#obitine are toxic as shit

[antianakin]

It's really hilarious to see Obitine listed as one of the "healthy" ships in Star Wars along with such glowing examples as Kanan and Hera and Bail and Breha just because Obitine happen to not have a big age gap when Obitine is honestly one of the least healthy ships in Star Wars and the only reason it's not at the bottom with Anidala is because Satine and Obi-Wan actively choose not to be in a relationship canonically.

[ineffablestardust]

oh thanks :) this is gonna be fun~ (sorry I’m late!!) Thanks @flopsy-art​

favourite colour: purple!!!! kind of clear from the colour of my blog tbh lol

last song you listened to: UrbanAngel1999 by Thomas Headon (the one from heartstopper haha)

last movie you watched: UHHH not sure, haven’t been watching many of late... probably my rewatch of Into the Spiderverse?

last series you watched: Heartstopper (and it shows lol)

sweet, spicy or savoury: I tend to go for sweet (I definitely have a sweet tooth) but I love spicy and savoury just as much !!!

coffee or tea: tea all the way !!! I’m such a slut for tea I did my chemistry project in high school on the caffeine levels in tea (I also adore traditional chinese tea) tho I can drink iced coffee and the occasional caramel latte

three ships: gonna just go ahead and put the main shipping ones for now, otherwise I’ll be here all day (multi-shipper alert)

but uh, dinluke (but like. minus the toxicity y’all I’m in my own little dinluke AU bubble okay), codywan (tho I do ship obitine too, bi obi for the win), wangxian (the danmei pining got to me ok, plus I speak chinese I know exactly what those fuckers saying when they confess and so help me why is chinese such a romantic language y’all fr)

first ever ship: oh boy I’m going to be exposed here HHHHH

ok fine: Jack Frost/Elsa (yes the fucking animated characters okay) (I also now realize Elsa is a bit of a lesbian but case in point, I was like. 11, okay?)

OR Percy Jackson/Annabeth Chase but idk which came first, probably Percabeth iirc (thank god)

currently working on: The Starlight Path (my dinluke prince Romeo and Juliet war AU set in the Clone Wars kinda) and possibly a Wangxian one shot who knows

favourite clothing item: uhh probably this purple pair of skirt/pant bottoms I got from Myanmar while I was there doing touristy things when the whole situation ... wasn’t as bad. but they’re flowy and fun and don’t really feel like pants when they are kinda pants? I wish I bought two tbh I only own one

comfort food: too many to count, my first ever one was Mac and cheese, and then it evolved into Laksa, and then it evolved into pineapple tarts and so like. idk currently would say all three

favourite time of year: not sure, autumn seems nice tho but this is coming from someone who had never rlly experienced Seasons until I moved out so still unsure (how do y’all do it like. you have to track the weather everyday, shit sucks y’all tf?)

favorite fic: oh boy I love so many, but this fic in particular has like. impacted my writing style and just my life in general it blew my mind and made me feel like there was so much you could really experiment with in terms of metaphor and pacing and style and like, muah

it’s Spock/Kirk and a Star Trek fic

I will warn y’all tho... TW: it gets pretty intense from around chapter 212 onwards. There are TW openings to chapters that are potentially triggering. Obviously as much as I love the fic it’s not without it’s faults and I’m more than happy to point it out if need be.

it’s: Observations by anon_j_anon on live journal and hoooo boy did I not do anything else but consume this fic for weeks y’all when I picked it up it’s 300 chapters of jaw dropping narration, like to the point that you can see Spock’s character growth from the writing style itself as it changes? just fucking delicious fr

passively tagging @ourpolestar, @merisscatteredbooknook​, @that1libra​ and anyone else who wants to join !

[saltwaffle]

For this ship thing, Lapidot (because I like chaos)

(FOR THE BRUTAL HONESTY SHIP OPINIONS)

this...fuck. shit. don’t even. look, i used to love lapidot, okay? besides pearlmethyst, it was like the only thing to ship in early 2015. hell, i had it on the same tier as JASPIS, and if you knew how much i still love used to love jaspis, you’d understand how much that means.

part of me knew that it wouldn’t happen in canon because they barely knew each other, and after all, lapis and jasper had wayyy more background together (”background” being lapis drowning jasper in a hell fusion) but honestly canon has never been a huge deal for me. my first real, named OTP was obitine. i was TRAINED to expect disappointment when shipping. so i had my fun and i enjoyed my cute art and hell, i even drew lapidot fanart like forever ago.

believe it or not, when too far hit, i didn’t immediately convert to amedot. it took a couple days as the fan art spread and the theories started cropping up before i started to think, “hey, there’s a peridot ship that actually...might be canon. huh.” but it didn’t affect my views on lapidot yet.

i can’t really name a time when i started hating it. it was definitely after barn mates. when barn mates was leaked in early 2016, i reblogged a post with amedot screenshots next to lapidot screenshots with a caption that said something like “HEAVEN OR HELL?” and my tags were a mess of a ramble about how i liked both equally and could never decide. however, i remember actually WATCHING barn mates and hit the diamond and almost cringing whenever lapis did. like. anything.

sometime between then, it became too much. most likely, it was when people started saying “well forget amedot, our old crackship is canon!!” and i think it really bothered me because what the hell, it’s just a leak guys. shut up already. we had an entire episode about romantic tension between amethyst and peridot and you’re really ready to ship that abusive blue bitch after a fuckin leak? she better have apologized to jasper first.

my shift in opinions was very gradual. but even if it’s small, there’s something intrinsically fucked up when tumblr explodes over two skinny girls interacting for a 7-second clip, but there was only a couple weeks of fan reaction for an 11-minute episode centered on a WOC-coded, fat, mentally ill character.

not enough to call bigotry, maybe. but it just seems a little too coincidental.

everyone knows about the ship war. well, news flash for you: it wasn’t the amedots who started it. it DAMN well wasn’t. there were, like, 15 active amedot fans when it started, since a lot of them moved back to lapidot post-barn mates leak. and once one person sent a hate message, more people (primarily lapidot shippers) started thinking it was ok to send them too.

i’ll stop with the meta about shipping wars though. tl;dr, by barn mates, i was armed with spite and fuckin ready to hate it. and i did. it was painfully clear to me — someone who has been through prolonged emotional abuse that was never put to justice — that lapis never has to apologize for anything. hell, i’d even classify barn mates and too far as direct foils: in too far, peridot unintentionally hurts amethyst, saves her, apologizes and learns from her mistakes. in barn mates, lapis intentionally hurts peridot, saves her, and then FUCKIN WALKS AWAY. how the HELL could we have such a painful dichotomy and choose the one that hurts the characters more?

(and then to have these SAME people who choose the abusive situation turn around and tell jaspis shippers that we’re fucked in the heads? what assholes.)

this is getting rly long and i need to finish writing the petri dish chapter but in conclusion

i used to think that lapidot was ok — when it had no background and a “shit happens” fanbase. but now, the fanbase is a toxic wasteland, their interactions are unhealthy, and it rings wayyy to close to personal issues of mine for me to enjoy.

NOTP. ruins my day if i see it.