I liked him and he was my second favorite only because he kind of piggy backed his way to that spot with Sango. But I did a rewatch a couple of years ago and realized how much I loved him and fandom discussions (and squad convos) just made me love him more. 

FMA: Riza Hawkeye tbh. Like, I knew I’d like her, but I didn’t realize how much. She stole some of Sango’s thunder, which is saying something. 

GoT: Cersei! I think i just really love to hate her, but damn if I wasn’t cheering for her at the end of Season 6. 

The character you relate to the most:

Inuyasha: Miroku? Not his flirty aspect, but I do relate to how he is usually pretty quiet about how he’s feeling and is usually pretty logical about his emotions. I do get jealous though so there is some Sango in there ;)

FMA: I feel like I only say Riza Hawkeye on the FMA ones. But she loves dogs, I love dogs, she works hard, I work hard (sometimes). She works with a lot of paperwork, HEY ME TOO. I can’t shoot a gun though.

GoT: I wish I could say Daenerys but I’m not that bad ass. I feel like I relate to Sansa (who I think is actually pretty bad ass in her own way). She wants a good, secure/comfortable life, status quo, life. She’s kind of quiet and sometimes let people push her around, but she grows and observes and learns to navigate her surroundings. :)

The character you’d slap:

Inuyasha: Inuyasha for being the cookie cutter Shounen hero who’s loud and rude, even though he’s good underneath it all. Kouga, because he’s just...annoying and lest we not forget a baby murderer. (see @scribefigaro​‘s amazing Kouga take down.

FMA: Ed - see Inuyasha, Rose, bc she joins a cult. I don’t even care if it was because her boyfriend died.

GoT: ROBB FUCKING  STARK FOR BEING SELFISH AND GETTING EVERYONE KILLED. 

A character you liked at first but not so much anymore:

Inuyasha: Believe it or not y’all, I used to not mind Shippou. I didn’t like, him, but I used to not find him so obnoxious.

FMA: I feel like this is blasphemy in the FMA fandom, but Olivier. Hear me out that this is hard bc FMA has really good characters. I would say I just like her now and I don’t love her. I remember watching at first and falling in love because I love strong female characters, but I lost interest in her very fast, because while I do love my strong female characters I do like seeing a soft side too and I just feel like I never got that with Olivier.

GoT:  Petyr Baelish for sure. I actually liked him and I liked the unrequited love bit with Catelyn and how slimy and calculating he was, but the sliminess just got worse and no one fucks with Sansa and has my favor in the end.

A character you did not like at first, but they’ve grown on you (by a lot):

Inuyasha: I give credit to the fandom 100% with this one. Kagome. I really couldn’t stand her when I first started watching the series, but the fandom has made so many good analysis’ and are so great at writing her in fics that my mind changed. I still give her a hard time here and there ;)

FMA: Mei Chang, but only at the very beginning, she grew on me sooo fast. 

GoT: JAMIE LANNISTER! He pushed a child out of a tower in the first episoded for fucks sake after being caught sleeping with his sister. Then in walks Brienne of Tarth and she just changed his entire character for me.

3 OTPs:

Inuyasha: MirSan, KagSan, and InuKag in that exact order

FMA: Royai, Lingfan, and Edwin I guess.

GoT: Jon/Ygritte, Grey Worm/Missandei, and Arya/Gendry (Who’s ass needs to show back up very soon)

This was really hard and I’m bad at words, but I tag everyone and anyone!!!

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J and X 😊

J) Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr.

Hmmmmm this is super cliche, but probably FMAB, honestly?? I didn’t have unlimited access to the internet until I went to college--I had ethernet, but my parents were super super strict and I was only allowed to use the internet for schoolwork. I snuck around, of course, but I had very limited opportunities to do so. After I graduated high school I discovered the wonders of wifi, so any series that were ongoing in 2013 (when I graduated) were easy for me to find. AkaYona, Haikyuu!!, etc. all had active fandoms because the series were still ongoing. 

However, FMAB is a series I discovered and became obsessed with all on my own. I never discussed it with anyone, I never saw fanart or gifs or fanfiction about it, and I knew absolutely anything about the bare existence of a fandom. Even when I developed my Facebook page and got a lot of likes for that page, Facebook is a pretty mixed bag of content, so I never had the “fandom” experience. Eventually I joined Tumblr for the pretty gifs, and I was really surprised to see that there were so many people out there who shared my love for FMAB! I had similar experiences for other anime that had finished airing, such as Psycho Pass! :)

X) 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms.

LingFan (Lan Fan) - FMAB

Lucy x Hasebe - Servant x Service

Chika x Satowa - Kono Oto Tomare! 

I have other top OTPs, but I didn’t include them since they’re already a lot more popular! 

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