#ot3: chill dudes

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What makes Usopp so shippable for you (or even overall, what do you enjoy about Usopp's dynamics in his gen/romantic ships)?

He was one of my favorites from the little I've seen/read of OP, so I'm curious to know your thoughts!

What a cool ask! I have an old post both on Tumblr and Dreamwidth about Usopp's emotional role among the Strawhats in general and his platonic dynamics with Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji, and Chopper in particular. The Dreamwidth post is available here: https://rainsometimes.dreamwidth.org/167329.html . In romantic ships, well, when it comes to Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Sanji, I would just add romantic and sexual attraction to the platonic foundations mentioned above. With Luffy - Usopp is up for silly shenanigans and while he will veto the most bizarre ideas Luffy might come up with in bed, he's likely to caught up in fun flights of fancy. I view Luffy as pretty uninterested in dominance play in the bedroom and I think Usopp would be all on board with that, too. They have a really strong bond in canon and it would be a silly and for the most part - if not always - harmonious ship. (Naturally there would be plenty of slapstick violence when Luffy is being idiotic.) With Zoro - the chill relationship I mentioned in the old post would serve them well in a romantic relationship. Now, I do think that Zoro is someone who will always place Luffy's dream and wellbeing higher than anything else, but I actually think that Usopp is similar to Zoro in that regard, and so it makes good sense to ship them. At the same time that they are mostly pretty chill, there's also an interesting potential tension there especially tied to them both being so much engaged in the idea of being a "warrior", with inner and outer strength, pride, and masculinity - but not in the combative way that Zoro and Sanji have. -That being said, I also think Usopp/Sanji/Zoro makes for a spicy yet ultimately functional three-way-ship.

With Nami: they are just such good buddies and they're easily tactile and it's not that hard for me to see them in a more physical and sensual light. Nami generally doesn't seem to be into dudes but I can see Usopp as her one exception. ...Except I also like both Luffy/Nami/Usopp and Sanji/Nami/Usopp! Look, Usopp is just so great for OT3 ships. With Sanji: it can easily be seen as bros with benefits, but they also both have a romantic side in common, even as they're both heteronormative enough to have assumed that romantic side will be directed towards women. Sanji/Usopp can have a delicious yearning undertone, whether mutually or not. With Robin: here the maturity gap might be just a bit too big (I'm not thinking so much in number of years, more in personality types) but there are still ways I can see them working together. Even more than Robin/Usopp separately, though, I think Franky/Robin/Usopp would be a delightful OT3. With Franky: despite Franky being older than Robin in years, he's got more childish sides to him and I don't feel as much of a maturity gap with him. Him and Usopp have a number of things in common and they hang out a lot. And one more OT3 I've seen in the wild is Franky/Zoro/Usopp which I also think would be a fine ship! (Incidentally, putting Usopp at the end of most of these shipnames here doesn't say anything about my headcanons for sex preferences, it's just a random way of writing the shipnames. Personally I see Usopp as a switch, most of the Strawhats as switches, and Zoro as a bottom. But I'm totally on board with other interpretations too!) Then Kaya of course is the one with the canon shiptease and I think has a pretty good chance of becoming canon at the end. I like the ship - but only if either Usopp is willing to settle down for at least ten years or so on an island and stay put, or Kaya is healthy enough to sail with adventures as a shipdoctor with Usopp. I don't want Usopp to be an absentee husband and father like Yasopp was. I was going to go on naming other ships but if you haven't read or watched much of One Piece I'm not sure if they would mean much to you. Summing up, I think the one caveat with shipping Usopp is that he's pretty young in years and while he's seen and experienced lots of things on their journey, he's still not the most mature character out there. So for these reasons many people in the One Piece world might not be into him. Of course there could be other reasons he wouldn't be their type too. Obviously he's not conventionally handsome or consistently fearless and confident! But many of Usopp's qualities are on the social and emotional side and the way he's a tactile dude with flexible personal boundaries means he's easy to ship all over the place, in my eyes!

[vacantgodling]

Oh no, sorry about the last ask **sent it and immediately saw the post that Alizath is a place** ^^' But please still provide The Information

LMAOOOO NAUR that’s my bad. like i said i talked about this wip like once and never mentioned it again pfffff

but basically the information:

who is alizath

this fucky landmass up north. the smidge of yellow at the bottom is galeré, the country paramour’s mess takes place in cuz SURPRISE… these share a universe pff

what is alizath?

a hot mess basically. the government is run by “courts” or factions (perhaps cults… at least one of them kinda is) and there’s a central parliament that’s supposed to be the voice of the common people. like. it barely is but we move.

anyway tho there’s the iron spring, the titanium summer, the brass autumn, and the steel winter.

we mainly focus on the brass autumn bc the “dad” of our mc kirsi, used to be the ruler of the brass autumn but then he was framed for killing a guy and was exiled.

the story? well basically kirsi is supposed to bring favor back to her family by attending socialite events so that her father can be allowed back into alizath. also so that they can stop being horribly poor (they aren’t terribly bad off cuz they’re getting help but it’s complicated).

the real plot however is found as kirsi starts getting close to people and it becomes very apparent that the iron spring wants to become a sole monarchy. power struggles, romance, death, chaos, war, and more ensue!

but some basic important to know characters:

kirsi: she’s the mc. she’s also adopted (does not know this), part of a prophecy (definitely doesn’t know this), and isn’t fully human (kirsi knows jack shit about anything basically)

jeanna sunniva: she’s kirsi’s aunt who helped raise her for the purposes her brother has. she is strict but very protective over kirsi and her life has been Rough

juven: current leader of the brass autumn in his father’s stead. he’s also one of kirsi’s love interests (end game ot3 situation). he’s too young to be shackled with this shit but yknow. he’s here now. also he wants to keep alizath out of the hands of the spring and would rather it turn more into a republic or smthn.

amarette: juven’s best friend and from the titanium summer. his mama hates him teehee. he, juven and kirsi are end game ot3. he just wants to be able to live his life how he wants.

greye: eldest daughter of the iron spring who hates her father and is uh…. plotting lmao.🧍‍♂️

lord flykrost: the leader of the steel winter and tbh the only one with a head on his fucking shoulders. he values his family more than anything and is ready to turn the steel winter into its own nation at the drop of a hat to protect his family and the citizens who live in his region. very chill dude but he used to be the head of the general alizathan army so idk don’t fuck with him

lady love: lord flykrost’s wife and she’s scarier than him. she did settle down and loves those loyal to her fiercely. she and jeanna used to be good friends but why hmmm 🤔

and a bunch of other characters but yahhhhhhh

how did you get inspiration?

dude i used to love the app game helix waltz (it’s no longer a thing rip) and i wanted to make a story where i could romance my favorite character juven (i didn’t change juven’s first name but a lot about him otherwise has changed lol) sooooo this story got born out of that.

so yah i hope that’s a good overview pff

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Remember how you posted Batcest hate and got Batcest anons as a result?The same thing just happened to me,only with J*ysteph😭The anon found my posts on how their ship in fanon is just canon Stephcass and sent me ot3 hcs of them.That shit was freaky asf and i hope they die,like i'm not even kidding

GOOD LORD??????? THATS SO WEIRD AND GROSS.

like j/aysteph isnt problematic or anything i just think its weird and forced. and lame. why cant a loser bi dude and an awesome bi girl just chill. ALSO OT3 OF THEM??? GROSS. either theyre erasing cass and jason as siblings (happens a lot) or theyre... well. (also happens a lot)

[rosejigglypuff76]

A brand new post featuring our dear little plant known as Herb Kimura (aka; Herb Cookie) 🪴 I felt like trying out the Character Pairing Meme Chart for quite sometime, just like most meme templates that I've looked at over the years 🎀 Now finally managing to get the idea to use this particular chart, and succeeding in filling up every given spot that's showcased 💞 Feel free to tell me your thoughts on any of these choices that I made 🌿 - - - - - - - My NOTP: Herb Cookie x Carrot Cookie I've seen it a few times in the Official Cookie Run Comics, however I felt like it was a bit too cliche between the two Prefer Herb and Carrot as friends or even co-workers in the same garden My BROTOP: Herb Cookie x Gingerbrave Mostly going on the fact that I made them the only two characters in my CRK Kimura AU that can break the 4th Wall And while they don't get along that much in the aforementioned Cookie Run Comics, both Herb and Gingerbrave act like siblings that fight as much as helping one another out My OTP, Fluffy Pairing, and Underrated Pairing: Herb Cookie x Dark Choco Cookie This became a thing all because of my CRK Kimura AU, but even so I still see this becoming a thing Herb in the Cookie Run Comics is the son of a goddess, while Dark Choco in the Cookie Run Games (especially Kingdom) is the son of an ancient ruler It's not written or drawn that much by most people that are into the Cookie Run Franchise, but I see them being the immortal version of "Soft Boy x Tough Guy" Ship I can imagine Dark Choco being pretty protective and showing his soft side to Herb when he gets the chance to hangout with him, an underrated and oddly wholesome ship My 2nd Favorite OTP: Herb Cookie x Sparkling Cookie Despite it mainly being fandom based, I can see this making a lot more sense than other Herb Ships that revolve around him with other plant-themed cookies Think about it as two soft but hardworking boys that understand each other's flaws and simply enjoy being together as boyfriends Plus both Herb and Sparkling seem to be on the more peaceful side of things, and would fight only to protect those they care about and protect each other My Platonic Pairing: Herb Cookie x Cherry Blossom Cookie Originally my OTP, but I started to lose a bit of interest in this particular ship It's cute though, and would be considered as my 3rd Favorite OTP which revolved around Herb Cookie The dynamic between Herb and Cherry Blossom is still amazing in my opinion, showing the malewife and the girlboss concept of ship My OT3: Herb Cookie with the rest of the Juice Bar Regulars Broke the rules with this one by making it into an OT4 instead cause I didn't want to leave behind anyone from that particular CRK Bond Just four dudes chilling by the Juice Bar, enjoying time together as a lovably romantic group This can be a Harem Ship as well if I were to include Cocoa Cookie, a playful person that gives me a bit of girlboss vibes My Crack Pairing: Herb Cookie x Crunchy Chip Cookie Kinda blamed this on the fact that I would be see as Herb Cookie in the Discord sometimes, and same thing goes with a friend of mine who would be shown as Crunchy Chip Cookie in the same website This is more of my 2nd BROTP since I'm personally not into being in a romantic relationship and would rather have friends But I see this as the Crack BROTP, mostly because of my interactions with my crunchy friend with it being a bit too silly at times My Guilty Pleasure Pairing: Herb Cookie x Cream Unicorn Cookie Both healers that look like they would NOT hesitate to fight back for the sake of protecting those they care about Cream Unicorn would dare say "Shantay You Stay" to Herb, although they would question whether or not to say the same to Eclair Cookie My Crossover Pairing: Herb Cookie x Rantaro Amami I drew Herb dressed up as Rantaro once, and I'm planning to do that again! Or I could draw them hanging out together, since they're both adventurous but also pretty chill characters My Overrated Pairing: Herb Cookie x Clover Cookie Similar to the ones shown as a BROTP, I just see these two as great friends and close as siblings Just like with Carrot Cookie, I don't like Herb pairings that have him shipped with other plant-based cookies, and Clover is no exception to that Not to mention that I see these two in a romantic pairing with other characters, which would be Dark Choco Cookie and Licorice Cookie respectively

[kakusu-shipping]

Perhaps 💕 + Danganronpa? :O

Mwah Mwah you're both getting blown kisses I've wanted to talk about Danganronpa ships for a WHILE now and suddenly I have two so very blessed.

Problimatic ships and Danganronpa Spoilers under the cut

Okay so first of all well established at this point in Fandoms with just a Lotta Guys I tend to get latched onto one guy (gender neutral) and ship them with basically everyone all at once, and for Danganronpa that Guy is Kazuichi Soda

The ideal is Sonia/Kazuichi/Gundham polycule. I think Sonia and Gundham are Queerplatonics who are bonding over their crush on Kazuichi, meanwhile Kazuichi is convinced they're dating and is steaming over it in pure Incel rage. He is their pathetic little Meow Meow

Soda/Teruteru I see every here and there and it's easily my favorite Teruteru ship. They're unnormal about the girls in their class together while holding hands and kissing on the mouth and Soda will say "No Homo right?" and Teruteru always just smirks. Yes Homo, Soda. Always Homo.

I don't know who came up with Soda/Nekomaru but it does slap I will agree. Big loud guy X Little loud guy. Nekomaru tosses Soda around like a football

Also who came up with Soda/Fuyuhiko because I LOVE them!!! Soda and his scary manlet boyfriend. I am rattling them so hard. This goes very good specifically with Transfemme Kazuichi btw

Soda/Hajime is incredibly funny Hajime is so tired of Soda and Soda is all about Hajime they are just Bros being guys being dudes I adore them. I hope they kiss with tongue

Mmmm I want Kazuichi to kiss the robot Soda/Kiibo is so freaken cute Mechanic/Robot ships are always cute and correct I want them to kiss on the mouth so baaaadly

Soda/Miu reads so very sibling to me I don't know why but whenever I see them in fanart together my brain says they are Brother and Sister and also they both kiss Kiibo on the mouth. She thinks Incest is hot, he thinks she's disgusting but also his taste in women is based on her. Like Akihisa and his Sister from Baka and Test kind of dynamic.

Soda/Chihiro is SO cute this is again just back to Kiibo tho they are Robot friends she is the exact kind of sweet little cute thing Soda is into he is for sure one of her biggest fans this is also another speisifically with Transfemme Soda kind of ship

I think Kokichi/Soda would be a very funny unserious ship to get in to. something about it gives me Age Regressor Friends vibes

I would love more Soda ships if anyone has any more with the dynamic in mind let me know I am always all ears for them

Now for everyone else

Okay let's start off with something everyone hates; I like Despaircest, but not in it's canon form. Manipulation and worship is fine and all, but I also just love They are all they have on this bitch of an earth Twin Ships, and Junko is really good for that, given how much she hates everything. Mukuro was Junko's last shred of sanity before she vanished

I have a real thing for Danganronpa Polyships, I'm a real big fan of Kyoko/Makoto/Byakuya as a solid Post-Game throuple. Kyoko and Byakuya are sharing the twink begrudgingly

Also OT3 Chihiro/Taka/Mondo?? Love them the trio of all time. They all kiss on the mouth and hold hands and love eachother very much. I want them to own an apartment together and live a very chill Slice of Life anime style existence

Sakura/Aoi is so very sweet and good. Wholesome gorlfriends. They would pummel you to death for speaking bad about the other. Massive Femme Little Butch gorls I love them

Celeste/Hifumi is my ideal I love them so much they deserve so much more. Fantastic self ship polycule content from them as well.

I saw someone once ship Hiro/Byakuya and I think that's so incredibly funny. Ships where the one guy is nothing by annoyed by his partner are always welcome

I have to respect Toko/Komaru sense I stole my entire self ship with Toko from the basis of that ship basically. I don't like Komaru all that much but I will admit she and Toko kiss on the mouth and are very cute for sure

I think Nagito/Makoto is a very funny one sided kind of ship. Nagito cannot be normal about the other ultimate lucky student to save his life. Makoto is dense as dense can be. Everyone is holding Nagito back.

Another OT3 Hajime/Nagito/Chiaki is very good two braincells and their pathetic wet kitten boyfriend. Hajime and Chiaki also kiss but if they do Nagito will stare at them and make it very weird he just loves to see ultimates in love

Whoever first shipped Imposter/Ibuki I love you so much I cannot for the life of me remember where the basis for that ship comes from but it's back of my mind always

But also Imposter/Ryota from DR3 is so so so SO good I love them. Imposter pushing Ryota to eat to stand and stretch and take breaks and go to class and get out of his room and exist. I love them. Very Kazuaki/Hitori core.

I am not immune to Peko/Fuyu he loves her she is devoted to him one day she'll be better be more her own person and she'll finally be able to love him back. Big "That's my wife!!!!" possibilities. The best Het ship ever written (untrue)

Mahiru/Hiyoko is also very good a very specific flavor or WLW that I for some reason don't see as much as Sakura/Aoi despite them being the same type of Close? I think they're sweet

Nekomaru/Akane are Queerplatonics I can't see them kissing but they do need to be in physical contact with one another at all times. Catch them hugging all over one another

Oooh I think Ibuki/Sonia is very good Good girl Wild girl she was a skater boy style. I think they'd be great girlfriends

This ones for that one artist who draws adorable Teruteru/Hajime, I have no idea where that one comes from but the artist themself is very sweet

Not enough people talk about Korekiyo/Sonia they would be perfect together they're both so weird and creepy and I think they'd get along like a house on fire

Someone on my dash ships Gonta/Celeste and I cannot for the life of me figure out why but I am on board I suppose??

OT3 evolved it's OT4 time I love Kaede/Shuichi/Kaito/Maki they are a chain holding hands I adore them SO much. A loop that can go both directions

I think I'd like Himiko/Tenko better if Tenko was written with any kind of good intention, but everything she says and does is written so poorly I just... I have a hard time liking her. I want to though.

Miu/Kiibo/Kokichi is one that grew on me long after I'd finished V3. I think they'd be a very chaotic duo. The exact opposite energy as Sonia/Kazuichi/Gundham

I also like the fan works of Gonta/Kokichi. I don't like the way Kokichi acts about Gonta in canon like at all but the ship isolated is very cute. Full of deceit and hate X Physically cannot lie good boy

Kirumi/Kokichi is very much Carer/Age Regressor to me and I do enjoy it sometimes. I feel kind of bad demoting Kirumi to just a mommy type though

Gonta/Ryoma is so very *Chefs kiss* you understand??? The Big and the Small. The Nerd and the Jock. The Gentleman and the Criminal. It's about the subversion of expectations

Oh and Ryoma/Kirumi is INCREDIBLY cute I have really nothing for it other than Ryoma deserves a badass wife. All Ryoma ships will work on me because I just want Ryoma to be happy. Everyone kiss Ryoma on the mouth

On that note Ryoma/Kaede also whole cute 10/10 would love to see more. Kaede also deserves all the good in the world

I went very crazy for a while for Gonta/Kiyo because of that one manga where they got their stupid long ass hair tangled together. I love that for them

Y'all want a weird one?? I think Monotaro/Miu is SUPER cute. I love ALL of their interactions in canon. I would ADORE seeing more art of them together. Tiny bear and his inventor Mommy. There's something there

One more DR OT3 for the road: Chisa/Kyosuke/Juzo are fantastic and I wish we'd gotten to see more of them before the Despair.

[hareofhrair]

World building meme for Shafan

B A S I C S

full name: Shafanathan Nascar Nishal

gender: "i d=on't kn=ow i just w=ork here"

sexuality: Pansexual, aromantic

pronouns: they/them/any

O T H E R S

family: Frith (lusus), Goonch Mekong and Skinny Pete (Cousins)

birthplace: A hivecluster called Slatterly in the Saponifrey Plains

job: Wandering minstrel, merchant, and general nuisance

phobias: Being tied down, literally and figuratively.

guilty pleasures: Secret fondness for ballet and opera even though they claim it's bullshit fancy highblood crap

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: dubiously neutral good to true neutral. They'll help someone out if it doesn't require going out of their way, but mostly act out of self interest. Will casually break laws if they think they can get away with it, but won't go out of their way to challenge authority.

sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath Deeply slutty, loves to eat, loves to get high and dodge work, will crow forever about their incredible speed, wiles, and skill, Silently Seething At All Times With Rage And Jealousy At Every Highblood Ever.

virtues - chastity(HA)/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice Surprisingly generous, will always lend a hand if it doesn't cause them trouble, can sit and wait forever, and turning things around on a shithead and tricking them into dunking on themselves is their favorite passtime.

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert: party animal

organized/disorganized: extremely disorganized, they live out of a bag.

close minded/open-minded: Very open minded about everything but highbloods.

calm/anxious: Both simultaneously. A deeply chill dude who deep down is just screaming all the time.

disagreeable/agreeable: very agreeable unless they decide you're a dick who needs to be taken down a peg.

cautious/reckless: can come across as reckless (and when they're drunk or hanging out with the wrong folks can become legitimately reckless) but in truth extremely cautious and always alert for the first signs of danger so they know when to bail.

patient/impatient: Very Patient. Extremely comfortable just sitting back and waiting.

outspoken/reserved: Outspoken, but only when it doesn't matter. They'll make sure you know their opinion on every pointless thing, but as soon as it comes time to speak up about something important, something that could potentially put their situation at risk, suddenly they're very quiet.

leader/follower: Prefers to follow along.

empathetic/unsympathetic: Deeply empathetic, to the point it causes them problems. They'll empathize with your situation all day, but when it comes down to you or them, they'll leave you to die and cry about it later.

optimistic/pessimistic: More of a pragmatist than anything else, but leans pessimistic, with a handful of deeply held optimistic beliefs about the inherent good of people.

traditional/modern: Definitely very traditional. They don't really mess around with technology and their passion is folklore and lowblood traditions.

hard-working/lazy: Lazy as heeeeell.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp: Shafan x A Rich Highblood Sugar Daddy

ot3: Shafan x pain and suffering

brotp: Shafan x Goonch

notp: Shafan x therapy

Shafan doesn't really have any ships yet. Hit me up!! I'm looking at you!! Especially if you have villain trolls, bad dudes, scumbags and fellow hobos! Bonus points for monsters!!

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i want to hear your ship hot takes, feel free to ramble about them here!

I will limit this to 5

Ships, where one of the characters has very little development going on outside of their relationship with the other char, get boring really quickly even when the dynamic between the chars is nice. The main ones I can think of are Ranpoe and Bachisagi, they're both ships I really liked at the start and now find only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry. In Ranpoe's case, the problem comes from Poe being a minor character whereas Ranpo is a major character, so Poe is never really gonna get much development for any other possible relationships he could have. For Bachisagi, the problem started after the 2nd selection ended where Bachira basically got demoted to a minor character whose only deep relationship is with Isagi. Bachira clearly has other friends but his other friendships feel so superficial, he's never allowed to just be alone with one of them for an entire scene (the closest he got was Rin and that ended up being forgotten too). I can say more about Bachira's relationship with Lavinho than his friendship with Chigiri, even though he's known Chigiri for way longer and likes him enough to hang out with him while not needing Isagi to be there. I just really need both characters to be fully fleshed out in situations where they're not with each other, especially when they're major characters.

Reki x Langa is the only best friends ship in a sports anime that I love. In some cases, the bromance is so good that making it romantic kinda ruins it for me (Kuroko and Kagami, Hinata and Kageyama...) and even when it's not an amazing bromance, making it romantic still kinda ruins it for me. But for some reason, Ranga just avoids being ruined when romantic, idk why.

Continuing with the sports anime and best friends theme, I always hate the lazy guy x his best friend. Every single time, it doesn't matter what, it is a canon event and I can't stop it. Heck, even when the lazy guy is actually just faking laziness like Tsukishima in Haikyuu, that ain't stopping that 100% hate rate.

Ships, where both characters have a perfect relationship, are the most boring ones, especially when the only conflicts in their relationship are purely caused by external factors. Like Eliwood x Ninian from FE7 is so goddamn boring. If you were to put them in a modern AU with 0 fantasy/magic, there would be literally nothing of interest going on. If I can't put a ship in a mundane modern AU without it becoming uninteresting, it's just not a good ship to me. Purely fluffy ships are cute for a while but they get old so fast if there's no source of inner conflict. You can have two ships with similar dynamics and the one with inner conflict will always be more interesting to me. The inner conflict doesn't need to always have to result in the characters fighting btw, it's usually just the most entertaining form of it. For example, Nagisagi and Kurosagi have similar dynamics on the surface (both being Isagi paired up with a chill guy who doesn't emote much) but Nagisagi has inner conflict whereas Kurosagi is kinda just fluff.

There needs to be more harem where the person with the harem actually dates the entire harem. I've always been a pretty big multishipper and there are times when I've shipped a character with basically every reasonable option possible. But I never really cared to go beyond OT3s. That is until BL got me into harems and I started reading The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You. It's about a dude who keeps dating more and more girls at the same time (Rentarou is a giga chad, he actually loves them all without favoring one over the others and his GFs end up becoming close friends with each other). It's always fun to read fics about everyone loving the fandom bike but the fandom bike only ever loves one back or never chooses. The ones where there is some action with more than one char are usually when the MC kinda plays around with everyone but never fully commits. Like, even in the harem genre, it's a very unexplored dynamic with it usually just being saved for the end as a cop-out to make everyone happy that their best girl is happy with the MC. I need more giga chads who can handle an entire harem. Kill all the Kazuyas and give the world more Rentarous, harem manga writers.

[ultraviolet-ink]

Hi. Have you done Madame Tusspells for the ask meme yet?

Oh! I love her, and I'm glad you asked about her! Goth GF time!! Prompts Here!

Sexuality Headcanon: TBH she's pretty nebulous to me. I think she's definitely some degree of greyromantic and Asexual, because that really feels like it fits to me for some reason lol. I think Queer is also a really good descriptor for her (fun fact! Queer started to get it's modern usage by around 1894! (Also, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Ninteenth Century by Graham Robb, is a fantastic read and I recommend it!))

Gender Headcanon: I think she's a demigirl, she's just a quirky gorl who isn't entirely one haha!

A ship I have with said character: I really enjoy DrebbSpells a lot! They're both gothic and gender and I want to be them so much. I also woke up from a fever dream once about an OT3 with her, Drebber, and Harebrayne. Like, damn, Albert, you get to have TWO big tiddy goth GFs??

A BROTP I have with said character: I enjoy her dynamic with her and Sholmes lmao. It feels like she would threaten to murder him, but like, in a friendly way where he knows she won't do it but people who don't know them are like "dude, I think she's serious"

A NOTP I have with said character: I don't think she has enough ships to have a NoTP... or maybe I'm super chill when it comes about that. I'm finding that I don't really have any NoTPs/strong feelings towards them that I can name unless it's a few rare cases which haven't come up yet

A random headcanon: She personally traveled to Russia during the revolution to get some casts of the Romanov family, but eventually came home with Lenin because everyone told her no... homegirl is DEDICATED to her craft (she is forever pissed that she never got to make death masks of the royal family so she spread rumors that various members were actually alive out of petty revenge)

General opinion over said Character: She is the love of my life, I love her vibe and her aesthetic, her theme is an absolute banger, and I love how she gives no fucks about anything. Random 16 year old doesn't care about digging up a freshly executed corpse, she's just there for the grind. She would absolutely love the 70s Goth Rock scene.

[i-did-not-mean-to]

THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!! 😭

Celegorm calling Maeglin his! Please you are so good! I can't believe you added my stupid way of describing the sound of a gun 🤣 oh that was sweet, fluffy and chilling too! Eöl out of the way now Aredhel and Celegorm can love and raise Maeglin together ❤️

Thank you for writing it! I loved every word! Beautiful! Just beautiful 😍 🤩 👌 ❤️ ♥️ 💕

There's crack family for you and a small thank you:

Aredhel: The best part of an oreo is the cookie part, not the frosting. Deal with it.

Celegorm: Darkness without light is an abyss. Light without darkness is blinding. You cannot have a coin with one side.

Maeglin : YO SOCRATES! IT'S A FUCKING COOKIE!

***

Aredhel, at Celegorm: Would you like to stay for dinner?

Maeglin , from the other room: Would you like to stay forever!?!

***

Maeglin : Do you mind if I slyly mention that you’re single to my mom?

Celegorm: Do not do that.

Maeglin : You won’t even notice!

Aredhel, entering: Maeglin , you wanted to see me, sweet pea?

Maeglin : Mom, Celegorm's single

Celegorm:

AAAAAAH Crack Anon...I am so glad you liked it...

I am stressing over here, thinking "Did you just MURDER the dude????" and then...well...OMG hahaha I am such a good bean usually, and this is entirely new hahah 🙈

And yes, if Eöl was out of the picture, Maeglin would grow up to be less unloved and he would not betray poor Turgon...(because @jaz-the-bard's OT3...everything would come up roses)

That was what I told myself to legitimate killing the poor bugger...

🙈🙈🙈

Also, baby Maeglin would be a creepy but weirdly endearing kid. There's my HC. Celegorm has seen worse; he's grown up with Caranthir and Curufin; the secretive, brooding little one wouldn't faze him in the least.

Just imagine Maeglin growing up with his own family...

[donttouchtheneednoggle]

just finished the two towers and I am getting such massive perelyan vibes from gimli and legolas omg

their Just Some Guy vibes are off the CHARTS they have nothing to do with the main plot no dramatic emotional journeys they're just there helping out doin their own thing having their own chill relationship

PLUS short, dramatic, really kind, often-being-teased blacksmith having good natured banter with a tall, laid back,barely-any-personality-except-when-they're-around-the-other-guy with near supernatural talent at killing people dude-

plus aragorn is so like gwaine it works out really well for the ot3 :')

[rabidpotato]

I have Castlevania brain rot send help

Ho boy. I have FEELINGS.

Season 4 spoilers and (longwinded) Discourse(TM) below the cut

A happy ending? In MY Castlevanias? It’s more likely than you think. With as grimdark as the series has been I fully expected to have my heart torn out and shat on, so to get an actual satisfying happy ending was a whole lungful of fresh air. Gimme that sweet sweet rush of Everybody Lives Nobody Dies, I need that shit pumped straight into my poor serotonin-starved brain.

What a hell of a season. There was enough material there for at least two seasons (and I would have LOVED to have two seasons, but that’s just because I’m greedy and want more…) and I was skeptical that they could even try to wrap up all those threads..and then they DID IT. Hot damn.

Hot Takes:

In this house we stan Greta and will tolerate no disrespect against our sword-and-hammer wielding queen. I love her, and I love her and Alucard’s dynamic with the deliberate parallels to Dracula and Lisa. I think she’s good for him.

TREVOR AND SYPHA UGH I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH I’m out here crying ugly tears at how much this stinky himbo and tiny nuke love each other ;______; Battle Couple OTP.

I would watch the shit out of an entire season of everybody building the new village and Trevor and Sypha learning how to be parents and Alucard and Greta getting closer and everybody just being HAPPY. This is because I am trash, not because there would actually be any storytelling value in such a thing. Same thing with onscreen kisses between Trevor and Sypha. Is it necessary? No. Doesn’t mean I don’t want it. But hey, that’s what fandom is for, right? I’ll just be over here drawing beetus-inducing fluff and being vaguely disgusted with myself.

Papa Trevor would be so soft. I think my ovaries just exploded.

I 100% expected Trevor to die and leave Sypha grieving and pregnant with the way they teased it in the trailer and the way it would have thematically fit with the rest of the series, and I am SO GLAD he didn’t. I’m tired of sad endings. I really love that he gets to be part of this world of people who know how to build things.

“I love you.” “I know.”

That single flash of Sypha’s face as he’s fading out knowing he’s going to die and being at peace with it, augh my fucking heart. T_T

Horse is secret MVP. That horse knows things.

Isaac confirmed for a) stand user and b) monster fucker. King out here living his best life, you love to see it.

But for reals tho, Isaac’s arc was one of my favorites. Nice fakeout with the conquest line in the trailer. The philosophical discussions on the nature of humans and night creatures, the way he comes to realize that he (and Hector, and by extension his own night creatures) is/are more than a tool to be used in the hands of others, the way he reclaims his own agency and decides he’s going to live...I fucking loved it. (Also paves the way for post-series forgehusbands…)

SO FUCKING HAPPY FOR STRIGA AND MORANA. I was holding my breath expecting them to get horribly killed the entire time and then they just...weren’t. The hot vampire wives got to literally ride off into the sunset (sunrise?) together, in a way that made sense. The General and the Organizer looked at the data on the ground, discussed, and made the calculated decision to stick with what really matters to them, not just Carmilla’s ambitions. More of this, please! Would have loved to see Striga fight more than once, though. Also I would shank a man for Morana’s cape.

Respect for Carmilla for going out on her own terms, even if it did feel a little heavy-handed. The cinematography of her and Isaac’s fight sure as hell made up for it though- that was one of the prettiest fights of the series.

Reunited trio’s fight was the other prettiest fight of the series. Holy fuck, what gorgeous animation.

I actually liked that St Germain’s lady friend never spoke- it reinforced the way that he has mythologized her to the point where she’s not even a person, just an ideal. It was also exactly what he deserved that she turned her back on him in the end. She’s just not that into you, bro.

Varney is a hoot. A greasy, flea-infested slimy hoot. Nice twist, too. Death’s design is *chef kiss*

Loved the themes of moving on and rebuilding and change and how there’s a pretty clear split between the people who are able to adapt and change (and live), and those “relics of the old world” who can’t or won’t. Ratko was criminally underused in this respect. I think there just wasn’t enough time.

Quibbles:

Pacing. I know Castlevania is notorious for uneven pacing, but in this case I think this is on Netflix- they should have been given a full two seasons to wrap this up, just to give things a chance to breathe. As it was, though, I think the writers did the best possible job given the constraints they were under.

Zamfir should have lived to learn the lesson about caring for the people who are still alive, and been the one to take charge of rebuilding Targoviste for the living. Having her die was straight-up pointless in a predictable way.

Did Trevor just straight-up forget he has TWO weapons with range when fighting Ratko? You have like a 30 foot reach what are you doing bro

Lenore is Problematic, and I wish there had been more tension between her and Hector. Like, I know Stockholm Syndrome is a thing, but he’s weirdly chill with her in a way that glosses over just what she did to him. Also I would have liked to see more self-awareness of “Oh, being a pet in a cage really is shitty, no matter how nice the cage. Now I know why what I did to you was wrong” before she dips. Her ending sure was poetic, though.

Wasn’t Trevor’s left arm broken in that last fight? How the heck is he even able to use it at the end? Also damn dude it’s been two weeks you should probably at least have washed those gaping wounds by now. Do you want sepsis? Because that’s how you get sepsis.

Unpopular Opinions:

Look I love Dracula/Lisa as much as the next shipper but “Hey we’re alive again for some reason!!” was totally out of left field. It felt like something out of a fix-it fic and it was just kinda baffling and jarring. Also go see your fucking kid, jfc you two are terrible parents.

Is Lisa just...kinda fine with the fact that Dracula tried to commit genocide in her name and almost killed their son? That must have been an awkward conversation.

I’m actually cool with Alucard spilling his life story to Greta on the march. He’s starving for human interaction, who’s to say he wouldn’t just want to TALK about what he’s been through? It’s treated in a way that’s a bit flippant for my taste, but we’ve seen enough of his trauma onscreen. I want to focus on his healing.

I’m hesitant to kick this particular hornet’s nest, but I really don’t think the ot3 has to be sexual? If it is, it damn well be an ot4 polycule with Greta. I see them more as two couples that are close friends and found family. But that’s the great thing about fandom! Rock on, shippers of all flavors, there’s room enough for everybody.

In Conclusion (jesus fuck how much did I write)

Castlevania pretty

Have you seen my braincell I think I misplaced it

Moar plz

[kai-harada]

Mikitaka and/or pucci based on what youve seen so far of part 6? :)

Mikitaka

do I like them: oh my god he is one of my Favorite side jojo characters, I loved him from the first moment he popped up :')))

5 good qualities:

1. I love that its never revealed if he's an alien or just a stand user tbh, I really like that not a lot about him is answered!! He's a mystery in a lot of ways and that's such a Vibe

2. Him fucking going through with Josuke's plan to scam Rohan even if he wasn't filled in on completely what was going on alksfjsjdkf I love that he did that, so kind of him

3. He's got tboy swag

4. The fact that he loves animals and has a pet mouse

5. Basically just Him in general ngl

bad qualities: none. I can think of None.

favourite episode/etc: any of the episodes he appears in, I could never get enough of seeing that dude

otp: happiness, joy, just good stuff in general

brotp: him and the Koichi and Josuke and Okuyasu!!

ot3: happiness and joy and good stuff

notp: any adult

best quote: Just all of when he's trying to befriend Okuyasu and Josuke, it was all just so endearing y'know?

head canon: like kakyoin, i headcanon him as autistic too!! Sarcasm going over his head, his mannerisms and dialogue being a bit awkward, just Big Mood, he reads as neurodivergent to me

Pucci

do I like them: yesssss he's so cool so far. I'm so excited to learn more about him

5 good qualities:

1. He's so ruthless. The whole thing where he exploded a frog at the guard or how he inserted a disc into Miraschon?? Chills

2. His intelligence, how he can so effortless convince others he's nothing more than a priest

3. The contrast between him and Dio, with Dio being so flamboyant and over the top while Pucci seeming co much more reserved, just Pucci's whole vibe in general is so awesome to me

4.Just from what I've seen of him I'm really excited to see more of him?? Just he's so intriguing and he very well could become one of my favorite JoJo villains ngl

5. He makes me feel kinda fruity, he's just uhhhh👀👀👀

3 bad qualities: Tbh just one and that is he wasn't in enough episodes of the anime so far alskdsa

favourite episode/etc: The raining frogs one, just seeing him interact with Jolyne for that short period was so intense oh my god

otp: no one really

brotp: him and dio have an interesting student/teacher sort of deal!! I can't wait to see how that came about and stuff

ot3: nobody

notp: Him and Dio, also him and Jolyne, both are so eurghghhgh

best quote: When he was talking about how humans only do kind things to expect kind things in return, just hearing how he sees the world and what his thoughts are in general are just So Interesting

head canon: Considering how I've seen hi interact with Whitesnake so far, I wonder if he talks to his stand a lot. I feel like he is a really meticulous planner and I could envision him organizing his thoughts through conversing with Whitesnake

[jaggedwolf]

air support, we need you (or: tscosi 2x09)

some bomb dropping, ofc, spoilers below duh

same game, top three things i had feelings ‘bout in reverse order

3. time skip time! Everyone could use a bit of a breather, even if it can’t live up to Arkady’s goat farm dreams

I thought all the planet assignments made sense, even if the completionist in me wanted it to differ more from the split that had already happened this season

ok ok the shipper in me was 50-50 but we’ll address that later

2. my man park!! is back!!! 

Showing up with an anti-aircraft missile launcher as a wedding gift. I kept joking that Park would keep up his finale trend of showing up as a surprise being cool (as cool as Park can be anw), and thought it wouldn’t happen till it did!

and him also quietly saying the defector wasn’t Shelly....Park...are you going to talk about this...

narrowly avoided extended crew singing for the third time, will he keep up this success rate?

I would take a mini-episode that just followed Park in the second half of the season (Park: I am an independent man who needs no crew)

1. Arkady attacking Krejjh because she thinks they’re an enemy, AND then McCabe pulling a gun on her to make sure she didn’t run away. Bro. Bro, that shit was a direct hit to the id. Do I even have words for how good that was

Knowing what was about to happen as soon as Arkady said “You” in that tone of voice, ugh

Krejjh saying Arkady instead of First Mate Patel in desperation, and then brushing it off with a :D after

But god, McCabe. They’ve been so compelling this season, and yeah, maybe they’re approaching everything like a nail with the hammer they’ve got that shoots bullets, but the point is, it fuckin works 

Arkady buys the threat (the promise of her crew’s safety?) more than she buys Krejjh’s reassurances 

(though reading the transcript, Krejjh specifically telling Arkady “Science Officer Liu will never forgive you”, not “forgive us”, is excellent too)

“the only authority figures yet to disappoint me” / “I’m not an authority figure” / “you don’t get to decide that” is just like. embedded in my mind. just McCabe going no, you don’t get to run verbally either.

Do you ever think about how Arkady and McCabe had like, different kinds of fucked up childhoods compared to the rest of the crew. Like obviously McCabe ending up an agent so young and the stuff about their family suggests a pretty secure background, but it feels like the IGR and Dwarnian war starting when they were 12 gives them a kind of cynicism that meshes well with Arkady’s, in a way that’s distinct from how Arkady and Violet’s morbidness mesh, or Arkady and Sana’s pragmatism

ok more character feels under the cut

don’t scandalize the grandparents

A married man! 

Impressed he made it through the season with no baddies wrecking his oxygen

Always ready to point out that Arkady is actually as much of a nerd as he is

AKA I didn’t realize it was a Mozart reference till he said so. Arkady defies the jock-nerd chart

okay who of Arkady or Krejjh is gonna tell him about MMA fight outside, or did they do a whole team debrief. For Arkady’s sake I’m hoping not the latter, though I guess everyone else would like an explanation for McCabe’s gun-pointing??

likes solving problems without guns, would prefer solving them by FLYING SPACESHIPS 

Krejjh watches McCabe’s gun strategy work on Arkady and goes “do you folks really live like this?? why???”

I do love that their first thought on what to do next is to run a bunch of supplies around, probably between human populations that are going to be a wary at seeing a dwarnian show up. (Eat it, Eejjhgreb)

Kinda wonder if their feelings about getting choked out by their buddy are in fact more complicated than “it’s chill dude, please don’t do something stupid”

The cutest vow

who needs to calm down your crewmates with annoying words when you can just point a gun at them

Seriously where is the human-dwarnian war AU where it lasts longer or happens later where McCabe is the baby sniper posted to Arkady’s unit and they squabble a bunch (and perhaps kiss? When I wrote my third ever ficlet for this fandom never did I anticipate actually being interested in that)

what % of their Mirzakhani choice was thinking “what if Arkady tries to run from the goat farm and no one’s around to point a gun at her” jk jk

Their exclusion of Park from authority figures that didn’t disappoint them is fascinating. Is it that he left hoping for Shelly when it probably wasn’t her, or that he isn’t an authority figure anymore, a combination there of?

Or worst of all, is it that when he didn’t kill Krejjh back in 1x10, that really was a disappointment, no matter how much it might’ve been mixed with relief, and you can’t undo that moment?

What if they and Park talked. But I don’t think Park is going to goat planet, so that seems unlikely.

Their apology to Sana for heightened Martineau security! And Sana reiterating the profound gratefulness bit, gah

mostly read other people’s words and yet sparked consideration of two different OT3s, her power.

you know what, everyone deciding Sana is the best person to read words makes complete sense

There was one specific moment this episode that sent my mind into a tizzy about V/A/S, and it was Arkady going FINE GO ASK THE CAPTAIN THEN at how firm Violet was that Tripathi would be the one driving her, not Arkady.

I need you to understand that my V/A/S OT3 opinions are such that my shipping feels were more set off by that than Sana and Violet telling Arkady they were proud of her for choosing goat planet or whatever, like I don’t even know what dynamic was so captured by that argument, rip at Arkady having to be systems apart from them again

Though ofc my heart was buoyed by Sana’s earnest “Kady, you do more than that”, I want these two to go do a job together again, I miss that

To shift gears, I cannot believe “Lenny” started out as Sana being absolutely furious at the people threatening her crew and has ended up a teasing in-joke between her and Park, my Sana/Park shipping feels were very content. (When does Sana learn that Park didn’t get to hear the long list of fake crimes the Rumor crew specifically confessed to Lenny? This must be fixed. Tell him about the diamonds!)

Campbell said “Park, let me show you where we’ve been sleeping.” and my brain went. Wait. This is actually a good OT3?? Park is already unnerved by Sana’s earnest captaining, he should get unnerved by Campbell’s default magnanimity, please consider this

this is also where I point out that all these major characters have very convenient names for indicating ships solely via letters. V/A! B/K! S/P/C! This may solve my ot3 tagging problem...

get off that cotton candy boat, vi

Haha I loved that line from Doc Robinson she’s so no-nonsense, love Violet agreeing to work with her

Doc also said menders and I thought about this post again and also the team split and ahhh

But no, I very much liked Violet gently crushing Arkady’s goat farm dreams, and the two of them awkwardly discussing the very awkward stage things are at while still getting a feel for how the other operates

These nerds are trying and I’m still fond of them

at some point I was gonna make fun of Vi for not being able to drive before realising 1. she probably didn’t want to deprive the others of a vehicle 2. that would be incredibly hypocritical of me

wait does the igr have excellent public transport when they aren’t bombing it i take back every bad thing i’ve said abou-

*ahem* same question about the MMA fight debrief I had for Brian, it would be so funny if the situation was so rushed that like, Arkady+McCabe explain to Brian on the farm and Krejjh has to tackle everyone else

tick, tock, walking bomb, when it stops, nobody knows

arkady is so whumpable, and this show knows it

Redundant, but love how terrified of herself she is after hurting Krejjh and how strangely reassured she is by McCabe’s gun antics. And how she doesn’t like thinking of herself as an authority figure on the ship even though she literally is as First Mate

is ready to monologue about all major life events and the crew frickin knows it

is trying to help herself and stuff, still grumbling about it. in worse shape this season than last - probably all the constant discussion of the inevitable war just kept building stuff up and she kept ignoring it because haha who wants to deal with this prickly mess of a person haha

did i mention she’s the best

hope she gets her full goat farm dream one day, even if it’s not on actual goat farm

[donut-entendre]

Doc for the character meme?

What a subtle BASTARD oh man let's goooooo

Why I like them: IDIOT NERD IDIOT NERD he's into fucking herbalism? HE TRICKS PEOPLE TO GET WHAT HE WANTS AND NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT? He's cunning and loyal and definitely has PTSD AND HOLY FUCK and despite not having much development there's enough to make inferences at least. I bet he's into crystal healing lol

Why I don’t: Okay so incompetence in the medical field really pisses me off (hi hello I trained to be a medical assistant but never got certified hi!!!) and like I'm glad he's like oh no I SUCK at this but like BRO. DUDE. GO LEARN HOW TO DO IT, THEEEEN COME BACK. Then come back. Okay

Favorite line: Okay I can't find the exact quote but that line where he's like "I can't really turn the pacifism off and on when I please. It's not like being vegan." that's fucking great. He literally packed a rocket launcher to help with the kill the director thing

Favorite outfit: Okay we all fucking know I like the halo 3 armor blah blah GIVE HIM HIS PILL EMBLEM BACK

OTP: OT3 for 300! Docnutpez is neat. Also I have NEVER seen it before but consider... docwash.... Doc/O'malley (the AI) is also very good

Brotp: Docnut once more... Doc and Lopez could probably chill. I think Doc and Church could also be a funny dynamic - Doc was one of the few people Church was mostly friendly towards, and WE know Doc is the right kind of dumb to get Church arguing, so that'd be funny.

Head Canon: I hc Doc likes to go on hikes and, before he got his fear of heights, went caving as well. Also mountain climbing. It explains how he got into Blood Gulch without anyone seeing a pelican too. OH OH I also hc he's autistic bc limited knowledge set + doing poorly in social matters + sticking to his morals even when it does him in and only changing little by little on them... He knows about plants. And clean living

Unpopular opinion: I think most opinions on him are unpopular. Anyway treating him like a helpless little fawn is gross he's actually rather smart and quick to think of a way out. He can very much help himself he'd just rather help others first

A wish: Hey uh his writing kinda... fucking sucks in the neurodiversity area (big surprise from RT, ooohhh.) I would like it to not suck as much. Also I would like him to have friends that don't forget him thanks

An oh-god-please-don't-ever-happen: Hmm... I don't want the shit he's been through downplayed because he's not a 'main' character (he is a main character, Grif is just mean.) Being isolated for... ages, and also no time at all, would be a fucking LOT. And being an unwilling antagonist over and over and over. And being held captive at LEAST twice. I could continue.

5 words to best describe them: Selfless, Kind, Nerdy, Cunning, Loyal

My nickname for them: N/A

[catella-ars]

Huxley x Lasko The softest, sweetest pair who would fill their days with snuggles and DnD and mind-blowing love-making.

Damien x Huxley Alternate working out together and chilling in fields of flowers. “How do I look, dude?” “Blurry.”

Lasko x Damien High-intensity boyfriends work to improve Humanborn integration. “Your collar is crooked again.”

Elemental OT3 Gorgeous.  Loving.  Balanced.  Unstoppable.

[heartoferebor]

The screaming in his brain is getting louder, a never-ending barrage of no no no please no no please not them not them it should have been me NO NOT LIKE THIS NO PLEASE NO- until all he can do is sink to his knees like a puppet with his strings cut, reality crushing him beneath its cruel fingers as the realisation slowly sinks in.

They lost. (x)