#problematic ships are the best ships

[silverkat1620]

So.....

I have a Type when it comes to toxic hunter-prey type ships; so this

should not have come as a surprise

[aerofbreath]

Actually writing something based off of this post. Y'all really seemed to like it and I got scared LOLOL

(How it will probably go (written poorly written cause it's almost 7AM and I haven't slept yet) . Also I have no idea what I'm doing. This will be rewritten better in a fic maybe.)

Jason sighed as he made his way into Gotham University's gym. It was the middle of the day and Jason was there at a Startup Event posing as a guy who was interested in what people had to offer. He had only had maybe a total of four hours of sleep since he had patrol the night before. Granted, this wouldn't have affected him as much if he was more mentally prepared to be awake. The only reason why he's out here was because Bruce had woken him up an hour ago to tell him a little last minute about what he needed to do today. Originally, the plan was to do absolutely nothing. But now he has to investigate a guy that Bruce had his eye on as of lately.

The person he's looking for is a man named Danny Nightingale. Apparently he's been in Gotham for a couple years and only recently started making a mess of things. How it went under Bruce's nose is beyond him considering how freaked out Bruce was once he did find out.

Apparently, the guy has been making life changing machines. Little mechanical bees have been flying around Gotham really just sucking up all the pollution in the air and just depositing it somewhere. According to the media, they go back to some headquarters and into a bee hive looking structure to deposit all the pollution and sludge. From the photos shown, it's actually pretty impressive. Some guy actually making a change around here.

For Bruce- no. For Batman, this is just highly suspicious. Why would some guy make these positive life changing machines? For the better? No. No genius with the power to change the world would do it for the better. There's got to be some ulterior motive behind it.

At least, that's what Batman thinks.

Jason thinks it's all interesting. Maybe there is an ulterior motive but even then, at a scale so large that it's literally affecting the city in a positive way? You've got to be literally more insane than the Joker if you wanted to plaster your face everywhere at an event like this. Everyone else at this event seemed to show promise but compared to Danny Nightingale's company? They're literally all small fry.

Surprisingly enough, however, no one else seems to be at Danny's booth. Not even Danny. Jason frowned as he approached the booth and just looked at the machines on them. The Bees are kind of just flying in place and the moment that Jason even looked at them, the Bees immediately got to work. They flew around him like a puppy with wings, nuzzling against him and bumping into him so dumbly. And honestly?

It was actually kind of cute. You would think that being on such little hours of sleep and being grumpy the whole morning would really affect the pits inside him but no. He's surprisingly calm.

"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry! They don't usually act like this," a voice stuttered out. A man hastily walked towards Jason as he gently plucked the Bees out of the air and brought it close to him.

"Uh, don't worry about it. I thought it was kind of..." Jason trailed out before locking eyes with the man who spoke.

This was Danny Nightingale. He was much shorter than Jason, only standing tall at 5' 5". His hair was fully black with only a white money piece right on his bangs. And his eyes? An alluring blue with only a hint of green at the center of his eyes. Honestly, the sight of Danny just about took Jason's breath away.

There was a subtle glow to him, almost making Jason think of there being some sort of meta activity going on but looking around the people in the area, no one but him seems to notice. Danny was concerned about Jason, that much is obvious. The way his eyes burrowed in concern then into confusion. It's strange why just looking at him made Jason's heart skip a beat, even though in hindsight, Danny looks much worse off than Jason.

That man looks like he hasn't slept in 3 weeks. But even then he was...

"Cute..." Jason finally finished his sentence a little too late.

Danny blinked in confusion, tilting his head to the side. His bangs fall freely over his eyes. Just the sight of that almost made Jason blush. "My bees were cute?" Danny spoke, the tone of his voice (very tired) sounded like a sweet harmony in Jason's ears. "Oh! You're interested in Nightech? No one else seems to be interested in my stuff yet. I can tell you all about this company and how it works? I put in a lot of work and love into these little guys and I'm sure you would love them too!"

Blah blah blah. Proper name. Place name. Backstory stuff.

Nothing of what Danny is saying is registering in Jason's brain right now. Maybe some. ("I... Love... You...")

"I love you too!!" Jason blurted out.

Danny blinked before widening his eyes. "Wh-What...?" There was that look of concern again but now there's another look. Recognition...

Whatever. None of that right now. This is embarrassing!

"I-I said I love your company. Uh. Do you have a business card? I can let Bruce Wayne know about this."

Wordlessly, Danny gave an information card to Jason before that poor brick of a man just ran out of there, not once even looking back. Honestly, from the way it's playing out in Jason's head right now, he feels like a princess running away from her prince at the stroke of midnight. The earpiece crackled before a voice started to speak.

"Jason? What the hell was that?" Bruce's voice questioned.

It was only when Jason left the gymnasium that he answered, "Me digging my own grave for the second time, old man. Let me go die in peace."

"No, no," Dick's voice chimed in, "Only after we replay that very short conversation about 50,000 times. Thank you very much."

Jason only groaned in response.

Danny, back in the gymnasium, only stared at the door that Jason left from in horror. The only way for people to react that way to him like that is for them to be dead or liminal. Now he has to figure out a way to tell Bruce Wayne that this person that he seems to know is a little bit dead!

This actually is a part of whatever the fuck I'm writing. I'm still thinking of a fic name. But all of the random posts go together in some way.

[damthosefandoms]

top gun is technically a batlantern movie by the way. just so you all know

[proffbon]

If some people consider marimand a dead dove ship then what the hell is devil's minion to them? Dove completely annihilated with a lazer from space?

[heyimkana]

So more hcs on Yandere S/O! I think that she’s so sweet and cute and innocent on the outside but on the inside, she still kinda is, but also pretty twisted and cruel too. Any guys try to flirt with her? Casually breaks their legs. Any girls try to mess with her? She’ll ruin their faces, all while sporting a sweet smile with blood splattered on her face. And nobody will believe the victims bc she’s so prepared, making it seem like she was the one being the victim instead of the other way around.

MMMM YES we love our gaslighting psychotic girlboss queen and i know yandere!jinwoo will love her too 😏

yandere!jinwoo watching her slash a man's face because he tried to talk to her: "🥰 that's my girl 🥰"

[babygirlkaeya]

To put it in terms that purist ragbros enjoyers will understand:

If you hate on kaeluc shippers who ship them through the chinese context of sworn brothers, you're racist.

Like, sorry that you just can't grasp the fact that a ship that exists through the context of clear and cut cultural history because you can't pull off the westernized lens that it's been filtered through for your understanding, but to claim that an entire group in a fandom that is separated by race, region, and language must be wrong about the game that is from their country and natively in their language is racist.

ragbros enjoyers who dgaf are real ones. People who are uncomfortable kaeluc because it's not their preference are valid, but we really gotta stop with the whole kaeluc dni when it's really just a thinly veiled movement to ostracize people based on a long passed misunderstanding. If you don't like the ship, just ignore it and move on. People will spin romantic context out of any non-romantic pairing, but for some reason people find the most issue with it for kaeluc and find the need to blast 'kaeluc dni' everywhere instead of curating their own space correctly???

What are you classifying as an interaction; do people think kaeluc shippers are inherently evil and liking your posts is a terrible thing to do?? Sure, people coming into your space and spinning romantic context on something you didn't Intend to be romantic sucks, but trust me, those people are not checking your bio to see if you asked for them to dni with you; use the damn mute feature/block button if they make you uncomfortable.

And kaeluc shippers who Do ship them incestuously are in the same boat with sworn brothers shippers either way, outsiders view you all the same.

Fandom people have got to learn how to come to terms with people disagreeing with their views without being assholes about it, and doing some proper fucking research if they want to make a point.

"But I'm Chinese/my Chinese friend/significant other/family said--" Being a certain race doesn't make you an expert on its culture, especially considering the nuance of pre-existing prejudices (and let's not get into ABCs with their flawed judgements right now), but there are stories dating hundreds of years past the existence of the United States on what the sworn brothers trope is, what characters are used for it, what it means, and there's plenty of information out there to explain it.

It is unmistakable what their relationship is currently, based on existing canon content in Chinese. English mis-translation is a bane upon us all.

实在受不了这个情况。

YESSS YESS EXACTLY

and to add on; i think the only reason hoyo hasnt "fixed" the mistranslation yet is because, within the sworn brothers trope, it was used for censorship, it was used to Censor Gay Relationships, so i think the "oh its just adopted haha!" bit on hoyo's part is continuing to just censor it further so they don't get in trouble

^and thats really all the discourse boils down to.

[ianthesmells]

i actually thought in s1 that the caitvi dynamic was going to be. naive sheltered cop girl technically has the upper hand but she's so clueless that vi is always ahead of her and able to overpower her. and that when caitlyn gets her out of jail, it was gullible to think that vi would actually help her, because i was expecting vi to immediately abandon caitlyn once they got to the undercity. this is vi's turf, she'd have an easy time getting away from caitlyn (could've dropped her off at the prostitute place and dipped to go look for jinx).

and then she looks for vi for a while and eventually finds her and it's like "why did u leave . u said u'd help" and vi is like "girl... u are so stupid. why would i help you ur a cop" and caitlyn doesn't understand why vi is so untrusting and so guarded towards her, because she's sheltered and never actually BEEN in the undercity before, so it'd never cross her mind that people can not trust the government and expect bad things to happen them and all that.

so their s1 arc is like. caitlyn trying to gain vi's trust or whatever for a while (because she gains it really quick in s1 which i thought was weird considering vi hates cops and was in a piltover jail for almost a decade), and then she does eventually gain caitlyn's trust. however. they then find out that jinx was behind all this, and vi and jinx are sisters and vi sides with jinx (because she's her sister and also who cares if she stole from piltover yall been stealing EVERYTHING from us) and now caitlyn doesn't trust vi and vi goes back to hating her.

so then when jinx kills her mom, caitlyn is like prone to being a hater because her only experience with undercity people (vi and jinx) have been bad and she now assumes they're all bad and combined with her grieving and rage, she easily falls into ambessa's hands and goes on her dictator arc in s2. and then we get toxic caitvi yuri instead. because caitvi is the most interesting when it's toxic so there

[the-other-soup]

nothing more encouraging than twitter proship discourse

[cr0wqui11]

Constance x Astrid isn’t even a ship that really is shipped (I can probably guess why lmao) but it should be called sweettooth anyways bc I said so

[soundleer]

Please don't hate me for this but am I the only one who ships Brud and Sky before their the creator announced their real ages like I taught Brud was like the same age as sky (I used to headcanon they were both 12 years old) but after knowing the real age I quickly abandoned that ship and sees them as big brother and younger brother

i know people will find this very controversial so let me just articulate what i think about this the best i can

i personally didn't ship them even before their ages were confirmed so i can't really agree at the same level as you but i can see the vision of them initially thought to be around the same age range!

ill assure you, the headcanon you originally had at the time there was no confirmed ages were valid. you did say you immediately dropped the ship once their ages were officially revealed and see their dynamic differently nowadays which was the right call to make.

it's not problematic to have that headcanon especially at the time the ages weren't confirmed. it's only problematic if you continued shipping them even after the canon age reveal which i know is not the case for you so you're fine!!

[meteors-lotr]

What is the weirdest thing you ship, lotr of otherwise?

I mean I ship a lot of strange things, some would claim to be problematic, but I’ve always been under the opinion here online that if it’s not hurting you or anyone else, then like, do whatever

I guess in lotr, it’d probably be Brandytook, since they’re technically cousins, but tbf most Hobbits seem to be cousins so to their culture it’s not that big of a deal

Outside of lotr, well I’m currently watching the HTTYD shows with my girlfriend, and tbh Toothcup has me intrigued. Not my number one OTP in the franchise, but I like it a lot

[problematic-rwby-shipping-poll]

FINAL BRACKET - ROUND ONE: CINWIN VS NEXT BEST THING

Propaganda is below the cut.

CINWIN

"fireXice, blackXwhite, redXblue, chaosXorder, powerXcontrol, they are THE opposites attract ship."

NEXT BEST THING

"'You sound just like your mother.' Oh yeah, I bet Ruby sounds just like her in the bedroom also hehehe. Who said that."

"The obsession. The denial. The hunger for Summer's near identical looking daughter. The pettiness that comes from whisking Qrow's precious niece away for Raven's own depraved satisfaction. It's so good. Raven can be a little fucked up. As a treat."

[autisticenbydonnie]

I mean this genuinely

If you have a problem with April/turtle ships thats chill

Trying to make out that it's just as bad as incest *is* dumb as shit tho

[notmoreflippingelves]

So apparently, there is a second Sofia the First spinoff in the works right now. And so while this is still admittedly hardly the ideal time for me to get unnaturally and unhealthy invested in the Ever Realm Cinematic Universe (and especially in Elena of Avalor) , it's also not hypothetically the worst time for me to get invested in it either.

[thecatspasta]

You ever just realize multishipping exists and feel all your powers are unlocked

[brielarsonist]

literally why would marvel introduce jude law in captain marvel via a shirtless scene in his bedroom (instead of a fully clothed scene of him teaching children) if they didn't want me to think about yon and vers fucking??? and then follow up that slutty shirtless scene with them doing a vigorous, practically intimate physical activity together???? marvel was on their knees absolutely begging me to write the fic